On April 17, the group stage of the Table Tennis Macau Men's and Women's Singles World Cup was completed, and the round of 16 was released.
Men's Singles: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Lebrun Jr., Hugo, Zhang Yuzhen, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami, Darko, Lin Shidong, Freitas, Carlberg, Chen Sa;
Women's Singles: Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Shen Yubin, Chen Xingtong, Savitabut, Hina Hayata, Zheng Yijing, Miwa Zhangmoto, Szoks, Diaz, Tian Zhixi, Miu Hirano, Zhu Qianxi, Sophia.
Among them, all 6 male players of the Chinese team qualified, 2 members of the Japanese team Tomokazu Zhang and Hayasuke Togami qualified, and the South Korean men's team was a bit miserable, only Zhang Yuzhen qualified. Of the six female players of the Chinese team, only one of them fell behind, while the Japanese team had three members of Hina Hayata, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Miyu Hirano, and the South Korean team also had three players, Shin Yubin, Tian Zhixi, and Zhu Qianxi, qualified.
In the group stage, the multi-way master was defeated. For example, in men's singles, a number of Korean masters such as Qiu Dang, Moregaard, Simon, Da Lebrun, and Lim Jong-hoon were out, while in women's singles, Misei Ito, Yuan Jianan, Yang Xiaoxin, Zhang An and other groups did not qualify.
This World Cup has adopted a new group qualification rule, and every point in every game counts. In the last round of the group stage, many people were eliminated due to fewer total points when the score was tied at 2, such as Lee Sang-so, Kuo Man, Grote, Misei Ito, Wang Amy, etc.
Such group qualifying rules, in fact, are not difficult for Chinese fans at all, we have been trained by the national football team to become mathematical geniuses, and then calculate the qualifying numbers of table tennis, it is really pediatric.
In the next step, the Macau World Cup will enter the knockout stage, and the group stage system that fans have criticized a little will end, and a single-elimination system of 7 games and 4 wins will be implemented.