In July 1982, the 20th Confederations Cup was held in San Francisco, USA, which was the annual women's tennis event and the most influential women's team competition in the world.
This is the second time that the Chinese team has participated in the Confederations Cup. Team leader Jin Shu and head coach Shen Jianqiu led 4 Chinese girls on the expedition: veteran team members Yu Liqiao and Wang Ping and new team members Hu Na and Li Xinyi.
<h1>Huna ran away</h1>
On July 16, the Chinese team won the first battle, eliminating the Japanese team with an absolute advantage of 3:0.
In the second round on July 21, China faced germany, the 4th seed.
But before the game even started, something went wrong!
In the morning, the coach and the team members ate breakfast together in the hotel, and Hu Na was missing and never came out.
The team leader Jin Shu went to the organizing committee to submit the list of players to come back, and before he saw Hu Na, he asked Li Xinxin, who was in the same room with Hu Na, to find it.
Li Xinyi went back to the room to see: the bedding on the bed had not moved, the suitcase was everything, and nothing was taken away.
Jin Shu suddenly felt that something was wrong, and immediately greeted everyone: Hurry, look for it separately!
Look through the vast gardens and hotels, and you won't see Hu Na's shadow!
Jin Shu, who was once the director of the European and American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, immediately had an ominous premonition: Hu Na ran!
He hurried back to his room to make a phone call, and his voice trembled. The Consulate General of San Francisco also realized the seriousness of the situation and said on the phone: Don't be nervous, I'll be there soon.
An hour later, the Consul General arrived.
While the room was discussing, there was a knock at the door, and it was an official of the organizing committee of the competition.
"Huna has called through her lawyer and she's safe outside, you don't have to look for it. She has asked the United States Government for asylum and has notified you through the General Assembly. ”
If it was struck by five thunderbolts, everyone was confused.
On the same day, the Chinese team, which had no intention of fighting, lost to germany 0-3.
On the morning of July 23, the front page headline of an American newspaper carried a large photograph of Hu Na, with the headline: Chinese tennis player Hu Na asks for asylum.
Hu Na later recalled: "After 12 o'clock in the evening, when my roommate Li Xinyi fell asleep, I walked out of the room, did not bring anything, and only took a bucket of ice in my hand. There was an ice machine at the end of the hotel corridor, still outside in the middle of the night, if the leader or teammate saw a good explanation. “
Out of the hotel, I got into a "friend's" car, who waited in the parking lot for several hours. After hiding in a secret location for more than 8 months, a Taiwanese-American lawyer volunteered to help her apply for "asylum" throughout the process.
What is the truth of the incident?
<h1>Genius girl</h1>
At the time of the incident, Hu Na was 19 years old and a talented girl who was on the rise in the Asian tennis world.
Born into a tennis family, her maternal grandfather Wen Ling (formerly known as Wen Zhenhua) was one of the titans of Chinese tennis, winning the national championship in 1946 and becoming the head coach of the Sichuan provincial tennis team in 1965.
Born in 1963, Hu Na learned ballet at the age of 4, gymnastics at the age of 6, and tennis at the age of 7.
At the age of 15, she won the women's singles championship of the National Junior Tennis Championships; at the age of 16, she won the women's singles championship of the national tennis group A.
In 1981, at the age of 17, she won the White House Cup Junior Championship; in 1982, she won the Virginia Cup Women's Singles Championship.
During her stay in the United States, the American Tennis Association, supplies providers, tennis schools, etc., have successively invited her to train in the United States.
World-renowned tennis coach Breton took a fancy to Huna's tennis talent and offered to help her compete in the pro tournament.
What shocked her the most was standing in the stadium stands and watching the US Open match of the world number one Female Player Epht. Hu Na sighed, "What a moment I envy and yearn for!" ”
<h1>Beauty man counts</h1>
In addition to her outstanding ball skills, Hu Na's appearance is also very beautiful. Flexible eyes, sweet smile, tall figure, white skin, has fascinated many tennis enthusiasts.
At that time, the Beijing Film Studio also ran to the Sichuan team to "borrow people", hoping to second Hu Na to make a movie for half a year, but the leader of the Sichuan Sports Team at that time categorically refused: "Run to shoot a movie for half a year? So who will play our game? ”
In 1981, he played the Confederations Cup in Japan, and the Chinese Taipei team participated, which was the first time that athletes from both sides of the Taiwan Strait met in an international competition.
Wu Daixun is the leader of the Chinese Taipei team, who came and went, and met Hu Na. Hu Na reveals that her uncle is in Taipei, and Wu Daixun agrees to find her for her, and as a result, Hu Na is caught.
Head coach Shen Jianqiu said afterwards that Hu Na was only how old was at that time, and what did she know at the age of 19? Where does she know what asylum is? Where does she know what the consequences of asylum are?
Wu Daixun is a taiwan fraud, a person with a family, he is looking at Hu Na's young beauty, and his interest is completely the love between men and women.
"On the morning of Hu Na's disappearance, in the process of searching, Wu Daixun saw me and asked: 'Shen Guidance, have you found it?' I said, 'Haven't found it yet.' I thought to myself: How do you know? Aren't you a thief shouting to catch a thief? Later, I heard that he took Hu Na to Hong Kong and also to Taipei, and praised Hu Na as a 'righteous soldier' and went around swindling and cheating. “
Figure | The second from the left is Wu Daixun
Wu Daixun also had the task of plotting rebellion, taking advantage of Hu Na's young ignorance, taking advantage of Hu Na's eagerness to play a professional game, and conspiring with the CIA to single-handedly plan the Hu Na incident.
