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Liu Guoliang changed his strategy! Prevent Ito from going against the grain and adjust the mixed doubles employment thinking

On April 26, the World Table Tennis Federation announced the world ranking for week 17, and Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng still ranked first. The post-00s player Sun Yingsha ranked among the top two in the world in all three rankings, of which Sun Yingsha ranked second in the world in women's singles and mixed doubles, and ranked first in the world with Wang Manyu in women's doubles. According to the current situation, Sun Yingsha is very likely to have a triplet at the Paris Olympic Games. In order to prevent Ito Mimachi from rebelling in the mixed doubles project, Liu Guoliang also adjusted the employment idea of the mixed doubles project.

Liu Guoliang changed his strategy! Prevent Ito from going against the grain and adjust the mixed doubles employment thinking

Mixed doubles has only become an official olympic event at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the idea of employing people in the mixed doubles event of national table tennis is to try to arrange the pairing of players who do not participate in singles events. In this way, it is possible to avoid the situation of one person and three, so as to ensure that the athlete can have sufficient physical fitness to participate in the competition. At the Tokyo Olympics, the mixed doubles combination sent by the national table tennis team was Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, neither of whom participated in the singles competition. This also ensured the physical fitness of the two to a large extent, although they failed to win the mixed doubles gold medal, Xu Xin still retained enough physical fitness in the team competition to help the national table tennis win the men's team gold medal.

Liu Guoliang changed his strategy! Prevent Ito from going against the grain and adjust the mixed doubles employment thinking

However, in the Paris Olympic cycle, the national table tennis is facing changes, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen will most likely not participate in the next Olympic Games, and Liu Guoliang is bound to adjust the mixed doubles combination. However, the loss of the mixed doubles gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics may also trigger Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching staff to rethink whether the past employment strategy is correct and whether adjustments need to be made. From the current situation, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are a mixed doubles combination that the national table tennis focuses on cultivating. In the Singapore Grand Slam competition, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are both one person and three, which also indicates the change in the thinking of national table tennis in the mixed doubles event.

Liu Guoliang changed his strategy! Prevent Ito from going against the grain and adjust the mixed doubles employment thinking

Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are both potential candidates for the singles event at the Paris Olympics, especially Sun Yingsha, who has a good chance of qualifying for singles. Although Wang Chuqin's current singles ability needs to be further improved, after all, there are still more than 2 years away from the next Olympic Games, and in addition to Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, Liang Jingkun can compete with Wang Chuqin. Whether Ma Long can participate in the Paris Olympic Games is very uncertain, and Wang Chuqin still has a great chance to fight for an Olympic singles place, after all, he is a P card player at the Tokyo Olympic Games. And Sun Yingsha needless to say, she has already won the silver medal in the women's singles in Tokyo.

Liu Guoliang changed his strategy! Prevent Ito from going against the grain and adjust the mixed doubles employment thinking

Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching staff no longer continue the past thinking, so that players who do not participate in singles are paired with mixed doubles, but choose to let the players face the possibility of doing three things. Qin Zhijian previously said that the hard standard for the selection of national table tennis in the Asian Games is physical fitness, because some players may be multi-tasking. Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, as popular players in singles at the Paris Olympic Games, have joined forces to cultivate as the key objects of the Olympic mixed doubles, which is very telling. Judging from the results of the Singapore Grand Slam competition, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha have won 2 doubles titles, and it is not too difficult for them to combine three events.

Liu Guoliang changed his strategy! Prevent Ito from going against the grain and adjust the mixed doubles employment thinking

Ito originally planned to give up mixed doubles after Mizutani Hayabusa retired, but appeared on the mixed doubles list of the May Table Tennis League Challenge, and although he later withdrew, it can still be seen that Ito is rethinking. Her rebellious performance will definitely attract the attention of Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching staff, after all, we lost to her at the Olympic Games last time. In any case, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha shouldered heavy responsibilities.

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