On December 19, the 2023 ITTF Week 51 Points Ranking was announced. On the women's side, Sun Yingsha continued to top the list with a fault advantage of 8,550 points, more than 4,000 points ahead of the players behind her. On December 24, in the women's team final of the 2023 Table Tennis Super League Finals, Sun Yingsha played two games in a row, 1-1, helping the Shenzhen University team defeat Shandong Luneng with a score of 3-2. Successfully winning the table tennis league championship trophy also allowed Sun Yingsha to draw a successful end to her 2023 participation journey.
"To become a world champion like Zhang Yining"
In 2000, Sun Yingsha was born in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Just turned five years old, her parents enrolled her in a table tennis Xi class, originally just wanted the child to exercise, but the little Sun Yingsha immediately liked table tennis, not only completed all the tasks assigned by the coach, but also took the initiative to ask for additional training, never lazy. Seeing the child's love and talent for table tennis, her parents sent her to Shijiazhuang Heping West Road Primary School, which is the famous table tennis school Tieer Primary School, to learn Xi play table tennis.
At the age of 9, Sun Yingsha won the national children's table tennis team and women's singles championship. Because of these games, Sun Yingsha gradually revealed her superb talent and unremitting efforts in table tennis, and was favored by the coach of the Hebei Provincial Team.
In 2010, 10-year-old Sun Yingsha officially entered the Hebei Provincial Table Tennis Team, and also met her mentor, Yang Guangdi, the coach of the Hebei Provincial Table Tennis Team Women's Team. In the process of talking with the coach, the childish Sun Yingsha had already set a goal, "I like Sister Zhang Yining, and I want to be a world champion like Sister Zhang Yining when I grow up." ”
In fact, Sun Yingsha is really making unremitting efforts in this direction. The training intensity of the provincial team is very high, and there is only half a day of rest on Sunday afternoon every week, but Sun Yingsha never complains about being tired, even if she has a cold and fever, she has never missed training, and it seems that as long as she enters the stadium, she has special "combat effectiveness". Coach Yang Guangdi commented on her, "Sun Yingsha has more calmness than her peers, she loves to think when she plays, and why she can improve so quickly is because she loves ball and thinks about ball." ”
Sun Yingsha's table tennis road has also encountered bottlenecks. In 2013, Sun Yingsha represented the Hebei team in the National Junior Table Tennis Championships. According to the national team selection policy that year, as long as you win the women's singles championship of the Youth Championships, you can enter the national second team. However, in the final final, Sun Yingsha met Wang Manyu, who was one and a half years older than her, and was also the runner-up of the women's singles in the junior group of the Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships the previous year. Although Sun Yingsha fought with Wang Manyu until the tiebreaker with her tenacious willpower, she was ultimately defeated due to the gap in age, experience and strength.
The second bottleneck came at the National Junior Table Tennis Championships the following year, when the national team introduced a new policy that not only singles champions, but also two players could enter the national team as long as they reached the final. After the defeat last year, Sun Yingsha carried out targeted training, which not only solidified the basic skills, but also enriched the offensive means. It can be said that Sun Yingsha has become a "seed player" in everyone's minds in this competition. But surprisingly, she came home in the 16-8 game, and lost early before she could meet the opponent she was interested in.
With the encouragement and comfort of the coach, Sun Yingsha regained her strength. Since then, Sun Yingsha has changed her training method, specifically picking out the way she doesn't like to play and playing uncomfortable playing to practice, "practice what she doesn't like", although the training is very tired, she still gritted her teeth and persevered, always motivating herself with the goal of entering the national team.
The birth of the "Little Devil".
In 2015, Sun Yingsha once again stood on the field of the National Junior Table Tennis Championships. For her, this was her last chance, as she would be too old to compete in her second year. In the final, her opponent was the previous champion Qian Tianyi, a "left-handed general" who has been training with the national team for a year, which is exactly what Sun Yingsha is not good at. However, in that match, Sun Yingsha showed unusual determination. Despite falling behind 0-2, she still did not give up, and finally achieved a big comeback and successfully won the championship. This also allowed her to enter the Chinese national table tennis team, when she was only 15 years old.
