All six main players of National Table Tennis participated! 9 men and 6 women played against various masters, and Fan Zhendong played singles continuously
The 2023 WTT Star Challenge Slovenia Ljubljana will be held from July 3 to 9, today the WTT official website updated the registration list of this site, the six main players of national table tennis Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu will play, Japan's Tomokazu Chang, Mimato Ito, Hina Hayata will also participate.
The National Table Tennis Championships, which ended the Durban World Table Tennis Championships holiday, recently assembled again in Beijing to start a new phase of training and prepare for the next WTT series. Closer and closer to the Paris Olympics, according to the Paris Olympic selection method announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the final selection of the Tokyo Olympic singles participants is generated according to the sum of world ranking points and Paris Olympic competition points, and each competition in this year may affect the final Olympic qualification, and each station of the participation list is also particularly interesting. In the WTT Regular Challenge Zagreb from June 26 to July 2, Fan Zhendong will play in the men's singles, Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan in the men's doubles, and Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha in the mixed doubles.
After the WTT Regular Challenge in Zagreb, it was followed by the Star Challenge Slovenia. WTT officially updated the registration list, in addition to Qu Man, He Zhuojia, Liu Weishan, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu will also play in the women's singles, the men's singles added Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, the three of them will play together with Yuan Licen, Xiang Peng, Zhou Qihao, Liang Yancang, Xu Yingbin, Zhao Zihao, of which Zhao Zihao will start from the qualification. In this way, the core lineup of the three national table tennis men's and women's teams will play in this competition, according to the rules, there are 36 seats in the men's and women's singles, and there are currently 4 seats left in each of them.
In addition to the national table tennis, other associations also sent a number of main players in this competition, women's singles Japan's Mimato Ito, Hina Hayada, Mikazu Changmoto, Miyu Nagasaki, Diaz from Puerto Rico, Zheng Yijing from Chinese Taipei, Zhu Qianxi and Tian Zhixi from South Korea; In the men's singles, Japan's Tomokazu Changmoto and Hayasuke Togami, Brazil's Hugo, Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru, Slovenia's Dako, Sweden's Karlsson and Falk, France's F. Lebrun, Simon Goetz and others will participate.
This will also be the largest competition after the end of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and the six main players of national table tennis will lead the competition, train with competitions, stabilize their world rankings, and be in an advantageous position in the Olympic competition.