On May 14, Beijing time, Zhang Xuefeng publicly supported Wang Manyu and protested against the injustice of the national table tennis election.
The Chinese national table tennis Olympic candidates were officially announced, and finally Chen Meng replaced Wang Manyu in the Olympic singles, and joined Sun Yingsha to hit the gold medal. Although Wang Manyu said that his performance in this cycle was better and his results may be better, he was finally deducted 3,000 points due to a loss in the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam. She can be said to have been ahead of Chen Meng for a long time, but she fell in front of the final finish line.
However, there are also many giants who speak up for her, such as Zhang Yining who publicly supported Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha in an interview before, saying that their technology is more advanced, and did not mention Chen Meng's name. And now another big giant has spoken, Zhang Xuefeng officially updated his social media dynamics, strongly supported his fellow countryman Wang Manyu, and promised that even if she did not qualify for the Olympic singles, he would ask Wang Manyu to endorse him.
Zhang Xuefeng said bluntly this time: "Wang Manyu is his hometown, he is the pride of Qiqihar, he has scored key points in key games, without the strength of his fellow countryman to turn the tide, there would have been no so-called national table tennis overlord!" This is his favorite female athlete, and he likes Wang Manyu, not only because Wang Manyu is his hometown, but more importantly, Wang Manyu can really stand up and bear it at critical moments. It doesn't matter if you can play singles or not, but sooner or later, please ask you to be the spokesperson of our company. These are Zhang Xuefeng's exact words.
Zhang Xuefeng's attitude has been very clear, that is, he wants to fight for Wang Manyu, speak for her, and said that it doesn't matter if you don't go to the Olympics for singles, I invite you to come to our company to endorse. And deliberately emphasized that without Wang Manyu often turning the tide in the team competition, there would be no national table tennis hegemon.
Wang Manyu withstood Hina Hayata, not to mention, in the first round of the World Table Tennis Championships, the Indian team was beaten, the national table tennis narrowly won 3-2, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi lost all, who stood up? Wang Manyu, the first and fourth games bombarded two points, Wang Manyu didn't resist one game at that time, and the national table tennis lost 1-3. came up with a black start, and was beaten by the Indian team, what a blow to morale, and it is likely to lose the World Table Tennis Championships.
Sasha Wang Yidi withstood it when Wang Yidi lost, and the team competition stood up more than once to save his team, plus in the time of this cycle, Wang Manyu has 8 heavyweight major championships, Chen Meng only has 2, Wang Manyu has a blockbuster championship every year from 2021~2024: National Games, World Table Tennis Championships, Macau Star Challenge, Asian Championships plus Singapore Grand Slam, etc., compared to Chen Meng, after all, there is an embarrassment of 783 days and 0 championships.
Wang Manyu's 8 championships are not enough to suppress Sun Yingsha, who has 13 championships, so she can only compete for the second singles, but it is definitely better than Chen Meng, who only has 2 championships, and it is better in both singles and doubles. Therefore, Zhang Xuefeng also came out to fight unevenly, and many netizens at the bottom were also openly shouting, it was not worth it for Wang Manyu, and they all felt that it was too unfair.
Now Wang Manyu's defeat is not a match, but 4 years, she may not be able to compete with Sun Yingsha for the Grand Slam position, 4 years later, she will be 29 years old, who knows if she can go to the Olympics again and win the singles gold medal?