Rong Guotuan, born in Hong Kong in 1937, a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong, is China's first world champion!
April 5, 1959, is a day that goes down in history, this day China ended the day without a world champion, at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships held in Germany, a century war between the 21-year-old Chinese player Rong Guotuan and the experienced Hungarian veteran Sido, and finally Rong Guotuan won the first table tennis men's singles world championship for China.
At that time, in the preparation stage of the 25th World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team was rubbing their fists. Due to the consecutive defeats in the men's singles competition in the previous editions, there was no chance to even enter the final, so the positioning of the Chinese team at that time was to get the ranking in the men's team competition. In the warm-up match, the Chinese team defeated the Hungarian team 5:2, but when it came to the official match of the World Championships, it lost to the Hungarian team. After the men's team lost its front hoof, the morale of the Central European team was low, and the coach encouraged the players to come to the game to build confidence and fight to the end. As a member of the Chinese boy band, Rong Guotuan secretly resolved in his heart that he must regain the honor for the national team.
Rong Guotuan when he grew up
As a result, in the men's singles preliminary round, Rong Guotuan passed the hurdles all the way and finally reached the semifinals. In the semi-finals, against the American star Miles, who played a tricky and defeated The Chinese player, rong Guotuan changed his playing style under the situation of 0:2 behind, and broke into the final with a strong push and a changeable scrub, 3:2 reversal. This is the first time that a Chinese athlete has launched an assault on the world championship, a game destined to be recorded, and a competition to give birth to heroes.
Photo of The Rong National Group Competition
Rong Guotuan's final opponent is the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles champion Hungary Sido, in the previous men's team competition Xi Duo defeated Rong Guotuan, many people think that Sido will inevitably win the championship, the Hungarian team even put the flowers celebrating the victory on the sidelines in advance. Sure enough, Rong Guotuan made a series of mistakes and lost a round. But from the second set, Rong Guotuan suddenly changed his tactics, he played fiercely, opened the bow left and right, and the backhand serve was very powerful, making Cido dizzy, and the battle situation changed dramatically. There are many mistakes and mistakes. After Rong Guotuan took control of the situation, in response to the situation that Xi Duo turned slowly, the serve was long and short, and at the same time, the rotation and landing point of the ball were increased, and then with the rubbing of the ball, it was difficult for Xi Duo to repeatedly lose one or the other, and it was difficult to play his technical advantages. 21:12, 21:15, 21:14, Rong Guotuan won three consecutive sets, and finally defeated Sido 3:1 on aggregate. The first world champion of Chinese table tennis was born, the first world champion of Chinese sports was born, and many members and coaches of the Chinese team were excited and shed tears. The victory in rewriting the history of Chinese sports has become the good news that has sensationalized the whole country.
Rong Guotuan stood on the podium
Rong Guotuan's father, Rong Mianzhi, worked as a child laborer at the age of fifteen, and later worked as a seaman on a steamship, and participated in the Hong Kong strike and the Guangzhou uprising. This patriotic compatriot in Hong Kong always hoped to have a strong country and a united nation as his strong backing, so he named his only son "Guo tuan". In the winter of 1941, the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, and Rong Mian's family returned to their hometown of Nanping Town, Zhuhai, Guangdong. In the autumn of 1943, Rong Guotuan entered the Zhenxian School in Nanping. The small national group is talented, hard-working, and has outstanding achievements. At the age of seven, he fell in love with table tennis. Although he was small and not much taller than the ping-pong table, he had an aura when he played the ball, and his progress was rapid, and he soon became the "ping-pong ball king" of the whole school.
A photo of Rong Guotuan when he was a child
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Rong Guotuan's father, Rong Mianzhi, returned to Hong Kong as a seaman, and Rong Guotuan transferred to the Hong Kong Salesian School in February 1948. However, due to his family's poverty, Rong Guotuan had to drop out of school and was forced to sell seafood in a fishy and smelly seafood market. Despite his hard life, he never gave up playing, loved and worked hard, and he gradually became a table tennis master.
Photos of the game
In September 1957, a table tennis team composed of table tennis players from Hong Kong and Macau held friendly competitions with mainland athletes from the motherland. The most famous figure in this Hong Kong-Macau joint team is The Hong Kong-based Yung Kwok Tuan, who has just defeated Di Cun, a table tennis player who has dominated the Japanese table tennis scene for two consecutive years. People want to see the style of this legendary dark horse. Unexpectedly, everyone generally believed that the thin Rong Guotuan was not like an athlete, and his playing style was not the most advanced at that time. Moreover, Rong Guotuan was also suffering from severe tuberculosis at that time. But it was this person who did not look like an athlete at all, but he defeated many masters in the competition, and even defeated the national champion Wang Chuanyao at that time. Rong Guotuan's performance attracted a special audience, he was Marshal He Long, who was also the director of the National Sports Commission at that time.
Photograph of Marshal He Long
At this time, the land of China was setting off a boom in the construction of a sports power, and He Long, who was thirsty for talents, graciously invited Rong Guotuan to become a member of the new Chinese table tennis team. Rong Guotuan's father was a patriot, and under his father's teachings, Rong Guotuan was also full of love for the motherland. With the support of his father, Rong Guotuan took up a simple suit, walked across the Luohu Bridge in Shenzhen, returned to the motherland, and came to the Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education. He wrote in his diary: "This is the first day of my new life, and my heart is full of happiness." After joining the national team, he set a vision to win the world championship for the country within three years. He said: "The main purpose of my return to the Chinese team is to let foreigners know how strong Chinese. "Rong Guotuan used his efforts and wisdom to turn the incredible into reality.
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