On the evening of October 23, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT championship came to an end, and the WTT World Cup final that will be played on October 27 is also being seriously prepared, according to the ITTF and the World Table Tennis Federation official website, the current male and female top 16 lists of the event have been released, all the top ten main forces of national table tennis have been selected, and they are about to fight again against strong opponents such as Tomokazu Zhang Ben and Misei Ito!
However, due to the ranking, Ni Xialian and many other foreign association celebrities will unfortunately be absent, and as for Hina Wasada, she still withdrew from the competition due to injury, so we will not see them participating in the competition this time.
The WTT World Cup final is a new event only set up last year, with only singles events, full of weight, which can basically be regarded as a combined version of the traditional World Cup and the finals. Since the World Cup and finals have been suspended for two years, the WTT World Cup finals are second only to the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships in the singles field.
From the rules point of view, the new event is closer to the past finals, each association can have up to two or more athletes to participate, as long as the ranking is high enough, so the five main forces of national table tennis men and women are all on the list, and Tomokazu Zhang and Mimako Ito are no exception.
According to the official website, the sixteen athletes currently participating in the men's singles are the top sixteen players in the world, namely: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Zhang Benzhihe, Hugo, Moregaard, Lin Yunru, Dako, Qiu Dang, Ocharov, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Francesca, Aruna, Boer, Zhuang Zhiyuan.
Although the world ranking may not be able to fully correspond to the strength, but the player who can rank so high is obviously a well-deserved table tennis elite, and the men's table tennis field has always been a group of heroes, fierce competition, and the Chinese team is still facing a severe test!
The women's singles words are as mentioned before, because some of the top athletes such as Hina Hayada and Polkanova did not come, so the seventeenth Portuguese veteran Fu Yu and the twenty-fifth WTT Championship dark horse Yuan Jianan also qualified, while the rest of the players are in the top sixteen, the specific list is as follows -
Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Ito Misei, Du Kaixi, Han Ying, Ishikawa Yoshizumi, Diaz, Yang Xiaoxin, Chen Xingtong, Mittham, Kihara Miyu, Tian Zhixi, Fu Yu, Yuan Jianan.
From the perspective of strength comparison, if Zhang Benzhihe can survive until he meets with the national table tennis, then he may still be the number one strong opponent of our men's team; And the women's team now not only has to watch out for Misei Ito, Yuan Jianan has also become a tiger in the way, after all, the players who can defeat Wang Manyu and Yoshizumi Ishikawa at one time are not vegetarian, not to mention that she also won Mimako Ito in July this year, which is indeed powerful.
During the WTT championship, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Liang Jingkun, the three main players of national table tennis, lost to foreign association players, looking forward to their good performance in the WTT World Cup finals, and also wishing other national table tennis athletes to win the victory of foreign battles: Come on!