Originally, the core players of the Chinese National Table Tennis Team were only scheduled to participate in the WTT Star Contender in July, with the remaining two weeks of June dedicated simply to checking in for training.
However, during the WTT Contender Tunis held in mid-to-late June, the Chinese National Table Tennis Team suffered a major setback. The young players came away empty-handed, failing to break into the finals across all five events.
Three rising stars born after 2000—Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng, and Yuan Licen—were all eliminated in the first round, while the women's singles players were wiped out entirely early on.
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