Embarrassed, the International Table Tennis Federation sent Wang Manyu an invitation to the Olympic singles, but the national table tennis Olympic women's singles are Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng

Dust Whisperer

2024-06-19 21:45Posted in Hunan

I have to say that the news sent by the International Table Tennis Federation a few days ago to invite national table tennis player Wang Manyu to participate in the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics is really embarrassing.

At present, with the Paris Olympics approaching, the national table tennis is actively preparing for the quadrennial Olympic Games. There is no doubt that the goal of national table tennis is to win all the table tennis gold medals at the Paris Olympics. The national table tennis also announced the list of athletes participating in various competitions in the Paris Olympics not long ago. Among them, the competition for the Olympic women's singles is naturally the most concerned. In the end, in addition to Sun Yingsha, who occupied a place early, the Tokyo Olympics women's singles champion Chen Meng beat Wang Manyu to win another Olympic women's singles quota.

Originally, this matter subsided with the approach of the Paris Olympics, but unexpectedly, at this time, the International Table Tennis Federation sent Wang Manyu an invitation to participate in the women's singles competition of the Paris Olympics. So, why did the ITTF issue such an invitation at this time? Reason. Recently, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) announced the world rankings for the 25th week of 2024. In this ranking, Sun Yingsha unsurprisingly ranked first again, with 8,200 points, far ahead. After Sun Yingsha, there is Wang Manyu, another main player in national table tennis, who has 6,315 points and ranks second in the world. In third place is Wang Yidi with 5,410 points, while in fourth place is another Olympic women's singles participant, Chen Meng, with 5,360 points.

After the latest world rankings came out, the ITTF will, in accordance with the usual practice, automatically shortlist the top two players in the world rankings of each table tennis association into the Olympic singles and send them invitations. In this way, Wang Manyu, ranked second in the world, received an invitation to the Olympic singles issued by the International Table Tennis Federation, while Chen Meng, ranked fourth in the world, did not appear in the invitation list.

Then, fans who support and like Wang Manyu have rekindled the idea of Wang Manyu participating in the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics. So, does this invitation from the ITTF count? The answer is that it doesn't count, because it's just a process. Back before the 2016 Rio Olympics, Liu Shiwen, who was ranked No. 1 in the world at the time, also received an invitation from the International Table Tennis Federation to participate in the Olympic singles. However, the players who finally represented the national table tennis were not Liu Shiwen, but Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia. Therefore, who can make the Olympic singles is not up to the ITTF, nor is it the world rankings that have the final say, but the rules set by the associations themselves.

In order to be able to select the best players to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, the national table tennis has formulated Olympic points rules in the Paris Olympic cycle, and the final list of participants is determined according to the level of Olympic points. Before the Saudi Grand Slam, Wang Manyu had an advantage in the competition for Olympic women's singles qualification, but due to an unexpected loss to an Indian player in the Saudi Grand Slam, the original Olympic points advantage fell behind Chen Meng after being deducted 3,000 points. And it just so happened that Chen Meng performed very well in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, so Chen Meng was going to surpass Wang Manyu in terms of points, and soon after this event, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the women's singles candidates Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng for the Paris Olympics according to this Olympic point. Therefore, the list of participants has been announced, and even if Wang Manyu is currently ranked second in the world, there is no way to get the women's singles competition to participate in the Paris Olympics. What do you think about this, fans?

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