In the context of Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and two old team members due to the increase in age and the impact of injuries, the competitive state has declined significantly, and gradually handed over the main position of the national table tennis women's team, Chen Meng finally ushered in the peak of her career at the Tokyo Olympics, won the women's singles, women's team two female championships, the world ranking was once firmly in the first place, Chen Meng's outstanding performance, so that many people expect that she will create a glorious era of her own like Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning and other predecessors!
Unfortunately, after the end of the Tokyo Olympics, Chen Meng's performance is far from meeting everyone's expectations, with the rapid rise of Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Chen Xing and a group of young players, Chen Meng not only did not play the role of a leading pioneer, but encountered the embarrassment of the "champion shortage", in 234 days did not have a singles champion in the account, but also in the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships women's singles competition suspended to the semifinals, missed the best opportunity to surpass Zhang Jike in the shortest time to achieve the Grand Slam.
Although she made a positive adjustment in time, Chen Meng's performance in a series of international competitions in 2022 improved, and finally won a women's singles title at the Singapore Grand Slam at the beginning of the year, but in the Xinxiang World Cup women's singles final in October, after seven sets of hard fighting, she finally lost to Sun Yingsha and won the women's singles runner-up, moreover, Chen Meng's performance in other competitions was also unsatisfactory, and she had to hand over the throne of world number one.
Coming to 2023, Chen Meng faced the trouble caused by injuries, withdrew from the Durban World Table Tennis Championships Trials, and also added uncertainty to his Singapore Grand Slam defense prospects, sure enough, from the first round against Japanese table tennis player Miyu Nagasaki, Chen Meng played bumps, won hard, made fans tremble, to the second round of the tiebreaker big score lead, but the mentality collapse was reversed, exposing Chen Meng's lack of confidence in key moments in the past, the implementation of tactical attitude is not resolute These old problems, It has never been well resolved.
On the other hand, Sun Yingsha, from 2022 to show a rising trend, not only achieved the surpass of Chen Meng in the world ranking, sat in the first position in the world ranking, took off the hat of "the second of the millennium", successively won the Macao Championship women's singles championship, the Xinxiang World Cup finals women's singles champion, won the women's singles championship in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships Trials, and obtained the Durban World Table Tennis Championships singles qualification for the first time, but also played extremely well in this Singapore Grand Slam, winning the three championships of women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, It is in stark contrast to Chen Meng's performance.
Similarly, Wang Manyu, who participated in the Tokyo Olympics as a P card, did not disappoint the national table tennis coaching staff and fans, in the past two years, Wang Manyu's progress can be seen with the naked eye, not only won the National Games women's singles and Houston World Table Tennis Championships women's singles two gold championships, her world ranking has also been ranked third, is the absolute main force of the national table tennis women's team, as well as a strong contender for the qualification of the women's singles of the Paris Olympics, and also hopes to become another Grand Slam player of the national table tennis in the future.
A few days ago, the ITTF announced the latest world ranking, although Chen Meng is still ranked second in the women's singles list, but from the point of view, Chen Meng has been more than 3,000 points behind the first Sun Yingsha, ahead of the third place Wang Manyu, and only has an advantage of less than 800 points, Chen dreams to regain the world number one ranking in the short term, it is quite difficult, and if she cannot strive to get more points, not only the point gap with Sun Yingsha will increase, but also may be caught up by Wang Manyu, Lost the trust of the national table tennis coaching staff and lost the competition in the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics.
Therefore, in addition to the need to seize the time to recover from injuries and adjust his condition, Chen Meng must also show excellent results to prove his strength, after all, the world ranking is an important reference for the national table tennis coaching staff to determine the Olympic singles qualification, and the next Xinxiang Championship, Macao Championship, and even related to whether Chen Meng can complete the Grand Slam Durban World Table Tennis Championships, are Chen Meng's best opportunity to prove himself, I believe Chen Meng will summarize the reasons for the failure and find countermeasures and solutions to solve the problem, Resolve the current crisis of trust and regain an advantage in the fierce competition. Chen Meng, come on!
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