Is there anyone who pretends to bump into your field of expertise? Zhang Yining was a guest commentator in the women’s team competition of the 53rd World Table Tennis Championships
in 2016.
During the commentary, they commented that the domestic table tennis players had too many shortcomings, that their quality could not keep up with them, that their technical level was not up to standard, and so on. In short, they described the domestic table tennis players as worthless, and some spectators said, “You can do it!”. Chang Yi-ning said without any modesty: “If I go up, I go up!” This is actually an interesting joke, but one thing is true. When Zhang Yining was commenting on a match, another commentator on the same stage said: Every player has shortcomings.
The big devil answered in no low-key way: “I didn’t!” Zhang Yining joined the Beijing team in 1991 and the national team two years later. In
2004, Zhang Yining won the title at the Athens Olympic Games by beating Kim Hyang-mi, a North Korean athlete known for her “ferocity,” 4-0. The women’s singles champion of the
World Table Tennis Championships achieved the Grand Slam of the individual World Championships, the Olympic Games and the World Cup. In
2006, at the World Table Tennis Championships in Germany, Zhang Yining led the Chinese team to win the Corbillon Cup for the 16th time. At the end of
the same year, Zhang Yining ranked first in the world. In
2008, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining defeated her “old enemy” Wang Nan 4-1 in the women’s singles final and successfully defended her title.
In 2011, Zhang Yining officially announced her retirement.
Among the contemporary sports actresses, no one can match Zhang Yining.
Putting Zhang Yining in the long history of sports in New China in 1962, she is not inferior to her predecessor Deng Yaping, but also comparable to the famous Lang Ping, Gao Min and others! 1. After retiring from the battle for the succession of the Chinese women’s table tennis team, Zhang Yining once said to her daughter: “You can play with the gold medal casually, but you can’t play with the silver medal, because this is the only one. If you want to play with the silver medal, you can find your uncle Wang Hao. He has a lot of them, and they are all serial numbers. If you want to play with the bronze medal, you can find Aunt Ai Fukuhara, and you can bring back a lot of biscuits.”.
This is just a joke and cannot be taken seriously, but there is no doubt about Chang Yi-ning’s strength.
Although Zhang Yining is in the table tennis world at home and abroad, there is a roadblock that she has been unable to escape, that is, Wang Nan. Who is
Wang Nan?
She is the second generation of Chinese women’s table tennis devil. Before retirement, she held 24 world championships and kept the record for 11 years, which shows her strength and horror.
Only Zhang Yining herself knew how painful it was to be shrouded by Wang Nan’s halo.
In an interview program, Wang Nan said with a smile: Zhang Yining was beaten by me and didn’t want to see me.
This statement is not an exaggeration. At the
2001 World Table Tennis Championships in Osaka, Zhang Yining lost to Wang Nan in the semifinals. In the
Ninth National Games in 2001, Zhang Yining lost to Wang Nan again in the final 2-3. At that time, she even threw her racket, kicked the table and even gave up catching the ball in the final game. She lost 5-21 without grace, and then received a three-month suspension from the team. She was like a troubled girl.
And this is also the darkest memory in Zhang Yining’s sports career.
Obviously, Zhang Yining did not have the psychological quality to defeat Wang Nan at that time.
But Zhang Yining is a person who is very cruel to herself. In order to stimulate herself, she did not hesitate to prick her thigh with an awl.
Four years later, in the peak battle of the 10th National Games, although Zhang Yining ranked first in the world, she still had no bottom in the face of Wang Nan, the dominant women’s singles player.
Before the game, many people said that this was a battle for the handover of the new and old “first sisters” of Chinese women’s table tennis. Yang Ying,
a former Chinese table tennis player and commentator, and Cai Zhenhua, then assistant director of the General Administration of Sports of China, were the special commentators of the match.
Cai Zhenhua said: Wang Nan is the best table tennis player in the world at present. Technically speaking, each has its own characteristics, and psychologically, she is also outstanding. Whether
young athlete Zhang Yining can defeat Wang Nan is still unknown, but it is also expected.
The game begins. In
the first game, Wang Nan took the lead and won the first game with 11:6.
Because Wang Nan is very familiar with Zhang Yining’s scoring methods in every cricket, as well as the characteristics of penetration, rotation, strength and speed, Zhang Yining is very passive.
