Tanging Times:
As for the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, if Wang Manyu reached the semifinals in the previous Nagoya finals, even if it was the semifinals, the world ranking would not fall to fourth place at the Busan World Table Tennis Championships!
In fact, the singles competition at the Paris Olympics is a continuous process that lasts for more than a year, and it can be said that every tournament is very important and interlocking! If you don't do well in this tournament, it may affect your world ranking!
In fact, Wang Manyu was also very hopeful of qualifying for the singles competition in the Paris Olympics!
After the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu once slipped to the fourth place in the selection standings, and Wang Manyu's situation at that time was very difficult!
Fortunately, during the Singapore Grand Slam, the coaching staff publicly criticized Wang Yidi by name, and promptly excluded Wang Yidi from the singles competition in the Olympic Games, so that Wang Manyu could calm down and only compete with Chen Meng, one less direct competitor!
And Wang Manyu also seized the opportunity very well, successfully won the Singapore Grand Slam, and successfully reached the finals in the Incheon Championship and the Macau World Cup!
In this way, Wang Manyu also successfully surpassed Chen Meng and came to the second position! It's just that Wang Manyu at this time doesn't have much advantage over Chen Meng! Otherwise, if you can have a huge lead like Sun Yingsha, even if you lose the foreign war in the last Saudi Grand Slam, it will not have any impact!
On the eve of the Saudi Grand Slam, many people in the industry have been optimistic about Wang Manyu's Olympic singles prospects! thinks that Chen Meng's situation is very bad, because as long as neither of them loses the foreign war, Chen Meng can only get another singles qualification by defeating Wang Manyu in the semifinals and Sun Yingsha in the finals!
But judging from the confrontation between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu in the past year or so, it is too difficult for Chen Meng to defeat Wang Manyu in the semifinals!
However, no one expected that at the beginning of the game, in the second round of the game, Wang Manyu was actually beaten by the opponent three times in a row when he won one game against India's Batra, and was reversed by the opponent!
This also caused Wang Manyu to lose the initiative all of a sudden! Whether or not he can participate in the Olympic singles depends on whether Chen Meng will also lose the foreign war in the later games!
If Chen Meng also loses the foreign war in the later games, Wang Manyu will still have a chance to participate in singles!
But under such tremendous pressure, Chen Meng defeated Japan's Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayata, and then defeated the world No. 1 Sun Yingsha in the final!
In this way, Chen Meng successfully obtained another singles qualification, while Wang Manyu unfortunately passed by the Olympic singles!
Regrets? It's a shame for sure! For Wang Manyu, the singles qualification that has almost been reached is gone!
Some fans believe that the selection rules are unfair to Wang Manyu, and even think that deducting points for losing foreign wars is also a suppression of Wang Manyu! Wang Manyu's foreign combat ability has always been very good, and Chen Meng also lost to Hina Hayada at the previous World Table Tennis Championships in Busan! It can be said that such optimization rules are actually more beneficial to Wang Manyu!
But in fact, who would have thought before the fight that Wang Manyu would lose to the Indian?
It can only be said that in the match against India's Batra, Wang Manyu was really afraid of losing! After being pulled back by Batra in the second game, Wang Manyu was obviously too nervous, and even his movements were deformed!
You know, it's just a Grand Slam, not an Olympics yet!
If it was really an Olympic singles match, would it be more nervous on the court?
In terms of pressure resistance, it is obvious that Chen Meng is doing better than Wang Manyu! And the reason why Wang Manyu was out of the game in the end was precisely because of his lack of ability to resist pressure, which led to his exit at the last moment!
However, Wang Manyu is still very young, only 25 years old this year, four years later in the Los Angeles Olympics, Wang Manyu still has the opportunity to continue to compete for singles qualifications, I hope Wang Manyu will not be discouraged, in the future competition, can play better results, come on!