If the WTT Macau tournament has come to an end, if anyone is the biggest winner of this tournament, many fans may think that it is Wang Chuqin and Wang Manyu, but in fact, the real biggest winner is not the two of them, but a 31-year-old veteran Liu Shiwen!
In this Macau competition, the mixed doubles needless to say, after Sun Yingsha Wang Chuqin defeated Fan Zhendong Kuman, in fact, it was already expected that the champion would eventually belong to Liu Shiwen Xu Xin, after all, there were only two fixed mixed doubles partners in the national table tennis team, Sun Yingsha Wang Chuqin and Liu Shiwen Xu Xin.
Most of the other mixed doubles are temporary collocations, which cannot be compared with Liu Shiwen Xu Xin in terms of tacit understanding.
Therefore, in the end, Liu Shiwen Xu Xin was able to win the championship in mixed doubles without surprise!
The most unexpected was in singles.
In this Macau competition, for Liu Shiwen is almost a step by step, in the first round of the competition, Liu Shiwen met the quasi-main player Wang Yidi.
It should be known that with the retirement of Ding Ning and zhu Yuling's injury, coupled with Liu Shiwen's age, the vacancy of two main positions, and now Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong are attacking the main position.
At last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Wang Yidi defeated the strongest opponent of Chinese women's table tennis, Ito Mimachi, and also defeated Chen Meng in the WTT World Cup finals, showing a good technical state.
However, Liu Shiwen showed great tenacity in the face of Wang Yidi, saved the round point many times, and finally defeated Wang Yidi, which also shows that it is still very difficult for other team members to cross Liu Shiwen to become the absolute main force.
The most surprising thing was the match against Sun Yingsha in the semi-finals.
Whether you admit it or not, Liu Shiwen is indeed inferior to Sun Yingsha in terms of personal strength, but in the semi-final with Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen's rich competition experience played an extremely important role, and through the control of the rhythm of the game, sun Yingsha's violent attack was destroyed.
As Sun Yingsha summed up after the game, she was completely caught up in Liu Shiwen's rhythm of the game and could not extricate herself, and this is also the main reason why Ding Ning and Chen Meng lost to Liu Shiwen at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships.
It can be seen that Liu Shiwen has completely come out of the shadow of injury and defeat in the Tokyo Olympics, and Liu Shiwen's mentality is now better than before.
Today's Liu Shiwen is more competitive, there are still two years to go before the Paris Olympic Games, it can be said that everything is possible in the future!
After the end of the WTT Macau Competition, Liu Shiwen was also very excited, and for the first time, she posted a long article on the social platform and announced the latest decision.
Liu Shiwen posted:
The first time I participated in the wtt competition, I was very happy and successful! Thank you wtt for this platform, give us such a good arena, all the staff in front of the stage and behind the scenes have worked hard! Thanks to the warm family of the Chinese table tennis team, it is the happiest to be with everyone. Thanks to my partner, we have to cheer together in the future! 2022 hope that I will keep my original intention, continue to love, and strive to move up! I also wish you all a Happy Spring Festival in advance!
Liu Shiwen clearly announced her latest decision, will not retire, will continue to struggle!
In this regard, many fans of Liu Shiwen are very happy, and also said that in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Liu Guoliang should not win Liu Shiwen before the start of the team competition. Even, Liu Shiwen should be allowed to participate in the singles competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Some fans questioned Liu Guoliang, seeing Liu Shiwen's performance now, Liu Guoliang, do you regret it?