With the end of the Saudi Grand Slam, the singles selection for the Paris Olympics that lasted for more than a year has also come to an end, and the Paris Olympic lineup of national table tennis is about to be revealed.
In fact, on May 7, the Chinese Table Tennis Association has announced the list of candidates for the Paris Olympics.
In the mixed doubles event at the Paris Olympics, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha qualified for the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics.
The men's singles event was contested by Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong.
In addition, Sun Yingsha automatically qualified for the women's team competition; Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong automatically qualified for the men's team competition.
In fact, if according to the announcement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on the "Selection Measures for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in Table Tennis" promulgated on May 15, 2023, the Paris Olympic lineup of the Chinese women's table tennis should also be announced on May 7!
However, on April 13 this year, the Chinese Table Tennis Association promulgated the announcement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on optimizing and adjusting the relevant revisions to the selection methods for the national table tennis women's team to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. According to this announcement, the selection of Chinese women's table tennis has been extended to May 14, that is, after the end of the Saudi Grand Slam, the latest world ranking will be released.
Don't look at the selection of women's table tennis postponed for a week, but within this week, there was a plot reversal.
If the list is announced on May 7 according to the earliest announcement, the top two in the singles selection for the Paris Olympics at that time are Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, who will qualify for the singles competition for the Paris Olympics!
But after a one-week postponement, because Wang Manyu lost to India's Batra in the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam, and Chen Meng defeated three Japanese Olympians all the way, and defeated the world No. 1 Sun Yingsha in the final, Chen Meng overtook Wang Manyu and came to the second position!
According to the ranking on May 14, the singles qualifiers for the Paris Olympics have become Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng!
And Wang Manyu is going to regret losing the singles for the Paris Olympics!
This is indeed very cruel for Wang Manyu, who is already 25 years old, you must know that throughout the Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu's results are very good, and he has won eight singles championships such as the National Games, the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Championships, and his achievements in the women's table tennis team can be said to be second only to Sun Yingsha!
Compared with Chen Meng, who only won two singles titles in a Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu is obviously more worthy of an Olympic singles qualification!
At the same time, from the perspective of age, 25-year-old Wang Manyu also has an age advantage and more training value than Chen Meng, who is already 30 years old.
But now Wang Manyu lost the foreign war in the last round of the trials, and his three years of hard work have come to naught, which is also embarrassing!
I remember that at last year's Asian Championships, Li Falcon once said that Chinese women's table tennis needs athletes like Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu to fly together to win glory for the country!
But this time, Wang Manyu lost the key battle, will he really lose the singles for the Paris Olympics?
Will the Chinese Table Tennis Association strictly implement the selection rules and announce that Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng will participate in the Olympic singles, or will they comprehensively consider the overall performance and finally send Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu to participate in the singles?
You must know that at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, it was precisely because Ma Lin strictly implemented the selection rules of the Chinese Table Tennis Association that we fell behind 1-2 in the final against Japan and fell into a desperate situation!
Did the Chinese Table Tennis Association learn the lessons of that time?
The answer is about to be revealed, so let's wait for the announcement of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on May 14th!
No matter what the final result is, I still hope that the fans can look at it rationally, so let's wait and see! 1