In the past few days, some of the statements and views of Guo Yan, a former national table tennis celebrity and one of the former members of the coaching team of the national table tennis women's team, have aroused heated discussion among fans. On the one hand, she revealed in the live broadcast that Liu Guozheng will leave the national table tennis coaching team and go to Tsinghua University table tennis team to coach, on the other hand, she also predicted the Paris Olympic lineup of national table tennis in her own way. Of course, this is her personal views and statements, not from the national table tennis coaching staff through formal channels, but also with her personal subjective color. However, through the two major news she revealed, we also observed some problems, such as as the national table tennis men's team, the current coaching team is still relatively unstable, from the departure of Huang Haicheng last season, to the departure of Chen Xuan later, and then to the recent departure of Liu Guozheng from the national table tennis coaching team, the entire national table tennis men's team has a bottleneck period in performance, and it has also encountered new difficulties in the stability of the coaching team. This seems to prove that the difficulties faced by the national table tennis in the Paris Olympic cycle have indeed reached a new height.
Of course, from a certain point of view, this is the difficulty of national table tennis, from another point of view, it may also be a new opportunity for national table tennis, after all, every time a coach leaves, there will inevitably be new members to enter, the General Administration of Sports has been making personnel adjustments, and the national table tennis is also very likely to have new coach changes. Under the premise that the team has recently hidden Fan Zhendong and the obvious ups and downs in performance, it also shows that this team has many problems that need to be solved in a short period of time, after all, there are only two years left before the time of the Paris Olympic Games, how to creatively carry out work, like the national table tennis women's team to strive for the replacement of players in a new and old in a earlier period of time, is also a new problem that the national table tennis men's team must solve in these two years.
Before everyone on the national table tennis women's team to choose a lineup without any Olympic experience to participate in the Olympic Games, a certain skeptical attitude, but the final result, from Chen Meng to Sun Yingsha to Wang Manyu, or a good completion of the task, so the coaching team in the Tokyo Olympics after the return of the proposed future Olympic selection, may be bolder, the steps will also be a little bigger, and the new Olympic quota production rules, but also to the national table tennis team to provide such an opportunity, The current requirement is that the top two players in each association go to the Olympic singles, which is equivalent to the way the national table tennis assigned players before will be replaced by the selection of players with more outstanding results and stability. Because the world ranking is often determined by these two factors, there is increasing uncertainty about who will play in the Olympic singles in the future national table tennis men's team. Hard power has almost become the only criterion for influencing the final result.
Fan Zhendong is bound to be put into the singles squad, and as the world's number one player, he definitely has this strength. According to Guo Yan, the second singles spot is likely to belong to Wang Chuqin. Some fans may say that the biggest difficulty for Wang Chuqin is not his strength, but that he is far from the second or third place in the world ranking. But we can see that he has only taken a few months to raise his world ranking to the tenth position in the world, and if the future national table tennis coaching staff is willing to give him more opportunities, his world ranking has improved significantly, and even reaching the top three is a high probability event, so everyone does not need to worry too much about this. The most crucial thing now is actually the third position in the Olympic lineup, whether it is for veterans like Ma Long and Xu Xin, or for young players like Xiang Peng, Lin Shidong and Yuan Licen? From the perspective of the employment of the coaching staff and the competitive landscape of the entire world table tennis, it is obvious that both Guo Yan himself and the national table tennis coaching team are more inclined to use a veteran to escort. It's just that Guo Yan is optimistic about Xu Xin, and may not support too many good fans. After all, in the previous Olympic Games, Xu Xin had lost several times, and after returning from the Tokyo Olympics, several games that he played in were also prematurely out, which also made him basically give up hope work in advance for continuing to compete in the Olympic Games, or the subjective single wish was getting smaller and smaller, and the coaching team's belief in him continued to decline.
In contrast, Malone has new expectations in this regard, and the coaching staff also has expectations for him, so the two sides hit it off, Malone is more active than Xu in continuing to participate in training and competition, and the coaching staff continues to give him opportunities. However, the early exit of the Budapest Championship will undoubtedly make the coaching staff shake their thinking about whether to continue to support Ma Long to compete for the Paris Olympic Qualification in the future, from Guo Yan's point of view, Ma Long's singles opportunity may be reduced, but the probability of taking the third place in the National Table Tennis Olympics is still very large. At least this probability is significantly higher than that of Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan. In the next World Table Tennis Championships team competition, the national table tennis coaching team will definitely give Ma Long a chance to continue to play key battles and pick the beams in the game, the purpose is to use such a key game to examine Ma Long, in the case of defeat, whether he can mobilize himself well, if there is still an unexpected loss, I am afraid that from the use of veterans to the use of new ideas, for the national table tennis men's team coaching staff, it is really going to change.