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the national table tennis team lost three away games and regrettably lost the triple crown. wang hao and ma lin faced the challenges of reality.

2024-09-16

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on september 16, beijing time, the 2024 wtt feeder tournament panagyurishte came to an end. the chinese table tennis team lost three more foreign matches on the final day, and finally lost the championships in the men's singles, women's singles and women's doubles events, and won the men's doubles and mixed doubles championships. entering a new olympic cycle, the echelon construction of the chinese table tennis team faces a grim situation, and head coaches wang hao and ma lin have to face new challenges.

in the men's singles competition, two chinese table tennis players made it to the semifinals. in the semifinals, zeng beixun swept french player flavien cotton 3-0 and advanced to the men's singles final, while sun wen lost three games in a row after winning the first game and was eliminated by anders lind. in the final men's singles final, zeng beixun lost three games in a row and lost to anders lind 0-3, finishing second. in fact, zeng beixun played well, but he did lack competition experience, and anders lind participated in many high-level competitions, so it was expected that he would win the championship.

in the new olympic cycle, the national table tennis team is facing the problem of replacing the old with the new, that is, the echelon construction. at present, only lin shidong has the strength of a main player, and the other young players are far behind. considering that liang jingkun and lin gaoyuan are also relatively old, the chinese men's table tennis team will face huge challenges, which may also be unprecedented challenges for wang hao. ma lin, the head coach of the women's team, of course, also faces these problems, but sun yingsha and wang manyu are still young, and wang yidi, chen xingtong, and chen meng are older, but in good shape. it's just that the women's team does not have a young player like lin shidong who makes people shine, and the pressure in the future is actually very high.

take the young players participating in the women's singles as an example. in low-level events this season, it is always difficult for young chinese table tennis players to beat japanese choppers. this is already a prominent problem. if they cannot beat japanese choppers, it will be difficult for young chinese table tennis players to win in low-level events. if they cannot win, it will be difficult to boost their self-confidence. in the women's singles competition of this station, only han fei'er made it to the semi-finals, but she lost to oto satsuki 1-3 and missed the final. the women's singles final was ultimately a japanese derby, and oto satsuki defeated hashimoto honoka 3-1 to win the championship again.

in the three doubles events, china won two championships. in the men's doubles final, sun wen/xu haidong defeated zeng beixun/zhou kai 3-1 to win the championship. in the mixed doubles final, xue fei/han fei'er defeated the chinese taipei combination zhang youan/zheng puxuan 3-1 to win the mixed doubles championship. in the women's doubles, china missed the final, and the japanese players finally met in the final. hashimoto honoka/sato hitomi swept oto satsuki/yokoi sakura 3-0, and the chopper combination won again.

in this tournament, the chinese table tennis team won two championships and two runner-ups, while the japanese team also won two championships and two runner-ups. the chinese table tennis team does not have a clear advantage, especially the young women's singles players have lost to japanese players many times. ma lin needs to solve the problem of playing against players with special playing styles. in fact, our main players have a hard time playing against choppers, and many choppers of the japanese team are quite strong, which is also a potential challenge!