On January 19, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Macau Tournament will officially kick off, and today (January 18) afternoon will hold a lottery ceremony - because the Chinese team sent up to 30 people to participate in this competition, the lineup is too luxurious, so the result of the draw will have an important impact on the course of the competition, especially the signing of 12 world champions is a lot of attention!
As we all know, the Chinese table tennis team is full of talents, it can be said that "there are world champions everywhere", the level gap between the main forces is not large, and the basic skills of young players are very solid, so the athletes who can enter the first team have the strength to be upset, and different signing positions may completely change everyone's final results.
For example, at last year's Houston World Table Tennis Championships, only Chen Xingtong and her teammates were assigned to the same 1/4 zone among the 5 women's singles players in houston, and as a result, the other 4 people all won medals, and only she stopped in the top eight. The competition within the team is more intense than in international competitions, so the coaching staff often uses large round robins to test athletes to weaken the impact of signing.
The situation of this WTT Macau competition is very special, it was supposed to be an international competition, but it was not an international competition; it was not a team competition, but it could almost be regarded as a team competition, because only 35 people registered in total, and 30 of them were from national table tennis. It is precisely because of this that many fans directly call the Macau Tournament a "small warm-up match" for national table tennis: a veritable fairy fight!
According to the convention, international competitions will use the world ranking as the basic basis for the lottery grouping, so according to the current ranking, the top 4 seeds in the men's and women's singles should be: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, as well as Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, these athletes will avoid each other before the semi-finals.
But as mentioned before, there are too many national table tennis masters participating in this competition, and it is a 1/8 final from the beginning, so in addition to the first round may be relatively relaxed, everyone must be prepared for a vicious battle - so who can laugh at the end in this peak showdown and win the championship? Let's take a look at the results of the afternoon draw!