After the end of the Macau World Cup, the national table tennis team will choose to rest when it returns to Beijing, and then continue to prepare for the competition in May. And after the end of the Macau World Cup this time, just recently the WTT World Table Tennis Federation announced another very important competition, for the national table tennis, I am afraid the situation is very unfavorable.
According to media reports, after the Macau World Cup just ended, the World Table Tennis Federation struck while the iron was hot and hurriedly announced the relevant event arrangements for the finals at the end of the year and WTT2024.
It is understood that this time the annual finals will be arranged in Fukuoka, Japan, the time of the competition is set for November 20 and 24, when the world's top 16 men's and women's singles players, as well as the top 8 men's and women's doubles players can get the opportunity to participate in the competition, compete for the men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles a total of four championships. In this way, the situation facing the national table tennis may be relatively unfavorable.
Last year's annual finals were also held in Japan, which is undoubtedly very good news for the Japanese team Tomotoshi Zhang and them. First of all, this tournament will be held in Hina Hayata's hometown, so for Hina Hayata, this time there is a chance to challenge for the women's singles championship.
On the other hand, whether it is Tomokazu Zhang or Miwa Zhangmoto, their men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles competitions also occupy the right time and place. Based on these considerations, fans are worried that the Japanese team may achieve good results in this annual finals next, and the six main forces of national table tennis, including Sun Yingsha, may be sniped.
According to the ranking, after the end of the Olympic Games, there is a high probability that the six main forces, including Ma Long, Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, will participate in this competition. For the national table tennis, it is definitely hoped that they can win the championship of the four events, but considering the geographical advantage of the Japanese team this time, coupled with their recent very good form, Zhang Benmeihe's results are getting better and better. Under such circumstances, the six main forces of national table tennis will go to Japan to participate in the competition, and it is really possible to suffer a big loss.
Therefore, some fans questioned whether Liu Guoliang was a little careless when he cooperated with the WTT World Table Tennis Federation to arrange the venue for the relevant finals? Knowing that the Japanese team is the number one strong opponent of national table tennis, they arranged the venue for the competition in Japan.
In fact, objectively speaking, there is indeed such a possibility, but for core players such as Ma Long and Sun Yingsha, they still need to be hard to play iron.
Regardless of whether the finals are held in Japan or other places in Europe and the United States, the main players of national table tennis should give their best performance in order to reach the top podium. After all, the next Paris Olympics will be held in France, if you are worried that Ma Long will not play well because of the problem of the venue, it is estimated that other players of the national table tennis will compete in other places, and it may be difficult to achieve good results.
Therefore, for fans, although it is good to relax, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin, these core players still have the ability to win the championship again in the finals at the end of the year and win the first place in all events.