Fan Zhendong needed only 31 minutes to defeat the host France teenager Lebrun to advance to the final. Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng defeated their respective opponents 4-0 respectively to achieve the meeting.
When Wang Chuqin, who accidentally lost the main board, was out of the game, people were worried, but suddenly it seemed that the national table tennis was still so strong.
Japan's "first sister" Hina Hayada has lost 16 consecutive games against Sun Yingsha, and she burst into tears after the match, "I feel like I have reached the limit of what I can." In the hearts of foreign athletes, Chinese athletes are still an insurmountable wall.
Earlier, singer Su Xing posted on social media, saying that he went to the table tennis arena to watch "a few games without suspense". Of course, he has no malicious intent, but as a public figure, this expression may seem too frivolous, which has caused a lot of criticism from netizens.
He had to record a video to apologize, "The words 'no pressure' easily erased the athlete's four years of dedication, and it was my inappropriate words and inappropriate expressions......"
What kind of casual success? The reason why national table tennis has been able to stand at the top for decades, no matter how the rules change, and always occupy a leading position is because of the hard work of generations of national table tennis players, coaching teams, logistics support and scientific research teams.
Lebrun is ranked fifth in the world, but he has no chance under Fan Zhendong because the national table tennis team has studied him thoroughly. Similarly, the mixed doubles final of North Korea's "Mysterious Division" did not have much chance in front of the "Shatou" combination.
Zhang Chao, the world champion of table tennis and the coach of the Guangdong provincial team, told reporters that before the Olympic Games, the "devil" was closed, and the team members practiced three times a day, and key athletes like Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha even practiced four times a day. The intense training day in and day out puts athletes under tremendous stress both physically and mentally.
After the end of the training, Fan Zhendong lost weight significantly, and in the training feature film broadcast by CCTV, Sun Yingsha cried rarely.
But it is these hardships that have been endured have been exchanged for the sweetness of the Olympics. After defeating Tomokazu Zhang in a hard battle, Fan Zhendong may have really found the feeling of "being at the top".
Winning hardware is the goal of the national table tennis Olympic Games. I wish the national table tennis success, they deserve it.
Southern + reporter Zhu Xiaolong
Photo courtesy of Xinhua News Agency
【Author】 Zhu Xiaolong
[Source] Southern Press Media Group Southern + client