Liu Guoliang announced the good news! The table tennis singles World Cup has resumed, and the Grand Slam competition continues to write a legend

The 2023 Chengdu Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup has come to an end on the evening of December 10, Beijing time, and it is surprising that Liu Guoliang, President of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, First Vice President of the International Table Tennis Federation, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, officially announced an important decision before the award ceremony, that is, the men's and women's singles World Cups will return in April 2024, and the venue will be in Macau, China.

As one of the three traditional major tournaments of table tennis, the World Cup singles has been suspended for three consecutive years, and now it is finally going to meet the fans again, which also means that the "Grand Slam" competition in the past table tennis is about to start again, looking forward to the birth of a new legend!

Friends who pay attention to the table tennis world know that since the first introduction of table tennis in the 1988 Olympic Games, people have gradually called the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, and the World Cup as the "three major competitions" in the table tennis world, and at the same time the athletes who have collected the singles championships of the three major competitions are called "Grand Slams".

However, due to the impact of the epidemic and other factors, the Table Tennis World Cup has been suspended since 2020, and the team event will not be restarted until 2023, but the singles has not yet started, and it was not until December 10 that the news of the confirmed resumption finally came.

According to the official announcement of Liu Guoliang and ITTF President Petra Sorrin, the men's and women's singles World Cups have been confirmed to start in Macau, China, in April next year, and the date is to be determined. So far, the three traditional table tennis competitions have finally returned to their places again, which also means that the development of world table tennis has gradually returned to the right track.

Before that, the women's and men's finals will also kick off in Japan and Qatar respectively, and it seems that the short-lived WTT World Cup finals have ended their historical mission, and the next World Cup and finals will continue to be separated and develop in parallel.

At present, in addition to Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, among the athletes who have not retired from national table tennis, there are Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng, among whom only Ma Long has collected the singles gold medals in the three major competitions, and he is also the closest athlete to achieve a Grand Slam, and that was seven years ago.

With the return of the World Cup, the competition of the top players in the table tennis world for the Grand Slam will also be put on the agenda again, so when will there be a new Grand Slam winner? Let's sit back and wait for next year's World Cup and Olympic singles competition to kick off!