The Chinese weightlifting team lost two gold medals in a row, and the men's three-man basketball team lost to the Chinese Taipei team... September 30 can be called the upset day of the Chinese delegation, but the biggest upset is the successive failure of the "double insurance" of national pingping.
On September 30, the women's doubles 1/4 final, first Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu lost 1-3 to the Japanese pair Miyu Kihara/Miwa Changmoto, and then Chen Meng/Wang Yidi lost 1-3 to the Indian pair S. Mukherjee/A. Mukherjee.
Two national table tennis women's doubles teams stopped in the quarterfinals at the same time, which is extremely rare in the history of the Asian Games - after all, since the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, Iran, the national table tennis has never fallen out of the Asian Games medal table in the women's doubles event, and even in the past 11 Asian Games, only 2 Asian Games national table tennis failed to win the women's doubles championship.
Sun Yingsha (left) and Wang Manyu exchange tactics on the field.
The only response
The women's doubles stop at the quarterfinals, both for reporters and for the players themselves, they were a little caught off guard.
Most journalists agree that the women's doubles, which consists of two pairs of world champions, is a sure thing to advance. So the media stands and mixed interview area that day were not as hot as the men's and women's team competitions a few days ago, but the accident happened.
A fan at the scene also blurted out: "We have also witnessed history." ”
As for the players, they don't even have time to think too much about it, so they have to start preparing for the mixed doubles match. Therefore, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu, who ended the women's doubles competition first, only Wang Manyu simply stopped in the mixed interview area, and Sun Yingsha left the mixed mining area directly. When Chen Meng/Wang Yidi lost, the two did not even appear in the mixed interview area...
In a short interview, Wang Manyu analyzed the reasons for losing to Miyu Kihara/Miwa Changmoto: "In fact, I had a miscommunication with Sasha in this game, but I think there are still obvious problems in technology, including the induction (implementation) of these systems for our play. ”
"In addition, when we encounter difficulties, we still have fewer ways to deal with them, and our scoring methods are not particularly clear. I feel that there are still some problems in terms of technique and tactics. ”
Wang Manyu's interview also became the only response of National Table Tennis to the loss of women's doubles.
Coach Marlene coaches the "Seafood Sisters" on the sidelines.
At the subsequent press conference of the mixed doubles final, the host specially instructed before the start: "Please ask the reporter friends to ask questions related to this match." ”
The questioning session of the press conference only ended hastily after the reporter raised two questions.
Originally, the link after the press conference was a mixed media interview, but the team members just hurried through the mixed mining channel without leaving a word.
In the past, Guoping, who did not like to say more, always left an apology and disappeared into the mixed interview area. It's just that the identity of the winner makes netizens more willing to describe the team members with expressions similar to "workers never work overtime".
But this night, Guoping's silence was particularly heavy.
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After the game, Zhang Benmei thanked his brother Zhang Benzhihe for his support. Photo by Hu Jie, surging news reporter (00:34)
Zhang Benmikazu's smile
On the other hand, the winner always has more smiles.
After Miyu Kihara / Miwa Changmoto defeated the "Seafood Sisters", the two were interviewed by Japanese TV media for nearly 10 minutes in the mixed mining area, and the corners of their mouths unconsciously rose every time they answered a question.
After the match, the Japanese media gave headlines such as "Carry the attack to the end" and "Great feat".
Compared with Hina Hayata and Mimato Ito, whom Guoping most often encounters, Miyu Kihara and Miwa Zhang are more unfamiliar with Guoping, especially Miwa Zhang Ben, who played with the core main force of Guoping for the first time, which brought too many surprises.
In the women's team final, Wang Manyu, who was not familiar with Zhang Benmei and the style of play, lost the first set 6-11 and played the fourth game, and Zhang Benmeihe, who had a backwater fight, once held 4 set points.
This is why Deng Yaping said about this girl born in 2008 early on: "Zhang Benmeihe is very talented, it is said that he is more powerful than his brother, we should pay more attention to her." ”
Speaking about the women's doubles victory over China, Zhang Benmeihe said: "Actually, I didn't expect us to win, I have been thinking about tactics and thinking about how to win. We've been attacking and the opponents have played very well a lot of the time, but we're still trying. ”
Chen Meng/Wang Yidi lost to the Indian group.
Behind the wrong question, there is more value
Compared with the loss to the Japanese "post-00s" women's doubles pair, Chen Meng/Wang Yidi's loss to the Indian combination seems to be more unexpected, after all, the China-Japan duel has always been the main theme of table tennis, and Indian table tennis has not had many bright results.
But the arena is like that, there is never someone who should win, and there is no game that must be won.
What's more, the other party is not a nameless person - in the ITTF women's doubles rankings, the Mukeji sisters ranked 16th in the world, and the two eliminated Shen Yubin/Tian Zhixi in WTT Tunisia three months ago, and are the top seeds of the tournament.
Mukherjee sisters.
Among them, Sutilta Mukherjee, who is not very much like an athlete, is India's number one table tennis player, who won four gold medals in women's singles, women's doubles, women's team and mixed doubles at the 2019 South Asian Games.
It's just that the national table tennis was too powerful in the past, so that people rarely paid attention to the twinkling stars in the table tennis arena.
During the post-match interview, Suturta Mukherjee said with a smile: "We practiced day and night and finally beat the Chinese team at their home stadium. We were undaunted and the style of play we played played a huge role. ”
In fact, before the Asian Games, National Table Tennis also participated in the table tennis Asian Championships and won all the gold medals, but the women's doubles combination at that time was not the same as the Asian Games list - in early September, the women's doubles team was Sun Yingsha partnered with Wang Yidi and Chen Meng partnered with Wang Manyu.
Wang Yidi (left) and Chen Meng regretfully left the scene.
Perhaps it was the special style of the Mukeji sisters that made the repartnered Chen Meng/Wang Yidi have no time to adjust... Netizens also said that coach Ma Lin and the national table tennis coaching staff should think hard about the problem of on-site coaching and personnel matching.
Although it is a pity that the Asian Games did not win a medal in the women's doubles, the Asian Games are more like a "middle exam" of the Paris Olympics, even if the results are not satisfactory, but the problems exposed behind the wrong questions are the most valuable part.
Another point can also be talked about to masturbate - the Olympics, there is no women's doubles competition.