Men's table tennis draw
Ma Long, captain of the men's table tennis team, unexpectedly lost in the eighth final, losing 2-4 to Xu Chenhao. In the end, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong competed for the first place, and Fan Zhendong lived up to expectations and secured the Olympic singles seat. The form of women's table tennis on the other side is not clear.
The women's singles final was decided by Chen Meng and Manyu Wang. As for the singles candidate Sun Yingsha, she missed the championship. However, Liu, a veteran who has been optimistic about his comeback many times, suffered a losing streak, losing eight games in a row. On the contrary, Manyu Wang, who participated in the Olympic Games as a P card, beat Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, the main players in women's singles.
As the main force of the women's singles in this Olympic Games, she was considered as the first choice in the women's team competition in this Olympic Games in the women's doubles final, but she made mistakes one after another, and her strength performance was not even as good as that of Liu who came back from injury. Sun Yingsha, another player in the same singles list, also has some minor problems.
In the women's singles eighth final, Ray and I played thrilling and made frequent mistakes. The difficulty of drawing lots for Olympic athletes is from easy to difficult, so when Sun Yingsha loses the ball one after another. Li Sun, the head coach of the women's table tennis team, even personally ran off the stage to guide Sun Yingsha with the coach. This scene has also been teased by the audience for a long time.
Liu Ye suffered setbacks. Liu, who just came back and was eager to prove himself, lost three games in a row in 24 hours, and his mood almost collapsed. During the intermission, he kept covering his face with a towel, as if crying, and coach Marin was comforting him.
The situation of the women's team has never been known, but this time, even the hexagonal warrior Malone suffered the impact of Xu Chenhao and stopped the quarterfinals ahead of schedule.
After the game, Liu had a separate talk with Malone, and said: All veterans have encountered difficulties in this cycle, which is irresistible. Because the Olympic Games has been postponed for one year, the challenge to veterans is also one year, and the growth of teenagers is another year. So now is the most intense time for the old and new forces in the team to confront each other.
It is worth mentioning that the names of our Olympic candidates were ridiculed by Japanese netizens as "too old". The average age of the men's team has reached 29 years old, especially the dragon team is 32 years old, and Xu Xin is also 3 1. Previously, most players from China chose to retire at the age of 25. A situation like this year was unimaginable in the past.
Let's not talk about whether the Japanese media's ridicule is reasonable, but the non-confrontation between the Chinese and Japanese captains will indeed increase the uncertainty of the game. I hope that the Olympic athletes can maintain stability and achieve ideal results smoothly.