The 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships will be held from November 23 to 29, and this world championship adopts a new qualifier system, the 3+1+1 rule. Under the new rules, the full quota of the national table tennis men's singles is Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan and Zhou Qihao.
This world table tennis championships due to Ma Long, Xu Xin, the world's second and thirdest veteran did not come out, the head coach of the national table tennis men's team Qin Zhijian frankly said, "The new cycle began to face such a big competition in the world table tennis championships, in the absence of the men's singles champion and Olympic singles champion Ma Long, the Chinese men's team faced great challenges in the men's singles field, the pressure to defend the title suddenly increased, and the team also made preparations for young athletes to "pay tuition". ”
According to the latest edition of the International Table Tennis Federation's world rankings, there are only 7 male Chinese table tennis players in the top 100 players! Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin occupy the top three, plus 7th Lin Gaoyuan (down one place from the previous period), 11th Liang Jingkun, 15th Wang Chuqin, and 23rd Zhao Zihao. In addition, the world ranking of the members of the national table tennis men's team is outside the 100th, and Zhou Qihao, who accompanied the team to the World Table Tennis Championships, ranked 122nd. It is still very difficult for the national table tennis men's team to meet the final from the round of 128, Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Caldrano (up 3 places from the previous period), Pol and so on are very strong opponents.
Zhang Benzhi and Lin Yunru
According to the ranking Fan Zhendong as the top seed after the game will be the town to defend the upper half of the district, The Japanese youngster Zhang Benzhihe, who is only 19 years old, as the second seed of the tournament, will defend the second half of the competition, if only Ocharov does not participate in the top ten, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin will be divided in the lower half of the district, whether they can impact Zhang Benzhihe is still unknown, although Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin have an advantage in the duel with them, but there are also wins and losses for each other. Liang Jingkun and he also "shaved each other's heads", although 3 wins and 1 loss were dominant. Wang Chuqin won 4 and lost 1, the only defeat was in the 2018 Table Tennis Youth Olympic Games - Mixed Team Final 1:3 defeat to Zhang Benzhihe.
From past experience, the probability of the World Table Tennis Championships going out of the dark horse of the foreign cooperation is not small, Lee Sang-so in 2017, An Jae-hyun in 2019. There have always been dark horses in the cup race, not to mention there are many famous and powerful players, if the national table tennis wants to go to the end, the on-site play is the most critical, and the technical and tactical play is often affected by the mentality, the World Table Tennis Championships as one of the three major competitions, but also the national table tennis Paris Olympic Games to select the key to the selection of the event, the on-site can stabilize the mentality is the most important, otherwise it is necessary to "pay tuition".
The sword blade comes out of the grinding, the game is played one by one, learns in the game, and adjusts in the game, in order to move from one victory to the next victory.