On March 7, the WTT Singapore Smash, the first ping battle after the Busan WTT will officially kick off. Contrary to the Busan WTT, which only competes in two team events, the Smash will not be a team event, but will compete for the titles of five individual events, and will kick off the competition within the associations, as well as the Chinese table tennis team’s main players competing for world ranking points and Olympic selection points.
The Chinese table tennis team has six men and six women in singles, four pairs of combinations in doubles, Japan, Korea, Germany and France are also elite, the battle is bound to be very intense, the first day of the schedule has been released, the Chinese table tennis team no one to play, but the Japanese national champion Uda Yukiya, last year defeated Wang Chuqin’s celebrity Tanaka Yuta will make an appearance, it’s worth paying attention to! See below for more details.
The Smash is the highest level of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation and was originally set to replace the old Grand Slam system (Olympics, World Series, World Cup), and while it hasn’t quite lived up to the hype now, it’s already had a huge impact and can be considered a milestone in the progression of table tennis commercial tournaments.
Compared with the traditional three tournaments, Smash not only directly invites the world’s top athletes, but also competes more fiercely in the singles events, because as long as the ranking is high enough, each association can send a maximum of six men and six women to play in the tournament, and the powerful Chinese team naturally gets the most places, while Japan and other strong teams are no exception.
According to the official website, this tournament Chinese table tennis singles sent the world’s highest ranked six men (Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Lin Shidong) six women (Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi) to participate in the war, men’s doubles, mixed doubles world ranked number one Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha on the list.
In addition, the Chinese table tennis men’s doubles also gained one more place, that is, Ma Long/Lin Gaoyuan, although the duo has not worked together for a long time, but it always enhances the strength of the Chinese team. As for the Chinese table tennis women’s doubles, there is a strategic contraction, the two pairs of World Series champion team Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, Chen Meng / Wang Yidi did not enroll, and let Chen Meng / Wang Manyu to pick the beam, the duo faced a test.
Through the rules can be seen, Smash singles champion will receive up to 2000 world ranking points, and the Chinese table tennis team will also reward 3000 internal selection points, adding up to a total of 5000 points will be included in the assessment of the Olympic selection, as for the first runner-up, second runner-up is in descending order, so the main Chinese team not only to try to win the foreign war, but also to start a fierce competition with their teammates.
Currently Smash’s total schedule has been released, including March 7-9 is the qualifying round, Chinese table tennis team players because of the higher ranking, do not have to participate, followed by 10 to 17 to start the main round of the showdown. The more interesting thing to watch on the first day is the performance of the two Japanese male players – Yukiya Utada and Yutaka Tanaka – so let’s wait and see what happens!
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