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The 2024 WTT Doha Stars Challenge will be held in Qatar from January 8 to January 13, with a full lineup of 16 Chinese players. As the first major international event of 2024, the number of foreign associations is also huge, with only French star Felix Lebrun and German world champion Ocharov absent from the top 16 players in the world rankings. The champion of this tournament will receive 600 points from the World Table Tennis Federation, and Wang Chuqin's Olympic points are currently ranked first with a slight lead over Fan Zhendong, and the two will fight for the top spot again!
In the list of participants in the Chinese Army, there are 8 people in the men's team, namely Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, Zhou Qihao and Yuan Licen, of which Zhou Qihao and Yuan Licen are qualified through the wild card qualification, Yuan Licen must start from the qualifying round, but in the just-concluded Doha men's finals, Yuan Licen/ Xiang Peng made it all the way to the final and eventually won the title, Yuan Licen performed very well, his form was hot, and playing the qualifying rounds was not a big problem, and Doha was also a blessed land for Yuan, where he won the singles and doubles titles. The remaining 7 people will directly participate in the main event, Wang Chuqin is even more in 3 sports, in addition to singles, he also partnered with Ma Long in men's doubles and Sun Yingsha in mixed doubles, while Fan Zhendong gave up doubles, focused on men's singles competitions, and went all out to impact the men's singles championship. In addition, Lin Shidong will once again partner Lin Gaoyuan in the men's doubles match.
The national table tennis women's team also has 8 participants, namely: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Zhang Rui and Kuo Man, of which Zhang Rui and Kuo Man qualified through wild cards, the above 8 people in addition to participating in the women's singles competition, including Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, Qian Tianyi/Chen Xingtong, Zhang Rui/ Kuo Man also played in the women's doubles competition, Wang Manyu was even more triatical, and also partnered with Lin Gaoyuan in the mixed doubles competition, only Wang Yidi only participated in the women's singles competition, and went all out to impact the women's singles championship and launch a strong impact for the Olympic quota.
In this year's competition, all the masters of foreign associations participated, including Japan's first brother Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Japan's first sister Hina Hayada and Miwa Zhangmoto, Taipei's first brother Lin Yunru, South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen, Lin Zhongxun, Shin Yubin and Zhu Qianxi, as well as European masters Moregard, Szokos, etc., all of whom gathered together to attack the championship. As the world's No. 1 Fan Zhendong, due to the just-concluded finals singles final lost to teammate Wang Chuqin, gave up the top position in the Olympic standings, this event gave up other events, go all out to impact the singles championship, is bound to regain the first place in the Olympic standings just lost, then the game will be extremely exciting, let us wait and see!