2023 is about to become a thing of the past, and the overall performance of national table tennis is still strong in this year, winning all 5 individual championships at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, the Hangzhou Asian Games won the remaining 6 gold medals except for the women's doubles, and the first ITTF Mixed Team World Cup won the championship with a record of 9 wins!
However, in the past year, the national table tennis team has also exposed certain problems, especially the national table tennis men's team, the stability of the foreign war needs to be strengthened urgently, and the overall performance of the national table tennis women's team is significantly better than that of the men's team.
The national table tennis women's team will have a total of 11 players in 2023 and will win a total of 24 women's singles championships, of which 7 non-main players have won the singles championships in international events.
The national table tennis men's team will have a total of 9 players in 2023 and will win a total of 16 men's singles championships, of which only 4 non-main players have won the singles championship in the past competitions.
First of all, let's look at the national table tennis women's team, in the 2023 annual competition, among the five main players of the national table tennis women's team, only Chen Meng did not win the singles championship, including the women's singles finals of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, Ljubljana Star Challenge, and Lanzhou Star Challenge, all of which lost to Sun Yingsha;
Sun Yingsha won the women's singles championship in 7 tournaments and is the biggest winner in the national table tennis team in 2023!
However, Sun Yingsha also has regrets in 2023, that is, in the women's singles final of the Budapest Regular Challenge Tournament that ended in early July, Sun Yingsha lost 3-4 to Japanese player Miu Hirano, so far Sun Yingsha's 4-year undefeated record in foreign wars has been ended, which can be regarded as the only flaw in 2023.
Wang Manyu won the women's singles championship in 3 tournaments, namely the Pyeongchang Asian Championships, the Macau Championships, and the Taiyuan Regular Challenge. Among them, at the Pyeongchang Asian Championships, Wang Manyu, Lianke, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, and Sun Yingsha, the three main players of national table tennis, won the women's singles championship strongly, and so far the top three positions in the world ranking have been solidified, and they have the opportunity to play in the team competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Winning the Asian Championships is very important to Wang Manyu, because it is based on this that Wang Manyu will be ranked third in the world ranking at the end of 2023, and at the same time, in the national table tennis Paris Olympic selection points, there is no big gap with the second-ranked Chen Meng and the third-ranked Wang Yidi, and still retains the opportunity to win the women's singles quota for the Paris Olympics.
Wang Yidi won two women's singles championships, namely the Goa Star Challenge in India and the Frankfurt Championship, and is ranked second in the world ranking at the end of 2023, but the 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games, two important events, lost to Japan's Hina Hayata, which is Dadi's biggest failure in 2023.
Chen Xingtong won the women's singles championship in the first round of the Star Challenge in Bangkok, Thailand, and the above four main players of national table tennis have won a total of 13 women's singles championships in 2023!
Among the non-main players of the national table tennis women's team, He Zhuojia won the women's singles championship in 3 tournaments, namely Doha Regional Tournament, Panagyurishtai Regional Tournament, and Dusseldorf Regional Tournament III, 25-year-old He Zhuojia is ranked 32nd in the women's singles world at the end of 2023.
The 19-year-old is ranked 19th in the world at the end of 2023.
The 22-year-old has surprised fans this year, reaching a career-high of 41st in the 2023 World rankings.
Qian Tianyi, Fan Siqi, Chen Yi and Qin Yuxuan each won the women's singles championship in one event, namely the Durban Regular Challenger, the Doha Regular Challenger, the Olomouc Regional Tournament, and the Dusseldorf Regional Tournament II.
It is worth mentioning that Qian Tianyi has ranked among the top ten in the world by virtue of the women's singles runner-up in the Singapore Grand Slam, because the Singapore Grand Slam level is second only to the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, and the World Cup, and the women's singles runner-up directly brought Qian Tianyi 1400 points in the world ranking points, while the women's singles champion in the regular challenge is only 400 points.
In the Singapore Grand Slam in March 2024, Qian Tianyi needs to continue to have a highlight performance if he wants to stabilize the current top ten position in women's singles, which is a huge challenge for Qian Tianyi, otherwise the world ranking will drop significantly, I wish Qian Tianyi good luck!
