The format of the 92 Table Tennis National Championships follows the tradition of the World Table Tennis Championships, with three singles players and a best-of-five system of rotation. Each game is a best-of-three system.

Compared with previous years, the biggest reform is to avoid the existence of lying on the crown, requiring the substitutes of each team to participate in the group stage and the knockout stage in rotation.

Because there is no doubles tournament, Kong Zhendong does not need to practice with other players, and after deciding the quota for the competition, he returned to the national team and continued his hard practice of combining arc circle and fast attack techniques.

On April 20, the group list of the table tennis national championships was officially determined, and a total of 30 provincial teams from 31 provinces and municipalities across the country, excluding Tibetan areas, plus the People's Liberation Army and the Northern Xinjiang Construction Corps, a total of 32 teams.

The elimination rules for the team stage are similar to those of the Football World Cup, with 32 teams divided into eight groups and a single round-robin to determine the round of 16, with the final champion being determined by gradual elimination.

The grouping situation of the capital team is not optimistic, the other three teams in the same group are the top eight regulars, the top four strong contenders Subei team, the Inner Mongolia team with national player Chen Weixing, there is no famous general, but the Jiangbei team with deep heritage and upset strength is not optimistic.

The capital meets northern Jiangsu, and the outcome is unpredictable. Coupled with Inner Mongolia and Jiangbei, which may be upset at any time, the capital team is not careful, and it is likely to hang up in the group stage.

After the birth of the worst record in the history of the Chiba World Table Tennis Championships in 91, many provincial teams actually had difficulty surviving. However, in the 92nd Olympic year, all sports development is based on the Olympic gold medal as the highest guideline.

Undoubtedly, table tennis is still the most stable event for my country to win gold in the Olympic Games.

Under the escort of the Olympic gold medal goal, the provincial teams have a rejuvenated and re-emerging atmosphere.

In the team event of the National Championships, the Capital team used to be very beautiful.

In the era of the pillars of Dashenzhuang, the capital team has won the men's team and men's singles championships many times.

However, before the 80s, most of the training resources of table tennis converged in the capital, and after the players from various provinces went to the capital to train, they also became naturalized in the capital and represented the capital team in the competition, so the dominance at that time was watery.

In the late eighties, Jiang Jialiang and Fuji Yuan led the capital team to win the national championship, but in the last three or four years, after these famous players retired, the strength of the capital team was only a regular in the top eight.

On April 27, the table tennis national championship was grandly opened, which is the highest level of competition, the most fierce competition, the highest gold content, and the highest attention of the Chinese people in addition to the National Games every four years.

Different from the later system arrangement of the team first and then the individual event, before the reform of the 90s, the ITTF still decided the champion of the individual event, and each athlete fought for the best competitive state, and finally competed for the most valuable men's and women's teams.

In the first men's singles competition, the three main players of the capital team Zhang Lei, Xiong Ke and Chen Zhibing all participated, and they went all out to compete for the championship at the same time, but also for the attention of the national team coaching staff and compete for the men's singles quota for this year's Olympic Games.

At the Barcelona Olympics, the Chinese team had three singles places in the men's singles table tennis.

After the 90th Asian Games, Jiang Jialiang, the first brother of the national team, retired from the auction.

After the 91st Table Tennis Association Cup, Cheng Longcan, the first brother of the national team, left Hong Kong Island and bid farewell to the stage.

Today's national team has no leader, except for Ma Wenhua of Jinmen who is almost sure of an Olympic quota, the other two places, Zhang Lei and Chen Zhibing, have a hard time.

The dream is very full, but the reality is very skinny.

Xiong Ke, Zhang Lei, and Chen Zhibing were eliminated in the knockout stage in turn, and no one entered the semi-finals in the end.

The national team did not say that the top three in the national championships would qualify for the Olympics, but you can't make it to the semi-finals, and in the past few years, there have been no outstanding international results, so it is very difficult to get into the candidates.

What's more, after China's traditional straight plate and fast attack entered a dead end, the European two-sided arc circle represented by Zhang Lei and Chen Zhibing was once considered to be the savior and new direction, but in the past four years of the Olympic cycle, Zhang Lei and Chen Zhibing's foreign war achievements have no bright spots, and the advancement of their technology has also been questioned.

With disappointment and boredom, the Capital team began their first men's team group stage.

Although the competition system of comparing individual events first and then teams has the advantage of better stimulating the competitive state of athletes, once the performance of individual competitions is not good, there are also disadvantages that affect the morale of team competitions.

In the first group stage, the capital team just met the biggest opponent, the northern Jiangsu team.

The lineup sent by the capital team is Zhang Lei, Chen Zhibing, Xiong Ke, and Kong Zhendong is on the wall.

In the lineup of the northern Jiangsu team, there are famous Daniel Zhang and young Qin Zhijian.

In today's game, the capital team lined up, and the focus was on the famous Daniel Zhang.

Daniel Zhang don't look at his name as the most ordinary, the whole country grabbed a lot, but the only one who won the men's singles championship in the national championship was Daniel Zhang of northern Jiangsu.

The capital team didn't pay too much attention to Qin Zhijian, the new generation of northern Jiangsu, the new generation of straight and anti-glue, there are too many in the country, who can take care of it?

Kong Zhendong's positioning in this game is to learn and feel the atmosphere, he has no say in the coaching staff of the capital team, so he can't tell everyone that Qin Zhijian is the future world champion and the helm of the national men's team.

"Subei! Northern Jiangsu! Win all the way! ”

After entering the team competition, the audience increased significantly.

In other competitions, the capital team often has a home advantage, but table tennis is the national sport, there are many fans in various provinces, and the people in Beijing in the provinces do not worship the capital hukou so much, and everyone cheers for the ancestral province.

Northern Jiangsu fans are a huge group in the capital, so the capital players feel the pressure to play almost away from home.

Fighting for northern Jiangsu is the most critical battle for the capital team to qualify for the group.

In the shouts of the fans to win the championship all the way, the Northern Jiangsu team played a bloody battle to the end, and every game was fought as a decisive field.

The three main players of the capital team seem to be affected by the poor performance in the individual competition, coupled with the lack of explosive impact of the horizontal board play, the capital team has been playing extremely dull.

In the first game, Zhang Lei of the capital team was picked off by Daniel Zhang of the northern Jiangsu team.

In the second game, Chen Zhibing of the capital team won and stabilized the situation.

In the third game, Xiong Ke, the national player of the capital team, faced Qin Zhijian, a little-known young player of the Northern Jiangsu team, and was defeated!

The third singles was originally a game in the plan of the capital team, which was bound to grab points, and Xiong Ke's complete defeat cast a shadow of defeat on the coaching staff and players of the capital team.

In the fourth game, Chen Zhibing of the capital team faced off against Daniel Zhang of Northern Jiangsu, striving to bring the game to the fifth decisive match.

It's a pity that the line between the provincial team strongman and the national player is vividly reflected in this game. Chen Zhibing failed to reverse the decline, and the Northern Jiangsu team defeated the capital team 3:1.

After the game, the capital team was a paper tiger, and the report of the grim situation of qualifying occupied an important page of the capital media.

The capital team also began to select all crossboard players, and the wrong remarks about the lack of impact were pointed at the head coach Li Muhua.

Internal and external doubts put Li Muhua's second group stage under heavy pressure!