The list of participants for the Busan World Table Tennis Championships announced by the national table tennis team is generally uneventful. The men's team maintained the unbreakable pattern of five tigers, and the women's team also had a small accident, that is, Qian Tianyi, who was ranked sixth in both the world volleyball team and the team, replaced Chen Xingtong, who was ranked fifth in the world volleyball team and the team.
It seems that Chen Xingtong suffered a "broken glasses" counterattack.
But Chen Xingtong himself was very calm, and the national table tennis did not expose comments and interpretations of this change.
Because, for Chen Xingtong, it may be that he has been "vaccinated" a long time ago, and he has accepted it in advance before it happened.
1. Keyword 1: cyberviolence
Chen Xingtong was born in 1997, the same age as Wang Yidi, ranked after Chen Meng, and tied for the "second oldest" of the five golden flowers of the women's team.
27 years old, for the ecology of national table tennis, is a very embarrassing age number - if you can't enter the top three main safety areas (such as Chen Meng, Wang Yidi), then you can only cruise on the edge of accompanying Wang, major events will definitely not go, and some small competitions have to be released to bring new people.
Originally, Chen Xingtong has improved her score recently, and she defeated Wang Manyu in two consecutive high-scoring competitions, giving herself a heavier opportunity to move forward. But in the process, she was cyberbullied three times:
In the first round, it was said that she released Wang Yidi after defeating Wang Manyu, which caused Dadi's points to increase sharply to the second place;
In the second round, she looked at her mobile phone during the game, violated the rules, and continued to be suspected of match-fixing;
In the third round, she abandoned the game in the finals due to illness in the table tennis finals, causing Wang Manyu to defeat Sun Yingsha's team alone and lose the championship.
These backgrounds came together to emerge at the Doha Stars Tournament, where Chen Xingtong said something meaningful after winning the Women's Doubles title. That statement showed that she had a premonition and had accepted that she was "out of the game".
Sure enough, then she lost to Wang Manyu 0-3 in the women's singles 1/4 finals, completely stopping her points.
2. Keyword 2: local forces
Now the national table tennis women's team, the "Liaoning team" is the largest local force.
At the team level, Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi are both from the Liaoning provincial team, and the Liaoning women's team has won the national team championship twice, because the team has two main national players, which is an advantage that no provincial team in the country has.
At the coaching level, after the adjustment of the national team coaching team, Sun Xun and Xu Hui, two coaches exported by the Liaoning team, entered the first-line coaching lineup of the women's team and were assigned to important positions as the head coaches of the two Olympic champions Chen Meng and Wang Manyu. It is also unprecedented for two coaches from the same provincial team to appear in a coaching team at the same time.
Therefore, the "Liaoning team force" has indisputably become the first major dock of the national table tennis women's team. Even if there is no fact that there are no gangs and factions, there will definitely be speculation and even suspicion in this regard. This is the normal state of the workplace with Chinese characteristics, and everyone can understand and experience it when you say it.
Therefore, Chen Xingtong can only quit, which is the least costly solution.
3. Key word 3: transformation
Chen Xingtong and Zhou Qihao seem to have the meaning of "open". Although the national table tennis has not mentioned the military regulation of "prohibiting love in the team" recently, it is true that there has not been a CP in the team at the same time for a long time.
Therefore, even if Chen Xingtong and Zhou Qihao are not high-profile, at least they have an unconcealed relationship, which is a bit intriguing.
According to reports, Chen Xingtong has already seen through his prospect of "not being able to enter the top three", so he has already begun to plan his transformation as a coach early.
While sticking to the front line as much as possible, she also accumulated her business skills as a coach in advance, so that Chen Xingtong will not panic and be at a loss at the moment when she officially leaves the national team (for example, Wu Yangchen, who has just left the team), and she may even seamlessly transition into the identity of a coach.
Looking at the national table tennis has just recalled as many as 7 former national players to come back to help the team's preparation, you can see how forward-looking Chen Xingtong's preparation is, and it also has the greatest chance of success.
Therefore, Chen Xingtong is not too sad. Because, she is not falling behind, she is not losing to Qian Tianyi, but she is one step ahead on another track that must be taken.