At 17 o'clock today, the 2023 Chengdu ITTF Mixed Team World Cup (hereinafter referred to as the "Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup") ushered in the debut of the Chinese table tennis team. "It's very attractive to play this kind of mixed team competition for the first time, it's still very cohesive for the men and women to play together, and the players who came out gave it their all. Sun Yingsha said after the game.
The first match of national table tennis allowed young people to take the lead
As a newly created mixed team event by the International Table Tennis Federation, how the coaches of each team arrange their formations has always been the focus of everyone's attention. The national table tennis team played the first match against the European powerhouse Sweden and sent a young lineup to play, Wang Manyu and Lin Gaoyuan played in mixed doubles, and Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin played in singles respectively.
The combination of Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Manyu is also one of the candidate combinations for the national table tennis preparation for the Paris Olympic Games, the two faced Christian Carlsen Christina Carlberg was a little slow in the first game, but quickly entered the state, won the first game 11-9 and did not give the opponent too many chances, and won two more cities 11-4 to help the national table tennis rewrite the score to 3-0.
The women's singles competition is between Sun Yingsha and Linda Bergstrom, as the most watched player in Chinese women's table tennis today, Sun Yingsha has also been given various training opportunities. In the first game of women's singles, Sun Yingsha won three games in a row 11-5 and 12-10, helping the Chinese team expand the score to 6-0.
The men's singles competition for national table tennis also sent Wang Chuqin against world No. 16 Anton Carlberg, who also did not give his opponent any chance, and won two consecutive cities, and the Chinese team ended its debut 8:0 and left work at the speed of light.
The new competition system allows the national table tennis players to have a new experience
The appeal of national table tennis is undoubted, and there was a long queue at the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium before the game, and fans lined up in an orderly manner with support cards to enter the stadium, waiting for the debut of national table tennis. After the Japanese team match in the afternoon, Tomokazu Zhangmoto's sister Miwa Zhangmoto also smiled shyly: "I'm already very happy to be on stage, and I'm looking forward to playing against Sister Sasha (Sun Yingsha)." The French ** reporter in the stands also said in an interview that the biggest expectation is to see the French team play against the Chinese team. The highly anticipated debut of national table tennis is naturally highly anticipated, and the 8:0 result is also expected.
Sun Yingsha was entrusted with a heavy responsibility in this game and made her debut as a women's singles. Speaking after the game, she said: "Thank you so much to the fans for coming today, the whole stadium was full and the atmosphere was very good. This is also a new format of the competition, the experience is different from the past, thank you for always supporting the Chinese table tennis team, and look forward to better performance in the following games. Wang Chuqin, who played the men's singles, was asked after the match how he felt about "leaving work at the speed of light", he said, "Before the game, we still made full preparations for this event, and we also went all out to prepare for this new format, and our teammates also achieved a 6:0 advantage in the first two games, and the pressure on my own court was also reduced a lot." ”
Tomorrow, the first stage of the competition will continue. China will face Hong Kong and Puerto Rico at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. respectively.
Chengdu**Jinguan News Reporter** Chen Hao Photographer Li Dong Editor-in-charge He Qitie Editor Wang Qi.