Seeing that some media people who have been engaged in the creation of articles on table tennis for a long time have recently carefully analyzed how Chen Meng broke through the bottleneck period. He also proposed that Li Xiaoxia might be able to re-emerge from the mountain in the future and serve as Coach Chen Meng. Of course, the main starting point of this proposal is that after Chen Meng returned from the Tokyo Olympics, it has been difficult to find a crown in various competitions, so he believes that he needs a stable playing style, also relying on hard power to win, and at the same time, there are some young coaches with on-field resilience to help Chen Meng solve the current dilemma and thus get through her bottleneck period as soon as possible. However, I do not agree with this statement of media peers. There are two main reasons for the reactive attitude.
First, it is that Chen Meng's recent state has indeed declined slightly compared with before the Olympic Games, and in the competition with his teammates, especially Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong, he has indeed not gained the upper hand, and it is indeed difficult to seek a crown. However, at this time, it is not scientific to say that she encountered a bottleneck period. In other words, we should not define the difficulties and problems that Chen Meng is currently encountering as a bottleneck period. To some extent, Chen Meng is more of a psychological problem. For example, before the Olympics, if she wanted to be an Olympic participant, especially a participant in women's singles, she needed to show her dominance. Especially in the competition with the main rival Ito Mimakoto, we must maintain the belief of victory. Obviously, before the Tokyo Olympics, Chen Meng was indeed the best national table tennis player in this area. At that time, including Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Liu Shiwen, and Ding Ning, no one could guarantee that they would have the certainty of victory when they met Ito Mimachi. The reason why Guo Ping Tennis believes in Sun Yingsha is also because when she faces Ito Mimako, she has more desire to win and confidence in winning the game than her teammates, so she put Sun Yingsha in the position of playing Olympic singles with Chen Meng.
However, after the baptism of the Tokyo Olympic Games, it can be said that several young main players of the national table tennis women's team, from Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha to Wang Yidi, are becoming more and more confident in front of Ito Mimako, and when everyone can break through the threshold of Ito Mimako, Chen Meng's previous competitive advantage will no longer exist. The pattern of competition between teammates has become a kind of side proof of the strength of national table tennis players. Obviously, Chen Meng's role transition from taking Ito as the main opponent to the biggest competitor among his teammates was a bit slow. After returning from the Olympics, the training was not systematic enough, and there were injuries in the body, coupled with the fact that Wang Manyu's playing style was relatively advanced, and his personal ability was very prominent, and when he competed among his teammates, he also grasped the mentality better, so that in the process of competition between Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, Chen Meng slowly fell into the inferior position. After losing several times in a row, I was a little anxious, so there was a situation of continuous losses to Wang Manyu.
Another point is that a problem that has existed before Chen Meng has still not been completely solved. That's the ability to adapt on the playing field, or the ability to adjust to details. In other words, there is more than enough hard power in the game, and there is not enough spirituality and adaptability. In fact, we can think back and think about it, other teammates and Wang Manyu compete, often easy to play one-sided, and Chen Meng and Wang Manyu every time they play, the two sides are quite fiercely competing, the victory and defeat is between the first line. Chen Meng mainly needs to deal with the strain of serving and receiving the ball, as well as difficult preparation, as well as adding some changes to the first three boards. Just like Deng Yaping said, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu competed, and often it was not Wang Manyu who directly defeated her, but she herself lost to herself. This mistake, that mistake, a few senseless mistakes, lost the victory of the whole game.
Here, we must say that after Chen Meng's return from the Olympic Games, he did encounter some problems and difficulties. But the statement that she encountered a bottleneck period is not true, her problem is more in the mentality, but also in some small details to control. Let us also hope that Chen Meng can solve these problems in a short period of time, and strive to continue to keep pace with Wang Manyu, hoping that Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu will be the three golden flowers of national table tennis, and no one will be pulled away in a short period of time. We also believe that they will continue to make a Chinese style in the world women's table tennis arena.