On September 26, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT China Grand Slam officially kicked off, according to the schedule, the singles qualifying tournament will be held from September 26th to 28th, and the main competition will begin 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; The men's and women's singles champions will be born on October 6, and the details are brought below.
This event is the most heavyweight table tennis event after the Paris Olympics, with championship points reaching 2,000 points, which is the same as the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, so the competition in this competition will be very fierce!
Since we are the host, all the national table tennis teams have been qualified for all wild cards, so that a total of 34 national table tennis players participated in this important event, including a number of non-main players, 16 men singles and 18 women's singles, such a large lineup is really 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.
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that this competition is a very rare opportunity for non-main players in national table tennis, and the reason why the national table tennis team arranges so many players to participate in the competition is self-evident, that is, to train more non-main players.
In the Paris Olympics, although the national table tennis team won all 5 gold medals, the process was not easy, especially the national table tennis men's team, the world's No. 1 Wang Chuqin lost early, which plunged the national table tennis men's team into a huge crisis, but fortunately, Fan Zhendong turned the tide and won the men's singles gold medal, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
As the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Liu Guoliang, it is impossible not to see the problems existing in the current national table tennis team, and it is not difficult to understand why the national table tennis team has as many as 34 players participating in the Chinese Grand Slam.
In the first match day on September 26, Beijing time, 13 players will appear on the national table tennis 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.
According to the schedule, the first appearance of the national table tennis team is the 21-year-old chipper Yang Yiyun in women's singles, against Thailand's main player Savitabut, this match is the debut of the national table tennis player in China's Grand Slam, and Yang Yiyun is also under great pressure.
Yang Yiyun is ranked 68th in the world and is one of the few chipping players in the current national table tennis women's team, although chipping is no longer the mainstream of the world's play, but chipping is indispensable in the national table tennis team, so Yang Yiyun's status in the national table tennis team is still very important.
Savitabut, 24 years old, ranked 116th in the world, participated in the women's team competition at the Paris Olympics with the Thailand women's table tennis team, and is the main player of the Thailand women's team, so this match is also a big challenge for Yang Yiyun, and the details of this match are brought below.
In the first game, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw, and then Yang Yiyun scored 4 points in a row, 6-2 to take the lead, in the middle and late section of Savita Bout chased to 6-8, Yang Yiyun scored 2 points in a row to stabilize the situation, 10-6 to get 4 game points in the first game, Savita Butt saved 2 game points in a row, Yang Yiyun still seized the opportunity and took the lead 11-8.
In the second game, after the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw, Yang Yiyun began to exert his strength again, scoring 5 points in a row, 7-2 to open the score, Savita Butt scored 1 point, Yang Yiyun scored 4 points in a row, and easily went to the next city with a score of 11-3, and the big score was 2-0 to take the lead.
In the third game, Savita Butt took the lead 3-1, Yang Yiyun scored three points in a row, 4-3 overtook the score, and Savita Butt asked for a timeout. After the pause, Savita Bout's mentality obviously had a big problem, and Yang Yiyun gradually widened the difference.
At the end of the game, he got 5 match points in the game 10-5, Savita Butt saved 1 match point, and Yang Yiyun still won the third game with a score of 11-6, thus sweeping the opponent with a big score of 3-0 and advancing to the second round of the women's singles qualifying tournament.
According to the schedule, the men's and women's singles qualifying tournaments are a total of three rounds, and I hope that the non-main players of the national table tennis will have excellent performances, defend the glory of the national ball in our home stadium, and come on the national table tennis!