2024 Busan World Series registration deadline (February 9) is approaching, the Chinese table tennis team’s participation list is still not determined, the current men’s team is not much disagreement, the five main Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan advantage is obvious, while the women’s team there is a big controversy.
On the recent Chinese table tennis team women’s players performance, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng to participate in the World Series is not a big problem, but the last of this “fifth person” belongs to the larger differences.
Prior to this, the international table tennis federation according to the world ranking on November 7, 2023 will Qian Tianyi automatically included in the list of the Chinese team, but it seems that she wants to squeeze down in recent years has been among the main position of the world champion Chen Xingtong seems to have greater difficulty, then the Chinese table tennis team coaching staff will finally choose who? Let’s analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the two athletes.
Part 1
First of all, no matter from the results, experience and current world ranking, Chen Xingtong is stronger than Qian Tianyi.
As early as 2018, Chen Xingtong had already pressed Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng to be selected for the Chinese table tennis team World Cup list, and then, although she fell out of the team, her position has always been above Qian Tianyi; and from 2021 onwards, Chen Xingtong returned to the ranks of the top five starters, but Qian Tianyi is still stuck hovering around the sixth position in the team.
In fact, in recent years, Qian Tianyi has long had the opportunity to challenge Chen Xingtong, especially when the 2022 World Tournament selection team rules: whoever of the two of them can get the WTT Oman regular season women’s singles champion, who will get the women’s qualification for the World Tournament, and the result is that Qian Tianyi lost.
At present, Qian Tianyi’s performance ceiling is not as good as Chen Xingtong’s, and her record against Japanese players is not as good as Chen Xingtong’s – although Qian Tianyi had a cold victory over Ito Misaki last year, Chen Xingtong has even beaten Ito Misaki, Hirano Miyu, and other Japanese mainstays many times, and her current world ranking has also long surpassed Qian Tianyi’s, which is obviously more advantageous.
Part 2
But Qian Tianyi also has her strengths: on the one hand, younger, on the other hand, left-handed play.
Qian Tianyi’s youthful advantage naturally needs no introduction, born in 2000, she is 3 years younger than Chen Xingtong, so the future to maintain the golden playing condition will be a little longer. But after all, Chen Xingtong is only 27 years old, so it’s not quite a veteran, so relatively speaking, Qian Tianyi’s advantage in the second aspect is perhaps even more important.
As we all know, there are relatively few left-handed athletes in the Bing world, so there are unique features on the road; what’s more, in doubles, the combination of left and right pairing will run relatively better than two right-handed or two left-handed, which is very important.
However, before this, the Chinese table tennis team women’s main force in the Ding Ning itself is not good at doubles, and Ding Ning retired, all the team’s main players (Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong) without exception is a right-handed handshake grip, two-sided Pimples in playing style, if Qian Tianyi to enter the main layer of the words can be more or less to change this situation.
Summarize
However, at present, Qian Tianyi wants to squeeze down Chen Xingtong’s difficulty is still not small, the probability may not be big.
The reason why I say so, there are two aspects: first, Chen Xingtong in recent years, although it is the bottom of the five main, and also lost some external war, but overall there is no major fault, there is no good reason to take it down; second, Qian Tianyi although there is some progress, but no matter whether it is external war or internal war performance has ups and downs, although there are occasional bright moments, but it is difficult to call it outstanding.
Because of this, when the list automatically listed by the FIVB was released, many fans said they found it hard to believe, which shows that letting Qian Tianyi replace Chen Xingtong to participate in the war is not very convincing; in addition, the coaching staff’s consideration is definitely more and more thorough than the fans, since they also did not recognize it in the first place, which is evident that there are still variables in the matter.
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