On December 3, Beijing time, the 2022 Table Tennis Super League officially kicked off. According to the schedule, the group stage will be held from December 3 to 8, the men's group stage will be held for 8 rounds, and the women's group stage will be held for 5 rounds; the semi-final will be held from December 9 to 10, and the final men's and women's team championships will be decided on December 11.
In the first match day, a total of 11 group matches were held, including 8 men's team and 3 women's team. The main players of the national table tennis team, including Fan Zhendong, Ma Long , Wang Chuqin , Lin Gaoyuan , Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu , Wang Yidi and other main players of the national table tennis team have all come to their debut. In the morning game, the match between Shantou Mingrun team and Sichuan Gufeng Wine Industry was very fierce, especially Lin Gaoyuan, the core of Shantou Mingrun team, once again showed his power in the domestic arena, demonstrating the true nature of an expert in civil war.
In this Table Tennis Super League, Shantou Mingrun team was led by the main player Lin Gaoyuan of the country. The other four players are Xu Haidong , Li Yijie , Matt and Fan Shengpeng; and although Sichuan Gufeng Wine Industry does not have the main players of the national table tennis team, the two players Xu Chenhao and Zheng Peifeng have certain strength, and the other three players Yansheng , Zhu Linfeng and Leng Dapeng are relatively poor. However, what is important in team competitions is to arrange troops, and a single set is 5 games and 3 wins, so it is not uncommon to defeat the strong.
The competition system of this year's Table Tennis Super League is exactly the same as that of the team competition in the Tokyo Olympics. The first set is a doubles competition, and the next four sets are all singles. Shantou Mingrun team sent a combination of Li Yijie and Xu Haidong in the first set, but lost 2-3 to the Zheng Peifeng/Zhu Linfeng combination of Sichuan Gufeng Wine Industry. In this way, the Shantou Mingrun team, who played in the second set, was under great pressure for Lin Gaoyuan, and Lin Gaoyuan's opponent was Xu Chenhao, who also had a strong strength in the first team of the national table tennis men's team.
In this set of games, Lin Gaoyuan showed a very tenacious side. He scored two consecutive games while falling behind in big scores 0-1 and 1-2, and finally reversed Xu Chenhao 3-2, helping Shantou Mingrun team to tie the big score to 1-1. Lin Gaoyuan's victory in this set is very critical. It can be said that when he came to the domestic arena, Lin Gaoyuan did show a very strong competitive state. Looking back at the Asian Cup field half a month ago, Lin Gaoyuan actually lost to the unknown Iranian player Alami Yang, which truly reflects the "outsider and civil war expert" to the fullest.
It is worth mentioning that the head coach of Shantou Mingrun this time was the head coach of Guangdong Provincial Team, who left a deep impression on the outside world in the National Championships last month. Zhang Chao and Lin Gaoyuan reunited again in the Table Tennis Super League, which attracted the attention of many fans. The reason why Lin Gaoyuan was able to reverse the victory in this game against Xu Chenhao can be said that head coach Zhang Chao played a very critical role.
It is worth mentioning that in the National Championships, the scene where Zhang Chao often loudly encouraged Lin Gaoyuan on the sidelines was questioned by the outside world. Many fans believed that Zhang Chao was suspected of interfering with the game. However, when he came to the stage of the Table Tennis Super League, Zhang Chao became much quieter and did not cheer for Lin Gaoyuan loudly like in the National Championships. However, even in this case, Lin Gaoyuan's guidance was very successful. It has to be said that Lin Gaoyuan and Zhang Chao's partner are indeed very tacit. After that, Shantou Mingrun won two sets in a row, thus defeating Sichuan Gufeng Wine Industry 3-1 with a big score, achieving a good start in the Table Tennis Super League.
In addition, the head coach of Sichuan Gufeng Wine Industry Team is actually more famous. He is Chen Longcan, the first Olympic champion in the history of the national table tennis team. At 1988 Seoul Olympics, Chen Longcan, , , and Wei Qingguang, won the men's doubles championship. After that, both went to Japan to start their coaching career. Wei Qingguang became a naturalized Japanese, but Chen Longcan has always retained Chinese nationality and refused to join Japanese nationality. Later, Chen Longcan resolutely returned to China to cultivate new table tennis players for his hometown of Sichuan. Chen Longcan did not forget his original aspiration and loved his motherland's noble qualities are indeed worth learning from.
Now Chen Longcan is 57 years old, his temples are gray, but he is still doing what he can for the table tennis career in Sichuan. He has been engaged in the table tennis career he loves for most of his life. He is willing to take root at the grassroots level and is silently dedicated to the Chinese table tennis career. Such a senior national table tennis master is indeed worthy of everyone's respect!