The world ranking list for the 18th week of 2022 was released on May 3, and it is regrettable that Zhu Yuling, the world champion of national table tennis and former world number one, has not participated in the competition for a long time due to her previous illness, and has now been emptied of all points and completely lost the world ranking.
At the same time, photos of Zhu Yuling playing again were also circulated on the Internet, but it was to communicate with amateur fans in Mianyang, rather than participating in the training and competition of the national team or the Sichuan provincial team, and many people could not help but sigh: Can Xiao Zhu return to the professional arena? Is she going to retire?
Born in 1995, Zhu Yuling was once the default Grand Slam successor of the table tennis group, and in 2017, she defeated Liu Shiwen consecutively to win the world table tennis singles runner-up and the Asian Cup and the World Cup singles championship, and the position in the team was close to the Grand Slam Ding Ning, when everyone thought that her participation in the Tokyo Olympic Games was a sure thing.
However, after the rise of Ito Mimachi in 2018, Zhu Yuling lost to the Japanese teenager twice in a row, and then completely fell behind, and in 2019, she lost the singles event of the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, and the Tokyo Olympic Games had nothing to do with her, and later fell ill and was admitted to a cancer hospital.
After the arrival of 2022, the national table tennis players signed up for the WTT Macau Tournament, the WTT Grand Slam, the WTT Oman Tournament and the three WTT Qatar Tournaments, three veterans over 30 years old Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are still fighting in the front line, while the 27-year-old Zhu Yuling has been hanging up the exemption card, which is a stark contrast, and it seems that the body should not have recovered.
Because she has not played in international competitions for too long, Zhu Yuling's world ranking has dropped again and again. On April 30, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced that all points before December 2020 were cleared, and as a result, Zhu Yuling also lost the world ranking and completely became a spectator, which was really regrettable.
I have to say that the emergence of Ito Mimachi has indeed made a huge change in the pattern of Chinese women's table tennis, because of her impact, Ding Ning has now retired, Zhu Yuling's career has declined sharply, Liu Shiwen has also suffered a major blow, and the result is that the times create heroes, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu have risen along the trend, in stark contrast with the veterans, it is really the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave!
Although everyone hopes to see Zhu Yuling return to the field, no matter what, good health is more important than anything else. As the world's no. 1 athlete, Zhu Yuling has won the championship many times and proved herself for the glory of the country, and in the future, she only hopes that she will be all right and let nature take its course!