Why did the national table tennis lose to the Indian players again? Influenced by three reasons, Wang Manyu and Ma Lin learned a profound lesson

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2024-05-06 21:05Posted in Hunan Sports Creators

In the women's singles duel of the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam that ended not long ago, Wang Manyu, the national table tennis Olympic champion, suffered an upset, losing 3 games in a row while leading 1-0 and was reversed, and finally lost to India's Batra. It is worth mentioning that this is the fourth time in the past year that the main force of national table tennis has been broken through by Indian monster rubber players-

In the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Chen Meng/Wang Yidi lost to A Mukherjee (forehand raw rubber, backhand arc defense)/S Mukherjee (forehand raw rubber);

At the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, Sun Yingsha lost to A. Mukherjee and Wang Yidi was swept by Akula (backhand long rubber);

In the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Wang Manyu was reversed by Batra (backhand long rubber).

In addition, in the 2022 Asian Cup, Batra also defeated Chen Xingtong. Then the question arises: In this Grand Slam battle, where did Wang Manyu and the national table tennis lose?

First of all, it is undeniable that the special level of Indian women's table tennis is indeed very high, not only good at disrupting opponents with strange rubber, but also very fierce after the opportunity ball.

The current development of Indian women's table tennis is a bit similar to the past when the Chinese team was just starting out, that is, using a variety of rubber with different properties to win by surprise, so we see that their four monster rubber players actually have four different performance rubber, and even the very rare forehand raw rubber and the quite rare backhand arc defense are used, which is indeed jaw-dropping.

And more importantly, these Indian athletes not only play well with strange rubber, but also have strong offensive ability, whether it is Batra, Akula's forehand backhand or the Mukherjee sisters' forehand rubber, when there is an opportunity ball, they can have a board that makes opponents daunting, this is their strength.

As the so-called "win with the right and win with the odd", if you just want to rely on the rubber monster and sit and wait for the opponent to make a mistake, then it is difficult to break through the main force of national table tennis with such a style of play, and the Indian players have "positive" and "strange", like Batra will also fall back from time to time, so that the opponent can break through the defense line of the Chinese team.

Secondly, it should be pointed out that there are indeed deficiencies in the research on special playing styles in national table tennis in recent years, and there is a lag in the team's preparations.

As a former strong team with a strange rubber playing style, the national table tennis has been in the leading position in the world for a long time, so now the research on this piece has fallen behind - what is little known is that the head coach of the women's team, Ma Lin, used to be a strange rubber player, and when he first debuted, he used to stick long glue on his backhand, and was later changed to anti-glue by his mentor Wu Jingping, so it stands to reason that he should be very familiar with this field.

However, from the last four defeats, it can be seen that Ma Lin and the coaching staff still have insufficient research on Indian players, and there is a situation of "tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall": when Batra's threat declined, the team's strongest long-rubber player He Zhuojia was even sent to Japan to play in the league; when Mukherjee's threat rose, sparring partner Wang Tianyi changed his style of play to imitate.

I didn't feel like it was a big problem before I lost, and after I lost, I organized an imitation, although it was also a remedy, but it always gave fans a feeling of lagging reactions. Recently, Batra has been in poor condition, and the national table tennis seems to have relaxed her vigilance again, but she didn't expect to be broken through by her again, and it is indeed a profound lesson!

Finally, it must also be noted that Wang Manyu is under too much pressure in this competition, and once he loses the foreign war, there is a high probability of losing to Chen Meng and missing the Olympic singles, which makes him afraid and conservative.

This Grand Slam tournament is of great significance to Wang Manyu, because this is the last battle of the women's singles selection of the national table tennis Olympics, if she loses the foreign war, and Chen Meng remains undefeated in the foreign war, the points comparison between the two will be reversed, and Chen Meng will be among the top two and qualify for the Paris Olympics singles, while Wang Manyu will be defeated.

It is in such a situation that Wang Manyu will inevitably not be nervous in foreign wars, because with the level of the main force of national table tennis, the probability of losing foreign wars is still relatively low, if Chen Meng remains undefeated, then he cannot afford to lose, and the more afraid he is of losing, the easier it is to lose.

And friends who have been in contact with strange rubber know that the most taboo thing to deal with this type of player is to be nervous, because the opponent's return is unconventional, which is easy to misjudge, and once nervous, it will be more abnormal, which will lead to various action deformations and increased mistakes.

Although it is difficult for the monster players to win the championship, if they win the national table tennis in the Olympic Games once, it is enough to deal a huge blow to us, I hope that the coaching staff will carefully study and prepare for the competition, and don't drop the chain again in Paris!

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