The golden seal behind the elbow, the white jade in front of the port, the prancing horse when he was a teenager. Skillfully wear poplar leaves, pay willow branches with new voices, letter pens and plum poems, who will change He Lang's sideburns?
The WTT Doha Stars Challenge kicked off in Doha, Qatar. Although this competition is a WTT second-class event, and the champion only has 600 bonus points, the scale of the event is several times larger than the year-end finals, and the difficulty of winning the championship should be no less than that of the World Championships.
This is due to changes to the WTT Board of Directors to ensure that all players have a fair chance to compete for Olympic qualification. The main content is to lift the limit on the number of top 20 players in the WTT Star Challenge and WTT Regular Challenge before the Paris Olympics, and hand over the nomination to the host country.
As a result of this change, the number of participants in this Star Challenge is very large, with more than 150 people participating in the qualifying tournament alone. Both men's and women's singles are 64 players in the main event.
In terms of national table tennis, 16 people, including Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Chen Meng, qualified for the competition, which can be called the most in the history of the Star Challenge.
In terms of foreign association players, Hugo, Lin Yunru, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, French Lebrun brothers, Ocharov, Hina Hayata, Han Ying, Misei Ito, Zhu Qianxi, Szokos and other top 20 players almost all signed up for the competition.
The famous year-end finals have only four seeded players, but this year's Star Challenge has set up 16 seeded players and 128 players to compete in the men's and women's singles main draws.
In Men's Singles, the No. 1-4 seeds are Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, and Jing Kun, the No. 5-8 seeds are Calderano, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, and Lin Shidong, and the No. 9-16 seeds are Zhang Yuzhen, Zhang Benzhihe, Qiu Dang, Darko, Carlberg, Aruna, Lin Zhongxun, Freitas.
In Women's Singles, the No. 1-4 seeds are Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, the No. 5-8 seeds are Hina Hayata, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi and Han Ying, and the No. 9-16 seeds are Shin Yubin, Szokos, Zhang Rui, Yang Xiaoxin, Zhang Benmeihe, Zhu Qianxi, Zheng Yijing and Kuo Man.
Because of the large number of people, the draw needs to be conducted in four times. Take the women's singles as an example: No. 1 seed Sun Yingsha and No. 2 seed Wang Yidi are determined to be No. 1 and No. 64, No. 3 seed Wang Manyu and No. 4 seed Chen Meng are drawn No. 32 and No. 33, Hayada Hina, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Han Ying and other four people are drawn to No. 16, No. 17, No. 48 and No. 49, and Shen Yubin, Szokos, Zhang Rui, Yang Xiaoxin, Zhang Benmeihe, Zhu Qianxi, Zheng Yijing, Kuo Man and other eight people are drawn to No. 8, 9, 24, 25, 40, 41, 56 and 57. After the 16 seeded players are fixed, the remaining 24 main draw players will be drawn. The final 24 spots are reserved for the 24 qualifiers.
At present, the singles seeding has been released.
Men's Singles. Zone 1/4 has Fan Zhendong, Lin Zhongxun, Dakko and Lin Shidong; Zone 2/4 has Liang Jingkun, Freitas, Zhang Benzhihe and Lin Yunru; Zone 3/4 has Lin Gaoyuan, Zhang Yuzhen, Carlberg and Ma Long; District 4/4 has Calderano, Qiu Dang, Wang Chuqin and Aruna.
Women's Singles. Zone 1/4 has Sun Yingsha, Zhang Benmeihe, Szokos, Hina Hayata; Zone 2/4 has Wang Manyu, Zheng Yijing, Shen Yubin, Chen Xingtong; Zone 3/4 has Zhang Rui, Han Ying, Zhu Qianxi, Chen Meng; District 4/4 has Qian Tianyi, Yang Xiaoxin, Kuo Man, Wang Yidi.
History does not repeat itself, only striking similarities and magic. The men's singles draw is strikingly similar to the finals. The first is the just-concluded finals, Fan Zhendong narrowly defeated Darko, this time the two are in the same community again, Fan Zhendong will face a strong opponent again; the second is that Liang Jingkun swept Lin Yunru in the finals, and Lin Yunru ushered in a chance for revenge; third, Aruna and Calderano are also in a community again ushered in a possible encounter; fourth, the Grand Slam Malone defeated Lin Gaoyuan in the finals, and this time the two will take the lead in ushering in the civil war.
The magic of the women's singles signing is that Sun Yingsha and Zhang Benmei were in close contact again after the finals, which was a huge test for Sun Yingsha. The second is that Wang Manyu encountered a nemesis and collided with Chen Xingtong in a community with a high probability. The third is that Chen Meng ushered in a great opportunity, avoiding the pity Szokos, as long as he defeats Wang Yidi, he may usher in a peak showdown with Sun Yingsha, and there is great hope to win the championship and break the championship drought. Fourth, the Japanese women's table tennis won the next sign, Misei Ito did not participate, Hina Hayada and Miwa Zhang were in a small area.
In the mysterious Doha, there are 8 magical places in the singles match, which will feast the eyes of fans and friends!
This year, I am in a hurry to flowers, and I seem to have hatred and sorrow when I meet. Groaning for a long time, on the moss, spinning to see the fall. See each other, Tsui Pill recommends wine, people are in the smoke and waves of the empty river. But dreams, a dashing branch, dusk obliquely shines on the water.