The 2024 Table Tennis WTT Taiyuan Regular Season has come to an end, Chinese table tennis team player Wang Yidi played steadily, in the women’s singles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles in the three events have reached the final, but unfortunately, she ended up with three runners-up, in the three finals all suffered a defeat, no chance to reach the top for the king.
Although did not laugh to the end, but this will not affect Wang Yidi in the coaching team in the heart of the position, because beat her are their own teammates, rather than foreign associations athletes; In addition, for Wang Yidi, the trip to Taiyuan, but let her have a huge harvest, that is, 3-0 sweep Hirano Mayu, once again defeated the core of the main force of Japan:
As an athlete who recently lost to Japanese players and will be travelling to the Paris Olympics as a Chinese table tennis team replacement, Wang Yidi’s victory was timely enough to make up for the negative impact of losing to her teammates!
As anyone who follows Wang Yidi knows, the Chinese table tennis team’s mainstay has suffered a major setback in the last year or so, going from being a potential Olympic contender who was trusted beyond measure by the coaching staff and who had qualified for multiple competitions to a replacement athlete who ultimately fell out of the roster and was only awarded a P-card.
The key to this happening was the string of losses she suffered in her outings, especially the repeated collapses against the Japanese mainstay, the Chinese table tennis team’s main rival.
Since the start of March 2023 until April 2024, Wang Yidi went on to lose seven times against foreign association athletes in just 14 months, and apart from one loss to India’s Akula, the rest of the losses were to the Japanese mainstays, including two losses to Miyu Hirano, two to Kina Hayata, one to Miwa Harimoto and one to Miyu Kihara, which was a shocker.
It is because of too many losses, so before the end of the Olympic selection, the Chinese table tennis team announced that Wang Yidi in the singles qualification competition in advance, the head coach LiYing even use the word “rare” to describe her performance, which in itself is very rare, so now Wang Yidi most need is a victory against the Japanese athletes to re-prove themselves.
When May arrived, Wang Yidi beat Japanese Olympic champion Misaki Ito at the WTT Saudi Smash, however the latter has long since ceased to be a first tier opponent for the Chinese table tennis team, hasn’t won against the mainstay of the Chinese team for a few years, and isn’t even competing in the Paris Olympics, so Wang Yidi’s victory over her was somewhat lacking in gold content.
What’s more, that match was still a 4-3 thriller that Wang Yidi almost lost to her opponent, a performance that was hardly perfect, and it wasn’t until this WTT Taiyuan Regular Season tournament that she finally got a new chance.
In the women’s singles semi-final in Taiyuan, Wang Yidi once again met Japanese world champion Hirano Miyu, who swept Wang Yidi 3-0 in the women’s team final of the Busan WTT in February, so fans were sweating for the Chinese table tennis team. But the matchup ended with a big win for Wang Yidi, who not only beat her opponent, but also returned the favour with a 3-0 win.
And although Wang Yidi folded in the final of the three items, but she was losing teammates (mixed doubles Wang Yidi / Lin Gaoyuan 1-3 Kuai Man / Lin Shidong, women’s doubles Wang Yidi / Chen Xingtong 1-3 Kuai Man / Chen Yi, women’s singles Wang Yidi 3-4 Chen Xingtong), and will not affect their own position in the hearts of the coaching staff, but beat Hirano Mayu can help it regain trust, but also more solid position of the Olympic replacement.
However, before the start of the Olympic Games, Wang Yidi still have to accept the test of WTT Chongqing Championships, expect her to continue to resist the pressure of success, to become the Chinese table tennis team to go to Paris to fight for the final “bottom card”.
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