The national table tennis main players did not participate in the WTT Doha Star Challenge, which means that before the 14th week, the world ranking points of the national table tennis main players will not change. On March 29, the World Table Tennis Federation released the latest news, updating the world rankings for the 13th week, and the national table tennis player Wang Manyu still ranked 3rd. In the case of 1 week, Wang Manyu has been unable to surpass Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, which means that in the Asian Games women's singles quota competition, Wang Manyu has no chance. In the cruel environment of the Chinese women's table tennis internal roll, Wang Manyu lost in this competition.
In order to limit the monopoly of national table tennis and increase the competition of the table tennis project itself, in major competitions such as the Olympic Games and the Asian Games, each association can only have a maximum of 2 people participating in singles competitions. For the national table tennis, such a rule can be described as cruel, after all, there are too many masters of the national table tennis, and it is a very difficult process to select 2 people to participate in the singles competition. No matter how you choose, no matter what kind of rules are made, the result is bound to be somewhat controversial. Because of this, this time Liu Guoliang, Qin Zhijian and Li Falcon handed over the initiative to the team members.
According to the Chinese Table Tennis Association's selection rules for Asian Games singles quotas, Singapore Grand Slam women's singles champion Chen Meng was awarded an Asian Games singles quota. At the same time, Chen Meng also took this opportunity to return to the world number one, so the no. 2 player in the world of national table tennis will get the remaining singles place, and the ranking deadline is 14 weeks. Wang Manyu's previous point gap with Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha was too large, which led to her being unable to erase the point gap between her and Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha even if she defeated Sun Yingsha in the semi-finals in Singapore. In other words, after Wang Manyu lost the final with Chen Meng, he lost the Asian Games singles quota together.
On March 29, the World Table Tennis Federation updated the world ranking for the 13th week, because there was no competition for the main national table tennis player this week, and the points did not change, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha continued to rank in the top 2, while Wang Manyu was still the 3rd. Considering that there is only 1 week left, the main players of the national table tennis have no game tasks, and such a ranking will certainly be maintained until week 14. Therefore, Wang Manyu will not be able to qualify for the Asian Games singles quota, and this time she really has no chance. Not because Wang Manyu is not strong, but because the internal competition in women's table tennis is too fierce, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are the winners this time.
Part of the reason for this is that Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, as the main candidates for the last Olympic Games, participated in a series of major competitions before the Olympic Games, such as the World Cup, and thus gained more points. At that time, Wang Manyu's sequence in the team ranked after Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Liu Shiwen, and there were not so many competition opportunities, and she was only a P card player in Tokyo and failed to participate in singles matches. Compared with Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, who won the Olympic championship and runner-up, Wang Manyu will definitely suffer some losses in terms of points. Although she subsequently won the Women's Singles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, it still could not help Wang Manyu quickly smooth out the point gap.
This is the cruelty of the inner volume of national table tennis, which makes people have to feel sorry for Wang Manyu. But Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are equally good, and I believe they will perform well in the Asian Games. In particular, Sun Yingsha is likely to be one person and four, which will be a big challenge for her, come on Sasha!