On April 25, Beijing time, the official website of the International Table Tennis Federation updated the latest competition schedule. In the latest schedule, the ITTF has 4 tournaments included in the schedule. May 3 to 8, respectively, WTT Branch Line U.S. Fremont Station. May 10-15, Pleasantville Station, USA. Zagreb, Croatia, from June 13 to 19, and from June 13 to 19, at Lima, Peru.
It is worth mentioning that in these four competitions, the national table tennis coaching team did not arrange athletes to register for the competition, and Liu Guoliang's coaching team did not even arrange for the second team of young players to register. In March, the ITTB was very intensive, but in April, the tournament entered a period of stagnation. During this period, the Japan Table Tennis Association and the Korean Table Tennis Association both held the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.
In the WTT regional tournament In Felimont, although the level of the event is not high, it still brings together a large number of famous players, including World Table Tennis Champion Fark, World Champion Zhuang Zhiyuan, Japan's Yukiya Utada, Toue Hayasuke, Zheng Yijing, and Japanese Olympic champion Ito Mimachi. It can be said that the Japan Table Tennis Association arranged half of the main players to participate, and Zhang Benzhihe, Niwa Takashi, Ishikawa Yoshizumi and other players were absent.
In the WTT regional race in Westchester, Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan became the top seed in the men's singles, in addition, Japan's Yukiya Utada, Hayabusa Tokami, Yuki Tanaka, Daido Shigetsuka and others all signed up for the competition. There is also Germany's famous Duda, the world table tennis championships men's doubles runner-up Robles, England's famous Kimkhor. Chinese Taipei Zheng Yijing is the top seed in women's singles, as well as Chen Siyu, Illand, Zhang An, Shen Yubin, Diaz and others.
Unfortunately, at present, these four national table tennis competitions have not registered to participate. Although these competitions are not high-level, the lineup is still very strong. In particular, Japan's famous Ito Mimachi did not participate in the women's singles competition, but chose to partner Yukiya Utada to participate in the mixed doubles competition. It is worth mentioning that Ito Hassei has lost the Asian Games singles competition, and Hayata Hina and Hirano Miyu have won singles qualification.