The qualification for the 2025 WTT US Grand Slam was cancelled, and Ye Yitian's family hopes that the Table Tennis Association will pay attention to the rights and interests of players

Chinese Taipei table tennis star Ye Yitian was originally invited to participate in the WTT United States Grand Slam in July, but he did not expect to be disqualified by the Chinese Taipei Table Tennis Association.

Chinese Taipei table tennis star Ye Yitian

The controversy arose in late April, when the Chinese Taipei Table Tennis Association asked Ye Yitian about her willingness to compete in the Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships in late June, but coach Zhuang Zhiyuan politely declined on the grounds that he had already arranged three adult international tournaments for her. However, because Ye Yitian is a gold plan player, the Table Tennis Association decided in early May that he must participate in the Asian Youth Championships after a training meeting, but Zhuang Zhiyuan stood on the position of protecting the players and still informed him that he would not participate.

Then, in late May, Ye received an invitation from the World Table Tennis (WTT) to travel to the United States to compete in a Grand Slam tournament at the highest level of the WTT series. Unexpectedly, at this time, Ye Guoqin, secretary general of the Table Tennis Association, mentioned to Zhuang Zhiyuan that he respected Ye Yitian's refusal not to participate in the Asian Youth Championships, but would propose to the official to disqualify Ye Yitian from the United States Grand Slam.

In order to keep this hard-won ticket, Zhuang Zhiyuan took the initiative to "soften" and expressed his agreement with Ye Yitian to participate in the Asian Youth Championships. In addition, the schedule of the Asian Youth Championship and the United States Grand Slam is similar, Zhuang Zhiyuan also promised that Ye Yitian will stay until the last day of the Asian Youth Championship and leave with the team, if the individual schedule ends early, he will not fly to the United States in advance to prepare, and even if he can't catch up with the United States Grand Slam, he will be responsible for the related fines.

However, Ye Guoqin still took a tough attitude and finally canceled Ye Yitian's invitation to participate. Ye Yitian's mother was interviewed by Taiwan, China, and pointed out that in fact, on May 28, the Table Tennis Association held the second training meeting, when Zhuang Zhiyuan expressed that Ye Yitian was willing to participate, and even if the registration deadline had passed, the Table Tennis Association could still change the list to WTT, and even Zhuang Zhiyuan took the initiative to prepare an English letter sent to WTT for the reference of the Table Tennis Association.

Recently, Zhuang Zhiyuan kept asking the Table Tennis Association about the progress of notifying WTT, but he never received a positive response, until the United States Grand Slam announced the list of players and did not include Ye Yitian, Zhuang Zhiyuan got the letter sent by the Table Tennis Association to WTT, but the requirements were different, resulting in the rejection of the change list, and Zhuang Zhiyuan is still seeking Ye Yitian's opportunity to participate through various channels.

Ye Yitian's mother pointed out that the requirement is to hope that the Table Tennis Association will pay attention to the rights and interests of the players, and mentioned that she hopes that Ye Guoqin will admit his mistakes and apologize publicly, and promise that there will be no similar incidents again, "The association should stand in the position of the players to assist the players." ”