Although many foreign rivals did not sign up for the WTT Taiyuan Challenge in May, and Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Chen Meng, the main players of national table tennis, did not sign up for the singles competition. However, this time, because Miyu Hirano and Miwa Zhang Ben signed up for the Taiyuan Challenge, the national table tennis coaching staff also signed up Wang Manyu and Chen Meng for the doubles competition.
In addition, Chen Yi and Kuo Man will also participate in doubles, and Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi will also sign up for doubles. After all, this time the national table tennis is a home game, and in the case of a small number of registrations for the women's doubles combination of the foreign association, the national table tennis signed up for other players to participate in doubles, also to increase popularity.
What's more, Miyu Hirano and Miwa Zhang have the strength to win the championship, and let the combination of Kuaiman and Chen Yi take the lead in challenging the Japanese table tennis pair, also in order to find out the offensive routines of the competitors. In this way, it also provides pre-game help for Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, and can also study the opponent in advance.
Let Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong re-cooperate in doubles is also a new arrangement for the national table tennis coaching staff, this time Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong will participate in singles and doubles in the Taiyuan Challenge, which shows that the coaching staff still attaches great importance to these two. In particular, Wang Yidi will be playing three roles in the Taiyuan Challenger, and she and Lin Gaoyuan will compete in the mixed doubles competition.
In fact, Chen Xingtong and Lin Gaoyuan also achieved good results in the doubles competition, but this time the coaching staff asked Chen Xingtong and Yuan Licen to cooperate in mixed doubles. Lin Gaoyuan's doubles and mixed doubles abilities are good, and this Taiyuan Challenge is also the favorite to win the mixed doubles championship. Wang Yidi is still valued by the national table tennis coaching staff, which many fans did not expect.
However, Zhang Benmeihe and Hirano Meiyu came to participate in the Taiyuan Challenge, and Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu did not participate in the singles competition, so the suspense of winning the singles competition this time is still quite large. However, the number of national table tennis players participating in the competition is still very large, and in the eyes of the coaching staff, Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi both have the strength to win the singles championship.
Although Zhang Benmeihe's strength is very strong, the strength of young players such as Kuo Man and Chen Yi is not weak, and they can still cope with Zhang Benmeihe's challenge. Although Zhang Benmeihe's goal is to defeat the main force of national table tennis, the strength of non-main players such as Kuo Man and Chen Yi is not weaker than that of the main force of national table tennis, and it is difficult for Zhang Benmeihe to win the championship in the Taiyuan Challenge.
What's more, Qian Tianyi will also participate in the singles and mixed doubles competitions of the Taiyuan Challenge, and this time the national table tennis also sent the strongest lineup, just to win the championship and runner-up in all events in the Taiyuan Challenge. In addition, at the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam held in early May, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong got wild cards for women's doubles.
Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan got wild cards in men's doubles, and originally only allowed Chen Meng and Wang Manyu to participate in the doubles competition of the Grand Slam event. This time, Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi were allowed to participate in the doubles competition, which was also to allow the pair to quickly increase their international points. It seems that after the Olympics, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong will cooperate more and more times in doubles.
The national table tennis coaching staff still hopes that Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong will win a women's doubles championship in an international competition before retiring, so that the pair will not leave too many career regrets. In fact, the national table tennis has already begun to lay out the competition after the Olympic Games, and it is estimated that there will be no large-scale renewal after the Olympics.
Players such as Kuo Man and Chen Yi need to grow as soon as possible, so Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi still have a chance to compete in the follow-up, and they will not choose to retire for at least two years. In particular, Wang Yidi is only 27 years old this year, even if he can't last until the next Olympic Games, it is more appropriate to win at least a singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships or the World Cup and then choose to retire.
Only in this way can he make his career successful, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng have continuously cooperated in doubles competitions, mainly to prepare for the doubles competition of the Olympic team competition. Next, Wang Manyu's combination should play more against Miu Hirano, and only an increase in the number of fights can test the doubles strength of both sides.
There are a number of pairs registered for the Women's Doubles at the Saudi Grand Slam tournament, with Miu Hirano and Miwa Harimoto being beaten by India's Mukherjee last time out, and Mukherjee signing up again this time. Miu Hirano didn't adapt to the Indian pair's granular style of play in the game, but her partner Miwa Zhang was quite comfortable with this weird style of play.
Miu Hirano and Miwa Zhang have already been beaten once in the Singapore Grand Slam, and if they meet the Indian pair again this time, it is estimated that it will still be difficult to meet the Wang Manyu and Chen Meng pair. In fact, Wang Manyu will definitely face the Miyu Hirano combination in the women's team final of the Olympic Games, and this Saudi Grand Slam match is more conducive to the preparation for the Olympic Games.
Miu Hirano has a lot of tactical variations, and is responsible for the formulation of tactics in doubles. However, Miu Hirano's doubles shortcomings are also quite obvious, she often loses points inexplicably and can't keep up with the rhythm of her competitors. Therefore, the combination of Wang Manyu and Chen Meng in the doubles match is mainly aimed at Miyu Hirano, which restricts Miyu Hirano from basically winning in the doubles match.
Wang Manyu and Chen Meng are indeed under pressure to win the Grand Slam in Saudi Arabia, after all, there are too many doubles combinations signed up for the competition. Last time, the multinational combination of Polkanovas/Jokos dragged Wang Manyu and Chen Meng into the tiebreaker in the doubles match, and it is estimated that the two sides are unlikely to meet each other this time.
The main reason is that the multinational team will not partner in the Olympic team event, and the Wang Manyu combination of the Saudi Grand Slam event is mainly to run in and prepare for the doubles of the Olympic team event. Therefore, it is indeed difficult for some multinational combinations to meet Wang Manyu's combination, and the national table tennis is mainly based on the preparation for the Olympic Games.
I hope that Wang Manyu and Chen Meng will win the doubles competition as soon as possible, and only in this way can they participate in the team competition of the Olympic Games.