Today, I will talk to the fans about the latest news of national table tennis. As we all know, the national table tennis players have arrived in Macao, China, to prepare for the next Macau World Cup. This tournament is more competitive, and there will be a group stage and a knockout stage. The national table tennis players are also fully preparing for the competition, hoping to achieve better results in front of the fans in their hometowns, especially before the Paris Olympics, the overall performance of the national table tennis players is also highly anticipated by fans. Moreover, the national table tennis coaching staff will further select the list of participants in the Olympic Games through this competition.
Before the start of this competition, Liu Guoliang, the director of national table tennis, announced a major decision. According to media sources, the national table tennis women's team has revised the Olympic selection plan, and in the next Macau World Cup and Saudi Arabia Grand Slam events, if the players who lose foreign games will be deducted 3,000 points, for each game lost, 3,000 points will be deducted, and if they lose two games, they will be deducted 6,000 points, and if they cannot advance in the group stage, they will be deducted 3,000 points again. This means that if a player loses two group games and is eliminated from the group, she will be deducted as many as 9,000 points. In this case, if you want to challenge the women's singles qualification for the Paris Olympics, it will be difficult to recover.
After the announcement of this new decision, it can be seen that Liu Guoliang hopes to further select more suitable candidates to participate in the Paris Olympics through the competition. That is to say, all the national table tennis players cannot lose the foreign war in an upset, and if they lose in an upset, they will face out. After the introduction of this new regulation, many fans thought that the pressure on Chen Meng was greater. As we all know, Chen Meng is a 30-year-old meritorious veteran who once won the women's singles championship at the Olympic Games, but now Chen Meng's Olympic selection points have been overtaken by Wang Manyu. And if Chen Meng loses in an upset, then she will face an upset, and it will be difficult to impact the Olympic women's singles qualification.
As fans, we also hope that Chen Meng will play steadily in the next two international competitions, especially in the group stage, and we also hope that the national table tennis can achieve better results in this Macau World Cup.