[Tilu News]The World Table Tennis Championship qualifiers will be held at the British Institute of Sport in Sheffield from April 8 to 17. The World Table Tennis Tour (WST) will draw lots on Saturday (30th). Three Hong Kong male players Attacking in separate ways, “Wonder dad” Marco Fu faced last year’s women’s world champion Thai rising star Baipat Siripaporn in the first round, while Zhang Jiawei faced off against Scotland’s Ross Muir in her “debut” at the World Championships.
In addition to the world’s top 16 players entering the main draw, the remaining 128 players must compete in the qualifying rounds first. Many famous players include former world champion “Melbourne Machine” Neil Robertson, Stuart Bingham, and Si Jiahui, one of the top four players of the year, Hossein Vafaei, the “big brother” of Iran, Jack Lisowski, Jimmy White, the six-time runner-up, etc. will all line up to fight for Enter the football sanctuary of the Crucible Theatre, where the main game is held. On the other hand, Huntley, the “Emperor of Snooker” who was the host for the seventh time, gave up the competition.
Fu Jiajun (Photo: Tilu Database)
Silly Bobon (Photo: World Women’s Snooker)
The draw for this year’s World Championships was released last night. The three Hong Kong players will all start in the first round and must win four games in a row to qualify for the main draw. All events will be in a best-of-19 format. Fu Jiajun, who is temporarily ranked 70th in the world, will first face the 24-year-old Thai female player Siri Pipang, who won the Women’s World Championship for the first time last year. If Marco passes smoothly, he will meet the 1997 world champion Ken Doherty in the second round and advance again. If so, he will beat the famous Iranian general He Xin. After Marco Marco recently finished the “2024 Hong Kong International Table Tennis Stars Challenge”, he and his family traveled to Taiwan for electricity. Soon after returning to Hong Kong early next week, he returned to the UK to prepare for the World Championship qualifiers.
Zhang Jiawei (Photo: Tilu Database)
Bai Yulu (Photo: World Women’s Snooker)
As for Zhang Jiawei, who won the WSF Championship in Albania in February, he not only received a professional ticket for the next two seasons, but also secured a qualifying spot for this World Championship. The successor to the Hong Kong table tennis will face Scottish golfer Mel for the first time. If he is promoted, He Guoqiang of China will face off in the first lap; Li Junwei will compete with Andrew Pagett of Wales for the second lap. It is worth mentioning that Chinese supernova Bai Yulu, who recently won the Women’s World Championship and the U21 World Championship, will also appear and face England’s Jenson Kendrick in the first round.
The main match of the 2024 World Table Tennis Championship will be held at the Crucible Theater from April 20 to May 6. “Billy Bullet” Luca Brecel will defend his title with all his strength, and “World No. 1” Ronnie O’Sullivan ) will continue to strive for a record-breaking 8th title.
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in”World Table Tennis Championships | Marco Fu’s first qualifying match, women’s world champion Zhang Jiawei won a wild card to perform in her “debut match”」
2024-03-31 02:26:58
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