On May 13, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Cappadocia feeder tournament is about to kick off in Turkey, but all the main and non-main players of China are absent, and no young players are sent to participate.
At present, the masters who have been confirmed to participate in this feeder competition include Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan, Japan's main Olympic player Shinozuka Daito, South Korean star Xu Xiaoyuan and others, and the Indian dark horse Batra, who defeated Wang Manyu not long ago, will also appear, which is worth everyone's attention!
The feeder tournament is the lowest level of WTT non-junior event, and even the champion can only get 125 points, and there are generally registration restrictions for higher-ranked athletes, so it is difficult to see particularly strong athletes participate, but sometimes it will attract some famous players who have fallen in the rankings.
However, the embarrassing thing is that the time of this tournament is sandwiched between the WTT Saudi Grand Slam and the WTT Taiyuan regular season and Rio regular season.
According to the official website of the World Table Tennis Federation, the top four seeds in the men's singles of the WTT Cappadocia Regional Tournament are Gao Chengrui and Zhuang Zhiyuan of Chinese Taipei, South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun, and Germany's Duda, while the eighth seed Shinozuka Daito and the eleventh seed Tanaka Yutai from Japan also have strong strength and have the possibility of impacting the championship.
The top four seeds in the women's singles are Seo Hyo-won, Kim Na-young, Batra and Lee Si-win, all of whom are South Koreans except for India's Batra, while the seventh seed, Japan's Satsuki Oto, is also not to be underestimated.
In general, there are not many highlights of the WTT Cappadocia feeder tournament, and the athletes named above are relatively strong and are the favorites to win the championship, so everyone mainly focuses on which of them can have the last laugh and whether they will be upset by other dark horses.
According to the arrangement, on May 20 and 21, the WTT regular challenge will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Taiyuan, China, respectively. On May 27, the WTT Mendoza regular season will be held in Argentina, and the highlights are average; On May 30, the WTT Chongqing Championship will be held in China, and the masters will gather.
Then let's sit back and wait for the national table tennis to return to the game!