Seeing that the Chinese national feathers are now in a new generation, many fans miss Lin Dan's group of players with absolute suppression strength even more, and even look forward to the emergence of the next Lin Dan as soon as possible, but seriously, even if the new Lin Dan appears, can we really seize the opportunity to keep him? For example, we could once have a women's singles player who could rival Lin Dan, Pi Hongyan, but we chilled her heart and gave it away in vain.
Pi Hongyan, who was abandoned by the national team
Born in 1979 to a working family in Chongqing, Pi Hongyan, who began practicing at the age of 8, showed her badminton talent early, and in 1997, Pi Hongyan was selected for the Chinese badminton team and won the US Open Badminton Championships two years later.
Winning the championship originally made Pi Hongyan very happy, but soon Pi Hongyan received the news that made her collapse, after returning to China, Pi Hongyan's coach Wang Junjie told Pi Hongyan that because her height was only 164 centimeters, the future development prospects were not great, so Pi Hongyan was transferred back to the Sichuan Provincial Team.
In 1999, a month of salary of 600 yuan, only two games a year, 20-year-old Pi Hongyan was a little desperate, she thought of retiring, and at this time a Danish badminton club extended an olive branch to her, Pi Hongyan hesitated, she spent two years trying to return to the national team, after returning to the national team hopeless, in 2001, Pi Hongyan joined the Danish badminton team.
During the period, because of her outstanding performance, the French badminton team issued an invitation to her, and in order to return to the international arena, Pi Hongyan chose to agree. In 2004, Pi Hongyan, who had been holding a French passport for a month, joined the French team for the Olympic Games, but during the competition she sprained her ankle and stopped in the round of 32.
Missing the Olympic Games, Pi Hongyan also began to erupt, and from 2003 to 2005, Pi Hongyan defeated many of the best players of Chinese national feathers to win the French Open Badminton Championship for three consecutive years, becoming the first French player to win the championship in half a century. At the Beijing Olympics, Pi Hongyan once caused enough trouble for China's national feathers, but fortunately the defending champion Zhang Ning eventually blocked her out of the final four.
Joining the French team, Pi Hongyan won 13 championship titles, she was once the number one opponent of the Chinese women's badminton team, in 2012, the End of the London Olympics, because of ligament injuries, Pi Hongyan chose to retire. Now after retiring from the army, Pi Hongyan has become a coach and lives a comfortable life in France.
A player with full potential, the result is because of the height theory missed the opportunity, this is also a big loss of China's national feather, to tell the truth, if Pi Hongyan can stay in the national feather, enjoy the low-level resources, her achievements will inevitably be higher, but unfortunately everything is not if, we also look forward to the future of our sports circle will not appear such regrets.
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