After two weeks of fierce duels, Beijing time on the evening of March 20, the first WTT Grand Slam in the history of table tennis finally came to an official end, the Chinese team won a big victory in this competition, winning all 5 championships in one fell swoop, and although the results of the Japanese team were second only to the national table tennis, it was only the men's doubles and women's doubles that reached the final, did not get 1 championship, the specific results are as follows ——
Men's Singles: Champion Fan Zhendong, Runner-up Ma Long; Women's Singles: Champion Chen Meng, Runner-up Wang Manyu; Mixed Doubles: Champion Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Runner-up Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing; Men's Doubles: Champion Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Runner-up Yukiya Utada/Hayasuke Tokami; Women's Doubles: Champion Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu, Runner-up Ito Mimachi/Hina Hayata.
So what kind of impact does such a huge table tennis conference have on the pattern of national table tennis? What is the significance for the world table tennis? Let's analyze this article one by one.
First, the advantages of the national table tennis women's team in the foreign war have increased sharply, but the main internal volume is more white-hot
The national table tennis women's team of this Grand Slam tournament once again showed super dominance, the four main players Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi won the seats in the singles final four in one fell swoop, and Sun Yingsha/ Wang Manyu also easily won the championship of the women's doubles event, beating the players of the foreign association to the ground.
Especially the Japanese women's team, which has posed a huge threat to us since 2017, is now deteriorating, the number one main player Ito Mimachi singles out, the doubles final lost a mess, and Hayata Hina is not yet a climate, Ishikawa Yoshinori fiasco was beaten 11-0 by Chen Meng, Hirano Miyu is lying directly where he fell from where he is, and has been lying for more than 4 years now.
Obviously, such a Japanese team is completely unable to create pressure on the national table tennis team, and their impact on the Chinese team for several years has come to an end for the time being.
With the reduction of the pressure of foreign wars, the "inner volume" of the national table tennis team has become popular again. In the two women's singles semifinals, Chen Meng narrowly defeated Wang Yidi 4-3, and Wang Manyu narrowly defeated Sun Yingsha 4-3; in the final women's singles final, Chen Meng won the 7 rounds of vicious battles and played with Wang Manyu.
As long as a few more luck balls appear in the above three games, the result may be reversed, and the strength gap between the four main athletes can really be found with a microscope, although in general, the Olympic and World Cup singles champion Chen Meng, the World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games singles champion Wang Manyu are relatively strong, but only a little stronger.
It is foreseeable that the main scuffle between the national table tennis women's team will continue for a long time, as for the future of who is the highest development ceiling? It's still hard to predict.
Second, the national table tennis men's team continues the "dragon fat" pattern, and the pressure of foreign war is still very large
Judging from the situation of Fan Zhendong and Ma Longhui's singles final, the national table tennis men's team has not changed in the "Dragon Fat" system, even if Ma Long has given up all the sports of the National Games singles and the World Table Tennis Championships last year, his technical and tactical ability is still the top two in the team, and the 3-2 victory over Wang Chuqin and the 4-0 sweep of Liang Jingkun are the best proof.
As for the strength comparison between Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, it is still on a balance of power, but the young people's staying power is obviously more sufficient, so Ma Long has a 0-2 behind, 3-2 overtake, 3-4 defeat in the men's singles final: more than heart, more than enough skills, but physical fitness, energy is indeed insufficient.
Compared with the above two, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin failed to occupy the upper reaches in the civil war, while Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan were even more difficult to protect themselves in the foreign war, and the gap was very obvious.
Throughout this Grand Slam tournament, the national table tennis lost a total of 4 foreign games, and the result was all from the men's team, of which Xu Xin lost 2-3 to Francesca, Lin Gaoyuan lost 0-3 to Lin Zhongxun, Xiang Peng lost 0-3 to Gross, Lin Shidong lost 2-3 to Dako, and the age range covered the veteran, mesozoic, new generation and the latest generation.
You know, the national table tennis men's team sent a total of 8 male athletes to participate, the result is half lost to the athletes of the foreign association, the loss rate is very high - the competition in the men's singles event has always been the most intense, the national table tennis has been planted many times in history, this time is no exception, it is indeed difficult to play.
And in connection with the situation of last year's World Table Tennis Championships, once the Chinese team is not signed well, the pressure of the foreign war will almost all be concentrated on Fan Zhendong: it is not that we do not believe in Xiao Fat, but who can guarantee that the tiger does not nap? Everyone else has to cheer up too!
Third, the internal competition of foreign associations has intensified, and the potential opponents of national table tennis have increased
Long before the Start of the Tokyo Olympics, the replacement of old and new within the Foreign Association was already underway, and the speed of "blood change" after the Olympic Games was also significantly improved, and this Grand Slam was another obvious example:
Japan's Olympic substitutes Yukiya Utada and Hina Hayata performed far better than Olympic main players Such as Ito Mimachi and Zhang Benzhihe; young European players such as Dako, MoregaoT, and Qiu Dang are also thriving; Lin Jong-hoon of the South Korean team has made many threats, and the limelight has long overshadowed Lee Sang-so, Jang Woo-jin, Jung Young-sik and other predecessors.
The change of opponents has also dispersed the preparation objects of national table tennis, which used to basically only need to stare at a few specific characters, but now they have to face many new strong enemies, and their progress is also increasing day by day, which is really difficult to deal with!
Relatively speaking, the Japanese team is still the strongest opponent of national table tennis, because their main force is originally very small, and the newly emerging group of athletes is not very old (Hayata Hina and Utada Yukiya are actually older than Ito Mimachi, Zhang Benzhihe), so they are not fully fixed in terms of technology and tactics, and there may be new tricks at any time.
The main threat of male table tennis players in Europe is that under the current equipment system, athletes with tall arms and amazing strength can often "vigorously perform miracles", and sometimes they can play at a high level without any tactics and brute force alone, which is also the main reason why national table tennis loses points in the hands of European athletes.
But in general, the advantages of Chinese table tennis are unquestionable, although there are slight setbacks, but we have every reason to believe in the strength of national table tennis, then I wish you can continue to achieve good results in the next WTT Doha: come on, guys!