The WTT Table Tennis Grand Slam tournament in Singapore has entered the final round of the qualifiers, after the only woman to participate in the women's singles qualifiers, Kuman has beaten France's Migot 3-0, and the decisive round is against Zhu Chengzhu, who won the Tokyo Olympic P card for Hong Kong, China. At the same time, according to the Asian Games selection rules promulgated by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the first condition is that the players born after 1999, whether Or not kuman can win the women's singles championship at the Singapore Grand Slam, have locked in the qualification for the Hangzhou Asian Games in advance by virtue of their age advantage.
The 17-year-old is a rising star in the national table tennis women's team and has grown rapidly after the Tokyo Olympics. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the 4 members of the Chinese women's team were all right-handed horizontal plates, and for the first time in the women's team's platoon, there were no left-handed athletes to play, which also made the women's doubles combination appear more passive, with Ding Ning's withdrawal from the national team, the left-handed players became a rare treasure, and Qian Tianyi and Ku Man in the first team became the only left-handed cross-board players.
Former World Youth Champion Kuman made a splash at last week's Oman WTT Challenge, defeating a number of teammates, including winning favourite Chen Xingtong, to win the women's singles crown for the first time in international adult competitions and the same title as Zhang Rui in women's doubles. After coming to Singapore, he immediately participated in the women's singles qualifier of the Grand Slam Tournament, and because the opponent was too weak in the first round, Kuman effortlessly defeated France's Migot 3-0.
Next to compete with Kuo Man for the grand slam regular tournament is Zhu Chengzhu of Hong Kong, China, who represented the Chinese Hong Kong women's team to Tokyo at the Tokyo Olympic Games, becoming a P card player symbolizing the 4th main force, although she failed to play, but the Chinese Hong Kong women's team with the efforts of Du Kaixuan, Li Haoqing and Su Huiyin, defeated the Rio Olympic runner-up Team Germany and won an Olympic medal for the first time for the Chinese Hong Kong women's team. Zhu Chengzhu ranks 87th in the world, nearly 50 places higher than Ku man, but compared with Ku Man, who has just participated in the adult event, Zhu Chengzhu's overall strength has no characteristics, and Ku Man's promotion to the Grand Slam women's singles main tournament has little suspense.
According to the provisions of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on the selection of the Hangzhou Asian Games list, the players who won the singles championship of this station will go straight to the Hangzhou Asian Games, but there is a very harsh condition, that is, in order to focus on the Paris Olympic Games, train young players, the Asian Games lineup must be from the players born after 1999, which means that the Chinese women's team has many people who do not meet the conditions, the current world ranking is only 12th in the national table tennis, Ku man is one of the 4 post-99 players, the other 3 are Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Qian Tianyi, At the last Asian Games, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng to win the women's singles championship, and this year Wang Manyu has little chance of continuing to play in the women's singles field, and Sun Yingsha and Ku Man are more likely to join forces to fight women's singles.
Veterans Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and the four main players bid farewell to the Asian Games in advance due to age discrepancies. This year, Liu Shiwen is 31 years old this year, and her goal should be to place the team World Championships and next year's individual World Championships, strive to achieve good results in the world series, and continue to impact the Paris Olympic qualifications; Chen Meng is to get rid of the recent downturn without a crown as soon as possible and strive to break the championship drought; Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong, representatives of the two Mesozoic generations, should now do a good job of themselves, strive to accumulate small victories into big victories, and strive to narrow the gap when confronting absolute main forces such as Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Liu Shiwen.