Recently, China National Table Tennis is competing in the WTT Grand Slam tournament in Singapore, and the overall competitive landscape has changed greatly as various events begin to enter the semifinals and even finals. Including the Japanese team and the Chinese team, there were different degrees of personnel losses, especially the Japanese team.
First of all, understand that many world champions of national table tennis have been eliminated one after another. First of all, Liang Jingkun and Chen Xingtong have been eliminated in the recent competition and have no chance of competing for the title. The opponent Liang Jingkun faced by itself was Lin Gaoyuan, and the strength of the two sides Liang Jingkun should have the advantage, but unfortunately in the end it did not stabilize the situation, but let Lin Gaoyuan find a breakthrough point to eliminate Liang Jingkun directly. On the other hand, Chen Xingtong is facing a German veteran this time, and her opponent's strength in all aspects is not comparable to her, and her world ranking and experience are better than the other party. The result is a pity that because I was too nervous, I lost this game and also broke out a big upset.
In addition to these two players, in the previous mixed doubles semifinals, Fan Zhendong and Wang Manyu also lost to Japan. On the other hand, two aces in Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei, Lin Yunru and Du Kaixuan, have been eliminated early and have no chance to compete for the championship. It can be seen from this that on the one hand, many world champions in China have been eliminated one after another, on the other hand, many European and American young players have gradually risen, with good dark horse performance, and the threat to the follow-up of national table tennis is quite large, for the coaching staff, this point must be paid attention to.
It is worth mentioning that recently, Yuan Licen and Zhang Rui were also punished with red and yellow cards for serving to interfere with opponents and delay time, which caused a lot of controversy.
Of course, similar to the situation of National Table Tennis, the Japanese team has also suffered a crushing defeat recently, and their situation is even more tragic. With the men's singles and women's singles tournaments temporarily trailing for a while, Japan has not had a single player in the semifinals, meaning they have lost two titles in singles. In addition, in the recent mixed doubles final, the combination of Hina Hayata and Tomokazu Chang lost to China, and eventually missed the title. As a result, Japan has lost three titles in a row in recent days, which is really bad news.
There are two events left in the end, and the Japanese team may not necessarily have the last laugh. First in the men's doubles, China's Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin sniped their ace combination; On the other hand, the women's doubles is not to mention, the combination of Misei Ito has become the only seedling of the Japanese team, but the Chinese team has two ace pairs left, they have achieved good results, and then we have a bigger chance of winning.
For this reason, it cannot be ruled out that in addition to losing three championships, Japan may also be out of the other two events early, and it is very likely to return empty-handed by then. So the next step is to hope that the Chinese team will work hard to compete for the championship and eliminate the Japanese team. Of course, on the other hand, we must pay attention to the rise of young foreign players, especially these young players in Germany and South Korea, which have always posed us a lot of threats.
Only by focusing on each opponent can the Chinese team finally have the last laugh and win the championship in five events