In the early morning of March 18, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha regional tournament came to an end, and on the same day, the WTT Doha regular season came back! According to the official website of the International Table Tennis Federation, the national table tennis will send 23 athletes to participate this time, the main player of the World Table Tennis Championships Zhou Qihao, the world champion Yu Ziyang, the runner-up of the National Games Liu Dingshuo and other people are on the list, but Ma Long and other main Olympic players are all abandoned.
Compared with the regional tournament, the foreign association opponents of the regular season are significantly stronger, and Lin Yunru, Francesca, Hugo, Du Kaixuan, Tian Zhixi, Feng Tianwei and others who participated in the Singapore WTT Grand Slam will all appear in the regular season in a few days, and just this evening, the 15-year-old national table tennis teenager Zhong Geman will play with the 13-year-old Japanese opponent Zhang Benmeihe:
Zhang Benmei and Cai defeated two Chinese team athletes in the regional competition, and this battle zhonggeman faced a severe test!
The table tennis world in March is indeed very lively, the end of the WTT Oman Tournament at the beginning of the month, followed by the WTT Grand Slam Tournament, during which the WTT Doha Branch Tournament was carried out synchronously, and then the WTT Doha Regular Season and the WTT Doha Star Tournament followed, which also made fans and friends directly addicted.
No, the Grand Slam is not over, the Doha regular season has begun. Because the time of the two events is too close, the national table tennis coaching team decided to let the main athletes participate in the more important star games in the back, and let most of the non-main players participating in the side games participate in the regular season on the spot to continue to exercise their foreign combat ability.
What makes people feel strange is that the Doha regional table tennis tournament is 27 people to participate, but when it comes to the regular season, there are 4 less Liang Guodong, Wang Tingyu, Huang Youzheng, Chen Yuanyu, I don't know if it is because of the number of people exceeding the standard or other reasons, as for the other 23 people are on the list of two events, namely -
Men's team: 1 seeded player, Zhao Zihao; 11 qualifiers, Zhou Qihao, Sun Wen, Xu Yingbin, Xu Haidong, Liu Dingshuo, Yu Ziyang, Xue Fei, Xu Haidong, Yuan Licen, Cao Wei, Zeng Beixun. Women's team: 2 seeded players, Qian Tianyi and Liu Weishan; 9 qualifiers, Zhang Rui, Fan Siqi, Yang Huijing, Chen Yi, Shi Xunyao, Qi Fei, Zhu Sibing, Qin Yuxuan, Zhong Geman.
Although the national table tennis team won 4 of the 5 events in the Doha regional competition, it is clear that the level of opponents at that time was generally not high, and now everyone is about to face a number of foreign association celebrities in the world's top ten. Moreover, Zhang Benmeihe, who was 13 years old at the time of the regional competition, broke the two lines of defense of the national table tennis in a row, so the pressure on everyone this time was very large.
But then again, the vicissitudes of the sea show the true colors of heroes, and meeting stronger opponents may be more able to stimulate the passion of athletes to win glory for the country, so I also wish everyone to continue to achieve good results in Doha, and look forward to your good news as soon as possible: Come on, everyone!