By the second inning, Zhang Yining gradually calmed down and understood that in order to defeat Wang Nan, besides the technical advantage, she had to overcome the pressure psychologically. Zhang Yining, who
adjusted her mentality, quickly stabilized the situation. There was an interesting scene in the
match. When the score reached 10:4, Zhang Yining suddenly dropped the board and left, which made the referee and coach Zhou Shusen very puzzled. It turned out that Zhang Yining had no distractions during the match and miscalculated the score. Reminded
by Wang Nan with a smile, Zhang Yining scratched her head shyly and returned to the competition site.
Because Zhang Yining arrived at the match point first, Wang Nan took out her table tennis stunt with a hit rate of almost 90% and fought.
2. Full slam table tennis fighting is not a skill but a tactic. When a match falls behind in a big score or encounters an opponent with too great disparity in strength, as long as the opportunity arises, the players will take the initiative to attack, serve and attack, receive and attack, grab and pull near the table, disrupt the rhythm of the opponent, create psychological pressure on the opponent, and try to reverse the situation.
Popularly speaking, no matter what the opponent serves or returns, the player chooses to “spike the ball” directly.
Wang Nan’s high hit rate makes Zhang Yining very headache.
Sure enough, Wang Nan succeeded in the first two boards, and the last board did not come to the stage. Zhang Yining tied the score with 11:6.
In the third and fourth games, Zhang Yining lost in a row.
In the face of Wang Nan, who had held down herself several times, Zhang Yining thought at this time that if she wanted to win, she had to change her playing style, but the premise was to be bold.
From the beginning of the fifth inning, Zhang Yining began to use the platform play, do not retreat, take the initiative to attack, several consecutive positive boards, but were resolved by Wang Nan.
Just when people felt that Zhang Yining was in a bad situation, she suddenly showed great power. Relying on the exploration of Wang Nan’s tactics in the first few games, she made great efforts to turn the tide and won two games in a row with 11:7 and 11:6, dragging the game into the final! Before the start of the seventh inning, Chang Yi-ning secretly encouraged herself: Be firm in your thinking and don’t change! I’m sure I can win! After entering the final game, every point is crucial, and the game has entered a white-hot stage. In the middle of the
final game, Zhang Yining always kept playing without retreating, and attacked fiercely on the front board and the back board.
A narrow victory over the second generation of the big devil Wang Nan, from the game score of 1 to 3 behind, to the game score of 4 to 3 limit reversal! It was this match that made Zhang Yining the “Grand Slam” of the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup, the Asian Games and the National Games singles champions.
So far, the two or three generations of Chinese women’s table tennis have completed the handover. Wang Nan, who has entered the end of her career, will finally come to an end. The era of the devil belongs to Zhang Yining is coming! However, along the way, Zhang Yining also had some opponents who made her rack her brains and even fly into a rage.
3. Angry score 11:0 Zhang Yining met her first angry opponent in the group stage of the 47th World Table Tennis Championships in Paris in 2003.
That is South Korean player Lee Eun-sil.
South Korea is recognized as the country with the least competitive spirit in the world. Similarly, South Korean table tennis player Lee Eun-sil is also one of the athletes with the least competitive spirit. Before
that, in the first match, Wang Nan unexpectedly lost to South Korean player Kim Kyung-ah, which made South Korean table tennis players excited collectively.
Therefore, when Li Enshi faced Zhang Yining, she took it for granted that Zhang Yining would also be defeated by her own strength.
But after the opening, Zhang Yining, with the attitude of avenging Wang Nan’s loss, started with all her strength and poured out her firepower without reservation.
Although Li Enshi got the first three points at the beginning, Zhang Yining still caught Li Enshi off guard after his teammates won the game! After losing the first game 0-1, Li Enshi obviously realized that the strength disparity between himself and Zhang Yining was too great, and there was no hope of winning, so he did not intend to play well and began to play tricks.
In the course of the match, no matter whether the ball was in good or bad condition, Lee Eun-shih always fought directly, hitting the ball far away, allowing Chang Yi-ning to run all over the court to pick up the ball, and using this disgusting “tactic” to consume Chang Yi-ning’s physical strength.
Moreover, every time after Li Enshi scored, he would deliberately provoke Zhang Yining with a very arrogant gesture of celebration.
Zhang Yining naturally understood Li Enshi’s cleverness. She kept quiet on the surface and kept her demeanor.
But her heart was already burning with anger, and she was determined to teach Lee Eun-shi a hard lesson.
