As we all know, the next important task of the national table tennis team is the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam held on May 1, which is the last stop of the national table tennis women's team Paris Olympic selection event.
Judging from the current age structure of the national table tennis team, the national table tennis men's and women's teams have shown a certain talent disconnection, the 35-year-old Dragon team can still win the singles World Cup championship, and the 19-year-old Lin Shidong is still difficult to participate in more international competitions.
The age structure of the national table tennis women's team is better than that of the national table tennis men's team, the women's singles world No. 1 Sun Yingsha is a "post-00", and the world No. 2 Wang Manyu is only 25 years old, and it is not difficult for them to dominate another Olympic cycle.
But the current problem is that there are no outstanding young players in the national table tennis women's team, and the 20-year-old Kuaiman is a leader among young players, but her stability is very poor, you must know that 4-5 years ago, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu could beat Misei Ito at the current age of Kuaiman.
Wang Manyu became a world champion at the age of 19, and Sun Yingsha has already won the singles quota for the Olympics at the age of 21.
Looking at the current situation of the Japanese team, the 16-year-old Matsushima Teruku is already the world's third-highest ranked player in the Japanese men's table tennis team, and the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships once caused a lot of trouble for Fan Zhendong.
The 15-year-old Zhang Benmeihe of the Japanese table tennis women's team, defeated the main player Wang Yidi of national table tennis in the just-concluded singles World Cup, and in the confrontation with Wang Manyu, although Wang Manyu finally won the victory, but the winning process was not easy, and finally Zhang Benmeihe won the third place in the singles World Cup, and the 15-year-old has been among the top ten in the women's singles world.
In this comparison, it is not difficult to find that the age structure of the current Japanese table tennis team is indeed younger than ours, so training newcomers will become one of the important tasks of the national table tennis coaching staff, and the current national table tennis coaching staff has begun to act.
After the Saudi Grand Slam, there will be two WTTF-branded international tournaments in May, one is the WTT Rio de Janeiro Regular Challenge on May 20 and the other is the Taiyuan Regular Challenge on May 21.
The national table tennis team collectively missed the Rio de Janeiro regular challenge held in the Americas, after all, the distance is far away and the level of the event is not high, the important thing is that there are events of the same level in China at the same time.
And among the players participating in the Taiyuan Regular Challenge National Table Tennis Tournament, there is a player who is very unfamiliar to many fans, her name is Feng Yixuan, and she will partner Chen Yuanyu in the mixed doubles event, and you must know that the top seed in the mixed doubles of the event is Sun Yingsha / Wang Chuqin, that is to say, Feng Yixuan, a player, is very likely to compete with Shatou Group Contract Court.
In the official website of the World Table Tennis Federation, Feng Yixuan's photo has not been updated, and there is no singles world ranking. According to public information, Feng Yixuan was born in 2008 and is not yet 16 years old, and the Taiyuan Regular Challenge held on May 21 is his debut in the international arena.
In October last year, Feng Yixuan represented Hunan Province in the National Table Tennis Championships, and finally won the third place in the women's team with the Hunan team! A month later, Feng Yixuan won the championship of the U15 age group in the women's selection competition of the national youth training team, showing good talent.
At the end of February this year, Feng Yixuan was selected into the women's team lineup for the first training camp of the national youth training team, and Feng Yixuan's name appeared in the mixed doubles list of the Taiyuan Regular Challenge, which is enough to prove that her attitude and personal ability during the training of the national youth team must have been recognized by the national table tennis coaching staff.
You must know that Feng Yixuan, a player, is a left-handed racket, which is very rare, and it is very advantageous in the doubles event, and I look forward to the 15-year-old being able to surprise the Chinese people in the Taiyuan regular challenge, and I also hope that more and more outstanding young players can emerge to make the national table tennis team glorious forever!