The Chinese table tennis team is currently preparing for the first WTT Grand Slam tournament in Singapore in March at the Lingshui Base in Hainan, and the head coach of the "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha has also determined during this period that he is Qiu Yike, who once worked with Wang Hao, Chen Xuan and others and called the "Six Little Dragons" of national table tennis.
For her to finally have a new head coach, Sun Yingsha said that Qiu Yike was a very good athlete and a talented player when she played, and believed that it would bring her something new and look forward to their common progress in the Paris Olympic cycle.
The first WTT Grand Slam tournament will be held at Singapore Sports City from 7 to 20 March. The tournament's total prize money is not only as high as $2 million, but also world ranking points. The Chinese table tennis team is expected to send the strongest squad to compete, including Fan Zhendong, who is no. 1 in the men's world, and Sun Yingsha, who is no. 1 in the women's world. After the Spring Festival, the national table tennis began to conduct closed training at the Lingshui Base in Hainan.
After last year's Tokyo Olympics, Sun Yingsha's head coach Huang Haicheng left the team for family reasons, and she participated in the finals of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the Singapore World Cup without a regular coach, winning the world table tennis championships women's singles runner-up, mixed doubles and women's doubles titles, and the World Cup women's singles championship. Sun Yingsha, 21, the main force of Chinese women's table tennis in the Olympic cycle in Paris, has just surpassed Chen Meng in the world rankings and is currently ranked first in the world.
The Chinese Table Tennis Association and the National Table Tennis Association have been helping Sun Yingsha to identify the most suitable manager candidates at both the team and outside the team. After many investigations, it was finally determined that the coach of the women's team, Qiu Yike, could serve as her supervisor coach.
Li Falcon, head coach of Chinese women's table tennis, explained that the selection of the head coach requires mutual recognition between the players and the coaches, which requires a process. Qiu Yike is a young coach selected from Sichuan Province to the national team at the end of 2018 and a world champion. He previously led the team to win the 2017 Tianjin National Games table tennis women's team championship in Sichuan, and served as the head coach of world champion Zhu Yuling during the national team, and later responsible for the training of young seedlings, showing very good coaching ability. Guo Ping-Pong chose him as sun Yingsha's head coach, on the one hand, he valued his aggressive and creative coaching style, on the other hand, young coaches and young players are also relatively smooth in communication.
Qiu Yike, 37, born in 1985, once rose to fame by beating Germany's Bol at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris. After taking over Sun Yingsha, Qiu Yike said that she had both pressure and motivation, "Sun Yingsha is very spirited, and I hope to rush forward with her to help her achieve greater dreams." Sun Yingsha is also full of expectations: "Qiu coached a very good athlete and a talented player when he played, and now he is my supervisor coach, and I believe that it will also bring me something new." I look forward to working with him in the Paris Olympic cycle."
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