With the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games approaching, the table tennis rival Japan team took the lead in completing the selection work, and the host national table tennis adopted a comprehensive strategy to determine the candidate, the national table tennis men's team has already qualified for the Asian Games is Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin, the remaining main force is Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan are more embarrassing, the recent results are not as good as the top 4 teammates, and they are world champions, but from the perspective of cultivating rookies, 1 of them is expected to catch the last train , stand out from 1 out of 4.
According to the selection method of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Fan Zhendong, who won the Singapore WTT Grand Slam singles championship, was directly shortlisted for the Asian Games singles squad and obtained team qualification, in addition, Ma Long and Liang Jingkun also qualified for the Asian Games by virtue of the world ranking, and Wang Chuqin became the fourth person in the Asian Games squad with the highest ranking of the players born after 1999, and only the fifth and last places are to be determined.
In the case that the 4 main players of the national table tennis men's team can basically ensure qualifications, Xu Xin, the main champion of the men's team in Rio and Tokyo, is unlikely to be among the Asian Games squads with his achievements. First of all, Xu Xin has not participated in the mixed doubles and men's doubles competitions recently, and the men's singles has lost to Francesca at the Grand Slam, which has reduced a lot of impression points for him to start the Paris Olympic cycle. Secondly, Xu Xin is 31 years old, in the absence of achievements to guarantee, age has also become a disadvantage, the Asian Games has always been a training ground for national table tennis training and training young main forces, Xu Xin may only give way to young teammates.
The possibility of losing the other 1 national table tennis world champion Lin Gaoyuan is not small, the last Asian Games he has participated, and achieved the runner-up of the men's singles, is a major player in the year of the national table tennis, but unfortunately recently in the men's singles field again appeared the failure of foreign wars, by South Korea's Lin Zhongxun sent a round of travel at the Grand Slam, the Asian Games national table tennis encountered the Possibility of the South Korean team is very large, regardless of the men's team or men's singles, in order to ensure victory, Lin Gaoyuan and Xu Xin may be selected together with xu Xin in the Asian Games lineup.
Unlike Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan's recent foreign war defeats, although the young Lin Shidong and Xiang Peng also lost, they had a huge age advantage, and they could afford to lose more in the Asian Games. 17-year-old Lin Shidong and 19-year-old Xiang Peng are the key training objects of the same age of national table tennis, the two won the WTT Oman Challenge men's doubles championship this year, defeated the world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan and other good players, Lin Shidong also defeated the quasi-main force of national table tennis Zhou Qihao in the men's singles competition, showing unlimited potential, although in the second round of the Singapore Grand Slam Lin Shidong lost 2-3 to the European top 16 champion Dako, but the game process is not ugly, and almost cold to usher in the European championship.
After the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the main lineup of the national table tennis men's team is likely to be the world after 00 or even after 05, in addition to Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin may be able to stick to the 2018 Olympic Games, rookies should also take over, Lin Shidong and Xiang Peng should be more experienced than Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan, even if they act as the 5th person of the men's team, the key games do not have the opportunity to play, just play a dozen of the previous Asian Games team group stage, feel the atmosphere of the competition as the No. 3 singles, watch the semi-finals and finals, and accumulate some experience The pros outweigh the disadvantages for the growth of rookies.