Here I want to talk about the scoring rules of the international table tennis tournament.
The original table tennis system was a 21-point system, with two wins in three games. There are too many uncontrollable factors in the
table tennis competition itself, the 21-point three-game two-win system is not ornamental enough, and the 21-point super-long battle time especially consumes the athletes’physical strength, and the three-game two-win system can not give full play to the athletes’ strength, and in order to curb the powerful Chinese table tennis team, since September 1, 2001. The General Assembly of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) once again reformed the competition system, and the proposal of “banning chest cover service” and changing each game from 21 points to 11 points were both passed.
Since the score of the table tennis match was changed from 21 points to 11 points, and it was the best of seven games, because the score of the match was reduced, it was very likely that the opponent would “hold duck eggs.” Therefore, in order to avoid the embarrassment of the opponent, there was an unwritten “unspoken rule” in the match, that is, the opponent could not be hit “bald.”. In the face of weak players from other countries, the
Chinese team usually gives up a few balls, so that the opponent will not lose too ugly, and can maintain friendly relations between the two countries.
In the face of the dead South Korean player Lee Eun-sil, the patience of the big devil waited until the fourth inning. At the beginning of
the fourth inning, the big devil volcano erupted, relying on good technology, actively attacking and decisively fighting, angrily brushing South Korean player Lee Eun-sil 11:0! Finally, the furious Zhang Yining let Li Enshi buy a ticket home in advance with an absolute advantage of 4-0.
Later, when Liu Guoliang was in charge of the national team, he also explained to Zhang Jike and other players that when he met the South Korean team, he did not have to show mercy, but directly did his opponent’s bald head! Zhang Yining hit Lee Eun-sil 11:0 this time, which was the only time in her career that she hit her opponent with a bald head, leaving no mercy at all.
The Korean player shaved his head without mercy, and when he hit the Japanese player, Zhang Yining was not careful and made his opponent cry.
4. Crying Fukuhara Ai Zhang Yining is known as the third generation of female table tennis devil, so how strong is her strength?
In the women’s singles eighth finals of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining played against Japan’s national treasure table tennis player Ai Fukuhara.
Ai Fukuhara is the youngest Japanese national athlete in history.
She is similar to the racket rubber used by Deng Yaping, the first generation of big devil, and backhand is her specialty.
It is worth mentioning that before the start of the match, Japanese sports reporters found the Chinese women’s table tennis team and said that Ai Fukuhara wanted to win the match, but the response of the Chinese women’s table tennis team was: See you on the court.
Zhang Yining has an advantage. She never despises any opponent on the field. Of course, she will respond severely to the provocation of her opponent. After the start of the
game, Fukuhara Ai made a mistake in serving and attacking, and Zhang Yining took the lead in scoring.
After that, Ai Fukuhara repeatedly attacked, but unfortunately failed to break through Zhang Yining’s defense line, but repeatedly lost points.
In international table tennis competitions, there is an unwritten rule that in a small game, the opponent cannot be beaten 11:0. Shih Chih-hao, head coach of the women’s table tennis team, reminded Zhang Yining: “How many balls did you give her?”. Chang Yi-ning says helplessly, “I gave in, but she still couldn’t take it!” For this reason, in the second set of the match, in order to avoid embarrassing the opponent with 11:0, Zhang Yining threw the ball directly to the ground when the score entered 9:0, giving the audience a “zero performance” to let the ball, so Fukuhara Ai scored one point. Liu Wei, the
commentator and former women’s table tennis world champion, almost laughed at the embarrassing ball, which was also to ensure that Fukuhara Ai did not lose so badly.
It also directly proves the incomparable strength of the big devil Zhang Yining. Ai Fukuhara, who
was given the ball, seemed to have suffered a blow to her self-esteem. Holding back her little face, she adopted the strategy of “Jedi survival” in table tennis tactics: fighting and killing.
This is usually a strategy adopted when the players have no way out, but obviously did not play any role in Zhang Yining, because at this time Zhang Yining has begun to find the feeling that Wang Nan had controlled the game, she intentionally slowed down the pace, and when Fukuhara Ai just adapted, Zhang Yining suddenly launched a fast attack, which caught Fukuhara Ai by surprise. Just give up defense.
