The 2024 Table Tennis WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam is about to start, which is also the last reference event for the national table tennis women's team to be included in the Olympic selection, but for Wang Yidi, the main world champion, the Olympics seem to have little to do with her.
Due to her poor performance in foreign competitions for more than a year, she has been removed from the Olympic singles qualification by the coaching staff in advance, and her performance was even described by Li Falcon as "rare". What's even more embarrassing is that after that, Wang Yidi lost to the 15-year-old Zhang Benmeihe in the Macau World Cup, and lost 7 foreign wars and 6 Japanese players in 13 months, it is too difficult to go straight to Paris!
Wang Yidi, born in 1997, was once the "wonder soldier" of national table tennis, and became famous in 2019 at the Hong Kong Open, China, and swept Misei Ito, who was in full swing at the time, 4-0 to win the championship.
Thinking that Ito Misei repeatedly broke the main force of national table tennis back then, and was regarded by the Chinese women's team as the only "first group" opponent in the preparation for the Tokyo Olympics, and Wang Yidi, who was still not the main force at that time, was able to defeat this person, and was naturally favored by the coaching staff, and then continued to improve, officially became the main force in 2021, and began to gain unprecedented reuse in 2023, but her career also turned from prosperity to decline at this time.
From 2023 to February 2024, Wang Yidi not only qualified for the Durban World Championships, Hangzhou Asian Games, and Busan World Championships, but also the only two women's singles players in the National Table Tennis Asian Games and the core trio of the women's team at the World Championships.
It is under such circumstances that the national table tennis has revealed that it has won Wang Yidi's Olympic singles qualification on March 16, and on April 13, it was systematically determined that this matter was determined, and less than a week later, on April 18, Wang Yidi lost 1-4 to Zhang Benmeihe in the Macau World Cup.
According to statistics, Wang Yidi has lost to Japanese players as many as 6 times in 13 months, plus the duel with Akula is 7 times to lose foreign battles, and the score gap in the last few times is very large-
- In March 2023, at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, he lost 2-3 to Miu Hirano;
- World Championships in Durban in May 2023, losing 3-4 to Hina Hayata;
- In the Hangzhou Asian Games in October 2023, he lost to Hina Hayada 3-4;
- In October 2023, WTT Lanzhou Stars Tournament, lost 0-3 to Miyu Kihara;
- In February 2024, at the World Championships in Busan, he lost 0-3 to Miu Hirano and 0-3 to Akula;
- In the April 2024 Macau World Cup, he lost 1-4 to Miwa Zhangmoto.
According to the "Announcement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on Optimizing and Adjusting the Relevant Amendments to the Selection Measures for the National Table Tennis Women's Team to Participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games", "Starting from May 8, 2023, the national table tennis women's team athletes who have lost 5 matches in international competitions with players from other associations will be withdrawn by the coaching staff for comprehensive evaluation of their singles competition qualifications for the Paris Olympic Games".
Although the above regulations do not explicitly name Wang Yidi, only she meets the regulations, so it is systematically determined to win her Olympic singles qualification, and judging from Wang Yidi's existing performance, the possibility of her participating in the team competition is also very small.
At present, it seems that Wang Yidi can basically only impact the Olympic P card (substitute) quota, but at this time she is facing an embarrassing situation: the national table tennis basically does not need a substitute when encountering ordinary opponents, and it is not good to deal with Japanese player Wang Yidi, and it is far less than Chen Xingtong's winning rate. In addition, in terms of age echelon construction, 27-year-old Wang Yidi has no advantage.
Wang Yidi, who once rose because of the defeat of Japan's main force, is now in decline because of the loss of Japanese players, and is getting farther and farther away from the Paris Olympics, so what kind of capacity do you think she will eventually participate in this competition?
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