Japanese media paid attention to the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships Wang Chuqin's racket incident, and believed that it was intentional

At 11 a.m. local time on the 19th, the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha started the second round of mixed doubles. When the Japanese pair of Maharu Yoshimura and Satsuki Oto were about to take a group photo, the table next to them was a little noisy. It turned out to be Coach Xiao Zhan of the Chinese pair Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha sitting on the bench, holding a racket in his hand and talking with a serious expression. Wang Chuqin took the spare racket taken out of the racket box on the bench and walked past with a blank face.

Screenshot of Japanese media coverage.

The background of this scene is that before the fight against the Brazilian pair Hugo Carladeno/Bruner Takahashi, Wang Chuqin had a small episode, he found that the racket was rotten before the start of the game, that is, the rubber had fallen off badly and could not be used directly, and finally he had to choose to use the backup racket to play. The powerful Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha swept the Brazilian pair to win, but Wang Chuqin's expression in the mixed zone remained unclear after the match.

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

After all the matches were played yesterday on the 19th, the Chinese Table Tennis Association protested to the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) and implemented an emergency meeting. Wang Liqin, president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and others also attended the meeting, and asked the relevant parties to thoroughly investigate the incident and put forward three major requirements, hoping that there would be staff to 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 have video. 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.

Due to the retirement of their opponents in the next round, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha took the lead in reaching the top 8 of mixed doubles at the 2025 World Championships

This is not the first time that 25-year-old Wang Chuqin has encountered a racket incident. After the mixed doubles final at the Paris Olympics on July 30 last year, photographers poured into the court to break Wang Chuqin's racket, and then played the men's singles with a reserve racket, but unexpectedly stopped in the round of 32. Japanese media said that Coach Xiao Zhan was also sitting on the bench at that time, no wonder Coach Xiao Zhan protested in disguise this time. The rubber comes off the racket by a large amount, so it will be difficult if you don't apply a lot of force consistently. Although encountering such a thing for the second time will definitely affect the player's bad mood, unlike the situation at the Paris Olympics, this time Wang Chuqin can re-apply the rubber afterwards and continue to use the main shot. Wang Chuqin, who is fighting with the strong support of the fans, hopes to show his full performance from today.