National table tennis is in crisis! The women's team won 6 consecutive games, but the men's team lost 2-4 to African players, and Wang Hao's pressure doubled. The first round of the 2023 WTT Durban Regular Challenge has ended, in the men's singles and women's singles events, the performance of the national table tennis can be described as polarized, in these two events, the national table tennis each has 6 people playing, but the results are completely different, the women's team won 6 consecutive victories, but the men's team suffered a crushing defeat, only achieved a 4-2 record, Xue Fei, Liang Jianchang, Sun Wen, Chen Yuanyu were eliminated successively, and still lost to the world ranking 100 outside the player, for the new head coach of the men's team Wang Hao, The current situation is not optimistic, and the pressure to bear has increased a lot.
In this WTT Durban Regular Challenge, National Table Tennis sent young players, which released a message to the outside world, that is, National Table Tennis will increase the training of young players in the future. The women's singles won all six matches, including Zhang Rui defeating France's Charlotte Lutz 3-1, Liu Weishan beating Slovakia's Balazova 3-0, Fan Siqi sweeping France's Parvad 3-0, Quangman beating India's Kamas 3-0, Qian Tianyi sweeping Turkey's Artinkaya 3-0 and Chen Yi defeating Slovakia's Kukulkova 3-1. On the other hand, the men's team suffered a crushing defeat, Xue Fei lost 0-3 to England's Jarvis, who was ranked only 121 in the world, Liang Yancang lost 1-3 to France's Jules Rowland, who was only 142 in the world, Sun Wen lost 1-3 to African brother Aruna, Chen Yuanyu lost 0-3 to Germany's Franceska, Lin Shidong swept Chinese Taipei's Gao Chengrui 3-0, and Xu Yingbin defeated Luxembourg's Gerrod 3-0.
Compared with the national table tennis women's team 6 people to advance to the second round, the national table tennis men's team only Lin Shidong and Xu Yingbin advanced to the round of 16, and next, Lin Shidong will play against England's Jarvis, Xu Yingbin will play against France's Simon, who once defeated the national table tennis world champion Xu Xin, it can be seen that the national table tennis men's team is very likely to lose another person in the second round, from the current situation, the chance of the national table tennis women's team winning the championship is greater than that of the men's team, and the men's team will be wiped out in advance. The new head coach of the men's team, Wang Hao, is now very heavy, in the previous World Preliminary Tournament, Grand Slam winner Ma Long also lost to Japan's Yoshimura Maharu, and now young players have lost continuously, the crisis encountered by the national table tennis men's team has been on the surface, Wang Hao needs to make strong reforms, in order to reverse the current decline.
Many fans expressed their views on the rout of the national table tennis men's team: "In the next three years, men's table tennis will not dominate in international competitions, and women's table tennis will be stable in three years and five years." "The national table tennis men's team is going down, it is not an overnight thing, this bitter fruit is buried again, and it can only be slowly changed!" Don't say anything about Coach Wang Hao, this needs to be borne by our joint efforts! "How to say this, originally the men's team was not so strong compared to the women's team, and now the level of Eurasian men's table tennis is similar, the young player loses normally, and it takes a process to experience." "Wang Hao has inherited such a status quo, if you can train a reassuring general who can play in Paris, Wang Hao will be amazing, don't expect anything now." "The men's table tennis team used to have Ma Long, and there was no crisis in sight, and now the problem is gradually emerging." This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or move.