Chen Xingtong, who is only 27 years old, is now the main member of the national table tennis women's team, has won the World Table Tennis Championships team championship many times, and is known as the real sports world champion. While achieving fruitful results in his career, Chen Xing also performed well in his career, and was successfully admitted to Chengdu Institute of Physical Education to study for a doctorate degree and became a doctoral student.
According to the official admission list released by Chengdu Institute of Physical Education, Chen Xingtong stood out with excellent professional and foreign language scores, and his major was physical education and training. In the future, Chen Xingtong is expected to continue to devote himself to domestic sports after completing his studies.
At present, Chen Xingtong is ranked fifth in the world rankings, behind Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Chen Meng. However, the competition within the national table tennis is extremely fierce, and the head coach Li Falcon has announced the selection rules for the women's Olympic team, in which the world No. 1 Sun Yingsha has locked a place in the Paris Olympics, and the other singles place will be generated between Wang Manyu and Chen Meng. This means that Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi have basically missed the Paris Olympics.
Despite this, Chen Xingtong still has a number of tournament responsibilities to take on, including the upcoming WTT World Cup in Macau and the Saudi Grand Slam. As the main force of active national table tennis, she will go all out.
Not being able to participate in the main event of the Olympic Games is undoubtedly a regret for every athlete, and Chen Xingtong also feels the same. However, China's national table tennis team is full of talent, Chen Xingtong faced the challenge of Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning when she was just starting out, and then encountered the rise of Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, whose age disadvantage makes it difficult for her to be among the top and has yet to win the World Series singles championship, which makes her have little chance on the Olympic stage. The national table tennis coaching staff needs top players, and Chen Xingtong has not yet met this requirement.
The brutality of competitive sports is self-evident, and although Chen Xingtong did not win the singles crown of the World Series, he won the national championship and ranked among the top five in the world with his own efforts. There is no doubt about her quality, but she was defeated in front of better teammates. In addition, the internal competition in Chinese sports has always been fierce, especially for dream team-level teams such as table tennis and diving. For example, Zhang Jiaqi of the diving team won the national championship at the age of 13 and won gold at the subsequent Olympic Games, but she chose to leave the first team and go to Beijing Sport University for further study, and the frequency of participation gradually decreased.
Now, Chen Xingtong has also temporarily left the team due to fierce intra-team competition, but with the title of world champion, she will definitely go further and further in the future, and her status as a doctoral student is the icing on the cake.