Recently, the national table tennis is preparing for the Saudi Grand Slam in May, and many fans are looking forward to Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha to achieve good results in this competition and compete for a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
In fact, after the end of this game, in fact, some fans may not know that there is still a very important star challenge to be played in Taiyuan Station from May 20th to 26th. However, it can be seen from the latest list of participants that the three golden flowers, including Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, did not sign up for this competition, which caused a lot of controversy in the outside world.
First of all, judging from the schedule announced by the national table tennis, after the end of the Saudi Grand Slam competition, Wang Yidi and these players will return to Taiyuan to continue to participate in the challenge tournament and compete for good results. After the Saudi Grand Slam competition, it is getting closer and closer to the Paris Olympics, so many fans very much hope that Wang Manyu and Chen Meng can take more opportunities to improve their state and strive to help the national table tennis achieve more gold medals in the Paris Olympics.
As a result, after the list of the Taiyuan Challenge was announced, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu, the three main players, did not participate in this competition, but Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong were replaced by these players.
In such a situation, fans are naturally puzzled, why did the national table tennis coaching staff make this unexpected decision, why not take the opportunity to let Chen Meng and them take advantage of the opportunity to maintain a good competitive state? First of all, from the current point of view, the fans' worries are very right, after all, for top athletes, Sun Yingsha must maintain a good competitive state by constantly playing games, otherwise the state may decline.
For example, after Wang Chuqin withdrew from the Incheon Championship before, his performance in the follow-up to the Macau World Cup was not particularly ideal, and there was an upset. So fans are naturally worried that Wang Manyu and Chen Meng will have similar tragedies.
But from another point of view, the national table tennis coaching staff is also doing this for the good of Chen Meng. Because the time of the Taiyuan Challenge is very close to the time of the Saudi Grand Slam tournament, this means that the players of the national table tennis basically do not have much rest time to sleep after Saudi Arabia rushes back to China, and they may have to get up the next day to prepare for a new match.
For players like Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, it is actually very tiring, and they can't afford to toss themselves. Moreover, the points of this challenge cannot be compared with the $2 million prize money of Saudi Arabia.
Under such circumstances, the national table tennis coaching staff took this opportunity to give Wang Yidi and them a little more time to exercise, and then let Chen Meng and Wang Manyu have a good rest, and there was no problem with not delaying each other at all. Besides, there are too many games to participate in, and the main players like Chen Meng are also prone to physical problems.
After all, the outside world generally believes that Chen Meng and Wang Manyu have locked the seats for the Paris Olympics in advance, so they can't afford to risk injuries because of this unimportant game.
All in all, there is no problem with the approach of the national table tennis coaching staff this time, and I hope that after the end of the Saudi Grand Slam competition, Chen Meng and they can have a good rest.