The wtt Macau tournament will start on the 19th of this month, and the national table tennis team has sent a full main team to participate. Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen chose to return to participate, and fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and other core players will also participate. Judging from the lineup, the national table tennis attaches great importance to this competition, so what level of competition is the Macau Competition? Is it a level with the WTT World Cup? Let's talk a little bit about that.
WTT is a newly established event of the International Table Tennis Federation, the full name is the World Table Tennis Professional League, and liu Guoliang, the chairman of the national table tennis, is also serving in it. This new event is more similar to the previous ITTF tour, the previous tour is divided into platinum, regular season, challenge, and now wtt's event is also divided into three grades, namely championship, star race, challenge.
There are three different types of competitions, and the biggest difference between them is the difference in points and prize money settings. The championship has a championship point of 1,000 points, the runner-up has 700 points; the championship points of the Star Race is 700 points, and the runner-up is 420 points; the wtt Macau tournament is the championship match, which is one of the highest level events.
Although the level of the Macau Race is relatively high, this Macau Race is very special. Trapped by the epidemic, the CURRENT stage of the ITTF is still very difficult. The number of players participating in the Macao Championship Is relatively small, so the organizing committee has also reduced the schedule, and the competition starts directly from the quarter-finals, so there are no points for this competition. The dates of the Macau Tournament and the National Championships of Japanese Table Tennis clashed, and the main players of The Japanese Table Tennis were basically determined not to participate.
The WTT World Cup Finals are the tournaments after the merger of the World Cup and the Grand Finals, and his level is higher than that of the Macau Championship. Sun Yingsha won the women's singles title of the WTT World Cup finals last year, scoring 1500 points. This point is very high, second only to the women's singles champion of the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup and other three major competitions. The WTT World Cup Finals use an invitation system, which is the biggest difference from the WTT Championship Macau tournament.
As a home event, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen and other veterans chose to participate, which is also a support for the competition. It is precisely because of the participation of these star players that this special competition can attract the attention of fans. The national table tennis full of the main force to participate, the suspense of the competition is very large, the competition is also very fierce.
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