The 2024 Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships has started, which makes fans regret that after the retirement of Aruna, a brother in Africa and Nigerian star with food poisoning, another famous player had no choice but to give up due to physical reasons, he is the German world champion, who won Lin Yunru and Tomokazu Zhang in a row not long ago.
According to Pol, his old eye disease has recurred, and the iris is inflamed, so he must recuperate recently to avoid "permanent damage" - Bol did not participate in the last Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships, and this time he will miss it, what a pity!
Born in 1981, Bol is a very familiar celebrity, he has fought against several generations of national table tennis players, won many medals in the World Series, and even gold medals, defeated fifteen Chinese team world champions from Kong Linghui to Ma Long, and this year broke out again, winning Lin Yunru, Zhang Benzhihe and reaching the top in the WTT Doha regular season.
As mentioned earlier, as early as 2022, Bol gave up the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships, which was plagued by injury problems, and Bol announced his return less than two years later, but gave up participating in the tournament again shortly after the start of the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships.
Prior to this, Bol had injuries in many parts of his body, but most of them were parts of the body and limbs, but this time the situation was more special, and it was an eye condition, which was really unexpected.
For the upcoming absence from the World Table Tennis Championships, Bol himself also felt very regretful, after all, he only defeated Lin Yunru and Zhang Benzhihe at the same time in Doha, and also won the two main Korean players Lee Sang-so and Zhang Yuzhen, which can be said to be among the top masters again, and even he himself said that "I feel very good in body and condition", but unfortunately I had no choice but to quit.
Bol's situation reminds many fans of another famous player, that is, Japanese Olympic champion Mizutani Hayabusa, because he also suffered from eye problems, and finally announced his retirement after winning gold with Ito at the Tokyo Olympics, which is also a pity in the table tennis world, so everyone also hopes that Bol can recover and return to the game as soon as possible.
Bol will miss out on the individual points brought by the World Table Tennis Championships because he will not be able to compete in Busan, which will also interrupt his progress in improving the world rankings, and I wonder if he will be able to return to the Grand Slam in March.