On October 25, Beijing time, China's national table tennis officially announced the big list to participate in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in the United States, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen three veterans took the initiative to let Xian, the spirit of giving young people a place worthy of praise, but the final big list still caused some controversy.
The national table tennis men's team only reported 5 people, namely Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan and Zhou Qihao. The reason why this list is controversial is mainly in Lin Gaoyuan's body. Lin Gaoyuan, who was once the focus of training in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, was abandoned at the last moment and failed to be selected for the Tokyo Olympics roster, and at the Shaanxi National Games, he did not show the level of men's singles and mixed doubles men's doubles, but he performed well in the men's team competition and rubbed a championship with Fan Zhendong.
Fans familiar with national table tennis should all understand that Lin Gaoyuan's poor state is no longer a matter of one day or two days, and he was even ridiculed by Huang Qiqi of the second team because of his poor performance at the National Games. However, men's table tennis coach Qin Zhijian gave three reasons for reusing Lin Gaoyuan: "Lin Gaoyuan is also the left hand, the world ranking is high, and in the first two world championships, he has defended his own line. ”
But in fact, although Lin Gaoyuan is ranked high in the world, he performed badly in the foreign competition, the 2017 World Cup was reversed by Pol, and the 2020 year-end finals lost to Zhang Yuzhen... The reason why he can hold his own line at the World Table Tennis Championships is also because he lost to the same goal before he could meet the foreign association masters, and the 10-5 lead in the 2017 decider was reversed by Xu Xin, and in 2019, he lost to Ma Long, who was in the recovery period. Although his left-handed advantage is theoretically conducive to pairing doubles, he has not yet been able to prove that his doubles ability is outstanding.
The most regrettable thing is that Liu Dingshuo broke out at the National Games to get the men's singles runner-up, but Qin Zhijian would rather give a chance to Zhou Qihao, who was upset in the simulation competition, rather than trust "Liu Ding", even if it is to give a doubles opportunity, it can be gratifying, but the national table tennis official did not respond.