Recently, Chinese table tennis team Chen Meng was interviewed and talked about many Olympic Games-related topics, and when she talked about her singles qualification she was even more emotional, saying bluntly:
“is a very big surprise, in fact, I did not expect, in the last minute or did not give up”.
In fact not only Chen Meng, I believe many people did not expect her to be able to turn the tables in an extremely unfavourable situation, the difficulty is indeed very great – below let us pull back the time to the eve of the WTT Smash in May this year, review the severe situation Chen Meng faced at that time, as well as how she was “How she succeeded in her quest for survival!
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On 1 May 2024, the table tennis WTT Smash kicked off, and for Chen Meng, at that time, she had already been judged by many fans in advance to have fallen out of the Olympic singles, mainly from two reasons.
First of all, the Chinese table tennis team’s Olympic women’s singles selection has promulgated two rules, if in accordance with the first approach, Chen Meng has been because the points behind Wang Manyu and no chance to be selected, but because there is a second rule amendment, the selection of the examination time has been postponed to the WTT Saudi Smash later, so Chen Meng was able to continue to move forward, to compete for the qualification.
But even so, with the Olympic selection points of the Chinese table tennis team players at that time, Chen Meng dreamed of catching up with Wang Manyu was also very difficult.
WTT Saudi Smash before the start, Sun Yingsha topped the Chinese table tennis team points list, even if not competing can maintain the top two identity, selected Olympic singles, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng in second and third place, Wang Yidi has long been the coaching team to take off the eligibility to run, and she and Chen Xingping and other players points are too small, normal catch up is not possible to be selected.
So how big is the gap between Wang Manyu and Chen Meng?
At that time, Wang Man Yu had 14865 points, while Chen Meng had 13310 points, a gap of 1555 points, and after taking into account the Chinese table tennis team points system and the WTT Smash rules, what kind of results does Chen Meng have to achieve in order to overtake Wang Man Yu?
First of all, Chen Meng must be able to win Wang Man Yu if she wins the championship; secondly, if Chen Meng does not lose the external battle, Wang Man Yu lose the external battle, can also achieve points to overtake (because according to the Chinese table tennis team second Olympic women’s singles selection rules, lose the external battle to deduct 3000 points); finally, if the two people do not lose the external battle, Wang Man Yu is not qualified for the quarter-finals, Chen Meng can reach the final as long as she can do so.
However to do one of the above three points is not easy?
After the arrival of 2024, until the start of the battle of Saudi Arabia, Wang Man Yu to maintain undefeated in foreign wars, Chen Meng in the Busan World Series such an important occasion lost to Japan’s Hina Hayata, so she was not as advantageous as Wang Man Yu in foreign wars.
If Chen Meng, Wang Man Yu are not losing foreign war, according to the signing, the same in the lower half of the two will meet in the semi-finals, in this case Wang Man Yu must have reached the quarter-finals, so Chen Meng to overtake the points there is only one way left, that is – to beat Wang Man Yu, and finally won the title.
But in the recent more than a year of exchanges, Chen Meng against Wang Man Yu absolute disadvantage, even can be said to be repeatedly defeated; and even if Chen Meng can advance to the final, the probability is to encounter their own also even lost a long time Sun Yingsha, want to win the title is too difficult!
However, the subsequent process and result of the match was beyond many people’s expectation.
Probably no one expected, Chen Meng not only got the Olympic singles qualification, and a one-time to meet the previously mentioned all three selected cases – first, she won the championship; second, she did not lose the external battle, Wang Man Yu lost (second round against India’s Batra); finally, whether Wang Man Yu did not lose the external battle did not play into the quarter-finals.
More exaggerated is, Chen Meng one-time beat Japan’s three main players Hirano Mayu, Zhang Ben Meihe, Hayata Xina, the final and beat Sun Yingsha: objectively speaking, this performance is really more than losing to Batra Wang Man Yu too much colour.
So everyone has predicted that Chen Meng can squeeze down Wang Manyu selected Olympic singles? Welcome to leave a comment to talk about your previous guess!
