With the official announcement of the list for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships yesterday, the discussion of the list has not stopped.
To be honest, compared with other countries, although the list of the Chinese team came out a little late, it was announced yesterday, which was still beyond my expectations.
Before and after the closed training of national table tennis in Wenzhou, Qin Zhijian, the head coach of men's table tennis, also replied to the list of issues, saying at the time that it still needs to be inspected, mainly based on the results of the closed training period and participation in the challenge.
However, just a few days after the closed training, the challenge has not yet officially practiced, and the list was suddenly announced yesterday, which is really a bit unexpected.
It can be said that the selection of personnel participating in the World Table Tennis Championships reflects the courage of the Table Tennis Association to dare to change, of course, the biggest surprise in the list is the absence of captain Ma Long, the five tigers of the men's team, each with its own characteristics, the Great Qin Gecko and you today to chat together.
"One brother" Fan Zhendong, as the leading big brother of this expedition five-person group, has an absolute strength beyond a chip.
However, all along, although Fan Zhendong's strength has reached, but in the major competitions are accompanied by big brothers such as Ma Long or Xu Xin, from the pressure point of view, there is no real as a single head player to compete in the competition, which has a completely different level of pressure psychologically.
Even if there is absolute strength, it still needs excellent psychological quality support, far from saying, the strength of the big brother Wang Hao is obvious to all, the Olympic Games of Sanlianya, the loss is not strength, but a subtle psychology; similarly, once Ma Long, the strength has long stood out, but the character and psychological late maturity, so that its hegemony ranked after Zhang Jike, who debuted at the same time.
Therefore, if Fan Zhendong wants to truly achieve the position of a brother in national table tennis, he needs to face it alone in a competition like the World Table Tennis Championships, temper and prove it.
In Houston, the leading battle will lead the way.
Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin also met the criteria for five people to be selected in terms of strength.
In particular, Liang Jingkun's performance in the Table Tennis Super League is obvious to all, and he is directly selected on the fair selection criteria, and no one can question it.
As for Wang Chuqin, the performance of the Table Tennis Super League was squandered by an incredible rout, and all the fans remembered was the shocking 0:11 "skinhead game".
However, Wang Chuqin's strength can finally be selected is also deserved, the test of the World Table Tennis Championships for him is also psychological, whether he can abandon the distraction of the fiasco, will be the key to whether he can really get out later.
Lin Gaoyuan, the fourth of the Five Tigers, competed in three events.
Personally, I believe that if the change in the list of the World Table Tennis Championships is the highlight of the Table Tennis Association, then Lin Gaoyuan's selection is likely to be a mistake in this World Table Tennis Championships.
Throughout Lin Gaoyuan's career, unlike several other people, What Lin Gaoyuan lacks is the dual ability of strength + psychology, whether it is the National Games or the Table Tennis Super League, Lin Gaoyuan's performance can be said to be disastrous, some of which are psychological vulnerability, but also the lack of absolute strength.
As a combination of men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles, can Lin Gaoyuan bear such a burden?
In addition, the selection arrangement of this World Table Tennis Championships is also a selection personnel in the Paris Olympic Games, and Lin Gaoyuan's three arrangements are the three arrangements that the Table Tennis Association believes that he can participate in as one of the candidates for the Paris Olympic Games.
"Five Tigers" Zhou Qihao, fans who have watched this year's Table Tennis Super League should be very familiar with him.
In addition to the tragic defeat given to Wang Chuqin in the final, there is also a scene where he always stands on the sidelines to cheer for his teammates, and is a passionate player in the whole team.
Zhou Qihao's selection, in addition to the reasons of strength, but also his personality considerations, bravery, passion and hardness, these are Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin and even Liang Jingkun do not have the advantages.
Personally, I think that Zhou Qihao's ability seems to be a bit like the Six-Pulse Excalibur, destroying the decay when exerting its strength, and also making people anxious when they are dumb.
If the first person to be eliminated in the men's table tennis five-person group may be Zhou Qihao, similarly, if you can come to a deeper round, in the face of hard battles and desperate situations, Zhou Qihao is likely to go further than the three people except Fan Zhendong.
The five tiger generals of male table tennis, the stability of Fan Zhendong, the ping of Liang Jingkun, plus the fierceness of Zhou Qihao, each has its own characteristics, depending on who can really show it.