Wang Yidi replaced Chen Mengzhan in the Asian Games! Holding the Paris artifact Wang Manyu is in a relatively awkward situation

Beijing time on July 10, the Chinese Table Tennis Association officially announced the Hangzhou Asian Games participation list, the most surprising is that Wang Yidi, who lost to the last eight singles at the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, surpassed Wang Manyu and Chen Meng to qualify for the Hangzhou Asian Games singles. Due to the relatively large weight of Olympic points in the Asian Games, Wang Yidi is actually ahead of Wang Manyu and Chen Meng in the competition for Olympic singles places, and it depends on whether she can seize such a golden opportunity.

From the latest world rankings, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi are currently ranked among the top two in the world in women's singles, Wang Yidi just jumped to second last week with 4325 points, Chen Meng is currently ranked third in the world with 4055 points, and Wang Manyu ranks fourth in the world with 3985 points.

Before the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the points rules for the Paris Olympic Trials. The players who win the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships can score 4,000 points, 2,000 points for the runner-up and 1,000 points for the third runner-up; Players who win the Hangzhou Asian Games, World Cup and WTT Grand Slam can earn 3,000 points, 1,500 points for the runner-up and 750 points for the third runner-up. In the subsequent WTT finals and WTT championships, the champions and runners-up can get corresponding points.

After the end of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha, who won the women's singles championship, ranked first with 13,320 points, Chen Mengji ranked second with 8,055 points, Wang Manyu ranked third with 5,385 points, and Wang Yidi ranked fourth with 5,025 points.

Chen Meng was the last Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion, but she will turn 30 in January next year, and recently Chen Meng lost to Sun Yingsha in a number of key matches including the women's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, and her overall form is not as good as her peak. Wang Yidi is nearly 3 years younger than Chen Meng and is still on the rise. In the quarterfinals of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Yidi's regrettable loss to Hina Hayata in the decisive game made the majority of fans remember it vividly.

Wang Yidi qualified for the women's singles competition at the Asian Games, and if she can seize the opportunity to win the women's singles championship, she will be expected to surpass Wang Manyu and approach Chen Meng in Olympic points. There is also a single World Cup at the end of this year, and if Wang Yidi can qualify for singles again, surpassing Chen Meng and directly winning the Paris singles ticket as the second place in the team selection will not be a dream.

Judging from the lineup of the Hangzhou Asian Games announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha is the mixed doubles core of national table tennis, Chen Meng may lose the Paris singles but hopes to be shortlisted for the team as an Olympic champion, and Chen Meng takes up the burden of women's doubles in the team. Whether Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi can both play in Paris singles depends on whether Wang Yidi can seize the opportunity in front of him.

National Table Tennis Hangzhou Asian Games Participation List——

Boy group: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun

Girl group: Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong

Men's singles: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong

Women's singles: Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi

Men's doubles: Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan/Liang Jingkun

Women's doubles: Chen Meng/Wang Yidi, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu

Mixed doubles: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi