On May 14th, the national table tennis announced the full list of participants in the Paris Olympics, and there was no suspense, Chen Meng successfully won the women's singles quota for the Paris Olympics with the final counterattack of the Saudi Grand Slam.
For Wang Manyu, it's a pity, but competitive sports are cruel, and one game is enough to make many years or even an entire career go to waste.
The women's team revised the selection method for the Paris Olympics
After the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis women's team took three measures to modify the selection method for the Paris Olympics, one is to deduct points for losing foreign wars, the second is to postpone it to Saudi Arabia after the Grand Slam, and the third is to directly announce that Wang Yidi is out.
Not to mention anything else, this "deducting points for losing foreign wars" is only for three people, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and even only for Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, because Sun Yingsha has locked a women's singles quota for the Paris Olympics in advance.
Why are points deducted for losing foreign wars?
The reason is very simple, in the women's singles of the Paris Olympics, there are only two people in the national table tennis, and everyone must have the ability to defend the half of the area alone, which is not only a technical and tactical level, but also a test of the player's ability to resist pressure.
In the Singapore Grand Slam and Incheon Championships, there were no players who "touched the head", and when it came to the Women's Singles World Cup, Kuo Man and Wang Yidi lost foreign wars one after another, but these two were not among the women's singles competitors at the Paris Olympics.
The defeat of the first war is also fate
In the Women's Singles World Cup, Wang Manyu surpassed Chen Meng in the Paris Olympic Games selection standings of national table tennis with the women's singles runner-up, and the advantage was "obvious".
Wang Manyu's efforts throughout the selection cycle seem to be developing in the direction of "counterattack", but no one could have imagined that in the Saudi Grand Slam, Wang Manyu finally lost in the face of Batra, who had just been swept in the last match.
This ultimately disqualified her from the women's singles at the Paris Olympics.
Brutal, but that's competitive sports. Just like the 2016 Olympic Games selection, the world's No. 1 Liu Shiwen lost to Du Kaiqin in the Asian Trials, which directly led to her missing the singles of the Rio Olympics and became an irreparable regret in her career.