The World Cup, one of the Grand Slam tournaments, will be held in Macau, China, from April 15 to 21. The tournament has been relaunched since 2020 after a three-year hiatus, and a new format has been developed, which is not so friendly to the slow-burning Chen Meng, as the last World Cup champion, Chen Meng is also aiming to defend the title, but it is more difficult.
At present, the competition for candidates for the Paris Olympics of the national table tennis women's team has entered a white-hot stage, and who will finally catch the last train in Paris? Everything is still unknown. At present, Wang Manyu has surpassed Chen Meng's Olympic points with the Singapore Grand Slam championship and the runner-up of the Incheon Championship, which means that if Incheon is the end of the selection, Chen Meng will have missed the Paris singles. According to the new rules of national table tennis selection, there are only the Macau World Cup and the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam left in the selection tournament.
Why is it very bad for Chen Meng?
As we all know, Chen Meng is a relatively slow player, and generally loses first and then wins. Now the World Cup group stage adopts a new system, three people in a group, who the opponent is not yet known, but those who can participate in the World Cup are all powerful players, plus this kind of full four games, to see who has higher points, the first to qualify. Not to mention the score of 1-3 loss, if it is 2-2 in two games, it may not be able to qualify.
At present, the national table tennis implements a point deduction mode for losing foreign wars, even if the two games are 2-2, if you don't qualify in the end, this is no different from losing foreign wars, and the possibility of deducting points depends on the national table tennis coaching team, even if you don't deduct points, the impression points will definitely be deducted, so it is possible to miss Paris.
At present, although Wang Yidi is not suitable for running for the singles quota in Paris on the surface, in fact, the group is also useless. At least that's possible at the Singapore Grand Slam. If Chen Meng or Wang Manyu finally dropped the chain and was eliminated in the first round, and Wang Yidi continued to play well, then it became possible for Wang Yidi to be selected in Paris.
The most important reason why the national table tennis coaching team has not announced the singles quota for a long time is not to give the opponent too much time to study.
总而言之,赛制不利陈梦,但王艺迪也得grasp 住机会才行。