In the recently concluded WTT Championship Women's Singles Final, Wang Manyu defeated teammate Wang Yidi 4-2 to win the women's singles championship, which is also the fourth gold-laden women's singles championship since the Tokyo Olympic Games, the following is a brief review of Wang Manyu's women's singles championship after the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The first is the 2021 National Games, there is a recognized saying within the national table tennis, the national championship is actually more difficult to win than the world champion, indicating that the competition within the national table tennis is very fierce. And it is in such a gold-rich competition, Wang Manyu swept the Tokyo Olympic Women's Singles Champion and Runner-up Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha with a score of 4-0, and won the Women's Singles Championship of the National Games, and it should be known that Wang Manyu only won a wild card qualification in the Tokyo Olympic Games, that is, a substitute player. It can be said that in the more than a month after the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Manyu proved himself with practical actions, and this is only the beginning of Wang Manyu's transformation.
Two months after the National Games, one of the heavyweight events of the International Table Tennis Federation, the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, was ushered in. To know that the level of the World Table Tennis Championships is second only to the Olympic Games, Wang Manyu once again staged a semi-final elimination of Chen Meng, the final victory over Sun Yingsha's good play, strong to win the women's singles championship, Wang Manyu's victory also made Chen Meng's dream of achieving the "Grand Slam" as soon as possible shattered.
Time to January 2022, WTT Macau, Wang Manyu eliminated Chen Meng again in the semi-finals, after the Tokyo Olympic Games against Chen Meng ushered in three consecutive wins, the final swept Liu Shiwen and won the women's singles championship. Finally, this time is the WTT Championship, in the semi-final Wang Manyu eliminated Chen Meng, defeated teammate Wang Yidi 4-2 in the final, won his fourth singles title since the Tokyo Olympics, and also allowed himself to stabilize the third position in the world, and gradually narrowed the point gap with Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng. In fact, Wang Manyu lags behind Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha in the world rankings, mainly because he did not win the singles quota of the Olympic Games, and after the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Manyu won the most points among the international table tennis women's players.
It is worth mentioning that after the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Manyu missed three women's singles championships, namely the Table Tennis World Cup Finals in December 2021, the 2021 Grand Slam Singapore Tournament and the just-concluded WTT Star Challenge, and the champions of these three events were equally divided by Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi. In summary, in the 7 competitions in which the main members of the national table tennis team participated after the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Manyu won more women's singles championships than Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi combined, and Wang Manyu's temperament of "big devil" was gradually revealed.
At this time, many fans may want to know about Wang Manyu's growth experience, Wang Manyu entered the Heilongjiang provincial team at the age of 9, and then met Wang Fei, the head coach of the Heilongjiang provincial team who boldly used new talents. In 2013, it was Wang Fei who took the 14-year-old Wang Manyu to the National Games, knocking on the door of the national youth team, thus changing Wang Manyu's table tennis path. Wang Fei does not look at the origin of the players, but only values the ability and tenacity of the players.
Wang Manyu's father relied on selling meat sandwich steamed buns for Wang Manyu to practice table tennis, and Wang Manyu, who was sensible since childhood, usually trained harder, and Wang Fei also took a fancy to Wang Manyu's noble qualities and gave him more opportunities. To this day, Wang Manyu should be most grateful to Wang Fei.
Today, Wang Manyu has become an Olympic champion, a world champion, and the pride of his hometown of Heilongjiang Province, and Wang Manyu is the first Olympic champion trained by Coach Wang Fei. We can imagine that an ordinary family can appear an Olympic champion, and his sports career is certainly indispensable to the unique insight of Bole, and Wang Fei can be said to be the Bole in Wang Manyu's career.
At present, Wang Manyu's goal is definitely to fight for the women's singles quota of the Paris Olympic Games, and Wang Manyu does have such strength at present. Years later, when Wang Manyu is thinking back on her table tennis career, Coach Wang Fei will definitely be the first in her mind.