As the time approaches, the Paris Olympics are about to begin, and the singles candidates around the Paris Olympics have always become a hot topic among fans!
At present, Sun Yingsha has locked in the singles qualification for the Paris Olympics in advance due to her excellent performance in recent years!
But for the other singles qualification, the competition is very fierce, whether to use Chen Meng or Wang Manyu has also become a hot topic among fans!
In fact, the competition at every Olympics is so fierce that it's hard to determine who to use for singles until the last minute!
Like the 2016 Rio Olympics, the competition in Olympic singles was very fierce, and at the last moment, the coaching staff chose Li Xiaoxia, who had already played the retirement report, and Liu Shiwen, who was ranked No. 1 in the world at the time, still passed by the singles of the Olympics after all!
Many fans wonder why the coaching staff would rather use a veteran who is about to retire than the world's No. 1 Liu Shiwen.
In the Rio Olympics, the main competition for the Olympic singles qualification is Ding Ning, Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen.
In the Rio Olympic cycle, Li Xiaoxia won the women's singles championship at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, thus achieving a Grand Slam!
Ding Ning won the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships and the 2015 Women's World Cup singles championship.
Liu Shiwen won the 2012, 2013 and 2014 World Cup singles championships in the Rio Olympic cycle!
Therefore, judging from the results of the competition alone, the three of them can be said to be evenly matched, and they all have major singles champions.
Ding Ning won consecutive championships at the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup, which also allowed Ding Ning to qualify for the singles competition in the Rio Olympics in advance.
The remaining singles qualification is mainly the competition between Liu Shiwen and Li Xiaoxia!
But the coaching staff finally chose 28-year-old Li Xiaoxia instead of 25-year-old Liu Shiwen, why is this?
Although Liu Shiwen successfully won the singles championship in the 2015 Women's World Cup, Liu Shiwen did not perform well in the foreign war, especially against Feng Tianwei, the strongest opponent of Chinese women's table tennis at that time!
In the 2015 Asian Cup and Asian Championships, Liu Shiwen lost to Feng Tianwei twice in a row!
In the Olympic qualifiers before the 2016 Rio Olympics, Liu Shiwen lost to Du Kaiqin of the Hong Kong team in the first round, which also became the last straw that crushed Liu Shiwen!
And Li Xiaoxia won the final championship in this Olympic preliminaries!
In the end, the coaching staff still chose Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning to participate in the singles competition of the Rio Olympics together, but Liu Shiwen passed by the singles of the Olympic Games!
It can be seen that when the coaching staff selects the singles candidates for the Olympic Games, they should not only look at the athletes' major results, but also look at the athletes' foreign battles.
At present, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu's results in the competition are quite good, but in terms of foreign war this year, Chen Meng lost to Japan's Hina Hayada in the women's team final of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, which also led to the Chinese women's table tennis once falling behind with a big score of 1-3!
In addition, Chen Meng also lost to Szokos twice and Samara once in the Paris Olympic cycle!
Compared with Chen Meng, Wang Manyu's performance in foreign battles is slightly better, losing once to Du Kaiqin and Yuan Jiannan once in the Paris Olympic cycle!
Comparatively speaking, Wang Manyu's foreign war is better, perhaps, at the Paris Olympics, the coaching staff will choose Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha to participate in the singles competition together!
In your final at the Paris Olympics, will Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu participate in the singles together?