The World Table Tennis Championships are over, and the Chinese table tennis team has won five gold medals in men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. For Ye Hao, this World Table Tennis Championships can only be regarded as half of the success, although he won the most anticipated men's singles championship, but he lost in the mixed doubles field, leaving a big regret.

Ye Hao, who returned to China, did not have many idle days, and his career as an athlete was too boring. At the South Korean Table Tennis Open half a month later, Ye Hao represented the national table tennis in the singles competition, and in the end there was no suspense, he swept the championship with the majesty of the men's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships.

After the Korean Open Table Tennis Championships in mid-June, there was also the Japan Table Tennis Open, but this time Ye Hao did not play, and Ma Long and Wang Hao led a group of young players to represent the Chinese men's table tennis. As a result, Ma Long, who was in good shape, defeated his teammate Wang Hao in the final, with a final score of 4:1, and won his second ITTF Open singles championship this year.

Immediately afterwards, the China Table Tennis Open began, and this time, Ye Hao once again hung up the exemption card, and Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Wang Hao and Ma Long participated in the competition. It is worth mentioning that in the two men's singles semifinals, Wang Hao and Ma Long defeated their big brothers Wang Liqin and Ma Lin respectively, and both advanced to the men's singles finals.

This is the second time that Ma Long and Wang Hao will meet in the final of the Japan Open Table Tennis Championships in the previous stop, but this time it is the latter who will win. Wang Hao played well in the final, attacking sharply, defeating Ma Long 4:2 and winning his first Open singles title this year.

In the days of Ye Hao's truce, Ma Long and Wang Hao became the brightest stars in the Chinese table tennis team, and they completely covered the light of Wang Liqin and Ma Lin, the two core of national table tennis. Therefore, now within the national table tennis, there is no longer the saying of "trident", but it has become a situation of "one super and many giants".

Ye Hao is of course the well-deserved soul of the Chinese table tennis team, and the name of the first brother of national table tennis has become loud again after he won the men's singles championships in the World Cup and the World Table Tennis Championships after his comeback.

The remaining four Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Wang Hao and the newly promoted Ma Long are like four small stars on the five-star red flag, surrounding Ye Hao, a superstar, and together constitute a new trend of Chinese men's table tennis.

It stands to reason that the emergence of newcomers in Chinese men's table tennis and the frequent emergence of giants are of great benefit to the development and strength of the entire national team, but now this prosperous scene of a hundred flowers makes head coach Liu Guoliang a headache.

With only a year to go before China hosts the first Olympics in history, the rules of table tennis at the capital's Olympics have undergone major changes, putting Liu Guoliang under a lot of pressure. As the host and the world's largest table tennis power, the goal of the Chinese table tennis team must be to win all the gold medals, there is no doubt about it. Now is not the time to talk about any "wolf raising plan", and it is even more impossible to be humble, because we must put winning glory for the country in the first place.

Nowadays, the internal competition of the Chinese table tennis men's team is fierce, except for Ye Hao, who has absolute strength and can dominate, the rest of the people win or lose only by a millimeter. At next year's Olympic Games, table tennis will replace doubles with a team event, which means that the competition is more serendipitous and more demanding for the participating athletes.

First of all, in the previous doubles match, the Chinese team could send two combinations to the battle, at least double insurance. Even if one combination is unexpectedly eliminated, there is still another combination to look forward to. But now, the team competition depends on the performance of three people, both singles and doubles, which puts forward higher requirements for the performance of the players.

What is even more unfavorable to the Chinese team is that the limitation of the number of participants forces the Chinese team to send only three people to participate, whether it is singles or team, only these three people. Once a person encounters difficulties in the singles competition, it may even affect the performance of the team competition. On the other hand, the team competition may also affect the performance of the team members in the singles competition, because after all, in China, the team is more important than everything, and the weight of the team gold medal is a little heavier, so the team competition is bound to involve a lot of energy from the athletes.

In the current situation of national table tennis, except for Ye Hao, who can confirm that he is destined to enter next year's Olympic list, Liu Guoliang is still thinking about the remaining two places. After all, Ye Hao, the only Grand Slam winner in the current Chinese table tennis men's team, is definitely going to participate.

As for the other two, Liu Guoliang originally liked the two veterans, Wang Liqin and Ma Lin, after all, both of them have Olympic competition experience. However, the recent series of games has made Liu Guoliang's heart beat a small drum.

Although Wang Liqin and Ma Lin's performance in the World Table Tennis Championships should be said to be quite good, both reached the semifinals, and the former was the final with Ye Hao. However, the performance of these two in the next series of open tournaments is really worrying.

Wang Liqin, since 2007, has not won a championship in singles competitions in various competitions, which can be called embarrassing. If it was in his previous life, he could still have a World Table Tennis Championships men's singles champion to cover his shame, but now, he has gained nothing.

Ma Lin, who won a singles championship at the ITTF Tour Open at the beginning of the year, but for nearly half a year, he did not receive anything, not much better than Wang Liqin's situation.

However, if Liu Guoliang chooses Wang Hao and Ma Long as candidates for next year's Olympic Games, he has no bottom in his heart. After all, neither of them has Olympic experience, and neither has won the singles championship in the three world majors, which is a flaw for both of them. The best singles championship Wang Hao has ever won is the men's singles championship in the ITTF Tour Finals, and Ma Long has never even won this honor.

"Alas, what a headache!" Liu Guoliang couldn't help but sigh. It is not easy to be a good Chinese table tennis team, and most people think that the national table tennis is so strong, and anyone who is in charge can achieve dazzling results.

But in fact, only after you really sit in this position will you know that it is really too difficult to successfully complete the task and satisfy everyone! Because, in the eyes of the Chinese people, table tennis is a national sport, which can only be won and cannot be lost. However, the difficulty is that even if the national table tennis can continue to win, but winning too much will cause fans to get bored.

Everyone will think that the Chinese table tennis team will definitely win the championship as soon as it comes out, there is no suspense at all, it is boring. Just like the Chinese men's football team, why don't fans want to watch it, because there is always bad news, which makes who have the mood to pay attention all the time?

Therefore, Liu Guoliang was very troubled......