And Sun Yingsha really entered the public's field of vision in 2017. In the first and second team lifting tournament in January, she managed to make it to the first team. In the Japan Open in June, Sun Yingsha performed very well. She first partnered with teammate Chen Xingtong in the women's doubles competition and successfully won the championship. Subsequently, in the women's singles competition, she passed all the way, and finally met her senior sister Chen Meng in the final. Although she fell behind by a large score in the final, she dared to fight and finally achieved a shocking reversal, defeating Chen Meng with a score of 4-3 and winning the women's singles championship. It was her first Open Women's Singles title and her first in the adult category. A few days later, Sun Yingsha participated in the Chengdu Open non-stop and won the women's singles runner-up.
In the Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships held in Asan, South Korea at the end of June, Sun Yingsha shouldered a heavy responsibility and successfully completed the tasks assigned by the coach before the game. With a total of 19 matches in five days and four events, Sun Yingsha, who is under the age of 17, won four championships in women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and women's team at the 2017 Asian Junior Championships. In just 21 days, she soared from no international points and no international rankings to the tenth in the world, and the "Little Devil" was born in this way.
2019 is the year of Sun Yingsha's explosion. At the Asian Table Tennis Championships in September, Sun Yingsha once again achieved her path to winning the championship. Since the 1/4 finals, Sun Yingsha has shown an amazing winning streak, defeating Wang Manyu, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, the three main players of the Chinese team, and finally successfully won the championship. In all the matches in the Women's Singles, she showed absolute dominance, except for one game against Ding Ning in the semi-finals, and won the other five matches with a complete victory, showing her strong strength. This season, Sun Yingsha's rising trend has been quite obvious. She not only won the championship in the two important platinum tournaments in Japan and Australia, but also won the second place in the World Table Tennis Championships selection of the Chinese team and successfully qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships singles. In addition, her world ranking has continued to climb and has now jumped to sixth place in the world. At this time, the "Little Devil" has gradually shown a trend of transformation into the "Big Devil", and fans are rejoicing and looking forward to the future of the new generation of national table tennis.
Finally on top of the world
In 2021, Sun Yingsha, who is not yet 21 years old, stood on the stage of the Tokyo Olympics. In the singles court, Sun Yingsha withstood huge pressure, but still showed unparalleled strength, momentum and confidence on the court, defeating Japanese star Misei Ito 4-0 and playing a hearty victory. After that, he lost to Chen Meng in the final and won the silver medal. Sun Yingsha said in an interview, "As a young athlete, there are so many things that need to be grown and sharpened, which requires time and experience. It's sad to fail, but there aren't many opportunities for yourself to adjust, because there is also a team event, and there must be no mistakes in this gold medal, and you have to be 100% in shape. ”
In the women's table tennis team competition, Sun Yingsha really lived up to expectations, and the Chinese team composed of Chen Meng and Wang Manyu defeated the Japanese team 3-0 and won the championship. Sun Yingsha participated in the Olympic Games for the first time and won one gold and one silver. Day after day of accumulation, all the effort and sweat will eventually turn into fruitful results.
On January 30, 2022, the ITTF year-end world rankings were announced, and Sun Yingsha topped the world No. 1 in women's singles for the first time, becoming the first "post-00" world No. 1 in the world table tennis world. In this year, Sun Yingsha has successively won the WTT Singapore Grand Slam Championship, the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships Women's Team Championship, the WTT Macau Championship Women's Singles Champion, the Xinxiang WTT World Cup Women's Singles Champion, and the 2022 Table Tennis Super League Women's MVP...... carried the banner of the leader of the Chinese table tennis women's team. Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, and in these two years, Sun Yingsha has firmly sat in the first position, constantly won championships, and showed strong dominance.
In September 2023, the Chinese women's table tennis team won the women's team championship at the Asian Games in Hangzhou
2023 is destined to be an extraordinary year for Sun Yingsha, who has won a total of seven women's singles titles, including the three major championships with the highest points: Singapore Grand Slam, Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and Nagoya Finals. After the Nagoya Grand Finals, all international tournaments in 2023 will end. After thanking the coaches, spectators and fans, Sun Yingsha said, "After getting off the podium, everything started from scratch", but her determination and motivation remained unwavering.
The young man is strong and fierce, this is Sun Yingsha. She still has a lot of hopes for the future: "In the future, I still hope that young athletes or peers who are not engaged in sports can see me, and I hope that when I retire, fans will think of Sun Yingsha when they mention the Chinese table tennis team, and I hope that I can be a good role model for them." ”
Characters: Jiang Yu Ki
Editor: Xiong Siyu
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