Yu Mengyu, a 33-year-old Singapore table tennis player who officially announced his retirement, said on social media: "Looking back on the 16 years of sports career in the international arena, there are many emotions and glory, and I will open a new chapter in my life in the future, adhering to the tenacious and indomitable sportsmanship, passing on more positive energy to others and society." In 2010, Yu Mengyu personally experienced the Footsteps of the Singapore Women's Team terminating the Chinese Women's Team World Table Tennis Championships women's team in Moscow for 8 consecutive championships, and was honorably elected as singapore's opening ceremony standard-bearer at the Tokyo Olympic Games, this honor is very rare and is also an affirmation of her career, and as a result, she reached the final four in the Tokyo Olympic Women's Singles Competition.
Yu Mengyu is a naturalized player of the Singapore women's team, she first became famous in the 2009 Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, when only 20 years old Yu Mengyu defeated the Austrian Chinese star Liu Jia in the women's singles competition, and reached the women's singles round of 16 for the first time in her career, but unfortunately failed to go further, facing the host 15-year-old Ishikawa Yoshijun, Yu Mengyu lost 2-4. The Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships is the first step for Yu Mengyu to establish herself as the main player in the Singapore women's team.
The 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships is the eternal pain of the national table tennis women's team, before that, the national table tennis women's team lost the world table tennis championships back to the 1991 Chiba World Table Tennis Championships, when the overall strength of the Korean united team with Xuan Jinghe, Li Fanji, Yu Shunfu and Liang Yingzi was strong, and the chinese women's team's championship dream was jointly shattered. After the 8th World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese women's team won the women's team championship without suspense, on the road to the 9 consecutive championships, the Singapore women's team defeated the national table tennis women's team by relying on a naturalized army, when Feng Tianwei was in the best state, scoring 2 points in a row, the veteran Wang Yuegu beat Liu Shiwen to get a crucial 1 point, compared to the less than 20-year-old Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning who participated in the team competition for the first time to appear as the top 2 main force in the final, because the tension led to a discount in the play and lost the championship. Yu Mengyu sat on the field as the 4th main force and experienced this championship battle, which was equivalent to rubbing a world championship.
With the retirement of Wang Yuegu, Sun Beibei and others, Yu Mengyu became the No. 2 main force of the Singapore women's team after Feng Tianwei, and won bronze medals in the women's team of the 2014 World Table Tennis Championships and the women's doubles of the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships. Yu Mengyu as the tokyo Olympic games opening ceremony standard-bearer debut, somewhat surprising, after all, Feng Tianwei is more famous than her, Yu Mengyu achieved more unexpected results in the Tokyo arena, in the case of not being optimistic, Yu Mengyu 4-2 Nick American Chinese straight board Liu Juan broke into the women's singles top 8, and in the 1/4 final upset defeated the No. 4 seed host Ishikawa Yoshizumi to break into the women's singles top 4, although successively lost to Chen Meng and Ito Mimako no medals, but Yu Mengyu's performance has exceeded the level.
After all, Yu Mengyu's playing style tends to that of Theriana, the predecessor of Hong Kong, China, and lacks absolute strength to kill cricket, but left to left, right to right defense, balanced strength, opponents will not easily pass the board. In the past two seasons, Yu Mengyu has also played in the Japanese league and achieved good results. Yu Mengyu may consider that he is older and needs to start a family, plus his grades have reached the peak, and it is the best way to retreat if he sees good.