In the history of the Chinese table tennis team there is a very strange phenomenon, that is, the men’s team’s left-handed athletes are very difficult to win the competition singles champion – undeniably, from the number of comparative point of view, the right-handed players to be far more than the left-handed, however, from the 1950s Chinese table tennis team was established until now, the men’s team surprisingly only appeared in the singles world champion, that is, Xu Xin.
And it is a great pity that Xu Xin has only won the singles title once in the World Cup, which is the lightest of the three major competitions in the Chinese table tennis world, and it is in the case that two stronger teammates, Zhang Jike and Ma Long, do not participate in the event, and as for the more important World Series and the Olympic Games, so far there has never been a Chinese table tennis left-handed athlete to win the singles gold medal, so Wang Chuqin, who is going to fight in the Paris Olympics, can he do it?
As we all know, people are accustomed to using their left and right hands, and athletes are naturally no exception. For the table tennis world, most of the time, left and right-handed players have opposite lines, landing points and spins, and since there are relatively few left-handed players, they tend to make right-handed athletes uncomfortable, which is the so-called ‘scarcity of goods is precious’.
However, among the top players in the Chinese table tennis team, the proportion of right-handed players has always been dominant, but this is mainly because of their total number of advantages, but in the Chinese table tennis team, the proportion of left-handed and right-handed players who won the singles world championships is seriously imbalanced, which has become a topic of endless discussion among fans.
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Before this, the Chinese table tennis team has given birth to a total of five Olympic men’s singles champions, respectively, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Ma Lin, Zhang Jike, Ma Long, of which Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Zhang Jike, Ma Long, and Rong Guotuan, Zhuang Zedong, Xi Enting, Guo Yuehua, Jiang Jialiang, Wang Liqin, Wang Hao, Fan Zhendong, 8 people like to take the World Series of men’s singles gold medals: all of them without exception is a right-handed athlete.
In addition to the players included in the above athletes, Chinese table tennis team also has Chen Xinhua, Chen Longchan, Teng Yi, Ma Wenge, Xu Xin has won the World Cup Men’s Singles Championships, but the first four are right-handed – to sum up, Chinese table tennis team 18 men’s singles world champions in 17 are right-handed athletes, and only Xu Xin 1 is left-handed.
Compared to the men’s team, the Chinese table tennis women’s team’s number of right-handed singles world champions is also far more than the left-handed, but even so, in the 5 Olympic singles top athletes there are 2 people are left-handed, as for the World Cup, the World Cup, there are also left-handed representatives, it is no wonder that some fans will say that the Chinese table tennis men’s team there is the so-called ‘left-handed curse’.
Objectively speaking, Chinese table tennis team history, there are some left-handed athletes than Xu Xin have a better chance to impact the singles world champion, such as Cai Zhenhua had 2 times into the World Series final, Wang Tao has also advanced to the Olympic Games, the World Cup final, but because of a variety of reasons to sink; and as said before, Xu Xin when the World Cup championship encountered Zhang Jike, Ma Long does not participate in the situation, the top of the difficulty is also a lot less.
In recent years, with the rise of Wang Chuqin, Chinese table tennis team men’s right-handed athletes once again ignited the hope of climbing the peak – before this, left-handed athletes are difficult to get Wang Chuqin in the team is now such a core position, and he is still men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles the world’s No. 1 athletes, indeed, strong strength.
Of course, competitive sports are full of too much uncertainty, especially the men’s singles has always been the most competitive in the world of ping pong, the most difficult project to win the championship, for example, who would have expected this year’s World Cup Wang Chuqin will be 0-4 loss to Ma Long? And whether he can fight to the end in the Olympics is also unknown, so let’s wait for the curtain to rise on the battle in Paris!