The result can be imagined. In the first three games, Zhang Yining gained an advantage with a high score of 11:5, 11:2, and 11:5 respectively. However, in the fourth game, Zhang Yining’s plan to wait for Ai Fukuhara’s own “mistake” to score had a loophole, and she lost the game by 9:11. After the start of the most
exciting fifth inning, Zhang Yining was frequently scored by Fukuhara Ai when she adjusted her state, but Zhang Yining did not panic at all. She understood that in order to win the final victory, she had to strengthen the quality of serving and returning the ball. In the follow-up, she deliberately strengthened the tricky landing point of table tennis, and used the roundabout ball to attack Fukuhara Ai at a high speed, which made Fukuhara Ai very uncomfortable to catch the ball. Sure enough, Zhang Yining finally lost the key game by 11:8, and won the victory and entered the top 8.
The competition was very exciting, but what made the audience laugh and cry was that Fukuhara Ai actually shed tears in the interview afterwards, which was labeled as “crying” by Zhang Yining.
Commentator Liu Wei commented after the game.
As far as the current development level of table tennis in the world is concerned, Zhang Yining has represented the ceiling of the world women’s table tennis level, and Zhang Yining herself still has room for improvement and development potential in terms of rhythm, technology, psychological quality, and capturing the rapidly changing situation on the court.
Zhang Yining’s strength is beyond doubt, but in one game, even as a big devil, she almost capsized in the gutter, because this time Zhang Yining encountered the strongest opponent and the biggest difficulty. 5.
the toughest match Zhang Yining faced Feng Tianwei of Singapore in the women’s singles quarterfinals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
This game can be called the most difficult one since Zhang Yining played, for at least four reasons.
First, about the opponent Feng Tianwei.
Feng Tianwei was originally a Chinese player. She was taught by Liu Guoliang’s brother Liu Guodong. She ranked second in the world in women’s singles table tennis.
From the Qatar Table Tennis Open in 2005 to the Asian Cup in 2008, Zhang Yining and Feng Tianwei met four times.
Every time, the “Big Devil” lost to the other side with great regret.
You should know that this period of time is the peak of Zhang Yining’s career, which shows that Feng Tianwei’s strength is quite terrible.
Second, there is something wrong with Zhang Yining’s racket.
Your motherboard failed the test. The referee said that the middle of the motherboard was a little uneven. Maybe the glue was a little thick. After the
coach said these words to Zhang Yining, Zhang Yining’s heart was half cold! Even Zhang Yining herself did not expect that in such a crucial final of the Beijing Olympic Games, before the competition, she was informed that her motherboard had failed the test. What makes Zhang Yining
even more speechless is that her spare board has passed the test, but it is also a dangerous pass.
Generally speaking, the player’s motherboard is the racket used in the formal competition, which needs to be strictly tested before it can be brought into the arena. The spare plate will be replaced
only if it is damaged by a bump. There was no care at all when
the racket was dipped. The sponge was made a long time ago, and both its elasticity and stickiness were very poor, like the sole of a shoe.
Even the person involved, Chang Yi-ning, disliked the spare board like the sole of a shoe. It can be seen that Chang Yi-ning herself felt that the competition was difficult.
Thirdly, the eighth and quarter competitions of the Beijing Olympic Games were arranged on the same day.
That is to say, Zhang Yining just defeated Japanese player Ai Fukuhara in the morning, and in the afternoon she will face Feng Tianwei, a powerful opponent, which is a great challenge to Zhang Yining’s physical strength.
Fourth, at home, is the national ball, but also the Olympic Games such an important game, Zhang Yining almost bear a game that can only win but not lose, which shows how much pressure she bears.
When Zhang Yining took the spare racket to practice, the problem came as expected. The heat and radian of the spare racket deviated from the normal racket, and it was awkward to play, which directly affected Zhang Yining’s condition.
Because the motherboard failed to pass the test, Zhang Yining could only use the only “sole” spare board to compete with the threatening Singaporean player Feng Tianwei for the top four women’s singles! Feng Tianwei won Zhang Yining in the Asian Cup that year, so this time the women’s singles quarterfinals are doomed to be dangerous.
The subsequent competition also proved Zhang Yining’s hardship.
Because of the use of the spare board, Zhang Yining did not dare to storm and spent more energy on defense.
Sure enough, the game was in a stalemate at the beginning.
The two men also knew the technical characteristics and playing methods of both sides, so the score was always very tight, but on the key match point, Zhang Yining grasped the opportunity more decisively, and finally won the first game by 13 to 11.
