Since the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban began to operate, the national table tennis Olympic selection system has aroused enthusiastic responses. Some people questioned why some competitions had such a large number of Olympic points (and it was a matter of course to think that they were major competitions), but some competitions did not even have Olympic bonus points, and the disparity was really huge, and why there were only bonus points in the knockout rounds, and why the top three in the world had to play in the knockout rounds, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction at the time. Since it's a team competition, isn't everyone equal whether it's a group stage or a knockout stage? If you win team medals equally, why don't you get equal points??? Another time, the men's team did not rank in the top three in the world, which also caused public opinion.
The first Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup will be held in 2023, which belongs to the World Series, but this time there are no Olympic reward points, and this event has once again caused dissatisfaction among fans. The selection system of the Chinese table tennis team is indeed a different eye.
2023 has passed, and 2024 has begun to be a crucial Olympic year, and every athlete is actively preparing for the Games. But before the Singapore Grand Slam final this year, the Chinese table tennis women's team suddenly announced a change in the system, what happened? Optimized again at the World Cup in Macau? What's wrong with the Chinese table tennis women's team? This time, the focus is on adding points deductions and adding Saudi Grand Slam selections. The men's team was selected according to the original system. Saudi Arabia Grand Slam Chinese athlete Wang Manyu stopped in the top 32 of the women's team and was upset, and the off-court coach Ma Lin once again raised questions, why Wang Manyu has been instilled in Wang Manyu to beat the opponent's backhand and insisted on the technique and tactics after pausing the game Ma Lin was silent without saying a word, whether it was selfishness or other circumstances, Ma Lin was indeed unqualified off the court.
In the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam final, both the fans on the scene and the fans on the Internet are noisy, and the loopholes in the Chinese table tennis system have led to such a big public opinion, I think the Chinese Table Tennis Association also needs to reflect on it. Is the system really reasonable?