The World Table Tennis Championships will start in Houston, USA, from November 23 to 29, just as the teams are gearing up and entering the final closed training preparations, the INTERNATIONAL Table Tennis Federation has revised the rules of the World Championships doubles event again, from the original 7 innings and 4 wins to 5 sets and 3 wins, the purpose is likely to be directed at the Chinese table tennis team, trying to shorten the number of games and increase the opportunity to upset, so as to prevent the national table tennis from winning all championships again.
Since the national table tennis entered the new century, it has been creating one record after another in major competitions, although the occasional horse has lost its front hoof, but it does not affect the status of the national table tennis to dominate the world table tennis world. In order to break the monopoly position of national table tennis and develop and promote the table tennis level of various countries and associations as soon as possible, the International Table Tennis Federation has racked its brains and constantly modified the rules of table tennis to limit the strength of national table tennis.
In 2000, the International Table Tennis Federation began to increase the diameter of table tennis, from the original 38mm to 40mm, the original intention of this change is to increase the diameter of the ball, give play to the strength of European athletes, and narrow the gap with Asian, especially national table tennis players. In the end, the national table tennis won 4 consecutive championships at the Sydney Olympic Games, and then in the World Cup, Ma Lin and Zhang Yining won the men's and women's singles championships, proving that the strength of the national table tennis is unshakable.
Since 2002, the International Table Tennis Federation has implemented changes in scores and innings, from the original 5 innings and 3 wins to 7 innings and 4 wins, the group from the original 3 innings and 2 wins to 5 innings and 3 wins, and the score has also changed from the past 21 points to 11 points, trying to disrupt the rhythm of the national table tennis players and shorten the gap with them through the increase or decrease of scores and innings. Although the Women's Team Final of the Asian Games that year, the North Korean women's team defeated the Chinese Women's Team, it is not excluded that there are factors in this regard, and soon the Chinese Women's Table Tennis won consecutive victories at the World Championships in Paris the following year, winning 3 of the women's singles women's doubles top 4, re-adapting to the major changes in the rules.
The reduction in the number of innings in the women's doubles, men's doubles and mixed doubles of this World Table Tennis Championships is actually a continuation of the changes in the rules of the International Table Tennis Federation in 2002, if the number of rounds played is more, the national table tennis players who have been training for a long time will have more advantages, and if the number of rounds is reduced, the odds may be greater.
Due to the strength of the national table tennis singles is too strong, the 5 men and women sent this year have the strength to stand alone, and it is a good idea for the opponent to shift the focus to the doubles event, and the mixed doubles victory of Mizutani Hayabusa/Ito at the Tokyo Olympic Games may give the associations more inclined doubles power, coupled with the international table tennis federation changing the rules, the difficulty of national table tennis to win all the championships has further increased.
In the doubles lineup that has been announced, the doubles Dinghai Shen needle Xu Xin did not participate, the last men's doubles men's singles champion Ma Long and mixed doubles champion Liu Shiwen were also absent, the only one who played as the defending champion was the women's doubles champion Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, the new combination needs to face all kinds of strong opponents, but also to enter the state as soon as possible, otherwise the 5 innings and 3 wins of the game will soon end, slow heat is easy to be upset by the opponent. With a doubles squad:
Men's Doubles: Lin Gaoyuan / Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin / Fan Zhendong
Women's Doubles: Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha, Qian Tianyi / Chen Meng
Mixed doubles: Sun Yingsha / Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu / Lin Gaoyuan