The 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships will be held on November 23-29 at George W. Bush. Hosted by the R. Brown Convention Center. Since the first London World Table Tennis Championships in 1926, it has been held in the Americas for the first time in nearly a hundred years, a total of 51 table tennis federations have registered, and the current list has been submitted to the International Table Tennis Federation and the organizing committee of the event for confirmation.
After the end of the National Table Tennis Super League, after a short vacation, they began to conduct closed training in Wenzhou to prepare for the World Table Tennis Championships. At the beginning of November, the national table tennis generals were divided into two roads, one way Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong continued to stay in Wenzhou for training and preparation, and All the way Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Zhou Qihao, Lin Gaoyuan, Liu Dingshuo, Wang Yidi and Liang Jingshan participated in the two WTT regular season challenges held in Slovenia. Among them, Liu Dingshuo and Liang Jingshan will also go to Houston together after the challenge to serve as sparring for the national table tennis players.
The Japanese team consisted of Tomokazu Chang, Takashi Niwa, Yukiya Utada, Masataka Morien and Hayabusa Tokami, and the women's singles was led by Yoshimachi Ito and Yoshijun Ishikawa.
Chinese Taipei is led by Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing, veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan is out of the horse, Chen Jian'an, Liao Zhenju, Feng Yixin, Chen Siyu, Zheng Xianzhi, Li Yuzhen and Huang Yancheng are participating
The German team is led by Tim Bohr, known as the "table tennis evergreen", the world's tenth-ranked team, and the Tokyo Olympic runner-up Ocherov is absent due to injury. World number five Hugo Calderano has a reputation as a ray of hope in Brazil, letting people know that Brazil is not only football and samba, but also table tennis. He defeated Fan Zhendong 4-2 in the quarterfinals of the 2018 ITTF Finals. In addition, Swedish player Matthias Falke, the runner-up of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest, can not be ignored.
Seven of the top ten in the women's singles world rankings are all competing for the World Table Tennis Championships, the three missing are all Chinese players, Ding Ning has retired, Zhu Yuling has not healed from injury, and Liu Shiwen has not entered the big list.
At the WTT Regular Season Challenge in Slovenia, the first leg of the Lashko Singles Qualifier began with a bye of Zhou Qihao and Liu Dingshuo, and the men's doubles Lin Takayuan/ Zhou Qihao 3-0 Yugen Tanigaki/ Shigekatsu Daiden won 11-8, 11-6, 11-5. On November 3, the second round of the men's doubles qualifiers, Hayashi Takato Hayashi and Zhou Qi 豪️ will face the Japanese duo of Isamu Kizoku / Yuji Tanaka.