On April 25, the WTT Taiyuan Regular Challenge announced the list of national table tennis doubles participants, and a number of fresh combinations appeared in the doubles lineup.
National Table Tennis Taiyuan Regular Challenge Doubles Entry List
Mixed Doubles (8): Sun Yingsha/Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong/Yuan Licen, Lin Shidong/Kui Man, Zhou Qihao/Qian Tianyi, Liu Dingshuo/Wang Tianyi, Xue Fei/Shi Xunyao, Chen Yuanyu/Feng Yixuan
Men's Doubles (4): Ma Long/Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin/Liang Jingkun, Xu Yingbin/Yuan Lichen, Chen Yuanyu/Huang Youzheng
Women's Doubles (3): Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi/Chen Xingtong, Kuo Man/Chen Yi
But what is even fresher than the new combination is an unfamiliar name "Feng Yixuan"! Many veteran fans, and even practitioners of Chinese table tennis, have no impression of this name and are confused.
What did the national table tennis coaching staff think, and suddenly transferred a player with no sense of existence to the WTT series, what is the secret of this?
Feng Yixuan was born in 2008 and is a member of the Hunan Provincial Team. In October 2023, Feng Yixuan, as the main player of the Hunan Provincial Team, won the third place in the women's team of the National Championships under the leadership of Liu Gaoyang, Hu Limei, and Zhu Sibing.
The second from the right is Feng Yixuan
In November 2023, Feng Yixuan won the first place in the 15-year-old group in the women's group selection of the national youth training team of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. From February 25 to March 23, 2024, Feng Yixuan was selected into the first training women's team lineup of the 2024 National Youth Training Team, and conducted a 28-day intensive training at the Chongming Base of the Shanghai Athletic Training Management Center.
The first on the left is Feng Yixuan
In late March, after the national youth training camp, Feng Yixuan returned to the Hunan provincial team. On April 25th, when the doubles list of the WTT Taiyuan Regular Challenge had been flying all over the Internet for more than 5 hours, Feng Yixuan saw this information on the Internet under the notice of a friend's private message.
Feng Yixuan is not yet 16 years old and is the youngest athlete to appear in the senior national team competition in recent years. Why did the coaching staff choose her?
Now, here comes the truth.
The national table tennis coaching staff urgently recruited Feng Yixuan in order to allow her to participate in the imitation of the North Korean team's Olympic mixed doubles pair Kim Qinying/Lee Jung-sik!
Kim Jin-young/Lee Jung-sik are a mystical mixed doubles pair
The North Korean pair went straight to the main competition of the Olympic mixed doubles qualifying tournament as the first champion in the recent Olympic mixed doubles qualifiers, and the mysterious division shocked the rivers and lakes as soon as it was born, and also shocked the national table tennis coaching staff.
Since the loss of India's strange glue in Busan, the national table tennis coaching staff no longer dares to take any strange opponent and unknown situation lightly, when the North Korean mixed doubles has become the X-factor, the coaching staff must prepare in advance to deal with it.
Through the game video that can be collected, it can be understood that Jin Qinying is a left-handed horizontal board, a forehand backhand, and a backhand long rubber, which is a special style of play.
Jin Qinying is the "nobleman" who caused Feng Yixuan to enter the sight of the national table tennis coaching staff
Therefore, finding a player with a similar style of play to Kim Qinying to imitate has become the most intuitive way for the coaching staff to break the game.
However, in the past two weeks, the coaching staff has swept the country and has not found a player who is completely consistent with Jin Qinying's playing style, so he has no choice but to choose Feng Yixuan after relaxing the scale.
Kim Qinying's particles are not exactly the same as Feng Yixuan
Feng Yixuan is also a female left, but she is a forehand backhand + backhand raw rubber, which is similar to Jin Qinying, but there are also significant differences.
The performance of long rubber is to change the speed and change the direction of rotation, while the performance of raw rubber is to increase the ball speed, sink the ball seriously, and weaken the rotation.
The coaching staff chose Feng Yixuan, and in the early stage, she could only use her existing mastery of raw rubber to let Shatou find some close understanding of long rubber. If Feng Yixuan's sparring effect is good, it is not ruled out that the coaching staff will change the long rubber for her. After all, she is still young, has strong plasticity, and has a high receptivity, and she is expected to make significant progress in the short term.
The successful case of explosive reform particles is not absent in the national team, and Wang Tianyi is a living model.
Wang Tianyi is Feng Yixuan's beacon of navigation
For Feng Yixuan, this is an opportunity, grasp it well, it is entirely possible for her to copy the route of Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xing and other predecessors, starting from imitation sparring, little by little out of her own path, and finally entered the main cluster of the national team, and has a stable and prominent position in the world table tennis arena.
Come on, little girl, wake up from the "confusion", take the initiative to adjust, and immediately start to play the role, and strive to transform your "early start" into "big harvest"!