On January 10, Beijing time, Zheng Peifeng, a national table tennis star who just announced his retirement three months ago, announced through social media that he would serve as a coach in the national youth men's team, which aroused strong concern from netizens.
Zheng Peifeng, 25, was born in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, and his right hand straight arc combined with fast attack. Zheng Peifeng, who began to be fascinated by table tennis at the age of four, was at home before the age of 8 with his father and video self-study, but he could play all over the invincible hand of the Earth Pavilion, so he also received the attention of the coach of the junior sports school and embarked on the road of professional athletes. In the 2008 National Championships, Zheng Peifeng, who was only 12 years old, won a set from Hao Shuai, who was ranked in the world's top ten at the time, and was subsequently recruited by the national table tennis team. In 2013, Zheng Peifeng broke through from the national table tennis team selection competition to the first team. As one of the few direct shooters in the national table tennis team, Zheng Peifeng has also been focused on training, but the results have not been very stable, both the highlight moment when the 2018 Czech Open Table Tennis Championships will be won by the championship, and the sluggish performance of the one-round tour and two-round tour of the International Table Tennis Federation Tour, which has not been able to rank among the main layers.
The difficult to break through sports career coupled with the plague of injuries made Zheng Peifeng make the decision to retire at the age of 25, which made fans sigh. Fortunately, although Zheng Peifeng will no longer stand on the field as an athlete, he has not left table tennis and transformed into the youth coach of the Chinese men's table tennis team, vowing to pass on the glory of the national table tennis straight shot. In this regard, Zheng Peifeng also expressed his gratitude through social media, he said: "Thank you for the trust and support of the leaders, giving me this new career, a new identity." At the same time, it is also a new starting point, a new journey, and everything starts from scratch. ”