Zhang Rui won the last place in the women's singles finals! Sun Yingsha led the national table tennis with 7 people participating in the competition, and 4 people fought on both fronts
On November 20, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation announced that national table tennis player Zhang Rui won the singles qualifying tournament for the 2023 Nagoya Women's Finals. As a result, all 16 women's singles seats in the 2023 WTT Women's Finals have been confirmed, and 7 national table tennis players will play.
The WTT Women's Finals will be held in Nagoya, Japan, from 15 to 17 December, with the top 16 women's singles players and the top 8 women's doubles pairs qualifying, with the winner receiving 1,500 world ranking points. Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng of national table tennis were the first to qualify for the singles competition, and then the International Table Tennis Federation successively announced the list of other players who won the singles quota, namely Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi of national table tennis, Hina Hayata, Misei Ito, Miwa Zhang Ben of Japan, Shin Yubin and Zhu Qianxi of South Korea, Han Ying of Germany, Diaz of Puerto Rico, Szokos of Romania and Yang Xiaoxin of Monaco.
The last quota place for the Women's Singles has not been announced. A week after the WTT Taiyuan Regular Challenge, the World Table Tennis Federation finally announced the ownership of the last quota for women's singles, and Zhang Rui of national table tennis qualified for the competition. Zhang Rui, currently ranked 16th in the world in singles, last competed in an international singles tournament at the Singapore Grand Slam in March, where she lost 4-1 to Qian Tianyi in the women's singles semi-finals. Zhang Rui is an important sparring partner in the preparation for the World Championships, and the world ranking once broke into the top 10 in women's singles, but as the Olympic year approached, her opportunities to participate in international competitions decreased, and she recently went to play in Japan's T-League. Now, Zhang Rui has qualified for the WTT Finals Women's Singles, and has also ushered in the opportunity to prove herself in the international arena.
All 16 women's singles seats in the WTT Women's Finals have been produced, and the national table tennis occupies 7 of them, nearly half of the proportion, which also reflects the overall strength of the national table tennis women's team. In addition to the women's singles, the two pairs of national table tennis Chen Meng/Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu also qualified for the women's doubles finals, and the four of them will fight on both fronts in the finals. At present, the eight women's doubles places have not yet been fully determined.