With Chen Meng's victory over Japanese table tennis "first sister" Hina Hayada in the women's singles semifinals of the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, she has surpassed Wang Manyu in the standings and foreign performance, and locked the second place in the national table tennis women's singles at the Paris Olympics, but in addition to Chen Meng's outstanding performance, Wang Manyu missed the Olympic singles for the second time in a row, which is really unjust! Because she lost to herself, and Deng Yaping also pointed out Wang Manyu's problem in the live broadcast, and Liu Guoliang, who has always valued Wang Manyu, can't help
In the previously concluded Macau Singles World Cup, Wang Manyu won the final women's singles runner-up, which made her second in the Olympic points, second only to the first-ranked Sun Yingsha, as long as Wang Manyu continued her excellent performance in the Saudi Grand Slam this time, then she will also lock in the women's singles qualification for the Paris Olympics, but unfortunately, in the second round of the women's singles competition, Wang Manyu lost to India's Batra, you must know that Wang Manyu has never been defeated in the face of Batra before, Including a month ago, she also just defeated Batra, and this unexpected loss also directly put Wang Manyu at a disadvantage in the competition for qualification for the Paris Olympics
As a national table tennis legend, Deng Yaping's important comments on Wang Manyu mainly have 2 times, the first time is in the ITTF Women's World Cup final in April 2024, Wang Manyu led Sun Yingsha 3:1, but was turned over by Sun Yingsha from a desperate situation to win the championship, and finally Sun Yingsha defeated Wang Manyu 4:3 to win the first World Cup women's singles championship in her career, at that time Deng Yaping was very disappointed with Wang Manyu's performance, and said directly in the live broadcast room: "In the World Series, the final competition is psychology!" Obviously, this sentence refers to Wang Manyu's lack of ability to resist pressure
At this WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Wang Manyu was upset by India's Batra and stopped in the top 32, Deng Yaping commented sharply again in the live broadcast, she pointed out that Wang Manyu was "not enough to adapt and too impatient!" This sentence is exactly the same as the words of losing to Sun Yingsha in this year's World Cup final, it can be seen that Deng Yaping does not deny Wang Manyu's skills, but if Wang Manyu can't overcome the "inner demon", it will be difficult to become a big weapon! In addition, for Liu Guoliang, who has always valued Wang Manyu, there is nothing he can do about it, because technical problems can be solved through hard work, but it is difficult to improve psychological quality, Liu Guoliang thinks that Wang Manyu's ideological baggage is too heavy, and this is also the result of her pursuit of perfection
As early as 2018, Wang Manyu beat Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha to qualify for the World Cup team competition, and then was selected for the World Table Tennis Championships team competition earlier than Sun Yingsha
In 2019, she lost to the then Japanese table tennis sister Ito Micheng, you must know that throughout the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Ito Micheng is the number one enemy of Chinese women's table tennis, and losing to Ito Micheng undoubtedly affected Wang Manyu's status in the minds of the national table tennis coaching staff, although Sun Yingsha also lost to Ito Micheng, but only a month after that game, Sun Yingsha defeated Ito Micheng again, and still defeated many times in a row, which made the coaching staff choose Sun Yingsha to partner Chen Meng at the Tokyo Olympics to participate in the women's singles event
This time in the Paris Olympics cycle, Wang Manyu had a highlight performance in the second half of 2021, she has won the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games and other major championships, but the same as last time, seeing that the Paris Olympics are approaching again, she encountered Waterloo again, but Chen Meng defeated Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayada in succession in this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam. Just like Chen Meng said after defeating Hina Hayata, she prepared for this match until 3 o'clock in the morning, which led to her final success