The list of athletes who will go to the Paris Olympics for the national table tennis has been released, among which the fiercely competitive women's singles event has been determined to be participated by Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, Wang Manyu has become the "third person" in the team event, and Wang Yidi, another world champion, has won the P card (substitute) qualification, and the rest of the teammates can only regret saying goodbye to this competition.
And in this competition for Olympic qualification, the 20-year-old hopeful star Kuo Man created an embarrassing data, that is, because he lost the foreign war, he was deducted as many as 6,000 points, and the final total score turned negative (-5,165 points), which is indeed too miserable!
Born in 2004, Kuo Man is currently the leader of the new generation of players in the national table tennis women's team, although she is only 20 years old, she has defeated the world champion many times before, including Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Chen Xing and others, so she is also regarded by many fans as a potential leader in the next Olympic cycle.
However, unlike the strong rise of the men's team teenager Lin Shidong, Kuaiman's current performance in foreign competitions is still not ideal, and he has lost to foreign association athletes many times, which also makes him have less than 0 points in the singles competition at the Paris Olympics.
In fact, as early as January 2024, Kuo Man was brutally attacked by the 60-year-old veteran Ni Xialian in the WTT Doha Stars Tournament, and finally lost 2-3, but at that time, the national table tennis women's team did not have the rules for deducting points for losing foreign wars, and she was lucky to "escape".
However, the Macau World Cup in April has become a sad battle for Kuo Man, because she did not qualify for the group stage and was pulled off by Tian Zhixi, so according to the regulations of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, she was deducted double points, and a total of 6000 points were deducted after the two 3000 were superimposed - Kuo Man originally did not have many points, and after this defeat, it became a negative number directly.
Speaking of which, Kuo Man is actually quite wronged, because in the World Cup, she drew 2-2 with Tian Zhixi, and if she followed the usual rules, she did not lose, but at that time, a special competition system was adopted, so in the end, she was still eliminated with a small score.
However, objectively speaking, Kuo Man was not among the candidates for the women's singles of the National Table Tennis Olympics, after all, judging from the number of competitions she can participate in, she has no hope of saving enough points, but now she has become the only athlete with negative points in the list of the two teams, which is still somewhat embarrassing, not to mention that her foreign combat ability is indeed very insufficient, which is also an indisputable fact.
At present, it seems that although the main team of the national table tennis women's team is relatively younger, it has lagged behind the men's team in the training of young players after 04 - Kuo Man, as the strongest player in this age group, is still unable to bear the heavy responsibility, as for Chen Yi and others, the performance is not as good as her, and the national table tennis men's team has at least Lin Shidong who has been able to turn the tide in foreign wars many times, and the growth rate is obviously faster.
It is foreseeable that after the Paris Olympics, the national table tennis will inevitably usher in a big change, and I hope that Kuo Man, Chen Yi, Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng and others can grow up as soon as possible and strive to qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.