Beijing time on September 10, 2023 South Korea's Pyeongchang Table Tennis Asian Championships has been successfully concluded, national table tennis achieved a big package, because the last session did not send team members to participate, this strong attack, sent 10 main forces, plus Qian Tianyi's mixed doubles, very excellent completion of the task, the men's team and the women's team are 3-0 clean sheets every match, including the final is also the same, all the champions and runners-up in the individual events.
So in the final, it will become the derby battle of the national table tennis, but also the competition between the players, all for the championship to fight hard, some people are happy and some people are worried, after all, there is only one champion. Through this competition, 3 winners and 3 losers were born
3 winners
Wang Manyu participated in three events, all won the championship, is undoubtedly the biggest winner, strong return, the return of the king, of which the women's singles champion is full of gold content, the significance is also very large, you must know that in the elimination round of the women's team, she did not play a single game, three consecutive games did not get bonus points, fortunately she watched very dull.
Finally broke out in the single event, the first round of singles encountered the resistance of Xu Xiaoyuan, winning is not easy, and Chen Meng competed for the final four, extremely fierce, played 70 minutes in five games, won by 2 points, faced Sun Yingsha in the final, played a new Wang Manyu, changed the previous technical and tactical style. Won 2,000 bonus points, currently competing for the Paris Olympics ranking beyond Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong.
Ma Long himself said that he has not won the singles championship for 2 years, and he also participated in the Asian Championships in South Korea 10 years ago, and also won the men's singles championship and the men's doubles runner-up, which is such a coincidence.
Li Falcon said in an interview after the game that Ma Long is really a great athlete, already a double-lap Grand Slam, just an Asian Championship, Ma Long is still very eager to win the championship.
Being able to keep Lin Yunru clean sheet, it can be seen that Ma Long's condition is very good, and his hand feeling is very good, and he has not had such an upper hand with Lin Yunru in the past, and even has a downwind ball.
The result of 2 championships and 1 runner-up ended the competition, the same 2,000 bonus points, the gap between Paris Olympic points and Wang Chuqin is already very small, and there is still a good hope to compete for an Olympic singles spot.
Lin Gaoyuan participated in four events, very tired, won three championships, of which the men's singles stopped in the quarterfinals, fought for the final four, fought with Ma Long for five games, and finally lost, was able to tear five games with Ma Long, and was very close, indicating that Lin Gaoyuan's competitive state is also very good, but unfortunately met Ma Long.
However, in the mixed doubles and men's doubles have successfully won the championship, and Wang Yidi and Fan Zhendong have not been playing doubles for a long time, indicating that the run-in is good, the game process is also very smooth, very tacit understanding, itself Lin Gaoyuan's doubles ability is very outstanding, coupled with good condition, through this competition, more consolidate his position in the main force.
2 losers
Wang Chuqin's state this time is not ideal, only won the men's team championship, the men's singles first round was upset, becoming the only member of the national table tennis to lose foreign battles, so lost the men's singles 4/4 area, the national table tennis did not have the opportunity to win the men's singles semifinals in advance, the men's doubles was paired with Ma Long, lost to the team members in the final, and finally won the runner-up.
Recently, Wang Chuqin's state does have ups and downs, originally in the first half of this year his upward momentum is very strong, won the Macau Championship men's singles championship, Durban World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up, are breakthroughs, the world ranking surpasses Ma Long, Olympic points also beat Ma Long, everything looks basically stable men's singles number two, but after this competition, his position should be shaken, and the Asian Games still have a chance.
Sun Yingsha participated in three events, this time did not participate in mixed doubles, only won the women's team championship, women's doubles and women's singles both entered the final, but both lost, this result is already very good, but for the world's No. 1 Sun Yingsha, no chance is not ideal, the first half of this year is in hot form, the championship harvester, Singapore Grand Slam three crowns, Durban World Table Tennis Championships two crowns, including breakthrough World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship.
In this competition, Sun Yingsha was in good condition all the way, in the women's singles final that took the lead, facing the more popular Wang Manyu, she lost, and Sun Yingsha, who lost, showed more depressed.
It should also affect the state and mood, the next day's women's doubles match, in the semifinals almost lost to the Japanese combination, fortunately, the thrilling reversal, the final was directly cleansed by Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, I hope the Asian Games will readjust the start.