Chen Meng's position in the Olympics has been severely threatened it seems. Her only bargaining chip at the moment is her steady performance on the World Tour (13 titles but no World Cup, Asian Cup, Asian Games, WTTC, Asian Championships, National Championships wins) but her #1 position (1300 pts) has been usurped by SYS (1319pts) after the recently concluded Australian Open, and not to mention her eventual loss to Ishikawa after leading 3-1. There is now the possibility that Sun Yingsha might serve as the third team member and play XD, as evident from this year's national games' XD pairings. Trailing behind only XX/LSW and FZD/DN (first and second seeds respectively), Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha are regarded as the third seeds. The other pairs (in seeding order) are Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu, Liang Jingkun/Zhu Yuling, Yu Ziyang/Chen Meng, Zhou Yu/Mu Zi and Zhou Zihao/Chen Xingtong, with CM being the only core player within the women's team not to be paired with another core player from the men's team (although ML's exemption clearly makes it an uneven number). It will also make more sense to bring SYS if both DN and LSW – which is possible given that they are the reigning Olympics and World Champions respectively – are going since the 18 year-old will still be in good form to play Paris 2024 (CM will be 29 by then while SYS only 23) and possibly even the subsequent Olympics (age 27). Just my two-cents.