With the end of the Saudi Grand Slam, although it has not yet been announced, the singles lineup for the Paris Olympics is still ready to be announced!
Because in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Wang Manyu unexpectedly lost to India's Batra in the second round, while Chen Meng defeated Japan's Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhang and Hina Hayata, and defeated the world No. 1 Sun Yingsha in the final to win the women's singles championship of the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam!
In this way, in the final Paris Olympics singles selection points, Sun Yingsha ranked first and Chen Meng ranked second!
According to the selection rules for the singles of the Paris Olympics previously released by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng will qualify for the singles of the Paris Olympics!
Such a result seems to be very fair and fair, after all, the selection rules are there, and the top two will automatically qualify for the Olympic singles!
However, if the selection rules are strictly followed, is there really no problem? Sticking to dogmatic rules can sometimes cause us unexpected trouble!
This year's Busan World Table Tennis Championships is a good lesson!
At this year's World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, after entering the knockout round, the coaching staff sent the world's top three players to participate in the knockout stage in strict accordance with the selection rules previously promulgated by the Chinese Table Tennis Association!
This also leads to the fact that we do not have any room for maneuver in the arrangement, that is, Sun Yingsha is the first singles, Chen Meng is the second singles, and Wang Yidi is the third singles!
Even before the game started, our hole cards were already clear to our opponents! Especially in the finals, the Japanese women's table tennis team made a bold change in response to our famous brand!
They boldly sent the young player Zhang Benmeihe to take the lead, because they knew that it was unlikely that anyone wanted to win Sun Yingsha, so they let Zhang Benmeihe come to impact Sun Yingsha, although Zhang Benmeihe lost to Sun Yingsha, but their second appearance was the most powerful Hina Hayata!
Their goal is obvious, that is, to let Hina Hayada attack the veteran Chen Meng!
Sure enough, Chen Meng lost 1-3 in the game against Hina Hayata, and the two sides fought to a 1 draw!
The third singles player of the Japanese team is Miu Hirano, and the purpose is even more obvious, because Miu Hirano once defeated Wang Yidi in the Singapore Grand Slam last year, and she has the ability to score points!
As a result, Wang Yidi faced Miyu Hirano and quickly lost 0-3!
The Chinese team has fallen behind 1-2! This is also since the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese women's table tennis has once again fallen into a desperate situation!
Fortunately, Sun Yingsha, who served as the first singles, withstood the huge pressure in the fourth set and defeated Japan's Hina Hayata!
In the deciding set, Japanese teenager Miwa Zhang also brought huge pressure to the veteran Chen Meng, and won the first game with a score of 11-4! It's just that due to the lack of experience in the competition, he finally lost to Chen Meng!
In this way, the Chinese women's table tennis won with difficulty!
It is precisely because of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships that the Chinese women's table tennis coaching staff rigidly adheres to the rules and cannot be flexible, which leads to such great difficulties for the Chinese women's table tennis!
In fact, many people in the industry believe that Wang Manyu should be sent in the finals instead of Wang Yidi!
It was also after the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan that the Chinese Table Tennis Association was forced to re-optimize the selection method and extend the selection cycle to the Saudi Grand Slam!
Now after the Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng is ranked second, and if the selection rules are strictly followed, it should indeed be Chen Meng who qualifies for the singles competition in the Paris Olympics!
But is such a rule really reasonable? In the entire Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu's achievements are obvious to all, and the eight women's singles championships such as the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships are really not as good as Chen Meng's two championships?
What are the consequences of sticking to the rules, the Busan World Table Tennis Championships has given the answer, isn't that the lesson enough?