On June 9, there is no big competition in international table tennis, but the news of the table tennis world is still very exciting, one of them is that the big devil Zhang Yining is out again, she is the coach, what is going on?
According to the European Table Tennis Federation, the king of table tennis and the double-circle Grand Slam advocate Yining will serve as the coach of the European talent development training camp, which is mainly for players under the age of 17 and under the age of 15.
The training camp was jointly organized by the China Table Tennis Academy and the Luxembourg Table Tennis Association. For Zhang Yining, this is a familiar business, she served as the assistant president of China Table Tennis and in 2018 also participated in the training center in Papua New Guinea, Africa, as a coach, to coach the PNG national team members.
Since its establishment in 2010, the Chinese Table Tennis Institute has promoted and developed table tennis on a global scale, and the European branch in 2014 is the first overseas training center established by the Chinese Table Tennis Institute. Zhang Yining, the absolute king of table tennis, as a coach can better promote the development of table tennis.
Promoting table tennis is also the wish of Chairman Liu Guoliang of the Table Tennis Association, who has proposed to promote table tennis around the world since he became the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association in 2018 and make China the center of table tennis in the world. This move is also to practice the concept of "Chinese table tennis, shared by the world" and help the development of table tennis in Europe.
This is not the first time Zhang Yining has gone out to help Liu Guoliang. I remember that before the Tokyo Olympics, the Table Tennis Association established the Tokyo Olympics Staff Department, when Zhang Yining was a member of the staff, when determining the Tokyo Olympic lineup, she participated in the vote and supported Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Liu Shiwen on the Olympics, especially the singles player "Mengsha", meeting the final, winning gold and silver medals.
In addition, there is also a piece of news that Qian Tianyi, the Grand Slam runner-up who was previously suspected of being "snubbed", has suddenly been reused. The announced list of WTT Zagreb Challengers has shown her to be a triathlete, earlier appearing in women's doubles (partner Liu Weishan) and mixed doubles (partner Liang Jingkun), and recently qualifying her for singles.
In this challenge, if a player of strength like Sun Yingsha is not nominated or given a wild card, Qian Tianyi will be the top seed in the women's singles, and with her strength, I am afraid it will not be enough to compete against Hina Hayata of Japan.
Xiao Yan feels that since Fan Zhendong has played in the Zagreb Challenge singles, the organizing committee of the event should nominate Sun Yingsha to participate, and at that time, the appearance of the two world championship singles champions in Zagreb will be a very honorable existence.
Looking at the WTT World Table Tennis Federation Zagreb Challenge Tournament Organizing Committee, will it nominate or give Sun Yingsha the opportunity to participate in singles?
It is reported that the WTT Zagreb Regular Challenge will be held from June 26 to July 2, and the singles champion will receive 400 points.