On June 20, on the official website of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, the big list of the WTT Budapest Star Challenge was announced, and the list of 12 members of the national table tennis was released, and there was no Chen Xingtong in the women's singles, which caused heated discussion.
The team ranked 7th, which became the direct reason for Chen Xingtong's lack of access to the list, and there was both fairness and unfairness behind signing up according to the world ranking.
The world ranking becomes the basis for participation
The national table tennis men's singles players are Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan and Yuan Licen. The national table tennis women's singles are Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Liu Weishan and Fan Siqi.
The men's singles 6 and the women's singles 6 are the top six players in the men's singles and the top six women's singles in the national table tennis team, that is to say, the world ranking has become the basis.
Chen Xingtong, who is ranked 28th in the world, ranks seventh in the team, so he did not qualify for the women's singles competition.
Based on the world ranking, it is simple and straightforward, and it can be said that it is very fair.
Different entries lead to different rankings
Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi are ranked in the top four in the world. Liu Weishan was previously 17th, and Fan Siqi was previously 20th. (The women's singles registration deadline is June 20, so according to the previous week's world rankings)
These two are different from Chen Xingtong's participation in the competition, in 2021, Liu Weishan's two challenges in Slovenia, one with 415 points for the champion and one runner-up with 280 points, have become the main part of her world ranking, and Liu Weishan's current total singles points are 813 points.
In 2022, Fan Siqi won the Doha Challenge and scored 415 points; Runner-up in the Muscat Challenge, with 295 points, became the main part of her world rankings, and Fan Siqi currently has a total of 765 points.
If we have to assume that If Chen Xingtong can win the championship if he participates in the above competition, this assumption is not unreasonable.
There must be pursuit
Take a look at the tournaments that Tan has participated in, the quarterfinals of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, the quarter-finals of the 2021 WTT World Cup Finals, the 2022 WTT Muscat Challenge Round of 16, and the 2022 Singapore Grand Slam First Round.
They lost 0-4 to Wang Manyu, 0-3 to Sun Yingsha, 1-3 to Ku Man, and 2-3 to Wang Yidi.
Chen Xingtong participated in the competition, three of which are competitions, which shows the importance attached to Chen Xingtong in terms of national table tennis, after all, Chen Xingtong was once a "new generation troika" with the same name as Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, and now it has lagged behind Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha a lot. In just a few years, Chen Xingtong's qualifications need to be compared with Liu Weishan and Fan Siqi, which is the gap!
For Chen Xingtong, if you want to compete for the main force, you need to PK with the masters and defeat them, rather than going to the low-level events to get a championship and brush points like other players.