Deng Yaping, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan are at the highest level, Ding Ning, Li Xiaoxia, Liu Shiwen are second, which level does Sun Yingsha belong to?

Xinxi said ping-pong

2024-06-08 19:39Published in Hebei Province Ningjin Construction Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. Accountant

Speaking of the most powerful top players in the history of table tennis women's table tennis, we generally think of Deng Yaping, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan, the three table tennis Grand Slams, many times fans call them the big devils, and when it comes to Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning, I feel that they are far from the first three, and they are not domineering enough, saying that Ding Ning, Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen are almost the same. Why do fans think this way? If you add the current Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, will they be better than the above senior sisters?

First of all, let's talk about why Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, and Zhang Yining belong to the same level, and they are the highest level.

In addition to being a Grand Slam player and winning two consecutive Olympic women's singles and women's doubles championships (Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996), another point that editor Xinxi thinks is that she has been ranked No. 1 in the world for eight consecutive years, creating an era. This era is not what she herself says, it is recognized by the media. Because from the late 80s to the late 90s of the 20th century, Deng Yaping almost dominated the singles and doubles championships of major competitions, and the media called this period the "Deng Yaping era" of table tennis.

Of course, in terms of proving her singles ability, she won the women's singles championship at the 1991, 1995 and 1997 World Championships, and also won the women's singles championship at the first Women's Table Tennis World Cup in 1996, plus she is also the first athlete to win two consecutive Olympic women's singles and women's doubles events. Such an achievement is indeed dazzling enough. Deng Yaping has a total of 18 world championship titles.

And Wang Nan is another Grand Slam player after Deng Yaping's retirement, Xiaobian Xinxi feels that Wang Nan's strength lies in the fact that she has won the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship for three consecutive years (1999, 2001, 2003), and won the World Table Tennis Championships women's doubles championship five times in a row.

Wang Nan has won 24 world titles in her career, including the women's singles and women's doubles at Sydney 2000, the women's doubles at Athens 2004, and the women's team at 2008. She is also the winner of three consecutive World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championships in 1999, 2001 and 2003, plus four World Cup women's singles championships in 1997, 1998, 2003 and 2007.

Zhang Yining is recognized by everyone as the big devil, Zhang Yining's strength is not only that the Grand Slam player has won two consecutive Olympic women's singles championships, but also the only double-lap Grand Slam winner in the history of women's table tennis.

Zhang Yining has won 19 world championships in her career, including four World Cup women's singles titles in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005, two Olympic women's singles titles in 2004 and 2008, and she also has two women's singles gold medals at the World Championships in 2005 and 2009 and eight women's singles titles at the World Championships.

And because Zhang Yining rarely loses foreign wars, unlike Wang Nan, who had the experience of losing at the 2002 Busan Asian Games, coupled with the aura of a double-circle Grand Slam, sometimes fans will say that Zhang Yining is the most powerful, but Xiaobian Xinxi thinks that the three of them can be regarded as a level, all of them are at the level of the big devil, after all, Wang Nan has also defeated Zhang Yining in the World Series many times, such as 1999 and 2003 Wang Nan defeated Zhang Yining in the women's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships, including the 2007 Women's Table Tennis World Cup Women's Singles Final was also Wang Nan's last championship.

The second level of women's table tennis athletes, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen.

If the results of the three people are only measured from the standard of the Grand Slam, Liu Shiwen may be at a disadvantage because she has no chance to participate in the Olympic singles, but if you know the reason why Liu Shiwen lost the singles, no one will think that Liu Shiwen is inferior to Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia, in fact, the three of them have been winning and losing each other in the competition.

First of all, Li Xiaoxia is indeed a Grand Slam player, with 19 career world titles, including the 2008 World Cup Women's Singles Champion, the 2012 London Olympics Women's Singles Champion and the 2013 Paris World Table Tennis Championships Women's Singles Champion. In other words, there are only three women's singles champions in the competition who can best measure personal ability, Li Xiaoxia, so in this regard, there is indeed a gap with the previous three Grand Slam players.

