On October 17, the Chinese Table Tennis Association organized the national table tennis team members to start training at the Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center in Zhejiang Province to prepare for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships from November 23 to 29, and the World Table Tennis Championships are also the most important events in the 2021 international table tennis after the Tokyo Olympic Games, and each association attaches great importance to it.
Before this training, 10 national table tennis players such as Fang Bo, Zhou Yu, Gu Yuting, and Che Xiaoxi have successively chosen to withdraw from the national team. The biggest reason is that these 10 athletes are no longer young, and their abilities are difficult to improve, basically unable to enter the level of the main players of national table tennis, so it is also a wise choice to choose to quit. At present, the main players of the national table tennis team Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have not come to Wenzhou for training, because the Chinese table tennis team has arranged a longer holiday for the above-mentioned veteran players. Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and other major players of the national table tennis team have been training at the Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center.
It is worth mentioning that some time ago, when the Chinese Table Tennis Super League was just over, the Chinese table tennis team sent out a message that Sun Yingsha's head coach Huang Haicheng chose to resign. And Huang Haicheng himself also revealed to the outside world that the biggest reason for his resignation is to return to his family and spend more time with his daughter. For Sun Yingsha, at the critical moment of preparing for the World Table Tennis Championships, her head coach left, which was indeed a big blow. It should be known that at present, Chen Meng's supervisory coach Ma Lin and Wang Manyu's supervisory coach Xiao Zhan are all following their disciples to prepare for the World Table Tennis Championships, and this situation has given Sun Yingsha a greater psychological blow.
For a table tennis player, if his or her supervisor coach is around, it will play a big role. Let's take a recent example, at the National Games, when Wang Manyu invited xiao Zhan, the head coach of his national team, to the provincial team to give him careful guidance. In the end, Wang Manyu also achieved excellent results of 2 gold and 1 silver in the four projects he participated in, and won the women's singles championship with a very full gold content. This is enough to show that the head coach has a crucial role in the achievements of an athlete.
At present, there is news that Chen Meng's head coach Ma Lin wants to take over Sun Yingsha, but at present, the team members below Ma Lin still have Liu Shiwen, if Sun Yingsha is assigned to Ma Lin again, it can be said that Ma Lin's pressure will be very huge. In addition, it is also a bit unrealistic to let a coach bring 3 main players of national table tennis, so the probability of Ma Lin taking over Sun Yingsha is not very large.
Recently, sun Yingsha's photos of training at the Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center were circulated, and from the photos, it can be clearly seen that Li Falcon, the head coach of the current national table tennis women's team, is actively serving for Sun Yingsha and training together. And it is worth noting that Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, is still standing on the sidelines. Therefore, it is not excluded that Li Falcon, the head coach of the Chinese table tennis team women's team, has become the head coach of Sun Yingsha.
To say that Li Falcon once brought out the national table tennis team, it can be said to be quite brilliant. Former "Grand Slam" winners Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, and Li Xiaoxia were all proud disciples of Li Falcon. Former world champion Zhu Yuling also started under Li Falcon's door, but later Zhu Yuling bumped into Li Falcon in a match against Ito Mimachi, so after Zhu Yuling's head coach was replaced by Qiu Yike, otherwise Zhu Yuling's current achievements may not be more than this. And if Li Falcon really becomes sun Yingsha's head coach, for Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, it is indeed only an envy.
If it is really as expected, it will be of great help to Sun Yingsha's preparation for the next World Table Tennis Championships. In this way, the resignation of his former head coach Huang Haicheng may not necessarily be a bad thing. To say that in the current three major competitions, Sun Yingsha has not won any championship in singles. The 2020 World Cup women's singles final and this year's Tokyo Olympic women's singles final both lost to Chen Meng. After missing two consecutive world series singles champions, in the women's singles final of this year's National Games, she lost to Wang Manyu, so at present, Sun Yingsha has no outstanding results in singles.
To say that at present, Sun Yingsha is loved by outside fans, the biggest reason is that in foreign battles, especially against Japan's main player Ito Mimakoto, the record is very prominent. At present, Sun Yingsha is in the civil war, against Chen Meng and Wang Manyu are already in the ascendant, so the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships is crucial. This further highlights that if Li Falcon becomes the head coach of Sun Yingsha, for Sun Yingsha, it is really a blessing in disguise.