After 3 days of fierce duels, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam tournament has ended the competition of all the qualifiers on the evening of March 9, 2022 Beijing time, a total of 100 athletes played, the result was that 84 of them were out, and finally only 16 people got the qualification for the main tournament, half of the men and women, and their Chinese table tennis won 6 games, and the two 18-year-old young players Ku Man and Xiang Peng successfully passed the pass.
As for the Japanese team, it was 3 players, and finally only the national champion Tokami Hayabusa successfully qualified; the South Korean team made 4 appearances, resulting in a loss of half, and the world champion Liang Xiayin and the men's team star Lin Jong-hoon are still fighting. At present, the results of the draw in the main stage have all been released, and many national table tennis players will face strong enemies in the first round, or will break out into a vicious battle, which is worth paying attention to!
See below for details of the results of the draw and the main draw.
Only the men's and women's singles events of this WTT Grand Slam are divided into two stages, so the mixed doubles, men's doubles and women's doubles do not have qualifications. Due to the fact that the athletes of the Chinese team are generally ranked relatively high or have wild cards, 14 players can directly participate in the main competition, and only Xiang Peng and Ku Man want to play in the qualification round.
After three rounds of fierce duels, Xiang Pengluo somewhat bumpily defeated Iran's Alamyan (3-2), Denmark's Linde (3-1), Slovakia's Pistje (3-0) to advance, while Kuman was three 3-0 sweeps of France's Migott, Singapore's Shu Linxi, and Hong Kong's Zhu Chengzhu' Breakthrough without encountering many difficulties.
Although Xiang Peng and Ku Man both won the game, we can clearly see that the competition in the men's table tennis field is more intense, and the Next Main Competition Chinese Team must not be careless!
In terms of the Japanese team, he has played three Olympic main players Zhang Benzhihe, Niwa Takashi, and Mizutani Hayato Hayabusa Hayabusa to play steadily, and is also a 3-0 sweep of all opponents to advance, worthy of the island nation's Xinke national singles champion. As for Yoshimura, Kazuhiro and Shinkiya both stopped in the second round and did not touch the threshold of the main match.
In terms of the South Korean team, the big black Ma Lin Zhongxun (singles knocked out Lin Yunru and won the silver medal in doubles) and the world champion Liang Xiayin (who cooperated with Xu Xin to win the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships) were all 2 wins, while Zhao Chengmin and Li Shiwen said goodbye in the first game, and the "round trip" was eliminated.
Although the strength of the Japanese and Korean table tennis teams is not bad, the qualifiers have lost more than half of the balls, which shows that this competition is indeed full of challenges!
As mentioned earlier, the current grand slam draw results have all been released, of which Xiang Peng's first opponent after the promotion will be the Danish star Gross, the opponent is not particularly threatening; and Ku Mann's main match is facing great pressure, because she will fight with Singapore world champion Feng Tianwei, who has defeated the main player of the national table tennis many times!
As for the other national table tennis players, there are also good and bad signing positions, of which the two main players Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong have bad luck and will decide the winner in the first round; He Zhuojia will also have to fight with the 58-year-old world champion veteran Ni Xialian in the first round; Wang Chuqin will face the world champion Fark; Liu Shiwen will have to fight with South Korea's "first sister" Tian Zhixi; Lin Gaoyuan will face Zhang Benzhihe and Pol.
Finally, I wish the national table tennis athletes can have a good play, the foreign war remains undefeated, the civil war is fully played, and continue to impact the champion of this table tennis conference: Come on, everyone!