China News Service Client, April 26th, 26th, according to the Chinese Table Tennis Association, in order to create a high-level confrontational event for the Olympic team members, and at the same time, for the national team and the provincial and municipal athletes to show their own stage, China Table Tennis During the May Day period, Xie specially created a new competition format: 2021 "Direct WTT Grand Slam•World Table Tennis Championships" and an Olympic simulation tournament.

Data map: Photo by Liu Guoliang, China News Agency reporter Chen Wen

　　It is understood that the competition will be held in Xinxiang City, Henan Province from May 3rd to 7th. According to the arrangement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, there will be 36 men’s and women’s singles and 16 mixed doubles athletes, participating in mixed doubles and men’s and women’s singles. Single event.

　　In terms of the composition of players, the Chinese Table Tennis Association has used innovative methods. They come from the athletes who entered the men's and women's singles finals of the 14th National Games, the men's and women's singles champions and runners-up in the 2020 National Youth Championship (under the age of 18), and 2020 Men's and women's singles champions and runners-up in the National Junior Championships (under the age of 15), as well as athletes who have qualified through trials.

Simply put, the best players from all of China in the U15, U18 and senior groups will compete on the same field.

　　The competition system is relatively close to the Olympic Games. The first stage of singles is 8 group cycles (5 rounds); the second stage enters the knockout round (7 rounds).

Mixed doubles use knockout (7 games).

Each project will determine the champion, runner-up and runner-up.

　　This competition not only undertakes the task of warming up for the Olympics, but also incorporates more competition rules, allowing more elite athletes at more levels to strive for multiple pass-through qualifications. It can be described as an event with multiple functions.

　　Function 1: Compete through the WTT Grand Slam qualification.

The competition uses a points system for ranking.

In singles competitions, the U18 athletes with the highest total points, the top 2 U22 athletes in the total points, and the top 5 athletes in the total points will qualify for the WTT Grand Slam pass.

At the same time, the male and female athletes ranked first in the mixed doubles will also receive direct tickets to the WTT Grand Slam respectively.

　　Function 2: Take the lead in qualifying for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships.

According to the rules, the athlete with the number one singles total points will go straight to the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in the United States.

　　Function 3: The top 16 players in singles total points will be eligible for this year's Table Tennis Super League.

　　According to reports, the reason why the Chinese Table Tennis Association chose this multi-functional competition method is to allow athletes of every age group to maintain high-intensity combat effectiveness and competitiveness in the competition.

Not only for athletes participating in the Olympics, but also for the country, all ages and classes, including provinces and cities, including young people, to provide a stage for fair competition and display themselves.

　　Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, said that the innovation of this event not only broke the barrier that only national team athletes can participate in through events, but also gave provincial and municipal team athletes, especially outstanding youth representatives, more opportunities to participate. Through the event, the enthusiasm of every athlete is fully mobilized. The design of the event is related to the athletes' own personal interests. Therefore, everyone can burst out the strongest competitiveness to test our Tokyo Olympics lineup and polish the framework of the Paris Olympics competition. (Finish)