With Wang Chuqin defeated the German star Francesca 4-2, and finally in the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, the Chinese table tennis team successfully won all the championships in five individual events, as a blockbuster event launched by the World Table Tennis Federation, the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam has also prepared rich bonuses and points rewards for athletes, it can be said that in this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Chinese table tennis players have made great gains, and at the same time, through the test of this competition, the national table tennis team has determined the final candidates for the Paris Olympics
According to the official news given before the start of this competition, the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam official not only gave the same 2000 championship points as the Singapore Grand Slam as a reward, but also the organizer also took out a record 2 million US dollars as a cash prize, which also created a record for the highest prize money in the history of the Grand Slam! In terms of each event, the champion of the men's and women's singles will directly receive 2,000 points and $65,000 in prizes, and the runner-up will also receive $33,050 in cash prizes, and even if they only enter the semi-finals, the number of prize money will reach $20,750!
Specific to the members of the national table tennis team, the biggest gain is now the world's No. 1 national table tennis player Wang Chuqin, in the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Wang Chuqin won the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles three championships in one go, so he won a total of 530,000 yuan! They are 470,000 yuan for the men's singles champion, 30,000 yuan for the mixed doubles champion and 30,000 yuan for the men's doubles champion
In terms of the number of individual bonuses, the second is the women's singles champion Chen Meng, in addition to the women's singles championship, Chen Meng also partnered with Wang Manyu to win the women's doubles championship, Chen Meng, who holds two championships, has a personal bonus of 500,000 yuan! Sun Yingsha, who lost to Chen Meng in the women's singles final, also got a bonus of 270,000 yuan, which included a cash prize of 30,000 yuan for the mixed doubles championship in addition to the women's singles runner-up reward of 240,000 yuan
In the past, our table tennis players were very limited in terms of income, basically only through the world series to get a meager income, only a very few Olympic champions can get commercial contracts and endorsement opportunities, but in recent years, with the development of professional events such as Grand Slams and championship challenges, the income of table tennis players is getting higher and higherBut at present, the income of table tennis players in all sports is still at the lower middle level, not only compared with the income gap between football and basketball players, even compared with tennis, golf and other fields, the income gap is also very huge, but it is commendable that through the current number of professional leagues, the current table tennis players have been greatly improved in terms of personal income compared with the past
In addition, speaking of the women's singles final between Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, it can also be regarded as the highlight of the last match day of the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, as the leaders of the new and old generations of the national table tennis women's team, as early as the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the national table tennis team chose to partner with the two to participate in the women's singles event, and at this year's Paris Olympics, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha joined hands to represent the Chinese table tennis team in the women's singles event
The two of them in this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam can be said to be full of challenges, among them, Sun Yingsha also defeated Tian Zhixi, Qian Tianyi and Wang Yidi along the way, and Chen Meng's game process is even more thrilling, starting from the top 16, Chen Meng has defeated Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayada three Japanese table tennis players, and in the final women's singles final, she defeated the powerful Sun Yingsha, accompanied by Wang Manyu in this competition upset loss to Indian player Batra, which also means, Chen Meng overtook Wang Manyu at the last moment and successfully qualified for the women's singles at the Paris Olympics.
Editor: Lao Zhang