During the 80s tennis genius Hu Na went to the United States to play "mysterious" disappearance on the eve of the opening of the tournament? Soon after, he actually said that he would not go back, and he also applied for "political asylum" in the United States.
But after retiring a few years later, she returned to China with a high profile? Even held a solo exhibition in Beijing in 2014? Why did she still have the "courage" to return to her homeland? Now how will she explain the "runaway" in the first place? With this series of questions in mind, let's tell today's story.
Huna
In 1982, the Chinese women's tennis team went to California to participate in the Tennis Federation Cup, which was the second time that China went abroad to play after restoring the identity of the International Olympic Committee, and China naturally attached great importance to it, and sent four outstanding young players to participate abroad, including Hu Na, who was treasonous and abandoned.
The scene of the competition
In the first round, Hu Na, who played the "C" position, made her first appearance and won 3-0 with the team to japan. In the second round of the game, when the Chinese team played against the German team, the most interesting Hu Na disappeared before the game?
In desperation, our team could only send other team members to strengthen, and in the end, the Chinese team lost miserably to the German team.
The next day, our team returned to San Francisco, and that was exactly what happened. The national team received a call from the organizing committee, saying that they had received a call from Hu Na's lawyer.
She was commissioned by Hu Na's lawyer to inform the national team of Hu Na's thoughts, saying that she was safe and had sought political asylum in the United States, and she would not follow the national team back to China.
After the participating teams returned to China, the coaches and team members were expelled from the national team for reasons such as the disadvantage of caring for their teammates, and Hu Na's defection also caused all the sports diplomacy projects between China and the United States to be stopped.
Hu Na was born in 1963 into a sports family, and her maternal grandfather was one of the first people in China to come into contact with tennis and make a living from tennis matches.
Her maternal grandmother was the basketball master of Shanghai Jiangnan Girls' School, and Hu Na also had a good sports foundation from an early age.
When Hu Na was young, her maternal grandparents often took her to watch various sports competitions. This invisibly also stimulated Hu Na's motor nerves. She has been exposed to tennis since she was 4 years old, and with her innate advantages and acquired efforts, she has gone farther and farther on the road of tennis.
As she grew older, she began to qualify for some junior tennis tournaments and won many awards, and in a subsequent selection, she was successfully selected for the Sichuan tennis team that was very good at the time.
Young Huna
The cultivation of the elite team also allowed Hu Na to win the national youth women's singles tennis tournament at the age of 15. She is not complacent, but also more and more determined to strengthen her tennis skills, and one day to represent the country in the world, as her long-term goal.
Of course, this was her original intention, but later, she lost herself on the way forward. After entering the Sichuan team, she was rated as a provincial young commando by the Sichuan team for her repeated achievements. Hu Na, who gradually lost her opponent, was immediately promoted to the national team.
At that time, there were very few tennis competitions in China, and in order to cultivate this young player, whether it was an adult group or a youth group going abroad to compete, the coach would choose to bring Hu Na.
It is even no exaggeration to say that in the national tennis team at that time, Hu Na was the best player who had high hopes from all sides, and such a special training also allowed Hu Na to win the national Group A women's singles championship at the age of 16. Subsequently, Hu Na won the Asian women's singles championship and had the opportunity to go to the United States.
In 1979, Hu Na was selected as a national tennis rookie, and went to the United States with the national team to watch the US Open, and played a number of youth matches in Mexico, the United States and other places, and successfully won the White House Cup and the Virginia Cup.
Since Huna competed internationally, some tennis academies in the United States have been writing to her in the hope of inviting her to training competitions in the United States.
In 1981, under the leadership of the 18-year-old Hu Na, under the leadership of Yang Mingxun, accompanied the national team to visit Canada, and the Yang team took the opportunity to invite the legends of the Australian tennis world at that time.
Rod Ravier directed the training of Women's Tennis in China, and the tennis superstar, after seeing the training matches of Hu Na and others, said that China's women's tennis will soon achieve better results.
