News on Sunday, May 12, 2024, Beijing time. Table tennis players play well, and fans love to praise them with the title of "Demon King". Back then, from Deng Yaping to Zhang Yining, from Wang Nan to Ding Ning, they were all leaders and excellent representatives of national table tennis women. Today, the banner has been inherited: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and others, and the glory of Chinese women's table tennis is continuing and highlight.
The Paris Olympics are coming soon, and Zhang Yining, who was the winner of 4 gold medals in the Athens Olympics and the Beijing Olympics, said in an interview today: The women's singles must be no problem! The women's team is no problem, of course, there must be a bit of suspense, but China still wins!
Zhang Yining commented on the female table tennis players: "At present, Chinese women's table tennis has its own characteristics, and I feel that Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu have always been at the forefront of women's table tennis in terms of technology and psychology!" Look out for them! ”
Table tennis entered the Olympic Games from the 1988 Seoul Olympics! In the four Olympic Games of 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004, the table tennis event was set up with four gold medals in each Olympic Games: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles. Since 2008, to the three Olympic Games in 2016, there were still 4 gold medals, which were changed to: men's singles, women's singles, men's team, and women's team. - At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, table tennis has increased to 5 gold medals: men's singles, women's singles, men's team, women's team + mixed doubles!
To put it harshly, the national table tennis "lost" a few Olympic gold medals: lost 2 in 1988 (men's singles and women's doubles), lost 1 in 1992 (men's singles), lost 1 in 2004 (men's singles), and lost 1 (mixed doubles) in 2021 - since the Olympic Games had table tennis, a total of 37 gold medals have been produced, and the Chinese national table tennis has won 32 of them! It's not easy, it's pretty remarkable.
Zhang Yining is a typical representative of the Great Demon King. Her head coach Li Falcon, who is now also the head coach of national table tennis, said bluntly: Zhang Yining and Wang Nan lived in the same bedroom back then, and Wang Nan agreed that Zhang Yining trained very hard. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining's main racket did not pass the test and could only use a spare racket, which turned out to be "as hard as a sole". But even so, with her strong strength, she still won the gold medal!
The spirit of national table tennis from Seoul to Barcelona, from Atlanta to Sydney, from Athens to Beijing, from London to Rio de Janeiro, and then from Tokyo to Paris - now, the Chinese national table tennis continues to compete, training with competitions, hoping to let the players debug the best state: we see Sun Yingsha's incomparable, from January to May 11, 2024, Sun Yingsha has played in 7 major competitions in a row, including 8 gold medals and 1 silver medal - the silver medal is the gold medal that just lost to Chen Meng in Greater Bangkok, Saudi Arabia. But that's perfect enough.
And Wang Manyu is also excellent! She was a P-card player at the Tokyo Olympics and was given a chance to play. Wang Manyu has won the gold medal in women's doubles and the gold medal in the women's team this year, although there have been several runners-up in the women's singles competition with Sun Yingsha. But the fans saw that Manyu's progress was very obvious!
Zhang Yining, with the most professional perspective of her Olympic champion, examines and observes today's Chinese national table tennis. Her faith is objective and justified. Chinese national table tennis has always relied on smart thinking, solid training, hard work, and the seriousness of the whole team. One session after another, there are 75 days before the opening of the Paris Olympics, come on Chinese national table tennis!