After the start of 2022, the national table tennis is one step closer to preparing for the Paris Olympic Games. After the beginning of the new year, in order to ensure that the team wins at the starting line, the national table tennis has not been slack, whether it is the core team or young substitute players, they are working hard to train and continuously improve their self-strength. And at the beginning of this year, the national table tennis has a lot of competition exercise opportunities, in the recently concluded Grand Slam competition, the national table tennis has undergone a good experience, once again declaring the absolute strength of the team.
In this peak competition, the national table tennis team led by Liu Guoliang finally ended with 5 golds, did not pull down a gold medal, which is the reward for the efforts of the national table tennis team members, but also in this way, Chinese table tennis in confidence and strength, still announced that it will crush other national teams, so this time is a good starting point, such a big competition is conducive to the team to achieve the goal, not only the impact of the Olympic Games, in some key competitions, let the national table tennis can insert the wings of confidence. And we all know that in fact, this year's national table tennis will soon usher in a lot of challenges in the second half of the year, and among them, the most important competition for national table tennis is undoubtedly the Hangzhou Asian Games in September. Then this game at the doorstep of the home, for each project in the country has put forward the highest requirements, in front of the majority of fans, no one can drop the chain, and especially the strong national table tennis, it can be said that getting 5 gold medals is basically the minimum expectation of the national table tennis fans, but also the necessary requirements for the national table tennis, so for this event, the national table tennis must be treated more rigorously, giving a best answer.
And in order to be able to play a good result in the Asian Games, we also saw that the national table tennis side directly withdrew all the core players from the Doha game and fully recovered and trained, which is an attitude. And before that, the national table tennis issued a notice of asian games selection very early, it can be said that after the New Year of this year, the ultimate competition goal of the Asian Games was determined. And the rigor in the selection of personnel will certainly allow the national table tennis to have the possibility of 100% strength in the game, and will not let the team have any weak links. So at present, with the advancement of the time of the Asian Games, in fact, most of the Asian Games participants have been finalized. Not long ago, the domestic Xinhua News Agency also named the current list of 7 members of the national table tennis, then according to the selection criteria announced by the national table tennis before, the men's team has 4 people shortlisted, namely Ma Long Fan Zhendong Liang Jingkun Wang Chuqin, while the women's team is 3 people, by the Grand Slam champion Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, in advance to obtain the qualifications. Then such a person is certain, I believe it is also expected, after all, the ability of each athlete is irreplaceable at this stage of national table tennis, and it is really possible to speak with strength.
But after the seven-man list was exposed, we can also see that as the core of the National Table Tennis Tokyo cycle, the golden duo of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen is temporarily out of the list. It is indeed a pity that neither of them qualified for the competition in advance. As a veteran member of the national table tennis team, in fact, if you have not obtained the opportunity to enter the shortlist through effective competition rules, the possibility of subsequently trying to enter the team may be minimal. And before the Xinwen combination, in fact, Liu Guoliang has hinted many times that their age and competitive ability have been greatly affected, so this time the Asian Games may also truly become the first stop of the two veterans who have no chance in the national table tennis competition. Of course, while Liu Guoliang endured the pain of cutting love, we also hope that more young players who have the opportunity to grasp it well and not live up to the precious quota of national table tennis.