The 2023 World Table Tennis Federation WTT Star Challenge Goa will kick off on February 27 at the Shama Prasad Mukeji Indoor Stadium, and through seven days of fierce battle, the champions and runners-up of the five individual events of men's singles, women's singles, women's doubles, men's doubles and mixed doubles will be decided.
National Table Tennis released major news this afternoon (February 26): due to injuries and infections due to the reasons for poor recovery from the new crown, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, He Zhuojia withdrew from the Goa Star Challenge, and Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, and Qian Tianyi made up for the competition.
Among the top 20 players in the world, the list of players originally scheduled to play in this Star Challenge:
Men's Singles: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Zhang Benzhihe, Moregaard, Lin Yunru, Jochik, Qiu Dang, Francesca, Zhang Yuzhen;
Women's singles: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Hina Hayada, Yoshijun Ishikawa, Kaixuan Du, Ying Han, Xiaoxin Yang, Diaz, Yu Fu.
List of players registered in the early stage of National Table Tennis:
Men's Singles: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Xiang Peng, Yuan Licen, Lin Shidong, Zhou Qihao, Liang Jiancang, Xu Yingbin (qualifying).
Women's singles: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Liu Weishan, Qu Man, He Zhuojia.
Men's Doubles: Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Xiang Peng/Lin Shidong, Liang Jingkun/Yuan Licen.
Women's doubles: Wang Manyu/Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng/Wang Yidi, He Zhuojia/Qu Man.
Mixed doubles: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong/Wang Manyu (qualifying).
Among them, Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi only participated in the doubles competition.
The time difference between local time and Beijing time in Goa, India is +2 hours and 30 minutes, and the full schedule of the Star Challenge is as follows:
Star Challenge Prize Money and Points:
The wild card and WTT nominees for the Star Challenge Goa have been determined and announced, and top players from the World Table Tennis Federation associations have gathered in Goa to compete for the championship gold cup and generous prize money.
Men's singles, the men's singles champions of the 2022 Xinxiang WTT World Cup Finals and the world's third-ranked national table tennis team members Wang Chuqin and Francesca were nominated by the tournament organizer WTT, while South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen and Germany's Qiu Dang were awarded the tournament wildcards to confirm their participation in the Star Challenge, looking forward to playing more brilliantly in Goa.
In the women's singles, national table tennis main Wang Manyu and Monaco's Chinese veteran Yang Xiaoxin were also nominated for WTT, while Puerto Rico's Diaz and Portugal's Fu Yu were wildcards to participate in the Goa Star Challenge.
If according to the original plan, the players who have won wild cards and WTT nominations will join the championship battle of the WTT Star Challenge Goa, Goa, India will present a dazzling drama starring an all-star team such as Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Ma Long, Chen Meng, Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu, Zhang Benzhihe, Hina Hayada, Moregaard, Batra, Ghana Nasekaran and other all-star teams, but unfortunately with the withdrawal of the six players of National Table Tennis, Goa suddenly dimmed a lot of stars.
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