Ma Lengthy’s inclusion in China’s desk tennis squad offers the 35-year-old an opportunity to win gold in his fourth consecutive Olympics.
China’s Ma Lengthy will get a shot at successful a sixth Olympic gold medal in Paris in August regardless of having been denied the possibility to assert a 3rd straight singles title at his fourth Summer time Video games.
The 14-time world champion, now 35, received staff golds in any respect three of his earlier Olympics and back-to-back males’s singles titles in Rio and Tokyo to develop into essentially the most profitable desk tennis Olympian of all time.
Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, who misplaced to Ma within the Tokyo remaining, had been named as China’s entries for the singles final week however Ma was confirmed by the Chinese language Desk Tennis Affiliation (CTTA) on Tuesday because the third participant for the staff event.
There have been no surprises within the ladies’s staff who will search to proceed China’s domination of the game with the lineup for Paris similar to that which swept the board in Tokyo.
Reigning champion and world quantity two Chen Meng and world primary Solar Yingsha will once more compete within the ladies’s singles and be part of up with world quantity three Wang Manyu within the staff occasion, the place China are additionally defending champions.
China have received 32 of the 37 golds and 60 of the 155 whole medals because the sport was launched to the Summer time Olympics in 1988, and the competitors for a spot on the nationwide staff is fierce.
The combined doubles, a brand new occasion in Tokyo, was the one gold medal China missed out on three years in the past and Wang Chuqin and Solar Yingsha, who high the world rankings, will pair as much as attempt to finish that anomaly in Paris.
World quantity 4 pair Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi would be the substitute gamers for the lads’s and ladies’s groups, respectively, the CTTA stated in a press release.
The 2024 Olympic desk tennis occasions will happen on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles from July 27 to August 10.
