On the afternoon of September 28, Beijing time, Chengdu Group World Table Tennis Championships will officially usher in the lottery ceremony. According to the arrangement, 35 teams of men's team will be divided into 7 groups, while 31 teams of women's team will be divided into 6 groups. After the lottery is over, everyone will first play a round-robin match and decide the top 16, and then a cruel knockout match will begin. The current complete schedule has also been announced to the public.
Because the Chinese team is strong, it is generally believed that the signing will not have much impact on the result. Many netizens said: It doesn’t matter who the opponent is! But even so, it cannot be ruled out that there will be an upset loss, so you must never relax your vigilance.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the 2020 Busan World Table Tennis Championships were cancelled, so the last game was the 2018 Halmstad World Table Tennis Championships - four years are enough to change too many things. According to statistics, 14 of the world champions participating in the last World Table Tennis Championships have retired or lost to this event, which is indeed a veritable "big reshuffle".
Since there are fewer participating units in the team competition, everyone must participate in two rounds of battles. The Chinese table tennis team's signing position is undoubtedly the most popular. After all, from the current strength comparison, whoever is in the same group as the Chinese team will have a high probability of being able to compete for second place.
As mentioned earlier, many famous players have recently withdrawn from the team World Table Tennis Championships. Among them, Germany's Bol, Ocharov, Francesca, and Firus all voluntarily gave up and their strength has been greatly reduced, but they are still the second seed team in the men's team.
As for the Ninoha Takaki in Japan, he was forced to give up because he was diagnosed with influenza , while the Swedish Persen was infected with new crown and was also not able to participate. However, even so, these two teams have no plans to substitute, and will still insist on participating in the competition with a vacancies and only send four athletes to Chengdu: it’s not that there is no one, it’s just too lazy to select again, anyway, three of them can form a team.
According to the schedule, the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships will kick off on September 30, and then a group round-robin competition will last for 5 days. The first place in each group will become a seed team, and the second place can also advance, but the signing position is to be determined, and the remaining places will be given to the higher-ranked teams in the third place - in short, 16 teams of men and women will advance, and the knockout round will begin on October 5.
According to convention, the women's team champion will be born on October 8, while the men's team gold medal will decide to belong the next day, that is, October 9. Finally, I wish the Chinese team a victory and win this year's game: Come on, everyone!
