Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) Poh Li San said inexperience has cost the women’s team a place at the Paris Olympics, ending a run that spanned four Summer Games beginning at the 2008 edition in Beijing. The latest world team ranking was released on March 4, and...
Singapore's Zeng Jian and Wong Xin Ru will have to regroup and refocus for Paris 2024 individual event qualification after the Republic missed out on the Olympic table tennis women's team event qualification for the first time.Singapore Table Tennis Association Poh Li San said inexperience has cost the women’s team a place at the Paris Olympics, ending a run that spanned four Summer Games beginning at the 2008 edition in Beijing.
Poh attributed the team’s decline to the retirement of China-born players Feng Tianwei, Yu Mengyu and Lin Ye, who were all ranked in the top 35 at some point, as well as inexperience. “The average age of the women’s team is 21 years old, the second-youngest team out of the 64 teams at the world championships after Japan. Hence, our team are admittedly still rather raw and inexperienced compared to the other teams.”
STTA senior high performance manager Eddy Tay said the team worked with a sports psychologist during their training camp in Shimada, Japan, before the world championships and will continue to do so.
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