Data Picture: table tennis player Malone is in the competition picture Source: visual China
China News Agency, Beijing, March 8 (Ma Yuanhao) The China Table Tennis Association announced on the official website the list of the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships on the 8th. The men’s team captain Ma Long and the women’s team captain Ding Ning will lead Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen, chen Meng and others went to war.
The Trials of the World Table Tennis Championships were held in Shenzhen in early March. On the evening of the 8th, China Table Tennis Association announced the list of participants.
In terms of men’s singles, Malone who withdrew from the trials due to injury appeared at the top of the list of 5 men’s singles. Fan Zhendong, who won the men’s singles champion in the trials, was also shortlisted with the Olympic champions Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun, who won the runner-up in the trials.
Affected by knee injury, Malone was absent from the World Cup, the Swedish Open, the Austrian Open, the year-end finals of the International Table Tennis Federation and the Hungarian Open at the beginning of this year. Liu Guoliang, chairman of China Table Tennis Association, once said that Malone’s knee injury far exceeded expectations. He had told Malone to raise the injury well and must recover completely before returning.
After the World Table Tennis Championships trials, Qin Zhizhen, the head coach of the men’s team, said Malone recovered well and had been training all the time. Malone also expressed his wish to participate in the world table tennis championships in an interview with the International Table Tennis Federation: “I am still confident to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships for the current recovery.” Now he has been successfully selected, and Malone, who has won the men’s singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships twice, will launch an impact on three successive championships.
In addition, Malone will also play man pair games with young general Wang Chuqin. The other pair of man pair is Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan.
In terms of women’s singles, Ding Ning, the treble of the World Table Tennis Championships, took the Olympic champion Liu Shiwen, the core main force Chen Meng, the minor general Wang Manqi and Sun Yingsha to fight.
Zhu Yuling, the main force of the women’s team who ranked only sixth in the trials and ranked second in the world, did not appear in the women’s singles list this time, but played in the women’s double match with Chen Meng’s partner. Another pair of women’s pairs is Wang Manqi/Sun Yingsha.
Mixed doubles is a new project in Tokyo Olympic Games, and only one pair of combinations can be submitted to participate in the Olympic Games. Therefore, Liu Guoliang is regarded as the “most dangerous” project and said that two to three sets of plans will be formulated, ensure that the preparation process is foolproof. In this World Table Tennis Championships, the Table Tennis Association sent two pairs of world champions, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen and Fan Zhendong/Ding Ning, to form a “double insurance”. The former once won the championship in the mixed doubles of the Austrian Open and the Hungarian Open.
According to the regulations, before the deadline of April 18, China Table Tennis Association also retains the right to fine-tune the entry list. (Finished)