{"id":6209,"date":"2025-08-08T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:32:46","slug":"fan-zhendong-invest-in-the-american-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"Fan Zhendong, invest in the American League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9b82e4b607f56555745bbc22f4425ce4.png\" alt=\"9b82e4b607f56555745bbc22f4425ce4\" \/><br \/>\nFan Zhendong, a Chinese player, will invest in the MLTT, according to an official announcement. Suddenly, welcome to MLTT, Fan Zhendong! The Olympic gold medalist will join America&#8217;s first professional table tennis league as a strategic investor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The MLTT, a 2023 group of 10 city teams across the US, uses an innovative team system that includes singles, doubles and a unique \u201cGold\u201d tournament. MLTT is a purely commercial league and is not part of the ITTF system, but allows players to participate in other tournaments at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Zhang Jike, a former national table tennis player, said in an interview that he had found \u201cTalented players\u201d among the summer camp participants and shared them with Fan Zhendong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI texted Fan Zhendong Yesterday,\u201d Zhang Jike said. \u201cI said there&#8217;s an eight-year-old boy in there, and he&#8217;s way above my level. I asked Fan Zhendong if there was any sign of him. Fan Zhendong said it was much better than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m going to give them more opportunity, more space to go all out,\u201d says Zhang Jike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fan Zhendong, a Chinese player, will invest in the MLTT, according to an official announcement. Suddenly, welcome to MLTT, Fan Zhendong! The Olympic gold medalist will join America&#8217;s first professional&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,261],"tags":[2942,2944,2943],"views":82,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}