The Houston World Table Tennis Championships is about to start, and the national table tennis has announced the list of athletes participating in the competition, of which Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Liu Shiwen are not among them. Although the three are all over 30 years old, they have shown great strength in the Tokyo Olympic Games and the National Games, so they are definitely capable of participating in the World Table Tennis Championships, and their absence makes fans wonder, and the national table tennis leaders Li Falcon and Qin Zhijian responded to this matter.
Qin Zhijian said that Ma Long and Xu Xin voluntarily gave up the quota for the World Table Tennis Championships because of some adjustments. At the same time, Qin Zhijian also said that the competitive level of Ma Long and Xu Xin is still the world's top, they choose not to participate, and the national table tennis side expressed understanding and will not force it. Li Falcon's side directly expressed the attitude of hoping that more young people would fight.
He said that at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the replacement of the old and the new has basically been completed, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu will take over the banner of women's table tennis, and the national table tennis needs to form a new competitive group for the Paris Olympic Games. Veterans like Liu Shiwen do not participate in fact, the significance is not too big, and Liu Shiwen herself has injuries, and it is not a bad thing not to participate. Although the two team leaders are not the same, from the overall situation, the national table tennis team has completed another replacement of new and old.
Veterans Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have gradually withdrawn, while younger players such as Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi will get more opportunities. This phenomenon is actually very common in the national table tennis team, the replacement of new and old occurs almost every year, there are constantly new athletes entering the national team, and there are constantly veterans leaving. In the Chinese table tennis industry, it is difficult to have evergreen trees, and it is precisely because of this that national table tennis can always maintain the world's top level for decades.