On May 14, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the lineup for the Paris Olympics. Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng played in the women's singles, and Wang Manyu became the third member of the women's team; Ma Long became the third member of the men's team, and Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi won the wild card P card of the men's and women's teams. Previously, the Chinese Table Tennis Association had announced that Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong had been qualified for the men's singles, and Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha had been qualified for the mixed doubles. The complete list of participants in the Paris Olympic Games of national table tennis has been released.
In the national table tennis Paris Olympic Games lineup, Wang Chuqin is the first time to participate in the Olympic Games, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu will usher in the second Olympic journey, Ma Long will be the fourth Olympic Games, he also became the first player in the history of national table tennis to compete in the Olympic Games for four times. Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha will both play three roles at the Paris Olympics and are expected to hit the glory of the three gold kings in a single Olympic Games, among which the mixed doubles event bears the heavy responsibility of competing for the first gold medal for the national table tennis. Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha, who have already won the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship and the singles World Cup championship, will attack the Grand Slam. Chen Meng, who won two gold medals in the women's singles and women's team at the Tokyo Olympics, is trying to defend her titles in these two events.
With five Olympic gold medals in his hands, Ma Long will be aiming for his sixth Olympic gold medal and the probability of winning gold is very high. Ma Long won the men's team gold medal at the London Olympics and the men's team and men's singles gold medals at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics. Although in Paris, Ma Long, who missed the men's singles competition, could not hit the men's singles Olympic championship for three consecutive years, he will strive to achieve four consecutive men's team championships. Once Ma Long wins his sixth Olympic gold medal, he will become the athlete with the most gold medals in China's Olympic history, and he has won five Olympic gold medals along with Zou Kai in gymnastics, Chen Ruolin and Wu Minxia in diving.
This Olympic squad is the strongest squad of national table tennis at present, but it is undeniable that there are no newcomers in the Paris Olympic cycle, and the promising newcomers have not been able to squeeze into the main layer, even Wang Chuqin, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, is a P card player in the Tokyo Olympics, and he achieved good results in the last cycle.
The P card of this Paris Olympics was given to Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi, both of whom are not young players, and Lin Shidong and Kuo Man, who are considered to have great potential in this cycle, have not been able to participate in the P card. With the continuous improvement and promotion of training methods and rehabilitation treatment methods, perhaps in addition to Ma Long and Chen Meng, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and others are fully capable of persevering until the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.