In the recent inaugural WTT Singapore Grand Slam, Chen Meng defeated Wang Yidi 4-3 in the semi-finals, and then in the final, he defeated The New World Table Tennis Championships singles champion Wang Manyu by a thrilling score of 4-3 to win the women's singles championship at the inaugural WTT Singapore Grand Slam.
After winning the championship, Chen Meng was very excited and posted a post on his personal social platform to celebrate, Chen Meng said:
The 2022 WTT Inaugural Grand Slam tournament is over. I am sincerely happy that our sisters in women's table tennis have not lived up to everyone's expectations and have achieved great results. For me, I am also very satisfied with my performance this time, leaving no regrets. For the final, in fact, there is no difference between winning and losing in this game, and Manyu and I have played our highest level and presented a wonderful game to the audience. I will continue to work hard in 2022!
Today's Chen Meng, with this Grand Slam women's singles champion, has also returned to the world's first place and truly become the first sister of Chinese women's table tennis.
Chen Meng can have such achievements today, there are two people who are indispensable, it can be said that without the help of these two people, Chen Meng can not achieve such brilliant achievements, let alone become a sister of Chinese women's table tennis, to create their own Chen Meng era.
Who are these two people?
The first person is Chen Meng's sister, Li Xiaoxia, the winner of the Chinese women's table tennis grand slam!
Li Xiaoxia is the fourth Grand Slam winner in Chinese women's table tennis, and she has given Chen Meng great help on the road to growing up.
In fact, as early as 2013, Chen Meng had defeated Ding Ning in the National Games and finally reached the final, in the final, Chen Meng and Li Xiaoxia fought fiercely for seven rounds, and finally lost 3-4.
For a long time after that, Chen Meng and Li Xiaoxia played together at Shandong Luneng Club, and in the usual training matches, Li Xiaoxia helped Chen Meng very much.
It is also under the teaching of Li Xiaoxia's words and deeds that Chen Meng's progress is getting bigger and bigger, and he soon became the main player of Chinese women's table tennis.
Li Xiaoxia's requirements for Chen Meng are very strict, often giving Chen Meng guidance before the game, and even when Chen Meng is not playing well, she will criticize Chen Meng fiercely. I remember that before the 2020 National Championships, Li Xiaoxia sent a message to Chen Meng, expressing the hope that Chen Meng could come back with a national championship!
After Chen Meng finally won her first women's singles title in 2020, Li Xiaoxia encouraged Chen Meng, saying that she had finally played a decent game!
It is worth mentioning that Li Xiaoxia and Chen Meng have a very close relationship in private, and after Chen Meng won the first Grand Slam women's singles championship, Li Xiaoxia joked that after she recovered, she would have a discussion with Chen Meng!
The second person is Chen Meng's supervisor, Marlene.
Before Chen Meng entered Ma Lin's door, she had been in the position of the fourth and fifth main players in the Chinese women's table tennis team, and Chen Meng was preceded by Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling.
Before 2019, the favourites for the Tokyo Olympics were Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling. And Chen Meng even lost the team World Cup in 2018.
Chen Meng's turnaround occurred in 2019, with Liu Guoliang as the chairman of the Table Tennis Association, Ma Lin, who had left the national table tennis team because of the strike, came to the women's team and served as Liu Shiwen's head coach.
Chen Meng won the first place in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, after which Chen Meng quickly switched to Marlene's door.
It turns out that this is the most correct choice made by Chen Meng's career, and Chen Meng has ushered in more exercise opportunities after investing in Ma Lin's door.
In the 2019 Asian Cup, Chen Meng replaced Ding Ning, and although he finally lost to Zhu Yuling in the final, Chen Meng still experienced the tempering of the competition.
At the same time, under the guidance of Ma Lin, Chen Meng's progress is getting bigger and bigger, in 2020, Chen Meng successfully won the championship in the national championship, and in the 2020 World Cup, he replaced Liu Shiwen to compete, and finally won the first world singles championship in his career!
As Liu Shiwen grew older and was plagued by injuries, seeing that Liu Shiwen's hopes of participating in the Olympic singles were becoming more and more slim, Marlene also focused more energy on Chen Meng.
It was with The help of Ma Lin that Chen Meng finally made a splash in the Tokyo Olympic Games, defeating Sun Yingsha and becoming the seventh Olympic women's singles champion of Chinese women's table tennis!
Today, Chen Meng has won the women's singles championship of the first Grand Slam Tournament, returned to the first place in the world ranking, and became a sister of Chinese women's table tennis!
Chen Meng's ability to achieve such impressive results is inseparable from Li Xiaoxia's encouragement and Ma Lin's help.
I hope that Chen Meng can continue to work hard to repay them with more excellent results with the help of Li Xiaoxia and Ma Lin, come on!