As we all know, Chinese table tennis has long occupied the peak of the world table tennis world, and the table tennis players who can win the Olympic singles championship must be very strong in their strength.
But you know what? In the history of national table tennis, there are still some athletes who can win the Olympic Games, but they cannot win the singles championship of the Asian Games.
Let's take stock of the athletes who won the Olympics but didn't win the Asian Games singles title.
First, Liu Guoliang.
Liu Guoliang, the first Grand Slam winner in the history of Chinese men's table tennis, won the men's singles title at the 1996 Olympic Games.
In addition, Liu Guoliang also won the World Cup and the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship, but Liu Guoliang has never won a singles championship at the Asian Games.
At the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui both competed in the singles competitions of the Asian Games.
Liu Guoliang will pass the barrier to reach the final, but in the final, Liu Guoliang lost to South Korea's Kim Taek-so and only won the men's singles runner-up at the Asian Games.
Second, Kong Linghui.
Kong Linghui is the second Grand Slam winner in the history of Chinese men's table tennis, but like Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui has never won a singles title at the Asian Games.
As early as 1995, Kong Linghui won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup singles title, and won the Olympic singles title in 2000, but in the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Kong Linghui lost to South Korea's Kim Tasawa So in the semi-finals.
Third, Marin.
Ma Lin is known as Mr. World Cup, he has won the Men's Singles World Cup four times, and Ma Lin also beat Wang Hao in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to win the Olympic singles title, but Marlene also did not win the Asian Games singles title.
At the 2006 Asian Games, Ma Lin and Wang Hao competed in the singles match of the Asian Games, but in the final, Ma Lin lost to Wang Hao and did not win the championship.
Fourth, Zhang Jike.
Zhang Jike, known as the fastest Grand Slam in history, won the Grand Slam in just 445 days, Zhang Jike defeated Wang Hao twice in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships and world cups, and at the 2012 London Olympics, Zhang Jike once again defeated Wang Hao in the final.
Zhang Jike's strength is certainly very strong in just 445 days to win a Grand Slam, but Zhang Jike has not won a singles championship in the Asian Games, the main reason for this is because Zhang Jike has never qualified for the Asian Games.
Fifth, Chen Jing.
Chen Jing was the first Olympic singles champion in the history of Chinese women's table tennis, and won the women's singles title at the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988 when she was only 20 years old, but Chen Jing did not qualify for the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, which directly led to Chen Jing's retirement and departure. So although Chen Jing won the Olympic singles title, Chen Jing has never won the singles championship at the Asian Games.
Sixth, Ding Ning.
Ding Ning is the fifth Grand Slam winner in the history of Chinese women's table tennis, and she has won three World Table Tennis Singles Championships, three World Cup singles titles and one Olympic Women's Singles Champion.
I remember Ding Ning once said that he was not a Grand Slam winner because he had not yet won the Asian Games singles title.
Ding Ning did not win the singles title at the Asian Games, mainly because Ding Ning had never participated in a singles match at the Asian Games.
In 2010, due to the defeat of Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen at the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, which also led to the two sitting on the cold bench, the final 2010 Asian Games singles participants were Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia, and this is Guo Yue's second Asian Games singles match.
In 2014, Ding Ning was only 24 years old at the time and originally had the opportunity to participate in the singles competition of the Asian Games, but the national team did not let Ding Ning participate in the singles competition on the grounds of cultivating young players, but sent Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling to participate in the singles competition of the Asian Games.
Ding Ning also became the only absolute main player in Chinese women's table tennis since Deng Yaping who has not participated in the Asian Games singles competition.
Seventh, Chen Meng.
At last year's Tokyo Olympics, Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha in the final to win the Olympic singles title, but Chen Meng did not win the singles championship at the Asian Games.
In fact, Chen Meng originally had the opportunity to win the singles championship of the Asian Games 4 years ago, in the 2018 Asian Games, in the women's singles final, Chen Meng once led by a large score of 3:1, but in the end he was reversed by the young player Wang Manyu, and did not win the Asian Games women's singles championship.
However, for Chen Meng, there is still a chance to make up for this regret, because Chen Meng won the women's singles championship at the recent WTT Singapore Grand Slam, which also allowed Chen Meng to be the first to qualify for the Asian Games.
Can Chen Meng win the women's singles title at this year's Asian Games? Let's wait and see.
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