Recently, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the lineup for the Paris Olympics, and everyone knows the final lineup, but this list, due to Wang Manyu's defeat, still caused a lot of controversy among fans for a while.
Why did Wang Manyu's defeat cause so much controversy?
After the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Wang Manyu ushered in a highlight moment, defeating Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha in the National Games and World Table Tennis Championships, and won the women's singles championship twice!
It can be said that in the Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu is off to a good start!
If Wang Manyu's development status is according to that time, he will definitely be able to qualify for a singles competition in the Paris Olympics!
At the same time, compared with Wang Manyu, Chen Meng's performance in the Paris Olympic cycle is indeed not as good as Wang Manyu's, which is also the reason why Wang Manyu caused huge controversy after his defeat.
So, why did Wang Manyu lose the singles?
First of all, let's take a look at the singles selection conditions for the Paris Olympics:
On May 15 last year, the Chinese Table Tennis Association issued a public announcement on the singles selection for the Paris Olympics, which clarified the time frame for the selection in the selection rules, that is, from May 8, 2023 to May 7, 2024, the results of relevant international competitions will be included in the calculation of award points for international competitions.
In addition, the Chinese Table Tennis Association also clarified the reward points for international competitions in this selection method.
Let's take a look at Wang Manyu's achievements in this selection range:
Durban World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu missed the semifinals, the women's singles semifinals of the Zagreb Star Challenge, the women's singles champion of the Pyeongchang Asian Championships, the Hangzhou Asian Games did not participate in the singles competition, the finals missed the semifinals, the women's singles runner-up of the Frankfurt Championship, the women's singles champion of the Taiyuan Regular Challenge, the women's singles semifinals of the Doha Star Challenge, the women's singles runner-up of the Macau World Cup, the women's singles champion of the Singapore Grand Slam, the women's singles runner-up of the Incheon Championship, and the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam missed the round of 16.
In these competitions, the world ranking points and Olympic reward points are relatively high in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the Nagoya Finals, the Singapore Grand Slam and the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, but in these competitions with higher points, Wang Manyu did not reach the semi-finals in the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the Nagoya Finals and the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and only won the championship once in the Singapore Grand Slam! This also caused Wang Manyu to lose three opportunities for high points!
You must know that in these competitions, the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, if you can reach the semi-finals, you can have 1,000 bonus points and 750 world ranking points! A semi-finalist in Nagoya will earn you 525 world ranking points and 500 bonus points, and a Saudi Grand Slam will earn 750 bonus points and 700 world ranking points if you reach the semi-finals!
To be continued