Beijing time in the early morning of May 13, the Chinese table tennis team that traveled to the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, South Africa has safely arrived at the end of the trip, some netizens posted photos taken at the airport, among which the Olympic champion "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha appeared in slippers is very eye-catching, it seems that the local climate is quite mild, not a good thing.
Since Durban and Beijing are thousands of miles away and six time zones apart, everyone must hurry up and rest. As for the Japanese team, it has also held a departure ceremony, and will meet with Guoping in South Africa next: the war is about to start!
This year is the first time that the World Table Tennis Championships have been held in Africa since 1939, because the local area is very far from the Asian and European countries where the world's table tennis is more developed, so this trip is bound to make many famous players feel tired and uncomfortable.
Not too early in January this year, National Table Tennis has already sent a small team to participate in the WTT Durban Challenge, which can be regarded as a thorough touch in advance, and this time it will not be unprepared. In addition, there are many overseas Chinese compatriots in the local area, and their enthusiastic people will definitely work with the embassy to help the Chinese team settle down as soon as possible.
According to previously disclosed information, National Table Tennis set off from the Chengdu training base as early as May 11, but the first stop is to fly back to Beijing, then to Dubai, and finally to Durban, which is indeed very hard, through some videos and photos uploaded by netizens, we can see that the athletes are still slightly tired when waiting at the airport.
However, compared with the last Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Durban is relatively close, plus the national table tennis has to go to the world to participate in the competition all year round, so even if you are tired, if you overcome it a little, the problem is not big, don't worry too much.
According to the arrangement, the Durban World Table Tennis Championships will hold a draw ceremony on May 18, and the world ranking will be based on May 16. After the draw, the competition will officially kick off on May 20, and then 10 players of National Table Tennis will compete in singles, 6 pairs of doubles, and impact the championship gold medal in 5 events, looking forward to everyone achieving good results!
As mentioned earlier, the Japanese team has also completed the last domestic training before the World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Benzhihe is determined to win a medal, and the injured Mimato Ito has not made too many statements, but we certainly cannot let down our guard against this fierce rival.
So who are you optimistic about becoming the winners of this World Table Tennis Championships? The suspense is still there, let's cheer for the national table together!