On March 25, the 2024 WTT Incheon Championships will be held from March 27 to 31, and the national table tennis will win the top four seeds in the women's singles of this competition, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, and Chen Meng will guard a 1/4 zone; Fan Zhendong held the upper half alone, and Ma Long and Liang Jingkun entered the lower half. Fan Zhendong, who was preparing for the game, encountered troubles, not only was maliciously spread rumors, but the leakage of his ID number led to harassment and abuse on his mobile phone, and Fan Zhendong spoke out to protect his legitimate rights and interests.
The WTT Championships features two events, the men's and women's singles, each with 32 quota places. In the Incheon Championships, 3 men and 4 women played in the national table tennis. The women's singles swept the top four seeds, and the top seed Sun Yingsha automatically entered the No. 1 position to face Japan's Miu Hirano in the first round, which is a contest between the two post-00 women's singles world champions. Japan's Hina Hayada is also in the quarter-finals and faces India's Batra in the first round. Wang Yidi entered the quarter-finals against Monaco's Yang Xiaoxin in the first round, and South Korea's Shin Yubin also played Austria's Polkanova in the first round. Chen Meng, who is in the 3/4 zone, will face France's Pavard in the first round and will face the winner between Japan's Jang Benmi and South Korea's Zhu Qianxi. Second seed Wang Manyu automatically moved into the quarter-finals and faced Germany's Mittram in the first round, while Japan's Misei Ito, South Korea's Tian Zhixi and Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing were all in the quarter-finals.
The national table tennis team also won the top four seeds in the men's singles, but the new men's singles world No. 1 Wang Chuqin withdrew from the Incheon Championships because he was physically tired and needed to digest the recent gains. Fan Zhendong became the top seed in the men's singles, facing Japanese rookie Matsushima Teruku in the first round, and the two played each other in the men's team 1/4 finals of the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships. Japan's Tomokazu Changmoto is also in the quarter-finals and faces Chinese Taipei's Chuang Chi-yuen in the first round. There are no national table tennis players in the 2/4 zone, and the Lebrun brothers of France and Hugo of Brazil are all in this zone. Ma Long entered the 3/4 zone, and his first-round opponent was Sweden's Moregard, Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru in the same district, and South Korea's Jang Woo-jin and Ahn Jae-hyun started a civil war. Second seed Liang Jingkun automatically moved into the quarter-finals against Sweden's Carlberg in the first round, with substitute Wang Chuqin's Lee Won-chang also in the zone and South Korea's Lee Sang-so in the first round.
The national table tennis players have arrived in Incheon to start pre-match preparations, but Fan Zhendong has encountered something extremely angry. Fan Zhendong revealed that in recent days, his ID number has been maliciously spread and spread rumors, and some people have used his ID number to find out his mobile phone number and harass and abuse him, and these mobile phone numbers are used by his family, and these abuses have caused great psychological harm to his family. Fan Zhendong issued an ultimatum, hoping that some people would come to their senses, and if a similar situation occurred again, after he returned home from the Incheon Championship, he would concentrate evidence on the police and deal with it.
Regarding the issue of respecting the privacy of athletes, Fan Zhendong has expressed his attitude more than once, he bluntly said that he is an ordinary young man outside the field, and hopes that everyone will pay attention to him on the field, rather than focusing on him off the field. In April last year, Fan Zhendong's room was illegally invaded by strangers, which caused him great distress, and now he is being harassed and abused, and he has to speak out again in preparation for the war to protect his legitimate rights and interests. I wish him all the best for the Incheon Championship and the best preparations for the Paris Olympics.