On June 8, Beijing time, as time went on, the list of three WTT regular challenge tournaments in June gradually surfaced. The WTT Series is divided into different tiers, and different levels of competition have different rules for participation, such as the regular challenge that will start this month, which is limited to a maximum of 3 players in the top 20 in the world (wild cards and nominations are not counted).
The rosters for the regular challenges of Nigeria and Tunisia have already been announced, so everyone is looking forward to which star player will go to qualify for Croatia's Zagreb tournament.
Earlier, the doubles list of the National Table Tennis Zagreb Challenge was announced, in addition to some second-tier players, the coaching staff also sent Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun 4 main players and the current world No. 6 Qian Tianyi to play. It is precisely because of the emergence of these big main players that fans are also looking forward to the announcement of the top 20 restricted list of this tournament, as well as the wild card and nomination list.
Finally, today, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation officially announced the list of "Top 20 Participation Restrictions" in the Zagreb Regular Challenge, with the men's singles being Fan Zhendong (1), Lin Shidong (15), Yukiya Uda (19), and the women's singles being Qian Tianyi (6), Hina Hayata (8), and Shen Yubin (20).
In this way, Qian Tianyi, Lin Shidong and Qu Man will definitely have three responsibilities.
Yesterday, the Japan Table Tennis Association announced the participation list of their Tunisian and Zagreb competitions, in addition to Tomokazu Changmoto, Maharu Yoshimura, and Mimato Ito, most of the Japanese table tennis masters are among them.
The Zagreb competition included male players Yukiya Uda, Hayasuke Togami, Reiki Kakawa, Koichi Yoshiyama, and Kaku Matsushima and female players Hina Hayada, Miyu Kihara, Miu Hirano, Miwa Changmoto, Miyu Nagasaki, Haruka Koshio, Asuka Sasao and Mori Sakura.
The Japan Table Tennis Association has always been released earlier than the official notice, and I think they must have known the result in advance. Yukiya Uda and Hina Hayata on the list have now been confirmed to register as top 20 players, so if Miyu Kihara and Miu Hirano also participate in the top 20, they will only be eligible to participate as wild cards or nominations.
Neither the wild card nor the nominee list has been announced, but the two female players of the Japanese team may already be inseparable. Whether the national table tennis will add high-ranking team members to participate also needs to wait for the announcement of wild cards and nominations.
According to the list of participants announced on the current official website, Nipping has Hina Hayada, a fierce general, as well as powerful new stars such as Miwa Zhang Ben, Miyu Nagasaki, Haruna Koshio, and Han Ping has Shen Yubin, Zhu Qianxi, Tian Zhixi, Cui Xiaozhu, Li Shiwen, etc., in addition to Du Kaixuan, Zhang An, Hannah Gundam, Sutasini, Batra and other famous players.
The Zagreb national table tennis women's team only reported Qian Tianyi, Qu Man, He Zhuojia, Liu Weishan 4 people, they have a great challenge to face, and the leading Qian Tianyi is even more pressure, if she can win the championship in one fell swoop will definitely further enhance her status in the team, if she fails to achieve good results, she may miss the opportunity.