Liu Shiwen made a comeback, and at the 2024 National Table Tennis Championships, the former national table tennis beauty ace partner Lin Gaoyuan played in the mixed doubles competition.
In the mixed doubles competition, Liu Shiwen and Lin Gaoyuan successfully advanced in two matches in one day. In the 16th of the finals, they defeated Chongqing Galaxy pair Yin Mengze/He Xiaoyu 4-1, and Liu Shiwen showed good form.
Liu Shiwen was once rumored to retire after the Tokyo Olympics, and even appeared in the 2022 retirement list of outstanding athletes at the Ersha Sports Training Center in Guangdong Province. In 2023, Liu Shiwen's points will be cleared by the ITTF due to expiration. At this time, Liu Shiwen already had another identity, she was the vice president of the Guangdong Table Tennis Association.
But it seems that Liu Shiwen still misses the arena and doesn't want to put up a photo. In this National Championships, 33-year-old Liu Shiwen completed her comeback, which was really a big surprise.
Liu Shiwen is quite regrettable to say, in 2019, she won the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. At that time, many people thought that she would become a single member of the national table tennis women's team and participate in the Olympic Games.
However, Sun Yingsha was born out of thin air and finally squeezed out Liu Shiwen, and Liu Shiwen missed the opportunity to complete the career Grand Slam, and she was only one step away from being sealed. Now, after completing her comeback, does she still have to impact this unfinished dream? In the case of Chen Meng's gradual fading out, Liu Shiwen may really have a chance in the future. Of course, age is her biggest challenge. On the first day of the competition, Liu Shiwen revealed that she had a nosebleed for three consecutive days, and it seemed that the years were unforgiving.