Recently, the ITTF 2024 Week 24 World Ranking has triggered a lot of discussion among fans, because Chinese table tennis team Smash Ma Long withdrew from the WTT Chongqing Championships, so one of the eight men’s singles valid points was assigned 0 points by force.
However, some careful fans found that Ma’s situation is not the worst, because not long ago withdrew from the WTT Zagreb Regular Season Lin Yunru not only in the event of the men’s singles, mixed doubles two were given 0 points, but also has long been in the 2023 WTT Lanzhou Star Tournament, WTT Ljubljana Star Tournament, WTT Almaty Regular Season men’s doubles events were given 0 points, it is really miserable!
Friends who are concerned about the sports world know that in recent years, table tennis international competitions are basically hosted by the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, and the use of the invitation system to arrange for athletes to participate, but with many people’s impression of the difference is that many tournaments with a certain degree of coercive nature of invitations, invited players, unless you can prove that they have an injury or illness, or many times do not participate in the mandatory endowed with 0 points.
In the past, if the athlete does not participate in a certain station, the big deal is not the points of the event, but now once assigned 0 points is equivalent to missing a homework, will take up a valid point for the world rankings, is indeed a real punishment.
This year, before Ma Long, Chinese table tennis team player Wang Chuqin was given 0 points for abandoning the WTT Incheon Championships. Meanwhile, through Lin Yunru’s case, we can see that not only singles withdrawal will be penalized, doubles is also not an exception, so he shared 4 0 points with his partners Zhuang Zhiyuan and Chen Si Yu.
However, Lin Yunru’s team has raised objections to this year’s penalties, stating that there are regulations that stipulate the number of times each athlete is exempted from 0 points for withdrawals per year, but the results of the implementation seem to be less than ideal, which also raises questions about the professionalism of the WBF.
Some fans believe that the rules of the WTT are to allow more celebrities to play more matches and increase the exposure of table tennis, which is not wrong, but many netizens feel that this is a conflict for the athletes’ career plans, and the Nigerian star Aruna, who was also penalized, even shouted the slogan “Never be a slave of the WTT”, which sparked discussions inside and outside the circle. This sparked discussions inside and outside the circle.
However, now that Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Lin Yunru and Aruna have entered the final stage of their Olympic preparations, we won’t get too entangled in these issues for the time being, so we’ll just sit back and wait for the end of the Battle of Paris to talk about it!
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