On February 25, Beijing time, recently, the national table tennis first team ushered in a personnel change, and Sun Yingsha, who ranked no. 1 in the world in the women's team, finally ushered in her new head coach Qiu Yike. Since the end of the Tokyo Olympics, Sun Yingsha has been in a state of no head coach, but during this period, Sun Yingsha has won the World Table Tennis Championships Women's Doubles, Mixed Doubles Champion, Women's Singles Runner-up and World Cup Finals Women's Singles Champion.
It is worth mentioning that Qiu Yike, who served as Sun Yingsha's new head coach, is also an old acquaintance of national table tennis, during the player period, Qiu Yike was also a member of the national table tennis first team, and won the world table tennis men's team championship, during the coaching period, Qiu Yike had coached Zhu Yuling, who was formerly ranked No. 1 in the world, and also won the women's team championship of the National Games in 2017. It can be said that Qiu Yike's guidance is a strong coaching ability.
However, Qiu Yike's coaching of Sun Yingsha this time also made the outside world pay attention to the former world's no. 1 player Zhu Yuling, an outstanding player in national table tennis, who has not appeared on the stage of the competition since undergoing tumor surgery in September 2021 and has been in a state of recuperation. During the recuperation period, fans who have long followed Zhu Yuling have released dynamics declaring that Zhu Yuling has recovered well, but there is no sign of Zhu Yuling's comeback at present. Nowadays, even the head coach who used to coach Zhu Yuling has become the head coach of Sun Yingsha, which is enough to reflect Zhu Yuling's situation, and it is basically difficult to return.
Looking at the current composition of the national table tennis first-line women's team, Zhu Yuling is also difficult to gain opportunities from it, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, two new generation of strong players, in 2021, won the domestic National Games women's singles, the world table tennis women's singles champion and runner-up, including the world table tennis women's doubles championship together. Among the other players, Chen Meng is the Xinke Olympic women's singles champion, the veteran Liu Shiwen has no intention of retiring, the performance is still strong, and Wang Yidi is also strong. Such a strong national table tennis women's team, Zhu Yuling is too difficult to occupy a position. Considering the abundance of talents in national table tennis, it is not ruled out that Zhu Yuling has the possibility of retiring from this, in an environment with such a big competition, even if Zhu Yuling was very good in the past, she could not block the end of being eliminated.
In fact, Zhu Yuling's past resume is very outstanding, in addition to ranking 1st in the world, personal hard honor is enough, 22 years old that year out of the Women's Table Tennis World Cup, defeated Liu Shiwen at the peak, won the women's singles championship, Zhu Yuling is also a real world champion player, 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Zhu Yuling also held a wild card, enough to reflect Zhu Yuling's excellence. Unfortunately, at the peak of Zhu Yuling's career, due to the impact of the epidemic, Zhu Yuling, who had qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships, did not have the opportunity to play in the World Table Tennis Championships, because the World Table Tennis Championships were directly cancelled. Subsequently, Zhu Yuling had problems with her health and entered the stage of surgical treatment and recuperation.
China's national table tennis has always been the largest competitive field in China's sports world, countless outstanding players have not been able to enter the first team of national table tennis with all their strength, and they may not necessarily get the opportunity to play in the world championships, let alone play in the Olympic Games, and now, Zhu Yuling, who has been ranked No. 1 in the world, is also on the verge of elimination, and it is inevitable to feel sorry!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)