World Cup rules confirmed! The 12-member lineup of national table tennis was released, and Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha rushed to the championship
The World Cup format is out! Among the 12 players of the national table tennis team, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha hit the championship, and the two future stars were selected. The official ** of the International Table Tennis Federation has released the format of the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships, according to the competition system, the list of 12 people that circulated before is true, in addition to the 10 main forces, there are also Lin Shidong and Kuiwen, two rising stars, have entered this year's men's singles competition.
According to official information, this men's World Cup will be held in Macau, China from April 15 to 21, with a prize fund of up to $1 million. First of all, there are a total of 48 athletes in the qualifying round, and there are only 4 places in each association, but there is no singles champion of the World Tour, and there is no singles champion of U19, so the singles champions of these two events can be directly promoted, Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong were the singles champions of the last Durban World Championships, while Lin Shidong and Kuiwen were the singles champions of the World Youth Championships, so these four people can directly enter the men's singles final of this World Cup! There are still 2 quota places for the host country, so another 44 players can participate in the tournament, depending on their continental or world rankings. In addition to the national table tennis team, the top four in the world of the women's team, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, and Chen Xingtong, so four of them are all ranked according to the world rankings, and Qian Tianyi was excluded from the World Cup.
On the men's side, in addition to Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, and Lin Gaoyuan of the United States team are all top four athletes in the world, so a total of 12 athletes entered the finals in this competition. The Men's World Cup is divided into two rounds, one round is the group stage, each group of 3 people, divided into 16 groups, the world's top 16 players as seeded players participate in the group stage, and the athletes of the same club are divided into different groups, in the group stage, each game has 4 rounds (the score is -2). The second round is the knockout round, where the top players from each group enter the next round, with a total of 16 players competing against each other, and players from the same club cannot be avoided.