This year's WTT Xinxiang, Macao two championships have just come to an end, the latest world singles ranking is also released in time, National Table Tennis with excellent results in these two championships, still continue to lead the list, men's singles, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin ranked the top two, Ma Long, who won the men's singles runner-up in Macau, ranked third, and Liang Jingkun ranked fifth. In the women's singles, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Qian Tianyi and Chen Xingtong ranked in the top six, and Chen Meng, who won the runner-up in the women's singles in Macau, rose one place to rank third.
Since the Durban World Table Tennis Championships is about to be held on May 20, the main force of the national table tennis that ended these two competition tasks, took a short break, and left for Chengdu to participate in closed training to prepare for this major international event, this is not, there are fans posted photos of Chen Meng, a member of the national table tennis women's team, appeared at the airport, preparing to go to Chengdu for training, once the photos were exposed, everyone fully affirmed Chen Meng's performance in the two championships in Xinxiang and Macao, after all, Chen Meng's state has not been very good this year, Neither of the two direct tournaments qualified for the Durban World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, and the second round of the Singapore Grand Slam was also upset.
After the Houston World Table Tennis Championships missed the best opportunity to achieve a Grand Slam, this Durban World Table Tennis Championships has a different special meaning for Chen Meng, and she is also the opportunity to achieve a Grand Slam again, but in the context of Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu leading strongly, and then Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi and other young players are trying their best to catch up, will Chen Meng copy Liu Shiwen's miracle at the end of her career, sharpen a sword in the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships for ten years, fight hard, win the women's singles championship, and once again reproduce the miracle of peak state, It has also aroused the attention and heated discussion of many fans!
Born in 1994, Chen Meng, 29 years old this year, entered the national team so far, has participated in the World Table Tennis Championships experience five times, except for the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships did not qualify for women's singles, the remaining four World Table Tennis Championships, Chen Meng has participated in singles competitions, the best result is the runner-up of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, and there is a third place, a top 8, a round of 16, to be honest, such results, compared with the achievements of Grand Slam players Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning in the World Table Tennis Championships, There is still a big gap.
In fact, the current Chen Meng, and Liu Shiwen at the end of her career have many similarities, before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiwen encountered a sudden recurrence of injuries, although she actively cooperated with rehabilitation and tried to adjust her competitive state, but finally failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics women's singles, and because of the impact of injuries, not only was Hayabusa Mizutani / Mimato Ito reversed in the mixed doubles competition, missing the first mixed doubles gold medal in Olympic history, but also withdrew from the women's team competition due to the aggravation of injuries. He became the only player who did not have a gold medal among the national table tennis team members participating in this Olympic Games, and failed to draw a perfect end to his career.
And Chen Meng won the World Cup and Olympic singles championships, but also because of the invasion and recurrence of injuries, there was a serious decline in competitive status, and she encountered the embarrassment of "champion shortage" in nearly a year, handed over the throne of the women's singles world number one ranking, and did not win the women's singles championship of the Singapore Grand Slam until 2022, but the recurrence of the foot injury not only forced her to withdraw from the direct match early, but also in this year's Singapore Grand Slam 1/16 final, Chen Meng lost 2-3 to Romania's Samara, regrettably out of the game, unable to defend the title, casting a shadow over his goal of completing the Grand Slam at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban.
However, in this Xinxiang and Macao championships, Chen Meng's competitive state has improved, respectively reaching the final four and winning the runner-up, but Chen Meng wants to realize his dream of a Grand Slam in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, in addition to being vigilant against the impact of some powerful players in the foreign association, he must cross the two mountains in front of him Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, you know, Liu Shiwen was the fifth place in the direct competition, hitched a ride on the last train of the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, and staged a wonderful show of Jedi counterattack without being optimistic. Finally reached the top, then, whether Chen Meng can replicate Liu Shiwen's miracle in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the answer will be revealed soon!
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