The national table tennis ended the journey at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, winning a total of 4 gold medals, including Liu Shiwen's absence, covering the women's singles top 4, showing absolute dominance. The performances of Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha were particularly prominent, the two staged a peak showdown in the final, and Li Falcon compared the two to Wang Nan and Zhang Yining when talking about the new changes in national table tennis. Judging from the current situation, Liu Shiwen's situation in the team is indeed not optimistic, and her main position may be difficult to be guaranteed.
In this World Table Tennis Championships, compared with the previous session, there are fewer Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, but more young players with the same strength as Wang Yidi and Chen Xing. In the end, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi won the women's singles final four, which is also the second time that the national table tennis has won the women's singles final four after the last World Table Tennis Championships. The difference is that this time the national table tennis lineup is younger, and the final winner is the younger Wang Manyu, and the runner-up is Sun Yingsha, who is younger than Wang Manyu. It can be said that the replacement of the old and new national table tennis has been completed, whether it is the semi-final of Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, or the final of Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, which represents the highest level of competition. From it, we can see the strength of the national table tennis women's team improving.
Chen Meng, who is ranked no. 1 in the world, unfortunately lost to Wang Manyu in the semi-finals and failed to realize his Grand Slam dream, but such a result was not unexpected. After all, Wang Manyu's strength is equally outstanding, and he has laughed to the end in the last few confrontations. In the final, facing her friend Sun Yingsha, who had just won the women's doubles championship with her, Wang Manyu fully stimulated her ability, and finally defeated her opponent and won the first world table tennis singles championship of her career.
Li Falcon, head coach of the national table tennis women's team, also talked about the new changes in national table tennis when summarizing. Li Falcon said that the World Table Tennis Championships achieved the purpose of training the team, obviously, he is very satisfied with the new changes in the national table tennis mainly young players, and they have achieved excellent results. When talking about the women's singles final, Li Falcon said bluntly that he seemed to see the figures of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining. That is to say, Li Falcon compared Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha to Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, and such an evaluation can be described as very high. The dominance of the two in the world table tennis arena was above Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, and now Li Falcon's evaluation is also optimistic that Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha can surpass Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen.
From Li Falcon's words, it is not difficult to hear that he has a weight on the geminis of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu. Before Li Falcon compared Sun Yingsha and Zhang Yining many times, and now he has compared Wang Manyu and Wang Nan, Li Falcon's attitude towards them can be seen. In this way, Liu Shiwen's situation in the team has become more and more difficult, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha plus a Chen Meng, which is the three main forces of the national table tennis women's team. Coupled with Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong, who also performed well in this World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen wants to compete with them, and the difficulty can be imagined.
Ding Ning has completed the transformation, and Liu Shiwen has now reached a critical period in her career. Did she choose to stick with it? Or do you choose to retreat from the rapids? No matter which one you choose, for Liu Shiwen, there will be a fierce ideological struggle, but for Xiao Zao, it may be time to make her own choice.