The 'Hardy Hundreds' -- Line-up of the Chinese National Games Prelims

Ready for more names and tables? Here are part of the line-up. The list is too long, so I have listed some of the more-heard teams and pairs. If you want a complete line-up, click here. 


Part of the line-up of the Chinese National Games, Preliminary Round for Table Tennis

Men's
Top 4	Shanghai Xu Xin Shang Kun Zhao Zihao Chen Zhiyang Peng Feilong	Shandong Zhang Jike Fang Bo Liu Dingshuo Kong Lingxuan Cao Jinze	PLA Fan Zhendong Zhou Yu Xu Chenhao Zhou Kai Liao Hongran	Jiangsu Zhang Yudong Zhu Cheng Sun Wen Cai Wei Wan Qiaoyu
Group 1	Shaanxi Sai Linwei Gui Chenkai Song Qian Yang Zhuo Wang Chence	Zhejiang Lyu Xiang Wang Jianjun Zhai Yujia Yin Jiaxu Wang Zhixu	Jilin Lin Chen Zhu Yi Wang Zhen  Ma Mingjie Xu Hongrui
Group 2	Beijing Ma Long Yan AN Wang Chuqin Cao Wei Qi Yibiao	Henan Ren Hao Xia Yizheng Yu Heyi Niu Guankai Wang Llinkun	Hubei Xue Fei Zhao Danubg Xi Sheng Hua Bei Xu Hao	Tianjin Hao Shuai MA Te Yu Xinhang Gao Yang Zhong Jintang
Group 3	Heilongjiang Wang Bo Yu Ziyang Xu Yingbin Zhang Lei Yan Minghui	Fujian Zheng Peifeng Chen Xi Su Yujie Lin Yang Tao Yiting	Ningxia Song Xu Chen Peng Cao Meng Wang Xinyao
Group 4	Liaoning Liu Jikang Fang Yinchi Yang Shuo Xu Haidong Yuan Licen	Hebei Liang Jingkun Fan Shengpeng Cui Qinglei Liu Yi Cheng Jingqi	Guangdong Lin Gaoyuan Zhou Qihao Zhang Chao Li Yijie Liu Jia	Sichuan Zhu Linfeng Lai Jiaxin Xu Ruifeng Yan Sheng Kuang Li
Women's
Top 4	Shanxi Wu Yang Li Xiaodan Lyu Tingting Hu Jiarong Liu Ying	Liaoning Wen Jia Chen XIngtong Li Jiayi Lan Xi Hong Jiatong	Beijing Ding Ning Sheng Dandan Li Jiayuan Sun Chen Guo Yuhan	Sichuan Zhu Yuling Guo Yan Fan Siqi Yuan Yuan Pan Yingying
Group 1	Heilongjiang Wang Xuan Che Xiaoxi Wang Manyu Lian Shengnan Lyu Tong	Guangdong Liu Shiwen Zhang Meizhu Zhang Chi Yang Caiying Huang Yingqi	Henan Yuan Xuejiao Zheng Shichang Ma Yuefei Yao Junyu Zhao Xue
Group 2	Hebei He Zhuojia Sun Yingsha Zhang Wenjing Zang Xiaotong Xu Jiaying	Jiangsu Liu Fei Zhang Qiang Chen Ke Qian Tianyi Shi Xunyao	Hubei Feng Yalan Zhang Rui Sun Yizhen Zeng Muzi Liu Hongwei
Group 3	PLA Mu Zi Hu Limei Liu Xi HUang Fanzhen Zhao Yifei	Tianjin Mu Jingyu Liu Weishan Liu Yalin Sun Xiaotong Qi fei	Tibet Jiang Hui Zhang Binyue Hao Hao Hu Jiaqian Shen Tiantian
Group 4	Shandong Chen Meng Gu Yuting Liu Gaoyang Gu Ruochen Wei Yuanhui	Yunnan Wang Yidi Liu Ming Guo Lin Xu Nuo Zhang Ming

The Big Names in...

Men's Doubles

Fan Zhendong (PLA) and Zhou Yu (PLA)
Hao Shuai (Tianjin) and Liu Jikang (Liaoning)
Xu Xin (Shanghai) and Ma Long (Beijing)
Shang Kun (Shanghai) and Fang Bo (Shandong)
Yan An (Beijing) and Lin Gaoyuan (Guangdong)
Wang Chuqin (Beijing) and Liang Jingkun (Hebei)

Women's Doubles
Mu Zi (PLA) and Gu Yuting (Shandong)

Hu Limei (PLA) and Wu Yang (Shanxi)

Feng Yalan (Hubei) and Liu Gaoyang (Shandong)

Zhu Yuling (Sichuan) and Chen Meng (Shandong)

Ding Ning (Beijing) and Liu Shiwen (Guangdong)
Wen Jia (Liaoning) and CHen Xingtong (Liaoning)
Che Xiaoxi (Heilongjiang) and Wang Manyu (Heilongjiang)

Mixed Doubles
Wang Yidi (Yunan) and Hao Shuai (Tianjin)
Fan Zhendong (PLA) and Zhu Yulin (Sichuan)

Zhou Yu (PLA) and Mu Zi (PLA)

Ma Te (Tianjin) and Hu Limei (PLA)

Shang Kun (Shanghai) and Feng Yalan

Fang Bo (Shandong) and Chen Meng (Shandong)
Gu Yuting (Shandong) and Yan An (Beijng)

Wang Chuqin (Beijing) and Chen Xingtong (Liaoning)

Wen Jia (Liaoning) and Liang Jingkun (Hebei)

Liu Shiwen (Guangdong) and Lin Gaoyuan (Guangdong)

How to qualify?
Directly qualify to the next round
-The top 4 teams in 2016 Chinese Nationals, directly qualify to the next round's team competition.
This means men's team: Shanghai, Shandong, PLA and Jiangsu and women's team: Shanxi, Liaoning, Beijing, Sichuan will directly enter the next round.

- Players winning top 3 in 2016 Olympics or top 3 in 2016 or 2017 World Championship or World Cup Finals are qualified to the next round's singles event.
This means Ma Long, Zhang Jiike, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Fang Bo, Wong Chunting, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng directly entered next round's singles event.


Qualify through the preliminary
- The top 12 teams in the preliminary.
- The top 24 athletes in singles event.
- The top 16 in doubles event.

Competition format

Team: A round robin will play within a group under the best of 5 matches (New Swaythling Cup system, 5 singles).

Singles: A knock-out system under the best of 7 matches will be played. The 16 losers in the round of 32 will play an additional match to determine 8 players to play in the next round.

Doubles: A knock-out system under the best of 5 matches will be played.

Official information about the competition format is here.