In the early morning of December 4th, Beijing time, the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships came to an end. In this competition, the national table tennis team won U19 (group under 19) men’s team, women’s team, men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles, while U15 (group under 15) won the gold medals in men’s team and men’s singles, and the other five events were completely wiped out, especially the women’s team lost all.
In terms of foreign associations, the Japanese team won the U15 women’s team, women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. As for the U15 men’s doubles, the gold medal was taken away by China Taipei players. The three Chinese and Japanese-Lin Shidong, Kuaiman and Xiao Yanyou-won the quadruple, and some people were happy and some were sad!
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Friends who are concerned about table tennis know that table tennis has been severely impacted by young players from foreign associations in recent years, and the younger the age, the smaller the advantage. This World Youth Championship can fully explain this point.
In the first group contest,Guoping U19 Women’s Team and U19 Men’s TeamThe two events played a stable role and won gold medals in succession; as forGuoping U15 Men’s TeamFirst, I beat the Japanese team in the semi-final, the deciding game and the last two points, and then I beat the China Taipei team 3-1 to reach the top.Japan U15 Women’s TeamHe won the championship for the first time by beating China 3-2 in the final.
In the following competitions, the scores of U19 and U15 were more divided, among which U19 athletes lost foreign wars, but eventually they won the men’s singles.Lin ShidongWon the gold medal, Wen Ruibo lost 1-4 in the final and became the runner-up, women’s singles.KuaimanThe final defeated Elena of Romania, andLin Shidong/Kuaiman, Lin Shidong/Wen Ruibo, Kuaiman/Xu YiThen you will win three doubles titles. Congratulations!
However, as mentioned before, the U15 women’s table tennis team didn’t win a gold medal, and it was completely destroyed by the foreign association players’ team. In addition to the team, the U15 men’s team also had singles.Sun YangWatanabe, who swept Japan 4-0 in the final, won the championship.
In terms of foreign associations, Japan U15 women’s team has already defeated Guoping, and in addition, women’s singles.Xiao Yan you CaiWinning Chinese and Korean players to the top in a row, Liu Yilin, the daughter of Korean Olympic champion Liu Nankui, swept 4-0 in the final, in women’s doubles.Xiao Yan You Cai/Gao Sen Ai YangAlso won the gold medal, and the mixed doubles were.Watanabe Min Ren/Xiao Yan You CaiIn the final, Sun Yang/Yan Yuling, a national table tennis team, narrowly beat 3-2, and Xiao Yanyou became the quadruple champion.
China Taipei team won the only gold medal in U15 men’s doubles.Guo Guanhong/Xu XianjiaBecame the biggest dark horse-the above is the final result of this World Youth Championship. I hope that the national table tennis teenager will win without arrogance and lose with grace and strive for better results next year!