Wang Manyu vs. Japan missed the debut: Fans bombarded Ma Lin and questioned the way of employing people in national table tennis

At the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, the women's team final national table tennis played against Japan, and the national table tennis fell behind 1-2 after the first 3 games and was in a difficult situation. At this time, Ma Lin, the coach of the national table tennis women's team, encountered "verbal criticism" from public opinion, and some netizens questioned his employment arrangement, and questioned why he didn't use Wang Manyu, who had good results in foreign wars?

In the women's team finals, Ma Lin decided the list according to the world ranking, and finally the top three in the world Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi and Chen Meng played, of which Sun Yingsha served as the first singles and Chen Meng served as the second singles. The national table tennis lost in the second and third games, resulting in a big score of 1-2 behind, specifically Chen Meng lost to Hina Hayada 1-3, and Wang Yidi was directly swept by Miyu Hirano 3-0.

So far, Wang Manyu's failure to enter the final list has attracted a larger area of discussion, from the perspective of ability, Wang Manyu is the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, the women's singles champion of the National Games, and has proven that he has excellent personal ability, in the entire 2023, Wang Manyu has only lost one foreign war, as a comparison, Wang Yidi has lost 4 times, including many defeats to Japanese players, and Wang Yidi also lost against Miyu Hirano last time.

These data slapped the national table tennis coaching staff even more in the face, making Ma Lin's ability to arrange troops questioned, and the most reasonable arrangement was not made. In contrast, the Japanese table tennis coaching staff was unexpected, they let the teenager Zhang Benmei and serve as the first singles, directly gave up the first game and Sun Yingsha's hard match, and then let Hayada Hina play the second and fourth games, striving for victory, and the Japanese table tennis coach's arrangement was more flexible.

After Chen Meng and Wang Yidi were defeated, some netizens said rationally and analytically: "The coaching staff is really bold, and they dare to let Wang Yidi face Miyu Hirano, and the score is behind when they come up, and it has always been a scoring mode." Let Wang Manyu, who won all the victories against Japan, not go, let the unstable Chen Meng and Wang Yidi go, I really don't know what the national table tennis thinks!"

There will always be winners and losers in competitive sports, whether it is a win or a loss, it is a possible result, but the past record of China's national table tennis is too good, which leads to the fact that the standard of every national table tennis competition will only be the champion, once the loss of the championship becomes news, this is the pressure that national table tennis players need to bear, and it is also the pressure of public opinion that the national table tennis coach cannot avoid.

For Ma Lin, he was the Olympic men's singles champion when he was a player, representing an era of national table tennis, but he has not completely proved himself when he enters the coaching position, and people who are engaged in professional sports will encounter doubts, the key is whether the questioned person can prove himself in time, and the public opinion pressure encountered by Liu Guoliang in the past is also great, and he expects Ma Lin to lead the national table tennis women's team to win the championship, so these doubts will dissipate.