On the evening of May 28, Beijing time, the Durban World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion was born! Sun Yingsha, the main player of the post-00 national table tennis team, reversed after falling behind, defeating Olympic women's singles gold medalist Chen Meng 4-2. After the competition, Liu Guoliang personally presented Sun Yingsha with an award, touched her cheek affectionately, and did not forget to comfort Chen Meng when shaking hands: the palms and backs of the hands are meat, it is not easy!
Although she lost the game and her face was ugly, Chen Meng is still the core main force of the Chinese team, this time she defeated strong opponents such as Misei Ito in a row, and won 1 gold and 1 silver, which also proved her strength, we still have to applaud her performance!
Speaking of Sun Yingsha's World Series singles journey, it was really a bitter tear: in 2020, she reached the World Cup final, but lost to Chen Meng; In 2021, he reached the Olympic final, and then lost to Chen Meng again; Although Chen Meng was not met in the final of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha lost to Wang Manyu and won another silver medal.
According to convention, the athletes who have collected the singles champions of the above three competitions will be called "Grand Slam", and as a result, Sun Yingsha all stopped at the silver medal, so many fans ridiculed her as "Damanya", which is indeed a little heart-wrenching.
Just before the start of this World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng's latest meeting was still a 0-4 defeat, so this time many people are not optimistic about her winning the championship, especially in the first game behind, many fans may have tacitly accepted that she is going to lose, but did not expect that the tenacious Sun Yingsha still achieved a reversal, and finally defeated her bitter master 4-2 and won the first three major singles championships in her life.
After the game, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng held high the national flag together and waved to the audience - this is not only Sun Yingsha's personal victory, but also the collective honor of the entire Chinese table tennis team!
But after all, she lost, so Chen Meng still looked a little serious when accepting the award: she was the runner-up four years ago, and won the silver medal again four years later. Like her mentor Ma Lin, Chen Meng is close to becoming a Grand Slam winner with this gold medal, but she always passes by him, which is indeed very regrettable.
But it is undeniable that Chen Meng's performance in this World Table Tennis Championships is still remarkable, especially after defeating the strong enemies of Japan and South Korea in a row, it is even better to defend the foreign battle position for the national table tennis table: next year's Olympic Games, I look forward to her being selected again and hitting the gold medal!