On the evening of March 22, Beijing time, the ITTF updated the list of WTT Xinxiang Championships, and the Chinese team added two new athletes, namely the young player Lin Shidong and the world champion Chen Xingtong, while the world champion Lin Gaoyuan and the recently gaining momentum Qian Tianyi unfortunately lost the selection and did not have the opportunity to qualify for the wild card.
Before this, the news that Lin Shidong and Qian Tianyi got the wild card was not true on the Internet, and now the official website has updated the list, it seems that Lin Gaoyuan's current main position has indeed been shaken, and Qian Tianyi still needs to work hard to go further: Although she currently holds the sixth position in the women's team, in addition to the ranking, there is no absolute advantage over Chen Xingtong in other aspects!
The list of this WTT Xinxiang Championship is indeed "twists and turns", the official has not yet been determined, the Internet has begun to spread - the highest ranked Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi is not controversial, but there are doubts about whether the Chinese team will get a wild card and who it will give if it gets.
At the latest on March 21, a saying began to circulate on the Internet, that is, Lin Shidong and Qian Tianyi got the wild card qualification, but this matter has not been officially certified, and the source of the news cannot be found, and the credibility is not high, and it was not until March 22 that the wild card ownership of Guoping was finally revealed.
According to the official website of the World Table Tennis Federation, National Table Tennis did add two players, and there was indeed Lin Shidong, but there was no Qian Tianyi, but Chen Xingtong. Although this arrangement has nothing to do with the Chinese team's list of participants in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, it still arouses the reverie of many fans.
Because from the results, rankings and other aspects, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi are very likely to qualify for the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and the national table tennis coaching staff is now difficult in the choice of the "fifth person", Lin Gaoyuan, Xiang Peng, Lin Shidong, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi all have the possibility of being shortlisted.
As early as the Asian qualifiers of the World Table Tennis Championships in January, Xiang Peng replaced Lin Gaoyuan and qualified for the men's singles, but he lost to Zhang Benzhihe in March, and Lin Shidong sprang up and won many national table tennis rivals in a row, so the men's singles "fifth person" is likely to be a trade-off from the three of them, and it seems that Lin Shidong's voice is already very high.
As for the women's team, it has always been Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong's five main players, but Chen Xingtong's recent external performance is average, which makes many fans hope for Qian Tianyi, who is currently ranked fifth in the world team and defeated strong opponents such as Mimato Ito at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam.
However, there are still two months before the start of the World Table Tennis Championships, everything may change, let's take a look at the results of the recent second direct competition and several foreign battles in April!