On November 9th, Beijing time, the main match of the WTT regular challenge Taiyuan station kicked off, the competition was held in China, attracting the attention of national table tennis fans, although the individual main players of this event withdrew from the singles, but there are also many national table tennis main level players to participate, so this competition is the most star-studded regular challenge in recent times, after all, the relegation points and bonuses of the regular challenge are not much, but it is rare to attract so many excellent players to participate in the real number.
It is less than a year before the official start of the Paris Olympic Games, and the Olympic Games will officially open in Paris in mid-July 2024, when it will enter the Olympic time, and according to the inspection cycle announced by the Table Tennis Association, the Chinese table tennis team is expected to announce the final Olympic Games in early May 2024. Strive for more Olympic opportunities and ITTF points.
In early May 2024, the top three players in the ITTF points + Olympic points ranking team can participate in the Olympic Games, so every national table tennis athlete is fair, as long as you want to participate in the Olympic Games, you need to play at a higher level of competition, and strive to improve your world ranking and Olympic points, so every player with ideas will seize the opportunity of the recent international competition and go all out to strive for more championships, and only in this way can they rewrite their own destiny, like Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, Zhou Qihao, Xiang Peng and other players have the opportunity to attack.
But in this Taiyuan Station regular challenge, a key men's team player of our Chinese table tennis team, a world champion was out of the game in advance, accompanied by the 2-3 first round loss to Japanese table tennis Matsushima Teruku, it also implied that the world champion of national table tennis missed the ticket to the Paris Olympics in advance, and a round of travel will be staged in this level of competition, not to mention that if he goes to a higher-level competition, won't he lose even more, so this player is destined to be eliminated by Wang Hao. is not within the scope of the investigation, he is Zhou Qihao.
Zhou Qihao, as the first national table tennis player to appear in the WTT Taiyuan Regular Challenge, did not give his teammates a good start, but lost the first game and was eliminated, the result of the first round of the tour made the coaching staff very disappointed, which is even more disappointing than Liang Jingkun Lin Gaoyuan lost in some international competitions, after all, this is a regular challenge, the opponent is not strong, Zhou Qihao is really embarrassed to reuse, plus there is no advantage in age, there is no plasticity, Therefore, Zhou Qihao can basically be said to have withdrawn from the competition for tickets to the Paris Olympics in advance.