Beijing News Sports | Reporter Wang Xiaoxiao
On September 30, the 56th ITTF World Table Tennis Team Championship (finals) will open in Chengdu, with 32 men's teams and 28 women's teams going to fight. However, for the host Chinese team, winning the double championship is a must-have. Who among the 10 players can gain the lead in the internal competition in the Paris Olympic cycle with their excellent performance is the biggest highlight of the game.
World Table Tennis Championships countdown poster
Team World Table Tennis Championships are held every two years in principle. Since the 2020 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea was cancelled for some reason, the Chinese men's and women's teams that topped Swedish four years ago will still play as the defending champions. In the history of the World Table Tennis Championships, both Chinese men's and women's teams have won 21 championships, ranking first among the world's top champions. Among them, the men's team has won 9 consecutive championships, while the women's team has won 4 consecutive championships after "defeating Moscow" in 2010.
Veteran Malone is still the "stabilizing needle" of the Chinese men's team
In recent years, although the foreign association has continuously "appeared" and posed a threat to the Chinese table tennis players in international competitions, the Chinese team's strength advantage in the team competition is still obvious. In terms of men's team, the No. 2 seed German team, who won four silver medals in the past five competitions, was absent collectively, led by the world's ninth-ranked new European Championship champion and direct board star Qiu Dang who played seven games with Liang Jingkun in the individual World Table Tennis Championships last year. The overall strength was greatly reduced. In addition, the Swedish team, which has two single runner-ups in the World Table Tennis Championships, including Moregaard and Falk , the French team, which has European rookie Lebron brothers, and the "seven-champion" of the team World Table Tennis Championships led by Zhang Tomoto and , all have the ability to compete for points from the Chinese team.
Sun Yingsha For the first time, he competed in the team World Table Tennis Championships as the main player
In comparison, the only No. 2 seed Japanese women's table tennis team can pose a threat to the host in the women's group competition. The Japanese team had previously won the Belon Cup eight times and ranked second in the world in the championship. In the last three team World Table Tennis Championships, the team lost to the national table tennis team and won the runner-up. In this competition, Japanese team celebrities Ishikawa Kasumi and Hirano Miu both lost the selection in the internal competition. The team sent a young lineup led by Hayata Hina and Ito Mima . Both are 22 years old. The former performed outstandingly this season and forced the final game of WTTh ( World Table Tennis Professional League ) championship game. Now the world ranking has risen to fifth place. As the Olympic mixed doubles champion, the latter also defeated Liu Shiwen in the final of the last team World Table Tennis Championship. However, the overall strength of the Chinese team is still better than that. As long as they perform normally, it is not a big problem to win in the five-inning three-win game.
Lin Gaoyuan urgently needs to prove himself
Overall, as long as the Chinese players perform normally, it is not difficult to hit the 22nd championship in the history of the two-line team. The bigger highlight of this event is whether the 10 national table tennis players can perform well and gain a leading position in the internal competition in the new cycle. In this competition, the national table tennis team sent five players, both male and female, who were ranked highest in the world. In terms of men's team, last year's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships and now ranked first in the world, Ma Long, and the winner of the "double-loop Grand Slam" who competed in the eighth team World Table Tennis Championships, have a stable "stature in the world", but the stability of the former in the competition still needs to be polished. As a veteran who is about to turn 34, it is also suspense whether the latter can kill the enemy in its peak state. Liang Jingkun, who played the first team World Table Tennis Championships, Tokyo Olympic substitute Wang Chuqin , and Lin Gaoyuan, who repeatedly "falls out" at critical moments, want to lay the foundation for competing for Olympic seats, they still need to show convincing performance in the "foreign war".
Wang Yidi 's world ranking has risen to fourth place
The competitive situation of the women's team is relatively clear. Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and once cooperated to win the team championship in the Olympics. The former is now ranked first in the world, while the latter two are the singles champions of the Olympics and World Table Tennis Championships, and undoubtedly hold the "top three". The new cycle of "challengers" of the first team World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Yidi, , Chen Xingtong and , if you want to pose a threat to the three main players, you cannot make mistakes in this competition.
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