On May 16, Beijing time, when the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the 20th week of 2024, the quota for the Chinese women's table tennis to participate in the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics was also released.
The just-concluded 2024 WTT Saudi Grand Slam is a very high-standard event. In this competition, a total of 6 Chinese women's table tennis players participated, namely: Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong, and Qian Tianyi. After fierce competition, double Olympic champion Chen Meng won the women's singles title with her excellent performance, and she defeated the world's No. 1 "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha 4-2 in the final.
In the promotion process before defeating Sun Yingsha to win the championship, her performance was to crush the three Japanese players Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayata, with the score of 3-0, 4-1, 4-0. There is no doubt that Chen Meng's championship is very golden, and this championship and the three Japanese women's table tennis Olympic team players in the "three consecutive kills" directly made her win the battle for the women's singles quota in the Olympic Games with Wang Manyu.
In fact, before participating in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Wang Manyu, the women's singles champion of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, was in a very big advantage in the battle for women's singles tickets to the Olympic Games.
But it is very regrettable that in the women's singles 1/16 finals, Wang Manyu played poorly and lost to Indian player Manica Batra. Such an unexpected result made Wang Manyu stop in the top 32 at the same time, and he could only "resign himself to fate".
With this series of perfect operations, Chen Meng won the Saudi Grand Slam women's singles championship, and also surpassed Wang Manyu in the Chinese women's table tennis Olympic points, and in the 20th week of the 2024 world ranking announced by the International Table Tennis Federation, she also surpassed Wang Manyu to rise to No. 2. In the end, Chen Meng won the second Olympic singles qualification, and Wang Manyu was counterattacked after leading for a long time. Her fans are unwilling, thinking that she was targeted, but without the upset of the Saudi Grand Slam, there would be no counterattack by Chen Meng, in the final analysis, she still didn't grasp the opportunity!