One month slipped away in the blink of an eye. In late July, table tennis clubs across the country received notification that, due to the epidemic, the TT Super League was being postponed until December.
The members of the National Table Tennis Team were somewhat dumbfounded. They had gone nearly five months without any competition, a situation that would have been unimaginable in the past. Previously, tournaments were so dense that players typically flew around 2 to 4 times a month, sometimes even more.
Players relied on competitions to earn prize money, subsidies, ranking points, and standings. To put it basically, playing matches was how you made money; if you had to rely solely on the meager fixed salary issued by the provincial and national teams, supporting a family—let alone oneself—was a struggle.
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