Recently, there has been a steady stream of news that Liu Shiwen, the world champion of the Chinese women's table tennis team, will take over Sun Yingsha and become its head coach, but the authenticity needs to be officially announced. Before the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha's head coach Huang Haicheng left the team, she became the only one of the main forces without a head coach, before Liu Shiwen, there was news that Ma Lin and Chen Xuan, the two Olympic champions, were going to take over Sun Yingsha, but it was just a rumor, and Liu Shiwen was just at the end of her career, hesitating on the issue of retiring or not retiring, the two of them were equipped with some far-fetched, the probability was not large!
Sun Yingsha won the women's singles title and women's doubles championship at the World Championships and the World Cup finals. In the future, if the international arena wants to continue to impact the women's singles champions of the World Championships and the Olympic Games, it must be equipped with a competent coach, carefully guide her, and strengthen the training of her personal skills. If you want to become the head coach of Sun Yingsha, you must have rich experience in coaching international competitions and have a very high level of professionalism in training and on-the-spot command.
After Liu Shiwen won the mixed doubles runner-up at the Tokyo Olympic Games, she directly gave up all the competitions of the World Table Tennis Championships, on the one hand, her elbow injury recovery was not ideal, on the other hand, with her age, facing opponents such as Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, and Sun Yingsha, she was unable to play until the end, and it was difficult to maintain a high level of competition until the Paris Olympic Games. Instead of gradually sinking, it is better to reap the good, and it is also a choice to transform as soon as possible.
In the history of the Chinese table tennis team, there are not many female coaches, and after the national team enters the new century, there are only three female coaches, namely Qiao Xiaowei, Qiao Hong and Guo Yan. Qiao Xiaowei once briefly coached Wang Nan, and his subordinates have also coached world champions Li Ju, Yang Ying, Zhang Yingying, Cao Zhen, Qiao Hong has coached Wang Nan, Niu Jianfeng, Peng Luyang and other national team players, Guo Yan's most proud disciple Grand Slam winner Ding Ning, several female coaches are not retired after the national team to guide the world champion, but also from the bottom of the coach step by step.
September 25, 2021, Yan'an, Shaanxi, table tennis women's singles bronze medal match of the 14th National Games, Chen Meng vs Liu Shiwen.
Liu Shiwen's current identity is an assistant coach and member of the Chinese table tennis team, in an interview in October, she also said that she had no intention of retiring, or wanted to continue to fight on the field, even if it is slowly turned into a coaching position, it should also start from the grassroots coach, even if she returns to the mother team Guangdong women's team as a coach, even if she stays in the national team, she should start to train from the second team, rather than giving her a main force like Sun Yingsha to be in charge. Just like Grand Slam winner Ding Ning, she quietly retired and returned to the Beijing women's team to coach, taking Li Yake and others with her sister, and did not stay in the national team. All indications show that letting a semi-retired player Liu Shiwen, who has no coaching experience, coach Sun Yingsha can only be a rumor, and no leader of the table tennis association dares to take the world championship to test the new coach.