On April 12, the 2024 ITTF Macau Men's and Women's World Cups will be held in Macau, China, from April 15 to 21. There are still 2 days before the start of the competition, and the national table tennis departed from Beijing to Macao to make final preparations for the competition. In this competition, the national table tennis sent a lineup of 6 men and 6 women, Wang Chuqin played in the men's World Cup as the top seed, and Fan Zhendong is the defending champion of the men's World Cup and will attack the fifth crown.
A total of 6 national table tennis players, including Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, and Lin Shidong, participated in the men's World Cup. Among them, Ma Long won the men's World Cup twice in 2012 and 2015, and Fan Zhendong became the youngest men's singles champion in World Cup history in 2016 at the age of 19 years and 8 months. From 2018 to 2020, Fan Zhendong achieved the first three consecutive championships in the history of the World Cup, and tied the record of four men's World Cup titles held by Ma Lin. In this World Cup, Fan Zhendong will attack the fifth World Cup championship and strive to tie the World Cup five-crown record held by Liu Shiwen. Lin Gaoyuan has also participated in the men's World Cup before, winning a bronze medal in 2018.
Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun and Lin Shidong will all usher in their first singles World Cup journey. Since the second half of last year, he has won the Hangzhou Asian Games, WTT Doha Men's Finals, and Singapore Grand Slam Men's Singles Championships, and the men's singles ranking has risen to No. 1 in the world. Wang Chuqin, who withdrew from the Incheon Championship due to physical exhaustion and the need to adjust, will challenge for his first singles world title in Macau. Now, Wang Chuqin, who has basically qualified for the singles at the Paris Olympics, will start his journey to pursue a Grand Slam from Macau. As the top seed, Wang Chuqin will accept the impact and challenge of the rest of the players.
Liang is currently ranked third in the world and has been in good form recently. He finished runner-up at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam in March, and then defended the men's national table tennis team by beating Brazil's Hugo in the Incheon Championships. In this singles World Cup, Liang Jingkun is eager to achieve a breakthrough and win more opportunities for himself to go to Paris, even if he can't become a third person, he may get a men's team P card. Lin Shidong, who qualified for the singles World Cup as the men's singles champion of the U19 group of the World Youth Championships, is a rookie trained by the national table tennis coaching staff, and he defeated Fan Zhendong in the Singapore Grand Slam.