The national table tennis star lost the battle of life and death, was heavily punished by Liu Guoliang, and basically bid farewell to the Paris Olympics
On April 18, Beijing time, at the 2024 Macau ITTF Women's World Cup, Wang Yidi of national table tennis suffered a blow to the head, she lost to Zhang Benmeihe 1-4 and missed the women's singles quarterfinals. From the perspective of competing for an Olympic quota, this may be Wang Yidi's life-and-death battle, and now that she has lost the life-and-death battle, the Paris Olympics are gradually moving away. What awaits Wang Yidi is a heavy penalty with a deduction of points, and there are variables about whether there will be so many opportunities in the future.
In the ITTF Women's World Cup, Wang Yidi is under great pressure, first of all, she has missed the women's singles of the Paris Olympics, and every next game is particularly important, and only by not losing the foreign war can she retain the hope of competing for the Olympic women's team. Secondly, since the Macau World Cup, points will be deducted for every loss in a foreign war, and once points are deducted, they will basically withdraw from the competition in advance. Wang Yidi participated in the competition in this context, and the pressure can be imagined.
In the group stage, Wang Yidi stumbled. In the knockout round, the heart-piercing scene still came, Wang Yidi lost the foreign war again, and lost to the Japanese players again, this time it was a 1-4 defeat to Zhang Benmeihe, and missed the World Cup women's singles quarterfinals. In this way, Wang Yidi lost to the Japanese Olympic trio in a row, Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhang all defeated Wang Yidi, and even Miyu Kihara could defeat Wang Yidi.
Considering that the Japanese women's table tennis is the fierce rival of the national table tennis, Wang Yidi basically missed the Paris Olympics. Wang Yidi has missed the Olympic women's singles because of many losses in foreign wars before, this time losing to Zhang Benmeihe, it can be said to be a fatal blow, because she will be heavily punished by Liu Guoliang, before the World Cup, the Table Tennis Association has issued a document, losing the foreign war directly deducted 3000 points, Wang Yidi basically said goodbye to the Paris Olympics.
In fact, Wang Yidi worked very hard, and the coaching staff also helped her find a way, her off-court coach kept changing, Ma Lin and Qiu Yike came to Sun Xun on the field, and they all helped Wang Yidi come up with ideas, but Wang Yidi was always too anxious, in the face of Zhang Benmeihe, she lost a lot of opportunity balls, plus Zhang Benmei and left and right transfers, Wang Yidi did not have many ways, so she naturally became more and more anxious. In the first and fifth games, Wang Yidi missed key points at the end of the game, and the key ball shot was too blind, not as decisive as Zhang Benmei and decisive, in fact, it was also a performance of wanting to win and being afraid of losing.
The score of 1 to 4 is too heartbreaking, it is indeed a fiasco, and the opponent is a young player, who can defeat the world-class player Wang Yidi at such a young age, Zhang Benmei and naturally have great confidence, from these aspects, Wang Yidi's loss of this game triggered a series of chain reactions, plus she is not a young player, I am afraid it will be difficult to go to the Olympics in her career. For now, she can only digest it slowly, but hopefully she can fight back, at least enjoy the game, and enjoy her career.
In addition, with Wang Yidi out, the national table tennis is unmanned in the women's singles 3/4 zone, and Zhang Benmeihe will face the winner between Sofia Polkanova and Adriana Diaz in the 1/4 finals, which is a good opportunity for Zhang Benmeihe to advance to the semifinals. Judging from the drawing table, the heavy responsibility of blocking Miwa Zhang should fall on Wang Manyu's shoulders, but she may have to face Szokos and Hina Hayada in a row, and the pressure to advance is also very high!