On September 26, Beijing time, the first match day of the table tennis WTT China Grand Slam officially started, this event is the highest level of commercial events under WTT (World Table Tennis Federation), the championship points are 2000 points, and the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships is the same, enough to highlight the importance of the competition is extraordinary, so it is foreseeable that the competition in this competition will be very fierce!
According to the schedule, the singles qualifying tournament will be held from September 26th to 28th, the main competition will be entered on September 29th, and the mixed doubles champion will be born on October 4th; On October 5, the men's and women's doubles champions were born; On October 6, the final match was ushered in, and the final men's and women's singles champions were born.
Since it is the first time that China has hosted a WTT Grand Slam tournament and it also spans the "National Day" holiday, the attention of this tournament will definitely be very high! As the host of China, the national table tennis team naturally received more "care", all the wild card qualifications for this competition were given to the national table tennis players, so far a total of as many as 34 national table tennis players participated in this competition, 16 men's singles and 18 women's singles, such a huge lineup is indeed too rare.
The 16 national table tennis men's singles are Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Lin Shidong, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, Xiang Peng, Xu Yingbin, Yuan Licen, Chen Yuanyu, Zhou Kai, Wen Ruibo, Xu Haidong, Xue Fei, Zeng Beixun, Huang Youzheng, the last 7 players on the above list have to start from the qualifying round, and the remaining 9 people directly advance to the men's singles main event.
The 18 national table tennis women's singles are Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Shi Xunyao, He Zhuojia, Kui Man, Qin Yuxuan, Zong Geman, Chen Yi, Yang Yiyun, Wang Xiaotong, Liu Weishan, Xu Yi, Li Yake, Fan Siqi, Ding Yijie, the last 8 players on the above list have to start from the qualifying round, and the remaining 10 people will directly advance to the women's singles main event.
Judging from the lineup, it is indeed quite rare for so many non-main players of national table tennis to get the opportunity to participate in the most heavyweight event under the World Table Tennis Federation, and it is not difficult to see that Liu Guoliang is indeed painstaking for the renewal of the national table tennis team!
In the first match day on September 26, 13 players of national table tennis appeared on the stage, ushering in 13 foreign battles (see the chart below for details)! The 13 Chinese players are Yang Yiyun, Wang Xiaotong, Liu Weishan, Xu Yi, Li Yake, Fan Siqi, Ding Yijie, Chen Yuanyu, Wen Ruibo, Xu Haidong, Xue Fei, Zeng Beixun, and Huang Youzheng.
At present, 3 players of the national table tennis team have finished the game, and all of them have won, and the specific results are:
Yang Yiyun 3-0 Savitabat (Thailand);
Zeng Beixun 3-2 Minoe (Ecuador);
Xu Yi 3-2 Ortega (Chile)
The above three players of national table tennis have all advanced to the second round of the qualifying round, but if they want to advance to the main competition, they need to win 3 consecutive games in the qualifying round, and they still need to continue to work hard.
The next national table tennis player to play is Xue Fei of the national table tennis men's team, against Slovakia veteran Pisteje, as early as 2018, Xue Fei and Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan won the Jakarta Asian Games men's team championship, but now in addition to Xue Fei, the remaining 4 players have become the main players of the national table tennis men's team, and Fan Zhendong has reached the "Grand Slam" in the Paris Olympics!
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the current 25-year-old Xue Fei is in an embarrassing situation in the national table tennis men's team, and the biggest goal of this Chinese Grand Slam is to win as many games as possible and not to miss this rare opportunity to participate. It is basically impossible for the 25-year-old Xue Fei to be among the main players of national table tennis, but he should at least go all out in the competitions he plays.
In the first round of the men's singles qualifying round, Xue Fei's opponent Slovakia player Pisteje is 40 years old and ranked 121st in the world.
As soon as the first game came up, Xue Fei scored 8 points in a row, directly stunned the opponent, and then although Pisteye scored 2 points in a row, the score difference was still too great, and Xue Fei took the lead 11-3.
In the second game, Xue Fei took a 7-1 lead, which is enough to see that Xue Fei attaches great importance to this game and is very well prepared.
In the third game, Xue Fei took the lead 5-2, and then Pisteye asked for a timeout, and when he came back from the pause, Pisteye chased the score to a 7-7 draw, and the middle and late sections overtook the score 9-7, but at the critical moment, Xue Fei scored 4 points in a row and won the third game 11-9, thus defeating the opponent with a big score of 3-0 and advancing to the second round of the men's singles qualifying round, congratulations to Xue Fei!
I hope that other players of the national table tennis will also have a better performance, defend the honor of the national ball in our home stadium, and come on the national table tennis!