January 15 is the 28th birthday of Tokyo Olympic table tennis women's singles champion Chen Meng, the International Table Tennis Federation sent Chen Meng a message of encouragement: "Growing up and stumbling, dreams will eventually blossom, whether the game is won or lost, it is your scenery!" "Chen Meng has the opportunity to become the fastest Grand Slam winner in 2021, but unfortunately, the pressure on his back has led to too many unnecessary mistakes, and he did not qualify for the women's singles final of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and Chen Dream has only one chance to complete the grand slam feat in 2023.
Chen Meng won the women's singles runner-up and women's team championship at the National Games in 2013 at the age of 19, becoming the most powerful assistant to Grand Slam winner Li Xiaoxia, and In the Rio Olympic cycle, although young, the technical and tactical strength was not lost to Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen. After entering the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Chen Meng did not show dew in the first two years, but Zhu Yuling, who was one year younger than herself, took the lead in rushing into the main lineup, and Zhu Yuling had won the runner-up of the women's singles of the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships and the world women's singles championship, and had obviously led Chen Meng by one position.
Zhu Yuling began to go to a low point in 2018, the Swedish Open loss to Ito Mimakoto became a turning point on the downward slope, at this time Chen Meng rose strongly in major open tournaments, won the women's singles championship many times, and also let the world ranking quickly climb to the top of the women's singles, in the 2019 Hungarian Budapest World Table Tennis Championships as the number one seed, but in the final by the old spicy Liu Shiwen firmly controlled the rhythm of the game, and finally regretted the loss, the World Table Tennis Championships became the starting point for Chen Meng to break through the Grand Slam, and it is also the biggest obstacle at present.
In 2020, Chen Meng participated in the World Cup as the world number One, and won the women's singles championship with a singles, defeating Germany's chipper Han Ying and teammate Sun Yingsha on the road to victory. At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Chen Meng defeated Yu Mengyu and Sun Yingsha to become the Olympic women's singles champion. After winning the women's singles championship in two major competitions in a row, Chen Meng suddenly became the next candidate for the women's singles Grand Slam, just one time the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships. In 2021, in Houston, Chen Meng ushered in the most anticipated World Table Tennis Championships of his career, and the result was that the women's singles and women's doubles semifinals, especially the women's singles semifinals, were reversed by teammate Wang Manyu in the lead, and too much self-loss and too much pressure led to the collapse of the dream of the fastest Grand Slam.
Chen Meng, who is already 28 years old this year, is not a young member of the national table tennis team, in addition to Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng is the oldest, in the fierce competition within the national table tennis to obtain the qualification for the competition itself is an affirmation of its strength, in the civil war between teammates to win a big competition is not easy, coupled with the emergence of newcomers, Chen Meng in the Paris Olympic cycle after the I am afraid it is difficult to continue the table tennis career, before the Paris Olympic Games there is only one single World Table Tennis Championships, 2023 World Table Tennis Championships Chen Meng if you can not win the championship, I'm afraid that the future is drifting away from grand slams. In order to win the Grand Slam, Chen Meng needs to remove the biggest obstacle is to strengthen her own stability and get rid of her psychological baggage, after all, her skills have reached the level of pure fire.