Although the national table tennis team has achieved very good results in the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, the men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed doubles five singles champions are all in the pocket, Fan Zhendong as the core of the national table tennis men's team and the flag bearer also won the final men's singles championship, and won the championship in the doubles with Wang Chuqin, but after the end of the Grand Slam, there are still many fans because Ma Long still has a strong play, and young players like Wang Chuqin are still sad about Ma Long in the singles field. Liang Jingkun also suffered a 4-0 clean sheet from Ma Long, and Lin Gaoyuan lost early to the players of the Foreign Association and went out early, and worried about the growth of young players in national table tennis. In the comparison with the veterans, the growth of the new generation of national table tennis does have some inadequacies. Even if the young Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong have some bright spots, they are still not short from really posing a threat to the top masters. Therefore, for the above statement of the training of new talents of the national table tennis men's team, it has indeed become a concern in the hearts of some fans. So do we agree with this statement?
In fact, the good news from the doha regular challenge field gave us another answer. I believe that everyone has also seen that in the first two stops of the Doha regular challenge, Yuan Licen, as a young player after 00 of the national table tennis, is also a key player who is more valued, as a member of the national table tennis team, he has achieved good results in the two events of the Doha Challenge. In the first leg, although he failed to win the championship, he also reached the final with Zhao Zihao. Even if he lost to his teammate Zhao Zihao in the final to get the final runner-up, he also gained 105 ranking points, at least to ensure that he did not lose foreign battles. In the just-concluded second regular challenge, Yuan Lichen played from the qualifiers to the final final under the premise that his teammates were out one after another, and the opponent became stronger and stronger, and from eight to four to the semi-finals, the final, all the way to defeat Lin Yunru and Achangta, once again stood on the final field, got 400 ranking points, and defeated Qiu Dang with a score of 4-2. After these two regular challenges, the world ranking is expected to improve from 361st to about 120th. Basically, it can improve the ranking by about 240 places.
From this comparison, it is not difficult to see that the national table tennis men's team, as everyone fears, ignores the cultivation of the new generation and the main fringe level players, and also gives more main players the opportunity to participate in the Grand Slam while giving young players the opportunity to participate in regular challenges. In fact, this is also the national table tennis is taking a new path to cultivate young players. The current idea of employing people is basically to let the main and non-main players participate, but the level of play is slightly different. Avoiding the previous practice of everyone playing the same tournament, where young players are often eliminated in the previous rounds, this approach now at least gives young players and fringe players a chance to exercise and improve their ability to fight hard battles, and allows them to improve their level by fighting independently, while also allowing the main players to compete on a higher platform.
After all, the ranking points of the Grand Slam are still very high, and even if they can't go to the end, the ranking improvement brought to the players will be great. So overall, this choice of the national table tennis men's team is very successful. When we saw yuan shengcen leading 10-8 in the first set of the final, and finally won by Qiu Dang 12-10, we saw a young player who could still know how to get out of the predicament on the field, who had the momentum and determination, and he also won 11-8, 11-4 and 11-5 in the second, third and fourth sets, even if he lost another set 9-11 in the fifth set, but he was still able to win again in the sixth set with 11-5. And finally won the most springy challenge championship with a score of 4-2. Since this is the first singles championship won by Yuan Licen after participating in the adult competition, it also makes us even more lamented that this way of participating in the competition in batches and letting the main players and the main players on the edge go to the world to pick the beams, which has indeed made the overall competitiveness of the national table tennis men's team have also been newly improved. Among the young players, there may be more young players like Yuan Lichen who are worth cultivating.
Fan Zhendong won two sets first, then lost three sets, and then achieved a 4-3 reversal against Ma Long in the case of a 1-6 small point behind, while Yuan Licen in the Doha regular season challenge, from defeating Lin Yunru, to reversing Achangta, to defeating Zhao Zihao, and then losing first and then winning, winning Qiu Dang to win the championship, Yuan Lichen's progress and Fan Zhendong's reversal of Ma Long in the case of falling behind in the big score is the same surprise, We also believe that they will all play a more important role in the future national table tennis team. Let us applaud Fan Zhendong and cheer for Yuan Licen. And say to them: You are all good.