For the entire team of national table tennis, on the field of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, three players with no Olympic experience, directly in the singles and team competitions, shocked the world with amazing performances, and also let us witness the rise of the new generation and the middle generation of Chinese women's table tennis. It can be said that at least let everyone realize that it is not only veterans with Olympic experience who can have outstanding performances in the Olympic games. The replacement of the old and new national table tennis women's team has also achieved a smooth handover in a very relaxed way. We have also witnessed the young players of the national table tennis women's team through their performances at the Olympic Games, as long as they are given the opportunity and the stage to show, they may become the final winners.
However, judging from the recent arrangements of the national table tennis men's team, it has been focusing on cultivating the core strength of the Mesozoic generation and the new generation, and it has encountered some difficulties in trying to quickly cultivate other young cores in addition to Fan Zhendong. The players who can form a joint force with Fan Zhendong to compete in the Paris Olympic Games together are more suitable for Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin at present. But they have the ability and the potential, but it can be said that they still feel uncertain, and they always feel that the heart is hanging. Even if these two young players are relatively outstanding compared to other teammates, the stability is insufficient, especially Liang Jingkun's previous game may have played well, and the next game may drop the chain in front of a player of average strength, which is even more unsatisfactory. In a race, he sometimes acted a bit like a roller coaster. Coupled with the performance of Lin Gaoyuan and Zhou Qihao, they are somewhat unsatisfactory, so at present, there is a certain gap between the new and old replacement of the national table tennis men's team and the expectations of the coaching team.
To some extent, the successful experience of the national table tennis women's team has been transferred to the men's team, but the effect is not very ideal. On the one hand, this is because the competition situation faced by the national table tennis women's team is relatively easy and easier to grasp than the competition situation faced by men, for example, the main competitor in the women's team is Ito Mimako. As long as these core players can play a good game against Ito, or rather, through her targeted research, to achieve victory, the entire women's team can sit back and relax. At this stage, although another Hayata Hina has been added, at present, even if Hayata Hina will be very competitive in the future, her comprehensive ability is still under the main players of national table tennis. But the situation on the men's team is obviously different, and there are no less than ten competitive male players in the world. More than a dozen of the world's top foreign association players can form a competitiveness against the main players of national table tennis, and it is difficult to determine the victory or defeat between each other, in addition to Fan Zhendong can have some advantages against them, it seems that other players will face great difficulties in the process of winning. The possibility of losing can be said to be quite large. And this also makes veterans such as Ma Long and Xu Xin always have the need to stay in the team. This is also the main reason why the national table tennis men's team can not be completed in a short period of time, and even Ma Long and Xu Xin will continue to compete in the Paris Olympic cycle and participate in such an Olympic quota competition.
The current situation does not mean that if the women's team alone is successful, the experience can be transferred and then used directly in the men's team, or it must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. It is also necessary to solve the problem according to the actual situation, and some adjustments should also be made in the cultivation of new people. At least from the current situation, the WTT Macau Star Race, which will be held from January 19 to 23, Ma Long and Xu Xin will return, and they will participate in this event with their teammates, which is enough to show that the national table tennis people are still aware of the importance of the two veterans to the whole team. We can say that this is the farewell battle of national table tennis in 2021, and it is also the opening battle of 2022. But in general, it still shows that after experiencing the two competitions of the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup, the national table tennis coaching staff has a clearer understanding of the stay of Ma Long and Xu Xin. That is, the team still has to have their place and needs to give them a time and space to make further adjustments in order to continue to compete in the Paris Olympic cycle.
For the young players of the national table tennis men's team, from Wang Chuqin to Liang Jingkun, to Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, Liu Dingshuo and other players, there is still a lot of room for growth. It's not that the veterans give up the opportunity and they can take over smoothly. Or they must be able to seize the opportunity themselves when they have it. If the opportunity arises, they themselves can not play a dominant performance on the field, the veteran will certainly not be assured to retire or change careers, and the national table tennis coaching staff does not dare to let the veteran leave or change careers. In general, the current national table tennis men's team still needs Ma Long and Xu Xin to continue to stay in the team, there needs to be such an adjustment process, as for the future when it comes to the Paris Olympic Games, is it still necessary for these two veterans to continue to play? Then it depends on the young man's ability to grasp the opportunity on his own.