On January 13, Beijing time, 67-year-old former national table tennis gold medal coach Wu Jingping announced a piece of good news, that is, he has once again been reused, found a new job, and has now gone to Anhui to coach, with the goal of leading the coaches and athletes of the Anhui men's team to complete the task of reaching the table tennis finals of the next National Games.
As the mentor of the famous national table tennis players Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong, Wu Jingping has participated in the training of as many as four Olympic champions, and now he has cultivated the local table tennis arena to cultivate young forces for the Chinese table tennis world.
Born in 1954, Wu Jingping is a legendary coach of the national table tennis men's team. In the athlete period, Wu Jingping did not achieve good results for various reasons, so he wanted to be a coach in the provincial team at that time, but fortunately Cai Zhenhua saw the pearls and discovered his outstanding talent, so he promoted him to the national team to coach, and then created a new glory.
Since the 1990s, Wu Jingping has been in charge of the main athletes of the national table tennis, and in the following 20 years, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong have all been taught by him, and these four have also become the core players of the Chinese team, which is really not simple!
After Liu Guoliang and Qin Zhijian left the national table tennis in 2017, Wu Jingping once took over the managerial responsibilities of the men's team, but after all, he was old and had limited energy, so he later handed over the heavy responsibility to Liu Guozheng.
Shortly after the arrival of 2018, Wu Jingping left the national team and was hired by Singapore's world champion Feng Tianwei, and as a result, Feng Tianwei immediately swept Chen Meng 4-0 in international competitions, which attracted widespread attention in the table tennis circle. After the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Wu Jingping returned to China to coach, but instead of returning to the national team, he participated in the training of young players at the local level.
Now Wu Jingping's disciples have a different home: Ma Lin and Wang Hao coach in the national team; Xu Xin entered the end of his career and became famous; Fan Zhendong was full of momentum, winning the men's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup, and the National Games, and was about to impact the Olympic singles gold medal and Grand Slam honors.
As for Wu Jingping's own words, he also began a new life, wandering around to continue to do what he was best at, not only to play the residual heat, but also not to work as hard as when he was in the national team, which is not the best choice for the 67-year-old - and finally wish Wu Guidance to continue to contribute to the cause of table tennis in China and the world, and create brilliant achievements with his disciples!