At present, it is getting closer and closer to the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships, and foreign associations have also announced the list of participants, and fans who love national table tennis are also looking forward to the release of the national table tennis list. Since the early 60s of the last century, the national table tennis men's team won the team world table tennis championship for the first time, and now more than 60 years have passed, and table tennis, as our national ball, has been loved by many Chinese people.
Due to the cancellation of the 2020 Busan World Table Tennis Championships, in the past 54 team world table tennis championships, the national table tennis men's and women's teams have won 21 championships each, and the national table tennis men's team has achieved 9 consecutive championships since the 2001 Osaka Team World Table Tennis Championships in Japan. The national table tennis women's team has only lost two championships since the 22nd World Table Tennis Championships in Kolkata, India, in 1976, namely the 41st Japan Chiba Team World Table Tennis Championships in 1991 and the 50th Moscow Team World Table Tennis Championships in 2010, while the national table tennis women's team defeated Moscow 12 years ago, and the scene after the game Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning crying should make many fans who love national table tennis still remember.
At that time, the 5 participants of the national table tennis women's team were Guo Yan, Guo Yue, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, although the "Big Devil" Zhang Yining did not retire at that time, but did not participate, mainly due to the gradual return to the family after marriage, and then gave young people more opportunities, at that time everyone also thought that even if Zhang Yining did not participate, the national table tennis women's team would not have any difficulty in winning the championship. However, the final final surprised everyone, the national table tennis women's team lost 1-3 to Singapore, accidentally lost the women's team championship, and what was the reason why the national table tennis women's team lost the game?
The biggest reason is that there was a lot of controversy about the employment of Shi Zhihao, the head coach of the national table tennis women's team at that time, when in the final, Shi Zhihao sent 19-year-old Liu Shiwen to a single, and it should be known that Liu Shiwen was the youngest of the 5 members of the national table tennis women's team at that time. The 20-year-old Ding Ning was appointed as the second singles player, the veteran Guo Yan was the third singles, and Guo Yue, who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games and was once considered to be the successor of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, was abandoned, and Li Xiaoxia, who was the same age as Guo Yue and gradually matured, did not enter the final list. It was such a lineup that made the national table tennis women's team end in a fiasco, and the whole country was in an uproar.
In the first set, Ding Ning against Singapore's famous Feng Tianwei, in the case of a 2-0 lead, was won by the opponent for three consecutive sets to lose the first set, especially in the fourth set, Ding Ning once led 8-3, and finally was reversed by Feng Tianwei 11-9, it seems very regrettable, the national table tennis women's team is unfavorable. Then in the second set, Liu Shiwen played against Singapore veteran Wang Yuegu, perhaps Ding Ning's loss greatly affected Liu Shiwen's mentality, and it was 0-2 behind at the beginning, and finally the big score was 1-3, and the national table tennis women's team was pushed to the edge of the cliff. At this time, Shi Zhihao, the head coach of the national table tennis women's team sitting on the sidelines, was dazed, and Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia, who were not on the list, were frowning and had a feeling that they could not be forced.
In the third set, the veteran Guo Yan played a stable and smooth win, the fourth set Liu Shiwen appeared again, against Singapore a single Feng Tianwei, the first four sets of the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw, the young Liu Shiwen in the decider did not resist the pressure, after 7-11 loss, the national table tennis women's team lost to Singapore 1-3, did not qualify for the World Table Tennis Championships women's team 9 consecutive championships, but also suffered a rare defeat in the national table tennis women's team in the past 30 years. After the loss, Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Guo Yan wept bitterly, and the head coach of the women's team, Shi Zhihao, was under unprecedented public pressure.
"We have made mistakes in judgment on Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning's true abilities." This sentence is the words of Shi Zhihao's debriefing report after the defeat of the national table tennis women's team in Moscow, and Shi Zhihao's sentence is also a tacit mistake in his employment. This defeat also taught the national table tennis team a good lesson, the young Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning also grew rapidly after that, Ding Ning won the "Grand Slam", and now retired to Peking University to study. Liu Shiwen currently holds 20 world championships, which is the player with the largest number of world champions in the active national table tennis women's team, but the current Liu Shiwen has gradually faded out of the national table tennis team.
Today's national table tennis women's team, 23-year-old Wang Manyu, "post-00" Sun Yingsha has become the absolute main force of the national table tennis women's team, plus Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng, the recent year's rapid growth of Wang Yidi, and these 4 players are currently the world's top four women's singles players, in the upcoming Chengdu team world table tennis championships, it is difficult for the foreign association to win the national table tennis women's team in a game, which is the embodiment of strong strength. And who can become the fifth person of the national table tennis women's team and be selected for the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships? We will also wait and see.