The Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of players participating in the Paris Olympics, and Wang Manyu was not selected for the women's singles and only participated in the women's team competition. As soon as this list came out, it instantly aroused the dissatisfaction of fans, especially Wang Manyu's fans, who raised 3 questions, and said that the selection rules were seriously unreasonable and did not consider the construction of the echelon.
If you look at the latest world rankings alone, there is no big doubt that Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng are shortlisted, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and Wang Yidi are among the top four, and it is reasonable to choose the two highest-ranked singles players. But if you look at the number of champions in the Paris cycle, Wang Manyu is significantly better than Chen Meng.
Wang Manyu won a total of 8 championships in the Paris cycle, namely the 21 National Games, the 21 Houston Individual World Table Tennis Championships, the 22 WTT Budapest Championships, the 22 WTT Macau, the 23 WTT Macau, the 23 Asian Championships, the 23 WTT Taiyuan Challenge and the 24 Singapore Grand Slam; Chen Meng has only two titles, the Singapore Grand Slam in '22 and the Saudi Grand Slam in Saudi Arabia in '24.
In addition, in terms of the number of players who lost abroad, Wang Manyu's 3 times were less than Chen Meng's 4 times. Moreover, Wang Manyu has defeated Chen Meng 8 times. With such data, Wang Manyu is indeed worthy of a singles spot. The reason why it was surpassed by Chen Meng was because Wang Manyu lost to foreign players in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and Chen Meng won the championship.
It stands to reason that since the selection rules have been formulated, as long as Wang Manyu and Chen Meng abide by the regulations, whoever has the highest score will represent the Chinese team in women's singles, and no one can find any fault. Why do Wang Manyu's fans still question it? The reason is that the Table Tennis Association suddenly revised the selection method. In the rules formulated on May 15, 23, it is clearly stated that the deadline is May 7, 24, according to this time node, the singles quota belongs to Wang Manyu; However, on April 13, 24, the selection method was suddenly revised, and the Saudi Grand Slam was added, and the singles quota did not belong to Wang Manyu.
In other words, if the women's team closes on May 7 like the men's team, the singles quota will be Wang Manyu's; If the selection rules cover the entire Paris cycle, if you look at the overall results, the singles quota is still Wang Manyu; If the point deduction rules are covered throughout the selection cycle, the singles quota is still Wang Manyu's; Only by one-sidedly erasing the first two years of the Paris cycle, the selection cycle is only counted for 1 year, and the points deduction is only counted for 2 months, the quota belongs to Chen Meng.
raised three major questions about Wang Manyu's unsuccessful fans, the first is why he changed the selection rules without authorization and at will; the second is not to consider the echelon construction; Third, there has been a long-term phenomenon of not distributing resources and opportunities according to the strength of the main players. What I want to say is that since the rules have been formulated, no matter how they evolve in the future, as long as the rules are followed, it is no wonder that suddenly adding a rule will cause dissatisfaction.
Wang Manyu is 25 years old and Chen Meng is 30 years old. It is hoped that the Chinese Table Tennis Association will be able to conduct more transparent selection in the future and eliminate the doubts of fans.