Friends who are concerned about the table tennis world know that in recent times, Chinese table tennis team’s world No.1 Olympic star Wang Chuqin is not in good shape, and has lost several times in foreign battles, which makes many fans feel sorry; in addition, due to the table tennis circle culture, Wang Chuqin, who has many fans, has often been pushed to the public opinion of the wind and waves.
As the saying goes, ‘if you want to wear a crown, you have to bear its weight’, it is understandable that fans have higher demands on Wang Chuqin and criticise his performance, but some of the criticisms themselves are out of the realm of ‘seeking truth from facts’, such as a rumour that appeared on the internet recently, claiming that Wang is the ‘only one who didn’t have a chance to win in three major tournaments’. ‘the only world No.1 who has not won any singles titles in the three tournaments’.
Note: The three major table tennis tournaments are the Olympics, the World Championships and the World Cup, which are also commonly known as the ‘World Championships’, so the above point of view is sometimes equated to ‘Wang Chuqin is the only world No. 1 who has never won a singles world championship’.
However, if we look back at history, we can see that this viewpoint is obviously wrong.
Firstly, there have been table tennis players who were ranked No.1 in the world but never won a singles title until they retired.
The first one is Wang Tao, the former Chinese table tennis team mainstay, who was ranked No.1 in the world in 1995 but has never won a singles title in his career, including silver medals in the Olympics and World Cup, and bronze medals in the World Championships, although he has won world titles in both team and doubles.
The second is the former Belgian champion Seve, who was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1994, but the singles world championships results are more inferior than Wang Tao, the Olympic Games did not enter the quarter-finals, the World Championships, the World Cup were stopped in the runner-up.
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Secondly, some famous players did not win the singles world championship when they were ranked No. 1 in the world for the first time.
The most typical example is Ma Long, the player with the most Olympic gold medals and world titles in table tennis history, who was ranked No. 1 in the world for the first time in 2010, and won his first three major singles titles in the 2012 World Cup, and then it took more than two years for him to win the singles gold medal again at the World Championships.
Wang Liqin, for example, was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2000, but he couldn’t even qualify for the Sydney Olympics in singles, which was unbelievable to some foreign media; and it wasn’t until 2001 that Wang Liqin finally won the singles gold medal at the World Championships.
In addition, Wang Hao was briefly ranked World No. 1 in 2004, and the first time he was crowned the Trials singles champion was in the 2007 World Cup.
As for Xu Xin, he was ranked world No. 1 in January 2013, but only won the World Cup singles title in October that year.
There are similar examples from abroad, such as French star Gatting who was ranked world No. 1 in 1992, but didn’t bravely win the World Championships singles title until 1993.
To sum up, for Wang Chuchin’s current ranking and achievements, it is necessary to evaluate objectively.
There is no denying that Wang Chuchin’s recent state is very poor, no matter what the reason is, losing is objective, but can not be denied his past achievements – the world ranking position is not casually can get, Wang Chuchin if you do not have to achieve more good results in international competitions, how can stand out in the many famous players, high in the top of the table! But at the same time, we also have to see.
But at the same time we also have to see, Wang Chuqin’s current singles world championship results are really not ideal, after all, in the previous eighteen men’s world ranking in the first athlete, only two people did not take the three major singles championship, that is, the aforementioned Wang Tao, Sefo.
And on the current Wang Chuqin in the singles world championships in the results, he should be less than Wang Tao (World Championships silver stronger than Wang Tao bronze, but the Olympic Games thirty-two far worse than the other side to get the runner-up, the World Cup has not been into the final, not as good as the runner-up Wang Tao), than the Sefo also has no advantage (the other side is the World Championships runner-up, and in addition to the World Cup also played into the final).
However, we can not ignore another thing, that is – Wang Tao, Sefo has long been retired for many years, and Wang Chuqin is currently only 24 years old, is in the prime of life, so there are unlimited possibilities for the future, and now he may also be like 2010 when Malone is still in the hibernation period, who can guarantee that the future will not explode it?
Of course, what will happen in the future we can not predict, at least what has happened in the past is objective, we do not have to be overly elevated to tout, of course, should not ignore the facts of the disparagement, on the facts, seek truth from facts to be objective and rational discussion.
