[14] On September 26, in the mixed doubles semifinals of the 2016 National Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu and Yu Ziyang lost 1–4 to Ma Long and Ding Ning and won the third place; on September 27, in the women's doubles semifinals, Wang Manyu and Che Xiaoxi lost 3–4 to Wen Jia and Chen Xingtong and won the third place.

[19] On September 4, in the 1st and 4th finals of the women's singles at the 13th National Games, Wang Manyu lost 3–4 to Zhu Yuling and missed the semifinals.

[21] On February 11, in the 2017–2018 season of the Chinese Table Tennis Super League, Wang Manyu won two points on behalf of the Jilin Changbaishan team.

[23] On January 19, 2019, in the women's singles semi-finals of the 2019 ITTF World Tour Hungarian Open, Wang Manyu lost 1–4 to Chen Meng and won the third place.

[24] On January 20, at the 2019 ITTF World Tour Hungarian Open, Wang Manyu/Zhu Yuling defeated Chen Meng/Sun Yingsha 3–1 in the final to win the women's doubles championship.

[25] On February 2, in the 2018-2019 Chinese Table Tennis Super League women's team final, Luneng Weifang defeated Shenzhen University 3–0, and Wang Manyu won the Table Tennis Super League women's team championship for the first time.

[30] On October 7, the Chinese team's entry list for the 2019 Table Tennis World Cup was released, and Wang Manyu was selected.

[34] Wang Manyu played in the team event of the Tokyo Olympics because of Liu Shiwen's withdrawal due to an elbow injury.

[36][37] In September, Wang reached the quarter-finals of the China National Games after a tiring win against chopper Liu Fei.