Beijing time on March 22, the ITTF officially announced the list of athletes for the WTT Xinxiang and Macao Championships in April, and the national table tennis twice sent the same lineup, of which the men's team has Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, the women's team is Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, and the other two world champions Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong unfortunately lost.
As for the news that Lin Shidong and Qian Tianyi will get wild cards that were previously rumored on the Internet, it has not been confirmed for the time being, and it is not ruled out that there will be changes, and Tomokazu Zhang and Mimato Ito will also play, fans and friends can feast their eyes!
WTT Xinxiang Championship is also the upper level of the World Table Tennis Federation, and because it is held in China, so the national table tennis will naturally be elite, and where there is national table tennis there must be the top confrontation, at present we can already see Tomokazu Zhang, Misei Ito, Hina Hayada, Yoshijun Ishikawa, Hugo, Moregaard, Lin Yunru, Ochalov and others on the list.
Of course, people are most concerned about the list of the host Chinese team, according to the general principle, the national table tennis should be the top four male and female players in the world ranking, and this is indeed the case.
It is regrettable that Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong were once again excluded from the list, on the one hand, because their rankings were not high enough, on the other hand, because their recent performance was average, it was difficult to get the favor of the coaching staff: Lin Gaoyuan lost a lot of foreign battles last year, and Chen Xingtong also lost to Batra, Han Ying and others in recent months, which is indeed no advantage compared with the top four main players.
As for Lin Shidong and Qian Tianyi's recent performance, they have defeated Ochalov, Karlsson, Lin Yunru, Ito Misei and Yuan Jianan, but they have not yet been selected for the two championships, but they and Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong may have wild card opportunities.
In January this year, Lin Gaoyuan was already selected for the men's singles team of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships Qualifiers, and then he and Chen Xingtong won the mixed doubles championship in the direct tournament and failed to enter the national table tennis mixed doubles list of the WTT India Star Tournament and the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, and now they are not eligible to participate in the singles team of the WTT Xinxiang Championship, which is indeed not good.
The Durban World Table Tennis Championships is about to start in May, will these two national table tennis main players who participated in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships last year be on the list again? If so, what projects would you participate in? The suspense is still there, let's wait and see!