Chapter 95

With the World Cup in Weihai concluded, the team did not return to Beijing, but instead headed straight to Macau to compete in the WTT Macau. The full name of WTT is World Table Tennis, a major milestone in the professional reform of the sport of table tennis. It will help comprehensively upgrade and transform the commercial system of table tennis, eventually replacing all previous open tournaments. The Macau event was the very first open tournament of WTT. To promote the tournament, the organizers set up a hefty prize pool. The singles champion would receive a staggering 72,500 US dollars (if a unseeded player won, it would be 100,000 US dollars), and the runner-up 50,000 US dollars, surpassing the prize money of almost all previous open tournaments.