But in the second game, Zhang Yining became anxious, thinking of enlarging the score as soon as possible and establishing the leading edge, which also led to her winning two game points and being overtaken by Feng Tianwei by 14-12, pulling back a city. In the
next three games, Zhang Yining also lost many game points, but the mentality grasp and stable technical output at the critical moment of the competition made her finally remove the biggest obstacle for the Chinese women’s table tennis team with 4-1, and Zhang Yining advanced to the top four! And the score of each game is more than 11 points. The difficulty of
this game is evident. In an interview
after the match, Zhang Yining said: The sponge on the spare racket is still three years old, and the quality is much worse. My heart was cold before the
game started, and it was not easy to win the game.
Even her opponent Feng Tianwei admitted that she lost the game because of her mentality. It was precisely because she did not handle the key ball properly and lacked the desire to win that led to the failure.
To Chang Yi-ning’s frustration, after the match, the referee took away Chang Yi-ning’s spare racket and asked for a re-test. Chang Yi-ning said helplessly, “I don’t have a racket in my hand!”. The coach was also in a cold sweat after the game.
But no one knows how much bitterness and pain Zhang Yining’s thin body is suffering behind one world championship trophy after another.
6. Zhang Yining, born in 1981, began to play table tennis at the age of 6 and won her first championship at the age of 9. However, in the final of the first World Table Tennis Championship in 1999, Wang Nan won three games in a row after leading two games.
After that, Zhang Yining’s mentality changed dramatically. In the women’s team final of the 2000 World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Yining lost 0-2 to Xu Jing, a rare loss. In the table tennis single event of the Ninth National Games in
2001, when Zhang Yining and Liu Heng were in the mixed doubles 16-8 match, Zhang Yining was in a bad mood, kicking the table, smashing the racket, and even throwing the racket on the table, so she was given two verbal warnings by the referee.
In the women’s singles final against Wang Nan, Zhang Yining took a 2-0 lead, but was then chased by Wang Nan to a 2-2 draw. When Wang Nan served in the last minute of the
final game, Zhang Yining did not catch the ball and lost the game 5-21.
It was this action that made Li Furong, deputy director of the General Administration of Sport of China, who was present to watch the match, furious. He immediately pointed out that this was a situation that had never happened in Chinese table tennis in 40 years. Zhang Yining’s style on the court was too bad! Zhang Yining was banned for three months because she lost her temper this time.
Faced with such a negative Zhang Yining, coach Li Yin talked to Zhang Yining. Before saying a few words, Zhang Yining picked up a knife and stabbed himself in the thigh, scaring Li Yin into a cold sweat behind his back, and immediately stopped him.
Chang Yi-ning is also very distressed, saying, “I feel that every time I’m on the verge of neuropathy, I have to let it out, so it can only be like this.”. Although Zhang Yining reached the first place in the world
in 2003, she felt that she had reached a bottleneck, which was the biggest bottleneck in her career. In the same year, Wang Nan again defeated Zhang Yining 4-3 at the World Table Tennis Championships.
Because Zhang Yining and Wang Nan’s peak is staggered, when suppressed by Wang Nan, Zhang Yining always feels that a powerful force is sealed in the body, unable to play out.
At this time, Zhang Yining was under great pressure, sleeping very late and getting up very early, because she often suffered from insomnia, and sometimes she even had to take medicine to fall asleep.
Finally, in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Wang Nan lost to Li Jiawei in the singles competition. Without Wang Nan, who had been suppressing herself, Zhang Yining’s career broke through the bottleneck and ushered in spring. Zhang Yining, who participated in the Olympic Games for the
first time, really lived up to expectations and won the women’s singles gold medal for the Chinese team. After the match, Zhang Yining was interviewed by reporters and said only one sentence: I just want to have a good sleep. Behind the success of the
Great Devil, there are countless pressures and bitterness.
After the baptism of the Olympic Games, Zhang Yining began to emerge. From 2004 to 2009, it was the six years that really belonged to Zhang Yining. She exercised a magical ability, that is, when she shook hands with her opponent, she knew that her opponent would lose. When the
big devil harvested the champion crazily, she had a new problem.
I feel that table tennis is not the only thing for me. It’s just a happy thing to do.
At this time, Zhang Yining was not yet the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, nor was she yet the winner of the Grand Slam. Her training was lax, and her attitude was negative, which made Li Yin once again unable to bear to watch.
