A few days ago, the Chinese table tennis team has officially opened a closed training camp, including Olympic champions Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong, Wang Manyu, etc., to continue to move towards the ultimate goal of this season. As the current world number one player in women's singles, Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng revealed his inner monologue in the 234 days after winning the Olympic championship on the media platform for the first time. As we all know, from the Tokyo Olympic Games table tennis women's singles final defeated Sun Yingsha to win the championship, to the 2022 Singapore Grand Slam final victory over Wang Manyu, during this period, Chen Meng experienced more than 200 days of championship drought. In addition to the coaching staff of the national table tennis women's team, many fans can't help but wonder, "What happened to Chen Meng?" ”
With winning this year's WTT Singapore Grand Slam women's singles final, Chen Meng finally came out of this 234-day trough. For the experience of not having a champion in these 234 days, Chen Meng said in an interview that he personally felt that if he wanted to return to his previous ideal state, he needed to make more efforts than before. With the strong rise of the new generation of players represented by Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, Chen Meng realized that it would be much more difficult for him to win and win championships in his future career.
Talking about this painful day, Chen Meng admitted that everything has advantages and disadvantages, although he has suffered many defeats in games, he also has a very important gain, that is, he has learned to accept himself who is not in a good state. For winning the Grand Slam in Singapore, Chen Meng said that this championship is like a timely rain, so that she has regained her former state and confidence. In response, she also shouted: "Finally, I can devote myself to the field like I did when I was at my best." At the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Chen Meng was expected to become the sixth Grand Slam champion of the national table tennis women's team, and broke the historical record of Zhang Jike's shortest time to win a Grand Slam.
But due to poor form and fluctuating mentality, she was drunk in the women's singles semifinals. The plot of the women's singles semifinals of the World Championships and the Shaanxi National Games were concocted, and Chen Meng once again faced the young player Wang Manyu. This peak battle between the two fought hard for 7 rounds, and finally Wang Manyu laughed to the end. Missing this excellent opportunity to win a career grand slam, Chen Meng was devastated, and the outside world predicted that the short dynasty of Chen Meng's domination has passed, and the world women's table tennis will enter the era of Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha's double stars.
Although the fans' doubts have risen and fallen, Chen Meng still chooses to face it calmly and prove his strength again through harder training. In the Singapore Grand Slam, Chen Meng played steadily as a whole, although he did not meet Sun Yingsha, but defeated the bitter lord Wang Manyu in the final, breaking the embarrassing record of 234 days without a crown. With two years to go until the Paris Olympics, can Chen Meng successfully defend his title in Paris, France in 2024? Can Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu be crowned for the first time?
(Luo Treasurer)