On the evening of April 20, Beijing time, the WTT Macau Championship ended 1/8 of the matchup, and the rest of the Chinese team except for Liang Jingkun, who was defeated by Slovenia's Dako 2-3 in the men's singles, successfully advanced to the quarterfinals. In the 1/4 final that will start on the afternoon of April 21, the men's singles three games are all external battles, while the women's singles have three external battles, and there is also a team derby between Wang Manyu and Qian Tianyi. The foreign war fans of Guoping naturally pay attention, but the attention of this civil war is not inferior, just because of Qian Tianyi's special identity and her current embarrassing situation in Guoping.
The reason why Qian Tianyi has a special status is because although he ranks fifth in the world, he cannot directly participate in the Macao Championship, and the wild card for this participation is not from the Chinese Table Tennis Association, but from the World Table Tennis Federation. The talented World Table Tennis Federation handed out the wild card to another host player!
At the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, youngster Qian Tianyi was born, beating all the best players all the way to the final, and finished fifth in the women's singles ranking in the 15th week of ITTF. Just when the majority of fans are optimistic about the future of Qian Tianyi, who has outstanding ball skills and a tall and beautiful face, she not only failed to appear in the national table tennis competition in the Durban World Championships squad, but also Xinxiang and Macao two consecutive championships and the Bangkok Challenge, she did not get the wild card of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. The fact that the world's number five player has not been able to compete in the top tournament has caused an uproar among fans! This also highlights the embarrassment of WTT and the Chinese Table Tennis Association.
Embarrassment 1: The special rules of WTT caused Qian Tianyi to be unable to participate directly.
Due to the uneven development of table tennis internationally, in order to take care of the enthusiasm of players from other associations, WTT has formulated the rule that no more than four players per association participate, and Qian Tianyi happened to be very embarrassed to rank fifth in the national table tennis women's singles.
Compared with the highly professional and mature WTA, any professional event is only about the player, and has nothing to do with his country, and the world's top five players naturally have no obstacles to participating in any competition. The special rules of semi-professional WTT have caused Qian Tianyi's current embarrassing situation, of course, facing the same encounter, and Zhang Rui, who is also ranked in the top ten.
Embarrassment two: Who should the wild card of the Chinese Table Tennis Association be issued to?
Before the WTT Xinxiang Championship, there was a high call for thinking that the Chinese Table Tennis Association wild card would be issued to Qian Tianyi. Because compared to Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi has several advantages: 1) Qian Tianyi's ranking is higher. At that time, Qian Tianyi ranked fifth, while Chen Xingtong ranked seventh; 2) Qian Tianyi is younger. Qian Tianyi is 23 years old this year, and Chen Xingtong is 26 years old, which is more valuable to cultivate compared to the young Qian Tianyi; 3) Qian Tianyi's performance in WTT Grand Slam Singapore was even better, and he was loved by the majority of national table tennis fans; 4) At present, the five main players of national table tennis are right-handed rackets, and Qian Tianyi is left-handed rackets, for Olympic team doubles competitions, left and right matching is the most perfect combination, so Qian Tianyi is precious for the national table tennis women's doubles event.
Despite the high clamour, the final result disappointed these fans. The Chinese Table Tennis Association not only issued the wild card of the host of Xinxiang Station to Chen Xingtong, but also gave Chen Xingtong all the wild cards of the Macau Station and the Bangkok Challenge. Qian Tianyi, the runner-up of the WTT Grand Slam, fell into the embarrassing situation of having no ball to play!
The wild card issuance principle of the Chinese Table Tennis Association is difficult for fans to understand, and what embarrasses the Chinese Table Tennis Association is that Chen Xingtong, the wild card winner of the Table Tennis Association, lost to Szokos in Macau in the first round, and Qian Tianyi, who has broken into the quarterfinals, will again surpass Chen Xingtong in the ITTF ranking next week.
Embarrassment three: Liu Guoliang, who is also the chairman of WTT and the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, is difficult to obtain the support of table tennis associations such as Japan and South Korea.
Similar to the embarrassing situation of Du Feng, who previously served as the head coach of the national team and the club of the Chinese men's basketball team, Liu Guoliang concurrently serves as the chairman of WTT and the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and it is difficult to obtain the support of table tennis associations such as Japan and South Korea. Liu Guoliang's speech that "will continue to enhance the international discourse power" after being re-elected as the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association this year has aroused the dissatisfaction of table tennis powers such as Japan and South Korea, and greatly reduced its credibility in the WTT. It has been almost four years since the establishment of WTT, and the goal of 4 Grand Slams per year is only 1 in Singapore so far, and the target of 8 championships per year is only 3 this year.
The appearance of Qian Tianyi's dark horse undoubtedly makes the national table tennis coaching staff a little tricky, if it continues to play well on this site, should it be included in the five main forces? If included, who will be eliminated? This is a hassle.
Of course, if the coaching staff insists on not using her, it is actually easy to do it, and not give her the opportunity to participate in international competitions. Because after a while, her ranking, which did not add points, naturally declined, and the voice of fans was not so high.
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