As the Olympic champion of national table tennis and the winner of the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen is only one Olympic singles title away from becoming a Grand Slam. Unfortunately, Liu Shiwen may not be able to make up for this regret in her entire career, after all, she is now a 31-year-old veteran, but she has not even been able to stand on the Olympic singles field. In the latest world ranking, Liu Shiwen directly fell out of the top ten, which made people sigh. However, despite this, Xiao Zao still gained Liu Guoliang's weight and participated in the activity with Liu Guoliang, really thanking Liu Guoliang for not forgetting Liu Shiwen.
The national table tennis women's team has now completed the process of replacing the old and the new, and Ding Ning has retired to peking university to study and start his next life journey. Liu Shiwen, who was about the same time as Ding Ning, is still insisting, but her situation is also very difficult. After all, in today's national table tennis, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu's three-legged situation has been very stable, and Wang Manyu has completely squeezed out Liu Shiwen's singles pick with his outstanding performance in the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships. It can be imagined that in the next Olympic cycle, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are the three main forces that cannot be moved.
Liu Shiwen wants to compete with these three is very difficult, age is not there, Xiao Ju also has a body of injuries, for her, want to insist on playing is not an easy task. In the latest world rankings, Liu Shiwen has fallen out of the top ten, even less than Ding Ning, who has retired, and Zhu Yuling, who has not competed for a long time. This reminds people of the word hero Twilight, I don't know if Liu Shiwen can return to the peak state when she won the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships? In fact, everyone is also very clear that the difficulty of this is very large, after all, not everyone can be like Malone.
On January 9, the 2021 National Table Tennis Amateur Ball King Finals came to an end in Haikou City, and Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Table Tennis Association, and Qin Zhijian, secretary general, both attended the award ceremony and presented awards to the amateur ball king. Olympic champions Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen also came to the scene to compete with amateur ball kings. Table tennis is our national ball, and on such occasions as the national amateur competition finals, there should indeed be a world champion of national table tennis to help. And Liu Guoliang and Qin Zhijian chose Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, which is enough to see that they are still very important in national table tennis.
In fact, after the National Games, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen, three veterans did not participate much, and all three missed the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup final. For a time, the outside world was full of news that the three people would retreat. However, Ma Long and Xu Xin both made it clear in an interview a few days ago that they would continue to fight. But the competition of the men's team is not so fierce after all, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Zhou Qihao and other young people have not been able to fully stand alone, Ma Long and Xu Xin are still in a firm position. Liu Shiwen is different, where her future will go, or touch the hearts of fans.
Still want to thank Liu Guoliang for not forgetting Liu Shiwen, still arranging for Liu Shiwen to attend such an event with him. But this may also be seen as another signal, Liu Shiwen is also preparing for her role transformation. Perhaps in the future, even if she retires, Liu Shiwen will not easily leave her favorite table tennis.