As the Paris Olympics were in full swing, the men’s singles table tennis program blew up in a big way, with Chinese table tennis team world No. 1 Wang Chuqin eliminated in six games, losing 2-4 to Sweden’s Moregard. Just a day before the match started, Wang’s main racket was stepped on and broken, forcing him to change to a spare racket on the court, which also triggered heated debates among fans, but the comments were severely polarized:
Some people think that the top athletes’ main racket was destroyed will certainly disturb their hand feeling, and the loss of this match must have something to do with this matter.
There are also people who have brought up the fact that Zhang Yining‘s main racket at the 2008 Olympics was not up to standard, and she won the game even though she changed her secondary racket, pointing out that changing the racket’s momentum had no effect.
However, the truth is that these two things happened in a very different situation, let us carefully analyze.
First of all, Zhang Yining encountered opponents that year, not as strong as Wang Chuqin encountered now, this point is very importan
Zhang Yining in 2008 to change the situation occurred in the women’s singles quarter-finals, when she played against the athlete is Singapore’s Feng Tianwei, the latter did in a period of time to become the Chinese table tennis team’s number one rival, but that is in the Beijing Olympic Games after the thing; Beijing Olympic Games, although Feng Tianwei strength is not bad, but after all, the wings are not yet full.
And now Wang Chuqin face Moregard although very young, but as early as 2021 in the World Series of men’s singles runner-up, has repeatedly defeated the Chinese table tennis team masters, including Chinese table tennis mainstay Liang Jingkun and others – Zhang Yining in the face of Feng Tianwei is still a close victory, if it was and the strength of the Singaporean player Li Jiawei to play the estimated If she had played Singapore’s Li Jiawei, who was much stronger at the time, it would have been a close call (she won in the semifinals later on).
Secondly, Zhang Yining already had Olympic experience in 2008, while Wang Chuqin was a “new recruit” at the Paris Olympics.
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As we all know, Zhang Yining as early as 2004 has participated in the Athens Olympic Games, and got the women’s singles, women’s doubles two championships, to 2008 when it is the second time to participate in the results aside, at least has been an experienced athlete, so in the face of unforeseen events in the ability to deal with the mental capacity is still significantly stronger than the average person.
Wang Chuqin has never participated in the Olympic Games before, the result of the first appearance racket was damaged, strain ability is certainly much worse, and he encountered the situation is more strange – Zhang Yining kind of racket does not fit the test frame of things although less, but from time to time will happen, and Wang Chuqin this is a direct step on the racket is indeed rare to see things, on his The psychological impact on him is even greater.
Again, even after winning Feng Tianwei, that match brought Zhang Yining a huge psychological shadow, which still scares her to this day.
Although Zhang Yining won Feng Tianwei that year, but that game is still her lingering shadow, shortly before the start of the Paris Olympics, when Zhang Yining was asked by a reporter, “Have you been particularly impressed by the game”, she still did not hesitate to choose the 16 years ago the ball, and even called it a “nightmare”. “Nightmare”.
Even Zhang Yining herself is still so mindful of this matter, more than enough to show how critical the situation was, how bad the impact of changing rackets – although she and Feng Tianwei’s game was 4-1, but each set was only 2 points (13-11, 12-14, 14-12, 12-10, 13-11), the slightest attention could have been a complete loss. It was indeed thrilling to see that the game could have been lost if one did not pay attention to it!
In the end, Zhang Yining managed to conceal her racket change, while Wang Chuqin failed to do so this time.
Usually experienced athletes in the case of racket change will deliberately conceal the news, such as Zhang Yining mentioned that he wanted to pretend that there is no problem, do not let Feng Tianwei to see out, which on the one hand in order to avoid being the opponent to develop targeted tactics, on the other hand also do not want to opponents thus confidence, morale, and appear to be a super level of play.
However, Wang Chuqin’s racket has just been stepped on, the news quickly spread all over the net, if Moregard knows in advance, it will certainly be more confident, even if he does not know, things through the network, the media fermentation to Wang Chuqin himself to bring a lot of pressure, which may also inadvertently increase its pressure.
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