What does not change is the desire for honor and championship;
What has changed is unpredictable personnel changes.
Probably no one would have thought that Liu Shiwen, the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion, would not only stop participating in the World Table Tennis Championships two years later, but also become Sun Yingsha's assistant coach!
Two years ago, in order to realize her dream of the World Table Tennis Championships, with the help of Ma Lin, She finally climbed to the top successfully, and worked hard for ten years. Two years later, Liu Shiwen has become an assistant coach of national table tennis, mainly to help the 21-year-old Sun Yingsha to successfully reach the top in Houston, USA.
Some netizens P came up with such a picture: little devil king × small jujube. Is a multiplication sign, not a + sign. This means that the two of them will join forces and there will be a violent chemical reaction.
People know that Sun Yingsha wants to win the most now, who needs to win the most?
Yes, it's Chen Meng!
Because Chen Meng is the Olympic champion, because Sun Yingsha is here in Chen Meng, it is already five consecutive defeats!
Everyone knows that Liu Shiwen once sent Chen Meng an 11-0 in Budapest in 2019! Although such a score has exceeded the strength and has an element of luck, it can at least show that Liu Shiwen is still more experienced in capturing the psychology of Chen Meng's competition. Sun Yingsha has lost five consecutive defeats against Chen Meng, and Liu Shiwen's arrival can be said to be "timely rain".
Why?
Although in recent years, due to equipment reform and increasing age, Liu Shiwen has lost the wind against Chen Meng, but before that, Liu Shiwen was still very experienced with Chen Meng. Chen Meng is known as "Chen Er Hammer", and the quality of the veneer is indeed very thick, but Chen Meng is inferior to Sun Yingsha in terms of speed, landing point, line, and movement speed and rate. In the past, Liu Shiwen also seized on Chen Meng's relative weaknesses and won. That is to say, in order to win Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha must exert her dexterity to the extreme, rather than being "tough" with Chen Meng. Although Sun Yingsha has no lack of dexterity and spirituality, she is also stubborn and very confident in her own snowboard strength, but table tennis is a comprehensive ability, and Liu Shiwen will combine things such as line, landing point change, rotation and speed to redesign techniques and tactics for Sun Yingsha.
Or at least, some "revolutionary" advice can be given. These things are indeed what Sun Yingsha needs at present.
Some senior fans summed up Chen Meng's three weaknesses in detail.
First, the forehand small triangle catch serve loophole. This loophole made Liu Shiwen a key point in defeating Chen Meng to win the women's singles championship at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. The reason why Chen Meng switched to Marlene was that her first three board serves were not very good, especially the forehand small triangle ball. Liu Shiwen just let Chen Meng deliberately pick up the fight, and then quickly pulled her back. Chen Meng, in order to avoid Liu Shiwen pulling back, also took a hard pick, but added a lot of serve mistakes.
Second, the ball in the middle of the pressure is mainly held. Chen Meng stood firmly with her backhand, then her holding skills should be the strongest. Therefore, Liu Shiwen avoided its sharp edge, frequently changed the landing point and the effect was very obvious. To say, in terms of holding the ball to change the landing point, Liu Shiwen is the most powerful! We often see that Liu Shiwen's backhand three boards can play three landing points. This is something that Sun Yingsha still can't do at present. Liu Shiwen will help Sun Yingsha improve in this regard, and become a magic weapon to contain and counter Chen Meng.
Third, Chen Meng's ability to move under his feet was poor. Affected by weight and innate physical fitness, Chen Meng is definitely inferior to Sun Yingsha in terms of mobility. Liu Shiwen also made good use of this, using speed to open the way, to bring the line alive, and to make Chen Meng make mistakes while running. Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong can find a way to crack Chen Meng, and it is only a matter of time before Sun Yingsha breaks through Chen Meng.
Liu Shiwen plays with a lot of brains. In the national team for more than ten years to maintain the level of the main force, Liu Shiwen's veneer quality (speed, rotation, strength) is not the strongest, especially in terms of strength, Liu Shiwen is very good at playing the ball, in the words of Li Falcon, "there is in the hand, there is also in the brain." "The speed and line of play, that is, playing with the brain.
From the current point of view, Sun Yingsha has not yet exerted her spirituality and intelligence to the extreme, and many times, she does not particularly count the ball, but follows the feeling. After Liu Shiwen came, she should stimulate and promote Sun Yingsha's changes in this regard to the greatest extent, at least, she would give Sun Yingsha suggestions in this regard and implement them into the training of weekday techniques and tactics.
Becoming Sun Yingsha's assistant coach is the beginning of Liu Shiwen's transformation from an athlete to a coach. For Liu Shiwen, it is also an opportunity and challenge. Regardless of whether Liu Shiwen can really defeat Chen Meng, as well as defeat other players and reach the top, I believe that Liu Shiwen will definitely bring changes to Sun Yingsha in a short period of time. Both of them are the most talented players in their respective decades, and such a wonderful combination is destined to produce wonderful results.