On January 11, Beijing time, the WTT Star Challenge in Doha was in full swing, and the Chinese men's table tennis team encountered the first major crisis of the year.
In this event, the list of four men's singles is Xu Yingbin, Chen Hengyu, Xiang Peng and Huang Youzheng, several athletes are new forces in national table tennis, and they are rated as the hope of the future of national table tennis by many media people, especially Huang Youzheng, this player won the championship with the Shandong Weiqiao team in the just-concluded table tennis Super League, and was also the champion of last year's national championship. It's really hard to say, Huang Youzheng's performance is really not good enough, and it also lets those who tout him see his true strength. However, one game is not enough to tell the story, and I hope that several young players will train steadily and see the gap steadily improve their performance.
Compared with the men's team, the women's team's results are relatively stable, and 5 of the 6 athletes who participated in the competition advanced to the top 8, which is also beyond imagination, especially several young athletes Chen Yi defeated the Japanese star Hina Hayata, Shi Xunyao defeated Miyu Hirano and Zhu Yuling, who came back not long ago, the overall performance is outstanding, I hope that the national table tennis can focus on the cultivation of young players, especially the men's team, and do not engage in formalism, so that Chinese table tennis can flourish for a long time.