Saudi Arabia's Grand Slam tournament Chen Meng won the semi-finals, thus taking the lead in the Olympic selection competition. After the game, Chen Meng especially thanked his coaching team, because it was not only the head coach Ma Lin, but also Chen Meng's head coach Sun Xun, as well as the physical fitness coach and other aspects of the team's silent support, which made Chen Meng successful in the half of the district this time.
Chen Meng's coaching team stayed up all night to conduct tactical research, looking for shortcomings in the opponent's offense by studying the opponent's game videos and replaying them frame by frame. With the protection and cooperation of this elite team, Chen Mengcai restricted Hina's return in the game.
Chen Meng's success is also the success of the coaching team behind him, in fact, Chen Meng has such a good coaching team, which is also a professional attempt of the players. Although national table tennis is the five main forces, Chen Meng's coaching resources are more abundant. Chen Meng's physical fitness coach is Meng Yuren, as well as coaches from the provincial team, as well as Sun Xun, the head coach of national table tennis, and various sparring players.
Of course, head coach Ma Lin has always been Chen Meng's strongest backing, although Ma Lin is already the head coach of national table tennis, but he undoubtedly played a very important role in Chen Meng's results. After the match, Chen Meng also expressed her sincere gratitude to head coach Ma Lin, because she knew that defeating Hina Hayada in the semifinals would mean getting a place in the Olympic singles competition.
Chen Meng reached the final of the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam and defeated the three main Japanese table tennis players in a row, becoming the biggest winner in this Saudi Grand Slam event. At the age of 30, he is still full of fighting spirit and has touched countless fans. After Chen Meng's assault training, both his state and the concentration of the game are in place, reflecting the pertinence of his tactics.
At present, Chen Meng has also become the only player with an exclusive team among the main players of national table tennis, which is an important step towards professionalism. So this is not only Chen Meng's own success, but also a perfect professional attempt by the national table tennis coaching team and players.
If future national table tennis players want to continue their careers and maintain good results, they should build their own independent coaching team. In fact, if Chen Meng also formulates special tactics in the Olympic Games and conducts key pre-match preparation research on competitors, it will not be a problem to win the Olympic singles championship.
With the support of the coaching team, this is the most important confidence and confidence for Chen Meng to compete for the singles quota in the Olympic Games. So who will get the singles quota place at the Olympics? In the eyes of many fans, with Wang Manyu's early exit in the Grand Slam tournament, the suspense of this competition has ended.
Wang Manyu is actually the strongest among the main players in terms of hard power. It's just that Wang Manyu's ability to adapt to the competition needs to be strengthened, and the advantage of this player in the current competition for the singles quota in the Olympics is that he has lost fewer foreign battles. Wang Manyu had to deal with the difficulties in the game, and this match against Batra was too entangled with the opponent's backhand, which led to the competitor adapting to the hitting line.
If Wang Manyu only loses one foreign battle in this Olympic selection cycle, he will not be eligible for the Olympic singles quota, which is too targeted in the eyes of fans. Because the main players of other national table tennis players have lost more foreign wars, they have not deducted points.
Moreover, the selection method of the men's team is completely different from that of the women's team, where the women's team loses foreign wars is deducted points, and the men's team is selected in a cumulative way. From May 2023 to the end of the Saudi Grand Slam tournament in May 2024, the national table tennis adopts a year-long selection model. Wang Manyu lost a foreign war in the whole year.
Last year's mixed team World Cup Wang Manyu was defeated by Diaz is a three-game system, which cannot represent the real level of the players, and the mixed team World Cup is not within the selection range of the national table tennis coaching staff. Wang Manyu has lost the fewest matches on the outside world, which is her biggest advantage in competing for an Olympic singles quota.
It is believed that Chen Meng and Wang Manyu competed for the singles quota in the Olympic Games, not only did the fans discuss different views, but now even the coaching staff is repeatedly weighing and discussing. Wang Manyu is still very competitive in the minds of the national table tennis coaching staff, at least for now, Wang Manyu plays the biggest role in the team competition.
Wang Manyu did not give up the women's doubles match because of the loss in the singles match, and Wang Manyu still won the championship with a consistent performance in the doubles match, which was unexpected by fans. When many fans were not optimistic about her winning the doubles championship, Wang Manyu used stable technical play to dispel the doubts of fans.
Now the criteria for fans to evaluate the Olympic selection are based on the final total Olympic points, and the national table tennis coaching staff considers more issues. Wang Manyu is the most restrained Japanese table tennis player in terms of style of play, this player participates in the singles competition of the Olympic Games, and it is impossible for Japanese table tennis to hit the finals.
If Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha participate in the Olympic singles competition, whether it is Hina Hayada or Miyu Hirano, the hope of hitting the final is around 50%. It is self-evident who Japanese table tennis players prefer to participate in the Olympic singles competition, which is also what the national table tennis coaching staff is more worried about. Because the performance of Japanese table tennis players in the team World Table Tennis Championships and Asian Games is more eye-catching, it is the usual WTT event that poses the lowest threat to national table tennis.
Therefore, Wang Manyu won the singles quota for the Olympic Games, and the national table tennis won the singles competition in the Olympic Games with a higher certainty. I believe that the national table tennis coaching staff will definitely weigh comprehensively, and the selection of a player to participate in the Olympic Games is a comprehensive superposition of many factors.