When the Chinese table tennis team won the Macau World Cup again and successfully completed the task of the event in April, the national table tennis team showed strong competitiveness and brought great confidence to the outside world as the Paris Olympics approached. Previously, due to continuous negative news reports, the national table tennis faced a major performance pressure and a double test of public opinion. The different guiding philosophies of the coaching staff have sparked a wide range of discussions, which not only affected the atmosphere in which the team was prepared, but also made the selection of the Olympic squad a focal point of much debate. With the continuous optimization of the selection mechanism, the list of national table tennis participants has gradually become clear, and the competition between coaches has also entered a climax.
In this context, Ma Lin, as the head of the national table tennis women's team, deeply felt her competitive position that has changed from the peak to the trough and then to today. After retiring, he was valued by his mentor Liu Guoliang, and Ma Lin was promoted to the highest stage of national table tennis without any coaching experience. After serving as head coach, he not only managed world champions such as Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, but also gained rare resources, which allowed him to be promoted again. In the process of changing the national table tennis coaching staff, he replaced Li Falcon and became the new head of the national table tennis women's team.
However, with Li Falcon retiring soon after serving as the head coach of national table tennis, the candidate to take his place has attracted widespread attention. Among them, Ma Lin is undoubtedly one of the popular candidates, but his lack of coaching ability and favoritism for closely related players such as Chen Meng and Wang Yidi exposed after taking office have destroyed the original benign competitive environment of the national table tennis women's team, which has affected the overall performance of national table tennis and cast a shadow on his road to the top.
Recently, the national table tennis coaching staff announced further selection optimization plans for the women's team. This reflects Li Falcon's dissatisfaction with Ma Lin and her corrective measures. Despite Lee's imminent departure, he still has a decisive influence on the choice of his successor. However, Liu Guoliang, as the chairman of the Table Tennis Association, has always appreciated Ma Lin, and this support has made Ma Lin's competitive position in the coaching team more confident. As long as Ma Lin can steadily lead the national table tennis women's team to achieve excellent results, with the support of Liu Guoliang, the possibility of him taking the position still exists.