How do Chinese women s table tennis teams arrange their troops in the Los Angeles Olympics? Wang Manyu and Kuaiman are competing increasingly fiercely

In this year's Doha World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu and Kuai Man joined forces to successfully win the women's doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with a record of not losing a single game!

However, after the Doha World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis coaching team separated Wang Manyu and Kuai Man, the new World Table Tennis Championships women's doubles champions, and sent Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, a pair of women's doubles in the US Grand Slam and Swedish Grand Slam in succession!

What is the reason for this?

Judging from the current situation, this is mainly for the start of layout for the Los Angeles Olympics!

Everyone knows that before the Doha World Table Tennis Championships, the ITTF announced that in the Los Angeles Olympics, the men's doubles and women's doubles returned to the Olympics, and the men's and women's teams were cancelled and mixed team events were added!

In this way, in the Los Angeles Olympics, the table tennis event will produce six gold medals: men's and women's singles, men's and women's teams, mixed doubles and mixed teams!

In this case, men's doubles and women's doubles have become as important as mixed doubles!

From the recent US Grand Slam and Swedish Grand Slam, the national table tennis team has sent Lin Shidong/Kuaiman as a mixed doubles combination in the mixed doubles! However, the women's doubles separated Wang Manyu and Kuaiman and sent Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu to the women's doubles combination!

The purpose is to be very clear, that is, to relieve stress from Kuaiman. In the Los Angeles Olympics, Kuaiman is likely to play in the women's singles, mixed doubles and mixed teams! Avoid letting Kuaiman play four items in Los Angeles!

But in this case, Wang Manyu will most likely lose the singles in the Los Angeles Olympics!

In fact, the situation is indeed very bad for Wang Manyu at present, especially in singles, Wang Manyu faces great difficulties! Because during the Los Angeles Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu will compete with Kuai Man for a singles place!

Why is it said that Wang Manyu competes with Kuai Man for singles quota, rather than Sun Yingsha for singles quota?

It is mainly because Sun Yingsha has already locked in the position of "first singles"! In the 2025 season, Sun Yingsha won all top-level championships in the Singapore Grand Slam, Chongqing Championship, Macau World Cup, and Doha World Table Tennis Championships. She was unbeaten in the foreign battle and had a stable winning rate in the team. Her technical comprehensiveness (in-Taiwan control, line change ability) and psychological stress resistance have formed a fault advantage!

Therefore, Wang Manyu's actual competitive goal is to compete with Kuaiman for the remaining singles place.

But Wang Manyu and Kuaiman also face great difficulties in competing!

First of all, Kuaiman's "technical suppression" of Wang Manyu: his playing style is incompatible and directly hits the weaknesses of the system!

Entering the 2025 season, Kuaiman has defeated Wang Manyu twice in the Singapore Grand Slam and the Macau World Cup!

Kuaiman's left hand center-near-Taiwan fast attack system (backhand quick tear up a large angle + forehand quick pulling diagonal line) compresses the position space, limits Wang Manyu's defensive advantage in retreating to Taiwan, forcing him to fall into a passive stalemate!

Second point: Age and echelon iteration: Kuaiman's "strategic dividend" cannot be ignored

Wang Manyu (born in 1999) will be 29 years old in the 2028 Olympics. His reliance on the mid-range and long-term platform running style increases the risk of old knee and waist injuries (such as withdrawing from the Chongqing Championship due to injury)!

And Kuaiman was born in 2004, at the Los Angeles Olympics, she was only 24 years old! It is in line with the female table tennis team's "speed-facing" technology trend, and has higher physical efficiency!

At the same time, Kuai Man and Lin Shidong are the world's first in mixed doubles. If the Olympic mixed doubles are qualified, the team competition pick will boost the singles nomination!

Third point: Echelon construction policy: Kuaiman's "resource tilt" has become a trend

Chairman of the Table Tennis Association Wang Liqin repeatedly emphasized "accelerating the training of young players". As a leading figure in the 2004 generation, Kuaiman played in the women's singles with Sun Yingsha during the Los Angeles Olympics, which is more in line with the Olympic tradition of "old and new"!

For Wang Manyu, he will be at least 29 years old at the Los Angeles Olympics. In the history of the national table tennis team, there has never been a precedent for the first time to participate in the Olympic singles at the age of 29! After the Doha World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis team took the initiative to dismantle Wang Manyu/Kuaiman’s women’s doubles championship combination and changed it to Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu’s partner. This is actually to reduce Kuaiman's pressure on both sides and make him focus on singles competition. In fact, it is paving the way for him in the Olympics. Of course, for Wang Manyu, it is not a complete loss of Los Angeles' singles opportunity!

In the next few years, if Wang Manyu can do the following, he still has a great chance to qualify for singles in the Los Angeles Olympics:

First: Technology transformation

Wang Manyu can reduce his dependence on retreating, strengthen the changes in attacking and serving on the top three boards, and break through Kuaiman's speed suppression!

Second: Maintain the stability of foreign wars

Before the Los Angeles Olympics, you can maintain the stability of foreign wars, especially in some key competitions, not inferior to foreign wars and win the trust of the coaching staff!

In fact, Wang Manyu lost the singles at the Paris Olympics because in the last round of the trial, that is, the 2024 Saudi Grand Slam, Wang Manyu failed to withstand the pressure and lost to Indian player Batra, which led to Wang Manyu missing the singles at the Paris Olympics!

Therefore, during the Los Angeles Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu must be able to maintain the stability of foreign wars! 1

Third: The 2027 World Table Tennis Championships won the championship,

The champion of this event will directly lock in the Olympic singles qualification. If Wang Manyu fails to win the championship, Sun Yingsha needs to defend the title - if Kuaiman reaches the top, Wang Manyu may be completely eliminated!

Overall, if Wang Manyu fails to win the 2027 World Table Tennis Championships or continues to lose to Kuaiman, the national table tennis team is likely to complete the Olympic iteration with the new and old combination of "Sun Yingsha + Kuaiman".. Wang Manyu’s dream of Olympic singles is the ultimate race against time, technology and the wave of the new generation!

I hope Wang Manyu can never give up, be brave enough to fight, and achieve his ultimate dream. Come on!