At 5:00 a.m. on March 8, the eight main players of national table tennis from Hainan, as well as coaches and staff, arrived at the hotel in Singapore. After resting and adjusting, fan zhendong, Sun Yingsha and other world champions appeared in public in the afternoon, ushering in the first training session at the Singapore Grand Slam tournament.
As we all know, Sun Yingsha encountered the problem of not having a competent coach after the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the resignation of interim coach Chen Xuan to leave the national team made people more worried about Sun Yingsha's future. During the training camp in Lingshui, Hainan, it was Yang Guangdi, the coach of the provincial team, who came to reinforce Sun Yingsha. It was not until recently that the national table tennis official Xuan Qiu Yi could become Sun Yingsha's new head coach.
As the number one in the women's table tennis world today, Sun Yingsha finally has a competent coach who can accompany her at any time and go abroad together, which is the real happiness and peace of mind. The Singapore Grand Slam is the first time that Qiu Yike and Sun Yingsha have joined forces. In the training, Qiu Yike personally accompanied Sun Yingsha, and Sun Yingsha, who was accompanied by someone, showed a happy smile.
There is also a small detail in the training that moves the fans, Qiu Yike preempts Sun Yingsha and takes the initiative to pick up the ball, even if the ball is farther away from him. A competent coach who can take care of Sun Yingsha wholeheartedly and from the details is naturally a powerful boost for Sun Yingsha to impact the great cause of the Grand Slam. Seeing that Xiao Zhan can accompany his beloved disciple Wang Manyu as a daughter, he knows that Sun Yingsha has the importance of Qiu Yi to take care of.
According to the arrangement, the drawing ceremony of the Singapore Grand Slam will be held at 15:00 on March 9, when the lottery will be based on the ITTF Table Tennis World Rankings announced on March 1, 2022. Sun Yingsha will attend the lottery ceremony as a representative of the national table tennis together with Xu Xin, hoping that they can draw a good lottery for the national table tennis. Sun Yingsha is another triathlon in this Grand Slam competition, with heavy tasks and great pressure.
At another table, Liu Shiwen was training with her sister Wang Manyu, whose long legs were extremely eye-catching. Speaking of which, Liu Shiwen and Wang Manyu also had been sisters for a while, and they were both under Xiao Zhan's door at that time. Later, Liu Shiwen complained that she suffered a free range, or Marlene returned to the national team to save her career.
And Xiao Zhan put his main energy into Wang Manyu, and Wang Manyu, who was born in poverty, did not live up to the full efforts of his mentor, won the team gold medal of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and won the gold medal in singles at the National Games and the gold medal in singles at the World Championships, with a strong momentum!
Judging from the current competitive situation, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha all have the opportunity to become "Grand Slams" in the traditional sense, but they will also restrain each other.
Wang Manyu currently ranks fourth in the world, and the points are 2,000 points away from the world's first Sun Yingsha and the world's second Chen Meng. According to the Asian Games selection method announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Wang Manyu has little hope of participating in the Singles of the Hangzhou Asian Games through the world rankings, and the current feasible goal is to strive for the Singapore Grand Slam singles championship, which can be directly connected to the Asian Games singles and team quotas.