On October 25, Beijing time, today the Chinese table tennis team officially announced the next big list for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, which caused a huge controversy, because the three Olympic champions of the Chinese team, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, were all defeated, and this time the Chinese team will focus on the use of new people.
In fact, this is a correct decision, but everyone is still a little reluctant to several Olympic champions, this time the list of The Chinese team actually includes 11 athletes, of which the men's team has Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao to participate, while the women's team is Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Wang Yidi and Qian Tianyi, of which Qian Tianyi does not participate in singles competitions, and Chen Meng is paired to participate in women's doubles competitions.
In this way, the three Olympic champions Ma Long Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have a high probability that they will usher in the moment of the end, in fact, Ma Long is still in the peak period, his decision is not very good to talk about, but the situation of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen is difficult to talk about, the competitive status of both of them has declined to varying degrees due to injuries and other reasons, so retirement is indeed a better arrangement for them.
For Liu Shiwen, this must be a decision that she is not easy to accept, because in just 6 months, she is equivalent to the second time she has been abandoned by her mentor Liu Guoliang. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, liu Shiwen lost the qualification for singles at that time, according to the practice of the national table tennis in the past 30 years, the athletes who won the world table tennis championships will definitely be qualified to participate in the singles competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and as a result, there was an exception to Liu Shiwen, and Liu Shiwen lost the mixed doubles gold medal, and Sun Yingsha and Chen Menghui will master the women's singles final, which seems to prove that Liu Guoliang's decision is correct.
Now as a defending champion, Liu Shiwen lost the opportunity for me to defend her title in the World Table Tennis Championships, which is even worse for her, with 5 places, Liu Guoliang is not willing to let her realize her dream, but to give young players a chance, then poor Liu Shiwen can only obey the overall situation. Li Falcon, the head coach of the Women's Team of the Chinese team, said in an interview that the lineup of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships is to take the Paris Olympic Games as the ultimate goal, the Paris Olympic cycle is only less than three years, the women's team has completed the replacement of the old and the new at the Tokyo Olympic Games, but in the face of the Paris Olympics, hope to form a new competitive group, choose Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi, because they are in the front of the points, and recently performed well, so it is hoped that the women's team will form a new competitive situation, and this is the main reason why Liu Shiwen was abandoned.