Recently, the national table tennis team is preparing for the Taiyuan Challenge and the Chongqing station at the end of the month, hoping to achieve good results and prepare for the Paris Olympics. At the same time, some time ago, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of selected national table tennis men's singles, and finally Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin were successfully selected, while Ma Long was very regrettable that he could only participate in the men's team competition.
In such a situation, many fans feel sorry for Ma Long. After all, the Olympic singles quota is very precious, and if Ma Long could win the singles ticket again, he would have a chance to hit the three Grand Slams in his career. It's a pity that now that the Olympic singles list has come out, for Ma Long, he naturally can't change anything.
However, what many fans never expected was that when the main players of the national table tennis regarded the men's singles quota as a treasure, there was an athlete who gave up the men's singles qualification for table tennis at the recent Paris Olympics, which surprised many fans. However, what is interesting is that with the appearance of the first person to give up the men's singles qualification for the table tennis Olympics, it is undoubtedly a very good thing for the national table tennis to hit the Olympic gold medal next.
First of all, according to media reports, in the recent competition for the Oceania 2024 Olympic singles qualifiers, Alfred de la Pena from New Zealand finally qualified for the men's singles at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It should be a very good thing for this table tennis player, but for the national table tennis men's team and men's singles, it is a very powerful opponent, and the resistance to winning the championship has increased greatly.
As a result, according to the latest media reports, the Olympic Committee of Alfred de la Pena's region actually rejected the men's singles qualification for the Paris Olympics, which means that the Olympic qualification originally obtained by the New Zealand player will be postponed to other players in the continental rankings.
This is undoubtedly a very regrettable thing for New Zealand table tennis player Alfred de la Pena. And for the table tennis players behind him, it is great news, which is equivalent to picking up an Olympic ticket, and the luck is too good. Of course, in this way, it is undoubtedly a good thing for the national table tennis to hit the gold medal in the team competition and men's singles. Because Ma Long and Fan Zhendong have one less important opponent, the other opponents with weaker intercontinental rankings sent in the follow-up are naturally much worse.
Here, I would like to congratulate Ma Long and Fan Zhendong. Although Ma Long cannot lose his ticket to the men's singles at the Paris Olympics, at the same time, if he can lead the Chinese men's team to win the gold medal in this Olympic Games, it will also be a very remarkable achievement. In addition, for Fan Zhendong, his most important task this year is to hit the singles gold medal at the Paris Olympics and achieve a career Grand Slam. This time there is one less fierce opponent, and for Fan Zhendong, there will be more hope to achieve this goal in the future.
Of course, in the end, there is one sentence that still needs to be emphasized, that is, iron needs to be hard. No matter how the opponent changes, no matter which players or teams withdraw from the Paris Olympics, for the main players like Ma Long, they still have to rely on themselves to play a good performance. Because the national table tennis will not only face these fierce opponents in Oceania, but also Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States will send very powerful opponents.
Therefore, the main forces of national table tennis must be steady and steady, and they can stand on the highest podium of the Olympic Games by playing every game well.