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Team China is currently going through it's intensive closed training before the 2017 World Championships next month!
The closed training session for World Championships 2017 is from the 3rd April to 14th June. Now the men's team is in Shenzhen and women's team in Huangshi.
As usual, the photo wall of major rivals can be seen in the training hall (photo by Coach Wu Jingping).
The Rivals
The men's team of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, xu Xin, Zhang Jike and Lin Gaoyuan are all focused on their rivals. They have a huge photo of their rivals on the wall in the training hall!
Tiers listed below:
1st-tier rivals of men's team include: Jung Young Sik, Chuang Chih Yuan, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Jun Mizutani, Timo Boll, Vladimir Samsonov and Marcos Freitas.
2nd-tier: Wong Chun Ting (HKG), Tang Peng (HKG), Chen Chien-An (TPE), Koki Niwa (JPN), Jeoung Young Sik (KOR), Lee Sang Su (KOR), Stefan Fegerl (AUT), Robert Gardos (AUT), Tiago Apolonia (POR), Simon Gauzy (FRA), Alexander Shibaev (RUS)
3rd-tier: Kristian Karlsson (SWE), Par Gerell (SWE), Emmanuel Lebesson (FRA), Gao Ning (SGP), Bojan Tokic (SLO), Andrej Gacina (CRO), Panagiotis Gionis (GRE), Paul Drinkhall (ENG), Liam Pitchford (ENG), Quadri Aruna(NGR)
Balls
Liu Guoliang left Shenzhen for Huangshi and the men's team had 1-day break.
Wu Jingping said only the players who will play in WTTC are practicing with Nittaku Premium balls and others use DHS 2-star because Nittaku Premium balls are too expensive....
Training Hall
The closed training session for World Championships 2017 is from the 3rd April to 14th June. Now the men's team is in Shenzhen and women's team in Huangshi.
As usual, the photo wall of major rivals can be seen in the training hall (photo by Coach Wu Jingping).
The Rivals
The men's team of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, xu Xin, Zhang Jike and Lin Gaoyuan are all focused on their rivals. They have a huge photo of their rivals on the wall in the training hall!
Tiers listed below:
1st-tier rivals of men's team include: Jung Young Sik, Chuang Chih Yuan, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Jun Mizutani, Timo Boll, Vladimir Samsonov and Marcos Freitas.
2nd-tier: Wong Chun Ting (HKG), Tang Peng (HKG), Chen Chien-An (TPE), Koki Niwa (JPN), Jeoung Young Sik (KOR), Lee Sang Su (KOR), Stefan Fegerl (AUT), Robert Gardos (AUT), Tiago Apolonia (POR), Simon Gauzy (FRA), Alexander Shibaev (RUS)
3rd-tier: Kristian Karlsson (SWE), Par Gerell (SWE), Emmanuel Lebesson (FRA), Gao Ning (SGP), Bojan Tokic (SLO), Andrej Gacina (CRO), Panagiotis Gionis (GRE), Paul Drinkhall (ENG), Liam Pitchford (ENG), Quadri Aruna(NGR)
Balls
Liu Guoliang left Shenzhen for Huangshi and the men's team had 1-day break.
Wu Jingping said only the players who will play in WTTC are practicing with Nittaku Premium balls and others use DHS 2-star because Nittaku Premium balls are too expensive....
Training Hall