On May 11, 2024, Beijing time, the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam of table tennis came to an end. The Saudi Grand Slam is one of the four major table tennis tournaments and belongs to the top event of the WTT series. This competition set up five events for men's and women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles, and finally the national table tennis won five championships and one runner-up, and the national table tennis became the five champions of this competition.
In this competition, the national table tennis sent 12 main players to participate in the competition, including 6 players led by Sun Yingsha of the women's team and 6 players led by Wang Chuqin of the men's team. In the 1/16 singles competition, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Wang Manyu and Lin Gaoyuan were upset and out, and the national table tennis suffered heavy losses, but then in the game, the national table tennis players adjusted their state in time and won one after another, and finally won all five individual championships.
After the end of this competition, the Table Tennis Association will announce the list of all participants in the Paris Olympics, and among the lists that have been announced, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha have been successfully selected. As Chen Meng won three foreign battles in a row, he defeated Sun Yingsha 4:2 in the final to win the singles championship, and he basically qualified for singles. Since Ma Long/Wang Chuqin won the men's doubles championship, Ma Long has a high probability of qualifying for the men's team. Because Wang Manyu lost the foreign war, he lost the Olympic singles qualification, but partnered with Chen Meng to win the women's doubles championship, and he has a high probability of qualifying for the women's team.
In the mixed doubles competition of this competition, the national table tennis sent the ace combination Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha to participate, and as a result, they won the championship three times in a row 3:0 and won the first championship of national table tennis. Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha have already qualified for the Olympic doubles and are ranked No. 1 in the world and are the biggest favourites to win the mixed doubles title at the Paris Olympics.
In women's singles, although world champion Wang Manyu stopped in the top 1/32, Chen Meng alone defended the lower half of the area, defeated three Japanese players in a row, successfully met Sun Yingsha in the final, and won the women's singles championship and runner-up for the national table tennis. In the final, Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha 4:2 to win the championship, which was also avenged in the World Cup semifinals, and also qualified for the Olympic singles. It is a pity that Sun Yingsha failed to win the championship, after all, in the game with Qian Tianyi, she was in a burst of state and had a huge score difference of 11:0.
In men's singles, with Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun losing consecutive foreign battles, the responsibility of winning the championship is on the shoulders of Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong. Subsequently, Wang Chuqin won the derby with Lin Shidong and became the national table tennis men's single seedling to enter the finals, and finally defeated the German star 4:2 to win the championship, winning the third championship of this competition and becoming the biggest winner.
In men's doubles, this year's national table tennis sent two pairs of Ma Long/Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan to participate. In women's doubles, the national table tennis sent Chen Meng/Wang Manyu and Yidi/Chen Xingtong two pairs, but the two sides encountered a derby in the 1/4 match, and finally Chen Meng/Wang Manyu won 3:2 to advance, and finally won the championship.
Judging from this competition, the performance of the women's team is more stable, although Sun Yingsha finally lost to Chen Meng, but Sun Yingsha's strength and stability are undoubted, and she is also the biggest favorite to win the women's singles in the Paris Olympics. The performance of the men's team was not good, although Wang Chuqin won three championships alone, but Fan Zhendong and Ma Long were in an unstable state. Although Fan Zhendong qualified for the singles at the Paris Olympics, his form was not good in recent tournaments.