On October 18, Beijing time, the Macau leg of the WTT Championship will officially start tomorrow. The national table tennis team members who just finished their trip to the World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, as well as Ishikawa Yoshizumi, Lin Yunru, Boer, Ocharov and other table tennis masters who were previously absent from the World Table Tennis Championships have all arrived in Macao after isolation to make final preparations before the start of the competition.
The championship is a high-level event in the WTT series, and it is also an invitation system, so the competition can be described as a cloud of masters, and the gold content is self-evident. According to the format setting, the men's and women's singles champions will receive 35,000 US dollars and 1,000 points, and the runner-up will receive 27,000 US dollars and 700 points, which is expected to cause a big reshuffle in the world rankings.
There are 32 players participating in the two events, and a total of 10 people participated in the national table tennis, namely Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, who were invited due to high rankings, and Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong, who won wild cards, this lineup is the same as the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, which can be said to be a luxurious lineup.
The results of the draw of this competition have been released, and the five members of the women's side are relatively scattered, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are in the same half zone, Chen Xingtong, Wang Yidi and Chen Meng are in the same half zone, of which Chen Meng and Misei Ito are in the same 4/4 zone, and it is no accident that the two are expected to face off in the 1/4 final. Chen Meng has maintained a complete victory against Misei Ito so far, but the result of this match is still worrying, and I hope Chen Meng can prove himself again.
Women's singles
Zone 1/4: Sun Yingsha vs Bruna Takahashi, Yang Xiaoxin vs Ni Xialian , Alkhodabi vs Matrova, Zheng Yijing vs Du Kaixian;
Zone 2/4: Wang Manyu vs Yuan Jianan, Chen Siyu vs Mittham, Li Haoqing vs Mecherif, Zhang An vs Yoshizumi Ishikawa;
Zone 3/4: Han Ying vs Tian Zhixi, Chen Xingtong vs A. Diaz, Shan Xiaona vs Shao Jieni, Wang Yidi vs Gundam;
Zone 4/4: Misei Ito vs Linda, Miyu Kihara vs Batra, Szokos vs Balazova, Chen Meng vs Fu Yu.
In terms of the men's team, the national table tennis can be described as "signing". The first round of the national table tennis competition will usher in a hard battle, and at the same time there will be a "civil war", in which Fan Zhendong will fight the "first brother" Huang Zhenting of the Hong Kong team of China, and Wang Chuqin will face the Brazilian team "first brother" and world No. 5 Hugo Caldernora, and Ochalov is waiting on the side.
Ma Long faced young Japanese player Yukiya Uda in the first round, and passing the pass is not a problem, but Ma Long and Wang Chuqin are in the same 4/4 zone, which means that only one of them can advance to the last four. The last two Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan will face the "derby" battle, and Sun Yingsha is also laughingly called "little black hand" by fans.
Relatively speaking, the men's team is indeed more intense, no matter how the draw is drawn, the vicious battle is essential. Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun belong to the same period of athletes, the two have been competing for several years, seeing the two meet in the first round, fans can't help but sigh, the two should also compete. Then let's look forward to this "Lianglin War" together!
Men's singles
Zone 1/4: Fan Zhendong vs Huang Zhenting, Karlsson vs Karnak, Francesca vs Giraldo, Freitas vs Dako;
Zone 2/4: Liang Jingkun vs Lin Gaoyuan, A. Lebrun vs Zhang Yuzhen, Pucar vs Zhuang Zhiyuan, Boer vs Lin Yunru;
Zone 3/4: Moregaard vs Pitchford, Gramenko vs Wang Yang, Aruna vs Anton, Falke vs Zhihe Chang;
Zone 44: Hugo vs Wang Chuchin, Ahn Jae-hyun vs Ochalov, Qiu Dang vs Ghana Nasekharan, Yukiya Uda vs Ma Long.
There is another match worth looking forward to in the first round of the men's singles, Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru vs. German veteran Bohr, neither of them participated in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, and in the blink of an eye they met in the first round of the championship, I don't know who can go further.