National table tennis had a small long holiday some time ago, and after returning to Qingdao, Chen Meng's friend also asked her, you have won the Olympic women's singles championship, so what is the goal of striving? Chen Meng's answer was: Grand Slam! Judging from Chen Meng's growth process, perhaps most people put the hope of grand slam on Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, and Zhu Yuling, and Chen Meng is not a popular candidate. Especially at present, with the rise of new generations such as Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, does Chen Meng still have the opportunity to achieve a grand slam? Let's also take a look at Chen Meng, the world's number one, and the road to growth.
Once the youngest player to enter the national team, he was unable to compete with Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen for the main force, and he also became the shadow of Zhu Yuling
Chen Meng has been in the national team for 15 years, and Chen Meng, who just entered the national team in 2007, is only 13 years old, which is second only to Guo Yue, who entered the national team at the age of 12, and was the youngest player in the team at that time. Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen have been in the main position of women's table tennis for more than 10 years, and Chen Meng's entire growth process is almost accompanied by Zhu Yuling, who is 1 year younger than her.
Chen Meng was born in Qingdao on January 15, 1994, and Zhu Yuling was born on January 10, 1995 in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, both of whom picked up a racket at the age of 5. Zhu Yuling won the 7th place in the mianyang city competition at the age of 8, and then won the 3rd place in the Sichuan Provincial Selection Competition, and entered the training team of Sichuan Province at the age of 8.
Chen Meng went to New Zealand with his coach at the age of 9, was selected for the Shandong Sports Team at the age of 10, and entered the Chinese Table Tennis Junior Team in the same year. Because they belong to the same age group, Chen Meng and Zhu Yuling have played in the national children's competition, and Chen Meng has a certain upper hand.
However, this situation reversed after entering the national team. Zhu Yuling, who entered the first team 3 years later than Chen Meng, almost became Ding Ning's successor, and even ranked ahead of Liu Shiwen. In the women's singles showdown of the National Youth Championships, Zhu Yuling is the champion who won the victory over Chen Meng.
From the perspective of the women's team at that time, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning, and Liu Shiwen were the three main forces, and the status was difficult to shake, and with Li Xiaoxia's completion of the Grand Slam withdrawal, the competition of the women's team was Zhu Yuling, Chen Menglai to attack the position of Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, and other players such as Muzi, Wu Yang and others were basically not within the scope of the main force.
Because after entering the national team, Chen Meng often loses to Zhu Yuling, so whether it is in the successor or in the position of the team, Zhu Yuling is in front of Chen Meng.
In the 2013 Paris World Table Tennis Championships team through the competition, Zhu Yuling performed well and won a singles place, and finally Xiao Zhu won the third place in the World Table Tennis Championships, and Chen Meng and Zhu Yuling only won the third place in the women's doubles.
Chen Meng, at this stage of the International Open, basically stopped in the quarterfinals or the top four, so in the competition for the P card at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, Zhu Yuling became the owner of the P card without suspense.
Maybe many fans don't value this P card status too much, but to get this P card is basically one of the best young players, or second only to the Olympians.
The P card of the 2008 Beijing Olympic women's team is Li Xiaoxia, the 2016 Rio Olympics men's team P card Fan Zhendong, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games P card winner Wang Manyu, look at the strength of these players, you know how strong this P card is.
It is with the confidence brought by this P card that Zhu Yuling has since ushered in a series of outbreaks. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, she won three consecutive Asian Cups, the last two of which were victories over Chen Meng; in 2017, Zhu Yuling also won the World Cup women's singles championship.
In this sense, Chen Meng, who opened his tricks relatively late, did not have the ability to shake Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen at that time, and even some of them became the taste of Zhu Yuling's shadow.
However, after the development of the situation, everyone also knows the reform of equipment, coupled with the emergence of Ito Mimako, Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling were eliminated, and Chen Meng's power-type playing style ushered in a huge advantage in the 40+ era.
Ito Mimachi single-handedly destroyed the main layer of women's table tennis, Chen Mengcheng became the backbone, and the highlight moment was maintained for nearly 2 years.
Zhu Yuling began to fall behind, starting with the 2018 Swedish Open. At that time, Ito Defeated Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen to reach the women's singles final. In order to avoid Ito's "string of three" women's singles to win the championship, The Godfather of the Grand Slam Li Falcon also personally guided Zhu Yuling on the sidelines.
