It can be said that so far, no sport has been played to the extreme by the Chinese team like table tennis.
For a long time, the Chinese table tennis team has been dominating the world table tennis hegemony, almost all the championships, especially the Chinese women's soldiers, since the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, The Chinese women's soldiers have won all the Olympic women's singles championships, which shows how strong the strength of Chinese women's soldiers is.
Although the Chinese women's table tennis is so powerful, in the past 20 years, Chinese female soldiers have also lost three championships in three major competitions, and it is more coincidental that these three championships are related to an athlete.
Let's first look at how many times Chinese female soldiers have lost championships in the three major competitions in the past 20 years.
First time, the women's team champion of the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships.
In the women's team final of the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese women's table tennis team faced the Singapore women's team known as the Second China Team.
In the final, the Chinese women's table tennis finally lost to Singapore with a score of 1:3, and missed the ninth consecutive world table tennis championship.
Second, 2016 FIFA World Cup women's singles champion.
In fact, since the inception of the women's World Cup singles competition, Chinese women's table tennis has won almost all the championships, and the only championship lost was in 2016.
The main reason for losing the championship this time is not because the Chinese athletes lost to foreign athletes, but because the Chinese athletes did not participate at all.
Third time, mixed doubles champion at last year's Tokyo Olympics.
At last year's Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese mixed doubles team lost 3:4 to the Japanese team in the final and did not win the mixed doubles championship.
But if you analyze it carefully, you will find that these three championship losses are all related to an athlete, and this athlete is Liu Shiwen, the oldest athlete in Chinese women's table tennis.
At the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen played the first singles in the final, but after Ding Ning lost the first set, the mentality of the first singles Liu Shiwen completely collapsed, and she lost to Singapore's Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei in the 2nd and 4th sets respectively, resulting in the Chinese women's table tennis finally losing to the Singapore team and not winning the championship.
In the 2016 World Cup, when only Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen were eligible for the Chinese women's soldiers, Ding Ning asked the coaching staff to withdraw from the World Cup due to injury, and got permission from the coaching team.
However, Liu Shiwen also suddenly proposed to the coaching staff to withdraw from the competition two or three days before the start of the tournament, although the coaching team tried to persuade Liu Shiwen to participate in the competition, but Liu Shiwen insisted on withdrawing, which eventually led to the 2016 World Cup women's singles championship being won by Japan's Hirano Miyu.
At last year's Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team in the mixed doubles match sent a mixed doubles pair of Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin, who played against the Japanese team of Ito Mishimasa and Mizutani Hayabusa after reaching the final.
In the mixed doubles final, Liu Shiwen Xu Xin was won by the Japanese combination for three consecutive sets in the case of a 2:0 lead, although Liu Shiwen Xu Xin desperately dragged the game into the decider, but finally lost to the Japanese combination with a score of 3:4, missing the first mixed doubles championship in Olympic history.
However, although Liu Shiwen is related to the loss of the title in these three competitions, Liu Shiwen herself is still very strong, she has won the World Cup women's singles championship 5 times, and won the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2019
Although Liu Shiwen is 31 years old, she still has a great love for table tennis, and Ding Ning of the same age has retired to enter the university for further study and Liu Shiwen is still fighting in the table tennis arena, such a fighting spirit is always worthy of the respect of fans.
I hope Liu Shiwen can play better and better in future competitions, come on!