Recently, Kong Linghui, the former coach of the national table tennis women's team and a grand slam star, appeared publicly, but still had nothing to do with table tennis, but participated in the celebration of a certain brand. Only to see Kong Linghui in a suit and leather shoes, and the participants together to toast, and the image of the former athletes and coaches has been very different, which makes people sigh.
2022 is coming, Kong Linghui has left the national table tennis has been almost 5 years, so will he re-coach the whip in the new year to help Sun Yingsha and other young juniors?
Kong Linghui is a well-known table tennis celebrity, born in 1975 at the age of 19, he made a splash when he won the men's singles championship of the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, creating a historical record for national table tennis, and then won consecutive gold medals in the world championships, and achieved the great cause of Grand Slam in 2000, becoming the last king of the 38mm small ball era.
After retiring in 2007, Kong Linghui served as the coach and head coach of the national table tennis women's team, and continued to lead the team to win glory for the country, but in 2017, he left his post due to a controversial incident and has since stopped asking about the national table tennis career.
Although he has been away from the national team for many years, the call of the table tennis circle for Kong Linghui's return has not stopped, and many people think that it is a pity that he quit the table tennis at the age of 41, and it is a bit buried in talent.
Especially after the recent vacancy of the head coach of the national table tennis main sun Yingsha, many fans invariably thought of Kong Linghui and expected him to coach the young player, but it is clear that Kong Linghui himself does not have too many ideas, and is currently mainly active in the business world and other fields, and has found a different wonderful life.
Unlike Kong Linghui, Liu Guoliang is now very busy, the younger he has gray hair, and although he is no longer a coach, he is also the president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the chairman of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation Council, the executive vice chairman of the International Table Tennis Federation and other positions, which is indeed a hard work.
So will the pair of "Gemini stars" who used to shine in the Chinese table tennis scene work together again? 2022 is coming, let's wait and see!