Ma Lin, head coach of the national table tennis women's team, recently said in an interview that the replacement of the old and the new will be completed after the National Championships, and a new cycle of the national table tennis women's team will be formed. This year's National Table Tennis Championships will be held from October 11th to October 19th, the fourth day after the conclusion of the Chinese Grand Slam. The main players of national table tennis will rush to Kazakhstan to participate in the Asian Championships from October 7 to October 13, and they will definitely miss the National Championships, but this also gives young players enough space to play. According to the regulations, the top eight men's singles and women's singles in the National Championships were directly selected for the national team.
Young players are trying to break into the national team, and some of the older "old players" in their 20s have to work hard to stay in the national team.
The performance of the national table tennis female players in the Chinese Grand Slam, after the first round of the women's singles main event, the second-tier players played "perfectly", and no one lost the "foreign war" in the main match. Just as Ma Lin was preparing to let the national team players "replace the old with the new", and the second-tier players broke out collectively, he must have been happy at this time.
In the World Table Tennis Federation China Grand Slam, the national table tennis sent a total of 18 female players to participate in the women's singles competition, including 10 in the main match and 8 in the qualifying round. In the end, 4 qualifiers broke into the main competition, and among the 4 people who missed the main competition, Ding Yijie lost to teammate Chen Yi, Yang Yiyun lost to teammate Liu Weishan, Li Yake lost to teammate Fan Siqi, and only Xu Yi lost to Zheng Xianxian 2-3 in the "foreign war".
The final 14 members of the national table tennis women's team qualified for the women's singles main event, and 11 people passed the first round, and the three people who were out of the first round were: Qian Tianyi lost to Liu Weishan 2-3, Wang Yidi lost to Fan Siqi 2-3, Shi Xunyao lost to Wang Manyu 1-3, all of them were out of the "civil war", and the first round of the national table tennis women's team remained undefeated in the first round of the "foreign war". Moreover, the four qualifiers Liu Weishan, Chen Yi, Fan Siqi and Wang Xiaotong all advanced to the top 32.
These second-tier players, although they can often only linger in low-level WTT events, can still perform well once they are given the opportunity to participate in the competition, and even the main players of national table tennis are pulled down by them.
In fact, this group of players was not very lucky, and almost missed the growth time of an Olympic cycle. The Tokyo Olympics will not be held until 2021, and it will be the "mask" lockdown period during the period, so it is difficult for young athletes to have the opportunity to go out to compete and train. Since the Paris Olympic cycle is only three years, the coaching staff can only use a more conservative approach, giving preference to experienced veterans to participate in the Paris Olympics. Of course, it turned out to be the right thing to do. The women's team list for the Paris Olympics is the same as that of the Tokyo Olympics, with Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu, who won the Olympic women's team championship for a second time.
After the Paris Olympics, the second-tier players of national table tennis began to participate intensively, and the women's team also exposed a lot of problems, and this group of young players was lost by Japan's Hashimoto Honoka and Yokoi Sakura in two consecutive WTT tournaments. can't beat Hashimoto Sailoka, it can be said that the ability to play against the "chipper" is not up to par; But the collective loss to Sakura Yokoi, who was only 20 years old and outside the top 50 in the world rankings, was somewhat disappointing to the fans at the time.
Fortunately, they proved themselves with their strength in the Chinese Grand Slam. Before the game, many people on the Internet thought that there were too many participants in national table tennis, for fear that we were too strong and no one would play table tennis with Chinese. But there are so many table tennis talents in national table tennis, if they are not given the opportunity to compete in international competitions, then there will only be fewer and fewer parents and children who choose table tennis in China in the future, because the chance of "rising" is slim. If Chinese lose interest in table tennis, it will be a "disaster" for table tennis.
Like the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup, and the Olympic Games, these competitions are based on associations and limit the number of participants, and it is understandable that non-main players of national table tennis cannot participate. However, WTT, as a professional table tennis league, should gradually break the restrictions of players' associations and give all players a fair chance to participate. Like tennis WTA and ATP, this is how it operates, and it will not be limited because there are too many players in a certain association, the more competitive and exciting the competition, the more discerning fans can be attracted, and the sport can continue to develop. I hope to see more young players of national table tennis in international competitions in the future......