A few days ago, the national table tennis announced the selection criteria for the Asian Games, and the determination of the singles quota has also received widespread attention from everyone. According to the plan announced by the Table Tennis Association, the player who wins the singles championship in WTT Singapore will automatically get a singles place at the Asian Games, while the Chinese player who ranks highest in week 14 this year will get another singles place. The Asian Games, like the Olympic Games, can only have a maximum of 2 players per association in singles competitions. In such a severe competitive situation, even Wang Manyu, as the defending champion of the Asian Games, may still lose the singles list.
The replacement of the new and old national table tennis women's team is very smooth, in the case of Ding Ning's retirement and Liu Shiwen's state decline, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu have grown rapidly and become the three main forces of the new generation of national table tennis. These three people have already gone through the baptism of the Olympic Games, Wang Manyu has won the World Table Tennis Championships Singles Champion, the Asian Games Singles Champion, the National Games Singles Champion and a series of major competitions of women's singles gold medals, it can be said that no matter in terms of strength, achievements, experience, these three are already the absolute core of national table tennis. Together with Chen Xingtong, Wang Yidi and He Zhuojia, the talent reserve of the women's team is still very rich.
However, too many excellent players is sometimes a headache for coaches, after all, the number of participants in the competition is limited, and before each competition, the coaching team has to rack their brains about how to select players. This year's national table tennis has the task of the Asian Games, in fact, the level of table tennis in Asia is very high, so the competition in the Asian Games will not be much smaller than the Olympic Games, and even sometimes more intense. Therefore, for national table tennis, the Asian Games is also a very important event. As the first intercontinental multi-sport event in the new Olympic cycle, national table tennis will also be taken seriously.
According to the selection rules announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association a few days ago, the two places for singles will be determined separately, and the winner of the Singapore station and the chinese player with the highest ranking in the world in week 14 will be qualified. If the two are the same person, the second-placed national table tennis player in week 14 will get another place. According to the current situation, Sun Yingsha is the highest ranking player in the world of national table tennis, and if she can extend this ranking to the 14th week, then she will definitely get a singles place. But in fact, Chen Meng behind him is also very tight, and it is not easy for Sun Yingsha to maintain this position.
With only 2 places, Wang Manyu will face fierce competition with Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng. From the perspective of world rankings, her world ranking is lower than Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, and it is not easy to surpass these two people. Therefore, for Wang Manyu, perhaps winning the women's singles championship in Singapore is the best way. Judging from Wang Manyu's results in this year's competition, the more she goes to key occasions, the less soft she is, in the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, and in the face of Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, she also has the upper hand. Therefore, in a grand slam field like Singapore, if you want to be tough, Wang Manyu also has a chance for Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha.
However, this is where the national table tennis is cruel, even if Wang Manyu is the defending champion of the Asian Games, she may not be able to qualify for singles. Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu can only have 2 in the Asian Games singles competition, and this may be a preview of the Olympic Games 2 years later, since the competition is so fierce, why not let it come earlier?