After the list of the National Table Tennis Asian Games was announced, the most embarrassing thing was Wang Manyu. From the 2021 National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships victory over Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha to win the women's singles championship, Wang Manyu was once considered a popular candidate for the Paris women's singles. From ranking second in the world, to falling to fifth in the world after July 25, and even the Asian Games was only reported for women's doubles and women's team, how did Wang Manyu become from a second sister to a fifth sister?
Wang Manyu's world ranking was cleared, and the Asian Games missed the women's singles, and the women's singles in 2023 only won one title.
The world rankings of players are always in flux, and the points previously earned will be gradually cleared over time. Wang Manyu was able to maintain a high world ranking before, mainly because of the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion and the Grand Slam Singapore women's singles runner-up, which are supported by these two competitions. As the ITTF has cleared the points of the past one or two years, especially Wang Manyu's performance this year is not very good, she has gradually slipped from the world's second to the world's fifth. In 2023, Wang Manyu only won the women's singles championship in Macau, scoring 1,000 points.
Sun Yingsha has started a successive championship mode since the second half of last year, and in 2023, she will win three women's singles championships in Xinxiang, Grand Slam Singapore, and Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and the points have suddenly opened a gap with other teammates. Chen Meng reached the women's singles final at the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and the Macao Championship was also the runner-up, while Wang Manyu only reached the quarterfinals in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships and gained 350 points. In this year's points battle, Wang Manyu is not as good as Chen Xingtong, who won the third place in the women's singles in the World Table Tennis Championships, and grabbed more points. So what is the reason why Wang Manyu can't win the women's singles championship to increase points? There are mainly two aspects: First, after Wang Manyu in 2021, due to the victory brought by the World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games women's singles championship, Wang Manyu and Xiao Zhan did not realize that they would immediately carry out technical reform.
Chen Meng completed the technical transformation of the first three boards under Ma Lin, and Sasha made up for the strength of the backhand with the help of Qiu Yike. On the other hand, Wang Manyu is still blindly relying on holding and defending to score in 2021. The scoring ability of the first three boards is insufficient, and the forehand attack is too large, resulting in Wang Manyu now playing with Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, who have completed the technical transformation, all of which are in the downwind. Grand Slam Singapore Sun Yingsha won Wang Manyu 4:0, and in the just-concluded Slovenia Championship, Sun Yingsha eliminated Wang Manyu 3:0. has been unable to win the women's singles championship, so Wang Manyu's points are always behind Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, and even surpassed by Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong.
Second, Wang Manyu was seriously injured, and his training was difficult and unsystematic, and he did not have an advantage against Chen Xingtong. In Xiao Zhan's large-volume training mode, Wang Manyu has reaped results and injuries. This year, Xinxiang Station and the Durban World Table Tennis Championships also lost to Chen Xingtong twice, which was unimaginable before this. There is no outstanding scoring ability on the first three boards, and under the influence of injuries, it is difficult for the middle and far platforms to make power, and Wang Manyu's current hitting quality is significantly lower than in 2021. Wang Manyu is now reaching the semifinals or quarterfinals, while Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng are either finals or winners, and the point gap has been widened. After missing singles at the Asian Games, Wang Manyu now has to not only surpass Chen Meng, but also cross Wang Yidi, a competitor. The Paris singles are fraught with difficulties.
Women's doubles is not the first choice in Paris, mixed doubles was removed, and Wang Manyu is just a main member of the women's group.
Because Wang Yidi won the women's doubles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, and also defeated major opponents such as Hina Hayada/Mimato Ito twice, Wang Yidi, the Asian Games participant list, Wang Yidi was arranged to perform four events, women's singles, women's team, women's doubles, mixed doubles can be described as singles and doubles all participated. Although Wang Manyu was also reported for women's doubles, there is still a difference between her women's doubles and Wang Yidi. Wang Manyu partnered Sun Yingsha in the Asian Games women's doubles, and Sa Sa will definitely play the first singles in the Paris Olympics, so Wang Manyu cannot partner Sun Yingsha in the Olympic women's team.
The women's doubles pair of Wang Yidi/Chen Meng has been running in for more than a year, while the women's doubles pair of Wang Manyu/Chen Meng have not cooperated for 2 years since the Tokyo Olympics. Now Wang Manyu is basically only the main member of a girl group. Wang Manyu also used mixed doubles with Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Chuqin, and now the mixed doubles events have all been replaced by Wang Yidi. If the women's group loses, or if the foreign battle is upset for another round, Wang Manyu is likely to not be able to go to Paris.
What do you think of Wang Manyu's current situation? Why did she, the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, fall to this point? Will she be replaced by Wang Yidi? Welcome to leave a message, discuss, thank you for your attention! I am a teenager from the horseback riding temple.