At present, as the Paris Olympics are approaching, the Chinese Table Tennis Association has officially announced the list of national table tennis players for the Paris Olympics after the selection time for the Paris Olympics is closed. In this list, the most concerned must be Wang Manyu's unexpected failure to be selected for the women's singles list of the Paris Olympics.
After all, everyone knows very well that although Wang Manyu is not as good as Chen Meng in terms of Olympic selection points, from the perspective of the results achieved in the entire Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu's results are indeed better than Chen Meng. Some fans and media people cited data comparison, in this Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu won eight singles championships and ten women's doubles championships, and also won the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games, each championship is very large. Compared with Chen Meng's achievements in the past two years, Wang Manyu really wants to highlight more, but in the end, he unexpectedly failed to be selected for the singles quota of the Paris Olympics, and some fans naturally find it incredible.
In fact, if you want to know whether Wang Manyu is worthy of the Olympic singles competition, you might as well learn about Deng Yaping and Liu Guoliang's previous evaluations of her, and you can find the answer from it. still remembers that in 2021, when Wang Manyu defeated Sun Yingsha 4-2 in the World Table Tennis Championships without being favored by the outside world, and won the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time.
At that time, after the end of that game, Deng Yaping of the national table tennis demon was full of praise for Wang Manyu, and many fans still remember that comment vividly. At that time, Deng Yaping praised Wang Manyu, she said to congratulate the Chinese team on finally having a successor, Wang Manyu won in this peak duel as always stable, her toughness is very good and stable, and the quality of her backhand is also very high.
All in all, in Deng Yaping's view, Wang Manyu is a very good ace player, and she is also a veritable successor of the national table tennis women's singles. In addition to Deng Yaping's very high evaluation of Wang Manyu, on the other hand, Zhang Yining also clearly praised Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu by name in an interview recently, thinking that the technical characteristics and mentality of the two of them are better.
On the other hand, after the previous Tokyo Olympics, Liu Guoliang also had an evaluation of Wang Manyu. At that time, Liu Guoliang thought that whether it was Chen Meng, Sun Yingshan or Wang Manyu, the strength of these three players should be equal, and there was no question of who could be better than the other. In addition, Liu Guoliang also bluntly said that Chen Menggang won the women's singles gold medal, but did not become the leader of national table tennis.
It can be seen from the evaluation of these three national table tennis celebrities that Wang Manyu's strength is very good, and he should also be qualified to win the women's singles quota for the Paris Olympics. It's a pity that the rules are the rules, since the national table tennis coaching staff announced the selection rules in advance, and Wang Manyu could not achieve good results in the Saudi Grand Slam competition, he could only be deducted 3,000 points, and he was destined to miss the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics. Fortunately, Wang Manyu can still participate in the team competition of the Paris Olympics, and if he can win the gold medal, he can make up for his regrets.
However, in any case, for a top table tennis player, Wang Manyu may not be able to participate in the Olympic singles competition in his career, which is indeed a very sad and regrettable thing. After all, with Wang Manyu's age, if she waits for another four years, it is estimated that there will be no chance.