On July 6, Beijing time, a big battle in the WTT Star Challenge Ljubljana ended, Liu Guoliang's experiment was a great success, and Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong will become the winners.
In this Ljubljana station, Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff made a bold attempt, let Ma Long and Yuan Licen team up, and unexpectedly participated in the men's doubles competition, they played all the way down from the qualifying round, but 3-1 finished the combination of No. 2 seed Cho Dae-sung and Lee Sang-so. Except for the 5:11 loss in the second game, the remaining three games won 11:8, 11:8 and 11:9, although they all hit the key ball, but the key points they all bit down, which proves that this combination has great potential and strength.
And after the big victory of Ma Long and Yuan Licen this time, it also proves that the new pattern of national table tennis doubles has emerged, and Liu Guoliang's coaching staff specially let the doubles combination split before the game, forming the pair of Long Cen combination of Ma Long and Yuan Licen, it seems to be more effective, they are in the next big chess game, and they are getting closer and closer to success.
These two are a qualifying combination, but now they have crushed the number one ace of the Korean team and the second seed of this tournament, what does it mean? This means that Malone can bring new people, mainly with super doubles ability. Why did Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff break up the stable combination before? I want to exercise the doubles ability of athletes, especially a doubles ability with different people.
Therefore, Liu Guoliang and Wang Hao specifically chose to let Ma Long take the young player Yuan Licen to play men's doubles, and the 34-year-old Ma Long took the 22-year-old Yuan Licen, this combination is only paired from the 2022 Table Super League, but Yuan Licen only began to gradually enter the coaching staff this year, before the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the two of them also won a place in the men's doubles for the national table tennis table.
Now that they are paired together, and they have killed South Korea's No. 1 ace along the way, it shows that this combination is very strong, and people have defeated the No. 2 seed from the qualifying round, are you very good? Our 186th in the world can win! And it hasn't been matched for a few months, and I didn't practice much before the game, so I played all the way to the third round, which is a reflection of strength. Then I am afraid that Liu Guoliang will have to seriously consider and make Ma Long the third candidate for the Olympic Games.
That is to say, Wang Chuqin, who has just recently become the world's No. 1, and Fan Zhendong, who has already basically locked the Olympic spot, are likely to play singles together, and Ma Long will become the third man. Because it turns out that Ma Long's doubles ability is extremely strong, and he can match anyone, then there is no need for him to play singles, let him keep the team, as long as he can prove his strength in the process of bringing new people, then Ma Long can go to the Olympics.
And the Dragons have already double-laps Grand Slam, you don't have to win another Olympic singles championship, if the doubles results are not good, with Yuan Licen effect is not good, maybe Liu Guoliang will also consider whether to let Ma Long guard another singles semi-zone, after all, he can't not go to the Olympics. But now the effect is so good, then Liu Guoliang can make this decision, and if he does this, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong believe that they will also be very happy, because these two people must hope to win the Olympic singles championship and achieve their own Grand Slam, except Ma Long, everyone wants to complete the glory of the Grand Slam. So if you do this, it may be four joys, Ma Long himself will accept, Liu Guoliang will be very happy, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong will also be happy.