So in this year, in fact, the national table tennis competitions are played a lot. In just a few months, the national table tennis experienced the Tokyo Olympic Games, experienced the National Games and the Table Tennis Super League, domestic and foreign competitions, and after this time of many events of the competition experience, I believe that the majority of national table tennis fans have realized a very profound problem, that is, the fist is afraid of less strong, want to maintain the competitiveness of the national ball, young players are the best foundation.
In the Tokyo cycle, we saw Liu Shiwen suffer the impact of young player Ito Mimakoto and lose the mixed doubles gold medal. After returning to China, the National Games and the Table Tennis Super League were also young players who had the upper hand, and Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha stood on the final stage for the final competition. Therefore, it has been proved that if the national table tennis team wants to win all the time, it must maintain the vitality of the team, and it must give the young players more opportunities and put the goal on the long-term road. Therefore, in the selection of the World Table Tennis Championships list, everyone saw that Liu Guoliang rarely gave up three veterans, and even Ma Long did not have the opportunity to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, which is to pin all his hopes on the young players and entrust the responsibility to them to take responsibility. Then in fact, through the selection of the list of the World Table Tennis Championships, we can also see more, after the national table tennis has set the general direction of cultivating new talents, more efforts will be made in the youth team, looking for more young players to join the core team of national table tennis, reserve more follow-up forces, in case for the next five years or even ten years, the national table tennis is still at an absolute front-line level, and will not be shaken by the tiger's gaze of Japan and South Korea. This is also what Liu Guoliang, as the leader of the national table tennis, must insist on doing.
Recently, in fact, the harvest of national table tennis in the youth team is not small. Not long ago, in Weihai, Shandong, the 2021 National Youth Table Tennis Championships were held, which is the selection of young teams by national table tennis. Moreover, in order to motivate young players to play, the national table tennis clearly stipulates before the start of the competition that the top two singles in the championship can be directly promoted to the national second team, and the top eight players can participate in the training of the 2022 National Excellent Youth Training Camp. So this is more motivating for young players to play in the competition. The tournament officially came to an end on October 17, so the singles events that received the most attention were won by Xiang Peng of the men's team and Ku Man of the women's team, and the two players won the final championship. In order to maximize the recognition of the comeback of the athletes, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the national table tennis team, also flew to Weihai personally during the team training and gave the two players an award ceremony on the spot. Then it can be seen from here that Liu Guoliang is full of appreciation for these hard-working young players. I have also been practicing in a personal way to motivate the team members to persevere. And it is Liu Guoliang's way of sowing seeds that allows the national table tennis to win the harvest and there will be more excellent players.
Then it is particularly worth mentioning the women's team's Kuman, the 17-year-old who will definitely be vigorously trained by the national table tennis in the future. Then as a left-handed player, Ku man's playing style is the left-handed cross-board two-sided anti-glue play, which will be very scarce within the national table tennis, and her playing style is also quite tricky, making it difficult for opponents to adapt. So some time ago, in fact, in the Table Tennis Super League, Ku Man once beat Chen Meng 3-2, when many fans said that Ku Man was relying on luck, but now it seems that he can stand out among many young players and win the final championship, and Ku Man's strength is definitely not to be underestimated. And being able to beat the Olympic champion in the Table Tennis Super League proves that this young player is not afraid of the field, has the style of a big general, and dares to attack opponents. This is a very rare potential among young players in the national table tennis team. Therefore, after winning the championship in this Youth Championship, Kuman has come to the key list of national table tennis, and will become an important player in the future to continue to maintain the hegemony of national table tennis and snipe Japan and South Korea. I have to say that for Liu Guoliang, this is very good news. I also hope that Kuman will continue to work hard to represent the Chinese team on the highest stage in the future and continue the fighting spirit of national table tennis.