Table tennis Grand Slam Honor Roll
The ITTF has never set up the title of "Grand Slam", but table tennis players have a convention, that is, they will win the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship (once every two years), the Olympic singles champion (every four years) and the World Cup singles champion (once a year), that is, the table tennis Grand Slam athletes.
First table tennis Grand Slam Waldner
Table tennis players can win the world championship is not easy, some people may not have a chance with the champion for a lifetime, not to mention can also get together three important events of the singles champion, that can be said to be a rarity, so the number is very small, they can be said to be the genius of table tennis genius.
In the entire history of table tennis, there are only 10 players who can win the World Cup, the World Championship and the Olympic Grand Slam, 5 men and 5 women. In chronological order of getting a Grand Slam is:
1. 5 male players:
Waldner
Liu Guoliang
Kong Linghui
Zhang Jike
Malone
2. 5 female players:
Deng Yaping
Wang Nan
Zhang Yining
Li Xiaoxia
Ding Ning
3. Active athletes closest to the Grand Slam:
1, men's table tennis thrives, it is easy to produce the next table tennis Grand Slam athletes. That is the new World Table Tennis Champion Fan Zhendong.
Fan Zhendong, World Table Tennis Champion and World Cup Champion
Fan Zhendong now has 6 World Cup singles titles and 1 World Table Tennis Singles Champion, just one Olympic singles title away from the Grand Slam. According to Fan Zhendong's strong strength, leading the development momentum of a new era, there are still three years, and Fan Zhendong, who coincided with the peak period, won the men's singles championship at the Paris Olympic Games, there should be no problem. So Fan Zhendong should be the next table tennis Grand Slam player that everyone expects.
The troika rides side by side
2, women's table tennis troika side by side, mutual restraint, it is difficult to produce the next Grand Slam.
1) Chen Meng: Has 1 World Cup singles champion, 1 Olympic singles champion, and 1 World Championship singles champion. Originally, the Houston World Table Tennis Championships was Chen Meng's best chance to win the fastest Grand Slam, but unfortunately due to poor form, the fastest Grand Slam was smashed. But there is still a chance, but two years later, at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, Africa, who knows what the state of Chen Meng, who is already 30 years old, will be?
Chen Meng, Olympic champion and World Cup champion
2) Wang Manyu won the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships singles championship, especially the Tokyo Olympic Games because of Liu Shiwen's injury and got the opportunity to play, the knockout round won two points, for the women's table tennis to win the Olympic team championship, and one shot can not be collected, won the National Games women's singles championship, the World Table Tennis Championship women's singles championship, to achieve the corner overtaking. According to the current development momentum, Wang Manyu has unlimited room for development!
World Table Tennis Champion Wang Manyu
3) Sun Yingsha won the 2021 World Cup in Singapore singles, which is a new breakthrough for the Little Devil and ends the history of the uncrowned king. Sun Yingsha can be said to be a very rare chinese table tennis player in recent years who dares to resist pressure and dares to fight a hard battle. The most brilliant is the women's singles 4-0 sweep of Ito At the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, followed by a 3-1 victory over Ito in the team competition, which played a pioneering role for the Chinese team to win the team championship and single championship, and was praised by Chairman Liu Guoliang as the biggest development of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the medal content is no less than the champion! Now that Sun Yingsha has ended her free-range state, she has since had a coach called Chen Xuan, who is sure to be in the water and have unlimited room for progress!
World Cup winner Sun Yingsha
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