As a result, the situation on the field was completely unexpected by everyone. Ito's backhand shots and forehand slaps hit Zhu Yuling without the ability to fight back. During the suspension, in order to curb Ito's crazy fight, Li Falcon and Zhu Yuling also quarreled on the sidelines.
In the same year, Liu Shiwen was also sent by Ito Mimako to lose 2 consecutively. Grand Slam player Ding Ning was hit 11:0 by Ito at the 2020 Qatar Open!
It can be said that Ito Mimachi single-handedly destroyed the main layer of the national table tennis women's team.
At this time, Li Falcon also began to panic, no longer saying that Ito was a child's way of playing, but saying that it had formed a unique style. Subsequently, Li Falcon quickly transferred Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and others from the second team to escort them. Even so, in the 2019 Swedish Open, Ito still defeated Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu to reach the women's singles final again.
The only person who did not fall to Ito's body during this time period was Chen Meng. Chen Meng reflected her strength advantage in the 40+ big ball era, and the powerful and heavy batting and stable stalemate and defense made Ito lose to Chen Meng 4 times in a row.
If it were not for Chen Meng fighting Ito, the national table tennis women's team would almost be completely destroyed.
Chen Meng has strong technical strength, but the competition has not produced results, that is, she is grinning greatly, and her goals and requirements are not clear enough. The two people who stimulated Chen Meng's awakening the most were: Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen.
Li Xiaoxia was in the same room as Chen Meng when she was in the national team, and before every time she arrived at the competition, Li Xiaoxia would nervously not be able to sleep, and Chen Meng asked Li Xiaoxia with a puzzled face: "Why can't you sleep?" Then, Chen Meng lay down and slept until dawn.
At the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, Chen Meng had the absolute upper hand in the past 2 years of confrontation with Liu Shiwen. However, in the final, Liu Shiwen still taught Chen Meng a lesson. After sending 11:0 in a single set, Liu Shiwen defeated Chen Mengshi Table Tennis Championships to win the women's singles championship.
After the game, Chen Meng said: "In that game, the feeling that the jujube group gave me was that even if I lost, I would admit it. From the Women's Singles Final of the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, I realized what it was like to be in the final. ”
You have no goal for the big game, you are mentally ill-prepared, you don't know how to play the big game, you just rely on technical strength to fight hard, this is not OK. It must be enlightened in the brain, that is, the stimulation of these two sisters, let Chen Meng know how to prepare for the competition, how to play the competition.
In the 2020 World Cup and the Tokyo Olympic Games, Chen Mengjun defeated Sun Yingsha and won his 2 women's singles championships.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Manyu achieved curve overtaking, Sun Yingsha and Qiu Yi could practice, and it was difficult for Chen Meng to impact the Grand Slam
Under the careful guidance of Xiao Zhan's "one-on-one", Wang Manyu won the women's singles championship at the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, achieving a counterattack against Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha within a period of time, and also bringing Chen Meng's grand slam road to an abrupt end. After Sun Yingsha had a head coach, during the national table tennis holiday, she also went to Chengdu to retreat and practice.
Wang Yidi defeated Chen Meng in last year's World Cup finals to reach the women's singles final, and the Grand Slam Singapore semifinals fought Chen Meng fiercely to the decider; Chen Xingtong still maintains a 4-game winning streak against Chen Meng.
Next year's World Table Tennis Championships is Chen Meng's last chance to achieve a Grand Slam, others can lose, because they still have time, just like Liu Shiwen, who stormed the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2019, Chen Meng is standing on the edge of the cliff and making a final fight with the new generation.
As we all know, the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships can get an Olympic singles place. Therefore, for Chen Meng, next year not only to impact the Grand Slam, but also to win the Women's Singles Championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, and enter the Paris Olympic Games, this is very difficult.
Chen Meng will be 29 years old next year, and now she and the new generation must fight 7 rounds to win, with Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi's progress rate, after a year of improvement, next year's World Table Tennis Championships is more difficult to beat. Do you think that the only seedling of the Mesozoic Era, Chen Meng, can still fulfill his dream of a Grand Slam? What are the odds? Welcome to leave a message, discuss, thank you for your attention! I am a teenager at the Temple of Horse riding.