The 2023 WTT tournament is coming to an end, and the end of the Taiyuan Challenge only leaves the 12.4 Chengdu World Cup and the 12.15 WTT Women's Finals. The 16 players in the Grand Final have been confirmed, all of whom are the best performers in this year's WTT event. The women's national table tennis team occupies 7 of the seats, while the men's team has 6 seats, which shows that the overall strength of the women's team is more prominent. The women's team also performed better than the men's team this year, winning the semi-finals in a number of matches.
However, the women's team has had some problems losing their foreign battles, and even world No. 1 Sun Yingsha couldn't avoid that fate, as she lost to Japan's Miu Hirano. At the same time, Wang Yidi lost the most foreign battles, also losing to Japanese players. Chen Xingtong and Chen Meng also experienced the bitter taste of losing foreign wars, but Wang Manyu did not lose to foreign aids, but lost to teammates in many games this year. In addition, the national table tennis team also has Qian Tianyi and Zhang Rui selected, and the reason why they were selected is mainly due to their outstanding performance in the Singapore Grand Slam.
Qian Tianyi won the runner-up and Zhang Rui won the semi-finals, which was the highest level of the stop, and their outstanding performances accumulated a lot of competition points for them. After this competition, they are all ranked in the top 10 in the world, and although Qian Tianyi's ranking has slipped now, she still remains in the top 10. Zhang Rui, on the other hand, has already fallen out of the top 10, mainly because she has participated in fewer subsequent competitions. Among the players from other associations, the Japanese team has the second highest number of players, and they occupy 3 places. Among them, Hina Hayata, Misei Ito and Miwa Haramoto are among them.
At the moment, Hina Hayada is the strongest player in the foreign association, and her threat level has surpassed that of Ito. In the finals, she will still be the biggest rival of national table tennis. Although Misei Ito was also shortlisted for the finals, her performance this year was mediocre, she was upset many times, and she never won against the main force of national table tennis, which shows that her competitiveness has decreased significantly, her state has declined, and her combat effectiveness and tenacity are insufficient.
The recent performance of the national table tennis women's singles can be described as a bamboo, Zhang Benmei and Shin Yubin have improved rapidly, and have achieved impressive results in the Congo Stars Tournament and the Bangkok Stars Tournament respectively. In addition, players such as Han Ying, Szokos, Yang Xiaoxin and Zhu Qianxi also showed good strength in the competition, forming a certain confrontation with the main players of national table tennis. However, despite the overall strength of the national table tennis women's singles, it still faces some challenges.
Sun Yingsha performed strongly in the first half of the year, but declined slightly in the second half of the year, Wang Yidi and Wang Manyu won the championship successively, while Chen Meng's results were relatively stable. Although the national table tennis women's singles is still among the best on the whole, the road to winning the championship is still not easy. In the fierce competition, the strength duel of the players is constantly staged, which is unforgettable. All of this makes people look forward to the next games and the performance of the players.