22 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships will start on September 30, but on September 28, bad news came. Chinese Taipei star Lin Yunru suddenly withdrew from the competition, and even the commentators who participated in the live broadcast of the lottery ceremony did not know the reason.
Not long after, the Chinese Taipei media finally told the truth. It turned out that Lin Yunru's personal coach, former national table tennis Olympic champion, and current well-known Japanese table tennis world - Wei Guan Qingguang (formerly known as Wei Qingguang), was diagnosed positive on September 22, directly "involving" his disciples and becoming close contacts, so he was unable to come to Chengdu to participate in the competition: It's so regretful!
Lin Yunru is currently the seventh-ranked male table tennis master in the world. He has broken through the main defense line of the national table tennis team many times. Ma Long , Fan Zhendong , Wang Chuqin , and Lin Gaoyuan have all lost to him, so he has also become the focus of in this World Table Tennis Championships.
In addition to Lin Yunru, Chinese Taipei World Champion Zhuang Zhiyuan is also a famous player who once defeated Ma Lin , Wang Hao , Ma Long and other main players of the national table tennis team. In July this year, he defeated Liang Jingkun, so the Chinese Taipei team , which he and Lin Yunru, is also a powerful team that has won the men's team medal in the World Table Tennis Championships. As a result, before the game started, the team broke one arm.
Wei Qingguang is a former Chinese table tennis team athlete. He once won the men's doubles championship with Chen Longcan at 1988 Seoul Olympics, thus becoming one of the earliest Olympic champions of the national table tennis team. Many years later, Wei Qingguang changed her surname to "Weiguan" and became a Japanese nationality and participated in the World Competition again. However, her grades were average, but she could defeat all kinds of masters in Japan, so she enjoyed a high reputation.
Since this year, Lin Yunru has hired Wei Guan Qingguang as his coach. Then the two appeared in the international competitions and commercial leagues for a row. Unexpectedly, this time he missed the chance to participate in the World Championships because of his master. It’s really a blessing!
It is reported that Lin Yunru is still staying in Dusseldorf, Germany with Wei Guan Qingguang (previously participated in the Bundesliga locally). If his health recovers, he is expected to set off for Chengdu on October 6 to meet his teammates and strive to participate in the WTT Championship held in Macau: The World Table Tennis Championship is obviously unable to catch up, so he can only settle for the second best.
Nowadays, all the hopes of the Chinese Taipei team have been placed on the 41-year-old veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan. So can he lead the team to the semi-finals and strive to win a medal? Let’s wait for the group stage to kick off on September 30!
