Recently, the national table tennis team is competing in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam competition, and the next July will usher in the most important competition of the year, that is, the Paris Olympics. The 12 main players of national table tennis participated in this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam competition in order to impact the ticket to the Paris Olympics.
It is worth mentioning that during this competition, just recently, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced part of the Olympic list on their official website. Compared with the previous expectations of the outside world, it can be said that there has been a major reversal, especially Ma Long's very big regret.
First of all, let's take a look at the men's singles, at present, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong have won the Olympic quotas, which means that Ma Long will miss the Olympic singles and will miss the three rounds of Grand Slam, which is indeed a big regret for Ma Long. After all, after winning the previous World Cup, many fans thought that with Ma Long's current state, he could participate in singles competitions again. In contrast, Fan Zhendong has not won the singles championship in almost 300 days, and the outside world generally believes that Fan Zhendong's condition is deteriorating, which is a good opportunity for Ma Long. As a result, judging from the latest released list, it is indeed regrettable news that Ma Long did not participate in the Olympic singles.
From this point, it can be seen that the national table tennis coaching staff still pays more attention to echelon construction, so even if Fan Zhendong has not been in good shape recently, Liu Guoliang still decided to give Fan Zhendong a chance. In this case, I hope that Fan Zhendong will win the gold medal at this year's Paris Olympics and realize his Olympic dream.
After Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin confirmed that they won the singles ticket, it means that they will be able to take advantage of the situation to win the place in the team competition, so now there is only one place left on the men's team that has not yet been decided, and the outside world generally believes that Ma Long has a high probability of getting this ticket. In addition, the women's team has so far only confirmed Sun Yingsha's qualification for the mixed doubles, and she has also automatically qualified for the team competition. As for the women's singles list, the national table tennis coaching staff has not yet been announced, most likely because Chen Meng and Wang Manyu are still competing for this ticket, so the results have not yet been released. However, from the latest situation, it can be seen that Wang Manyu's crisis is very big, because in this Grand Slam competition, she lost to the Indian player in the second round.
Chen Meng, on the other hand, has recently defeated his opponent to advance, and if Chen Meng does not lose to players from other associations in this Grand Slam tournament, he can get this singles Olympic ticket even if he can't win the championship in the end. So for Wang Manyu and Ma Long, this time I have to leave regrets, and fans must be mentally prepared.
Of course, from the current point of view, although it is possible to miss the singles, there is a high probability that Wang Manyu will still be able to participate in the team competition in the future. If there is no accident, there is a high probability that the six main forces of the national table tennis Olympics are Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu will join hands to compete in the Paris Olympics. As for the very much-anticipated P card quota from the outside world, there is already an answer, among which Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi have more Olympic points, so there is a high probability that they will be able to get this ticket next. Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong's current points ranking is relatively low, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to win a good result in this Grand Slam, and I am afraid it will be difficult to have a chance to participate in the Olympics.
In such a situation, it means that Lin Gaoyuan and the two are likely to bid farewell to the Paris Olympics and leave regrets. I have to sigh that competitive sports are really cruel.