The WTT World Table Tennis Federation officially announced that the inaugural WTT Singapore Grand Slam will be held from 7 to 20 March, and also announced the participants of this Grand Slam tournament.
According to reports, on the women's side, China's Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and Liu Shiwen will all compete! In addition, Japan's Ito Mimachi, Hayata Hina, Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu will also all appear.
For Liu Shiwen's entry, many fans who like Liu Shiwen are very happy, after all, according to the qualifications, Liu Shiwen is not qualified for the main competition, because in front of Liu Shiwen, in addition to the five main players of the current women's table tennis, there are Zhu Yuling and Ding Ning.
Ding Ning has announced his retirement, it is impossible to participate, but Zhu Yuling has not yet retired, and she is fully eligible to participate in this Grand Slam event.
If Zhu Yuling participates, Liu Shiwen will only be able to become a substitute player, but now, Zhu Yuling has once again failed, which must not make fans worry about The future of Zhu Yuling.
Once upon a time, Zhu Yuling was known as Ding Ning's successor, she studied under Grand Slam coach Li Falcon, and was also regarded as the most promising player to become the next Grand Slam player.
Zhu Yuling is a year younger than Chen Meng, and as early as the Rio Olympics, Zhu Yuling, who was only 19 years old at the time, qualified for the Olympic P card.
At the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, Zhu Yuling, who was only 22 years old at the time, defeated Liu Shiwen in the women's singles semifinals, and fought with Ding Ning in the final for six sets, and finally lost 2-4.
Subsequently, Zhu Yuling defeated Liu Shiwen in the Asian Cup and the World Cup, and won the 2017 World Cup Women's Singles Championship.
At that time, Zhu Yuling was only 22 years old, similar to Sun Yingsha's age today!
In the 2018 Team World Table Tennis Championships, semi-finals and finals, in the case of Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen successively losing their hands, Zhu Yuling still played steadily, helping the Chinese team to win the championship smoothly, and after the game, Zhu Yuling was also called by Li Falcon as the biggest discovery in that World Table Tennis Championships. At that time, Zhu Yuling was about the same age as Wang Manyu now.
Unexpectedly, just when many fans were optimistic that Zhu Yuling would qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games, Zhu Yuling completely fell into a trough because of the loss of a game.
In the 2018 Swedish Open, after Ito Mimachi defeated Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen successively, he reached the final, Zhu Yuling faced the menacing Ito Mimachi in the final, and was swept by Ito Mimachi 0-4, which also seriously hit Zhu Yuling's confidence!
After losing the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships Singles and Asian Championship Singles, Zhu Yuling once again lost the 2019 Team World Cup, which also made Zhu Yuling gradually become a marginal main force in the national team!
Although Zhu Yuling had a brief chance to re-emerge in early 2020, she even won the first place in the selection competition to the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, but due to the impact of the epidemic, coupled with Zhu Yuling's own immune system also had problems, which made Zhu Yuling lose the opportunity to prove herself!
At last year's National Games, Zhu Yuling once again withdrew from the competition due to physical reasons, which led to Zhu Yuling's gradual loss of position in the team.
Although the current world ranking of Zhu Yuling is still before Liu Shiwen, it can be seen from the continuous withdrawal of a series of events that the national team has given up the cultivation of Zhu Yuling!
In this Singapore Grand Slam, Zhu Yuling once again failed, which almost means that Zhu Yuling is not far from retirement!
From the once absolute main force to the imminent retirement now, Zhu Yuling's encounter is indeed lamentable!
I hope that Zhu Yuling can get out of the trouble of injury and illness as soon as possible and can recover her health as soon as possible! Table tennis is only temporary, I hope that after Zhu Yuling leaves table tennis, everything can go smoothly, come on!