For Xu Xin, fans have a variety of titles: Python, Xin ye, People's Artist, blind players, from these love names, it is not difficult to see that fans have ardent hope and love for Xu Xin. The only remaining straight-board players can ignore the backhand gap and rank among the super first-class players in today's rampant horizontal board players, which is a miracle in itself.
Xu Xin on the court, known as the "Ronin", often surprised the opponent with his skillful riot operation, which not only surprised the opponent, but also surprised the audience. Xu Xin's straight board has a strong offensive power, even the far platform also has the strength of super pulling, and his serve is changeable, the ball control is delicate, those back shots, far platform attacks, flying body hits, 42 boards super long pull, all show his ability to interpret table tennis far beyond ordinary people. However, it is such a person who once ranked first in the world, but he has never been able to break the curse of Liu Guoliang, and the straight board failed to obtain the "Grand Slam", which has to be said to be the regret of all the straight board players.
Xu Xin was born on January 8, 1990, to a cadre family in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. When he was in kindergarten, Xu Xin ran the fastest in the game and had the most responsive response, and was selected by the teacher of Shaohua Street Primary School in Xuzhou City and entered the table tennis special school to play table tennis for two months. In the fourth grade, Xu Xin entered the self-funded table tennis class of Nanjing Sports School. In the fifth grade of primary school, Xu Xin went to Nanjing and was recommended to the Jiangsu team by the sports school.
At the beginning of 2002, in the first month, Xu Xin came to Shanghai with coach Tang Zhixian and entered the Cao Yanhua Table Tennis Training School founded by veteran world champion Cao Yanhua.
At this time, Xu Xin, who was not yet 12 years old, was already famous in Jiangsu Provincial Sports School. But in Cao Yanhua's view, Xu Xin's straight-line playing style, in the actual trend, compared to the mainstream playing style to suffer a lot of losses, if you want to succeed, it must not only have Wang Hao's backhand offensive ability, but also have Marlene's dexterous ability, but Xu Xin did not have these two at that time. So at first, I didn't look too much at Xu Xin.
Xu Xin grew up and was evaluated as "lazy in training", but he said to Cao Yanhua, "Principal Cao, I don't like training, I like to play games". It is precisely because of this sentence that Cao Yanhua realized that Xu Xin may be the kind of athlete who "usually performs in general, but can often play for a long time on the field"; it is precisely because of Xu Xin's sentence and Cao Yanhua's advanced educational concept that he has created the "Shanghai model" of grass-roots table tennis.
Four years after arriving in Shanghai, Xu Xin entered the national second team, and in the same year, he was quickly promoted to the first team, and was included in the door by Coach Qin Zhijian, becoming Ma Long's disciple. After entering the national team, Xu Xin began to gradually feel the pressure of being surrounded by "top students". In addition to the teammates of the national team, these pressures come more from their own technical play.
At that time, Xu Xin was already the top player in this style of play, but the limitations of his playing style also brought Xu Xin a lot of trouble. The reason why he is called "People's Artist" is because his offensive ability is not strong, at the beginning the backhand can only push and block, so he can only play defense, the audience thinks it looks good, but the problem is that people can't kill him, and he can't beat people.
After realizing the flaws in his playing style, Xu Xin began to work with the coach of the national team to improve the technique and gradually strengthen the offensive ability of the backhand.
Now Xu Xin, forehand continuous pulling, punching, coupled with his high-quality large-range running, has achieved good results, coupled with the original serve to catch the serve and other small ball technology, the current technology has become very comprehensive.
So far, he has won 19 world titles, including 5 doubles titles, 13 team titles and a singles title that is extremely difficult for straight board players, which is enough to prove that Xu Xin is a great athlete.
Although Xu Xin is the top player in the straight shot, unfortunately, his playing style may not be easy to promote, because of his tall, long arms, and strong physical fitness, so his middle and far platform running range is large, which is mainly based on natural conditions, not by training. His style of play relies too much on physical fitness. After he retires, direct shooting may withdraw from the stage of history.