On May 14, after the International Table Tennis Federation updated the latest world rankings, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the lineup of the national table tennis Paris Olympics, among which Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng were qualified for the women's singles and were automatically selected for the women's team lineup, and Wang Manyu became the third person in the team. Previously, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced that Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong were qualified for the men's singles and automatically selected for the men's team lineup, and Ma Long became the third member of the men's team. Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi won the P card of the men's and women's teams respectively.
According to the women's singles selection rules of the National Table Tennis Paris Olympic Games, the Chinese Table Tennis Association has set up an Olympic singles selection standings, which is generated by adding the world ranking points and the award points of international competitions from May 8, 2023 to May 14, 2024. With the amazing results of winning the women's singles championship in a series of competitions such as the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the WTT Nagoya Finals last year, Sun Yingsha firmly occupies the top position in the women's Olympic standings and has a huge lead. Although Sun Yingsha failed to win this year's Singapore Grand Slam and Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, she won the women's singles championship at the Incheon Championships and the Macau Women's World Cup, locked a women's singles ticket to the Paris Olympics in advance, and with the ranking of the world No. 1 in the mixed doubles, her partner Wang Chuqin will play in the mixed doubles competition of the Paris Olympics.
Unlike Sun Yingsha, who confirmed early that she would get a ticket to the women's singles at the Paris Olympics, Chen Meng only confirmed her qualification for the Olympic women's singles in the last leg of the Saudi Grand Slam. Before the Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng was ranked fourth in the women's singles world rankings behind Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Wang Yidi; In the Olympic standings, it ranks third behind Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu. However, in the Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng defeated the Japanese Olympic trio Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayada in succession to enter the final, and defeated Sun Yingsha 4-2 in the final to win the women's singles championship. Wang Manyu, who is in direct competition with her, lost to India's Batra in the second round of the women's singles, so Chen Meng rose to second place in the Paris Olympics standings at the last moment, won the second women's singles ticket to the Paris Olympics, and will play in the women's singles competition with Sun Yingsha in Paris, and is automatically selected for the women's team lineup.
Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng will usher in their second Olympic journey in Paris, both participated in the women's team and women's singles competitions at the Tokyo Olympics, and are members of the women's team championship at the Tokyo Olympics. In Paris, Chen Meng will once again attack the two gold medals in the women's singles and women's team, and strive to defend her title in these two events; And Sun Yingsha, who is also a three-athlete, will attack the Olympic three-gold king.
In China's history at the Summer Olympics, only two men, Li Ning and Zou Kai, won three gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Sun Yingsha is expected to equal the record of three gold medals in a single Summer Olympics. At the same time, Sun Yingsha will also attack the Grand Slam at the Paris Olympics, and at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban in May last year, Sun Yingsha won the women's singles championship; At the Macau Women's World Cup in April this year, Sun Yingsha won the singles World Cup championship, only one Olympic singles championship away from the Grand Slam, and Paris will be Sun Yingsha's best chance to achieve the Grand Slam.