The year 2024 is coming to an end, and for the Chinese table tennis team, the test of the new year is coming – after the baptism of the Paris Olympics, the Astana Asian Championships, the Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup and other tournaments, the team’s main layer has begun to change, but the replacement of the old and the new has always been a gradual process, it will not be done overnight, the So how will the core athlete circle of the Chinese table tennis team change in 2025? Let’s look forward to it below!
After the Paris Olympics, the two main players of the Chinese table tennis team, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, took many breaks from the game, which triggered heated discussions among the fans. However, through a series of later performance (Ma Long participated in the WTT Chinese Smash and Old Wah Cup, and Fan Zhendong participated in the All-Championships Team Championships and the Bing Super League), the two of them are still at the level of the top athletes of the Chinese table tennis team, so if the two of them are willing to continue to fight, they are fully capable of assuming the role of the main player of the Chinese table tennis team. The main responsibility.
However, from the age point of view, 36-year-old Ma Long’s willingness to stay in the game is obviously weaker than the 27-year-old Fan Zhendong, and he has already stated that the WTT Chinese table tennis team Smash may be the last time to participate in the official international competitions; on the contrary, Fan Zhendong, although absent from all the foreign wars after the Olympic Games, but still actively training to participate in the domestic tournaments, and then take into account the current Chinese table tennis team’s performance is not stable, and still need to bring the new to the old, perhaps the new cycle of Fan Zhendong, the new cycle of the Chinese table tennis team will be the most important thing for the Chinese table tennis team to continue to play in the Chinese table tennis team, but also for the new to the old. Perhaps Fan Zhendong will take up the heavy responsibility of Ma Long in the new cycle and continue to be the ‘God of the sea’ in the team.
Young people, born in 2000, Wang Chuqin was reused deservedly, after all, he is still in the golden age of playing, and strength, experience are enough to carry the beam; 2005-born Lin Shidong rise to prominence, the next stable rooted in the main layer is a foregone conclusion, recently, no matter what he is men’s singles, mixed doubles results have reached the world’s first-class age is the advantage of the obvious, however, if Fan Zhendong continue to compete for the Los Angeles Olympic singles quota, then this trio of players will continue to compete for the Olympic Games. However, if Fan Zhendong continues to compete for the Los Angeles Olympics singles spot, there is still uncertainty as to who will be able to take the top spot among these three.
Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan are in a more delicate position, but apart from Lin Sidong, the rest of the new stars have not reached the point where they can replace them. If only Ma Long withdraws from the main tier of the men’s team next year, the probability is that Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Lin Sidong, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan will continue to be in the top five in 2025, but if the coaching staff intends to use the youngsters more intensively, they may allow Lin Gaoyuan to specialise in team and doubles, freeing up a singles slot for Xiang Peng or someone else, and a layout similar to that at this year’s Asian Championships is entirely likely to reappear.
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Women’s Team
Compared to the men’s team, the Chinese table tennis team women’s team in 2025 may be more intense competition in the main layer, because even without considering Fan Zhendong’s withdrawal, the probability of the men’s team, Ma Long, leaving the international arena is also far greater than the women’s team, Chen Meng – Ma Long is already 36 years old, Chen Meng is still only 30 years old; Ma Long is already a super Slam, Chen Meng is still short of a World Series singles title to achieve Smash. So if we analyse it rationally, the possibility of Chen Meng continuing to be among the main tier and playing in the World Series in 2025 is very high (more on that later).
In other words, there is a high probability that the Chinese table tennis team men’s team will be able to vacate more than one vacant starting position (which originally belonged to Ma Long), while the women’s team may not be able to do so. Considering that Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are in a solid position, and Wang Yidi’s results and rankings are also high in the top three, if Chen Meng is added to the mix, four spots will be taken up here, so who will the fifth starting position go to? At present, it seems that the competition between the two will be white-hot, that is, Chen Xingtong and Kuai Man.
Chen Xingtong, born in 1997, pressed Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha to make the team World Cup list as early as 2018, but then fell out of the team for a while until 2021 to return to the main ranks, but the results have been lukewarm, and have not won a singles title in the eight Chinese and foreign tournaments (the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Cup, the Asian Games, the Asian Championships, the Asian Cup, the National Games, the All-China Championships), and their doubles performance has not been as good as that of Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi conspicuous, so at any time may be replaced.
After the Paris Olympics, Chen Xingtong’s situation is even more embarrassing, has fallen out of the list of the Asian Championships (later replaced by Wang Man Yu’s withdrawal) and the mixed group World Cup lineup, but another youngster twice got the opportunity to participate, that is, Kuai Man – 2004-born Kuai Man is weaker than Chen Xingtong in singles results and rankings, but by virtue of the Mixed doubles and age advantage, has become the Chinese table tennis team women’s reserve force training in the core figure, successful Chen Xingtong realise ‘bend the road to overtake’.
After the arrival of 2025, Chen Xing Tong’s situation is still relatively ‘difficult’, because, as said before, if Chen Meng continues to fight, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi stable in the main lineup, Chen Xing Tong want to continue to be among the team’s top five will inevitably have to accept the challenge of Kuai Man, and now she obviously has no advantage in the field of doubles, singles, although stronger than each other, but there are still four in front of the team. Stronger than the other side, but there are four people in front of the top, Chen Xing Tong is not indispensable, the coaching staff may not not consider the valuable opportunity to delegate the younger Kuai Man for exercise.
In summary, 2025 Chinese table tennis team women’s main layer is likely to be made up of Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Kuai Man, but taking into account the other women’s team juniors is not very big progress, once Chen Meng ended the World Series singles championship tour after leaving the field, then the probability of the vacant position will still be back to the hands of Chen Xingtong- So who do you think the Chinese table tennis team’s main tier will consist of next year? Feel free to leave a comment and write your own prediction!
