As those who follow the ping world know, former Chinese World Champion Zhu Yuling had been out of the game for three years due to health reasons, but she never expected to be back in 2024, representing the Chinese Macau team, and progressing from unranked to one of the world’s top 30 in less than a year.
What’s even more amazing is that Zhu Yuling’s points were not gained by brushing up on smaller matches and winning against lower level players. Especially in the last two months, Zhu Yuling has beaten the Japanese mainstay four times, including two consecutive wins over Satsuki Otto, plus one win each over Miyu Hirano and Kina Hayada.
I think the reason comes from three aspects, Zhu Yuling’s own ability and effort is naturally indispensable, but there are other factors, let’s discuss in depth.
First of all, Zhu Yuling is one of the top table tennis players in the world, plus her age is not that big, so her level of ‘lower limit’ is still guaranteed after her comeback.
As we all know, Zhu Yuling in the national ping has been the existence of ‘three to fight for two to punch one’, especially in 2017, continuously in the various competitions to beat Liu Shiwen, to Ding Ning to challenge, 2020 has been marginalised after the win Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha – It is no exaggeration to say that if there is no Ito Mima, Zhu Yuling is completely possible to become the first sister figure of the national women’s team.
And even if later by the impact of Japanese players, and their own health problems, but also can not be erased Zhu Yuling singles world champion, Asian champion, national champion and the former world ranking of the first athlete’s background, and now she is only 30 years old, although the state of the state is not as good as the peak period, but as long as a little more training is able to maintain in the first-class level.
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Secondly, during the three years of leaving the national ping, Zhu Yuling has experienced a lot of things, and her mentality is also much better, and she can play to her advantage after letting go of her hands.
As we all know, the competition in the Chinese ping world is very fierce, the athletes who can enter the national team are geniuses among geniuses, and want to be among the main force, to achieve the dream of world champion is even more difficult, it is in this case, many athletes are burdened with enormous pressure, easy to suffer in the competition, once Zhu Yuling is no exception.
However, after three years of bidding farewell to the athlete’s identity, Zhu Yuling understood more about life than just table tennis, so she returned to the field and became more spontaneous, and her shots were more resolute and decisive, which compensated for her defensive counterattack-oriented, offensive pressure is not enough, and then played out the advantages of her own ball counting accuracy and tactical awareness.
Again, since Zhu Yuling has been absent from international competitions for a long time, the Japanese players are not well prepared for her and may not pay enough attention to her.
The first point is easy to understand, any athlete in the face of Zhu Yuling such a master must do enough preparation, the problem is that Zhu Yuling has not participated in international competitions for three years, and recently in the recovery period, so every time we play there may be new changes, so the Japanese side of the preparation is still relatively lack of, far less than Zhu Yuling know the roots of the Chinese team to study thoroughly.
As for the second point is also completely possible – Zhu Yuling although has returned to the field, but according to the relevant provisions, she is not eligible to participate in the Olympic Games, the World Series, the World Cup and other world-class competitions, so everyone’s attention to her degree of importance will certainly be reduced, but in the future should be more and more in-depth study of its, Zhu Yuling want to continue to Maintaining the winning percentage will be difficult, I’m afraid.
