On November 4, 2022, Beijing time, the National Table Tennis Championships have ended the first day of competition. In the first stage of the team competition, a number of players of the national table tennis first team lost in an upset. In the women's team competition, Ito Misei's imitator Zhang Rui actually lost 2-3 to the unknown Zhang Youjia, and Qi Fei lost to Zhao Shang 0-3. In the men's team competition, 17-year-old Lin Shidong exploded 11-0, he won three games in the group stage and was in excellent form.
In the men's team competition, the first matchday attracted the most attention to the Shanghai team in Group C, Fan Zhendong represented Shanghai for the first time, although he did not appear in the first two rounds of the group stage, he has been cheering for his teammates on the sidelines. In addition, veteran Xu Xin returned to the field and helped Shanghai seal the victory in the first round of the group stage. The Shanghai team, led by Zhao Zihao, swept Guangxi and Hunan successively, ranked first in the group, and advanced to the knockout round early.
Hubei in Group A, led by cutter Matt, also won two consecutive games and advanced to the round of 16. In Group B, Yuan Licen contributed three points in two rounds to help Liaoning win two consecutive games, in which Yuan Licen defeated Zhejiang's Xiang Peng 3-1 and was in excellent form. Group D was very fiercely contested, Xu Yingbin scored 2 points in the first round to help Heilongjiang beat Sichuan 3-1, and in the second round, Heilongjiang's Wei Shihao scored 2 points to help the team defeat Jiangsu 3-2, Wei Shihao defeated Sun Wen and Chen Yuanyu in a row, and his strength was good.
Group E, the Shandong men's team won two consecutive victories, Yu Ziyang, Liu Dingshuo, and Quan Kaiyuan all contributed, but in the second round against Shanxi, Quan Kaiyuan lost 1-3 to Han Qiyao, which broke out a cold door. In Group F, junior Lin Shidong won three games in a row, and faced Jiangxi's Huang Duoduo in the second round, Lin Shidong played 11-0, quite strong, and with Lin Shidong's excellent performance, Hainan won two consecutive victories. The Henan team in the same group has also won two consecutive victories, and Henan has national players such as Ren Hao, Niu Guankai, Xia Yizheng, and Yu He Yi, and their strength is good.
In the women's team competition, the Jiangsu team in Group A won two consecutive victories, and Jiangsu has Gu Man, Qian Tianyi and Shi Xunyao, and the overall strength is very strong. Beijing in Group B won one and lost one, and Anhui led by Liu Fei defeated Beijing and also had hope of advancing to the knockout round. In Group C, although Wang Manyu missed the team competition, the Heilongjiang team won two consecutive games, and Zhang Binyue won three consecutive games.
In Group D, although the Tianjin women's team won two consecutive victories, it only narrowly defeated the Tibet women's team 3-2 in the second round. In the game, Qi Fei of the first team of national table tennis actually lost to Zhao Shang 7-11, 5-11, 8-11, which broke out a big upset, but fortunately, Liu Weishan scored 2 points alone to help Tianjin team hold the victory. Group E, Zhang Rui's Hubei team won one win and one loss, as an imitator of Misei Ito, Zhang Rui was very powerful, but in the second round he lost to Zhang Youjia of Shanxi 2-3, which also broke out. In Group F, Sun Mingyang helped the Shanghai team get off to a good start, and the Guangdong team won and lost one game.
Overall, the first day of the team competition was not alarming, and the strong teams basically won the game, but some games burst out of the cold, and several players of the national table tennis first team suffered defeat, which was surprising. According to the schedule, the second match day will first be held in the group stage, to determine the men's team top 16 and the women's team top 16, followed by the knockout round, if nothing else, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Xing and other national table tennis celebrities will appear in the knockout round!