On the 13th, the official website of the Chinese Table Tennis Association released the "Announcement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on Optimizing and Adjusting the Relevant Amendments to the Selection Measures for the National Table Tennis Women's Team to Participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". World No. 1 Sun Yingsha has secured one spot in the women's singles list, with the other spot set between Olympic singles champions Chen Meng and Wang Manyu. And Wang Yidi has been out of the game before, and Wang Manyu has been in very good form recently. After winning the women's singles championship at the Singapore Grand Slam and the women's singles runner-up at the Incheon Championships, Wang Manyu surpassed Chen Meng in Olympic points and moved to second in the world rankings. The Macau World Cup, the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, will be the final two matches that will determine the singles competition between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu at the Paris Olympics. According to the previous regulations, the two highest-ranked Olympic singles candidates will receive the women's singles competition and will be automatically selected for the women's team team lineup of the Chinese team.
In the semi-finals of the Singapore Grand Slam, WTT Singapore Grand Slam 2024, WTT Incheon Championship 2024 and WTT Saudi Grand Slam 2024 have been added. This change caused a great deal of reaction at the time.
However, on April 13, the Olympic points system was optimized, adding that if two or more national table tennis women's team athletes have the same Olympic singles selection points, the national table tennis women's team players who have lost five matches against players from other associations in international competitions will be withdrawn by the coaching staff for comprehensive evaluation based on the highest ITTF singles world ranking on May 14, 2024, and the national table tennis women's team players who have lost five matches against players from other associations in international competitions from May 8, 2023. Can the Chinese Table Tennis Association position ourselves to the end at one time, change and optimize and optimize? Is it so difficult to choose one to go to Paris?
In the upcoming Macau World Cup, 3,000 points will be deducted for the women's team that does not qualify for the group stage, and 3,000 points will be deducted for every 1 loss in the group round-robin stage and knockout stage, and 6,000 points will be deducted for 2 losses. Deductions for points are cumulative.
The editor feels that the Chinese Table Tennis Association put pressure on Chen Meng and Wang Manyu in the final World Cup and the Saudi Grand Slam. So who can resist the pressure?