The two women's singles games of the WTT Singapore Grand Slam can be described as fierce competition, both playing until 7 sets to decide the winner, and finally Chen Meng and Wang Manyu defeated Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha respectively to successfully meet the final. The victory of Chen Meng and Wang Manyu has also made the competition for the national table tennis women's singles in the Asian Games more intense. According to the selection rules of national table tennis, Chen Meng has already seized the opportunity, even if she can't win the championship, she also has the opportunity to use the world ranking to surpass Sun Yingsha to qualify for singles. And Wang Manyu's points are more distant from Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, only to win the championship, Sun Yingsha may be squeezed out of the Asian Games women's singles list.
National table tennis can only have 2 people to participate in the Asian Games women's singles competition, so from the beginning it is doomed that Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu will inevitably have a frustrated person. The selection rule of the national table tennis is that the women's singles champion of this competition directly receives one Asian Games singles place, while the remaining place is won by the highest-ranked national table tennis player in week 14. If the two are the same person, it is won by the world's second-highest-ranked national table tennis player. According to this rule, one of Wang Manyu and Chen Meng must be able to participate in the Asian Games singles match, while Sun Yingsha may be squeezed out.
Although Sun Yingsha is ranked first in the world, the point gap between her and Chen Meng is less than 400 points. The women's singles champion had 2,000 points, the runner-up was 1,400 points, and the third place had 700 points. This also means that whether Chen Meng wins the championship or the runner-up, she can erase the point gap between her and Sun Yingsha, so as to return to the world's first position again. The point gap between Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng is relatively large, even if she wins the championship, she cannot surpass these two. But such a situation is enough to make a big change in the situation.
If Chen Meng wins the championship, then Chen Meng will return to the world number one at the same time as getting the singles quota of the Asian Games, and according to the rules of national table tennis, Sun Yingsha, who ranks second in the world, will get another singles quota at the Asian Games. If Wang Manyu wins the championship, then Wang Manyu directly participates in the Asian Games singles, but at the same time Chen Meng can still return to the world first, Chen Meng can squeeze out Sun Yingsha with the world's highest ranking advantage and get the Asian Games singles qualification. So in this case, Chen Meng is almost certain that he will get a singles spot, and the remaining suspense lies in whether it is Sun Yingsha or Wang Manyu who will get the remaining place.
This is the fierce competition of the national table tennis women's team, which is too inward-looking. Even if Sun Yingsha was still ranked first in the world before the start of the tournament, she may still fail to qualify for the Asian Games women's singles. Of course, Sun Yingsha has no problem getting the opportunity to participate in the Asian Games, even if she does not participate in singles competitions, she will be the absolute main force of women's doubles, team and mixed doubles. In fact, this competition is also a preview of the Olympic Games two years later, after all, the Olympic singles also has only 2 places, and there will be a fierce competition between Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, of course, plus Wang Yidi.
For Liu Guoliang, Li Falcon, and Ma Lin, facing such a choice can be said to be a happy annoyance. This reflects the strength of the overall strength of national table tennis, but at the same time it makes people feel cruel. In the history of national table tennis, there have been many cruel selections before the competition, and it is precisely because of this competition system that no matter who wins from the competition in the end, they can play well in the competition.