On January 6, Beijing time, the 28-year-old national table tennis player Matt posted a statement announcing that he had left the national team, but like Fang Bo, Zhou Yu, Yan An and others before, he did not choose to bid farewell to table tennis.
Matt said that after a period of communication with the team, he finally chose to leave the glorious national table tennis team. Matt stressed that in the future, I will also carry forward and inherit the ping-pong culture, and make every effort to popularize and promote table tennis.
Matt joined the national team on April 30, 2009, more than 12 years, Matt has few opportunities to participate in international competitions, but Matt sighed, every day with the Olympic champion, the world champion training with living, learned a lot. As for the reasons for the retirement, Matt said that the decline in competitiveness is an indisputable fact, coupled with injury troubles and other trivial things, can not improve themselves in systematic training.
Finally, Matt said that he would not say goodbye to table tennis, and would complete the national games and national competition tasks with Hubei, and participate in the table tennis super. This is another national player who bid farewell to the national team after Fang Bo, Zhou Yu, Yan An and others! Matt also posted his neatly folded national team shirt and a photo of himself in the sky, and he will start a new life.
The 28-year-old Matt, a chipper in the national table tennis team, won the mixed doubles championship by beating Fan Zhendong 4-3 in the men's singles final of the 2012 National Youth Table Tennis Championships, and Matt also won the mixed doubles championship with Liu Fei in this year's pass-through competition. In 2014, Matt won the second place in the men's team at the East Asian Games for the national table tennis team.
Gu Yuting, a member of the national table tennis team, wrote: "I am a special gothic stick, and I also have a unique ink in my stomach, and the future will be better... Thanks to the Chinese table tennis team, grateful for everything. Matt responded: "Haha or my black sister can chat, my little composition is OK." Netizens have said, bless Matt!