The Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of candidates for the women's singles and men's and women's team competitions in the table tennis events of the Paris Olympics on the 14th. Among them, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng played in the women's singles, and another famous player, Wang Manyu, was not selected for the women's singles, but won the qualification for the women's team. Wang Yidi is a substitute member of the women's team. In addition, the lineup of the Chinese team in the men's team is Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, and Ma Long.
Wang Manyu, known as the "Japanese killer".
The Chinese Table Tennis Association has previously made a list of mixed doubles and men's singles players for the Paris Olympics. Among them, the mixed doubles pair is Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, while the men's singles players are Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong.
In the 2024 ITTF Men's and Women's World Cup, Wang Manyu gave Zhang Benmeihe a lesson in a women's singles semifinals
Wang Manyu's defeat at the last moment caused controversy in the outside world, and some fans accused the Chinese Table Tennis Association of changing the selection rules overnight. Originally, Wang Manyu was in the lead, but after several changes to the rules, Wang Manyu was helplessly squeezed out of the women's singles lineup by Chen Meng.
After Chen Meng overthrew the three main Olympic players of the Japanese women's team at the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam and finally successfully sealed it, Chen Meng can also accept it in Paris
Originally, before the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, the qualification for the national table tennis men's singles was released, and the selection method and time of the men's and women's teams were the same. However, the women's singles rules were later revised, and the women's team selection was extended to the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam. Before the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Wang Manyu was ranked second in the world and second in Olympic selection points, 1,500 points ahead of Chen Meng, but there was an accident in the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and Wang Manyu unexpectedly lost to India's Batra in the second round, and was deducted 3,000 points. Chen Meng defeated many foreign players all the way, including the three main Olympic players of the Japanese women's team, reached the final, and finally defeated the world's No. 1 sister Sun Yingsha 4:2 to win the second Grand Slam women's singles championship in her career, thus achieving a two-line surpass of Wang Manyu in terms of world ranking and Olympic selection.