Qiu Yike revealed details of the collapse of Paris! Sun Yingsha lost twice in the Olympics, but she didn t mention her name but was full of correctness

"I couldn't watch the game during that time. She hid in the room and cried. I smoked two packs of cigarettes in the corridor." Qiu Yike rarely showed his timidity in front of CCTV cameras, and cleaned up the details of the collapse after the women's singles final of the Paris Olympics. On August 7, 2024, Sun Yingsha made two consecutive serve mistakes when leading 9-7 in the fifth game. Four match points were resolved by Chen Meng one by one in the sixth game, and she finally lost the game 2-4. After the game, the master and apprentice hid in the Olympic Village room, staring blankly at the tactical boards all over the walls - the "Chen Meng's backhand diagonal lines" drawn in red circles were now like thorns piercing the heart.

The "two-way giving up" of a talented girl

Who would have thought that this girl who ran into a "little gyroscope" on the table was once a top student who could take the exam for Tsinghua and Peking University? When Sun Yingsha was in junior high school, she was 95+ in Chinese, mathematics and English. The head teacher still remembers how she was lying on the desk to draw a racket: "This girl always said 'When I win the world championship, I will go back to school to teach my younger brothers and sisters' questions.'" On the night she joined the National Second Team at the age of 15, she sent a message to her mother: "Don't worry, I remember both math formulas and table tennis footwork."

But what really made her "got all" was the 2017 Japan Open. At the age of 17, she was on the international arena for the first time, facing Chen Meng, the third-ranked world leader in the semi-finals. At 7-7, she suddenly changed her forehand triangle and watched her opponent's racket slip when she saved the game. This little girl who usually speaks with a numb sound clenched her fist and shouted the first "Sare!" in her career - that was her first defeat of Chen Meng, and it was also from this moment that the three words "Grand Slam" began to take root in her heart. In the "mirror life" of the two finals, the 21-year-old Sun Yingsha was like a pony breaking into the grassland. When she won the first game 11-9, she was comparing love to the baffle and did not notice the sudden cold light in Chen Meng's eyes. In the last four games, Chen Meng seemed to have become a different person. Every return of the ball was pressing against the big horn of her forehand. At the end of the fourth game, Sun Yingsha's return of the ball was out of bounds. She squatted on the ground and pulled her hair. The camera swept over her red ear tips - that was the first time, she showed an "unsure" expression in the competition.

When Paris reunion, 25-year-old Sun Yingsha already held the World Table Tennis Championships and World Cup championships, but suddenly "powered off" when she led 9-7 in the fifth game. Qiu Yike could see clearly on the sidelines: "She wrists were obviously stiff when she received the serve. All the balls that could be twisted before turned into short and high." The most heart-wrenching thing was in the sixth game. She was chased to 5-5 after leading 3-0. Sun Yingsha threw the water bottle to the ground while wiping sweat, and the water droplets splashed on her sneakers with the word "China", like stars falling all over the ground.

The "highest respect" of not talking about the name

Strangely, Sun Yingsha never directly mentioned the name of "Chen Meng" in the interview. After Paris' defeat, the reporter asked her "how to evaluate the opponent's performance". She stared at the floor and said, "People who can stand in the final arena have the ruthlessness to bite each ball." But Qiu Yike "finished" for her: "She has always studied Chen Meng's game video in private, and even the details of the opponent's like to walk two steps left when wiping sweat are recorded in the small notebook."

This "unspoken competition" reached its peak in the 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships. In the sixth game of the final, Sun Yingsha broke into a straight line with two consecutive boards and forehands when she was behind 8-10. After winning the match point, she did not celebrate, but instead reached out to touch Chen Meng's racket - the opponent who had blocked her Olympic gold medal twice, now became the "wiststone" that made her turn sharper.

Next stop breaking point

Now Sun Yingsha has 11,900 points in the world ranking, 3450 points more than the second place. Qiu Yike revealed that they are practicing "anti-instinct tactics" during the Loao cycle: "In the past, she wanted to fight and decide quickly, but now she deliberately dragged the game into the decisive game to cure the problem of "afraid of playing key points." In the 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships, she scored 6 points in a row when she was behind Wang Manyu 7-5 in the decisive game. After the last ball landed, she did not roar like before, but put the racket on her face and gasped quietly - this is the precipitation that only 25-year-old Sun Yingsha had.

On the tactical board beside the training field, the name "Chen Meng" has been wiped off, replaced by arrows and data of various colors, but everyone who has seen her training knows that the opponent who defeated her twice in the Olympic stadium has long become the "invisible counterweight" on her racket. When asked "How long will the Grand Slam wait?", she bit her wrist guard and smiled: "What's the hurry? A good story must be a bit suspense to look good."

In the twilight, a new round of confrontation began again. Sun Yingsha's sneakers rubbed against the floor with a harsh sound. Every time she swung her slap, it seemed like she was responding to those unspoken "Chen Meng Story" - the most moving thing about competitive sports was never many times, but that she knew that her opponent would build a high wall, but she still raised the slap again and again with scars on her body. Do you think Sun Yingsha can push down the "wall" with her own hands in the next Olympic stadium?

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