After Rio's defending Olympic champion failed to win the runner-up, ZhangJike's position declined all the way. After playing the National Games last year, he basically didn't appear in the stadium. The domestic schedule is absent from the Table Tennis Super League, and the international competition is only played in Germany. As a result, he was eliminated in the first round, and he was not seen in the World Cup team competition half a month ago. Although ZhangJike has repeatedly said that he will not retire, his condition has already changed.
Today, Netease Sports revealed through an insider that ZhangJike will withdraw from this trial training. It is understood that the reason for his retirement is that he is worried about the recurrence of old injuries, and the time to resume training is too short to meet the requirements of the competition, so he chose to retire. Up to now, ZhangJike has participated in the six individual World Table Tennis Championships and the four team World Table Tennis Championships. 20 1 1 and 20 13 won the men's singles championship for two consecutive years, and 20 15 won the doubles gold medal, and dominated the team competition with the China Men's Team for four consecutive years. But now he is still far from the main force of men's table tennis, and when he can continue to play is still inconclusive.
According to the qualification selection scheme of the World Table Tennis Championships released by the China Table Tennis Association last year, there will be three places in the team events of the 20 17 World Table Tennis Championships, the third before the Table Tennis Super League and the third before the National Games. On this basis, the men's team Ma Long, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong, and the women's team Ding Ning, Liu and Zhu Yuling all qualified for this year's World Table Tennis Championships. The seats of the remaining two men's and women's teams will be decided by the trials. ZhangJike's withdrawal from the trials means that he gave up the World Table Tennis Championships ahead of schedule.
According to the plan of the Table Tennis Association, the men's team trials will be held from March/KOOC-0/5 to March/KOOC-0/7, and the women's team trials will be held on March/KOOC-0/6 and June/KOOC-0/7. Men's and women's teams always have four remaining places, and men's and women's teams choose 2 from 10. This year's World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Tetad, Khyarms, Sweden from April 29th to May 6th.