At present, the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam has reached the final stage, because the Saudi Grand Slam is the last world series before the Paris Olympics, and the game also has rich points rewards and bonuses, so the competition is very fierce, although the national table tennis attaches great importance to this event and sent a full main lineup to play, but after the start of the national table tennis players upset, especially Wang Manyu, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun and other main players in the second round of the game were too upset, so that the fans were shocked.
However, competitive sports are not static, some people are happy and some are worried in the game, the performance of Chen Meng, the main veteran of national table tennis, has won the recognition of fans, although Chen Meng is the women's singles champion of the Tokyo Olympics, and after winning the championship in the Tokyo Olympics, he announced that my time has come, and at this time, Chen Meng only needs to win the women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, he can surpass Zhang Jike and break the record of completing the Grand Slam the fastest.
However, after entering the Paris Olympic cycle, Chen Meng was affected by age and injury, and his state declined seriously, and he was defeated by Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu in many world competitions, and the world ranking once fell seriously. Then in this Saudi Grand Slam event, we can see that Chen Meng has made significant progress, in the case of Wang Manyu out of the game in advance, Chen Meng guarded the lower half, and the three main players of the women's table tennis team, Miyu Hirano, Hina Hayada and Miwa Zhangmoto.
In particular, the 15-year-old Zhang Benmeihe, who began to rise in the competition last year, won the WTT women's singles championship, and fought seven games with Sun Yingsha in the Nagoya Women's Finals at the end of last year, which once posed a big threat to the national table tennis, and won the semi-finals in the past Macau World Cup, and the world ranking came to the top ten.
However, there was a ridiculous scene after the game, the Japanese media was unwilling to look directly at Zhang Benmeihe's loss, and some media even made nonsense in the report that Zhang Benmeihe deliberately lost to Chen Meng, the reason is that Zhang Benmeihe's loss is conducive to the competition of Japanese table tennis in the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics and squeezes Wang Manyu out of the Olympic list. The Japanese media's self-confidence is mainly that Wang Manyu is a greater threat to Japanese table tennis, Wang Manyu is a dark horse player who has risen in the Paris Olympic cycle, has won the World Series championship many times, and his personal technical style of play is fierce and tough, and he has maintained a very high winning rate against Japanese table tennis players.
After coming to this year's competition, Wang Manyu performed very well, winning the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles championship and the Incheon Championship and the Macau World Cup women's singles runner-up. It is also worth noting that after Sun Yingsha confirmed a Paris Olympics women's singles ticket, another Paris Olympics women's singles ticket will be produced between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, and the two are only 1,500 points apart in the Olympic selection points before the Saudi Grand Slam, and anyone has a chance to get the Paris Olympics women's singles ticket.
However, as Wang Manyu lost the foreign war in the second round of the competition, according to the Olympic selection rules of national table tennis, 3,000 Olympic selection points will be deducted if he loses the foreign war before the Paris Olympics, so Chen Meng can surpass Wang Manyu in the Olympic selection points as long as he does not lose the foreign war, but the Japanese media also took the opportunity to hype that Zhang Benmeihe deliberately lost to Chen Meng, the purpose is to let Chen Meng serve as the women's singles task of the Paris Olympics, so that the threat to Japanese table tennis is smaller. It's really laughable to see this reason given by the Japanese media, even so, Chen Meng defeated the three main forces of the Japanese table tennis women's team in this event, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are still the insurmountable mountains of the Japanese table tennis women's team at the Paris Olympics, what do fans think about this?