The WTT Montpellier Championship will be held from October 22 to October 27, and the singles champion will receive $30,000 and 1,000 points. The national table tennis has gone out today, Lin Shidong is wearing a down jacket, talking and laughing with Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Yidi and other teammates, he is already a new star of national table tennis, and there is a high probability that he will qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. The national table tennis sent 8 players to participate in the competition, namely Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, and Shi Xunyao. And Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and other absolute main forces will not participate, which will also greatly reduce the enjoyment of the game.
The Montpellier Championship is divided into men's singles and women's singles, with 32 athletes participating in each, in addition to the Chinese team, the foreign association will include Hugo, Lebrun, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Moregard, Qiu Dang, Miwa Zhangmoto, Misei Ito, Miu Hirano, Shin Yubin, Diaz, etc. It can be seen that Japanese table tennis is still the biggest opponent of national table tennis, in this year's Asian Championships, national table tennis won 2 championships and 2 runners-up in 7 events, creating the worst results in history, while Japan won 3 championships and 2 runners-up. Therefore, in this WTT Montpellier competition, national table tennis needs to play a twelve-point spirit, especially in the face of Japan players, and the beginning must lay an advantage.
After arriving in Montpellier, the national table tennis will be given a one-day rest and preparation, and then participate in a six-day competition, and the schedule has also been released. On October 22 and October 23, the men's singles and women's singles 1/32 finals will be mainly played on these two days, at 19:00 Beijing time and 2:30 in the morning the next day, and Chinese fans need to stay up late to watch; At 8 p.m. on October 24, the men's singles 1/16 finals and women's singles 1/16 finals will be held, and at 3 a.m. the next day, the men's singles and women's singles 1/8 finals will start; On October 25, the men's singles and women's singles 1/8 finals will be held; The quarterfinals will be held on October 26; On October 27, the men's singles and women's singles semi-finals will be held at 5 p.m., while the men's singles and women's singles finals will be held at 22 p.m.
After the WTT Montpellier stop, the national table tennis team will also participate in the Muscat Regular Challenge (400 points), Frankfurt Championship (1000 points), Fukuoka Finals (1500 points), and Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup. Judging from the current situation, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng will still miss the Frankfurt championship, but Wang Chuqin will participate in this competition. The Fukuoka Finals and the Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup are both more important international competitions, and it is expected that the national table tennis will send the strongest lineup, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng may not participate, but Sasha, Eel, Datou, etc. will also return to the team.
Lin Gaoyuan of national table tennis became a model worker, he from October 22 to December 1, just 40 days need to participate in 5 international competitions, as long as the national table tennis competition will participate, because the schedule is too close for physical fitness is a relatively big test. Lin Gaoyuan is 29 years old, his career is already at the end, and he has no regrets in his career by playing more games at the end of his peak in the past two years!