Affected by the epidemic, athletes no longer do what they want to do abroad, and many times have to consider the itinerary and epidemic prevention issues. In today's situation, even if athletes go abroad to compete, they must undergo a long period of isolation after returning, and it is indeed a month to delay casually, which is indeed more than worth the loss. Therefore, for those less important events, the Chinese team will give up in principle, and weightlifting, badminton, volleyball and other sports have been withdrawn many times. However, the Chinese table tennis team's recent withdrawal from an event has aroused questions from the outside world.
According to the SCHEDULE OF THE TABLE TENNIS LEAGUE, the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament is followed by the WTT Doha Challenge. From the perspective of gold content, the participants of the Doha Challenge include the world's top players such as German star Francesca and Brazilian genius Hugo, and if the national table tennis team is sent to participate, it can also get a lot of exercise opportunities. However, the entire national table tennis team collectively abandoned the competition, including Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin, including 9 men's team members and 8 women's team members including Chen Meng, Liu Shiwen and Wang Manyu Sun Yingsha will return directly to China to rest.
Since the national table tennis team had a schedule planning before the official start of this year's event, several events participated in the Doha Challenge. Therefore, the sudden collective withdrawal of 17 members of the national table tennis team, including 7 Olympic champions, which surprised the outside world, many netizens believe that Liu Guoliang's decision is too hasty and may have a negative impact on the national table tennis. This is not the first time that the national table tennis has made a similar decision, before and after the Olympic Games last summer, the media hyped national table tennis withdrawal incident at least 3 times, if each time the epidemic as a reason, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public.
In response to this question, Qin Zhijian publicly responded, saying that according to the original plan, the national table tennis will indeed play in the Doha Challenge. However, after the training of the Singapore Grand Slam, the national table tennis coaching team believes that the players have reached the expected goal, the physical fitness is also relatively large, there is no need to work for the expedition, at this stage should buy time to recuperate the body, prepare for more important games. In fact, Qin Zhijian is also telling the truth, the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, the national table tennis crowd will perform well, winning 5 championships, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu have made great progress, Ma Longbao sword is not old, that is, Xu Xin's performance is slightly inferior.
But it is worth noting that the main players of the national table tennis team performed well overall, and the marginal players are still struggling. The most typical is Lin Gaoyuan, as a former men's singles candidate, his performance in the competition is getting worse and worse, and this tournament staged a round of travel. There is also the highly anticipated young player Xiang Peng, who has very poor experience and coping ability, and was also eliminated in the first round. It can be seen that the national table tennis as a whole is shouting for upgrading, but the replacement of new and old work is still stagnant, the gap between the main force and the substitute is too large, and it is too late to give them the opportunity to exercise. In this case, even if the 7 Olympic champions of national table tennis return to China to rest, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Xiang Peng, Ku Man and other marginal players can go to Doha to compete, and Liu Guoliang's "one-size-fits-all" approach is indeed incomprehensible.