The first round of the Incheon Champions Cup has come to an end, and the process of the national table tennis players is relatively smooth. In the past two days, a total of four Chinese celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan have played, including Zhuang Zhiyuan, Lin Yunru, Huang Zhenting and other players who have stood on the podium in the three major competitions. As a result, except for Lin Yunru, who entered the second round relatively easily, the remaining three Hong Kong and Taiwan Chinese players were all out.
Huang Zhenting was eliminated in yesterday's game, 1:3 was almost powerless, facing Francesca, and even played an embarrassing game of 11:1 in the first game. Today, Zhuang Zhiyuan and Gao Chengrui, two old and one young from the provincial team, faced Zhang Benzhihe from Japan and Lebrun from France, they were also powerless, and were finally eliminated from the competition, and suffered a round of tours, which is still relatively large for the provincial team. In this way, the Hong Kong team has been wiped out, and only Lin Yunru is left on the provincial team.
The men's teams of the provincial and Hong Kong teams have performed relatively poorly in the last few major competitions, basically only relying on Lin Yunru as a player to support the scene, and his ceiling can only reach the quarterfinals, compared with the time when he stood on the podium in the Olympic Games, the gap is indeed very large. Our national table tennis fans are also looking at it in their eyes and anxious in their hearts, after all, we are all Chinese compatriots, in addition to cheering for the national table tennis, we also hope that these Hong Kong and Taiwan players will have an excellent performance.
When the Olympic Games were approaching, when the Hong Kong and Taiwan men's teams suffered such a major blow, many fans gave their own suggestions in the comment area, expressing the hope that Liu Guoliang could pull the Hong Kong and Taiwan men's and women's teams to the mainland for high-intensity and concentrated training, which would help them achieve good results in the Olympic Games. This situation is not unprecedented, and before the Tokyo Olympics, the Hong Kong men's and women's teams trained together with the national table tennis team.
The Hong Kong women's team broke history, standing on the podium of the team competition for the first time in history, achieving the feat of two Chinese flags raised together in the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. The reason why Lin Yunru was able to reach the semifinals all the way to the Tokyo Olympics and won a bronze medal. It is also because he came to our mainland for high-intensity training, so large-scale training with these masters of our national table tennis is very fast for the improvement of these Hong Kong and Taiwan players. This is not only to help our Chinese compatriots achieve good results, but also to conform to the wolf breeding plan first proposed by Liu Guoliang, to cultivate some players who can pose a threat to the Chinese team, and Hong Kong billiards is still very good for their strength.
In fact, there is another benefit after they come, because these masters of Hong Kong and Taiwan are not the same as these main players of our national table tennis, they participate in the usual side events more, so there are more opportunities to communicate with foreign players than our main players, plus they have very rich practical experience, we can also learn about it through exchanges with them, and some of the playing styles of foreign players who may not usually meet us usually and are not so high-level players to avoid unexpected situations. For example, at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, the Chinese women's team met India for the first time, and the weird style of play was very unfamiliar, so if we attract them to our mainland for training, it will be beneficial for both parties, and this measure can definitely be implemented.