The WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament has come to an end, and the Chinese table tennis men's and women's teams have won gold medals in all events, showing a very strong dominance. After the End of the Grand Slam, the WTT Doha Star Game began quickly.
Considering that the Doha Planet Challenge is more of an entertainment nature, it was originally planned that after the Singapore Grand Slam, the national table tennis team would immediately switch to the Doha Star Challenge, but in the end, 17 main players of the men's and women's teams including Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other men's and women's teams withdrew from the competition, and Liu Guoliang decided to send Liu Dingshuo, Xu Haidong, Xue Fei, Qi Fei, Fan Siqi, Zhang Rui and other young players to participate in the Doha Star Challenge.
Liu Guoliang sent a lineup this time is quite young, basically are quasi-00s players, is to let Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, the absolute main force of national table tennis have time to take a break, let the post-00 players accept the experience of the World Series, but I am afraid that Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Table Tennis Association, did not expect that this time the performance of young players in national table tennis is too much to be crushed, WTT Doha star game has been played until now, the national table tennis has been completely destroyed!
In the WTT Star Challenge, the national table tennis men's team player Xue Feilianke Dako and Kanak, but in the quarterfinals, Xue Fei faced the unknown Croatian player Ghazini, in the case of the first set, Xue Fei was pulled by Ghazni for three consecutive sets, and was eliminated. Another national table tennis player, Zhou Qihao,' performance was even worse, facing an African brother Aruna, Zhou Qihao was beaten without any ability to fight back, helplessly 0-3 brittle defeat, directly eliminated, so far the Chinese men's table tennis team did not have any players to advance to the final four.
The situation of the national table tennis women's team is even worse, the women's singles is only the only seedling Zhang Rui, the result of Zhang Rui 1-3 defeat to Chinese Taipei player Chen Siyu was also eliminated, WTT Star Challenge to this stage, all the players of the Chinese national table tennis men's and women's teams were eliminated, this year's Planet Challenge Liu Guoliang bamboo basket hitter an empty. What's worse is that most of the players in the WTT Planet Challenge are basically eliminated outside the quarterfinals and qualifiers, which is incredible for the powerful Chinese table tennis. As the chairman of the Table Tennis Association, Liu Guoliang's fig leaf was torn off this time.
Whether in the 2021 Olympic Games or the World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese table tennis team has shown very strong strength, but in fact, there are many problems within the national table tennis, the women's team is still in good condition, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are very strong, in addition to Wang Yidi such a strong player. However, the Chinese men's table tennis team has experienced a talent gap in recent years, and Ma Long is 34 years old, entering the end of his career and not far from retirement. Xu Xin is not young, and Xu Xin's singles are more general, and it is difficult to protect himself in foreign wars. Little fat Fan Zhendong is just 25 years old, ranking first in the world in active service, but the men's team only relies on Fan Zhendong alone, which is actually very dangerous, for now, in the international competition, whether it is Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin or Lin Gaoyuan, can not provide much help to Fan Zhendong.
The national table tennis team was completely destroyed in the WTT Star Challenge, and many fans joked that the national table tennis had a tendency to align with the national football team. In fact, this statement is somewhat exaggerated, but it should be noted that the national table tennis men's team is indeed in a critical situation, and Liu Guoliang must cultivate world-class players like Fan Zhendong for the national table tennis as soon as possible, only in this way can the men's team continue to rule the world table tennis.