The 2024 Paris Olympics is approaching, and the participation lists of various associations are being announced one after another. On April 9, Beijing time, Chinese table tennis team’s arch rival, the German Bing Association, officially nominated this year’s Olympic lineup as follows –
- Men’s singles: Dang Qiu, Ocharov;
- Women’s singles: Mitterham, Han Ying;
- Mixed Doubles: Dang Qiu/Mitterham;
- Men’s team: Dang Qiu, Ocharov, Timo boll;
- Women’s team: Mitterham, Han Ying, Shan Xiaona;
- Substitutes: Franziska, TBA.
This news, immediately triggered the fans hot discussion, because this year’s very good state of the world champion timo boll is not on the list of singles, not long before the victory over Ma Long’s Franziska did not even get the group quota, but Dang Qiu three all participate in the war, is indeed a fierce competition, some people are happy and some people are sad!
Germany is the leader of the European ping pong world in the last twenty years or so, in which the men’s team’s Timo boll and Ocharov had won the World Cup singles title a total of three times, in addition to the Olympic Games, the World Series team project many times in the finals, and the women’s team also won the Olympic team silver medal in 2016, the strength of the strength of the team is indeed very hard.
Competition within the German men’s team has been fierce in recent years, and the rise of Chinese-born player Dang Qiu has changed the situation of the past duo of Timo boll and Ocharov, while also affecting Franziska’s starting position; as for the German women’s team, the framework is relatively stable, and Soltjia’s position after her retirement was soon replaced by Mietteham, who then became the top three athletes with Han Ying and Shan Xiaona.
From this nomination of the singles lineup, the world ranking is undoubtedly an important basis for the German table tennis team, in which Dang Qiu, Ocharov is the highest ranked person in the men’s team, while Han Ying, Mitterham is the women’s team position of the two most forward, but the current ranking of the team’s third Franziska did not get the qualification of the group, replaced by the veteran Timo boll.
In fact, Timo Boll has been in very good form recently, winning the WTT Challenge Men’s Singles title earlier this year with consecutive victories over Lee Sang-soo, Jang U-jin, Lim Yun-ju, and Tomokazu Chang Moto-kazu, but at that time, it was a five-set-three system, while the Olympics is a seven-set-four system, which is a severe test for the 43-year-old Timo Boll’s fitness, but it is still a five-set-three system if you are participating in the Olympics team tournament, so it is more appropriate to only participate in this event.
As for Franziska’s defeat is also somewhat regrettable, because he once defeated the Chinese table tennis team five main force Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, in March this year, also won the Smash Ma Long, but long-term by the two elder brother Timo boll, Occhalov, and now by the younger brother Dang Qiu party surpassed, is indeed not born in the right time.
As I said before, the German women’s team has a relatively stable main framework, the biggest suspense is whether Han Ying can participate in the game normally, because she previously broke her Achilles tendon due to a long period of rest, may not be able to go to Paris as promised – according to the arrangement, the final list of participants will be as early as in May by the German Olympic Committee to decide, but the Bing Association proposal is unlikely to be overturned! , so let’s wait and see what happens!
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