During training, Li Yin threw a basket of ping-pong balls at Zhang Yining and shouted, “You don’t have to be the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, but I have to!” The basket of ping-pong balls instantly woke up Zhang Yining.
Finally, Zhang Yining beat Guo Yan 4-3 in the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championship to win the championship and achieve a career Grand Slam! Zhang Yining’s cold surface hides a fiery temper.
Similarly, in order to win, she can be cruel to herself.
Elder martial sister Wang Nan once mentioned in a program that Zhang Yining went to Kuwait to compete, and she actually closed her ribs! Blocking is a kind of blocking therapy, which is usually to inject a certain concentration and quantity of prednisolone injection and procaine hydrochloride into the lesion area to achieve rapid pain relief, relieve inflammation, improve blood circulation around the injection site, and alleviate the pain caused by inflammation.
A closed needle is not a stimulant.
Closed injection is very painful. Zhang Yining had 11 injections for the competition. After the competition, Wang Nan found that her waist was covered with bandages! In advance, she joked with Wang Nan and others, played the game, and never said a word.
7. Sweat and tears from winning the championship with tears to defending the women’s singles championship at the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining has completed the transformation from an ugly duckling to a white swan in more than ten years. On the
field, Zhang Yining is valiant and heroic, sweeping all rivals at home and abroad, but outside the field, Zhang Yining also has a little-known side.
Zhang Yining entered the first team from the second national team, and there was a small episode in the middle.
When the national team organized military training, Zhang Yining also participated with the team. The army and the table tennis team organized a get-together. Each side had a host. Qi Baoxiang, the former head coach of Zhang Yining, recommended Zhang Yining. When
Chang Yi-ning learned of this, she quickly waved her hand and said, “No, no, I’m not prepared at all.”.
Li Yin said: The host is an opportunity to show his face, and the head coach of the women’s team is sitting below. If
you can stand on the stage as a host, you can be a world champion in the future.
This sentence inspired Zhang Yining, and made Zhang Yining believe it: I used to think that the world champion was achieved through a lot of efforts, but now it’s too easy to win the world champion as a host.
So without saying a word, he took the microphone and acted as the host. After
entering the first team, Zhang Yining and her nightmare Wang Nan lived in the same dormitory, and Wang Nan became the target of Zhang Yining’s pursuit.
In 2002, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan participated in the Busan Asian Games together.
Wang Nan was busy preparing before the start of a competition. Zhang Yining rushed into the room with a hamburger in her hand. Because she ran fast, she tripped over a “big split” as soon as she entered the door. Although she was in a mess, she still did not lose the hamburger in her hand. She still muttered in her mouth: “Sister Nan, I grabbed it for you. Hurry up and eat it. There will be a competition later.”. Wang Nan is still deeply moved by
this scene in retrospect. After
2004, the country began to use Wang Nan and Zhang Yining to cooperate with doubles to prepare for the Athens Olympic Games, but negative emotions inevitably grew.
Although the two have been together for a long time, they still lost a team match. Faced with the reproaches of coaches Li Yin and Wang Nan, Zhang Yining broke her racket and fell to the ground: “I don’t practice anymore, and I don’t want to play in the Olympics!”. But then, facing the expectations of her family and the team, she silently picked up her racket and returned to training.
Recalling the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining faced her old rival Wang Nan with a firm belief: Unless you beat me 4-0, I will never let you go if I win a game.
Zhang Yining did it, and eventually reversed and successfully defended her title.
After the game, facing the parents who came to watch the game, Zhang Yining no longer had the brilliant smile of four years ago, and shed tears in the arms of her parents. Zhang Yining, who is so indifferent and strong
in the face of the world’s major tense competitions, is still a good girl in the eyes of her parents. When she shed tears, it also proves that she has paid too much sweat and effort to win the championship.
8. The cultivation of champion’s heart Zhang Yining’s success is inseparable from those who care about and educate her all the time.
Zhang Yining’s uncle Wang Baoxin is the person who led her to play table tennis and is an important guide in her life.
As for this simple and honest uncle, Chang Yi-ning said: He led me to the path of table tennis. When I was a child, he trained my uncle to hold me very tightly, but he didn’t hit me. At most, he threw the ball at me twice in a hurry.
My uncle is also an amateur, and he is right to see us play the game.
My uncle’s honesty and steadiness greatly influenced Zhang Yining when she first learned table tennis, and also laid the foundation for Zhang Yining’s future style of play and character.
And Zhang Yining’s parents.
