On May 14, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the lineup for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games:
Men's Singles: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong.
Women's Singles: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng,
Mixed Doubles: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha.
Men's team: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, P card: Liang Jingkun.
Women's group: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, P card: Wang Yidi.
Such a lineup is basically not much different from the lineup expected by fans.
At the Paris Olympics, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha will play three roles, not only in the men's and women's singles, but also in the mixed doubles and men's and women's teams.
Although Fan Zhendong's state in the recent period is not good, Fan Zhendong's performance throughout the Paris Olympic cycle is obvious to all, and he has won the singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships for two consecutive years, so it is reasonable to be able to be shortlisted for the Paris Olympics men's singles!
In women's singles, the Chinese team sent Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng to qualify for the singles competition at the Paris Olympics.
Sun Yingsha's performance in the entire Paris Olympic cycle is very good, winning the women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, in addition to winning the women's singles championship in the WTT finals three times in a row, leading the world ranking fault, and leading the gap in the singles selection standings of the Paris Olympics, locking a Paris Olympic singles in advance!
Although Chen Meng's overall performance in the Paris Olympic cycle was not very good, winning only two singles titles at the 2022 Singapore Grand Slam and the 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Chen Meng's performance was relatively consistent, especially in the final selection tournament, defeating three Japanese Olympians and defeating Sun Yingsha in the final!
Chen Meng also successfully entered the singles of the Paris Olympics with his outstanding performance in the last round of the trials!
For Wang Manyu, it is a pity that Wang Manyu is actually very hopeful of qualifying for the singles competition in the Paris Olympics, and even led Chen Meng before the Saudi Grand Slam!
It's just that in the last Saudi Grand Slam trials, Wang Manyu unexpectedly lost to India's Batra, which also caused the upcoming Olympic singles to fly away!
This is indeed a pity for Wang Manyu!
What is more surprising is that the P card players in this Olympic Games are Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi!
After all, in the past, P card players were usually selected from young athletes, but this time it was a bit unexpected that there were two players who were no longer young!
However, on the whole, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong in men's singles and Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng in women's singles, from the overall strength point of view, the possibility of meeting in the final of the Paris Olympics is very high!
And the men's and women's teams are still the favorites to win the championship!
In mixed doubles, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin's performances have always been very eye-catching!
At the Paris Olympics, can the national table tennis win the five championships? Let's wait and see!