Four-time MVP Liu Shiwen absent from the Table Tennis Super League
2021-10-03 10:08:47Source: Beijing Youth Daily
News from our newspaper (Reporter Zhou Xueshuai) The 2021 Table Tennis Super League will officially start on October 3rd. There will be 15 male and female clubs participating in the competition. In a single elimination round, the champion, runner-up and third runner-up will be determined.
Taking into account the needs of epidemic prevention and control, this year’s Table Tennis Super League still adopts the game format. The Table Tennis Super League is the highest level league in China. Olympic champions Malone, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other Olympic and world champions will go to Weihai, Shandong to participate in the competition.
In the list of teams announced before the game, Shandong Luneng men’s and women’s team can be described as star-studded. National players such as Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu are all listed.
The four-time MVP winner Liu Shiwen will be absent from this season’s Table Tennis Super League. Liu Shiwen participated in the National Games after finishing the Olympic Games. In order to put in the next training and competition in a better state, she applied to the Chinese Table Tennis Association and did not participate in the Table Tennis Super League.
In order to increase the antagonism of the competition and encourage athletes to fight hard and fight hard, the Chinese Table Tennis Association has specially improved the points rules and announced to the public that the male and female athletes ranked first in the league in total points will qualify for the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, USA.
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