I believe that fans who pay attention to national table tennis are well aware that the closest international table tennis event today is the WTT Oman Challenge that will be held at the end of this month, and the national table tennis has also chosen to let all young players except fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Yidi, who has recently achieved more and more stable results in excellent form, sign up. This also includes Wang Chuqin, who has just won the men's singles title at the recent Macau Star. Although he is also an Olympic P card player, after all, he has been suspended for three months before, and there is a certain gap between him and his teammates in the world rankings. And after all, now whether it is Fan Zhendong, or Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan, ranking in the world's top ten, Wang Chuqin, as a representative figure in the new generation of national table tennis, is still ranked 12th in the world, which is not very beneficial to his future development. Therefore, in this Oman Challenge, the national table tennis not only registered him, but also registered for the three projects of men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles, which shows that the whole team still attaches great importance to Wang Chuqin.
However, there is a very interesting phenomenon, that is, this time Wang Chuqin signed up for the Oman Challenge, which can be called a good thing and a lot of grinding. He wanted to get a men's singles place, and it was a twist and turn. Because according to the initial news, he can only get a wild card, and he may not be able to participate in the men's singles competition, which means that the big head initially only entered the list of men's singles substitute players in this competition. Fortunately, according to the latest news, Lin Yunru and Morey-Gaode, the two players in the front row, have chosen to officially retire. This gave Wang Chuqin the opportunity to enter the official entry list directly. Some fans may say that such a low-point event can actually not be participated in, and it is not too late to wait until the high-point game. Wang Chuqin's strength is still there, why do you have to compete with your teammates for a place?
In fact, if everyone thinks like this, it means that there is a misunderstanding of the national table tennis, especially the situation of Wang Chuqin. Because for Wang Chuqin, it is not enough to win the competition between his teammates in the Macau tournament, after all, for him, it is a role to focus on cultivating for the next Olympic cycle. The main goal of the future is to prove themselves on the world stage, to show their strength, and to achieve the point where they can pick up the girder of the Olympic Games in the future through these foreign wars and ordinary commercial events. The world ranking points are relatively low in the event is not played, then the game experience and a variety of adaptations to the opponent is difficult to test through the official game, and when there is a real major competition, there will be a situation of gutter overturning, the blow to the national table tennis is very large, and it is easy to grow others to destroy their own prestige, affecting the control of our players in the game. Coupled with Wang Chuqin's own low world ranking, only by first improving the points in such a small commercial event can it be easier to have the opportunity to play more rounds in future competitions. I believe that even if the personal ability of national table tennis players is outstanding, no one is willing to play against those world's top masters in the previous matches.
Including the recent Macau Challenge, we also saw that even a player like Fan Zhendong who won the Olympic team championship and was the singles champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships, but when facing the challenge of teammate Xu Yingbin, he still lost because of lack of preparation and not in the best state. Therefore, for Wang Chuqin, in the future, all kinds of foreign wars, no matter if the small competition can be played, as long as the coaching staff is willing to send players to participate, it is still very useful for Wang Chuqin to play more. It can not only help him improve his self-confidence in the game, but also increase his familiarity with various opponents, and at the same time strive to have a stronger confidence to face all opponents in important matches in the future.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that this time the national table tennis coaching team is indeed painstaking for Wang Chuqin. Choosing to register for him in singles, and then registered for men's doubles, or partnering with Liang Jingkun, and also registering him to participate in the mixed doubles field, which shows that Wang Chuqin has begun to enter a very formal key training mode, and we also look forward to him in the Oman Challenge, in the case of the opponent is not particularly strong, he will seize the opportunity to win another championship, make a good start for his 2022 world journey, let us look forward to Wang Chuqin's play.