The 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships is only about to start in just over a month, and the national table tennis participation list is gradually emerging - with the excellent performance of the team's direct competition, the National Games and the Table Tennis Super League, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha have successfully obtained singles tickets for this year's World Table Tennis Championships.
But at the same time, there are also 4 athletes who have lost in these 3 competitions, and unfortunately fell to the last hurdle of the World Table Tennis Championships, they are: Zhou Qihao (the first direct competition men's singles champion, but the second time did not play well, the result summary score did not rank first), Liu Dingshuo (the second runner-up in the men's singles of the National Games), Wang Chuqin and Wang Yidi (the second place in the men's and women's standings of the Table Tennis Super League).
So will Liu Guoliang still give these 4 athletes the opportunity to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships? Let's analyze them one by one.
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In a sense, Zhou Qihao is the athlete closest to the success of the above 4 people, because he is the player who really won the first direct pass championship, and the gold content is extremely high, which has continuously defeated the main players of the 3 world champions in the team, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, so at that time everyone thought that he would definitely be selected for the World Table Tennis Championships singles.
However, not long after winning the championship, the national table tennis announced the decision to hold the second through competition, and the world table tennis championship place will also be awarded to the athlete who ranked first in the total points of the two competitions, and zhou Qihao fell into the sand.
Although only 2 of the men's team's 5 singles spots have been born, the Grand Slam Malone can almost be regarded as the default participation, and there are 3 world champions in front of Zhou Qihao, namely Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin, and Lin Gaoyuan. In general, Lin Gaoyuan's competitiveness has declined, but Xu Xin is experienced and Wang Chuqin has an age advantage, and these people Zhou Qihao have difficulty competing.
However, Xu Xin's competitive status has declined significantly recently, and his age is on the older side, so the national table tennis may (just say that it may) give young players more opportunities for long-term consideration, which may bring hope to Zhou Qihao; as for Wang Chuqin, although he suffered a disastrous defeat in the Table Tennis Super League, he is still the main force in the new generation after 00, so the probability of being selected is still very large.
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Compared with Zhou Qihao, Liu Dingshuo may be more difficult to select for the World Table Tennis Championships, especially singles, because although the weight of the direct competition is much lower than that of the National Games, Zhou Qihao is after all the athlete who won the championship in the first race, while Liu Dingshuo failed to black to the end, which is a very big difference.
In addition, the opponent won by Zhou Qihao's direct race was stronger than Liu Dingshuo - the latter was to defeat Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin, one old and one young, while Zhou Qihao won the most dominant Ma Long in the team, as well as the young and powerful Fan Zhendong and Liang Jingkun, plus he later won Wang Chuqin in the table tennis super, which shows that Zhou Qihao's strength is indeed better, and Liu Dingshuo is obviously more inferior.
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Wang Chuqin's straight-through failure was surprising, although his points before the final of the table tennis super men's team have been lower than Liang Jingkun, but after the start of the final, Liang Jingkun lost to Ma Long in the second set, and in the third set Wang Chuqin against Zhou Qihao originally did not look like he would lose, and as a result, he not only lost, but also lost a disparagement of 0-11 points.
At that time, if Wang Chuqin could win Zhou Qihao, and then Ma Long defeated Zhou Yu, then Shandong Luneng would win 3-1, and Liang Jingkun's points would also slip to second place. But the result was that Wang Chuqin lost, liang Jingkun even if he did not win, he was firmly in the first place, not to mention that Liang Jingkun also won Yan An, so The big fat smoothly passed the World Table Tennis Championships.
However, as mentioned earlier, Wang Chuqin still has a high probability of being selected for the World Table Tennis Championships singles for three reasons:
First, because his strength is still very strong, and the table tennis super league until the final is very good, so the coaching staff can not completely abandon it because of a defeat, which is not fair to Wang Chuqin.
Second, because Wang Chuqin's age advantage is very obvious, the national table tennis must still focus on cultivating young athletes - who did not plant a heel when he was young? But if you don't exercise all the time, how can you make progress?
Third, because in the current men's team world championship main force, only Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, liang Jingkun are stable wang chuqin, and Lin Gaoyuan's recent performance is even more collapsed, so Wang Chuqin's pressure is not particularly large.
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Wang Yidi's current situation is very complicated, because the "inner volume" of the women's team is more serious, first of all, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu's current position is very stable, she will definitely not be able to compete; secondly, Liu Shiwen and Chen Xingtong also have strong competitiveness, at least they have entered the main lineup, and have won the world championship, and these Wang Yidi all have not.
At present, Wang Yidi is just stuck in the 5th or 6th position, can be up and down, the competitor is first Chen Xingtong, followed by Liu Shiwen, personally think it is mainly the former, why?
In fact, we should pay attention to one point, although Liu Shiwen is older and her performance has declined, she is still a first-class athlete in table tennis, for example, her performance at this National Games is not the best, but she still won the third place in singles, and also won Chen Meng, plus she is also the singles champion of the last World Table Tennis Championships, these advantages are difficult for Wang Yidi to compare.
But Chen Xingtong's words are not very optimistic, she is the only female table tennis player who has only entered the main team once in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, and it is still 3 years ago, and now the world ranking has fallen behind the non-world champion Wang Yidi, which in itself shows that her competitiveness has dropped a lot in recent years, so Wang Yidi still has a certain winning rate when she impacts Chen Xingtong.
It can only be said that the competition of the Chinese table tennis team is too fierce, we give 5 places seems to be obviously not enough, if everyone is full of firepower, maybe half of the world's top 20 athletes can be their own people, then why not give 10 places is enough? No wonder the ITTF keeps cutting back places.
Of course, there is no singles, and everyone still has doubles opportunities to fight for - the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are meat, no matter who is selected, the author will feel very happy; whoever loses, I also feel sorry for them. As for this article, it is only a rational analysis of the possibility of the above athletes participating in the World Table Tennis Championships, and the words of the family are just a word, welcome everyone to leave a message together to write their own views!