The 2024 Table Tennis WTT Ljubljana Stars Tournament will be held from 11-16 June next month. Just today, the official website announced the seeded players, the main Chinese table tennis players such as Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, etc. are all absent, and the currently announced male and female seeded players are 5 each, of which the women's singles is led by Japan's main Hayada Hina, and the rest of the seeded players: Shin Yubin (South Korea), Zhang Ben Miwa (Japan), Ito Misei (Japan) and Diaz (Puerto Rico). Japanese players occupy 3 seats, which can be said to be a must-win!
The Men's Singles seeded players are France's Felix Lebrun, while the rest of the seeds are: Calderano Hugo (Brazil), Tomokazu Haramoto (Japan), Qiu Dang (Germany) and Ocharov (Germany). Germany's two main Olympic forces are menacing, with Japan, France, and Brazil each occupying 1 seat!
From the announced seeded players, we can see that most of the main players of the Japanese and South Korean teams have signed up for the competition, and their intention is obvious, trying to earn more points before the Olympics, so as to improve the world rankings in singles and teams, so as to avoid encountering the Chinese team before the final as much as possible.
It is worth mentioning that the Japanese team's Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Tomokazu Zhangmoto and his brother and sister joined hands to participate in the competition, there is no doubt that these two have the strength to impact the championship in the absence of the main force of national table tennis, but from the perspective of the distribution of opponents, Tomokazu Zhangmoto's situation is not optimistic, not long ago in the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam, Tomokazu Zhangmoto and 0-3 defeated to France's Lebrun, can the two meet again this time, and can Tomokazu Zhangmoto succeed in revenge? It's really worth looking forward to.
Miwa Zhang will also face a lot of resistance, and her main opponents will be teammates Hina Hayada and Mimato Ito. Especially in the face of Hina Hayata, Miwa Zhang is at a relative disadvantage, whether the two will usher in a strong confrontation this time is also worth looking forward to!
In addition, judging from the registration situation, the Ljubljana Star Tournament concentrates the main forces of Japan, South Korea, Germany and France, so in the end, nine times out of ten it is the players of these associations who will impact the championship. In the eyes of the sixth man, Japan's Hina Hayada and France's Lebrun both have what it takes to win the title.
In the absence of the main force of national table tennis, the Zhang Ben brothers and sisters may be able to usher in a big outbreak again, not long ago in the Macau World Cup, the Zhang Ben brothers and sisters became the hope of the Japanese team, and the two won the third place at the same time, which is impressive. What do you think?
Finally, the reason why the main force of national table tennis abandoned the game may be related to the preparation for the Olympics, but we should let more young players go abroad to participate in the competition, train in the competition, and find problems through the competition.