Recently, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the May venue, and two WTT tournaments were settled in the United States, namely the WTT Felimont Side Event, which began on May 3-8, and the WTT Westchester Side Event, which began on May 11-15. According to the registration situation, no one in the national table tennis has registered for this event.
Compared with WTT Grand Slams, star competitions and other events, WTT branch matches have much lower points and prize money, it is mainly for the world's lower ranking players and preparations, so high-ranking players such as Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and other high-ranking players do not meet the registration conditions.
In the case that the main players could not register for the competition, the national table tennis did not arrange for young players or second-team players to participate. This arrangement can also be understood, the event itself is not a high-level competition, and then the United States is not only far from China, the epidemic is still serious, and it is necessary to accept quarantine when it comes back, there is no need to take this risk, it is better to organize training and team competitions in China, and it can also play a role in exercising, and wait until there is a suitable competition to participate.
Judging from the event registration form, although many top players did not participate, you can still see The Swedish Falke, Chinese Taipei Zhuang Zhiyuan, Zheng Yijing, Chen Siyu, Japanese table tennis Yukiya Utada, Toue Hayashi, Puerto A. Diaz, host players Canek, Zhang An and other masters to participate. At the same time, Han table tennis teenager Shin Yubin, who has been suspended for a long time due to injury and missed the World Table Tennis Championships and Asian Games trials, will make a comeback in the United States, and I don't know how she will perform at that time.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the main force of Japanese table tennis No. 1 Ito Mimako originally signed up for the mixed doubles project with Yukiya Utada, but today's latest list she has withdrawn from the mixed doubles, what is the reason for this?
It is understood that with Ito's current world rankings, she is not eligible to participate in the singles event, so she applied for a wild card, but in the end she did not succeed. The reason why she applied for mixed doubles may be because she wants to participate in singles, and since singles can't participate, she simply doesn't participate in mixed doubles, because she doesn't have to run to the United States to play a mixed doubles match.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Ito and Hayabusa Mizutani participated in the mixed doubles event, and the two won the Olympic gold medal with their excellent and tacit performance. Eventually, Hayabusa Mizutani announced his retirement, while Mimakoto Ito announced that he would no longer participate in the mixed doubles event. Therefore, when she recently signed up for the mixed doubles project, it can be called "face punching behavior", but in the end she gave up mixed doubles.
Mixed doubles gold, whether it is for Ito Mimachi personally or for The Japanese table tennis, is a great honor, Ito Mimachi can indeed give up mixed doubles, because no matter who she partners with, she is difficult or even impossible to get such a good result, so it is better not to play, so as not to affect the personal state because of failure.
Judging from the current situation, the next international arena of national table tennis is likely to be the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, so let's look forward to it together!