On April 3, 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced that the Paris Olympic Games will retain the mixed doubles event, set up five gold medals in men's singles, women's singles, men's team, women's team, and mixed doubles, and the national table tennis coaching team will lay out in advance, focusing on building Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, striving to win hardware, and ending with 4 gold and 2 silver in the Tokyo Olympic Games, only the mixed doubles lost their hands, coming to the new Olympic cycle, and the attention of mixed doubles will only be higher.
It is worth mentioning that the mixed doubles event into the Olympic Games, and the Promotion of the Japanese Table Tennis Association is directly related, and finally they achieved their goal, Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa won the gold medal to create history, at that time everyone speculated that the Paris Olympics should cancel the mixed doubles, but now the official determination will continue to retain, because the French team also has a certain competitiveness, Lebison / Yuan Jianan is entirely possible to impact the medal.
Just in the Doha Star Competition, Lebison / Yuan Jiannan defeated the world's first Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing 3-0 to win the mixed doubles championship, last year's Olympic Games this pair won the fourth place, very competitive, so to keep the table tennis mixed doubles event, it is beneficial to the French team, they also do not want to cancel, after many deliberations, finally concluded, that is, in the Paris Olympic Games, table tennis set five gold medals.
For foreign association players, the doubles event is accidental, relatively speaking, there are more opportunities, singles national table tennis is double insurance, the comprehensive strength of the group is too strong, only the mixed doubles is more special, can only send a pair of combinations to participate, and Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa's victory, but also let them see hope, so no matter from which point of view, keep the Olympic mixed doubles event, everyone will support.
In fact, the national table tennis strives for hardware, the most difficult is still mixed doubles, the coaching team is currently focusing on creating a young combination of Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha, just last year's World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha defeated Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Xina, won the mixed doubles world championship, the two cooperate tacitly, long-term partners compete with different opponents, adaptability is very strong, and at the same time maintain a very high winning rate in various competitions.
The Grand Slam tournament that ended last month, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha easily won the championship, the performance of the two young main players is very stable, for the time being, we have not seen the combination of foreign associations, which can bring them too much impact, of course, from the opening of the Paris Olympic Games, there is still a long time to go, do not rule out the rise of new combinations, become the main opponent, all in all, the mixed doubles event has not been cancelled, which is good news for the national table tennis.
At present, the national table tennis is resting in Hainan, there is no arrangement for the time being, this year's focus is still the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, which will become the target of the recent training, and finally let us send blessings, I hope that the national table tennis players can achieve good results in the next competition, come on!