Chen Meng is the champion of the women's singles table tennis at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, but her high-profile personality has also been controversial. Chen Meng, born in 1994, was 27 years old when she participated in the first Olympics, which is considered the older women's singles, and Sun Yingsha, who competed at the same time as her, was only 20 years old. Chen Meng also made history in Tokyo as the oldest athlete to win the women's singles for the first time in table tennis. After winning the championship, Chen Meng even released a proud statement: "The time that belongs to me has come." In the face of media interviews, he also bluntly stated his goal: "My next goal is to win the Grand Slam." ”
Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining and others were only twenty-four or five years old when they won the Grand Slam, and they almost retired when Chen Meng won the Olympic championship for the first time. The Chinese table tennis team has always been full of talents, and although Chen Meng has the ambition to win the table tennis slam, he is also unable to face the impact of the back wave. After winning the Olympic championship, Chen Meng has not won a major international event for a long time. Recently, the Chinese table tennis team announced the list of participants in the women's singles of the Hangzhou Asian Games, as the Olympic champion, Chen Meng's name was not on the list, for Chen Meng, who is almost 30 years old, may forever lose the qualification to compete for the Asian Games women's singles championship.
The last Asian Games can be said to be the best moment for Chen Meng to attack the champion of the Asian Games. But Chen Meng, who was at his peak, lost to Wang Manyu and missed the Asian Games singles championship, although Chen Meng won the heaviest Olympic women's singles championship, but with the consecutive losses of the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games, the dream of the Grand Slam and Grand Slam has almost been shattered. At present, the number one main position of the national table tennis women's team is none other than Sun Yingsha, she is firmly ranked first in the women's singles world, in addition, she also ranks first in the mixed doubles world, and has double protection in the competition of the Paris Olympics, with obvious advantages. Not surprisingly, Sun Yingsha will qualify for the women's team, women's singles and mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics.
In addition to Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi are also Chen Meng's big challenge to dream of Paris. The second women's singles spot and the other two women's team seats at the Paris Olympics will most likely be between Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi. In the just-concluded final of WTT Ljubljana, Chen Meng lost 3-4 to Sun Yingsha, resulting in the world ranking being overtaken by Wang Yidi, ranking third in the world, losing the qualification for singles at the Asian Games, and Chen Meng was also very frustrated after the match. Unlike young players such as Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi, there are still opportunities to grow, and there is not much time left for Chen Meng, I hope Chen Meng still has to grasp his career well and fight for himself.