After the Tokyo Olympics, the national table tennis accelerated the team's echelon construction. Veterans such as Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Liu Shiwen have all chosen to voluntarily withdraw from the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup, giving more opportunities to young players. Compared with the women's team, the echelon construction of the national table tennis men's team is somewhat worrying to the fans. Fan Zhendong is becoming more and more mature, and has basically succeeded Ma Long, but he still lacks stable helpers around him. After Fan Zhendong, will Wang Chuqin become the next successor? Let's try to analyze it next.
Wang Chuqin was trained as a successor
From the analysis of the current personnel framework and competition selection of the men's team, Wang Chuqin was trained by the national table tennis as a successor. As a representative player of the post-00s generation, Wang Chuqin is the youngest player in the main layer of national table tennis. In recent years, Wang Chuqin's opportunities to participate in the competition have increased significantly, first squeezing Lin Gaoyuan to win the world table tennis championships, and then squeezing out many Mesozoic tough players, and successfully getting the p card of the Tokyo Olympic Games. For a young general, being able to get so many precious opportunities is enough to show that the national table tennis is consciously cultivating Wang Chuqin.
If he wants to become a successor, Wang Chuqin also faces great difficulties
With the opportunity, Wang Chuqin can smoothly grow into a successor? This is the need to draw a question mark, which mainly includes two aspects of difficulties, one is the pressure of competition, and the other is that the age advantage is not obvious.
First, the pressure of competition is great
The situation of the national table tennis women's team is relatively clear, basically a monopoly of the situation, Mengsha Yu is the core main force of national table tennis, and the hot player in each competition. The situation of the men's team is more complicated, except for Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, the rest of the players, including Wang Chuqin, do not have much advantage to speak of. And the opponents that the men's team needs to face are also very strong, in addition to Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru and others who have already played a name, the comprehensive strength of European and American players at this stage is also improving, with the strength to become a dark horse.
Second, Wang Chuqin's age advantage is not obvious
Wang Chuqin is a post-00s player, and now he is only 21 years old, which should be more advantageous according to conventional thinking. But the player in front of Wang Chuqin is Fan Zhendong, he is too strong. Fan Zhendong is a player in 1997, and at this stage, he is only 24 years old, three years older than Wang Chuqin. However, compared with the trajectory of the two people in the same period and the performance at this stage, Fan Zhendong's performance is undoubtedly crushing Wang Chuqin. Malone has been 30+ at this stage and still maintains the world's top level. If Fan Zhendong can also hit 30+, then Wang Chuqin's age advantage is basically nothing. If Wang Chuqin's growth is not as expected, it is possible that his entire career will be suppressed by Fan Zhendong.
On the whole, Wang Chuqin's opportunities are very good, but the road to growth requires many challenges and pressures. Wang Chuqin needs to be steady and steady, complete the transformation from the mentality, and be the best version of himself.
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