A network of deep affection, in the teenager ten. Nowadays, tennis is no stranger to Chinese, and many people like to play tennis with friends on weekends. But in fact, tennis is still not a popular sport, because many small cities do not have tennis courts. Not to mention the 70s of the last world.
Nowadays, many people are fans of the Internet, sitting in front of the TV during grand slam competition time, and Federer and Sharapova have attracted much attention as foreign representatives. China's hottest female tennis player is Li Na, who has won many championships.
But in fact, before Li Na, There is a more popular tennis genius in China, coincidentally her name also has "Na", but she is relatively unfamiliar to the post-80s and post-90s, today we will talk about the former Chinese tennis queen.
I asked my father, who was born in the 50s, if he knew Hu Na as a person, and his father said, "I know, I fled to the United States", but the name is really unfamiliar to me as a post-80s generation. In fact, Hu Na was an early tennis player, born in 1963 in a sports family in Sichuan.
Her grandfather, Wen Ling, was an early Chinese athlete who engaged in tennis coaching and competition, and her grandmother's name was Yang Yujun, a basketball girl at the Jiangnan Girls' School in Shanghai. Grandpa and grandma's good athletic genes were inherited to Hu Na, who not only looked sweet and lovely, but also precocious in sports, and began to enter the tennis circle at the age of 4 and trained hard in the Sichuan team.
With the joint help of internal factors and external forces, Hu Na began to compete independently very early, and won many achievements, and became famous as a teenager. She often dragged her luggage to other cities to participate in competitions, winning the National Junior Tennis Women's Singles Championship at the age of 15 and the National Group A Women's Singles Championship at the age of 16.
Because her performance in the Sichuan team was too outstanding, she was quickly selected by the national team to represent the country in various tennis competitions, but at that time there were fewer domestic tennis matches, and after winning the honorary title of Asian women's singles champion, Hu Na had more opportunities to participate in national competitions.
It was in this fancy year that she had the dream of going to the United States to play, and her life began to go to great glory, and at the same time, she was also covered with a gray veil that was separated from the motherland.
The United States was once the dream of many people, and there is a documentary that once recorded Mexicans smuggling freight trains into the United States, who risked their lives across the desert because they felt that the United States could realize their dream of getting rich, and Huna also had such an American dream.
In 1978, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew green the north and south of the river, the relationship between China and the United States has eased, driven by table tennis diplomacy, the tennis national team also returned to the United States, Hu Na as a member of the national team was selected to visit the United States, watched the US Open on the spot, and participated in the youth tennis tournament held in Mexico and the United States, won the White House Cup, Virginia Cup and other championships, her gradually revealed head and feet were targeted by the Americans.
Many tennis academies in the United States have written to the Chinese Tennis Association to invite outstanding Chinese athletes to the United States to train and participate in competitions, but this was rejected by the National Sports Commission. In 1981, Hu Na visited Canada, and the Australian Open tennis star suggested that Chinese players participate in more national competitions.
In 1982, an important turning point in Hu Na's life, she accompanied the national team to California to participate in the competition, Hu Na was one of the four athletes who went abroad at that time, and the team leader was replaced by Yang Mingxun to Jin Shu.
In the first game, Hu Na struggled to play, and the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team, but on the day of the match against germany, Hu Na was gone! Coaches and players looked for her everywhere, and finally received a call from Huna's lawyer, saying that Huna had sought political asylum.
Then Hu Na stayed in the United States, she left the defeat to the Chinese team, the dismissal to the Chinese coach, after two years of waiting to get the American status, she did win some games, but Chinese never envied her success, because she was treasonous.
Beginning in 1982, China actively urged the United States to let Hu Na return to China, but in 1983, the United States officially granted Hu Na political asylum, which was strongly condemned by all parties in China, but the "Hu Na Incident" has become a fait accompli.
Huna lived in the United States and spent 8 years of her American career, participating in 16 Grand Slams until she retired from the military in 1992 due to injury. During her stay in the United States, she successfully obtained her university diploma. He then settled in Taiwan in 1996 and is said to have been single, never to return.
In the open and highly prosperous China of the 21st century, Hu Na began to appear on the mainland, first home to visit relatives, then appeared in the scene of tennis commentary, and opened a painting exhibition in Beijing in the autumn of 6 years ago, completely like a changed person, and also exactly like in 1982 when nothing happened. Radical netizens spoke up and asked her to get out of the mainland, saying that China did not welcome him. In the face of reporters' questions, she only said that she wanted to realize her dreams too much, and she was too young and immature at that time.
She returned to China to open a painting exhibition and earned a lot of gold, saying that she would return to the mainland to open a painting exhibition in the future, and she had to say that Hu Na's heart was quite "big". But no matter what the child does, the mother is always tolerant. Faced with the returning daughter, Hu Na's mother did not blame too much. In the face of the "traitors" who returned to China, our country has not further investigated, is huna still the same huna today?
Time has passed, and history is in an instant. When Hu Na returned to China in the summer of 2008 and stepped into the home of the old coach Yang Mingxun, coach Shen Jianqiu was also there, facing Coach Yang's joke" "If the team leader at that time was me, would you still leave?" Hu Na did not make any answer, history can not be assumed, the mentality of historical figures can not be re-evaluated, the coach tolerated her, the motherland also tolerated her, tolerance is great.
The past has passed, some have forever become a mystery, who can tell the things in the story? What would have happened to China's tennis career if china had allowed its players to participate in more international competitions? Hu Na did not apologize publicly, thinking that she did not think that she was at fault, and this incident was always a scar on the land of China, which could not be filled or erased.
The flowers are becoming more and more charming, how can it be in the human world? The lights and wines of the United States have attracted generations of gold diggers, but now China's strength and proximity to the people are obvious to all, and I hope that more young people will choose China, build China, witness China, and how much we love our own country, how strong our country will become.
Text/Nangong Qin