The WTT Doha Men's Finals will officially start on January 3, and the national table tennis will attack with the main force, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, these 6 tiger generals will work together to besiege Lin Yunru, and they are bound to keep the championship in China.
In the struggle for the top 16 men's in the world, I like the athletes of national table tennis, understand the ambition of Japan and South Korea to impact the championship, and am surprised by the birth of European straight board players, and re-set off the wave of straight board fever, but what I admire the most and move me the most is these two people, they are neither Asians who are good at table tennis, nor athletes from developed European and American countries, they are Adri Aruna from Nigeria, Africa and Calderano Hugo from Brazil, South America.
Adri Aruna
What impressed us most about Aruna was his dark skin, green rubber, and exaggerated forehand. He was born in 1988 and is now 36 years old, older than Ma Long, but he is still active on the court.
He doesn't have a team, no coaching staff, and no one even sponsors him to play table tennis, a duffel bag, a table tennis racket is all his luggage. On the field, we can often see a coach taking water and fruit to replenish energy during a timeout, while he sits alone.
However, the tenacity in his bones and the toughness of his style of play made the audience applaud him again and again, and he represented Africa in international competitions and was named the best male athlete of the year. When he returned to his hometown, he was still a security guard because he needed such a job to support his family of four. He even beat Tomokazu Haramoto to reach the quarterfinals of the men's singles at the Rio Olympics.
Calderano Hugo
In a country where the whole country is playing football, there is Hugo who plays table tennis. He grew up in Brazil, South America, and when he was a child, his friends played football, and he was the only one who played table tennis.
Because in the southern hemisphere, almost all table tennis matches are in the northern hemisphere, so he often has to cross half the world to participate in the competition alone. He is now ranked 5th in the world because he competes in a lot of races every year, and he races at his own expense without sponsorship, so he has accumulated a lot of points. There is still such a joke in the table tennis world, as long as there is no national table tennis and you can still get points in the game, you can see his figure, so you can bypass the points of national table tennis.
He also because there are no other outstanding table tennis players in that country, and he can only participate in singles in all competitions, and there are no teammates in doubles and team competitions, he is a lonely person, and he is the "King of Latin America"
We feel the strength of Chinese table tennis, and other countries always have very inspirational athletes!