Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 6, according to the online live broadcast platform “China Sports” (zhibo. TV) on the 6th, Zhang Jike, a table tennis Grand Slam player who has been away from the stadium for nearly two years, will bring an online showdown on 18th day of this month against the chopper Premier League who won the men’s singles championship in the national table tennis championship at the age of 39.
Previously, Zhang Jike, who had been away from the stadium for 20 months, released a video with Hou Premier League on personal social media, triggering speculation and heated discussion among netizens, then “China sports” contacted Zhang Jike and Hou Premier League respectively to finally promote the competition.
As a “war of attack and cutting” between the old teammates of the national team, on one side is ping pong “Tibetan mastiff”, which has created the fastest Grand Slam record in the 445-day international table tennis world. Although it has been separated from the first-line Stadium in the past two years, however, Zhang Jike did not leave table tennis. He has been committed to the promotion of table tennis and has always maintained a certain intensity of sports training and competition. On the other side, he was elected to the national team in 1998, in the first chopper of the former national team retired from the national team in 2014, he has been a part-time table tennis anchor in China Sports for a long time, attracting a large number of fans because of his professional and funny commentary. In 2019, the 39-year-old Hou Premier League defeated Liang Jingkun, Zhou Qihao, Wang Chuqin and other main players in the national table tennis championships in succession, and won the men’s singles championship at one stroke, he was called “the strongest anchor on the surface” by his fans “.
In terms of competition system, this competition will break the traditional 11-point competition system and adopt the timing and snatching competition system. The two sides will play three games in total, 10 minutes for each game, and the score will be accumulated; In the third game, the player who took the lead in winning 35 points in total won the whole game.
It is reported that the live recording of the competition will be conducted in the studio of China sports, and the audience will not be arranged to avoid gathering personnel. In addition, the organizer will also combine the characteristics of the Internet live broadcast platform and innovative broadcast technology to make disruptive innovations in viewing methods and interactive forms, and online fans will have the opportunity to exercise the right to suspend off-site coaches.