Burn the incense and kill the heat. Birds and birds call for sunshine, invading the eaves of the eaves. The early sun on the leaves is dry and rainy, the water surface is clear and round, and the wind lifts it one by one. The hometown is far away, when will I go? My family lives in Wumen, and I have been a Chang'an brigade for a long time. Do the fishermen remember each other in May? Xiao Ji Qingzhou, dreaming of Furong Pu.
The highly-anticipated WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam 2024 kicked off on May 1 at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The tournament consists of five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, which are divided into two stages: the qualifying round and the main event, which will be held from May 1 to 3 and the main event from May 4 to 11. There are 64 draws each for men's and women's singles, and 24 draws for doubles and mixed doubles.
The tournament has a lot of money and points. The singles champion will receive US$65,000, 2,000 points and 5,000 points for the world volleyball team, US$33,050 for the runner-up, 1,400 points for the world volleyball team and 2,900 points for the selection points, and US$20,750 for the top four, 700 points for the world volleyball team and 1,450 points for the selection points.
The national table tennis players are Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong in Men's Singles, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi in Women's Singles, Ma Long/Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan/Liang Jingkun in Men's Doubles, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong/Wang Yidi in Women's Doubles, and Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha in Mixed Doubles.
This event is the last battle of the national table tennis Olympic selection, and it is also the most critical battle. At present, the list of national table tennis participants in the Olympic Games is basically determined. Men's singles Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, mixed doubles Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, women's singles No. 1 Sun Yingsha, only women's singles No. 2 has not been finalized. But Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, and Kuo Man have no chance, and the other candidates for the national table tennis women's singles can only be produced between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu. The Saudi Grand Slam will be crucial for the Olympic singles battle between the two.
At present, Wang Manyu's total Olympic selection points are 14,865 points, Chen Meng's total Olympic selection points are 13,310 points, and Wang Manyu has 1,555 points.
Born in 1994, Chen Meng is the women's singles champion and women's team champion at the Tokyo Olympics, and has been in the lead in the first half of the singles selection points cycle at the Paris Olympics. Wang Manyu was born in 1999, is a member of the Tokyo Olympics women's team champion and the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion, since the end of last year, Wang Manyu has gradually narrowed the gap with Chen Meng, the world ranking has also continued to improve, in March this year Singapore Grand Slam and Incheon Championships, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng twice in the semifinals, won the championship, runner-up; However, her lead is not secure, and the result of the Saudi Grand Slam is enough to change the ranking of the two.
According to the latest Olympic selection rules of national table tennis, if you lose a foreign battle in a Grand Slam, 2,000 points will be deducted. According to the international ranking points of this Grand Slam and the Olympic selection points rules of national table tennis, if Chen Meng's performance in this tournament is significantly better than Wang Manyu, there is still a great chance to get a singles place. Whoever can win the championship can lock in the Olympic singles ticket.
Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are the top two seeds in the tournament, guarding the upper and lower halves respectively, Chen Meng will determine his final belonging through the draw, and may meet Wang Manyu in the semi-finals, the match is bound to attract a lot of attention.
The singles qualifying tournament is currently underway. In Men's Singles, Hamet Desai defeated Mihai Bobersika 3-0, Feng Yixin defeated Guilelme Teodoro 3-0, Guo Yong defeated Shatian Gananasekaran 3-1, Noshad Alamiyan defeated Cedric Nuitik 3-0, Lin Zhaoheng defeated Feng Yaoen 3-0, and Shinozuka Daden eliminated Xavier Dixon 3-1.
In Women's Singles, Mukherjee swept Hana Arapovic 3-0 with a score of 11-5, 11-6, 11-6 in three games, Zhang Xuan defeated Wu Yonglin 3-0, Huang Yihua defeated Zhou Jingyi 3-0, Shao Jeni beat Brianna Burgos 3-0, Jian Tongjuan defeated Arantesa Corsio Aceves 3-0, and Li Haoqing narrowly defeated Gaia Monfatini 3-2.
It is worth noting that the Busan Women's Team World Table Tennis Championships once upset the women's singles world No. 1 Sun Yingsha's Indian player Mukherjee with a score of 10-12, 11-2, 11-13, 6-11.
Far away books return to dreams, only the empty bed enemy Suqiu. The moss and mangroves under the stairs are sad in the rain and the moon.