With the official postponement of the Grand Slam Tokyo Station and the National Games, the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships are also "trembling", although it has been clearly postponed from the end of April to September, but still dare not play the guarantee ticket, it will be held smoothly. Moreover, there is a 4-month competition "blank period", which is still too long for athletes, so the news about the internal Grand Prix of national table tennis has come out, and it is reported that there will be a prize money comparable to 100,000 US dollars in Singapore.
For this news, to be honest, there is indeed a certain rationality. The reason is to keep the athlete's feeling of playing, and in order to make the "competition" really like a "competition", setting up prize money is indeed a common way. I have to say that such a national table tennis internal competition, compared with some international competitions, is more watchable. Compared with the WTT Macau Tournament at the beginning of the year, this time it is really a completely national table tennis "civil war", not only can you see a lot of old faces, I believe there will be a lot of new faces.
Regarding the veterans, the most concerned should be Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen. Ma Long won the Olympic men's singles championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games, becoming the first player to win the Olympic men's singles championship, or the first man to win a double grand slam, and the Olympic 5 gold also helped him surpass Wang Nan, Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining, ranking first in the history of national table tennis alone.
Although Xu Xin has become the vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, he has not really announced his retirement, and now the Asian competitions cannot be carried out smoothly, and he is also likely to attend this national table tennis grand prix. As a "people's artist", Xu Xin's ball style is deeply loved by the public, and he is still looking forward to his appearance.
Liu Shiwen debuted as a "genius girl", and later known as "the most tragic national table tennis" player, she has been along the way, praise and controversy, but has always been one of the main forces of women's table tennis, unconsciously to the end of her career, as of now, there are also 20 world championship titles, her play in Macau, let many fans are very excited, do not know how she is after a few months, how is her state?
Regarding newcomers, men's table tennis is really not ideal now, except for Fan Zhendong, no young person can play a guarantee ticket in an international competition. But with Ma Long and Xu Xin slowly retreating, it is certainly not possible to rely on Fan Zhendong alone, like Wang Chuqin, Xiang Peng, Xu Haidong and others are still looking forward to standing up early.
As for the women's table tennis side, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu already have the taste of "three-legged standing", as well as Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Ku Man and others, women's table tennis is indeed more worrying. And because the strength is relatively close, each of their duels has a very wonderful multi-shot standoff, and the game looks very cool.
In short, this national table tennis internal grand prix, for the national table tennis fans, in this major event have been postponed stage, is a better "welfare", next, we will look forward to it together! What are your thoughts on this? Welcome to the comments section below and interact with the "DK Talk Sports World".