China News Service, Chengdu, October 4th (Reporter He Shaoqing) On the 4th, the 56th ITTF World Table Tennis Team Championships (finals) in 2022 Chengdu (referred to as the "Chengdu World Table Tennis Team Championships") entered a white-hot event.

From Ni Xialian, Qiu Dang, Han Ying, Shan Xiaona and other table tennis veterans, to Liu Jiajing, Zhang An and other "future stars", in this table tennis competition, which was reopened after four years, Chinese players shined.

59-year-old Ni Xialian interprets sports charm

　　In the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships team competition, 59-year-old Chinese veteran Ni Xialian led the Luxembourg women's team to the top 16 with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss in 6 games.

She lost to 17-year-old Singaporean female player Zhou Jingyi in the group match by a narrow margin of 12:14. After the game, she said - "I will never give up, the charm of sports lies in your will to fight."

　　Ni Xialian has attracted much attention since she arrived in Chengdu, not only because she is the oldest contestant in this competition, but also because of her fighting spirit that she came to the arena to train before she had time to change planes twice and before she had time to lose the jet lag.

"You can forgive yourself if you don't have the ability. If you don't work hard, you can't forgive yourself."

　　The Olympic "Five Dynasties Veteran" defeated "Han Ping First Sister" Tian Zhixi in the first battle, breaking out the first upset in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships team competition.

After defeating the Iranian women's team, Ni Xialian was even photographed by the Iranian girls and confessed - "We all love you", and even the Japanese media also published an article calling her "charming temperament".

　　Regarding her "magic journey" in the World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, Ni Xialian said humorously, being able to play is a blessing, "Some people say that after seeing my news, I opened another bottle of beer and added two more dishes, that's right. , life is beautiful, to find the shining point, to find our joy."

Qiu Dang is firmly seated in Europe as "the first brother to shoot straight"

　　On the afternoon of the 4th, the German men's team led by Qiu Dang defeated Uzbekistan 3-0.

Although the German men's team was the team silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, the three main players of Ocharov, Bol and Francesca were absent in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, which also led to Qiu Dang, the champion of the new European Championships men's singles. Come to the challenge.

　　In the group stage, the German men's team and the French men's team met in a narrow way, and the battle for the European "Straight Shooting Brother" was staged in advance.

With the change of the rules of table tennis competitions, the players with straight shots are gradually withering away in large-scale table tennis events. This year's World Table Tennis Championships is the first time that the National Table Tennis Men's Team has played all horizontal shots in 69 years.

Qiu Dang, ranked ninth in the world, is one of the top straight-shooting players in the table tennis world today. In the group stage, he easily won 3-0 against the rising French straight-shooting star Felix Lebrun.

　　"I met Alex Lebrun in January this year. At that time, the two brothers were not well-known. Now not only in the European table tennis world, but the whole world should know these two brothers." After the game, Qiu Dang praised the Lebrun brothers, I think the Lebrun brothers have given hope to other European children learning table tennis - as long as they work hard, they can also play the straight beat well.

"Future Stars" Continue to Emerge

　　In the first match of the national table tennis women's team, the Canadian women's team sent Liu Jiajing, who was only 15 years old, to fight against Sun Yingsha.

Although he lost the game in the end, his opponent was the world's No. 1 "National Table Tennis Demon King" after all. Liu Jiajing was not stage fright in the face of such a powerful enemy, and even took an 8:7 upset lead in the first game.

This tenacious spirit even Ding Ning, the former world champion who served as a commentator, couldn't help but praise.

　　In the Houston World Table Tennis Championships held in the United States last year, the Chinese-American mixed doubles team composed of national table tennis player Lin Gaoyuan and Chinese player Zhang An won the bronze medal. This is also the first World Table Tennis Championship medal for the American table tennis team in 62 years.

　　In the group stage of the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang An, as the American female team leader, faced Sun Yingsha and once won two match points in a row.

After the game, Sun Yingsha said that she had played against Zhang An before, and this game can clearly feel that Zhang An's skills have improved. "We played a lot of intense good shots."

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