Liu Shiwen, the eldest sister of national table tennis, ushered in her 31st birthday this year, the world champion who has gone through 18 years of ups and downs in the national team, despite three Olympic singles qualifications in London, Rio and Tokyo, but still maintains the record of 5 World Cup titles and 3 consecutive singles titles in the FINALS of the International Table Tennis Federation Pro Tour. Liu Shiwen continued to compete in the Paris cycle, with the retirement of Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen became the oldest member of the team, and her dream of competing in the women's singles of the Paris Olympic Games was gradually fading, but Liu Shiwen's persistence deserved respect.
Liu Shiwen entered the national team in 2004, it took only 1 year, he had a place in the national table tennis women's team, first in the team's big round robin competition to suppress Wang Nan, Zhang Yining two demon kings to win the championship, and then in the 2007 national championship won the women's singles championship, 16-year-old Liu Shiwen has the reputation of "Little Deng Yaping", the shot speed is fast, the landing point is sharp, the fast attack near Taiwan is like a shooting star, the Beijing Olympic cycle began to win the women's singles championship in the open many times, but because of the young age, with Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, There is still a gap between Guo Yue and other main players, and it is reasonable that they finally lost the Beijing Olympic team.
London Olympic cycle became Liu Shiwen's transformation of 4 years, in 2010 Liu Shiwen with a series of open competition performance, women's singles world ranking has jumped to the world's 1st, in Liu Shiwen's flat step, closer and closer to the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships became the first hurdle of her career, the final defeat wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei, so that the Chinese women's team did not qualify for the World Championships women's team 9 consecutive championships, and then Liu Shiwen did not win the women's singles final at the 2011 Rotterdam World Table Tennis Championships, It also said goodbye to the London Olympics once and for all.
Although Liu Shiwen has always remained in the top women's singles master in the Rio Olympic cycle, her performance at the World Championships still has no championship, and competing teammates Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning have won the 2013 and 2015 World Championships women's singles championships, plus Li Xiaoxia is the London Olympic women's singles champion, even if Liu Shiwen ranks no. 1 in the world, she still lost the 2016 Rio Olympic women's singles team because of her lack of convincing results, allowing her to experience the second blow of her career.
At the beginning of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Ding Ning defended the World Championship champion to become the leader, Zhu Yuling won the World Cup championship, Liu Shiwen fell behind again, but she finally won the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship in a counterattack way, just a few feet away from the Women's Singles Qualification of the Tokyo Olympic Games, but unfortunately an epidemic caused the Olympic Games to be postponed, Liu Shiwen's state declined due to elbow injury, the coach still enabled Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha to participate, Liu Shiwen 3 degrees and the Olympic women's singles qualification passed.
However, in addition to the disappointment of the Olympic women's singles qualification, Liu Shiwen has a record in two major events: from 2011 to 2013, Liu Shiwen achieved the women's singles championship of the ITTF Professional Tour Finals three times in a row, although the number of championships was not as good as Zhang Yining's 4 times, but she was the first player to win three consecutive championships. Liu Shiwen is even more dominant in the World Cup, winning 5 women's singles titles in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2019 respectively, and beating Wang Nan and Zhang Yining's 4 crowns to become the first person.
Here, a 31-year-old Liu Shiwen "Happy Birthday", paris Olympic cycle Although Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu have a solid position, but Liu Shiwen is not afraid of strong hands to dare to challenge the courage is commendable, Liu Shiwen's probability of participating in the Paris Olympic Women's Singles or even women's team is not too large, if you can counterattack the competition, you can only impress the coach by winning consecutive championships in the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships and Grand Slam events.