On July 13, Beijing time, the Chinese sports delegation for the Paris Olympic Games was established. A total of 15 people from the table tennis team formed a team of coaches and athletes to go to Paris. In this Olympics, it is not these national table tennis players who accept the challenge, but the on-site coaching ability of the women's team head coach Ma Lin, which has attracted much attention.
Table tennis team of 15 went to Paris:
Team leader: Qin Zhijian
Coach: Li Xun, Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Xiao Zhan, Qiu Yike;
Rehabilitation: Yuan Chaoming
Female athletes: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi
Male athletes: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun
Judging from the list, what is gratifying is that Sun Yingsha's head coach, Qiu Yike, is also accompanying him. One of the very important reasons why Sun Yingsha won the women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban is that it is inseparable from Qiu Yike's on-site guidance and control. Sun Yingsha defeated Wang Manyu to win the Macau World Cup. The master and apprentice could understand it with just one look. Qiu Yike still plays a very important role in Sa Sa Paris's championship. Among all the players who played, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin undoubtedly had the heaviest tasks. Both of them play singles, team, and mixed doubles. I hope Shasha and Datou can reasonably distribute their physical strength and achieve good results.
Liu Guoliang's control of the field is very important. Players need to increase their ability to adapt to the situation on the field. Ma Lin's on-field guidance has been questioned.
For competitions such as the Olympic Games, the National Table Tennis Team uses on-site guidance from the head coach. Chen Meng is Ma Lin's disciple, and the two have worked together for many years. Ma Lin has a tacit understanding of guiding Chen Meng. But when Ma Lin came to the scene to coach Sun Yingsha, it broke the pattern of Qiu Yike and Sun Yingsha as a master-disciple pair competing in competitions. Moreover, Ma Lin has repeatedly had ineffective guidance in international competitions, causing players to collapse and be eliminated.
In the 2023 Singapore Grand Slam, Ma Lin personally guided and watched the three main players Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, and Chen Xingtong being eliminated early. At the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, when Wang Yidi scored 9 match points, Ma Lin failed to give effective advice, allowing Japan's No. 1 sister to finally stand on the podium of the World Table Tennis Championships. At the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, Chen Meng lost to Hina Hayata 1-3, and Wang Yidi lost to Miu Hirano 0-3. Ma Lin's on-site guidance put the national table tennis women's team into an unfavorable situation. At this time, Liu Guoliang ran to the backcourt and woke up Chen Meng, who had lost to Hina Hayata. This was the turning point for the women's team to win the championship.
Liu Guoliang is worthy of being a master of on-site psychological adjustment. He observes the players' state and psychological changes in detail. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Liu Guoliang and Malone faced Zheng Rongzhi. After losing two games in a row, Liu Guoliang made a decisive move and asked Malone to go out and change his jersey. "Long, when you walk out of this arena, you have been eliminated. You have already lost the Olympics! You must not be lucky that you still have a chance. If you still play like you did in the first two games, you will lose 100%. Let's go out It’s impossible to come back!” It is impossible to expect Ma Lin to guide the players in a competition like this.
Ma Lin also personally coached the mixed doubles competition at the Tokyo Olympics. His grasp of fighters and tactical guidance were not very successful. In the Paris Olympics, with the on-site guidance of the head coach, I still hope that Sun Yingsha can adapt to herself better. I hope Liu Guoliang will also pay attention to the changes on the field in time. Ma Lin's on-site guidance is indeed unreliable.Everyone hopes that Qiu Yike or Ma Lin will coach Sun Yingsha at the Paris Olympics?
