The Saudi Arabian Grand Slam ended successfully, and the Chinese team won all 5 championships with all the main forces, and handed over a satisfactory answer, and then, the national table tennis also officially gave the women's singles list for the 2024 Paris Olympics, so far the Chinese table tennis team has all the places for the Paris Olympics.
It is worth mentioning that the 27-year-old Wang Yidi and the 28-year-old Liang Jingkun became the "substitutes" of the Olympic team, which made many fans feel very puzzled.
The probability of substitute players in the Olympic table tennis is very low, and its purpose is to let young players experience the atmosphere of the competition and watch the world's competitions.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics substitutes are Li Xiaoxia (20 years old) and Ma Long (20 years old)
2012 London Olympics substitutes Liu Shiwen (21 years old), Xu Xin (22 years old)
Substitutes for the 2016 Rio Olympics are Zhu Yuling (21 years old) and Fan Zhendong (19 years old)
Tokyo 2021 substitutes Wang Manyu (21 years old), Wang Chuqin (21 years old)
The 2024 Paris Olympics substitutes are Wang Yidi (27 years old) and Liang Jingkun (28 years old)
Among the above substitute players, Li Xiaoxia, Ma Long, Liu Shiwen, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu and others will become the main members of the national team in the future, so when it comes to the position of substitute for the Olympic Games, it represents the candidate for the future successor of the national team.
It's no wonder that fans have doubts about the arrangement of the national table tennis, Wang Yidi and Liang Jingkun have created the oldest in the history of the National Table Tennis Olympic Games, and after the end of this Olympic Games, Wang Yidi and Wang Manyu are unlikely to become one of the three main forces of the national team!
So why did the national table tennis put the two "veterans" on the bench this year?
In this regard, many netizens have said: It may not be that the national table tennis does not let newcomers substitute, but that there are no newcomers to use!
Why?
Back to the WTT Youth Regular Challenge Gangneung Station on May 14, the Chinese team sent a total of 8 players to participate in this game, but surprisingly, the Chinese team was all eliminated in the end, and all the championships were taken away by the foreign association, which is extremely rare in the history of the national table tennis competition.
It is worth mentioning that all the women's singles championships from U11-U19 were won by Japanese players, which has to attract our attention, and now the main players of the Japanese Olympic Games have all been updated to the post-00, Zhang Benmei and 15 years old won the bronze medal in the World Cup singles, and the future cannot be underestimated!
On the other hand, the young players Kuo Man and Lin Shidong cultivated by the national table tennis, Lin Shidong played well in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and his playing style was relatively novel, and there should be no big problem in entering the main list of the national team in the future, but the performance of the young player Kuo Man of the women's team was a little unsatisfactory.
Born in 2004, Kuaiman is also 20 years old, although the champion in the WTT feeder tournament has been soft, but the performance in the world has not been very stable, the Macau World Cup did not even qualify for the group, the 21-year-old Sun Yingsha has become the main force of the women's singles at the Tokyo Olympics, and now the 20-year-old Kuaiman is still struggling to qualify from the group.
When he first debuted, Kuaiman played fiercely and was known as the next "little devil", but now it seems that the gap between Kuaiman and Sun Yingsha is more than one and a half stars, and what is even more helpless is that Kuaiman is already the most outstanding candidate among the newcomers in this national table tennis.
We have to admit that in the cultivation of young athletes, Japan and South Korea have indeed done a better job than us, and now in terms of the main force of national table tennis, our athletes are indeed older.