Recently, the Chinese table tennis team women’s head coach Ma Lin accepted an interview, shared with the reporter his recent period of coaching journey, especially in the reference to this year’s Busan World Series women’s final 3-2 narrowly defeated Japan when the eyes red, deep tears, frankly:
“very fearful, that day the ups and downs are still relatively large, and do not dare to imagine to really out of the question, on our entire team Olympic Games preparation is completely unthinkable, and still (face) the main opponent.”
It must be said, the battle of Busan Chinese table tennis team were both unprecedented challenges in recent years, the next Paris Olympics really have to be careful!
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As we all know, the Chinese team nearly collapsed at the World Cup in Busan a few months ago, in which the men’s team at one point trailed South Korea 1-2 on aggregate in the semi-finals, before finally taking it 3-2; the women’s team also trailed India 1-2 in the group stage, before finally flipping the game 3-2, and the final once again saw a similar scenario, again narrowly defeating the Japanese team 3-2.
It is not an exaggeration to say that since 2001 Osaka World Cup Men’s Team Semi-final Kong Linghui lost 2 points and Liu Guozheng saved 7 match points to reverse Kim Sawasoo, the Chinese table tennis team has not encountered such a big difficulty in the team competition for a long time, so not only the athletes had palpitations after the incident, but also Ma Lin and other people as coaches are not an exception.
Especially for Ma Lin, the battle of Busan if the defeat, his pressure will be unimaginable, because the main Chinese table tennis team women’s team in last year’s World Cup in Durban, Hangzhou Asian Games have lost outside the war, especially his reuse of the athletes Wang Yidi is a continuous collapse, in the above two tournaments with the World Cup in Busan on all the chain, which will be the Chinese table tennis team, which will be the head coach pushed to the tip of the public opinion.
In addition, Ma Lin as the last Tokyo Olympics is responsible for the Chinese table tennis team mixed doubles preparation coach, ultimately failed to lead Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen to get the title, but in the final lost to the Japanese combination of Hayabusa Mizutani / Ito Misaki, lost the perfect opportunity to win the gold, and this year, to lead the women’s team to impact on the Paris Olympics, inevitably be criticised by the fans.
It is because of the coaching ability has been questioned, so the final victory of the Busan World Series is precious to Ma Lin, so much so that in a few months later when interviewed again, still emotional tears, bluntly said that if then lost it is difficult to imagine how it will have an impact on the Olympic preparations, and this is by no means a falsehood – -.
Even after losing the final, the Japanese table tennis team was still in high spirits after the World Cup in Busan, because the main Chinese table tennis team was no longer so strong that it could not be defeated in their minds, and being able to force the Chinese table tennis team into a desperate situation also greatly enhanced their self-confidence. So the next Olympic battle in Paris, Ma Lin can once again lead the team to withstand the pressure to win the title?
