Paris Olympics: Hong Kong table tennis trainer backing players to get Games spot at World Group Titles

Hong Kong table tennis trainer Li Ching is backing the city’s players to get their spots at the Paris Olympics by completing in the main eight of the World Group Titles.

The acting lead trainer, who supplanted the resigning Chan Kong-wah, likewise said he was the best possibility to lead the group on a super durable premise.

The titles in Busan, South Korea, begin in seven days’ time and run until February 25.

“We have arrived at the quarter-finals previously so I have certainty, it’s not necessary to focus on any individual however the collaboration,” Li told correspondents on Thursday. “We can accomplish that or even pursue a decoration in the event that the players can perform on the match day.

“Fortunately [men’s player] Wong Chun-chime has been vastly improved and more full grown throughout recent months, and the system for the ladies’ group is to have every one of the players get a point, in order to diminish their strain.”

Hong Kong’s ladies have been assembled close by Portugal, Austria, Australia and Kazakhstan, while the city’s men’s group face a few harder ties against Sweden, Slovakia, Puerto Rico and Serbia.

The eight gathering champs will progress to the round of 16, while groups who finish second and third are to fight for the excess openings with a play-off in the last 32.

“We’ll hold back nothing best position since we will then confront those next in line groups in the round of 16, which will be more straightforward and the opportunities for a quarter-last spot will be greater,” Wong said.

With the people’s groups both including competitors making their introductions at a Big showdowns, Li recognized the turnover was something the two gatherings would need to survive.

“A few more seasoned and more experienced players might require time to track down their structure, and the young people might jump all over the opportunity immediately,” he said. “I’m blissful on the grounds that I see energy in the group.

“Zhu Chengzhu did all around well in Chengdu in the last version, I want to believe that she can keep it up, or perform shockingly better. Her capacity and abilities are irrefutable, yet she really wants more strategies and stunts up her sleeves.”

From his standard job as the ladies’ group mentor to managing the two groups, Li, who won a silver decoration at the Athens Games in 2004 close by Ko Lai-chak in men’s pairs, said he was sure he could take the group forward.

“I’m an Olympic decoration victor as a player, and directed the ladies’ group to the bronze decoration at the Tokyo Games,” he said. “I know pretty much everything there is to know about the group and have the admiration of different mentors.

“I assume I’m the most ideal decision and ideally the choice won’t be founded exclusively on the outcomes at the Big showdowns and the Olympics, generally the strain will be extremely high.”

Going to South Korea with Wong, the city’s most noteworthy positioned men’s player, will be Ho Kwan-pack, Lam Siu-hang and two adolescents brought into the world in 2004, Baldwin Chan Ho-wah and Yiu Kwan-to.

World No 34 Doo Hoi-kem, who missed Thursday’s public interview since she was sick, will lead a ladies’ group, likewise including Lee Ho-ching, Zhu, Lam Yee-lok and Ng Wing-lam.