Although Ding Ning has 21 world championships, including the 2016 Olympic women's singles champion, the 2011, 2015 and 2017 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championships and the 2011, 2014, 2018 World Cup women's singles championships, but because the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships was considered controversial by many fans, and it was precisely because of the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships that Ding Ningwei applied for a medical timeout of nearly 10 minutes that caused Liu Shiwen to lose the championship in the drama. The singles quota for the Rio Olympics, which originally belonged to Liu Shiwen, was given to Ding Ning by the national table tennis coaching staff, which also made Ding Ning's Grand Slam full of different voices.

What's going on? It turned out that in April 2016, according to the relevant regulations of the International Table Tennis Federation, the Asian qualifiers men's and women's singles champions Ma Long and Li Xiaoxia were first determined as the first singles places, and on May 20, the International Table Tennis Federation issued an invitation to the Chinese Table Tennis Association according to the world rankings, ranking first in the world, Liu Shiwen and Fan Zhendong, ranked second, to participate in the 2016 Olympic singles, and sent an invitation to the Chinese Table Tennis Association, but the senior management of the Table Tennis Association felt that Liu Shiwen's experience in the competition was still not good, and denied the invitation. Ding Ning replaced Liu Shiwen to participate in the Olympic singles. As shown below;

Sometimes Xiaobian Xinxi thinks that if the national table tennis allows Liu Shiwen, who is ranked No. 1 in the world, to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games according to the regulations of the International Table Tennis Federation, will the women's singles champion still be Ding Ning? Does Ding Ning still have a Grand Slam title?

In fact, although Liu Shiwen is not a Grand Slam player, because Liu Shiwen has 20 world championships and she also has the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship and five World Cup women's singles championships (2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019), six singles gold medals in her career are already very good. And she also collected the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and women's team championships like Wang Nan, and is also the "Golden Slam" player of the World Table Tennis Championships. Cai Meng, the former table tennis host of CCTV, said that Liu Shiwen has the strength of a Grand Slam, and it is a pity not to win a Grand Slam. Hey, Liu Shiwen, the world's No. 1 women's singles champion at the World Table Tennis Championships, missed the Olympic singles qualification twice, which is really ironic.

In fact, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning, and Liu Shiwen are the winners and losers of each other, and their strength is basically equal. For example, Ding Ning won Li Xiaoxia at the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships, and Li Xiaoxia won back at the 2012 Olympic Games. The two have a head-to-head record, with Ding Ning having a slight advantage of 13-10. In the competition, Li Xiaoxia defeated Liu Shiwen in the women's singles final of the Paris World Championships, but in the semifinals of the 2015 Suzhou World Championships, Liu Shiwen also defeated Li Xiaoxia, Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen played five or five games, and the two won 8 of the 16 matches in the international arena.

As for Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, Liu Shiwen has the upper hand with 16 wins and 9 losses. Ding Ning won Liu Shiwen twice in the 2011 and 2015 World Championships, but the 2015 Suzhou World Championships has also been criticized for being suspected of deceiving Liu Shiwen's sympathy. In the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen defeated Ding Ning in the semifinals and played an 11-0 in the fifth game. If you want to know why Liu Shiwen is so decisive, you can replay the women's singles final of the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships again.

Therefore, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning, and Liu Shiwen can be regarded as a level, but they are a little worse than the dominance of the first three Grand Slams.

Finally, let's talk about Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu.

At present, among the main women's table tennis players on active players, Sun Yingsha and Chen Mengwang Manyu have the opportunity to become Grand Slams, among which Sun Yingsha is short of an Olympic women's singles champion, Chen Meng is short of a World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion, and Wang Manyu is short of the World Cup and Olympic women's singles champions.

At present, Sun Yingsha and Xiao Sasha are the closest to the Grand Slam opportunity, and if Sasha wins the women's singles championship at the Paris Olympics, it will become the fastest Grand Slam. From the women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban on May 28, 2023 to the women's singles championship at the Macau Women's Table Tennis World Cup on April 21 this year to the women's singles final at the Paris Olympics on August 3, if Sa Sha wins the championship, she will become a Grand Slam player in 432 days, a record that will surpass Zhang Jike's record of becoming a Grand Slam player in 445 days.

Here's good luck to Sasha, if she becomes a Grand Slam player, she will belong to the same level as Li Xiaoxia, but Sasha is only 23 years old, she still has the Los Angeles Olympics, if her career goes well, she can catch up with her idol Zhang Yining, what do you say?

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