The table tennis spot for the Paris Olympics has been released, and Ni Xialian, the former national table tennis world champion and current Luxembourg main player who has reached the age of 61, is expected to play against 23-year-old junior Sun Yingsha in the second round, for which she did not feel unlucky, but said:
"If I can meet Sun Yingsha, it will be my honor, she is the best player, the best in the world, and I can have such a blessing to learn from her, what a great opportunity!"
Although she is over sixty years old, Ni Xialian has always been passionate about the competition, and I look forward to her being able to fight Sun Yingsha as she wishes!
Ni Xialian, born in 1963, was the main force of national table tennis in the 80s of the last century, and was already a women's team and mixed doubles world champion at the age of 19, and later went abroad to develop, constantly representing the Luxembourg team to win gold medals in European competitions.
Although she is very old, Ni Xialian's strength is not bad, in recent years, she has been fighting all kinds of famous players with solid basic skills and rare straight shooting long rubber play, and has defeated Wang Yidi, Du Kaiqin, Tian Zhixi and others in the Paris Olympic cycle, and also defeated the national table tennis hope star Kuo Man at the beginning of this year, which is an opponent that no one dares to underestimate.
Ni Xialian only participated in the women's singles event at this Olympic Games, and she commented that her signing position was "neither good nor bad, it should be said that she was satisfied" - according to the arrangement, Ni Xialian will face Turkey's Altinkaya in the first round, if she can win, the opponent in the second round will be between Sun Yingsha, the number one main force in national table tennis, and Juliet, a Brazil athlete, obviously the former is more likely to advance.
Although Ni Xialian is not old, it is still difficult to defeat Sun Yingsha, who is currently ranked No. 1 in the world, so it is generally believed that Ni Xialian is likely to end the fight in the second round and stop in the top 32 of the women's singles.
Usually athletes from foreign associations prefer to meet the main force of national table tennis as soon as possible, but unexpectedly, Ni Xialian is full of expectations for a possible showdown with Sun Yingsha, and even said that she wants to learn from this junior who is 38 years younger than herself, and fans are also very much looking forward to seeing a new table tennis "grandfather and grandson war" begin.
Judging from the ball path, Sun Yingsha has an absolute advantage over Ni Xialian, as long as she is not disrupted by the opponent's spin, there is a high probability that she can easily win it - of course, this is based on the fact that both of them can win the first round of the game, otherwise everything is not discussed.
Then I wish both world champions a smooth progression, and then a showdown at the Olympics!