WTT Doha Stars Tournament is underway, the national table tennis player Kuo Man also went with the team this time, partnering Zhang Rui to play in the women's doubles event, in the round of 16 stage, Kuo Man and Zhang Rui ushered in a Sino-Japanese duel, against the Japanese table tennis combination Chang Qi Meiyu and Zhang Ben Meihe, and finally the national table tennis combination easily swept the opponent 3-0 and successfully advanced to the top 8. The scores were 11-9, 11-4, 12-10.
There is a big age difference between Kuo Man and Zhang Rui, among which Zhang Rui is 26 years old, and it is difficult to develop at the national team level in the future, Kuo Man is completely different, she is a superstar of the national table tennis first team, she is not yet 20 years old, and she entered the national table tennis first team at the age of 16, in the past 2023 season, Kuo Man won the women's singles and women's doubles championships in many WTT sub-stations, and won a mixed doubles bronze medal at the World Table Tennis Championships, and can already represent the national table tennis to win the world series honor. At the youth team level, Kuaiman can be called the big devil, winning four gold medals in women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and team competition at the 2023 World Youth Championships.
Entering 2024, Kuaiman will get more opportunities to perform, and I believe that he will participate in more WTT blockbuster events. It is worth mentioning that the two Japanese players eliminated by Kuaiman and Zhang Rui this time are not simple, Changqi Meiyu and Zhang Benmeihe are both geniuses of Japanese table tennis, especially Zhang Benmeihe is currently only 15 years old, and is already the main player of the Japanese table tennis first team, and won 1 silver and 1 bronze in the Hangzhou Asian Games, which is the biggest threat to the future of the national table tennis women's team.
From the perspective of age, Kuaiman is 4 years older than Zhang Benmeihe, and the peak of the two will overlap in the future, and there will be many duels between the two. Previously, at the 2023 WTT Zagreb event, Kuaiman defeated Miwa Zhang 3-1.
Due to the abundant talent reserves, the current dominance of the national table tennis women's team is still strong, Sun Yingsha in the main team of the first team is a post-00, Wang Manyu is only 24 years old, and the two still have more than 5 years of peak, of which Sun Yingsha has won against Zhang Benmeihe twice, once 3-0 crossing, and once in the Japanese team's home front to defeat Zhang Benmeihe. The national table tennis women's team still has the reserve of 19-year-old Kuaiman, and their dominance will continue in the future.
For Kuaiman, her goal in 2024 is to qualify for a wild card to the Paris Olympics, and as a representative of the new generation of players, she hopes to do just that, as the 22-year-old will try to do the same as the 22-year-old at the last Tokyo Olympics.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)