In fact, whether it is this Olympic cycle or the last Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu was not considered by the national table tennis coaching staff at the beginning. During the Tokyo Olympics cycle, Wang Manyu only got the qualification for the P card, and the average P card player will not get the opportunity to participate. Unexpectedly, the National Table Tennis Association of the Tokyo Olympics used the P card for the first time, when Wang Manyu replaced Liu Shiwen to participate in the Olympic team competition.
After the Tokyo Olympics, many fans thought that if it weren't for Liu Shiwen's injury, Wang Manyu would not have been able to qualify, and she should be grateful to Liu Shiwen. At that time, many fans did not recognize Wang Manyu's strength, and in the strongest trial on the surface in early 2020, Wang Manyu had obviously participated in the competition and won the ranking, but still did not get the quota for the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships.
The coaching staff at the time thought that Wang Manyu had hit a bottleneck, after all, Wang Manyu had not won any singles titles in a year at that time. However, some players have not won any singles titles in two years, and they are not considered by fans to have encountered a bottleneck, and are still strong contenders for the singles quota at the Olympic Games.
Although Wang Manyu was not favored at first, she still grasped various opportunities through her own efforts. After winning the quota for the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics, she scored two points in the women's team final, showing good strength. After Wang Manyu finished the Olympic Games, she won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games in a row, which made fans look at her with admiration.
Wang Manyu is a player who played completely on his own strength, and because he was still relatively young in the Tokyo Olympics cycle, the speed of his rise was a little late, so he only got the P card quota. The team event at the Tokyo Olympics is of great value to Wang Manyu's training, which makes this athlete's ability to resist pressure all of a sudden.
Wang Manyu did encounter a bottleneck in the Tokyo Olympics cycle, and it did not seem to be very stable. Wang Manyu is very advanced in technology, but there is still a gap between him and the top players in terms of his ability to resist pressure and grasp the mentality of key points. This Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu has shown super tenacity, reversing her opponents in many matches.
Wang Manyu is always able to gradually reverse the unfavorable situation when the score is behind, if you look at the advanced technology, Wang Manyu is undoubtedly the strongest among the main players. The competition of the national table tennis women's team in this Olympic cycle is quite fierce, and as soon as the Tokyo Olympics are over, the coaching staff will let Wang Yidi frequently participate in various competitions to increase points.
Wang Yidi was the main candidate for the singles competition at the Olympic Games for most of the Paris Olympics. Judging from the singles quota she got for last year's Asian Games, head coach Ma Lin wanted her to participate in the singles competition at the Olympic Games. Wang Yidi also showed a good impact, winning two consecutive singles championships in the national championships.
However, the rise of Japanese table tennis players Hina Hayada and Miwa Zhang is too fast, and Wang Yidi in 2022 will still be able to cope with the challenges of Japanese table tennis players. By 2023, Hina Hayada and Miwa Zhang will be able to drag the main force of national table tennis into the tiebreaker in a row. It is precisely because of the increasing threat of Japanese table tennis players that the national table tennis coaching staff has been adjusting the selection rules of the Olympic Games.
If the selection of Olympic quotas is carried out according to the ranking, Wang Manyu does not have an advantage in this Olympic cycle. Although Wang Manyu won the singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships, he still can't be a weight to participate in the Olympic Games. Playing a good game in the foreign war is particularly crucial, and Wang Manyu finally proved himself at the 2024 Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships.
Wang Manyu scored two points against the Indian women's team in the group stage, becoming the most consistent main player of the national table tennis women's team, and she also became the only undefeated main player in the Busan team competition. It was also from the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships that Wang Manyu's originally undominant Olympic competition road ushered in the dawn again.
Wang Manyu's competitive journey in the Paris Olympic cycle was the most difficult, she overcame the difficulties of changing coaches in the middle of the process, preparing for international competitions alone, and not having a physical coach. Moreover, injuries have also become the biggest difficulty for Wang Manyu to overcome, and she always encounters hard signing every time she participates in international competitions.
Macau World Cup Wang Manyu encountered top foreign players in this kind of competition, and faced Sun Yingsha in the final with a lot of interference from off-court factors. Despite this, Wang Manyu still played his own technical characteristics, and unfortunately won the runner-up in the World Cup, but Wang Manyu's advantage is still obvious from the competitive level of the Olympic Games.
Now fans are still optimistic that Chen Meng will get the singles quota for the Olympic Games, and in the eyes of many fans, Wang Manyu is not as stable as Chen Meng. In fact, the only player who has played the most consistent in foreign games is Wang Manyu, which is generally ignored by many fans. The kind of player who wins the tiebreaker against the outside opponent every time cannot be called stable.
Some fans said that it was because the two sides played each other more times that they were dragged to the tiebreaker. The key problem is that the number of encounters has increased, which is a process in which two players study and become familiar with each other, and both sides are adapted to each other, and there is no single player who is studied alone. Only players with aging skills will be dragged into the tiebreaker by the outsourced players.
Wang Manyu is quite advanced in technology, and she is also the main force of national table tennis with excellent active offensive ability. From the former marginal main force to the current strong contender for the singles quota in the Olympic Games, Wang Manyu has gradually won the recognition of fans with his down-to-earth foreign war level, this player is indeed inspirational and worthy of praise from fans.