For the Chinese table tennis team, it can indeed be called the master of the king. As Liu Guoliang, the head of the Table Tennis Association, said in an interview after returning from the Tokyo Olympic Games, in fact, any sport will have peaks and troughs, and it is impossible to hover in a very high position forever. According to the previous development law, the Chinese table tennis team will have a relatively low period of time almost every seven years or so. However, in comparison, the development of the Chinese table tennis team in the past ten years has broken this law. Or in other words, the Chinese table tennis team has been in the position of the world's strongest team for about sixteen years. And such a result, in Liu Guoliang's view, is somewhat contrary to the laws of nature. Therefore, he predicted that the national table tennis in the near future, will encounter a trough period, but as the head of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, that is, the helmsman of Chinese table tennis, Liu Guoliang proposed to control this trough period within the minimum range and the shortest cycle, and try not to let the team have a big slippery slope.
Some fans may say that this is not Liu Guoliang worried about the ups and downs in the results of the Chinese table tennis team he led in the Paris Olympic cycle, so he gave everyone a preventive injection in advance? Or is he worried that the results he has achieved under his team will decline, so he paves the way for the problems he may encounter in advance? In fact, everyone does not have to think about Liu Guoliang in this way. Liu Guoliang, as the core player of the national table tennis, as well as the coach, the head coach, and now the head of the table tennis association, although his identity has been changing, he is still very familiar with the development of Chinese table tennis, and his love for table tennis has never decreased. I believe that he said this, or have his own considerations and thinking.
In general, at least the most critical part of his view is because he knows that the Chinese table tennis team has continuously appeared zhang Jike, Ma Long, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning, and other world-class players for a long time, and each of them can win a grand slam, which is enough to show that the development of the Chinese table tennis team is a continuous emergence of top core figures, and continuously shows its dominance in the world arena, ensuring that the Chinese table tennis team can always occupy the highest position in the world arena. However, it is precisely because these players have been too dominant in the previous world arena, so after them, when the players grow under their pressure for a long time, there may be a decline in technical ability and a lack of game experience.
Because the world's top players just mentioned, one after another, flash on the world stage, their teammates naturally do not have the opportunity to stand on the highest podium, play in the final or semi-finals, or their own game experience is often gained in defeat. For example, Fan Zhendong, who is now the first in the world men's table tennis, has been regarded as a star of hope because of Zhang Jike first and Ma Long, but it took nearly a decade to really make a breakthrough in front of Ma Long, and this breakthrough is not a completely crushing breakthrough, but sometimes it can win, or when Ma Long gives up participating and is not fully prepared. Most of the other young players, on the other hand, still can't win Malone in this situation. For example, Liang Jingkun, obviously one of the five main players of the national table tennis men's team, has a great opportunity to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, but in the case that the 34-year-old Ma Long has not trained systematically for a long time, Liang Jingkun and Ma Longbi still have basically no chance of winning. It can be seen that the development of Chinese men's table tennis now looks very outstanding, in fact, there is also a trend of encountering a trough.
Just because Ma Long and Xu Xin are still there, Fan Zhendong's singles status is relatively good, covering up the fact that the dominance of Chinese men's table tennis in the world arena has declined. From a certain point of view, the future Paris Olympic cycle, the national table tennis men's team encountered difficulties in the championship, must be greater than the last Tokyo Olympic cycle. After all, Ma Long was 36 years old at that time, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan's hard power and stability have been insufficient, although Wang Chuqin has made rapid progress, but there are also some emotional plays, play well and even win Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, but if they don't play well, they may also lose in front of some teammates and opponents who don't seem to be very strong, so only by making psychological preparations for the trough period in advance can they better overcome difficulties and strive to continue to be invincible in the future world arena. What do you think about this? Friends are also welcome to give their own views and evaluations, and everyone is discussed together.