On March 7, 2022, the national table tennis announced an important decision to determine the selection plan for this year's Asian Games, the head coach of the men's team Qin Zhijian expressed his position, hoping to come up with the most suitable lineup to play, while he once again stressed the importance of the Grand Slam event, the intensity even exceeded the Olympic Games, the 16 members of the national table tennis team were invited to participate in the competition, and four young players from Peng, Lin Shidong, Ku Man and He Zhuojia got wild cards.
This year's Asian Games participation list, has been the focus of fan discussion, especially how to choose the two singles places, everyone has their own views, the national table tennis coaching staff is also discussed for a long time, and finally decided to produce the final quota through the team selection, mainly from the two aspects of the competition results, world rankings, while once again emphasizing the importance of physical fitness tests.
First of all, the physical fitness test is a necessary condition for participating in the Asian Games, if this aspect is not passed, it is meaningless, followed by the Grand Slam singles champion, you can get a team seat, and finally according to the singles world ranking, there are two sets of programs, the first choice is the three players with the highest singles ranking, followed by the team members born after 1999, the highest ranking team members, selected into the team lineup.
In other words, the national table tennis now has two sets of standards, completely based on the world ranking to decide, or to give young players more opportunities, these need to continue to consider, now has not yet reached the final conclusion, in addition, if according to the above selection criteria, there are vacancies in the quota, that is, the coaching team directly guaranteed, while Qin Zhijian stressed that it is still more focused on young players, and must take into account the echelon construction.
Singles quotas belong to grand slam singles champions and the world's highest-ranked athletes, and if there is overlap, they are automatically deferred to second place, so the first Grand Slam event is crucial, internal competition has begun, and everyone will go all out.
As for the situation of doubles, that is, the national table tennis coaching team directly announced the results, there is no clear plan, how to match the contestants will be directly announced at that time, the men's team head coach Qin Zhijian introduced, this game is of greater significance, has become an important criterion for selecting the Asian Games lineup, considering that there may be some players who are in four sports, so the physical fitness can not be ignored.
There are too many national table tennis talents, limited opportunities to participate, the Asian Games are held once every four years, how to allocate the quota is not a good choice, in order to solve this problem, the official also set up a selection work leading group to assist the coaching team to assess the athletes, as far as the current situation is concerned, the most critical is this Grand Slam event, when who can win the championship, straight to the Asian Games singles, let us wait and see.