Table tennis was born at the end of 19, when it appeared as an indoor simplified version of tennis. From then to 1950s, the main techniques of this sport were shooting, pushing and chopping. The gap between male and female table tennis players in the early days was not very big, because the equipment at that time only had a light board, which could not produce any speed and rotation, which invisibly weakened the physical advantage of men. Moreover, because it is a small ball sport, women still have certain advantages in control, which makes up for their lack of hitting quality.
In the 1950s, a great event happened in the world table tennis world, that is, the Japanese invented sponge rubber, and then created the attack mode of loop ball. In addition, the speed rubber such as ordinary rubber and raw rubber has also made great progress, and the changes in these equipment have qualitatively improved the offensive quality of table tennis. As mentioned above, the earliest table tennis bat was a light board, and the power generated by riveting your strength would be blocked and weakened by it. After changing a set of glue, you can obviously feel that the speed, strength, rotation and other indicators have improved. The more balls you play, the greater the threat. At this time, you can give full play to the physical advantages of male players.
It turns out that in the last century, there were many things in table tennis that limited the play of male players. For example, the rule of blocking serve is very beneficial for athletes with little strength to seize the initiative in the competition. The popular short-ball technique in Taiwan Province Province also enabled many delicate girls to control the male players before the attack when the ball was 38 mm. In short, there was too much delicate work in table tennis technique at that time, which could not make up for the gap in strength, so many female players could only play with the male players. Unlike now, when everyone started to play Latin America and played twice, how can a girl be comparable to a man?
However, since the 1980s, the gap between male and female table tennis players has been getting bigger and bigger, so that the top styles of play in the two fields also show great differences. What happened? The biggest change comes from the equipment-since the 1980s, the expansion principle of organic glue has become popular in table tennis. Anti-glue players can get better hitting quality after pouring glue on a large scale, which leads to a serious squeeze on fast break and exquisite living space, and clapping hands is the first to bear the brunt.
Since Cao Yanhua 1985 won the World Table Tennis Championship, the women's table tennis team has never won the singles world championship in succession. However, since Xuan Zhenhua won the World Table Tennis Championship with 1993, there has been no world singles champion in the world. On the other hand, in the field of men's table tennis, Liu 1999 achieved a Grand Slam, won the Olympic Games in 2004, won the men's singles in 2008 and was the runner-up in 2008. Xu Xin, the world champion of singles, is still in service. The decline in the field of women's table tennis backhand objectively reflects the shortcomings of female players compared with male players: first, their strength is small, especially their explosive power, and their attack is not their quality; Second, the footwork is slow, and the forehand advantage of forehand grip can not be realized, which leads to the disadvantage of forehand grip being amplified.
In fact, rowing has the same problem, but after all, rowers pay attention to positional warfare and don't have to beat each other. In addition, the backhand is calmer than the backhand, so the women's table tennis court has long been completely controlled by the horizontal racket players. Up to now, there are basically no players in the first line of women's table tennis. So what is the situation in the field of women's table tennis? Actually, it's not much better From the mid-1980s to this century, the styles of top female table tennis players gradually softened. Chen Jing and Deng Yaping are both backhand particles, and the attack is fierce; Wang Nan's words are still very aggressive; In Zhang Yining, I became the spokesman for overall stability and even defensive counter-attack.
At the same time, the competition between men's table tennis players and horizontal bar players is becoming more and more fierce. At the beginning, it is best to shoot the first three boards first, and then there are Wald and others; Said that the forehand was not malicious enough, and Wang and others appeared; Backhand has always been better than backhand, so Zhang and others brought the twisting technique to the stage. Women's table tennis has always had a slogan, called "masculine". Although Li and other powerful athletes also appeared, they still focused on near-Taiwan control and positional warfare in consciousness. Until the year before last, Miyuki, Ye Ping and other talents began to gradually introduce the penhold style into Taiwan Province. At present, this play can not be said to occupy most of the mainstream of women's table tennis.
After many reforms of ITTF, table tennis technology has become more and more dependent on physical fitness while changing equipment and abolishing the rules of blocking serve. The vigorous high-speed loop ball has firmly occupied the top field of men's table tennis, but it is difficult for female players to play such a ball, so the result of the "gender war" in table tennis is also normal. Ten years ago, when Kong first went to coach the women's team, he commented that Zhang Yining and Wang Nan's balls were full of loopholes. Since then, Ding Ning and Li have also been half-jokingly compared with Bohr, persson and Li, and there is no comparability at all. Although both Zhang Benzhi and Ito Meicheng praised "speed and responsiveness can be comparable to men", have they really tried? There is no need to guess the result.