There are still 3 days left before the start of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and many teams have arrived in Durban one after another, and the first to arrive in the national table tennis adaptability training has entered the final sprint stage. Reigning mixed doubles champions Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha strengthened their training in the mixed doubles event, defending men's singles champion Fan Zhendong and Liang Jingkun practiced together, and Chen Meng, who was short of the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion to achieve a Grand Slam, conducted multi-ball training under the guidance of women's table tennis coach Ma Lin.
Before the start of the World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the selection method for the Paris Olympic Games, and the Durban World Table Tennis Championships is the first competition in the one-year period of the national table tennis calculation Olympic points, and the players who have the opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Games naturally want to win the championship in this competition and take the lead in the Olympic competition. In the selection of national table tennis Olympic places, the mixed doubles will be decided by the world ranking before the registration deadline, and the pair with the highest ranking will represent the national table tennis to participate in the Olympic Games and be selected into the team team. Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, who are currently ranked as world No. 1 in mixed doubles, are already in the lead in the competition.
As the mixed doubles champion of the last Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha will usher in the mixed doubles defense journey in Durban, and both of them are three, in addition to mixed doubles, in the men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles, both also have the strength to compete for the championship, how to balance the energy and physical distribution of the three events, has become a topic that the two need to face. Due to the three-line battle, the two must allocate time from pre-match training, and when the teammates are training in singles, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha will first conduct mixed doubles training under the guidance of mixed doubles team leader Xiao Zhan, and Liu Dingshuo/Qian Tianyi will be the two as sparring partners. Another mixed doubles pair that will compete in the World Table Tennis Championships, Lin Shidong/Qu Man, trained under the guidance of coach Qiu Yike.
Sun Yingsha will play as the top seed in the women's singles at this year's World Table Tennis Championships, and defending champion Wang Manyu will play as the second seed, and in yesterday's training, Wang Manyu focused on practicing her serve. Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng became the third seed, and after missing the championship in the last World Table Tennis Championships, this year's World Table Tennis Championships became her best chance to impact the great cause of the Grand Slam. Her former head coach and current head coach of the national table tennis women's team Ma Lin also picked up the racket, personally went into battle, served her as a sparring partner, and trained her with multiple balls, perhaps Ma Lin also hopes that the national table tennis can appear another Grand Slam winner, hoping that her regret of not achieving a Grand Slam because of the lack of the World Table Tennis Championships singles gold medal will not be staged on the disciple.
Fan Zhendong became the top seed and defending champion in men's singles, and Ma Long did not participate in the last World Table Tennis Championships because of the need to adjust after the Olympic Games, and Fan Zhendong's gold medal content was questioned to a certain extent. This year, Ma Long will usher in his eighth individual world table tennis championships journey and will attack his fourth men's singles championship. Fan Zhendong trained on the same stage with Liang Jingkun, who will also play in the men's singles competition, in yesterday's training to feel the atmosphere of actual combat in advance. Ma Long trained accompanied by Zhou Qihao. At 18:30 pm Beijing time on May 18, the draw ceremony of the World Table Tennis Championships was held, which also means that the Durban World Table Tennis Championships are really about to begin.