In the latest edition of the world rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation, Chen Meng continues to sit firmly in the world's first place, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng still have a 600-point difference, and it is more surprising that Liu Shiwen, who was once the five champions of the World Cup, has now fallen out of the top ten in the world rankings. And Ding Ning, who has been announcing his retirement for a long time, is still ranked sixth in the world!
Many fans are wondering, now that Liu Shiwen's world ranking has fallen out of the top ten, why can't she turn around and leave like Ding Ning?
In fact, Liu Shiwen did not retire, the main reason is still unwilling.
Once upon a time, Liu Shiwen was named "Little Deng Yaping" and "Genius Girl", at that time, Liu Shiwen had just debuted, but she had already achieved very good results in the international arena.
In the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen, who was only 18 years old at the time, participated in the singles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, successfully reached the final four, and fought with Zhang Yining for six rounds, and finally lost!
At that time, Liu Shiwen, in the eyes of many fans, will definitely become the new leader of Chinese women's table tennis.
Especially after Shi Zhihao served as the head coach of Chinese women's table tennis, he had high hopes for Liu Shiwen, who believed that Liu Shiwen was more likely to become the first sister of Chinese women's table tennis than Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia.
As early as 2009, liu Shiwen, who was only 18 years old, defeated Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue in the World Cup to win her first world singles championship, and Ding Ning at that time was difficult to win against Liu Shiwen.
Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen is even more praised by Shi Zhihao, it can be said that if the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships Chinese women's table tennis can successfully win the championship under the leadership of Liu Shiwen, Liu Shiwen will become the new leader of Chinese women's table tennis, and there will be no later Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning who have achieved Grand Slams.
But unfortunately, Liu Shiwen did not seize the opportunity, but played abnormally in the game, one person lost two points, resulting in the Chinese women's table tennis losing the championship.
It was precisely because of the defeat in Moscow that Li Xiaoxia ushered in the opportunity again, and Ding Ning, knowing his shame, was brave enough to win the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup Women's Singles Championship in 2011, from the worst of the five main players at that time, to the best athlete in the Chinese women's table tennis competition at that time.
Later, Li Xiaoxia defeated Liu Shiwen in the final of the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, winning the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship at the same time, but also achieving a Grand Slam, and Ding Ning also defeated Li Xiaoxia in the 2016 Olympic Games to become the fifth Grand Slam of Chinese women's table tennis!
Seeing that Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning, who were not as good as themselves, had achieved Grand Slams one after another, Liu Shiwen was unwilling, and she was too eager to prove herself.
But it is precisely because of too much desire, which led to Liu Shiwen's repeated abnormal performance in the competition, until 2019, when Ding Ning gradually grew old and the young athletes were not mature enough, Liu Shiwen finally seized the opportunity to win the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship.
She was expected to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics with this World Table Tennis Championships singles champion, but due to two consecutive defeats to Ito Mimachi, coupled with the postponement of the Olympic Games and her own injuries, Liu Shiwen once again rubbed shoulders with the Olympic singles!
But fortunately, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin's mixed doubles qualifications have been locked before, although before the Olympic Games, fans have called for the replacement of Liu Shiwen, but at that time Liu Guoliang still firmly chose to trust Liu Shiwen, still let Liu Shiwen participate in the mixed doubles competition of the Olympic Games.
Unexpectedly, in the Mixed Doubles Final of the Olympic Games, Liu Shiwen Xu Xin was tragically reversed by Japan's Ito Mizutani Hayabusa in the leading situation, which also made Liu Shiwen cry after the game.
Just when many people thought that Liu Shiwen would have no choice but to retire after the Olympic Games, Liu Shiwen unexpectedly announced that she would not retire and that she would persist.
It can be seen that Liu Shiwen is very unwilling today, and she is very eager to prove herself again!
Although Liu Shiwen did not qualify for this year's World Table Tennis Championships and WTT World Cup, this is only a temporary rest, I believe that Liu Shiwen, under the guidance of Ma Lin, will soon be able to fully recover and continue to devote herself to the international arena!
Perhaps, the Paris Olympic Games, we can still see Liu Shiwen's figure, there is a saying that says well, where you fall, where you get up, the Paris Olympic Games, perhaps liu Shiwen to make up for her regrets!
Come on! Liu Shiwen!