Zhang Yining’s father, Zhang Qiyuan, originally had a good job. In order to make Zhang Yining play better, he gave up his original job with superior conditions and found a night shift. He took care of Zhang Yining during the day and went to the night shift at night.
Chang Yi-ning’s mother, Wang Feng-ying, wanted to bring up her daughter. When Chang Yi-ning had achieved success, Wang Feng-ying said, “It’s great to have chosen this path for you!”. In the two years before the Athens Olympic Games, Zhang Yining encountered a bottleneck. Relatives in her family all advised her: “Ningning has worked very hard. When she comes back, don’t mention table tennis.”.
If we say that the care and care of relatives provided a good environment for Zhang Yining’s growth on the road of table tennis.
So among the people who really shape Zhang Yining’s heart of champion, there is a key figure, that is, Deng Yaping, the first generation of big devil.
Zhang Yining knew Deng Yaping when she was about seven or eight years old. She regarded her as an idol, because Deng Yaping often won the championship, so that she learned how Deng Yaping received the award.
Zhang Yining and Deng Yaping were actually teammates, but one by one, when Deng Yaping was about to retire, she just came up.
What makes Zhang Yining unforgettable is that she once imitated the famous Japanese player Koyama Zhili to accompany Deng Yaping to prepare for a match. In the dark days before the
Athens Olympic Games, Zhang Yining summed up her own problems and wrote them down on a piece of paper to ask Deng Yaping. After reading them, Deng Yaping was surprised and said: “Now that you have played at a super level, how can you still have ten questions?”?
This shows that you are still not confident enough about yourself.
In my opinion, there are only two: one is technical and the other is psychological.
Later, before the match between Zhang Yining and Jin Xiangmei, Deng Yaping taught her how to play and sat in the stands to cheer her on during the match.
Li Yin was Zhang Yining’s coach from the Beijing team to the national team. If Wang Baoxin was Zhang Yining’s guide, then the glorious coach was Zhang Yining’s guide, leading Zhang Yining all the way to the Athens Olympic Games.
He is Zhang Yining’s most trustworthy person.
Later, such as the dignified guidance of Cai Zhenhua, meticulous and rigorous Lu yuansheng, and Shi Zhihao, who is soft inside and firm outside, all became the indispensable guiding light for Zhang Yining’s success.
During the five years of living in the same dormitory with Wang Nan, the mature and kind-hearted Wang Nan brought many direct influences to Zhang Yining. From the previous suppression to the later companionship, the loyal Wang Nan became a model in Zhang Yining’s mind.
Zhang Yining commented on Wang Nan: I think if you want to play well first, you have to be a good person first, and do everything in place.
This is also a model set by Wang Nan for many players.
Among these people, no matter who she is, she is shaping her heart of champion bit by bit.
9. The reason for the Demon King’s retirement on March 31, 2011, the former overlord of table tennis, the second-generation Demon King, announced his retirement, thus ending the “Zhang Yining era”.
No one thought that Zhang Yining would choose to retire at the peak of her career. There has been a reason for Zhang Yining’s retirement on the Internet, saying that she had to retire because she had no opponent to fight with.
Whether this reason is true or not, it is true that Zhang Yining did not meet an opponent before she retired.
Many people also want to know what Zhang Yining will do after retirement.
The answer is: get married.
Zhang Yining’s husband is Xu Wei, a successful businessman in Hong Kong. After her successful
career, Zhang Yining lived a life of caring for her husband and children. She gave birth to a pair of children for her husband, and her family was happy.
Xu Wei himself is very interested in sports. When he first met Zhang Yining, he was impressed by Zhang Yining’s elegant demeanor, and took the initiative to invite Zhang Yining to learn the ball skills, which attracted Zhang Yining’s attention.
Chang Yi-ning once said, Although there is a big age gap between us, we share many common interests and topics, as well as values and an outlook on life.
This also proves that Chang Yi-ning really married happiness.
Zhang Yining said frankly that she married Xu Wei not because she was interested in each other’s money, but because she was convinced by his knowledge and talent.
For Zhang Yining, she also needs a person with rich social experience to take care of her. After all, she has been in the national team for so many years, and her social life is almost blank.
After her marriage, Hsu Wei arranged life for Chang Yi-ning, playing mahjong, going shopping, and so on. But Chang Yi-ning knew that she didn’t want to be the wife of a rich and powerful family. She had a heart-to-heart talk with her husband, saying, My character determines that I can’t live that kind of life. No matter how brilliant a woman’s career is, she has to go home and take care of her husband and children.
