Know the strong contenders from the men's teams event!
Looking back at the history of CNG, PLA men's team has been the cradle of great athletes, Wang Tao, Liu Guoliang, Wang Hao, Fan Zhendong, to name a few. The star-studded team always ends up on the podium at the Games in the last 20 years but the success story won't be continued in 2021. As the military sports unit went through a structural reform last year, dismissing the military professional sport teams. So some athletes left the sport, while some will represent another provincial team.
Team Gaungdong
The former PLA team anchor Fan Zhendong is definitely the centre of attention. At the 2021 CNG, he will be representing Guangdong where he was born and raised, joining 2020 men's team national champion squad Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, Zhang Chao and Zhang Xin, a young chopper who make the team to fulfill the requirement of having at least one penholder or chopper on the team. The team is impeccable on paper but anything can happen at the National Games of China.
Team Beijing
Settled for second at 2019 and 2020 Nationals, Beijing would be in their quest for gold this year. The team possesses 5-time Olympic champion Ma Long, up-and-coming star Wang Chuqin who is the alternate (P-card player) at Tokyo, a strong former PLA player Xu Chenhao, Yan An and Li Haoteng, the penholder. This is about the dream lineup that you would like to have to win team gold.
Team Shanghai
Shanghai dominated the last quad by winning 4 consecutive team titles from 2014 to 2017. Although the lineup has not changed much, they did not extend their winning streak in the following quad and experienced an early exit at the group stage of 2020 Nationals. Looking to redeem themselves, Xu Xin, Shang Kun, Zhao Zihao, former PLA player Zhao Zhaoyan and Sun Zhen will have to put up a stellar performance in order to make the podium.
Team Hebei
Although Hebei doesn't get the luxury of having an Olympian on the team, we shall never count them out. On the team, there is Liang Jingkun who won his first singles national title in 2018 and is capable of earning 2 solid points for the team. In addition to that, the inclusion of a solid former PLA player Zhou Kai and the emergence of promising youngster Liang Yanning will put Hebei in the mix.
Other than the mentioned teams, Liaoning, Jiangsu and Shandong are also some exciting teams to follow.
The team event adopts the Swaythling Cup system (Best of 5 singles matches) and the top 2 finishers of each group will advance to the play-off stage.
More:
2021 CNG: Men's Team Draws & Results
2021 CNG: One-Stop Guide
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