The national table tennis is about to go to the Paris Olympics, and the list has been announced. In the women's singles event, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng were confirmed to participate, Wang Manyu became the "third person" in the team event, while Wang Yidi obtained the P card (substitute) qualification, and the other teammates regrettably bid farewell to this Olympic Games.
In this Olympic qualification competition, the 20-year-old has set an embarrassing statistic. As a result of losing the foreign war, he was deducted as many as 6,000 points, and the final total score turned out to be negative (-5,165 points), which is really miserable! Born in 2004, Kuo Man is a leader in the new generation of the national table tennis women's team. Although she is only 20 years old, she has already beaten the likes of Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Chen Xing many times, so she is seen by many fans as a potential leader in the next Olympic cycle.
However, unlike the strong rise of the men's team player Lin Shidong, Kuo Man's performance in foreign wars is still not ideal, and he has lost to foreign association players many times. This resulted in her scoring less than 0 points in the singles competition at the Paris Olympics. In fact, as early as January 2024, at the WTT Doha Stars Tournament, Kueman lost 2-3 to the 60-year-old veteran Ni Xialian and suffered a brutal blow. At that time, the national table tennis women's team did not have the rules for deducting points for losing foreign wars, and Kuo Man was lucky to escape.
However, the Macau World Cup in April became a heartbreaking battle for Kueman. Due to the failure to qualify for the group stage, she was pulled off by Tian Zhixi, according to the regulations of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, she was deducted points twice, and a total of 6,000 points were deducted after the two 3,000 were superimposed - Kuo Man originally did not have many points, and it became negative directly after this defeat.
In fact, Kuaiman's big score in the World Cup was a 2-2 draw with Tian Zhixi, and if she followed the usual rules, she did not lose. However, due to the special competition system adopted at that time, the final score was small, and Kuo Man was eliminated. Objectively speaking, Kuaiman was not originally among the candidates for the women's singles of the National Table Tennis Olympics. Judging by the number of tournaments she has competed in, she simply can't accumulate enough points. Now, she is the only athlete in the rankings of both teams to have a negative score, which is somewhat embarrassing. What's more, it is also an indisputable fact that her foreign combat ability is indeed insufficient.
At present, it seems that although the main team of the national table tennis women's team is young, it has lagged behind the men's team in the training of post-04 young players. As the strongest player in this age group, Kueman is still unable to take on the heavy responsibility. As for the performance of Chen Yi and others, the performance is even inferior, 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 his growth rate is significantly faster.
It is foreseeable that after the Paris Olympics, the national table tennis will usher in a big change. 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 Olympic Games.