Lose 8 games in a row! Fan Zhendong is at a low point, and the singles prospects of the 2024 Olympics are in jeopardy?
Many fans feel that Fan Zhendong has been playing the idea of the World Series recently, and it is almost impossible to win the men's singles championship, and he has lost consecutive events at home and abroad. The 2024 Paris Olympics will be a very critical moment for Fan Zhendong, and it will also be a key moment for him to win the Grand Slam.
The influence of young players is very great, Fan Zhendong has to adapt technically, psychologically, and physically, and if he wants to maintain the position of one side, he must have a stable situation, which is a very difficult thing.
We start with Fan Zhendong's eight defeats in the 2022 season, including four outside and four inside battles.
Foreign wars. Goa star match, Fan Zhendong defeated Zhao Dacheng 2-3;
Fan Zhendong defeated Alex Lebrun 2-3 in the Macau Championship;
Fan Zhendong defeated Lee Sang-so 1-3 in the Frankfurt Championship;
Chengdu Women's Championship Fan Zhendong defeated Zhang Jiazhihe 1-2.
Civil war. Fan Zhendong defeated Zagreb 3-4-4.
Fan Zhendong defeated Ma Long 2-3 at the Pyeongchang Asian Games.
Fan Zhendong defeated Wang Chuqin 2-3 at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Fan Zhendong defeated Wang Chuqin 0-4 in the final in Doha.
There are many reasons to fail, but I think there are three situations: one is a fatal failure. Lee Sang-so, Zhao Dacheng, Zhang Benzhi and the three defeated Fan Zhendong, all relying on fierce fighting to win. Fan Zhendong's strength is the high confrontation quality in the back end. South Korea, Japan and others have also conducted more in-depth research on Fan Zhendong. That is, to fight to the death on one or two boards before receiving the serve, rather than fighting with Fan Zhendong for the board behind. If the hit rate is high, there will be an accident. The second scenario is to lose a battle.
Alex Lebrun is a rising star in Europe, the national table tennis team does not know much about his serve and attacking style, and Fan Zhendong is also a famous athlete, losing to this French athlete is like a tough battle. If Fan Zhendong could play two more games with him, he would not lose to the world's No. 1. The third reason is that everyone is very aware of the situation in China. In recent years, Lin Gaoyuan and Ma Long have always been weak when facing Fan Zhendong, and if they want to defeat Fan Zhendong, they must show a better state. Wang Chuqin "double-killed" Fan Zhendong in the Asian Games and the finals, and under the guidance of Xiao Zhan, this core player of the post-00s has been greatly improved.
Some people may think that Wang Chuqin's victory over Fan Zhendong was due to his serve, but I don't agree with that. Table tennis is not just a serve, the strong confrontation between Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong will not fall behind. Wang Manyu has defeated Chen Meng, defeated Sun Yingsha, and won the women's singles championship at the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, all because Xiao Zhan trained her to be a person who can maintain the status of a female champion in the middle distance. When Wang Chuqin switched to Xiao Zhan, the pace of the game was significantly faster. Fan Zhendong has wanted to challenge Ma Long for many years, and now that he has become the strongest in the world, it is too difficult to keep the country. His skills have been thoroughly studied by his teammates and opponents, and he has also been mentally attacked from the outside world, and with a knee injury, Fan Zhendong is likely to fall into a small rock bottom in 2022.
The men's singles title at Paris 2024 is still the biggest cry, and this defeat is actually preparing for the explosion of this match.
Fan Zhendong doesn't lose a win in 2022, which is terrifying, because of the next big event. Without losing a game, won't you find your own problems and the position of your enemies? When it comes to the level of the Olympics, when people are noticed again, there is no way to remedy it. The civil war and the defeat abroad will have a great encouraging effect on Fan Zhendong's men's singles competition at the Paris Olympics. The Lebrun brothers, Lin Yunru, and Wang Chuqin, although they are all post-00 players, Fan Zhendong is still the best in terms of experience and personal ability in the competition. With the Paris Olympics just a few months away, it is unrealistic how much technical transformation Fan Zhendong will complete. The most important thing is that Fan Zhendong's injury has not yet healed, and it is still very difficult to defeat him.