The group draw for the National Table Tennis Olympics officially ended yesterday, and after the group draw ended, the International Olympic Committee also announced the specific participation time of the players. The table tennis competition will start at 21 o'clock in the evening of Beijing time on July 27th, and will last until more than 3 o'clock in the morning on the 28th to complete all the first round of the game.
Participating in the individual competition are Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin of the men's team, and Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng of the women's team. Among them, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are more tired, especially Wang Chuqin, because the men's singles competition and the mixed doubles match are arranged at a very close time, at 21 o'clock Wang Chuqin will go to the first round of the men's singles, and the first round of the mixed doubles will also be launched at 22:30.
In terms of Wang Chuqin's skills, he should finish the first round quickly, and the organizing committee will also give the mixed doubles players a corresponding extension of time. But on the whole, it is estimated that Wang Chuqin's rest time should not exceed an hour, and he has to rush to play a mixed doubles match with Sun Yingsha. For Sun Yingsha, her rest time may be slightly longer than Wang Chuqin's. Because the women's singles match does not start until two o'clock in the morning on the 28th, it is estimated that he will be able to rest for one and a half to two hours.
Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are both signed up for three competitions, they need to make a reasonable distribution of physical fitness, the front game is not very difficult for the two of them, but to play later, especially when encountering some of the top masters of Japan and Korea, the impact of this physical fitness will gradually appear, of course, the overall problem should not be very big, because these players who can cause trouble for Chinese players in singles, most of them also have to play mixed doubles first, for them, The physical consumption will also be very large.
Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng will be relatively relaxed, as long as they take care of their men's singles and women's singles matches. Chen Meng is the reigning Olympic champion, and if she wins the title this time, she will become the first player since Deng Yaping to complete the Olympic women's singles and win the Olympic championship for the second consecutive time.
If Fan Zhendong can win the singles championship this time, he will become a Grand Slam player of the International Table Tennis Federation of Malaysia, and now he is one Olympic singles champion away. Whether it is a mixed doubles competition or a men's and women's singles competition, the best-of-seven system is adopted in the Olympic Games, which will be a great test for the physical fitness of each athlete.