In the past 2022 ITTF Macau Championships, liu Shiwen, a veteran of national table tennis, was undoubtedly the biggest winner, not only in the mixed doubles event, and her old partner Xu Xin won the championship again, but also in the women's singles field, miraculously defeated Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha in succession, and won the final women's singles runner-up. Judging from the process of this competition, Liu Shiwen seems to have found her peak state again, especially her signature forehand attack, playing Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other Olympic champions are also bitter, it turns out that Liu Shiwen's body still contains endless energy, and after the end of the game, she issued a bold speech, but also made countless fans moved.
At 15:00 yesterday afternoon, Liu Shiwen rarely updated her personal social media, she said that this is her first time to participate in the wtt competition, it is very happy to achieve such results, and in addition to expressing gratitude to the staff and other personnel of the national table tennis team, Liu Shiwen also specially called out her partner Xu Xin, she said: "Thank you for my partner, the future will have to cheer together!" A remark also shows that Liu Shiwen will not only not retire in the short term, but also join hands with Xu Xin to achieve more good results in the future.
In fact, from some interviews in this Macau competition, it can also be found that Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have gradually come out of the shadow of the defeat in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the attitude of the two people is no longer as negative as in the past, but they are boldly thinking of the scene of continuing to work together in the future. This has always been what Liu Guoliang expected, after the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Liu Guoliang forced the crowd to let Xu Xin Liu Shiwen participate in the inter-provincial combination at the National Games, the purpose is to hope that the two people can regain their self-confidence through the competition.
Including this Macau competition, let the two continue to partner to participate in the mixed dress, and also arrange a combination of Ma Long partner Qian Tianyi, Fan Zhendong partner Ku Man to play a supporting role for Xu Xin Liu Shiwen, it is also with the victory in this competition, it really awakened xu Xin Liu Shiwen's high morale in his heart, through Liu Shiwen's shouts, we also expect Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen to go on forever, the future has the opportunity to compete for more honors, becoming the first mixed doubles in the history of the national table tennis team.
There are still two years to go before the Paris Olympics, for 29-year-old Liu Shiwen and 31-year-old Xu Xin, as long as they remain in proper shape, then there is still hope to catch up with the Paris Olympics, after all, Ma Long was already 33 years old when he won the gold medal in Tokyo, and he looked forward to Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin finally realizing their dream of the Olympic Games and winning the Olympic championship that really belonged to the two.