With the announcement of the new world ranking points method of the International Table Tennis Federation, we will find that the two veterans of the national table tennis, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, will see a sharp decline in the world rankings, one is from the world's top eight position to the 81st position, the other is from the world's 17th position to the 87th position, this change can be called a cliff,000, and it also brings certain difficulties and pressure to the two veterans to participate in the competition in the future to achieve good results. Of course, this result also shows from one side that for the national table tennis team, in the future, it is necessary to formulate a more practical competition plan for the veterans, or let them learn to enjoy the competition, participate in some domestic competitions or friendly matches, or participate in some promotional activities for table tennis, but there are no points to take, and gradually fade out of the world ranking and points. Or to determine the future to continue to compete with players from domestic and foreign associations, no matter what position they can go in in the future, to go all out to compete for every opportunity that can be seized. This is also the only two paths they have to choose from in the future.
So is it only the two veterans of national table tennis who have been more affected? In fact, it is also facing similar problems for Ito, but Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have entered the end of their careers, while Ito Isomasa is still in the stage of personal maturity. In fact, we all know that a long time ago, Zhang Yining, as the great demon king of ping-pong, had given a prediction about the future of Ito Mimako, that is, she thought that after the age of 20, as she grew older, her competitiveness would become weaker and weaker, and the current situation basically proved this. However, in the past few seasons, Ito has participated in a lot of competitions, even if the results are not the highest, but basically stable, as for most of the matches can reach the quarterfinals or have better results, which also ensures that her previous world rankings are often higher than our national table tennis players. Only in the past season, due to her consecutive losses to national table tennis players, in order to be able to compete for better results, she began to try to give up some opportunities to participate, or through a long retreat to strive for adjustments, so that she can come up with some new changes in serve and serve when participating in the game, so as to enhance her competitiveness.
However, before her method was very effective, but recently this tactic has been completely ineffective, and even let her in various games because she can not predict the progress and growth of the other side, she has more and more cases of her own mistakes to send points, some seem to be opportunities to the ball is often unable to catch, and finally failed to have better sports performance again and again, resulting in her now slowly losing her core competitiveness, not to mention that she is at a disadvantage in competition with the main players of national table tennis Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and Sun Yingsha. Even with Wang Yidi and other masters of foreign associations, they also began to lose frequently, not only began to decline in the world rankings, but also according to the new ranking points regulations, she will be surpassed by her teammate Hayata Hina in the future, becoming the second main force of Japanese women's table tennis, due to the obvious progress of young players such as Kihara Miyu and Nagasaki Miyu, and even the second main position of Ito Mimako, the future may not be able to ensure retention.
Of course, this change in Ito shows that this kind of World Table Tennis Federation points is not only formulated for the Chinese table tennis team, nor is it as some fans think, it is to limit the national table tennis, after all, there are players in the national table tennis who benefit from this, and there are also players who suffer because of this. We can say that the ITTF wants to use this change to allow all the masters to appear in more competitions to participate in the competition. Only by participating in more competitions and achieving outstanding results can we have the opportunity to often occupy the leading position in the world rankings. Of course, this will inevitably allow the World Table Tennis Federation to have more advertising support. For example, not long ago, the main player of the national table tennis team had planned to participate in the Oman Star Challenge, but gave up. Replaced by a new point ranking method, the national table tennis team may not dare to make such a decision again, or let the main players participate in the game. According to the current competitive pattern, stronger players such as Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, or Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, I am afraid that they must become more cautious every time they want to give up the opportunity to participate. At least a year, there will be a few more races.
In short, for Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin, it is more urgent than the problem faced by Ito Mimachi, that is, to either choose to retire as soon as possible, or go all out and continue to treat themselves as a player with pursuit and goals to compete for more opportunities. Whether it is facing foreign opponents or domestic teammates, you must be tough on your opponents and be tough on yourself. Only by continuing to give yourself the goal of breaking through can you have the opportunity to return to a higher position in the world ranking. Let's also continue to pay attention to how the veterans of national table tennis, as well as the Japanese women's table tennis, especially Ito, will respond to this change in world ranking points.