I have to say that the dominance of Chinese women's table tennis in the world table tennis is too strong, since the table tennis project has become a participating event in the Olympic Games, the Chinese women's table tennis has almost won all the championships, only in the 1988 Seoul Olympics lost a women's doubles championship, in the Tokyo Olympics lost a mixed doubles championship!
In fact, not only did the Chinese women's table tennis team win all the Olympic singles championships, but also showed strong dominance in the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup!
Especially in the Women's World Cup, in fact, since the Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's table tennis has almost won all the singles championships! There is only one exception, that is, the 2016 Women's World Cup, when the Chinese women's table tennis did not participate, resulting in the championship being taken away by Japan's 16-year-old Miu Hirano!
And Liu Shiwen, known as the princess of the World Cup, was banned for this!
What's going on here?
Soon after the Rio 2016 Olympics, another world competition began, and that was the Women's World Cup in Philadelphia, USA!
At that time, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen of Chinese women's table tennis were qualified!
At that time, Ding Ning successfully won the women's singles championship in the Rio Olympics and achieved his dream of a Grand Slam.
After all, although Ding Ning withdrew, there is still Liu Shiwen participating, and the Chinese women's table tennis still has a great chance of winning the championship!
However, when Liu Shiwen was only two or three days away from the start of the competition, she suddenly proposed that she would not participate in the competition on the grounds that she had a cold!
Although the coaching staff has repeatedly done ideological work for Liu Shiwen, I hope that Liu Shiwen can focus on the overall situation and participate in this competition, and even do not set a goal for Liu Shiwen, as long as she participates in the competition!
But Liu Shiwen still insisted on withdrawing from the competition!
In the end, this also led to no Chinese players participating in this World Cup!
In this competition, Japan's 16-year-old Miu Hirano seized the opportunity to defeat teammate Misei Ito, then defeated Singapore's Feng Tianwei in the semi-finals, and defeated Zheng Yijing of the Chinese Taipei team in the final!
In this way, Miu Hirano won the World Cup women's singles championship, thus becoming the youngest World Cup singles champion in the history of the ITTF!
And this championship is also the only championship that the Chinese women's table tennis team lost in the World Cup!
This also caused the anger of the national table tennis executives, and soon after the game, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the news of the ban on Liu Shiwen!
Kong Linghui, the head coach of the Chinese women's table tennis team at the time, said: "Although Liu Shiwen had an injury at that time, the main reason was that she was subjectively afraid of difficulties and had been in a negative state. Faced with such a situation, the national table tennis team made a penalty decision to suspend Liu Shiwen's recent international competition qualifications and deeply reflected. ”
And Liu Shiwen also accepted this: I hope the team will give me another chance to fight for a place in the 2020 Olympic Games, and I will do my best to win honor for Chinese table tennis.