With the arrival of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger, the coaching staff and athletes in the major sports teams have also opened the traditional mode of greeting the New Year to the majority of fans and sports fans. The national table tennis team, of course, is also the main force in this team. Due to the outstanding strength of this group, there are many world champions and Olympic champions, so it is often possible to deeply speculate about which players will appear in the video of the New Year. That is to say, fans often see such activities as a weather vane to understand who is still in the core main layer of the national table tennis team and who has the hope of entering the core main layer of the future. Sure enough, we also found some clues from this year's Chinese New Year video.
In addition to Liu Guoliang, the head of the Table Tennis Association, appeared in the New Year's Eve video, there were 8 players who represented the national table tennis team to bid farewell to fans. They are Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin of the national table tennis men's team, and Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Liu Shiwen of the national table tennis women's team. I believe that when you look at such a lineup, it is easy to remember one thing, that is, these 8 people also happen to be the 8-person lineup of national table tennis at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Although Wang Chuqin became the only player among the eight who did not officially appear on the Olympic field to compete, since the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, he has indeed been given many opportunities to represent the national table tennis in the world series, especially the individual events of the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup. What is more noteworthy is that he also partnered with Sun Yingsha and won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships together. Coupled with the fact that from the rio Olympic cycle, the national table tennis has been laid out in advance, so that Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha can play mixed doubles, which shows that these two people have indeed become the Players of the Paris Olympic Cycle, and the National Table Tennis wants to send out to play in the Olympic Mixed Doubles. For Wang Chuqin's Olympic prospects, it is still bright.
Coupled with the recent WTT Macau competition, Wang Chuqin also started from eight into four, all the way to defeat Ma Long, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, until he stood on the final championship podium. Such a champion also makes Wang Chuqin more equipped with the capital to stand on the Paris Olympic Games, of course, some fans may say that Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Liu Dingshuo in the men's team, and the younger Xu Yingbin and Lin Shidong are not in good shape recently, and Liang Jingkun is also ranked in the top five positions in the world in the new world ranking? Why are they not there? Among the women's teams, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong's combat effectiveness is also very strong, and Wang Yidi also surpassed Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen to raise their world ranking to the top five positions in the world? Why are there no signs of them in such a Chinese New Year celebration?
Here, we need to understand a little. The players that the national table tennis chooses to appear in this New Year's celebration lineup actually represents the inheritance of past achievements, as well as the tribute to the Olympic champion level players, and of course, the expectation of the achievements and honors they may bring to the national table tennis in the future. If Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen and Ma Long are the old Olympic champion representatives who still remain in the national table tennis team, it is obvious that Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Fan Zhendong are the core players who have played the role of the mainstay of national table tennis from the past to the present and then to the future. For Wang Chuqin, although he only took a P card at the Tokyo Olympic Games. But in the future Olympic Games, he is destined to be the protagonist. In summary, from a comprehensive point of view, the past Olympic champions are still the pillars of the national table tennis team without retiring for the time being, and the Mesozoic players who have just won the Olympic championship in Tokyo will continue to become the core of this team. The young Olympic P card players will also compete in the Paris Olympic cycle as the main core. Here, let us also send the best New Year wishes to the 8 world champions of national table tennis and Liu Guoliang, the head of the table tennis association. May they have good luck in the new year.