At present, the national table tennis is divided into two teams. One team is preparing nervously for the World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, while the second team, led by famous players Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi, is competing in the WTT regular challenge in Oman. However, all this seems to have nothing to do with veteran Liu Shiwen. Because whether it is the list of participants in the National Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships Selection Tournament or the regular challenge participants in Oman, Liu Shiwen has disappeared. So, will Liu Shiwen retire from this? To be honest, judging from the news that has come out so far, the probability is very large. Because her new post was exposed, Liu Guoliang's arrangement was very meaningful.
For the national table tennis, the most important event at present is naturally the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu. In order to achieve good results at the World Table Tennis Championships, the main force of national table tennis is all concentrated in Chengdu for intense preparation. However, the number of places to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships is limited. In order to allow the best players to participate in the competition, the national table tennis announced the selection criteria. In addition to the 8 players selected by the world ranking, two more places will be determined by means of intra-team competitions. At present, the top 4 players of the men's team in the world are Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin, and the women's team is Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi. The men's team's Lin Gaoyuan, Xiang Peng, Yuan Licen, Liu Dingshuo and Lin Shidong, and the women's team's Fan Siqi, Zhang Rui, Liu Weishan, Ku Man, He Zhuojia and other players will compete for the remaining two places.
As can be seen from the list of this team competition, there are no longer the names of veteran Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen. But in fact, before that, Liu Shiwen had also come to Chengdu. Before the list was announced, many fans were speculating that Liu Shiwen would come to Chengdu and it was possible to compete for the qualification. But now the announcement of the list means that Liu Shiwen is unlikely to participate in the World Series as a contestant.
After all, although her state is OK, she is also 31 years old and a veteran in the national table tennis. In the case that the replacement of the women's team has been completed, Liu Shiwen really does not have many opportunities. So why did she come to Chengdu at this time? Maybe it has something to do with her new position.
Fans know that Liu Shiwen's singles strength has indeed dropped a lot, but her strength in mixed doubles is still the world's top. It is precisely because of this that Liu Shiwen's trip to Chengdu this time may be related to the transformation that Liu Guoliang arranged for her. Mixed doubles is an Olympic event, but it is a little different in table tennis events, because this competition can only have one pair of pairs in an association, which makes the champion seem very uncertain. At the Tokyo Olympics, the combination of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen was recognized as the biggest favorite to win the championship at that time. However, in the final final, the combination of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen still lost to the Japanese duo of Ito Mishimasa/Mizutani Hayabusa, failing to win the Olympic gold medal. However, although she failed to win the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal, Liu Shiwen has a lot of experience in mixed doubles. It is precisely in this way that in the case that Xu Xin has become the vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, then the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the national table tennis mixed doubles has fallen on Liu Shiwen.
At present, in the case that the combination of Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin has faded out, the combination of Sun Yingsha / Wang Chuqin has become the number one combination of the mixed doubles of national table tennis. In this, the state of the young general Sun Yingsha is affected by the change of coach, the ups and downs are relatively large, Liu Shiwen under liu Guoliang's arrangement, it is very likely that she will serve as a mixed doubles coach and guide Sun Yingsha. Fan friends, what do you think?