With the Doha Star Challenge on the field, Zhang Rui faced Chen Siyu from Chinese Taipei in the case of winning a game first, and was pulled by the opponent for three consecutive times, losing the game 1-3 at the same time, but also let the national table tennis women's team completely destroyed, completely lost the opportunity to advance to the final four, and there was no hope of fighting for the championship. Coupled with Zhou Qihao, who played earlier than Zhang Rui, in a competition for the men's singles eight into four, facing the African brother Aruna, it was also a 0-3 big loss (8-11, 8-11, 7-11), which means that the national table tennis men's team also has no player in the final four. In the final four of men's and women's singles, there will not be any national table tennis players, which also shows from one side that these marginal main forces of national table tennis, as well as the second-tier squad, compete with the masters of the world's top foreign associations, or owe some fire in terms of technical strength and game mentality.
So, in the face of Zhou Qihao's defeat to Aruna and Zhang Rui's failure to reach the women's singles semifinals, how do we view the total annihilation of the national table tennis? First, it is this defeat that makes us more clearly understand why the veterans of the national table tennis men's and women's teams, from Ma Long, to Xu Xin, to Liu Shiwen, have never been able to completely leave the national table tennis team, or because among the teams, only a few core players occupy a dominant position in the world table tennis world. Most of the players in the entire team of national table tennis are still difficult to occupy the top position in the world table tennis. Especially in men's table tennis, even the players ranked in the top 20 or 30 in the world, or even in the forty or fifty, also have quite strong competitiveness, and the competition between the world's masters is between the first line. In addition to such masters as Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, the gap in ability between other players is between Bo Zhong, and it is more to see the impromptu play of the two sides. For example, this time Lin Yunru and Hugo Calderano are both out of the men's singles eight-in-four competition, and they are now masters within the top seven in the world ranking, which shows how close the strength between the world table tennis masters is.
Second, for the marginal main force of national table tennis and the players in the second-tier lineup, the previous play was the Doha regular season, in the two tournaments, there are not many first-class masters participating in the competition, and in the field of the Doha Star Challenge, there are more and more masters who can have a place in the world arena, which makes the national table tennis players face greater competitive pressure. The national table tennis coaching team, in the case that the main force in the team has achieved good results in the Grand Slam field, can completely open up its thinking and give the fringe main force and the second-tier lineup a chance to really play a higher level of competition, so that they can grow in actual combat. Since the national table tennis coaching staff has made this choice, it is equivalent to accepting the situation that the players may not be able to withstand the pressure on the field and finally have problems. So for these players, even if there is a situation of losing a key game, this kind of loss is also what the players need to face and experience in the process of moving to a higher stage. Some young players need such defeats to lay the foundation for their further growth and maturity.
Third, we also need to look at the position relationship between national table tennis and the world table tennis from a new perspective. Although the national table tennis team is very strong, but why the national table tennis coaching team often emphasizes that the competition is very fierce, there are many problems that need to be faced, the difficulties are very large, obviously the national table tennis marginal main force and the second team in the process of poor results, let us understand that if the national table tennis main force wants to maintain its dominant position in the world table tennis, it is indeed necessary to make sufficient preparations for difficulties, and it is also necessary to face the challenges from foreign associations at all times. The challenge is far greater than we think. Therefore, for the national table tennis, for a long period of time, it is still necessary to continue to maintain the team combat mode of combining old, middle and young people, to prevent only young players, and everyone's performance on the field fluctuates obviously, and it is impossible to carry the consideration of their ability in the top competition. Everything that is needed is to start from scratch and come to fruition, rather than eating a fat man in one bite and completely letting the young man take charge.