China News Service, August 8th. The Chinese table tennis team will host the Olympic simulation game in Lingshui, Hainan on 8-21. According to "Tokyo time, build Tokyo venue, set Tokyo standard, use Tokyo competition system, Simulate the requirements of Tokyo opponents and provide Tokyo guarantees, and create a real game scene as much as possible. The mock competition will fully reproduce the Tokyo Olympic schedule, and have successively decided the five championships of mixed doubles, women's singles, men's singles, women's team and men's team.
According to the ITTF World Ranking in April, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Wang Yidi ranked the top four seeds in men’s and women’s singles. In the mixed doubles event that took the lead to determine the gold medal on the 10th, due to the absence of Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling and Ding Ning, the world's number one Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng became the top seeds of the mixed doubles. Xu Xin's partner Sun Yingsha became the second seed.
This competition is also the first public competition held by the Chinese table tennis team under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control. As the first event to implement the "China Seats" program, a strategic cooperation project between the State Sports General Administration and China Central Radio and Television, this event will pass the high-quality competition to test the team's recent training results and show that the national table tennis team has worked hard to prepare for the Olympics. Unrelenting mental outlook.
In addition to all the members of the first and second national teams, the male players in this competition also selected old players Zhang Chao, Hou Yingchao and young players Lin Shidong. Among the 43 women's team participants, except for Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling, who were absent for some reason, most of the first and second teams will participate. They also selected Muzi, Wu Yang and Hu Limei, who are characteristic of their playstyle, to simulate their main opponents. The men’s team coach Qin Zhijian said that through this simulation match, it was not only a test of the national team’s training results in the first half of the year, but also a starting point for preparing for next year’s World Table Tennis Championships. He hoped to reorder everyone’s position in the team through intense confrontation within the team.
In the singles event, in addition to the top 16 male and female players, comprehensive play style, athletic performance, age and other factors, the men's team Zhou Yu, Fang Bo, Cui Qinglei, Zhang Chao, Hou Yingchao and the women's team Muzi, Wu Yang, and Che Xiaoxi , Hu Limei, and Liu Xi directly enter the race, and the rest of the players will first accept the selection of the qualifiers. The final men's and women's team will determine the women's and men's team championships on the 20th and 21st.
In the men's team, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, and Xu Xin formed a group to rank the No. 1 seed, and Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, and Wang Chuqin formed the No. 2 seed. In the women's team, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu formed the No. 1 group seed, and Chen Xingtong, Gu Yuting, and Sun Mingyang ranked No. 2 in the group.
China Central Radio and Television will send a production team for the Olympic Games to produce 4K ultra-high-definition public signals for this analog game, and broadcast the whole process through CCTV5, CCTV5+ TV channels, CCTV sports client, CCTV, and CCTV.
In addition, the "National Fitness Day Table Tennis Activity" sponsored by the China Table Tennis Association will also kick off on the 8th with the Olympic simulation competition. As a demonstration project of this year’s National Fitness Day by the State General Administration of Sports, this National Fitness Day will work with the five provincial and municipal table tennis associations including Hainan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shandong, and Gansu to carry out the "Ping-pong Health Protection Campaign". And live broadcast through the Internet. (Finish)