Recently, Chinese table tennis team youngster Lin Shidong has become the focus of attention. At the age of 19, he won the men’s singles title in the WTT Macau Championships by defeating Duda, Harimoto Tomokazu, Lin Yunru, Wang Chuqin, and Qiu Dang of the Chinese table tennis team, and soon entered the top ten of the men’s singles for the third time in the world ranking, surpassing the main force of the Chinese table tennis team’s world championship, Lin Gaoyuan, to reach the seventh position.
For Lin Sidong’s performance, many fans exclaimed that a new generation of Chinese table tennis team successor has appeared, and in the future will certainly become the core of the men’s team, and realise the dream of Olympic champions. But objectively speaking, the victory in Macau can only be regarded as a small climax in the growth process of Lin Shidong, who is still far away from the height of the peak of the ping world, and the pressure of the competition that he will face is still very big.
For one thing, many of the top players who played in Macau were not at their best and did not adjust their bodies and minds in time for the new Olympic cycle, so Lin’s next encounter with them may not be as smooth.
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The table tennis competition at the Paris Olympics only ended on 10 August, and then the core players of the Chinese table tennis team and other associations returned home to recuperate, and many of them did not train systematically until the WTT Macau Championships, including Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, as well as those who did not participate in the Olympics, such as Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Yidi, and Chen Xingyong.
As the saying goes, ‘one day does not practice their own know, two days do not practice peers know, three days do not practice the audience know’, this WTT Macau Championships started, many fans can feel some of the famous generals are not in the right state, and Wang Chuqin has not yet played with Lin Sidong directly said that he was ‘under the wind! ‘Lin will not be unaware of the situation, so he did not meet the strongest challenge this time.
Secondly, just before the Macau tournament, Lin Shi Dong was attacked by the younger Korean star Oh Jae Seong and almost collapsed, so it is clear that the competition between him and the rest of the new generation of players will not be any easier than attacking the famous players.
After the Olympic Games, when many famous players were busy resting and participating in various activities, Lin Shidong has already started his journey to the Los Angeles Olympic cycle, winning three titles in the WTT Almaty regular season, but he almost collapsed when facing the new Korean star Oh Jae-Seong (who is one year younger than Lin), who is not as good as himself in terms of performance and ranking, and even less than Wang Chuqin and others.
In the men’s singles final of the WTT Almaty regular season tournament, Lin was down 1-3, overturned 4-3, won 14-12 on match point in the sixth game, and 11-9 in the seventh game, which was a very tough win: it was clear that Lin would not only have to challenge Wang Chuchin and other seniors, but also take on the onslaught of rising stars of his own age, not to mention the fact that Junior LeBrun, who is also a year younger than he is, has long been ahead of the game in terms of results.
Finally, as Lin said himself, 19 years old is not young anymore – looking at the Chinese and foreign ping pong world, many famous players in the same age bracket when the results and experience are already better than him.
After winning the championship in Macau, Lin Sidong himself lamented that 19 years old is not young, this is not entirely modest words: in the Chinese table tennis team Paris Olympic Games three main force, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong 17 years old has been the World Series Men’s Championship, Wang Chuqin is 18 years old; and outside the Association, Harimoto Tomokazu, Lin Yunru, small LeBrun, Moregard and others 16 years old or so has been to participate in the World Championship, 19 years old, has been full of experience.
19-year-old Lin Shidong until now has only participated in a World Series doubles, a World Cup singles, although ahead of many Chinese table tennis team non-main force, but in the table tennis world masters gradually ‘aging’ situation is really not young, and whether he can be in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games before the accumulation of enough experience to deal with the test of the big game is still unknown. It is still unknown whether he will be able to accumulate enough experience to cope with the competition before the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Finally, we hope that Lin will be given more opportunities in the Chinese table tennis team, and that he will be able to play a key role in the transition between the old and the new in the team as soon as possible!
