2021 is definitely a year worth remembering for Wang Manyu, a young athlete in Chinese women's table tennis, in this year, Wang Manyu finally made a major breakthrough and became the most outstanding athlete in Chinese women's table tennis!
In 2021, Wang Manyu won the women's team championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the women's singles and women's doubles champions at the National Games, and the women's singles and women's doubles champions of the World Table Tennis Championships, winning a total of five major championships, which is undoubtedly the best athlete in this year's competition in the Chinese women's table tennis team.
But is it such a very good athlete, can you imagine that a year ago, she was also considered to be at the bottleneck and lost the lineup of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships?
What's going on here?
At the beginning of 2020, the national table tennis held a selection tournament for the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, when Wang Manyu and Ding Ning, Sun Yingsha, Zhu Yuling, Chen Meng, and Chen Xingtong reached the top six of the women's singles.
But in the 6-in-3 match, Wang Manyu lost to Sun Yingsha and missed the top three.
However, such results are already very good.
However, in the final announcement of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships lineup, Wang Manyu was not selected. The final athletes were Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling.
When it comes to the reasons why Wang Manyu lost the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, li Falcon, the head coach of women's table tennis, believes that Wang Manyu is in a bottleneck period.
Li Falcon said: "Wang Manyu is a very good young athlete with considerable strength. Young athletes will definitely encounter difficulties and bottlenecks in the process of growing up, especially in the second half of 2019. In fact, many of our outstanding athletes have encountered such difficulties in her age group, like Zhang Yining and Li Xiaoxia will encounter various difficulties in her age group, but through their own efforts and the help of coaches, they have become Grand Slams. Wang Manyu has such strength and ability, and hopes that she will overcome difficulties as soon as possible and take on the future of the women's team. ”
Although he lost the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, it was fortunate that Wang Manyu himself did not give up his requirements for himself, but trained harder.
Through Wang Manyu's efforts, she obtained the P card qualification for the Tokyo Olympic Games in May this year, although she was only a substitute, Wang Manyu did not relax her requirements for herself, her training was more hard, and she strictly demanded herself according to the standards of Olympic regular athletes.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, in the Tokyo Olympic Games, due to Liu Shiwen's loss in the mixed doubles final, which led to Liu Shiwen's team qualification being won, at this time Wang Manyu finally got the opportunity to appear in the Olympic Games.
Wang Manyu's performance in the Olympic team competition was very outstanding, whether it was doubles or singles, Wang Manyu completed the competition task well, and in the end, Wang Manyu and Chen Mengsun Yingsha together won the team championship of the Tokyo Olympic Games!
And Wang Manyu also became the first P card player in the history of national table tennis to appear in the Olympic Games!
The experience of the Tokyo Olympic Games has also greatly improved Wang Manyu's confidence, and after the Olympic Games, Wang Manyu's training has been more diligent.
Finally, in the National Games, Wang Manyu ushered in a big outbreak, she defeated the ST Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng 4-0 in the semi-finals of the women's singles competition, and defeated the popular Sun Yingsha 4-0 in the final to win the women's singles championship of the National Games!
Not only that, Wang Manyu also won the championship in the women's doubles competition of the National Games!
At the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Chen Meng said before the game that he must win the championship to realize his Grand Slam dream, and Chen Meng was also regarded as a big favorite to win the championship.
However, in the semi-finals, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng with a 4-3 score reversal, which shattered Chen Meng's grand slam dream!
Later, in the women's singles final, she defeated Sun Yingsha 4-2 to win her first world singles championship, and this championship was also the world table tennis singles champion!
In addition, Wang Manyu also partnered with Sun Yingsha to win the women's doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships!
It can be said that in the Paris Olympic cycle, today's Wang Manyu has walked in front of Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha with the double championship of the National Games and the double crown of the World Table Tennis Championships!
Although he did not qualify for the Tokyo Olympics singles competition, in the Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu has now overtaken in a curve, surpassing Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha!
There are less than three years to go before the Paris Olympic Games, I hope Wang Manyu can work harder and strive for better results, come on!