On April 11, the 2024 ITTF Macau Men's and Women's World Cups will be held from April 15 to 21. All 48 seats for men and women in this competition were released, and a total of 6 men and 6 women participated in the national table tennis, of which the women's team participants were Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong, and Kuo Man.
This year's World Cup format has been a game-changer, as the men's and women's World Cups were held separately and there were only 16 quotas each, with a maximum of two participants from each association. Only Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng participated in the last Women's World Cup, that is, in 2020 in Weihai, Shandong, in that World Cup, Chen Meng, who participated in the World Cup for the first time, defeated Sun Yingsha, who was also participating for the first time, 4-1 in the final, and won his first World Series individual championship. In Macau, both will play in the World Cup for the second time, while Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and Kuo Man will usher in their first World Cup journey.
In this competition, Chen Meng played as the defending champion. If she wants to win the championship in a row, she will face a lot of difficulties. Women's Singles world No. 1 Sun Yingsha is undoubtedly one of the strong contenders for the title, and after having participated in the tournament once, she will be aiming for her first World Cup title. If she can win the championship, Sun Yingsha, who holds the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, is one step closer to the Grand Slam. Like Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, who already has the title of women's singles title at the World Table Tennis Championships, is also the favorite to win the championship in this competition, and she has been in good form recently, and she has won the WTT Singapore Grand Slam women's singles championship and the women's singles runner-up at the Incheon Championships.
Among the 48 players participating in this Women's World Cup, in addition to Chen Meng, there is also a former champion, that is, Japan's Miu Hirano. Currently ranked 14th in the world, she defeated Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing in the 2016 Women's World Cup to win the championship, becoming the first "post-00" singles world champion in the history of table tennis and the only non-national table tennis champion in the history of the 24th Women's World Cup. In that competition, no one participated in the national table tennis, and Miu Hirano seized the opportunity to win the championship in one fell swoop. She has already qualified for the singles competition at the Paris Olympics and is looking forward to competing with the national table tennis again.