Chen Meng and Wang Manyu ushered in the ultimate competition: choose one of the two Olympic women's singles places, who can succeed in taking the position?

The Paris Olympics is approaching step by step, and the competition for places within the national table tennis has entered a white-hot stage, especially the women's singles event has almost been "clear" - before that, head coach Li Falcon made it clear to the outside world:

"At present, from the perspective of the women's team, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Wang Manyu occupy a leading position in the Olympic singles competition, and they all have rich experience in completing Olympic tasks, especially Sun Yingsha's excellent performance in the Paris preparation cycle. Therefore, from an objective point of view, the competition for the second singles candidate will be more intense. ”

The meaning of this passage is very clear, that is, Sun Yingsha's selection for singles is no longer a big problem, and in the case of Wang Yidi's clear exit and Chen Xingtong's points are too few, the No. 2 singles will be produced between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, so who can get the opportunity? Let's compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two!

Chen Meng's advantage is that she is more experienced, and her results in the past year have been stable, especially the women's singles performance at the World Table Tennis Championships is better than Wang Manyu's.

Naturally, there is no need to explain the problem of experience, Chen Meng is 5 years older than Wang Manyu, and she has naturally participated in more competitions, and won the women's singles and women's team championships in the last Tokyo Olympics.

Looking back on the performance of the past year, although Chen Meng did not have a championship, his results were very stable, and he reached the semifinals and finals a lot of times, so his ranking has always remained at the top.

Especially at the World Table Tennis Championships closest to the Olympic Games, Chen Meng went all the way to the women's singles final, even if she lost to Sun Yingsha in the end, but this result is enough to add a lot of points to it, which is better than Wang Manyu - the World Championships is the closest level to the Olympic Games, and it is naturally the focus of the coaching staff.

Wang Manyu's advantage is that she is younger than Chen Meng, with relatively more physical fitness and energy, and in the past year, there have been more highlights in the competition, more championships, and the women's singles performance of the World Table Tennis Championships and Grand Slam Women's Singles is outstanding.

Age is an unavoidable comparison for everyone, although the degree of dependence of table tennis players on the body cannot be compared with many sports, but with the promotion of the reform of the International Table Tennis Federation, playing now is obviously more tired than before, so Wang Manyu, who is in the year of playing, must have more advantages than Chen Meng, who is over thirty years old.

In addition, in the past year, Wang Manyu has won four singles championships alone, although the World Table Tennis Championships did not play well and only stopped in the quarterfinals, but after all, he did not lose the foreign war (lost to teammate Chen Xingtong), which can somewhat offset his disadvantages in this regard.

Especially after the arrival of 2024, Wang Manyu's form has rebounded rapidly, and in the group stage of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, she turned the tide and scored 2 points when the national table tennis women's team upset the Indian team, becoming the team's Dinghai Shen Needle, and then won the Grand Slam tournament again and again to prove her strength: in terms of recent form, she is obviously more outstanding than Chen Meng.

As far as the history of the national table tennis Olympic selection is concerned, it is rare to have such a clear name and choose one of the two, and Chen Meng and Wang Manyu have come to the stage of "ultimate competition".

As we all know, the previous Olympic selections of national table tennis are very "painful", because we have too many outstanding athletes, objectively speaking, the five main forces, and even some non-main forces are eligible to participate in other associations, but gathered in a team, they have to choose the best of the best.

However, it is not common for the women's singles to be clearly delineated to choose one of the two in this year's range, which not only shows that Chen Meng and Wang Manyu's conditions are significantly ahead of other teammates except Sun Yingsha, but also shows that the selection of this Olympic Games is more transparent than before, and every step of the coaching staff's progress is communicating with the public in real time, but at the same time, it will bring more pressure to the athletes.

The next games that will be included in the national table tennis Olympic selection reference are WTT Incheon Championships, Macau Singles World Cup, WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu not only have to work hard to get new points, but also beware of losing foreign wars to deduct points, which is becoming more and more difficult, although Chen Meng still maintains a points lead for Wang Manyu, but in terms of the recent situation, she is already at a disadvantage and has to come on.

So who do you think will have the last laugh? Who do you support more to go straight to Paris? Welcome to leave a message and write your own opinion!