Sun Yingsha's personal achievements are getting higher and higher, having won a total of 11 world championships in her career. However, her relationships with several main team members have become increasingly tense, as evident from the recently concluded table tennis super league final. In the fifth round of the final between Wang Manyu and Tan Yuexuan, there was a controversial point in the fifth set, but the referee had already decided to replay the point.
Despite this, the match was delayed for a full 10 minutes, during which Wang Manyu approached Sun Yingsha to communicate, hoping that Sun Yingsha would ask her fans to stop shouting so that the match could continue. However, at that time, Sun Yingsha did not seem to think that the cheering of the audience was related to her, and she repeatedly waved her hand to Wang Manyu to indicate that it was unrelated to her.
After the audience's shouting stopped for 10 minutes, Wang Manyu and Tan Yuexuan were able to continue their match. When Wang Manyu defeated Tan Yuexuan, she no longer maintained her usual elegance and grace, instead roaring towards the stands twice, expressing her dissatisfaction with the audience's shouting in addition to celebrating her victory.
In fact, Wang Manyu is not only dissatisfied with the audience's shouting, but also her relationship with Sun Yingsha has become tense. Wang Manyu used to be Sun Yingsha's women's doubles partner, and they won the women's doubles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in 19 and 21, but they also lost some key matches.
For example, at the 23rd Durban World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha lost in the women's doubles semi-finals to the South Korean pair of Shin Yubin and Jeon Jihee, and Wang Manyu was always the one being questioned. In fact, after losing in various big and small competitions in the past, only Wang Manyu was subjected to all kinds of doubts, which is also the reason why the relationship between Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha became tense.
It has been a long time since Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha have partnered in women's doubles again. Another women's doubles partner of Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, encountered the same problem. For example, at the Fukuoka Finals, Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha lost 1:3 to the Japanese pair of Sato Miu and Itakura Honoka, and only Wang Yidi was subjected to various doubts after the match.
It can be seen that due to Sun Yingsha's popularity far exceeding that of other teammates, no matter who among the main female table tennis players partners with Sun Yingsha and loses a match, they will be subjected to various doubts. Chen Xintong and Qian Tianyi, who have not yet partnered with Sun Yingsha in women's doubles, may keep their distance from Sun Yingsha, learning from the experiences of Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi.
At the next important event, the Singapore Grand Slam next year, Sun Yingsha made an exception by not participating in three or two events but only in one women's singles event. If Sun Yingsha does not have a fixed women's doubles partner, she will not be able to participate in the women's doubles event at the Doha World Table Tennis Championships next year and can only participate in one women's singles event, which will indirectly affect the growth rate of Sun Yingsha's world championship titles.
On the other hand, teammate Wang Manyu will partner with Kuai Man in the women's doubles at the Singapore Grand Slam next year. If they achieve excellent results, they will become each other's fixed women's doubles partners. At the Doha World Table Tennis Championships next year and future world championships, Wang Manyu will be able to participate in both women's doubles and women's singles events, which will greatly help the growth rate of Wang Manyu's world championship titles, and in the future, Wang Manyu's number of world championships may surpass Sun Yingsha.