The U.S. women's table tennis Olympic lineup, all of which are Chinese faces, released an embarrassing signal to Liu Guoliang and the ITTF

The U.S. women's table tennis team announced the lineup for the Paris Olympics, and at a glance, it was all yellow-skinned Chinese.

Zhang An, Wang Amy, Song Jiayu, the three players, are all Chinese.

Table tennis is our national sport in China, just like the football teams of many countries have naturalized players from Brazil, and the table tennis teams of many countries also have players from China.

For example, Tian Zhixi and Zhu Qianxi of South Korea, Yuan Jiannan of France, Han Ying of Germany, etc., there are too many.

But in a country, all the Olympians are of Chinese descent, this kind of scene is really very rare. It's not surprising to say that people in Laomei like to play football, baseball, ice hockey and basketball, but they don't like football very much, let alone table tennis.

In addition, Chinese are naturally talented and more interested in the sport of table tennis.

Let's talk about this American women's table tennis team.

Zhang An is familiar to everyone, born in 1996, and is also a veteran in the table tennis project where he is famous as soon as possible. Zhang An was born in San Francisco, but her parents didn't want her to forget her hometown of Xi'an, so they added the word "An" to her name.

Zhang An's parents are very fond of table tennis, but also amateur level masters, under the influence of his parents, Zhang An began to practice table tennis at the age of 7, it was in this year, Zhang An's parents sent her to Xi'an, looking for players from the Shaanxi Provincial Team to guide, after more than 40 days of special training, Zhang An returned to the United States, the level is quite good.

After hard training, Zhang An made it all the way to the U.S. table tennis team, and at the age of 16, he represented the U.S. team at the London Olympics, and it was in that year that Zhang An won the women's singles championship at the North American Championships. The highlight of Zhang An's career was at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, when she partnered with Lin Gaoyuan to form a multinational combination and won a bronze medal. This is the first time in the history of the U.S. team that a player stands on the podium of the World Table Tennis Championships.

Zhang An's level is definitely not as good as the main force of national table tennis, and even the main force of Japan and South Korea can't beat it, but in the table tennis event in the Americas, Zhang An is still a strong contender for the gold medal.

Wang Amy, who was born in 2003, is known as the first beauty in table tennis, she is not very old and has no outstanding achievements, but she has participated in three World Table Tennis Championships. Song Jiayu, who is one year younger than Wang Amy, has also been exposed to table tennis since childhood, and has come to China many times to train and compete, and the two are still doubles partners and have won the women's doubles championship in the Pan American Games.

The main force of American women's table tennis is all Chinese, and on the surface, it can prove the strength of Chinese table tennis, but if you analyze it at a deeper level, it is actually sending an embarrassing signal to Liu Guoliang and the International Table Tennis Federation, who are committed to promoting table tennis.

In Europe, such as France and Germany, there have been many famous players, older ones like Ocharov and Francesca, younger ones like the Lebrun brothers, and there are many women who have played well in women's table tennis, such as Szokos, Polkanova and so on.

However, in the United States, a big sports country, and even in the entire Americas, the promotion of table tennis is not very ideal, and there are always so few people playing around. For national table tennis, we are not afraid of more and more opponents, nor are we afraid of opponents getting stronger and stronger, because only when there are more foreign faces playing table tennis, table tennis can last for a long time. Only when the opponent is strong can the national table tennis players continue to grow and improve.

I hope that more foreigners will participate in table tennis and make table tennis develop better and better.

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