On April 17, Beijing time, a table tennis feast that attracted global attention - the Chinese National Table Tennis World Cup was in full swing. This event is not only a test of the strength of national table tennis athletes, but also a severe test of their psychological quality and adaptability. As the saying goes, "one minute on the stage, ten years of work off the stage", the sweat and dedication behind each athlete will be subjected to the harsh baptism of the arena at this moment. Who can stand out in this "rule revolution", and who will regret leaving the scene in the rapidly changing situation?
In this Macau World Cup, the 12 national table tennis tigers will wait for the day, but they never expected that the first person to withdraw gloomily was the young rookie Kuo Man, who was known as "Sun Yingsha's successor". In the group stage, Kuo Man encountered the tenacious resistance of Tian Zhixi, the first sister of the Korean women's table tennis, and after a fierce duel, Kuo Man failed to break the predicament, and finally deducted 3000 points due to the group stage, plus 3000 points were deducted after losing the foreign war, a total of 6000 points The heavy price made her Olympic dream almost shattered, and even the position of the P card became out of reach.
Kuaiman's group is in a delicate situation, and in addition to herself, there are also South Korean rivals Tian Zhixi and Australian veteran Hong Jianfang. As a result, the battle between them has become a crucial battle to determine who can advance to the next stage. The young Kuo Man did not show the sharpness he should have at such a crucial moment, and Tian Zhixi played a disparity score of 4:11 and 6:11 in a row at the beginning of the game, which undoubtedly brought a huge impact to Kuo Man's psychological defense.
Under the unique points rules of the group stage, if Kuo Man wants to fight back, he must not only win back two games, but also pray that Tian Zhixi will not score more than 10 points in the subsequent matches, such a challenge can be called a difficult and dangerous challenge, even the world's top player Sun Yingsha may not be able to cope with. The reality was even more brutal, and although Kueman staged a thrilling Jedi counterattack in the third game, losing 10-12, it was still not enough to change the course of his fate. In the fourth game, Kuo Man must give Tian Zhixi an extremely rare 11:0, otherwise all efforts will come to naught.
At the scene of the game, the commentator couldn't help but sigh that the 04-year-old national table tennis genius girl and mixed doubles star was highly anticipated before the game and was regarded as Sun Yingsha's successor, but in this showdown, he was extremely nervous, and he couldn't find the rhythm of the game for a long time, as if he was a sleeping lion who had not fully awakened. Although in the last game, Kuo Man fought hard to catch up and won 11:4, but the general trend was gone, and the slight disadvantage in the small score made her have to leave the game in hatred.
As a result, under the new competition system jointly launched by the International Table Tennis Federation and WTT, the first to taste the bitter fruit was our national table tennis star Kuo Man. Although she drew 2-2 with Tian Zhixi in the group stage, the small score gap was like a thousand pounds of boulders, blocking her progress. Among the six male and female players in the national table tennis, only Kuo Man was unfortunately eliminated in this wave of rule change, which can't help but make people feel emotional: if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight, take over Sun Yingsha's baton, and achieve the future table tennis hegemony.
Looking back on the ups and downs of the game, Kueman's defeat is both a warning and a vivid life lesson. It reveals the brutal side of competitive sports, but it also shows the twists and turns that must be taken on the road to growth. The introduction of the new rules undoubtedly puts forward a higher level of requirements for all table tennis players, who must learn to quickly adjust their mentality and calmly cope with the ever-changing competition system while constantly improving their skills. For Kueman, this experience is not the end, but an important journey on the road to the championship. As the ancients said: "Failure is the mother of success", I believe that after this tempering, Kuo Man will be able to accumulate in the coming years, and one day he will prove that he is worthy of the reputation of "Sun Yingsha's successor", let us look forward to the moment when she shines again on the table tennis stage!