Recently, the national table tennis team ended the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam tournament and returned to China to continue to prepare for the subsequent competitions. At the same time, as the time for the Paris Olympics selection has ended, just recently, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of participants for the Paris Olympics on their official website. In the end, it was very regrettable to the outside world that Wang Manyu was selected for the Olympic women's singles competition, which also meant that she could only play in the team competition next.
In such a situation, some unconvinced fans naturally feel that there is a problem with the employment arrangement of the national table tennis coaching staff this time. Some fans compare the results of Wang Manyu and Chen Meng in the entire Paris Olympic cycle, and believe that Wang Manyu is more qualified than Chen Meng to win the women's singles ticket for the Paris Olympics. At the same time, some media people also exposed the speech of the national table tennis coaching staff at the Tokyo Olympics at 3 o'clock in the morning. It can be seen from this that the selection rules of the national table tennis Olympics seem to be changing all the time, which naturally arouses questions from many fans.
First of all, at three o'clock in the morning recently, some media people released a video of the coaching staff's speech before the national table tennis preparation for the Tokyo Olympics on social media. From the content of the coaching staff's speech, it can be known that when Li Falcon and others confirmed that Chen Meng would play in the women's singles competition of the Tokyo Olympics, these head coaches focused on Chen Meng's achievements in winning multiple world championships in that Olympic cycle. It can be seen from this that the important criteria for the selection of women's singles by the national table tennis coaching staff at that time should be to consider how many national championships and how many world championships these players can win in the Olympic cycle.
What I didn't expect was that after the Paris Olympics cycle, the selection rules of the national table tennis coaching staff seemed to have changed. Because if you look at the selection and employment standards of the coaching staff in the last Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu's results are much better than Chen Meng's. It is understood that from the end of the Tokyo Olympics to the start of the Paris Olympics, Chen Meng only won the championship in a few business competitions. In addition, it is basically Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu who have shared the world championship in the past few years.
For example, in the Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu won eight singles championships and ten women's doubles championships, and defeated Sun Yingsha for the first time in 2021 to win the World Table Tennis Championships, and then won the women's singles championship of the National Games after the Tokyo Olympics in Paris. In addition, Wang Manyu has maintained 23 consecutive victories against the Japanese team, and there is no way to compare the overall results of Chen Meng or Wang Yidi with Wang Manyu.
Therefore, media people believe that if the national table tennis coaching staff can reuse Wang Manyu as Chen Meng did in the last Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu should get this singles ticket for the Paris Olympics more than Chen Meng. This is also where many fans and media people are not satisfied.
Of course, judging from the results, Chen Meng is indeed not good enough compared to Wang Manyu. However, since the national table tennis coaching staff has announced the selection rules in advance, the players can only abide by them. As Liu Guoliang said back then, there are many excellent players in national table tennis, and whoever can win the singles quota in the end has a chance to win the Olympic gold medal.
It can only be said that Wang Manyu's luck is not good, especially in the most critical match against Saudi Arabia Grand Slam did not achieve good results, so he is destined to leave regrets in the end.