Since the Asian Championships, Wang Chuqin has stopped in the top 8, all the women's singles have missed the top 4, and the women's doubles and men's doubles have been out one after another. At present, the national table tennis team is only left with Lin Shidong, a lone seedling, if he also loses, the Chinese team can go home directly.
Fortunately, he saved the face of the national table tennis team. In the semi-finals, he shaved his opponent's head to avoid the championship and runner-up being taken by Japan, and his opponent in the final was "China's fierce rival" Tomokazu Zhangmoto.
Lin Shidong's national table tennis "last hope"
Lin Shidong and his opponent in the semifinals, Shinozuka Daito, one is the "future successor" of the national table tennis team, and the other is the "genius boy" in Japan's mouth, representing the next Sino-Japanese table tennis level.
In terms of strength alone, Lin Shidong is better, but this time Lin Shidong is under a lot of pressure, and the chances of winning the men's table tennis championship after Ma Long Fan Zhendong retires are small.
Last night, the main Wang Chuqin also lost 1-3 to the Korea youngster, Liang Jingkun did not even enter the round of 16, was beaten 3-0 by the opponent, and the dark horse Xiang Peng was also shaved bald.
As a result, the men's team was left with only Lin Shidong, and the women's team was also wiped out. Yesterday, the national table tennis lost 10 foreign battles in one day, setting the worst record of the national table tennis in the Asian Championships in nearly 50 years.
Lin Shidong has also changed from the only seedling of the men's team to the last hope of the national table tennis team, plus he has not stopped competing since the Macau competition, 3 Grand Slams, 4 this time, and his physical strength is not as good as before, so the pressure he and the national table tennis are facing in this game can be imagined.
Lin Shidong VS Shinozuka Daito
The first game of the two was a little boring, and the state could not be improved for a long time, but Lin Shidong took the lead in adjusting the state, and continued to score points after a few holds, Shinozuka Daden chased after him, and finally Lin Shidong took the lead in winning the first game 12-10.
In the second game, the two sides played very closely, and there were many multi-shot holds, Shinozuka Daden's connection speed was faster, and Lin Shidong resisted the pressure and held 100% of the multi-shots, scoring one after another. The two sides chased after me, the score was very tight, you scored one point, I scored one point, and once it was tied at 15, and the audience's hearts also rose to their throats.
Fortunately, Lin Shidong was not afraid of danger and had a strong ability to adapt on the spot, winning another game 18-16 and leading the score advantage to 2:0. In the third game, Shinozuka Daden's mentality obviously collapsed, and his style of play was a bit self-defeating, he only scored one point in the first nine goals, and Lin Shidong successfully advanced to the final 11-2.
This Asian Championships is an international competition for others, and for Lin Shidong, it is a simple "anti-Japanese competition". In the quarter-finals of the previous round, he met Japan's Hayasuke Togami, winning 3-1 to advance to the semi-finals.
In the semifinals, he met Shinozuka Daiden again, and finally swept the opponent 3-0, but the final had to face Japan's absolute main force Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and it was another hard battle.
Lin Shidong is expected to become the future national table tennis master C
As a rookie who only emerged in 23 years, his record this year is amazing. On September 9, he won the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles championships in the WTT regular challenger, becoming the youngest triple crown winner in the history of the challenger.
On September 15, the Macau tournament defeated a group of masters to win the men's singles championship. A few days ago, one person won three Grand Slams, and finally won two championships and one runner-up. In addition to missing the final of the men's doubles, the men's team and mixed doubles won the championship, and the men's singles also successfully entered the top 4.
In the past month or so, he has achieved four consecutive world championships, and if he can win the men's singles this time, he can become the "triple crown" of the Asian Championships.
More important than winning the championship is that he was ordered to save the national table tennis from fire and water this time, just like Sun Yingsha back then.
If he can defeat Tomokazu Zhang and win the championship, he will definitely focus on cultivating him in the next season, and he also has great hopes to participate in the Los Angeles Olympics in 4 years, and even become the absolute main force of the national table tennis team in the future.
The national table tennis team created the "most vegetable record"
In the 23 years of the Pyeongchang Asian Championships, the national table tennis team won 7 championships in 7 events, and in the 19 years of the Yogyakarta Asian Championships, they also won 7 championships (they did not participate in 21 years), and the worst of the previous games was 6 championships.
If Lin Shidong wins the championship, then the national table tennis team will end this Asian Championships journey with 3 crowns. The last time the national table tennis only won 3 championships, it was in 1976 when Chinese table tennis was just developing.
If it fails to win the championship, the national table tennis will end with 2 crowns, and the last time the national table tennis only won 2 championships was 50 years ago in 1974.
Therefore, whether it is 2 gold or 3 gold, the national table tennis has set the "best record" in the past 50 years, and the quality of the Asian Championships this time is the "shame" of the national table tennis team.
The most important reason for this defeat is that the athletes have to play three or four times on the premise of continuous rotation, and they have tried their best not to apologize to anyone, so the biggest pot is here in the "coaching staff".
Ma Lin became "the people's desire" after class?
In the past 20 years of large-scale competitions, if the Chinese team loses a gold, then the coach of the project will be "forced to step down". For example, the women's team lost in the 02 Asian Games, and coach Li Xiaodong got out of class; In 05, the women's team lost in the Asian Championships, and head coach Lu Yuansheng stepped down, and after the loss of the World Table Tennis Championships in 10, head coach Shi Zhihao left class.
This year's Asian Championships is the fourth defeat of the women's team in the 21st century of national table tennis, in addition to the women's singles and women's doubles, they also lost, and even did not break into the semifinals.
This competition also exposed a problem, the construction of the young echelon of the women's team is completely empty, which is not responsible for Ma Lin, the head coach, who is responsible?
Originally, women's table tennis was more stable than men's table tennis, but under his coaching, the women's table tennis team, which lacked the three main forces, was crumbling, but the originally crumbling men's team became more and more stable.
At last night's award ceremony, coaches from India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and even the men's national table tennis team all appeared to take photos with the players, except for the head coach of the women's team, Ma Lin, who was absent.
When the women's team won the silver medal, he disappeared, but when the gold medal was held, he stood in the C position with a smile and held the trophy.
As the head coach of the women's team, if he can't win and lose with the players, then what's the point of such a coach?
Ma Long and Fan Zhendong's withdrawal caused controversy
Although the men's team still has Lin Shidong, the only seedling, there is no shortage of controversy. The biggest controversy is the withdrawal of Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, who were questioned by fans as making way for newcomers.
Ma Long won the men's singles triple championship in 09, 11 and 13, and returned to the Asian Championships after ten years to win the championship in one fell swoop, and was the four-time singles champion of the Asian Championships.
Fan Zhendong came out of nowhere in 15 years, and won four championships in men's singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles, and team.
In the end, he became the youngest singles in the world, the youngest men's singles champion in history, and the youngest quadruple champion.
But the two main players of the men's team, there are almost no games after the Olympics, and Fan Zhendong has withdrawn from 7 competitions, including the Asian Championships and the Chengdu Mixed Team.
Originally, fans suspected that Fan Zhendong didn't want to participate, but the national table tennis team didn't give him a place to participate, and now that the Asian Championships have achieved such poor results, the fans are even more unhappy.
After this Asian Championship, fans have a total of three demands. First, the Table Tennis Association was nationalized; the second is that Ma Lin stepped down and replaced the new coach; The third is not to let Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Chen Meng and other main players withdraw from the competition for no reason.
So, what do you think of the national table tennis trip to the Asian Championships?