Nowadays, the loss of a large number of national table tennis talents overseas has become a reality, and many times in the first half of the year, many table tennis open tournaments can be seen in the previous duels between national table tennis players and former teammates. Because they have been unable to catch up with the national table tennis team with their own strength and efforts, they have found another way to poach players who cannot perform from the national table tennis, and now a former female national table tennis player has changed her name and nationality to join other countries' teams, and has qualified for the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.
Just yesterday, the South Korean table tennis team officially announced the list of players in the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, and in the list released, a new name kim Ha-young appeared, and it was later confirmed that she was the former national table tennis player Li Yiran, the 24-year-old Li Yiran is the same level as Wang Yidi and Chen Xing, who once represented the national table tennis team in the international arena to defeat the Japanese famous Ito Mimako, but with the rapid growth of young players such as Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, Li Yiran's status and sense of existence in the national table tennis are getting lower and lower. Li Yiran, who basically could not qualify for the competition and did not want to waste her career, chose to go overseas to join the Korean table tennis team, and with her outstanding performance, she qualified for the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, which she could not enjoy in the national table tennis.
If you want to represent other countries in international competitions, you need to give up your nationality to join that country, and Lee Yiran officially changed his name to Kim Ha-young after joining the South Korean team. Of course, playing overseas has disadvantages in the end, that is, even if you have good skills, there is no sense of belonging, and many times you will be treated differently, but for these second- and third-tier players who do not get the opportunity to perform in the national table tennis team, they can get the qualification for the big competition relatively easily overseas, and this trade-off still depends on personal choice.
Today, national table tennis players are also actively preparing for the Asian Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, and due to the impact of the international epidemic, national table tennis has withdrawn from the next several open tournaments. As the big brother in the table tennis project, the strength of national table tennis is still unshakable, of course, we must also face the international players who are constantly catching up behind, and only by catching up with each other can we make progress together.