A few days ago, the Japan Table Tennis Association held a selection tournament for the singles qualification of the Hangzhou Asian Games, and in the end, the veteran of the men's team, Makoto Yoshikawa, and the women's team Hirano Miyu won the singles qualification for the Asian Games.
However, the number one main force of Japanese women's table tennis, Ito Mimachi, lost to 17-year-old Miyu Kihara in the semifinals and lost the singles competition at this year's Asian Games.
Such a result, to be honest, is a bit unexpected.
After all, the current Ito Mimachi is the most powerful player in Japanese women's table tennis, and also the most experienced and best-achieving player in the Japanese women's table tennis competition, but he lost the singles competition at the Asian Games.
After the news came out, many Chinese fans also talked about this, and some fans pointed out that the japanese side of the selection is very fair, you can stand out in the selection match, and the singles qualification is also based on strength, since the selection game lost, Ito Mimachi did not have the opportunity to play singles in the Asian Games.
However, some fans pointed out that Ito Mimachi did not qualify for the Asian Games singles, and there is no doubt that the competitiveness of Japanese women's table tennis in the Asian Games singles has dropped a lot, which is very unreasonable.
Ito's failure to singles at the Asian Games does give us a thought, that is, is this kind of selection really fair? Is it really reasonable? Can we fully copy this Japanese selection rule?
Let's first look at the selection rules of national table tennis in the Asian Games.
Regarding singles, the national table tennis stipulates that athletes who win the Singapore Grand Slam men's and women's singles will qualify for the Asian Games, and the remaining singles qualification will be the highest ranked player in the world, and if the world's highest ranked player and the Singapore Grand Slam coincide, it will be extended.
In this way, Ma Long and Sun Yingsha qualified for the Asian Games in singles.
Many fans believe that this is simply to guarantee Ma Long and Sun Yingsha to qualify for the Asian Games.
Because before the Singapore Grand Slam, according to the points of Sun Yingsha and Ma Long at that time, even if the two of them could not win the Singapore Grand Slam, their world ranking would at least stabilize in the second place in the world.
In other words, whether Ma Long and Sun Yingsha can win the championship or not, they can qualify for the Asian Games singles competition.
Why can't we copy Japan's selection rules and hold another selection tournament after the Singapore Grand Slam tournament has established a singles spot for each man and a woman?
In fact, not only the Asian Games, but even the qualifications of the previous World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis will not completely determine the quota through the selection competition.
In the past World Table Tennis Championships qualifications, although the national table tennis will hold a direct selection competition to the World Table Tennis Championships before the World Table Tennis Championships, only one or up to two players are often selected, and the remaining qualifications are still comprehensively evaluated by the coaching team.
The main purpose of our doing this is to avoid some excellent athletes, because a selection competition did not play well, and missed the opportunity to participate in the World Series, which fundamentally guaranteed the opportunity for the absolute main players to participate.
If all of our qualifications for the contest are generated by the selection competition, for some athletes who are experts in the civil war, it is possible to qualify for the competition through the selection competition, so that some absolute main players are not selected.
And these athletes who are experts in the civil war, often in some international competitions, it is difficult to play their due strength in the face of foreign association players, and even encounter a round of travel. Like zhou qihao and Lin Gaoyuan in men's table tennis, the civil war is fierce like a tiger, but the foreign war is a soft-footed shrimp. Is such a player really suitable for participating in international competitions?
Therefore, our selection method not only ensures the selection of excellent players, but also ensures the qualification of the absolute main force, which is the guarantee that we can achieve good results in the international arena.
And Japan's selection rules, to a certain extent, are indeed very fair, but they are not reasonable enough!
Like the selection of this Asian Games, the selection of Hirano Miyu and Hayata Hina, are they really stronger than Ito Mimachi?
In the competition within the Japanese team, there may not be much difference between the two and Ito, but in the international arena, when facing the players of the foreign association, the two are still obviously inferior to Ito!
Why is the selection method of the Japanese team more fair, while the selection method of the Chinese team is more reasonable?
This is also different from the system of the two associations. The Chinese team pays more attention to group combat, the sense of teamwork is relatively strong, and everything must start from the overall situation.
The Japanese training model is more about highlighting individuals, and as for what kind of achievements can be achieved in external competitions, it is only related to individuals and has little to do with groups.
This is also the main reason why the two associations differ in their selection rules.
Of course, whether fairness is important or rationality is important, that is, the benevolent see the wise!
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