On December 21, Beijing time, an important news came from China's national table tennis that was ignored by many people, indicating that Liu Guoliang's iron-blooded decision was irreversible, and Sun Yingsha finally waited for the result she wanted most.
Since the results of the national table tennis in 2023 are very good, after the end of the year's competition tasks, Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis coaching staff have also set the policy of the next 2024, that is, the Olympic year, must continue to improve, and must not relax from the beginning of the year, and must strive for better and better results.
Therefore, in the upcoming Doha Star Challenge, Liu Guoliang signed up for all the core and main players of national table tennis and let them go all out. But in this case, he also made a casual decision, that is, he directly dismantled the strongest women's doubles combination of national table tennis, the seafood sister combination, and dismantled it as soon as he won the championship, which is definitely very rare in the history of the Chinese table tennis team.
In this Star Challenge Doha match, it was Chen Meng who partnered with Wang Manyu, not Sun Yingsha, and the seafood sisters were directly dismantled, Sun Yingsha was only responsible for the women's singles and mixed doubles matches, and no longer had to think about the women's doubles matches. In addition, teammates Qian Tianyi and Chen Xingtong, Kuo Man and Zhang Rui will also play women's doubles together, but 6 people can play women's doubles, but there is no name of Sun Yingsha, Liu Guoliang finally took an important step, and after this decision came out, it was great news for Sasha.
After waiting for so long, Sun Yingsha finally waited for Liu Guoliang to make a decision he most wanted to see, why can't it be a good thing to win the women's doubles championship? In fact, it is very simple, because as the Olympic Games are gradually approaching, the Chinese national table tennis will let the players who may be on the Olympic Games to match, and go to play more with the foreign association to brush up the problem, in this case, Sun Yingsha does not play women's doubles, which means that the national table tennis has determined that she is the ace of the women's singles of the Paris Olympics, and it is also a single in the team competition.
According to the practice of the Olympic team competition, a singles will not be in the doubles competition, so as long as Sun Yingsha plays the women's singles in Paris, she doesn't have to think about the women's doubles anymore, so Liu Guoliang chose to break up the seafood combination, because she has already thought about it, Sasha needs to focus on singles and mixed doubles in Paris, no need to think about any women's doubles, no need to increase the burden on her and put pressure on her, this is a decision to relieve her pressure, and it is also a decision to determine Sun Yingsha's status, which is equivalent to saying that the alternative official announced that she locked the Olympic women's singles quota in advance。
If it weren't for Sun Yingsha to focus on one single, how could it be possible to break up the combination of her and Wang Manyu when she had just won the championship? As soon as this decision came out, it almost meant that the list of Paris had basically been revealed, and now Chen Meng and Wang Manyu were going to compete for the women's second singles place, and then it was a high probability that the two of them would compete in the team competition.
Therefore, Liu Guoliang did not choose to let Wang Yidi and one of them partner, but instead let Da Meng and Man Yu partner together, because as the second and third people in the group, they have to go to the women's doubles, and then the No. 1 person is Sun Yingsha to go to the women's singles. Now let the Dream Fish group reunite in advance, just so that they can meet a few more foreign opponents and accumulate more experience, which is to prepare for the Olympics in advance.
Liu Guoliang's announcement of this decision is the best news for Sasha, on the one hand, she locked the Paris women's singles, on the other hand, she can also reduce pressure, and there is no need to think about any women's doubles competition in the Olympic year, and Wang Yidi is not in doubles now, which almost means that she can't go to the Olympics, and the final trio is still Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, so Chen Meng and Manyu teamed up to play women's doubles as the second and third numbers, and Sun Yingsha's position can also be ensured, isn't this the deep meaning behind Liu Guoliang after the list comes out this time?
The lineup of the national table tennis women's team can basically be seen, even the men's team. For example, there is only one person in the men's team of this Star Challenge who does not have to play concurrently, and is only responsible for singles, that is, Fan Zhendong, he only needs to play men's singles, because he is also a men's singles player in Paris, and now at this time, not letting them play doubles is to relieve them of some pressure, and it is also because Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong are strong enough.
Therefore, don't look at it now, there may be no seafood sister combination in 2024, but Sasha can focus more on winning more singles championships, especially the Olympic championship to achieve the Grand Slam, which is much more important for her than winning one or two more women's doubles championships in small competitions, and it is also the situation she wants to see the most, and Chen Meng and Wang Manyu should also know that they are competing for the second singles.