At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Wang Chuqin encountered another racket incident, "Why is it me every time"

The national table tennis mixed doubles combination Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha participated in the 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships as the No. 2 seed, and the two defeated the Brazilian combination 3:0 on the evening of the 19th local time. Before playing with the Brazilian pair, Wang Chuqin had another episode, he found that the racket was rotten before the game, Wang Chuqin was not the first time the racket suffered, the last time was the Paris Olympics, he said helplessly after the game: "Why is it me every time."

Wang Chuqin's racket rotted for no reason before the game, and he showed the racket to the referee.

The Paris Olympic gold medal pair Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha teamed up to challenge for the world championships, and the "Shatou Combination" was listed as the No. 2 seed and faced the Brazilian pair in the second roundHugo Carlladno／Bruna TakahashiAs a result, the Chinese pair only took 20 minutes to easily pass the test and advanced in three straight games, while the Romanian pair, who originally played in the round of 16, withdrew, and Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha took the lead in advancing to the top 8.

The 25-year-old Wang Chuqin was broken by a photographer at the Paris Olympics last year, and then played in the men's singles with a reserve racket, but unexpectedly stopped in the round of 32. Wang Chuqin's racket suffered again in this World Championships, when he entered the court to pick up the racket, carefully inspected it, to see that the racket was inappropriate, and then showed it to the referee, signaling that the racket was broken for no reason, and then said to the coach on the sidelines: "The board is open!" Wang Chuqin reluctantly spread his hands and tried to press back the glue on the racket.

Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha were the first to advance to the top 8 in the mixed doubles at the World Championships

Wang Chuqin's racket passed the pre-match inspection, and he can only use this racket to play, if he switches to an unchecked reserve racket, even if he wins the game has a chance to be not recognized. The coach of the Chinese team complained to the referee, who emphasized that from the inspection center to the court, no one else touched the racket, and Wang Chuqin could only use the racket.

Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha passed as usual, and Wang talked about the rotten racket in the post-match interview, and he said with a wry smile: "I don't know why I encounter this kind of thing every time!" Wang Chuqin said that he used the same racket in the morning and it was intact at the same time, and when he played in mixed doubles, he saw that the racket was inappropriate when he walked into the court, and the sponge on the original racket was broken, and he pointed out that it was still fine before the pre-match inspection.

The glue on the top of Wang Chuqin's racket is broken

In succession in the Paris Olympics and the World Championships in the racket accident, Wang Chuqin bluntly said that he was very disappointed with the organizers, and hoped that the relevant parties would respect the players' rackets, "The racket is the weapon of the athlete, I don't know what the referee thinks, but even the test board is not good, I am really disappointed, every racket is cherished by the player, I hope the organizer will not take it lightly." Wang Chuqin re-mentioned the bad shooting incident of the Paris Olympics, he said that he didn't say much at the time, and this time he had an accident, and he said frankly that if it was other athletes, what would they be in their psychological state.

The Chinese Table Tennis Association then immediately held a meeting with the International Table Tennis Federation to pay attention to Wang Chuqin's bad racket incident, among which Wang Liqin, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, also attended the meeting, and asked the relevant parties to thoroughly investigate the incident, and put forward three major requirements, hoping that staff would follow the entire racket inspection procedure to ensure that no one touched the racket halfway, and at the same time required that the procedures for checking the racket be videotaped. The ITTF then issued a statement in response that it will continue to investigate the incident and ensure that the same type of incident does not happen again.