After the Tokyo Olympic Games, China's national table tennis entered a new era of upgrading, "Grand Slam" winner Ding Ning took the lead in announcing his retirement, and subsequently, mesozoic players such as Fang Bo, Zhou Yu, Yan An and so on also left, and 13 national players have bid farewell to the national team to start a new career.
On January 10, Beijing time, 26-year-old Zheng Peifeng, a 26-year-old national table tennis straight board star, announced that he had begun to work as a coach, saying: "Work hard to do a good job, face difficulties, but also with a positive heart to meet." Although Zheng Peifeng's national career did not have too brilliant results, this did not affect his great coaching career.
At the 2020 National Championships, because the Bayi team did not register to participate, Fan Zhendong Liang Jingkun could only participate in the name of an individual, and there was no official coach to serve as an off-field coach. In the men's singles final, Zheng Peifeng temporarily made a cameo appearance as Fan Zhendong's coach, helping Xiao Fat defeat Ma Long 4-3 to win the championship, which made people impressed by Zheng Peifeng's coaching level. At the award ceremony, Fan Zhendong, who "draught water and does not forget to dig a well", also called zheng Peifeng to take a group photo to celebrate the hard-won championship trophy together!
After Kong Linghui left his post, Li Falcon, who had never won a world championship in his athlete's career, took over the coaching of the national table tennis women's team, officially breaking the rumor that "non-world champions cannot be the head coach" in the national table tennis team, and also made many former national players whose athletes' career achievements were not brilliant see the opportunity for progress.
Today, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are still insisting, Ma Long still wants to play another Olympic Games, if the dream realization is undoubtedly more legendary for his personal career, but if that is the case, it also shows that the young generation of national table tennis is too incomplete! And Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin are now in a state of decline, and have reached the second half of their careers, if they can lay out their coaching careers in advance, it is a good thing for personal development or the future construction of the national team!
Moreover, at present, the "little devil" Sun Yingsha does not have a formal head coach, and the excellent teachers of national table tennis are obviously not enough, which young coach will Liu Guoliang reuse next?