It is difficult for Ma Lin to have the courage to continue to reuse her! After Busan, Wang Yidi's Paris battle may be basically out
On February 24, Beijing time, in the women's team final of the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team narrowly defeated the Japanese team 3-2 to successfully defend the title. As the team World Table Tennis Championships at the beginning of the Olympic year, the Chinese team bears the heavy responsibility of inspecting and training the main Olympic lineup. After these days of fierce battles, the state and performance of the five main forces of the national table tennis women's line are obvious to all. To be precise, in the next World Series, it may be difficult for Ma Lin to have the courage to continue to reuse Wang Yidi. In the battle for tickets to the Paris Olympics, Sun Yingsha currently has a seat, Chen Meng has at least half a seat, Wang Manyu's chances of taking the position have increased greatly, and Chen Xingtong has gradually changed from theory to jumping for tickets.
Wang Yidi has proven to be useless
The national table tennis has produced many famous Olympic champions and world champions in the past, and there are also some major players who have wasted the opportunity of the competition, and even created the tragedy of losing the competition for the national table tennis. In many cases, it is not that these players do not have the strength and ability, but that they can often play at a super-world-class level in the civil war, and they will not be able to play when the international stage is critical.
There are no winning generals in competitive sports, but that doesn't mean that just because you have to lose and gain experience in a major tournament to give a player a chance to make a big appearance. The Chinese team is a champion division, and within a certain range, it is possible to send newcomers to the competition to practice, but it is definitely not to send her to lose. Before Wang Yidi was in the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, his foreign performance was the worst among the five main forces, and he almost lost to the main team of the Japanese team. Before today's women's team finals, even the head coach of the Japanese women's table tennis team, Takehiro Watanabe, predicted that he felt that the Chinese team would be Wang Manyu in the finals.
But on the Chinese team's side, Wang Yidi has been fixed to play three singles since the knockout round, and Wang Yidi finally continued his consistent style of losing key balls in today's finals. In the quarterfinals of last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, Wang Yidi lost to Hina Hayata, which was the first time in 28 years that the national table tennis lost to a Japanese player in singles at the World Table Tennis Championships after Zhang Ling, Tomokazu Zhangmoto's mother, lost to Toshika Sato in 1995. In last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, Wang Yidi wore four sports, but lost both singles and doubles. This time in Busan, the first game of the group stage lost 0-3 to India's three singles, and the women's team final lost to Japan's three singles. What coach would have the guts to give her a ticket to the Paris Olympics?
Sun Yingsha is very stable, and Chen Meng's experience is still there
In tonight's women's team final, the Chinese team did not capsize in the end, and Sun Yingsha, who scored 2 points, contributed a lot. Looking forward to the Paris Olympics, Sun Yingsha is definitely the first main force of the Chinese team. The 30-year-old veteran Chen Meng, although he lost 1-3 to Hina Hayata, finally beat Miwa Zhang in the fifth set to seal the victory for the whole team.
National table tennis at the highest Olympic strategic level, is very important to the player's experience in the competition, so Chen Meng can still go to Paris without a big accident, as for whether Chen Meng can still play in the Olympic singles field, it is difficult to say, after all, she now has no advantage against Hayata, the most powerful Japanese women's table tennis.
Wang Manyu is most eager to compete in a single World Cup
After the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, the most important international competition before the Paris Olympics is the individual World Cup that restarted in Macau in April. Under the premise that Wang Yidi is gradually losing ground, the competition for a place in a single World Cup is not as hot as before. In addition to Sun Yingsha, who the national table tennis sends to participate in the competition has become the focus of attention from the outside world. Even if it was rumored a few days ago that each association can have 4 people, for Wang Manyu and even Chen Xingtong, it is a great opportunity to prove themselves in the end. Wang Manyu has a strong singles ability and a very outstanding record in foreign battles, and if he can participate in a single World Cup, he will be the favorite to compete for the championship.
Chen Xingtong also appeared in the group stage of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, although she is not the three core main forces now, but she can be said to be the fifth or fourth person in the national table tennis women's line. If Wang Yidi is actually out, she will be the No. 4 national table tennis girl. If any of the first three people can't be on the Paris list, she is the first substitute.