With the progress of the Tokyo Olympic Games schedule, the table tennis team competition has gradually entered the final stage, and in the women's table tennis team final, the Chinese team led by Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu will play against the Japanese team led by Ito Mimachi, while in the table tennis men's team final, China will welcome the winner between Japan and Germany. Table tennis, as the traditional advantage of the Chinese legion, is also expected to advance to the final.
In this year's table tennis women's team competition, we found many familiar names in various lineups, including:
Han Ying and Shan Xiaona in the German women's team lineup;
Liu Jia and Liu Yuan in the Austrian women's team lineup;
Li Qian of Poland;
Zhang An, Liu Juan and Wang Huijing in the United States.
We can find that these eight table tennis players from various countries are all Chinese; in other words, they are all naturalized players that various countries are looking for in response to the Olympic Games, just like Axon, Gaulat and others in our national football team, which are of the same nature. It can be seen that the strength of Chinese table tennis players has been widely recognized in the world, and we in China can already send table tennis professionals to the world.
As a table tennis country, China not only has the world's top athletes, they can be invincible in the world competition, the level of competition is extremely high, and the second echelon also has many outstanding table tennis players, although they rarely appear in the world competition, but their strength in the world can not be underestimated. Even in society, there are many table tennis masters from the folk.
It is believed that in the future, more and more Chinese table tennis players will be naturalized by other countries, which will also drive the development of table tennis in various places.
For the sport of table tennis, the team competition is also three people participating, so naturalization of one person is a relatively normal operation; but Germany and the United States, the two countries are the most incredible, their teams have naturalized three Chinese table tennis players.
Just like the table tennis women's team semi-finals this time, only Sol jia among the German players is a "local", while Shan Xiaona and Han Ying are both Chinese, both are Liaoning, the former is even a fellow with Ma Long; in addition, their head coach Shi Jie is also Chinese, the first is still the main force of the Hebei team, and now he also goes to Germany to teach table tennis skills.
In the lineup of the American women's table tennis team, Zhang An, Liu Juan and Wang Huijing are also Chinese, such as Liu Juan, who was once the national player of the Chinese team, and Zhang Yining is also a teammate, but the competitive pressure in China is too great and chooses to go to the United States; the same is the case for the 40-year-old Wang Huijing, who turned out to be a Chinese national athlete and then went to the United States. At the same time, Zhou Xin, who is also a Chinese athlete in the United States men's singles, has partnered with Zhang Jike in men's doubles.
This also shows that more and more table tennis players choose to go abroad in order to be able to achieve their dreams on the top stage of the Olympic Games.