Sure enough, as he predicted, in 1982, the Chinese women's tennis team was invited for the second time to California to participate in the Tennis Federation Cup. Immediately, there is the opening scene.
On the morning of the match against germany, on July 21, 1982, Huna suddenly disappeared, and the coach and team members searched for most of the day without finding any trace of her. There was no way for the Chinese team to play hard, and eventually lost to germany.
After the game, Hu Na commissioned her lawyer to call the organizing committee, and on the phone, she said that she was very safe, completely unwilling to return to China out of voluntariness, and that she had sought political asylum in the United States. He did not say a word about his defection, and there was no sense of apology between his words.
Because of Hu Na's rebellion, sports exchanges and cooperation between China and the United States fell to a freezing point, the year after her defection. Our Ministry of Culture announced that, starting on the same day, our Government will cease its Sino-US cultural exchange program and terminate all projects that have not yet been implemented.
On the same day, the All-China Sports Federation decided to stop bilateral sports exchanges between China and the United States in 1983, and in 1983, China was ready to send teams to participate in 10 events held in the United States, all of which were cancelled.
Likewise, Hu Na is not smooth sailing in the United States, especially in the year she fled, she not only has no identity, but also can not participate in any international competitions.
This is very painful for a professional player, but she can only insist, because the bright future has been ruined by her own hands. In 1983, Hu Na was granted "status", but injuries also struck, and training was stopped for 8 months.
In early 1984, Hu Na only began to participate in the system, because there was no American ranking, Hu Na had to start from the lowest level of competition, resulting in 21-year-old Hu Na, often against fourteen or fifteen-year-old children
In 1985, Huna waited for the most successful season of her career, and she reached the third round of Wimbledon. No countryman could have achieved this result in Wimbledon.
In the following match, Hu Na reached the second round of the US Open and stood on the center court of her dreams. At the beginning of 1992, Hu Na chose to retire due to injury, and his 8-year professional tennis career came to an end.
After retiring from the military, Huna lived in San Diego for five years and took her parents to live with her.
In 1993, shortly after her parents came to the United States, Hu Na's brother unfortunately passed away, and for her own reasons, she chose to hide the news of her brother's death from her parents. In 1996, Hu Na moved to Taiwan and established the "Hu Na Tennis Club" to cultivate young people interested in tennis.
In 2004, after Hu Na's parents learned of her brother's death, they insisted on returning to China, and under pressure from her parents, she had to return to the mainland with them and promised them to accompany their parents back to the mainland to visit their relatives at least once a year.
In 2008, she returned to Beijing to compete in tennis with several children she had personally raised. During this time, she went to her old coach's house, and the reunion after many years did not bring the two to tears.
The old coach asked Hu Na in a joking tone: "If you were given another chance, would you repeat this choice", and Hu Na chose silence.
In an interview in 2011, Hu Na finally confronted her defection, saying that because she had great ambitions in tennis, she had dreamed many times that she could one day play for China on Central Court.
But at that time, the Chinese team did not allow them to participate in the Tour, and there was no tennis tournament in the Olympic Games, so they had to choose this path, of course, we can't tell the truth from her words.
Her posture and remarks were unsurprisingly attacked by many people, who felt that she was unapologetic about her actions, and even had the face to come to Beijing to hold a solo exhibition.
We also can't know whether the real reason for Hu Na's betrayal of China is really as she said, just because her tennis dream, even if it is true, it is still incomprehensible, and she does not even love the motherland she has vigorously cultivated.
Subsequently, Hu Na transformed into a painter and published the album "Hu Na's Spiritual Pair Painting". In 2014, Hu Na announced in a high-profile manner that she would hold a solo exhibition in Beijing, revealing that she would return to China to hold more exhibitions in the future, and saying that China's current economic development was very unexpected.
So many years have passed, the motherland is strong, Hu Na has also landed safely, the country has not pursued her, this is the heart of the motherland, but we spit on her, for traitors we will not forgive.