Beijing time on March 22 news, the 2022 WTT Star Challenge Doha station will start from March 25 to 31 Beijing time, but the national table tennis players who planned to participate in the competition have collectively withdrawn, including 17 people:
Nine members of the men's team retired: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng, Xu Haidong;
The women's team withdrew from the competition: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Liu Shiwen, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, He Zhuojia, Ku Man.
This means that the national table tennis at Doha Station is mainly participated by new talents such as Zhao Zihao and Qian Tianyi.
For the reasons for the large-scale withdrawal of the main force, Qin Zhijian, secretary general of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, responded that after the recent intensive and high-intensity competition, many of the main players had a large physical and energy consumption and expressed their willingness to rest; in order to avoid fatigue caused by injuries and illnesses, as well as the risk of the epidemic, the team decided to let the main players directly return to China to rest and meet future competitions with a better mental and technical state.
After the main players of the national table tennis retired, the star athletes participating in the WTT Star Challenge in Doha included Hugo, Du Kaixuan, Francesca, Feng Tianwei, Piche Ford and so on.
At last week's Singapore Grand Slam, the Chinese team won five crowns. Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng won the men's and women's singles championships, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu won the men's and women's doubles championships respectively, and the "Shatou combination" Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha won the mixed doubles championship.
In addition, the 2022 Swiss Open badminton is about to start this week, and although the Chinese badminton team has arrived in Switzerland, it has suddenly issued an announcement that all of them have withdrawn, for unknown reasons. It is worth mentioning that the official Weibo of the "Chinese Badminton Team" has not been updated since 8 o'clock on March 11, and there has been no report on the situation of last week's All England Tournament, which makes people suspicious.
In addition, Chinese ice and snow athletes who have just finished their journey to the Beijing Winter Olympics have also chosen to take an off-season. At the World Figure Skating Championships in Montpellier, France, from March 21 to 27, the Chinese team chose to withdraw from the tournament and did not register.
At the 2022 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Championships, which opened in Montreal, Canada on April 8, there is no news that chinese teams have signed up to participate, and the main players are currently on vacation.