A week ago at the WTT World Cup, national table tennis players Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha won the men's and women's singles championships, once again becoming big winners.
Since last year, Sun Yingsha has won many championships, including the Olympic women's team gold medal, the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles and women's doubles gold medal.
Sun Yingsha has gained a lot and become the rising star of women's table tennis in the world.
Of course, she also has regrets. That is, from last year's Women's World Cup to this year's Tokyo Olympics and houston World Table Tennis Championships, three times won the women's singles runner-up.
However, for Sun Yingsha, who is only 21 years old, she is already satisfied.
She is still very young and still has a long way to go.
I believe that in the future, she will win more championships, including the women's singles championship in important events.
Unexpectedly, just a few days later, Sun Yingsha reached the top of the WTT World Cup and won a valuable world women's singles championship.
After several times of bitterness, Sun Yingsha finally won a heavyweight women's singles championship.
Sun Yingsha has not had time to be happy, but her peer Ito Mimachi is gossiping.
Ito and Sun Yingsha are very similar in age, and Ito is only half a month older than Sun Yingsha.
And the two are similar in world rankings. The two are torn between second in the world and third in the world.
However, the strength of the two is very different. Sun Yingsha has won 6 times in a row against Ito Mimachi, knocking Ito out of the psychological shadow.
However, Ito seems to be unconvinced.
No, when Sun Yingsha won the WTT World Cup women's singles title, Ito Came Out and said something cool.
This time in the WTT World Cup, Ito Mimachi did not participate for another reason.
As for the reason for not participating, Ito said the reason in an interview with the Japanese media.
Ito said liu guoliang invited her to participate in the WTT World Cup on behalf of the International Table Tennis Federation.
However, Ito believes that the WTT World Cup is just entertainment.
She's an athlete, not a big star. Therefore, the INVITATION of the ITTF was rejected.
Ito's remarks caused a lot of controversy.
In her opinion, the WTT World Cup is not really a women's World Cup, but more like an entertainment match.
In her sense, the championship won by Sun Yingsha is not a real World Cup champion.
This is also known as the champion with moisture.
The majority of fans clearly disagree with Ito's views. To describe Ito's point of view in one sentence: "If you can't eat grapes, you can't say grapes are sour." ”
First, let's talk about the nature of this WTT World Cup.
The WTT World Cup is a tournament in which the original ITTF year-end finals and the World Cup are combined.
As we all know, whether it is the year-end finals or the women's World Cup, it is to invite players with high rankings and levels to participate in the competition.
These two important tournaments are combined into one, and will only be more important than the previous World Cups.
Of course, this is only an explanation on paper.
In fact, the WTT World Cup is about inviting players from the top 16 in the world rankings to play.
If there is a player who is unable to participate for any reason, invite the lower ranked player to make up for it.
Then such a game is very competitive.
Although it is not as good as the World Table Tennis Championships, it is not weaker than the Olympic Games. It is very difficult to achieve good results.
At the same time, the rewards of this competition are also very generous. The winner has a reward of $45,000 and 1,500 points, and the runner-up has a reward of $35,000 and 1,050 points.
This reward is unmatched by many competitions. The number of points is only lower than that of the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, and the WTT Grand Slam.
How can we say that such a game is just an entertainment game?
If it is an entertainment game, then the prize money of the game can be increased, the points will be a little less, and the game tends to be fun, and the format of the game will be different from the regular game.
The format of this competition is the same as other competitions, where can you tell that it is an entertainment event?
It can be seen that this competition is very formal and very important.
Sun Yingsha won the championship of this competition, making up for the regret of not having a women's singles champion in the competition.
This is the result of Sun Yingsha's efforts, but also the return of her years of hard work, but also the embodiment of her strength.
What qualifications does Ito have to look down on this tournament.
These words she said were just sour words that did not dare to face reality.
Ito is ambitious and determined to achieve good results. But her heart is thinner than heaven and life is thinner than paper, the ideal is very beautiful, and the reality is very bone.
She once wanted to win three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, but only won one mixed doubles gold medal.
Of course, this is already a historic breakthrough for Ito Andemasa, and even for Japanese table tennis.
At last month's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Ito wanted to win gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles, and finally only won a silver medal in women's doubles, and the women's singles did not reach the final four.
Ito is strong enough that she can beat other female table tennis players other than national table tennis, but it is difficult to win the national table tennis players.
In the past, her winning rate with the national table tennis was relatively high, reaching about 40%, and she staged a string of good dramas that won the championship three times.
But after 2020, Ito Will find it difficult to win the national table tennis players.
Now, she can't beat Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, but even Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi.
As long as he encounters a slightly stronger national table tennis player, Ito Mimako has no certainty of winning, and even has a psychological shadow.
Ito does not participate in the WTT World Cup, not so much to see, but to escape.
Successive defeats to the national table tennis players have made Ito lose confidence.
She is like a wounded wolf who needs to hide in a corner and secretly heal her wounds. At the same time, grind your own melon seeds and look for opportunities to go out of the mountain again.
Unfortunately, no matter how sharp she grinds the melon seeds, it is difficult to win the national table tennis.
National table tennis is like a majestic tiger, making it difficult for Ito to cross.
Ito estimated that he also felt the difficulty. Since you can't beat the national table tennis players by relying on technology, then fight a war of words.
The technology is not enough, nonsense to make up. To reduce the heat of Sun Yingsha's victory by devaluing the gold content of the WTT World Cup championship, it seems that she is not weaker than Sun Yingsha.
I don't want to think about how many times I have lost to Sun Yingsha.
Ito Mimachi, you have a heart disease, you have to be cured! Just practicing technology is not enough.