The International Table Tennis Federation announced the Olympic singles invitation list: Wang Manyu was automatically shortlisted, and Chen Meng was not on the list for the time being

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2024-06-19 12:19Posted in Hunan Sports Creators

The Paris Olympics are about to kick off in July, and the ITTF has announced the list of invitations to the singles event based on the world ranking on June 18. It is worth mentioning that the players on the list of the national table tennis women's team are Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, but Chen Meng in the list announced by the Table Tennis Association was not among them, which caused heated discussions among fans.

However, according to the rules, the final players still need to be confirmed by the associations before they are counted, and the invitation of the ITTF is just a process, which does not affect Chen Meng's final participation in the singles event, and Wang Manyu can only wait for the next competition in four years if he wants to participate in the event.

The selection of the national table tennis Paris Olympics has been kicked off since May last year, until the end of May this year, and finally Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng got the singles qualification, Ma Long, Wang Manyu participated in the team competition, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha will also take into account the mixed doubles.

In the above arrangement, the most controversial is the women's singles dispute between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, on the one hand, because Chen Meng's upper limit in the Paris cycle is not as good as Wang Manyu, and on the other hand, because the selection rules of women's singles have been revised once, and if it is according to the method before the modification, Wang Manyu may be on it, which has also made countless fans criticized.

For the ITTF, they can only be responsible for formulating the rules in the general direction, and cannot interfere in the internal affairs of the associations. According to the rules previously formulated, if the associations can get the singles qualification, then the default is the top-ranked player in the team to participate, and the reference basis is the world ranking on June 18, so the top two Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu in the national table tennis team will be automatically shortlisted.

As mentioned earlier, the final list of participants in the Olympic Games still has to be decided by the associations, and since the national table tennis has clearly announced that Chen Meng will participate in singles and Wang Manyu will not be selected, it will definitely not make changes according to the invitation of the International Table Tennis Federation.

A similar situation with the national table tennis has also appeared in other associations, such as our old rival Japan team has also announced the Olympic list before, among which the women's singles are Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, and Miwa Zhang Ben participated in the team competition, but in the world ranking on June 18, Miwa Zhang was higher than Miyu Hirano, so she also automatically received an invitation from the ITTF like Wang Manyu.

However, it is obvious that Zhang Benmeihe will not escape the fate of Wang Manyu, and will eventually be rejected by the national table tennis association for singles qualifications, and then the two can only wait for another four years to prepare for the singles competition of the Los Angeles Olympics.

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