The draw for the WTT Doha Stars Challenge came as a surprise to fans, with many believing it to be a continuation of the Grand Final. Because in the finals, the big battle between Sun Yingsha and Zhang Benmeihe left a deep impression on fans. But in the Star Challenge more than 20 days later, the two were divided into the same small half again, and I had to sigh that Sun Yingsha and Zhang Benmei were too close.
In the past, fans thought that the draw was just luck, but this Star Challenge has too many accidents, if it is luck once, luck can only be described as fate. Especially Wang Manyu, fans can guess before the start of each draw group. Because fans know that Wang Manyu will always be divided into the death half, and this time Wang Manyu is not only in the death half alone, but also in doubles and mixed doubles.
Wang Manyu of the Doha Star Challenge is a three-sport player, and at first fans thought that the coaching staff was training Wang Manyu. In fact, if you want to really exercise Wang Manyu's doubles and mixed doubles ability, you can let Wang Manyu and her partner participate separately without having other combinations participate, because there is still a regular challenge in Doha to be held after the Star Challenge, and the two tournaments are next to each other.
The Doha Star Challenge coaching staff sent three pairs of doubles pairs, and as soon as the draw was made, Wang Manyu and Wang Manyu would play against Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi in the second round. If you really want to practice Wang Manyu's doubles ability, you can let other combinations participate in the subsequent ordinary challenge matches.
In the second round of this doubles, it is better to play against the Warring States table tennis teammates, and it is better to play in the warm-up match in the team, which has the same exercise effect. The same is true in the mixed doubles, where the coaching staff fielded four mixed doubles pairs. As a result, only the combination of Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin was assigned to the upper half, and the other three pairs of national table tennis combinations were assigned to the lower half.
Wang Manyu's combination will face Liang Jingkun and Qian Tianyi in the first round, and Lin Shidong and Kuo Man in the second round. In fact, there is no need to send so many mixed doubles pairs, because in the subsequent Doha Regular Challenge, the coaching staff only let Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu participate in the mixed doubles competition, and did not sign up for the singles and doubles events.
That is the real mixed doubles match test, this Doha Star Challenge first has to let Wang Manyu pair against the national table tennis teammates. In fact, if so many pairs of pairs staged a derby battle in advance, it would be better to have an internal warm-up match first, and then sign up for the international mixed doubles competition after winning the warm-up match?
In this way, it avoids the early encounter between teammates in the international arena, and can also play against different foreign cooperation combinations, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?
If you really train a certain player, participating in a single event is the best way to test. This time, Wang Manyu will play against Chen Xingtong in both singles and doubles, and Chen Xingtong is moving very fast in the process of preparing for the match, and is ready to fight Wang Manyu. Some fans have also found a regularity, if Wang Manyu can't win a certain player or is dragged into a tiebreaker, all kinds of subsequent matches will continue to be encountered.
Zhu Qianxi lost 2-3 in the first match against Wang Manyu in the Frankfurt Championship, and the two were separated together in the Taiyuan Challenge Tournament that followed. Chen Xingtong defeated Wang Manyu in the finals, and as a result, the two sides of the Doha Star Challenge had to meet in two consecutive competitions.
Coincidentally, in the singles match, the strength of the foreign opponents encountered by the two was not strong, which was enough to ensure that the two played smoothly. If Chen Xingtong's 4/4 district had a strong opponent like Yang Xiaoxin, it is estimated that it would be difficult to meet Wang Manyu this time. But this time Yang Xiaoxin was assigned to the lower half, and it was inevitable that Chen Xingtong would fight Wang Manyu.
Also having a fate with Wang Manyu is Sun Yingsha, last time Wang Manyu narrowly defeated Sun Yingsha in the deciding game of the Table Tennis Super League. From the first game of the game, they were always behind and chasing points, perhaps because both of them wanted to play again, and this time they were divided into the same half of the area. This time, Sun Yingsha first played against Zhang Benmeiwa, and then against Hina Hayata, and the potential opponent in the semi-finals was Wang Manyu.
In fact, this battle mode is an Olympic test for Sun Yingsha, because in the Olympic singles competition, Sun Yingsha's potential opponents for winning the championship may be these three people. Of course, Zhang Benmeihe will not be able to get a quota for the Olympic singles, and she may get a quota for the Olympic team event.
Sun Yingsha still has a lot of potential opponents, and Zhang Benmeiwa is equivalent to replacing Miyu Hirano to fight Sun Yingsha, which is also a good test. With the enhancement of the strength of Japanese table tennis players, the coaching staff must also let Sun Yingsha play more against the main Japanese table tennis players. Once the number of encounters is too small, there is not much test value, and the coaching staff also knows that Sun Yingsha won the thrill in the finals.
This Doha Challenge can facilitate Zhang Benmei and Sun Yingsha to fight, and the national table tennis coaching staff has contributed a lot behind the scenes. Because the Olympics are still a few months away, if there are fewer encounters, it will become an encounter at the Olympics. Only by fighting more can we figure out the opponent's offensive routine, which is called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent.
Today's Miwa Zhang is a challenger, and the sudden rise of this player will indeed disrupt the Olympic layout of the coaching staff. Once she broke through Sun Yingsha, the coaching staff had to make adjustments to the lineup. In fact, being able to drag Sun Yingsha into the tiebreaker means that there is a possibility of being defeated. This is already affecting the layout of the National Table Tennis Olympics, which is indeed a real opponent.