Xu Wei realized that he had met the right person at the right time when he married Zhang Yining.
In fact, when Zhang Yining married, she just changed from one kind of life to another kind of life, from a peak athlete to a good wife and mother. Xu Wei’s understanding gave Zhang Yining great support after marriage. When the
Chinese women’s table tennis team lost the Corbillon Cup with a score of 1:3, watching the Singapore team cheering, Zhang Yining had a special feeling in her heart. Her husband Xu Wei comforted her: Sports is so cruel. There are winners and losers, and it is not dependent on personal will.
In fact, Xu Wei could not understand Zhang Yining’s complicated feelings of watching her former teammates lose and watching the Chinese women’s table tennis team lose.
Although she has retired, Zhang Yining’s heart is still tied to Chinese women’s table tennis and Chinese sports.
Interestingly, also in 2011, the champion class, composed of 16 Chinese Olympic and world champions, spent 10 months studying abroad at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Weida arranged a friendly exchange match between Zhang Yining and the local table tennis champion. The coach introduced Zhang Yining as the winner of four Olympic gold medals and more than a dozen world champions.
These guys felt that they played table tennis fairly well, so they asked to play against the big devil.
The result was self-evident. After the game, they realized what was called the devil’s abuse of vegetables. One of the challengers was even knelt down by Zhang Yining.
10. Zhang Yining was a guest commentator at the women’s team event of the 53rd World Table Tennis Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2016.
Ai Fukuhara managed to score a point after falling behind Liu Shiwen at 0:6. Zhang Yining explained with extreme indifference: “It’s a blind fight. If it was tied at 10, she wouldn’t dare to play like this..” When commenting on Ai Fukuhara, Chang Yi-ning said, “Ai Fukuhara, everyone knows where her shortcomings are when they close their eyes.” Then there was an interesting joke. In her commentary,
Chang Yi-ning commented that the domestic table tennis players had too many shortcomings, that their quality could not keep up with them, that their technical level was not up to standard, and so on. In short, she described the domestic table tennis players as worthless, and some of the audience said, “You can do it!”. Chang Yi-ning said without any modesty: “If I go up, I go up!” This is actually an interesting joke, but one thing is true. When Zhang Yining was commenting on a match, another commentator on the same stage said: Every player has shortcomings.
The big devil answered in no low-key way: “I didn’t!” The commentator was stunned and could not refute it at all, because what Zhang Yining said was really true.
11. The future of Chinese table tennis Zhang Yining holds 19 world titles after her retirement, but she did not appear in the world rankings for some time, and many netizens began to question the authenticity of the rankings.
Finally, the International Table Tennis Federation came out to explain that, because it had been stipulated before, the international ranking was based on five wins and five losses, because the number of times Zhang Yining lost was not up to standard, so there was no way to rank. Ishikawa Kasumi, a famous
Japanese female table tennis player and a fan of Ma Long, once complained that it would take 100 years for her to surpass Zhang Yining. She is also the only foreign player that Zhang Yining likes.
To sum up, Zhang Yining’s strength and international influence.
Chinese women’s table tennis, from Deng Yaping to Wang Nan, to Zhang Yining, to Li Xiaoxia, and now in the era of Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, they have been defending the glory of the national ball, with talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.
Today, Chen Meng and Zhu Yuling, who are of equal strength, have witnessed the brilliance of Chinese table tennis from generation to generation. Every
athlete is under great pressure to win the ultimate glory. Only those who face themselves and are ready to face the future are qualified to enjoy the glory. How can we see the rainbow
without experiencing wind and rain? Today in
2021, the pace of the Tokyo Olympic Games is getting closer and closer, and the Chinese team has to face more and more strong enemies.
In any case, if Chinese table tennis players want to sit on the “altar” firmly, they have to pay more hard work and training than ordinary people! The International Table Tennis Federation has changed the rules of the game many times in order to avoid China’s dominance. What the
Chinese table tennis team needs to do is not only to strengthen its own skills and improve its psychological quality, but also to face various invisible pressures from the international community.
Zhang Yining era is over, and Chinese table tennis will welcome the next “Zhang Yining era.” There will also be more excellent table tennis players, like Zhang Yining, standing on the world’s highest podium and playing the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China on the field! . Focus on not getting lost ~
