In fact, in the past year or two, Chen Meng's personal performance has not been good, he has not won a single championship in the competition, and the team competition of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships is still in his own game, losing to a Japanese player.
On the other hand, Wang Manyu won the singles championship at the 2022 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, which is a world champion with high gold content. In addition, this year's Singapore Grand Slam also won the title. World Table Tennis Championships singles, Olympic singles, World Cup singles, the three championships can add up to become a Grand Slam. In the Macau World Cup in April this year, Wang Manyu was close to winning the World Cup championship, but faced Sun Yingsha in the final, but unfortunately was reversed and lost 3-4. Sun Yingsha won her first World Cup title.
Now in the semifinals of the Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng was unrelenting and eliminated Hina Hayada 4-0. Following Miu Hirano and Miwa Zhangmoto, defeating the third Japanese player in a row, and all of them are Olympic athletes, Chen Meng broke out!
Chen Menglianke, the 3 main Japanese players, spoke after the game to reveal the mystery! Basically locked in an Olympic singles quota?
Chen Meng said frankly: It is not easy, it is very painful to defeat 3 Japanese main forces in a row, I have completed the (confrontation) outsourcing task, and the next finals, no matter who I face, are to release pressure, enjoy the game, and go all out.
In the dark, it seems that she is also declaring that she can stand the test, complete the tasks set by the coach and the association, and have basically finalized the Olympic women's singles quota. In fact, it is not difficult to calculate by comparing points that Wang Manyu, who lost the foreign war and deducted 3,000 points, is about to be overtaken by Chen Meng. Chen Meng basically locked in the Olympic women's singles seat. However, it has not yet been officially announced by the Table Tennis Association.
Long ago, Sun Yingsha was the most likely to get the Olympic singles quota, and Wang Manyu and Chen Meng were actually direct competitors. For a long time, Chen Meng's singles results were not good, but now Chen Meng took the initiative and played an eye-catching role in the Saudi Grand Slam at the critical Olympic selection moment, passing all the way, especially eliminating 3 Japanese players in a row, increasing his bargaining chips.
And at the same time, Wang Manyu had an upset without warning, and in the second round of the Grand Slam, he lost 1-3 to Batra and missed the round of 16, becoming the biggest upset since the start of the tournament.