The national table tennis still has not announced the list of participants in the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships, which also makes fans wait very anxiously. One of the reasons why the roster for this tournament is so important is that it means that the national table tennis has ushered in a new round of shuffling. From the platoon of national table tennis, everyone can not only see who is the current main player, but also see the ordering between each other. Although Wang Manyu has defeated Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha many times in the competition in the past year, it is still difficult to change her position in the team.
The national table tennis women's team currently has four main players, namely Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi. These four people firmly occupy the top four positions in the world rankings, and they are also the top four winners of the women's singles at last year's World Table Tennis Championships, which can be said to be a very stable position in the team. Among these four people, Wang Yidi has not participated in the Olympic Games, belongs to the players who have only recently determined the main position, and there is still a certain gap compared with the other three, but it is also catching up.
In fact, many fans are concerned about the arrangement of the national table tennis at the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, which is essentially concerned about the ranking problem between Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu. Chen Meng was an Olympic singles champion, but his form after the Olympics was not the best. Sun Yingsha is the number one player in the world, but only won the singles runner-up in the three major competitions. Wang Manyu is the world table tennis and national games women's singles champion, currently in the best state of the three, but the world ranking is the lowest of the three.
Although Wang Manyu has defeated Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha many times in the Paris Olympic cycle, and has beaten Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng in the Singapore Grand Slam and Budapest Championships, her world ranking points are still far from the two. Not only that, in the competition for singles places in the Asian Games, Wang Manyu also lost to Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, and had no chance to defend the title. That is to say, at present, Wang Manyu's position in the team is still only the third place.
Can this situation be changed at the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships? This is a problem that everyone is more concerned about. After all, Wang Manyu's state is in full swing, winning multiple singles titles in the Paris Olympic cycle, compared to Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha's performance. Not only that, in the face-to-face competition between the three people, Wang Manyu also has the advantage, if this is not enough to change her position in the team, it is indeed a bit unreasonable.
It can be imagined that the national table tennis will send Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu's main squad in the key games of the team world table tennis championships, but who will play the first singles and the second singles is still very exquisite. National table tennis is a team that pays attention to seniority, perhaps from this time of platooning, we can estimate the probability of Wang Manyu participating in the Olympic singles competition.