China NT 2022

At the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, yesterday, the Chinese women’s team, led by Chen Meng beat Japan to win Gold. Japan, led by Mima Ito took silver and semi finalists Chinese Taipei and Germany were awarded bronze medals.

CONGRATULATIONS to all the medalists

In recent days both women’s basketball (runner up, World Cup) and women’s table tennis have delivered, we hope Cai Bin can deliver something * too

* something substantial, not just vegetable buns.

Watch the 2022 ITTF WCH Women's Finals between China vs. Japan thus waived the CHN - ITA match on Saturday. But no ill feel for that skip. The Table Tennis final matches were way more exciting!

No surprise for a 0-3 defeat, didn't expect the team to be all out in dealing with ITA at this stage.

Better focus in beating BEL to advance to the KO stage, and I am optimistic the team will beat Belgium squad. They never lose to Belgium team in any match of great significance. The WCH is a long battle, must conserve energy and be tactical. 4 Years ago Lang Ping in Japan insisted on being the sportive and fielded the core team to beat Russia in a match which was less relevant for China but would determine the fate whether Russia or US team being out... and in that process top the group by beating NED to face Italy in the SF instead of Serbia... ended up with bronze instead of silver at least... and as for saving the US team, looked at what the US team did in Tokyo OG when they threw the match against Russia to kick out China. Lang was too straight in her thinking, even a bit naive IMO. Or perhaps she attached too much her ties to the US. Lang Ping learned the bitter lessons of the real world in the 2018 WCH and 2020 Tokyo OG... she should have known when to conserve energy and pick up opponent when opportunity arises.

Btw it's good today's match CHN v BEL starts one hour ahead of the ITTF WCH Men's Finals between China vs. Germany this evening at 19:30 BJT. Still not enough interval but better than closely clashing schedule.

China into QF......they are leading Belgium 2-0 sets, and even if Belgium eventually wins 3-2, China have a better set ratio...

I really hope they can have a rematch against ITA in the QF.. so that they can prove their value.😅 I do think they will give a better fight to Italy this Time

I prefer the team to face with Brazil in QF, thus wishing NED can beat JPN.

Nonetheless, be it BRA or ITA in the QF, just fight all out to make the better outcome from the incomplete team. Too bad the Chinese team misses its star or stars, counting also Zhang in addition to Zhu, a situation not faced by other strong opponents. Imagine the team has the full line up with all players in healthy state and quite fit, with no injury... Zhu-Zhang-Li, with Yuan & Wang YY / Yang HY as the MBs, even without the retired Yan Ni or Lang in the team, the outcome will still be different. Now Li carries too much the burden without any quality sub. In normal state, Wang YL should be in the bench. Well, just unfortunate situation for the team... injury, injury and injury.

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Watch the 2022 ITTF WCH Women's Finals between China vs. Japan thus waived the CHN - ITA match on Saturday. But no ill feel for that skip. The Table Tennis final matches were way more exciting!

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🏓 2022 ITTF WCH Men’s Finals....Gold Medal match: China 3 : 0 Germany

🥇 China

🥈 Germany

🥉 Japan

🥉 South Korea

CONGRATULATIONS to all the Medalists 🥇🥈🥉🥉

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almost lost to japan in the semis

yes, they have a very good individual player, Tomokazu Harimoto who didn’t lose a single match throughout the tournament. He even beat 2 of China’s top players in the SF, but China prevailed 3-2.

Not sure if you know this, Tomokazu’s parents came from China, where they played table tennis professionally.

Looks like it’s gonna be Italy… hope they can receive well and fight hard for every single point. Maybe playing more combos, which they didn’t play in the previous match.

At the least the pressure is not on them (clearly Italy is favourite)

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almost lost to japan in the semis

If you watched the whole match, which I did, you would see that it was a competitive and exciting match, but the team was not almost lost to Japan even though the score was 3-2 good it was not such dramatic situation... otherwise HARIMOTO Tomokazu would have become another HIRANO Miu who won the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships swept away three top Chinese players at that time... but then Hirano Miu faded away fast after winning the title, esp. when facing Chinese NT members... it seemed every CNT member focusing on beating her games.

Forget to mention that the SF against Japan was indeed the REAL FINALS!! The GER was fortunate to be placed in the other half in the drawing, wonder when the Japan team can take the #2 seeded position thus can play in the finals.

Here are the scoring details:

#1 FAN Zhendong 3 - 0 TOGAMI Shunsuke

11-5, 12-10, 11-4, 0-0,0-0

#2 WANG Chuqin 1 - 3 HARIMOTO Tomokazu

11-8, 8-11, 6-11, 9-11, 0-0

#3 MA Long 3 - 1 OIKAWA Mizuki

8-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-2, 0-0

FAN Zhendong 2 - 3 HARIMOTO Tomokazu

7-11, 11-6, 11-3, 9-11, 9-11

WANG Chuqin 3 - 0 TOGAMI Shunsuke

12-10, 11-7, 11-4, 0-0,0-0

In today's final Ma Long was reinstalled as the 2nd player, Wang CQ was relegated to the 3rd position... I believe Wang's SF loss affected the finals line-up, the most experienced player in the team, Ma Long, regained the more trust to carry more burden. For those who don't follow TT Team Championships, the 3rd player only plays once in any situation.

Me to the players:

“ Ok ....firstly, forget about the recent thrashing by Italy....that was an accident “

“ remember, we beat Japan, who beat Brazil, who beat Italy.......now following this line of reasoning.......”

Quote from Julian Chow

Me to the players:

“ Ok ....firstly, forget about the recent thrashing by Italy....that was an accident “

“ remember, we beat Japan, who beat Brazil, who beat Italy.......now following this line of reasoning.......”

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hahaha... it will need lots of luck to beat ITA by the current line-up... but I believe the match will be more competitive than in the group match. Back then the focus was to make it into QF, which the team succeeded to accomplish! But now in KO stage.. nothing to lose, fight with the gloves off, even though fighting with the incomplete squad... yet fight at the best, and if lose, lose with a good fight with whatever resources available, lose with dignity.

With key players like Zhu & Zhang not around, can't expect too high, must be realistic. staying in the Top-5 is already a good achievement for the current line-up.

Italy has been the toughest matchup for China so it will be extremely tough. Key factor would be the wings offense. During VNL, only Gong played well and all got neutralized last game they played against Italy. I think the middles should just focus on Egonu. Good luck.

imo it gonna depend ln the mb

If italy service is weak,they can do combos and put yuan and wang yy to play

If they serve strong it gonna be all on li yy and gong

Zhu Ting has ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!