Liu Guoliang, the head of national table tennis and chairman of the board of directors of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, was interviewed after the Macau World Cup and summarized the performance of the overall team members.
He said that our team has done a great job in completing the tasks of this World Cup, it is impossible not to lose a foreign battle, and the players themselves cannot be in the best condition for a long time, and being able to have a fighting spirit on the field is the best way for athletes to show themselves.
Ma Long's final game will be a very classic game of his career, as he himself said, the first game for the championship was a reversal with a headwind ball.
It's not easy for him to do it at his age, it's the third time he's in his prime, and Malone has gone through generations of coaches, including me, and he's always been able to create new achievements.
Sun Yingsha has maintained a very high competitive state from last year to the present, this height makes opponents and teammates lament, her strength is no longer only by technology, the strength of her heart is more important, the mentality, temperament, and domineering of the game make her the king.
Of course, Lin Gaoyuan is a pity, just as a tuition, his technology is advanced above Ma Long, the competition is far from enough to rely on technology alone, Ma Long's changes and grasp the fighter are all Gao Yuan has to learn.
Wang Manyu also has regrets, a very close game, in the preparation is still not too much, the overall game is still very good, two games with Japan, domineering wins.
Chen Meng is also in very good shape, every game is 4-0, until she meets Sun Yingsha, it is already the most intense game between her and Sun Yingsha in recent times, the three of them can advance to the semifinals, the Paris Olympic lineup is already very clear, as for the P card, it is still difficult to choose.
In fact, many fans have long seen the lineup of the Paris Olympics, especially after Li Falcon announced Wang Yidi's withdrawal from the singles competition last month, the women's team is even clearer, nothing more than Sun Yingsha has determined a singles, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng choose one of the two, and there will be a singles seat after the end of the Saudi Grand Slam.
As for the P card, according to the P card players of the previous four Olympic Games, the national table tennis team members are all young and potential young players, 20-year-old Li Xiaoxia in the 08 Beijing Olympics, 21-year-old Liu Shiwen in the 12 London Olympics, 21-year-old Zhu Yuling in the 16-year Rio Olympics, and 22-year-old Wang Manyu in the 21-year Tokyo Olympics.
If he is a young player as before, who can serve in the current women's team, it is nothing more than the 20-year-old Kuaiman, but Kuaiman himself is not the main force, compared to the above four senior sisters who have been in the main lineup at that time, Kuaiman is incomparable, and has not participated in the World Table Tennis Championships singles, only participated in the World Cup for the first time, and the group was eliminated.
This is why Liu Guoliang said that the P card is difficult to choose, itself is to cultivate newcomers, but also to prepare to really play as a substitute, you need to come up with a real knife and a real gun, according to the world ranking, Wang Yidi is ahead, but losing to Japan in a row, I am afraid it is also a miss, it can only be Chen Xingtong, her results in the past year are still breakthroughs.
The men's team Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong have been selected for singles, just wait for the official announcement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on May 7, because the men's team has no competition before this, and the Saudi Grand Slam will not end until the 11th.
The team seats can basically be determined, and the competitiveness is significantly stronger than that of Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan, especially in this outbreak to win the championship, the national table tennis still needs the king Ma Long.