On the evening of October 3, Beijing time, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation announced a heavy news - in the recently concluded Asian Table Tennis League (Asian Table Tennis Federation) election, the national table tennis Olympic champion Xu Xin was elected as vice chairman, which also surprised and surprised many people.
In addition, the chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation for three consecutive years, Cai Zhenhua, officially stepped down, but Liu Guoliang did not succeed, but was succeeded by The good friend of the national table tennis, Qatari Karil Al Mohannadi, and the former South Korean world champion Kim Taek-so was also elected as vice chairman like Xu Xin: congratulations to them first!
News of the election of the Asian Table Tennis Federation has long been spread, before that, the former world champion, head coach and chairman of the Table Tennis Association, Cai Zhenhua, has served as the chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation since 2009, and has been re-elected until now it is the end of the third term, so everyone has speculated who will become the next supreme leader.
In the past ten years, Liu Guoliang has followed in the footsteps of Cai Zhenhua and successively served as the head coach of the national table tennis men's team, the head coach of the whole team, and the chairman of the table tennis association, so in the eyes of many fans and friends, it is also very appropriate for him to take over the chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation. However, considering that Liu Guoliang did not even run for the presidency of the International Table Tennis Federation before, he may not participate in the change of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, and the result is indeed the same.
Muhannadi is an important leader in the Asian and world table tennis world, and also a good friend of the national table tennis, so his appointment as the president of the new Asian Table Tennis Federation has been recognized by many parties, which is nothing to say, after all, in addition to Liu Guoliang, it is indeed difficult to find someone more suitable for this position than him.
But Xu Xin's election as vice chairman is really a bit surprising, after all, he is still on the field, but now he has become the leader of the table tennis federation in the most prosperous continent of table tennis, and fans and friends have speculated: whether the 31-year-old veteran has entered the countdown stage of retirement?
In any case, Xu Xin can be recognized by the Asian Table Tennis Federation is still a happy thing, no matter what kind of life choices he makes next, we all wish that this national table tennis hero can find the most suitable development path for himself, and continue to make his own contribution to table tennis in China, Asia and even the world: come on!