As the former captain of Chinese women's table tennis , Ding Ning has retired and entered university for further studies, starting a new journey in his life. In today's national table tennis women's team, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu firmly occupy the main position. They are also the three cores of the national table tennis team in the Paris Olympic cycle. On June 20, Ding Ning celebrated her 32nd birthday. The Table Tennis Federation also sent a special message to send birthday wishes and pointed out her greatness. Can Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu do it?
Ding Ning’s story is very inspiring. Originally, she was not very high in the main list of the national table tennis team. However, at the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam, Ding Ning won the women’s singles championship, which also allowed her to successfully win a singles title at the London Olympics. The number of entries in the competition. Ding Ning also successfully reached the finals, but unfortunately lost to his teammate Li Xiaoxia . However, Ding Ning was not discouraged, but kept working hard, and finally defeated Li Xiaoxia at the Rio Olympics , won the women's singles gold medal, and achieved a Grand Slam.
The World Table Tennis Federation did not forget to send birthday wishes to Ding Ning, and specifically pointed out Ding Ning’s greatness, reminding everyone that she is the fifth Grand Slam winner in the history of the national table tennis women’s team. To 21 world championship titles. As the World Table Tennis Federation said, Ding Ning's career is brilliant. It is not an easy thing to win 21 championships and achieve a Grand Slam in the world table tennis world where there are many masters. Ding Ning has done it.
Let’s take a look at Ding Ning’s results, and then look back at the current main players of the National Table Tennis Women’s Team. Whether it is Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha or Wang Manyu, they all have the potential to become the next Grand Slam player. Chen Meng is undoubtedly the closest to this goal. She is only one away from winning the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship. Wang Manyu lacks Olympic and World Cup singles championships, while Sun Yingsha has won 3 singles silver medals in three major competitions and has not won an individual championship in a major competition.
Although Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are talented and continue to improve, there is still a question mark whether they can achieve Ding Ning's achievements. Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu still have to compete with each other. Whether they can become Grand Slam players is worth looking forward to.
