Recently, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, made a vision for the future development of national table tennis, emphasizing the determination to cultivate and reuse young people in the future, and also mentioned several athletes by name, and the youngest of them was a 17-year-old female table tennis player who only entered the national first team last year - Ku Man.
As a young player born in 2004, Kuman has been regarded by fans and friends as the potential leader of national table tennis after the generation of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, although it is still in its infancy, but the future potential is unlimited, worth everyone's attention!
Friends who pay attention to national table tennis know that the current women's team has achieved the replacement of the old and the new, the era of Ding Ning (born in 1990) and Liu Shiwen (born in 1991) is going away, and the Mesozoic Chen Meng (born in 1994) and the new generation of Sun Yingsha (born in 2000) and Wang Manyu (born in 1999) have become the core main force of the Olympic Games, fighting against strong opponents such as Ito Mimachi.
However, compared with the rivals Japan and South Korea, the progress of the younger generation of national table tennis players is still a little slower, after all, the Japanese new star Kihara Miyu, born in 2004, is already the runner-up in the national singles and has ranked first in the women's doubles world; and the South Korean rising star Shin Yubin, born in 2004, is already the no. 2 person in the team, and has been selected for the Olympic Games, Asian Championships and World Table Tennis Championships.
At present, there are several new stars who attract attention in national table tennis, such as Xiang Peng of the men's team (born in 2003), Ku Man of the women's team (born in 2004), Chen Yi (born in 2004) and so on.
This time Liu Guoliang said bluntly: "The Chinese table tennis team has a lot of talents, especially the women's team, and the talents come out faster, such as Chen Xingtong, Wang Yidi, Ku Man, etc. There are many young players, and their internal competition is still very fierce." But it is certain to greet the Paris Olympics with a 'youth storm'. It can be seen that Ku Man has become the focus of Liu Guoliang.
Prior to this, Kuman has achieved very good results in domestic competitions, defeating the "Ito Mimachi nemesis" He Zhuojia, "Hirano Miyu nemesis" Gu Yuting and other team masters, but also won the national youth table tennis championship women's singles, mixed doubles championships, is indeed the best among young players.
However, as far as international competitions are concerned, Ku Man is obviously still relatively immature, and Kihara Miyu and Shen Yubin are not comparable, and I hope that Liu Guoliang can give her more foreign war opportunities, so that the young general can become a young player as soon as possible, and fight against the new stars of the same age in the national table tennis against Japan and South Korea: Come on!