Houston World Table Tennis Championships, although the national table tennis won the men's singles, women's singles, mixed doubles and women's doubles championships, but still left a lot of regrets, as Sweden's famous Waldner said, this year's World Table Tennis Championships, is the most difficult one for Chinese men's table tennis in recent years.
Why is this the most difficult World Table Tennis Championships for Chinese men's table tennis? Because of this World Table Tennis Championships, although only from the surface, Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship, but the men's table tennis side is indeed a bit green, men's doubles, we not only lost the men's doubles championship, and even our two pairs of men's doubles combinations, did not reach the final.
The performance of the men's unilateral Zhou Qihao is even more disappointing, the civil war king who is very successful in the civil war, actually suffered a round of the World Table Tennis Championships, many fans have also said that Zhou Qihao has no cultivation value at all, Liu Guoliang should train other young athletes as soon as possible.
Zhou Qihao is not strictly speaking a young athlete, he was born in 1997, the same age as Fan Zhendong.
Zhou Qihao is well known to fans, the main reason is that in a series of direct matches in China, he has always had a good performance. He has defeated Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and other absolute main players in the straight-through race.
In the face of Zhou Qihao's performance, many fans have expressed their hope to increase the cultivation of Zhou Qihao.
However, Zhou Qihao's performance on the international stage is difficult to say, in the Slovenian Open before the World Table Tennis Championships, Zhou Qihao suffered a round of travel.
Coming to the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Zhou Qihao after breaking through the first round, the second round to meet the German famous Pol, although before the game Zhou Qihao said that he would put down the pressure and strive to play his best level, but after a fierce competition, in the end, Zhou Qihao still lost to Pol with a score of 1-4, which also led to the early loss of the second half!
In the face of Zhou Qihao's unbearable foreign war performance, many fans are questioning, does Zhou Qihao still have the value of continuing to cultivate? National table tennis should abandon the cultivation of Zhou Qihao and cultivate younger athletes with strong foreign combat ability as soon as possible!
Zhou Qihao's consecutive losses in foreign wars should really be abandoned?
In fact, Liu Guoliang, the current chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, also encountered a round of travel in the World Table Tennis Championships that year, but Liu Guoliang was not abandoned, and finally achieved a Grand Slam!
In 1993, at the age of 17, Liu Guoliang qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships, but in the first round of the men's singles, Liu Guoliang was inferior to Japan's Hidefumi Masuda, which also made Liu Guoliang's first trip to the World Table Tennis Championships seem a bit bitter.
If Liu Guoliang was still very young at that time, had no competition experience, and there were excusable circumstances for the World Table Tennis Championships to encounter a round of travel, then the 1997 World Table Tennis Championships was also not a good memory for Liu Guoliang!
In the 1997 World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Guoliang had become the men's singles champion of the Olympic Games, and was determined to win the World Table Tennis Championships, because as long as Liu Guoliang could win the world table tennis championships, he could become the first Grand Slam winner of Chinese men's table tennis.
However, this time Liu Guoliang fell in the second round, and this time it was the former Yugoslav player Karakasevic who defeated Liu Guoliang.
Not only are we not familiar with this player, but Liu Guoliang himself is very unfamiliar with this player, and in the end, Liu Guoliang fought hard for five sets and lost to his opponent with a score of 2-3!
But fortunately, the male table tennis head coach at that time did not give up Liu Guoliang, still full of trust in Liu Guoliang, still firm in the cultivation of Liu Guoliang, which made in 1999, Liu Guoliang finally defeated a number of masters in the World Table Tennis Championships, won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, thus becoming the first Grand Slam of Chinese men's table tennis!
From Liu Guoliang's experience, it can be seen that in fact, losing is not terrible, what is terrible is that after losing, it encounters a crisis of trust, if the national table tennis coaching team at that time because Liu Guoliang suffered a round of travel, it will no longer need Liu Guoliang, Liu Guoliang will not have so many dazzling achievements later.
The same is true for Zhou Qihao today, as long as Zhou Qihao is given the same opportunity, I believe that in time, Zhou Qihao can also achieve good results.
However, looking at the current training mechanism of national table tennis, if an athlete's foreign combat performance is not good, it is likely to be abandoned!
Will Zhou Qihao still have the opportunity to participate in international competitions? Let's wait and see!