Recently, Chen Xingtong has obtained a wild card for the women's singles of the upcoming Bangkok Star Challenge, especially during the long-term closed training period of the national table tennis, it is also a surprise for Chen Xingtong to get this opportunity to participate, and before the game, the two main players of Japanese women's table tennis Hina Hayada and Miyu Hirano decided to withdraw from the Bangkok Star Challenge, of which Hina Hayada only participated in one mixed doubles match.
The reason for the withdrawal of these two Japanese women's table tennis main players from the last event before the Paris Olympics is not difficult to see, is to not expose too many skills and tactics to the national table tennis and other competitors before the Olympic Games, and also to recuperate and better prepare for the Paris Olympics.
Hina Hayata, Miyu Hirano's retirement must have been for Chen Xingtong, relieving a lot of competitive pressure in the Bangkok Star Match, among which Hina Hayada is ranked higher than Chen Xingtong in the world, and has defeated Chen Meng and Wang Yidi, two national table tennis teammates, in the past year, but Chen Xingtong can't relax because of the withdrawal of the two main Japanese women's table tennis players.
Because there are still a lot of powerful foreign players participating in the Bangkok Star Challenge, including the second seed player in this competition, the world's seventh ranked Zhang Benmeihe, this year's Bangkok Star Challenge Zhang Benmeihe defeated Wang Yidi, which is the first time he has defeated the main force of Chinese women's table tennis, and it is also the biggest competitor of Chen Xingtong in the Bangkok Star Challenge.
There are also Morocco's Yang Xiaoxin, Germany's women's table tennis chipper Han Ying, and Romania's Szokos, all of whom defeated Chen Xingtong last year, so after Hina Hayada and Miu Hirano retired, Chen Xingtong was still under relatively much pressure from the competition in the Bangkok Star Challenge, so Chen Xingtong should still be very focused on dealing with the Bangkok Star Challenge.
The other main players of Chinese women's table tennis Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are still training to prepare for the Paris Olympics, this time Chen Xingtong is going to participate in the Bangkok Star Challenge alone, that is to say, Chen Xingtong has to shoulder the pressure brought by Zhang Benmei and many other foreign competitors, and the best choice for Chen Xingtong is definitely to win the women's singles championship of the Bangkok Star Challenge.
But Chen Xingtong doesn't need to put too much pressure on himself, if he can't win the Bangkok Star Challenge, it means that he will lose to a famous foreign player, but Chen Xingtong will not participate in any competition in the women's singles and team of this year's Olympic Games, and the coaching staff does not have too high requirements for themselves, so there is no need to participate in the Bangkok Star Challenge with the attitude of winning the championship.
Moreover, the world's No. 1 Sun Yingsha is also the only Chinese women's table tennis main player who participated in the Zagreb Challenge last year, but the result is surprising Sun Yingsha only won the women's singles runner-up, so Chen Xingtong does not need to set his goals too high and put too much pressure on himself, he should maintain the mentality of only going all out, and still maintain a high degree of concentration in the face of the retirement of Hina Hayada and Miyu Hirano, and will not give himself unnecessary psychological pressure, which is the best mentality to participate in the Bangkok Star Challenge.