Li Na admitted that Wu Daixun had been helping her, but not because he left the national team.
"I just want to be a professional tennis player too much. I was too young, too simple, too immature. ”
In fact, at that time, the Chinese Tennis Association was already considering accepting the invitation of the Nickelodeon Tennis Academy to Hu Na, and the internationally renowned brokerage company IMG at that time also sent people to Beijing to negotiate with the National Sports Commission. Just to not affect the game at that time, everything will wait for Hu Na to return from the United States to talk about it in detail.
However, a wayward choice turned upside down.
<h1>Teammate coaches are implicated</h1>
On August 16, 1982, the National Sports Commission announced that the national tennis team was reorganized, and head coach Zhang Zhouzhou, deputy head coach Shen Jianqiu, and team member Li Xinyi left the national team.
Figure | Coach Shen Jianqiu
Coach Shen Jianqiu recalled the past and said: "I recognize this matter of Hu Na. But Zhang Mainland has nothing to do with this matter, is he very wronged? And Li Xinyi..."
Shen Jianqiu was transferred back from the national team to become an amateur coach, "from professional to amateur, it is like being relegated to Siberia." Li Xinyi's career also came to a halt that year.
And her absence directly led to the Chinese women's network in the 1982 Asian Games grain harvest.
At the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, Li Xinyi, who returned to the national team, won two gold medals in women's singles and women's team.
However, compared to the storm behind, these are still small things.
<h1>Sino-US diplomatic conflict</h1>
Since August 5, 1982, the U.S. Congress has held several thematic debates on whether to accept Huna's claim for political asylum. Hu Na has been received by more than 10 US congressmen.
On April 4, 1983, on the eve of HuNa's 20th birthday, she finally got her wish after eight months of exile – the U.S. government officially announced that she had been granted "asylum" by the U.S. government.
On the evening of April 6, 1983, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Han Xu summoned U.S. Ambassador to China Heng Anshi and delivered to him a note of strong protest from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
On April 7, the Chinese Ministry of Culture announced:
The Chinese government has stopped implementing all the unimplemented projects in the 1982 and 1983 Sino-US cultural exchange programs.
On the same day, the All-China Sports Federation decided to suspend bilateral sports exchanges between China and the United States in 1983.
In 1983, all 10 events that China had planned to send teams to participate in in the United States were cancelled.
The exchanges and cooperation between the sports of China and the United States have fallen to the freezing point due to the "Huna Incident".
For the Hu Na incident, the core of the dispute between China and the United States is that the US side believes that Hu Na voluntarily walked out of the Chinese team station and was not coerced by others. The Chinese side believes that the CIA and Taiwan have done some unclean tricks, the process is improper, and the result is unjust.
<h1>Dreaming of settling in? </h1>
In 1984, the 21-year-old Hu Na's professional tennis career finally began, and because she had no ranking, she could only start from the lowest level, often against children aged 14 or 15.
Because of the political effect, she has received a lot of sponsorship from American and Taiwanese companies. She admits that she is lucky because local Players in the United States need to make their own money to have the financial ability to participate in grand slams.
She has competed in 16 Grand Slam tournaments. In 1985, she set the best of her career: reaching the third round of Wimbledon and the second round of the US Open, ranking around 50th in the world's best rankings.
But that's about it.
In 1992, at the age of 29, Hu Na announced her retirement due to injury. The "professional event" that she chased at all costs and broke the boat for it came to an end.
Figure | Hu Na and Zhang Depei
After retiring from the army, Hu Na obtained a coaching certificate and took her parents to the United States.
But I don't know if she feels "still dissatisfied" in the United States, and in 1996, she moved to Taiwan.
On that island, she was rendered by some ulterior media as a "sports righteous warrior", "The Light of China", and became the darling of advertisers, and various cosmetics, fashion, and sporting goods advertisements and sponsorships were softly received.
She set up a tennis club to teach children tennis, and also worked as a tennis commentator on some television stations, claiming to give back to Taiwan what she had learned in her life.
Hu Na now lives in Xindian in Taipei County and is still single.
<h1>Returning home is controversial</h1>
In 2008, Hu Na took three Taiwanese teenagers she had trained to Beijing to compete in the National Youth Tennis Tournament.
Seeing the rapid development of the motherland, her heart was full of mixed feelings.
In November 2014, she returned. This time, she said she was a painter.
Together with two friends, she opened a painting exhibition at the CITIC Group Building in Beijing.
She didn't have any foundation in painting, but since 2011, she has followed her own inspiration and created more than 300 works.
When the Pengbai News reporter interviewed her, she talked about leaving the United States 32 years ago, and Hu Na bluntly said that she did not regret her decision that year.
This sentence is very surprising!
For so many years, she has not apologized for the harm she has caused to her former coaches and teammates, which is very human.
She single-handedly caused the Huna incident in the history of Sino-US diplomacy and never reflected.
From studying tennis to competing abroad, she herself was trained by the state at that time. According to the rules of the professional movement, the legal relationship between her and the training funder has not been clarified, and the confused account has not been calculated so far.
Young and ignorant in the beauty of the male plan, on the CIA and Taiwan plot of rebellion, this point of the motherland forgives, the government does not pursue; the coaches and teammates involved in forgiveness, should be grateful is, but can not be confused.
Can you be like this?
Over the years, some people have carried the weight forward, and some people have eaten inside and outside.
Memories will grow old, and human nature will be easy to forget.
Maybe one day, you and I will forget, but time is silent, and we will remember it eventually.