With the announcement of the latest edition of the world rankings, the singles list of the national table tennis team for the Asian Games has been basically determined. According to the rules for the participation of table tennis at the Asian Games, two athletes from each association and a men's and women's singles can participate, which is consistent with the rules of the Olympic Games. Before the Grand Slam tournament began, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the selection criteria for the asian games singles list. The WTT Grand Slam men's and women's singles champions went straight to the Asian Games singles tournament, followed by the world's highest-ranked player in week 14 of 2022. Although the date of the 14th week is April 4-10, there are no matches in the national table tennis during this time, so the world ranking of the players will not change.
Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng, as Grand Slam singles champions, naturally won the Singles Quota at the Asian Games. And both of them are now the world's first, which coincides with the standards previously announced by the national table tennis, so the world's second-ranked athlete is postponed to qualify for the Asian Games singles. Then Ma Long and Sun Yingsha, as the second in the world, qualified for the Asian Games singles according to the regulations. In this way, the 4-man singles list of the Asian Games is basically determined to be Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Chen Meng, and Sun Yingsha.
Although the national table tennis coaching staff announced the selection criteria, the final Asian Games singles list still needs to be officially announced. At present, the variables are still men's events, Malone has previously withdrawn from the National Games and the World Championships singles competition, the importance of these two events far exceeds the Asian Games, and it is not ruled out that Malone will once again make way for young teammates. If Malone voluntarily withdraws from the Asian Games singles match, then the most likely candidate to succeed him is Wang Chuqin or Liang Jingkun. Wang Chuqin's singles results in Oman and Grand Slam are average, but Liang Jingkun won the third place in singles in Grand Slam, and if you simply consider the results, Liang Jingkun is the most suitable candidate for Ma Long.'
The possibility of substitution in the women's singles event is unlikely, after all, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are the singles champions and runners-up of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the two should go to the Asian Games, and they also meet the selection criteria announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association. Due to the disadvantage of the world ranking, Wang Manyu missed the opportunity. Wang Manyu has performed well in the past year, winning the National Games and World Championship singles championships consecutively, and the Grand Slam has reached the women's singles final, although he has lost to Chen Meng in seven sets, but Wang Manyu's strength has improved rapidly, and he is no longer under Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, and the three can be described as equal.
It is a pity that before the Olympics, Wang Manyu experienced a period of lows, did not get eye-catching results, resulting in too few points, and currently only ranks 3rd in the world. Coupled with the withdrawal of the national table tennis from the Doha Star Competition, Wang Manyu has no chance to surpass Sun Yingsha. Taking a step back, even if Wang Manyu won the doha star competition singles championship, the points were only 600 points, and the point gap between her and Sun Yingsha was now close to 2,000 points, which was difficult to surpass in a short period of time.