On March 17, Beijing time, WTT Grand Slam tournament in Singapore, the 33-year-old Chinese team captain Ma Long in the men's singles quarterfinals defeated 2-2 in the case of losing the first set 5-11 and defeated 20-year-old Chinese Taipei rising star Lin Yunru. This is the first time that Lin Yunru has changed coaches and challenged veteran Ma Long under the leadership of former Olympic champion Wei Guanqingguang. In front of Ma Long, Lin Yunru still looked a little tender. Ma Long's battle proves that he still has world-class competitiveness, and wei Guanqingguang's coaching of Lin Yunru may not be as great a threat to national table tennis as imagined.
Wei GuanQingguang is the olympic gold medalist of the Chinese table tennis team, and previously stayed in Japan for many years as the head coach of the Japanese elite college table tennis men's team. After the Tokyo Olympics, the budget of Japan's elite academies was cancelled, and the Japan Olympic Committee and the Japan Table Tennis Association had no plans to continue to engage in such elite sports talents. In this context, it is understandable that Wei Guanqingguang became lin Yunru's head coach.
What is the general treatment of Chinese players who come to Japan as coaches? Fans who like table tennis can feel that in official international competitions, the Japanese table tennis team basically uses its own coach to guide the sidelines. Like Zhang Benzhi and his father Zhang Benyu to give him on-the-spot guidance, there are very few. China's table tennis elite who go to Japan to make a living is generally difficult to get real respect and reuse.
Many times, the Japanese table tennis community uses these industry elites from China as sparring partners, and at most, those who are well-known in technology will be used as technical coaches or youth coaches.
Wei Guanqingguang's ability and coaching level should be relatively high. But from an objective point of view, he was after all the Olympic champion of the 1980s. He is now the head coach of Lin Yunru, which is more of a significance to help Lin Yunru to further improve his comprehensive strength on the existing basis, and strengthen the experience of the competition and the comprehensiveness of the technology. It is difficult to say how much impact Lin Yunru can cause to the main force of the Chinese team in the future, but as long as he makes progress on the existing basis and under the leadership of an experienced and very mature coach, he will have a greater chance of winning against other opponents outside the Chinese team in the future.
In particular, Lin Yunru should get more targeted reminders and guidance for Japanese opponents in the future, after all, his current head coach has lived in Japan for many years and has long held a Japanese passport.