In the U17 men's singles final at the WTT Junior Regular Season Challenge in Havizów, national table tennis player Chen Yuanyu lost 0-3 to Romanian Mavigliano, regrettably missing out on the champion. Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching staff have recently made some adjustments to the national table tennis, including giving young players more opportunities to participate, but this time losing the championship has also caused setbacks to the adjustment. For the men's team head coach Qin Zhijian, he still has to work harder in cultivating new talents.
After ending the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, the main player of the national table tennis began to rest in the country and did not participate in the competition. Not only that, but the young players did not play for a while after participating in the Qatari competition. However, in order to allow young players to be trained and grown through the competition as soon as possible, Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching team have recently arranged for young players to go abroad to participate in the competition to accelerate the growth of young players.
However, the road to growth will always be full of ups and downs and twists, and no one can be smooth. In the WTT Youth Regular Season Challenge Havizov station, several national table tennis players encountered setbacks. In the U17 men's singles final, facing Romania's Moviglianu, Chen Yuanyu, although he performed well, was still incompetent in grasping key points, losing 3 consecutive sets 10-12 and 2 9-11, and was swept away to lose the championship.
For Chen Yuanyu, this defeat was a lesson, and it was worth him going back and summing up well. For the coaching team of the national table tennis men's team headed by Qin Zhijian, they still have to make efforts in cultivating new talents. Compared with the women's team, the newcomers of the men's team are not very reassuring, and even Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin, who have become the main force of national table tennis, are difficult to give people a sense of peace of mind in international competitions. Compared with Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, these two players still have a clear gap.
In the Paris Olympic cycle, veteran Xu Xin may retire, and whether Malone can participate in the next Olympic Games is unknown. Players such as Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin were given heavy responsibilities, and the growth of young players such as Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong was also looking forward to it. Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching staff have obviously begun to pay attention to the use of young people, which is an adjustment to the national table tennis. However, from the current point of view, the young players of the national table tennis men's team still need to grow further.
Fan Zhendong has become a brother of national table tennis, but it still needs one person to form a double insurance with him in the Olympic arena, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin have their own strengths and weaknesses, Lin Gaoyuan has fallen behind, and Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong are slightly immature. For Qin Zhijian, Liu Guoliang, and Liu Guozheng, they still need to make a good effort in cultivating young players.