The national table tennis recently announced the latest Olympic selection criteria, in which some previous controversies and concerns were answered, such as the system of deducting points for the women's team, which everyone is more concerned about, has been explained in detail here. At the same time, Wang Yidi, who everyone paid attention to before, seems to be a bit of a peak in her Olympic qualification. After the announcement of the women's team's score deduction system for losing foreign wars, Wang Yidi was equivalent to being excluded from the Olympic Games list in advance, but judging from the participation standards announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Wang Yidi actually still has a great chance to impact the Olympic seat, as long as Wang Yidi can get the top two in the team's points system, she is eligible to qualify for singles and team competitions.
In this announcement, there is a very clear article, from May 8, 2023 to the end of this year's Saudi Grand Slam competition, exactly one year, lose five or more foreign battles, even if the top two or three in the team, whether you can represent the Chinese team to play singles or team competitions is determined by the coaching staff, this is not completely determined by the ranking, but as long as you do not lose five games in foreign wars in this year's time, it is completely according to the points。
Wang Yidi has only lost 3 foreign games since May 8 last year, and as long as she loses no more than 1 game in the next two tournaments, that is, the World Cup and Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, she can qualify for the Olympic Games by virtue of her ranking.
At present, the gap between Wang Yidi and Chen Meng and Wang Manyu in front of her is very small, only a few hundred points. In the subsequent World Cup Saudi Grand Slam games, the points are very high, adding up to 4,000 points, so as long as Wang Yidi plays these two games well and guarantees not to lose the foreign war, she has a great hope of qualifying for the Olympic Games. This year's Paris Olympics, judging from Wang Yidi's age, is almost her last qualification for the Olympic Games.
Although the women's team decided to implement the policy of deducting points for losing foreign wars, everyone felt that Wang Yidi's Olympic qualification was gone. The coach is going to take her down. But in fact, this is not the case, as long as Wang Yidi works hard enough and competes enough in the next step, she will definitely have a chance to counterattack in the two competitions, and finally complete the overtake of Maggie Wang and Chen Meng.
Or we can also say that now the last singles ticket and two team seats of the Chinese team will be produced between Chen Meng, Maggie Wang and Wang Yidi, none of the three of them have been completely eliminated so far, Sun Yingsha's position is unshakable, and the gap between Chen Xingtong and the three is indeed too big.