The national table tennis mixed team won the World Cup
The national table tennis has just finished the mixed team World Cup, and for the women's team members of the national team, they may not have too much time to rest, because they will rush to Nagoya, Japan, to participate in the year-end WTT Women's Elite Finals held there, this time the finals invite the world's top 16 players to participate, so the intensity of the competition, the gold content of the competition is very high. The four national team players participating in the mixed team World Cup, plus Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi and Zhang Rui, a total of seven athletes from the Chinese team will rush to Nagoya, Japan to participate in this competition, but the number of participants is also very large, I wish them can achieve a relatively good result.
After the award ceremony of this competition, he served as the chairman of WTT Corporation. Liu Guoliang, the first vice president of the International Table Tennis Federation, announced the latest news that the World Cup will resume in April next year, and this game is back in the eyes of fans. In fact, to some extent, this is also a sign of the complete failure of Liu Guoliang's reforms. After Liu Guoliang became the chairman of WTT, he has always wanted to emulate tennis and make the table tennis game a highly commercialized event, using tennis grand slam events to replace events like the World Cup.
As is customary in tennis, there will be four Grand Slam tournaments at the top commercial level each year. Therefore, Liu Guoliang's initial words also hoped to be able to hold four Grand Slam tournaments every year in the field of table tennis, like tennis. But two years have passed, and there are no large cities at all, and commercially developed areas are willing to host such competitions. In addition to Singapore, there are several places that Liu Guoliang wants to envision, such as Germany in Europe and Tokyo in Japan, where he wants to set up Grand Slam tournaments.
But the popularity of table tennis in these areas is currently very low, and this kind of city does not need such a small event as table tennis to boost its popularity, table tennis and tennis are not at all an analogous project, so the four Grand Slams can only become Liu Guoliang's loft in the air, after two consecutive years of no response except for Singapore, then we see that the recent ITTF, including WTT, can only launch some previous events, cold rice and hot fried, and take them out again, Keep running the tournaments, otherwise there really wouldn't be that many tournaments.
In the previous two WTT World Cup finals, in fact, this competition is no different from the current World Cup, except that the World Cup finals only set up men's and women's singles competitions. And now the official return of the World Cup has also officially announced the failure of Liu Guoliang's reform, and he has also given up this very grand idea, after all, it is impossible to achieve a level of commercialization like tennis in a field like table tennis.
But such news is very good news for Sun Yingsha. What we usually call the Grand Slam is the World Cup, the World Championships, and the Olympic Games. Sun Yingsha currently has only one World Championships champion, and Paris she is very promising, after the World Cup is now restarted, she can continue to impact the World Cup champion before the Olympic Games, although the qualification for the World Cup, each association is only two, very few, but considering that Sun Yingsha is the champion of the World Championships, according to the convention, she will definitely be able to get this qualification. Second, she is currently the No. 1 player in the world, and no matter how difficult it is to let the world No. 1 not participate, no matter how precious the quota is, even if there is only one, the Chinese team can only be Sun Yingsha to participate.