With the Paris Olympics approaching, the players of the Chinese national table tennis team are devoting themselves to intense preparations. At this critical moment, the physical and mental qualities of each team member are facing an unprecedented test. After a series of rigorous selections, the lineup of the national table tennis team has been preliminarily determined, including many powerful players such as Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, and Liang Jingkun, as well as female players such as Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Chen Meng. In particular, Sun Yingsha has become the backbone of the national table tennis women's team since the Tokyo Olympic cycle. Despite her youth and lack of experience, Sun Yingsha's performance in major tournaments has been unsatisfactory, especially in the 2019 World Cup and the Tokyo Olympics, where she lost to Chen Meng twice.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Sun Yingsha went through a period of adjustment. The departure of the former head coach Huang Haicheng made her temporarily fall into a state of no guidance, and her results fluctuated. But it was during this time that Sun Yingsha improved significantly both technically and psychologically. Under the guidance of Qiu Yike, Sun Yingsha has exploded with amazing potential, creating four brilliant achievements in a row since 2022, becoming an unparalleled presence in the national table tennis team.
First of all, she won three titles at the 2022 Singapore Grand Slam, including the women's singles, mixed doubles and women's doubles events, becoming the first "triple crown" in the history of the event. Immediately afterwards, Sun Yingsha rose to the top of the world ranking at the beginning of the year, becoming the first post-00 national table tennis female player to achieve this achievement, consolidating her status as the "first sister of national table tennis" and far ahead of other competitors.
The third achievement was her outstanding performance at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, where Sun Yingsha won the mixed doubles, women's singles and women's doubles third place, becoming the eighth player to win the Golden Slam at the individual World Championships, alongside the legend of table tennis Liu Guoliang.
In the end, Sun Yingsha's popularity and influence reached new heights, and she became the first athlete to exceed 100 million votes in the Weibo selection, fully demonstrating her huge influence and popularity.
The 24-year-old Sun Yingsha is already in the prime of her career, and she is not only expected to complete the Grand Slam, but also is expected to become another national table tennis legend after Zhang Jike. At present, Sun Yingsha is in a crucial period of preparation, and she is going all out to achieve another success in the upcoming World Cup and Olympics, and even challenge Zhang Jike's record for the fastest Grand Slam. Let's look forward to how this rising star of national table tennis will shine on the international stage and write his own brilliant chapter.