Hello fans!
Last night, the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup came to a successful conclusion in Macau, China, with Ma Long and Sun Yingsha winning the singles championship. In this article, I want to talk to the big guys about a topic: How far is Sun Yingsha from achieving a Grand Slam?
Let's first analyze the concept of Grand Slam.
To clarify a misunderstanding: table tennis grand slam and table tennis grand slam, these are 2 things, and many new friends are easy to confuse.
Table tennis Grand Slam, which is the highest number of points in the WTT tournament system, a commercial organization under the International Table Tennis Federation, is based on the concept of the four Grand Slam tournaments of tennis, which are held four times a year. Of course, WTT has not yet completed the layout of 4 times a year, and the championship points of this tournament are 2000, which belongs to the same level as the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.
Table tennis Grand Slam, I don't know if the official has this concept, and I don't know if there is this concept abroad, maybe it's a convention, to evaluate the status of an athlete in the world table tennis arena, it has three necessary conditions: Olympic singles champion, World Table Tennis Championships singles champion, World Cup singles champion, so they are called the three major competitions.
Then let's take a look at Sun Yingsha's current record.
In May 2023, she won the singles title at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, her first singles world title, and in April 2024, she won the singles title at the Macau World Cup, her second career singles world title. At the moment, there is only one Olympic singles title left.
So, how far is Sun Yingsha from a Grand Slam? The answer is an Olympic singles champion. So, when will she win the singles title? My answer is I don't know, and the fastest will be in Paris this year.
Sun Yingsha will definitely qualify for the first Olympic singles qualification, and the top seed did not run, so there is no need to worry at all.
After going to the Paris Olympics, because Sun Yingsha already has the experience of participating in the Tokyo Olympics, I believe that she can perfectly defend the half of the zone and successfully meet her teammate (most likely Wang Manyu) to the final!
What will the women's singles final between Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu look like? Will Wang Manyu win at the peak of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, or Sun Yingsha's sweep some time ago, or the stalemate between the two last night?
I don't know, but I know that after two years of fighting, Sun Yingsha has won most of the victories, and her mentality must be dominant against the eels; fight the forehand, Sun Yingsha will not lose; fight the backhand, Sun Yingsha has made great progress; fight thick, Wang Manyu has obvious advantages, but fight the strain, Sun Yingsha is more advantageous!
Therefore, from the current point of view, Sun Yingsha is superior. However, the charm of sports competition is that you never know what will happen in the next second, bless Sasha, bless eel, bless big dream, bless Dadi, bless Tongtong, bless Tianyi, and bless all the masters of the foreign association, looking forward to witnessing more wonderful in Paris!