Since winning the men's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, Fan Zhendong's performance has aroused doubts, and Fan Zhendong has never won a singles championship for more than half a year, but Fan Zhendong has also reached the finals four times during the period, but unfortunately he is the runner-up every time, and he lost to Lin Gaoyuan, Ma Long, and Wang Chuqin's three teammates one after another.
It is mainly reflected in each game of Fan Zhendong, and it can be found that Fan Zhendong has won every time he has won for half a year, but the advantage of winning the game every time is not big, the previous Fan Zhendong's style of play is to advocate continuous afterburner attack, which belongs to the bright and decisive, active offensive style of play, and now Fan Zhendong's style of play is a great change.
Now Fan Zhendong, especially on the first three boards, is no longer active attack, but more to swing short, split long technical control, so the current Fan Zhendong style of play is to lose the previous sharpness, in the style of play is not as good as before, the current Fan Zhendong style of play is not as popular as before, and the overall performance of Fan Zhendong for more than half a year is indeed not good enough.
These are the many doubts that Fan Zhendong is receiving now, and the national table tennis coaching staff knows the most about Fan Zhendong's current situation, of course, it is their head coach Liu Heng, so Liu Heng, who has the most right to speak, also gave his own opinion, saying that Fan Zhendong is making a transformation in playing style in the near future.
Fan Zhendong's previous high-quality offensive play is very sharp, but it also needs very good physical support, and now Fan Zhendong, who is almost 27 years old, has gradually passed his golden age, so Fan Zhendong is also preparing in advance for the transformation of the style of play, after all, the high-quality offensive play style of the board afterburner is only suitable for Fan Zhendong when he is young.
As for the performance that has not been good enough for more than half a year, it is because Fan Zhendong is in the transition period of playing style transformation, and now Fan Zhendong wants to transform the previous top three board offensive play into the current top three board control play, but this process is not quickly realized, no matter who should be patient with Fan Zhendong.
Affected by age, the transformation of playing style is a problem that every player has to face, and now Fan Zhendong is good enough in the transition period of technical transformation, and the entire Olympic cycle is one person to win all the men's singles championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, and the most difficult nearly half a year Fan Zhendong also won four singles runners-up.
It can only be said that Fan Zhendong's recent performance is just not as good as before, and now Fan Zhendong's overall performance is still the top two in the world, and coach Liu Heng also believes that Fan Zhendong will have a better performance in the competition in the future.