The World Table Tennis Federation WTT Singapore tournament will be a day off today (March 10) and the main tournament will start tomorrow. This national table tennis can be described as the main force, and will launch an impact on all 5 gold medals. In the 3 doubles events, the national table tennis only sent 1 pair of players, and the difficulty of winning the championship is still not small, and there is a possibility of losing. Especially in the men's doubles field where Qin Zhijian admits that there are shortcomings, the national table tennis has not yet found a suitable combination of young players. Liu Guoliang and Qin Zhijian tried several sets of men's doubles collocations, but overall they were unsuccessful, after Ma Long and Xu Xin, the men's doubles of national table tennis was not reassuring.
National table tennis in the men's doubles has a very glorious history, when the men's doubles is still the official Olympic event, Liu Guoliang / Kong Linghui, Wang Liqin / Yan Sen, Ma Lin / Chen Xuan and others have won the men's doubles Olympic gold medal for the national table tennis. Since the 2008 Olympic Games, the team has replaced the doubles into the Olympic Games, but in the team competition, there will be a doubles match, and it is the first. Therefore, for national table tennis, men's doubles is still very important. We used to have the golden pair of Ma Long and Xu Xin, or the world table tennis champion partner of Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong, but now Ma Long and Xu Xin are veterans, and the national table tennis must find other combinations.
Fan Zhendong is undoubtedly the strongest in this group, and has also achieved a series of outstanding results in doubles with Xu Xin, so the most ideal way is to find a person to serve as Fan Zhendong's new partner. Qin Zhijian and Liu Guoliang chose Wang Chuqin, but from the perspective of actual results, it was not particularly ideal. At last year's World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin lost to Sweden's Karlsson/Falke. Also at last year's World Table Tennis Championships, another pair of national table tennis pairs Lin Gaoyuan / Liang Jingkun also lost to the Swedish pair, and the national table tennis lost the men's doubles gold medal.
The results of the draw for this Singapore station have come out, and Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin is the only combination of national table tennis to participate in men's doubles. If the two can reach the final four, they will most likely face Falke/Carlsson in the semi-finals. This time, I hope Fan Zhendong does not lose. In fact, the strength of the Swedish men's team has recovered significantly in recent years, Falke, Moregaard are the runner-up of the men's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, plus a carlsson who is good at doubles, or can bring a lot of pressure to the national table tennis. In the face of such a strong enemy, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin will be under great pressure, and this time they must resist.
Liu Guoliang has also tried other men's doubles options, including the Combination of Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun in the Oman Challenge. However, the pair, which was favored by others, unexpectedly lost to teammates Xiang Peng/Lin Shidong, and did not even advance to the top 4. Although Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong eventually won the championship, the loss of the national table tennis team Wang Chuqin/Liang Jingkun for the Olympic training was still very worrying. Overall, neither Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan/Liang Jingkun or Wang Chuqin/Liang Jingkun combined have achieved the desired results, and this is already almost all the possible combinations that national table tennis may discharge in the next Olympic Games.
It is no wonder that after Qin Zhijian lost the men's doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships, he would admit that there were weak links in the men's doubles event of national table tennis and needed to be made up for. But from the current point of view, this shortcoming still exists, I hope that Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong can withstand the pressure in this Singapore competition and win the men's doubles gold medal for the national table tennis.