Next, let's look at the situation of the national table tennis men's team, all the five main players of the national table tennis have singles championships, among which Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship in 4 tournaments, which is the most players in the national table tennis men's team, namely the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the Singapore Grand Slam, the Xinxiang Championship, and the Ljubljana Star Challenge.
In addition, Fan Zhendong also won the men's singles runner-up in three tournaments, namely the Hangzhou Asian Games (lost to Wang Chuqin), the Pyeongchang Asian Championships (lost to Ma Long), and the Zagreb Regular Challenge (lost to Lin Gaoyuan).
At the same time, Fan Zhendong also lost many foreign battles in 2023, losing to South Korea's Cho Dae-sung and Lee Sang-so, France's Alex Lebrun, and facing Japan's Tomokazu Haramoto in the mixed team World Cup, losing 2 points in a row, so Fan Zhendong's overall performance in 2023 is not as stable as the outside world expected.
Wang Chuqin won the men's singles championship in three tournaments, namely the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Macau Championship, and the Lanzhou Star Challenge. Among them, the Hangzhou Asian Games is the most golden, defeating Fan Zhendong 4-3 to win the championship!
In the men's singles finals of the Macau Championship and the Lanzhou Star Challenge, Wang Chuqin defeated Ma Long, in fact, fans who watched the game also know that the Dragons are interested in promoting Wang Chuqin to a certain extent.
And the 35-year-old Ma Long also won the first singles championship since the Tokyo Olympics, the men's singles final of the Pyeongchang Asian Championships, Ma Long defeated Fan Zhendong again, and Ma Long also waved his fists to celebrate after winning the championship, which left a very deep impression on the fans.
Liang Jingkun won the men's singles championship in 2 tournaments, namely the Indian Goa Star Challenge and the Taiyuan Regular Challenge, of which in the Taiyuan Regular Challenge men's singles final, Liang Jingkun and Japanese player Hayabusa Togami fought 7 games, and the decisive game saved the match point and reversed to win the championship.
Lin Gaoyuan also won two men's singles championships, namely the Bangkok Star Challenge and Ljubljana Star Challenge, respectively, and Lin Gaoyuan won the men's singles championship in the international branch after four years.
You must know that Lin Gaoyuan's progress in 2023 is obvious to all, he is the only player in the national table tennis men's team who has never lost a foreign war in the singles field, and has won all 22 foreign battles in a total of 8 singles competitions, Lin Gaoyuan deserves cheers and applause from fans!
The national table tennis men's team has 4 non-main players, and they will also win the men's singles championship in the international competition in 2023, namely Lin Shidong, Xu Yingbin, Zhou Qihao, and Cao Wei, who won the championship in 4 tournaments in Amman Regular Challenge, Doha Regional Challenge, Lagos Regular Challenge, and Amman Regional Challenge.
In particular, the 18-year-old Lin Shidong has ushered in great progress in 2023, and the world ranking at the end of 2023 has reached ninth, which is the biggest reward for the young Lin Shidong's hard work and dedication in the past year. However, Lin Shidong still has many shortcomings, and he is easily affected by emotions in the game, which is where he will continue to improve in the future.
To sum up, in 2023, a total of 9 players of the national table tennis men's team will win a total of 16 men's singles championships, compared with the 11 times of the national table tennis women's team winning a total of 24 singles championships, there is indeed a certain gap.
It is worth mentioning that in the 2023 national table tennis men's team main players participated in the competition, there was a tournament that lost the men's singles championship, and it was also a high-level Frankfurt championship, Chinese Taipei star Lin Yunru in the semifinals and finals Lianke Wang Chuqin and Ma Long The two main players sounded the alarm for the national table tennis men's team.
In the upcoming 2024 Olympic year, the national table tennis team still faces many challenges, I hope that the main players of the national table tennis will continue to have a strong performance, and the non-main players of the national table tennis team will also seize the opportunity to jointly defend the glory of the national ball, and come on the national table tennis!
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