The Chinese table tennis team has always been the giant of the world table tennis world, from the head coach, the head coach, to the team members, sparring, it seems that they have been labeled as Olympic champions, world champions, and national champions. Previously, some people wondered why the national table tennis team could cover all the projects in the world. A sentence from the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association said the key, that is, "the Chinese team is a grand slam, Olympic champion, and world champion from top to bottom, and other teams are compared." With the advent of the Paris Olympic cycle, the national table tennis has also entered a state of alternating between the old and the new, and after ma Long, Xu Xin, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and other old players faded out, the national table tennis will be adjusted accordingly in the configuration of coaches and players.
As early as after the Tokyo Olympic Games, Liu Guoliang revealed to the outside world that the coaching staff of the Chinese table tennis team will carry out reform and reorganization and make every effort to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games. In the 2008 Olympic cycle, Liu Guoliang and Shi Zhihao were the head coaches of the men's and women's teams, while Kong Linghui, Li Falcon, Liu Guozheng and Qin Zhijian were assistant coaches. After the Rio Olympics, the women's team coach Kong Linghui left office, and Li Falcon, who made great contributions to the national table tennis women's team, took office. Liu Guoliang said in an interview that the coaches of the whole team admired Li Falcon because he single-handedly brought out Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, two legendary Grand Slam players in women's table tennis.
Since Li Falcon himself is not a world champion, his coaching career has been particularly difficult. Shi Zhihao also praised Li Falcon, saying that in addition to Li Falcon not being an Olympic champion, with his skills and achievements in other aspects, he could actually sit on the position of the manager of the national table tennis women's team long ago. Like Li Falcon, the current coach of the men's team, Qin Zhijian, also took a path of "curve to save the country". During the Rio Olympic cycle, Qin Zhijian has been an assistant coach of the men's team. Qin Zhijian, who is low-key and modest, showed himself in front of the camera very early, and the first impression he gave to the fans was cool and cold.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Ma Long was able to achieve a career double grand slam, and Qin Zhijian was indispensable. In the early years, Qin Zhijian was Ma Long's supervisor coach, and the two established a deep mentor-apprentice relationship. In the men's singles final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Ma Long faced fan Zhendong, a representative of the new generation, and some media ridiculed Qin Zhijian who he hoped to win before the game, Qin Zhijian said with a smile, "The palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are meat, and both people are the pride of national table tennis." Handsome appearance, super high emotional intelligence, rich experience, so that Qin Zhijian has become the most "out of the circle" of the national table tennis coaching team. Since the Shaanxi National Games, the controversy over the lack of a head coach for sun Yingsha, the little devil of national table tennis, has never stopped.
Judging from the current coaching configuration of the women's team, Ma Lin guided Chen Meng, Xiao Zhan guided Wang Manyu, and Qiu Yike guided Wang Yidi, but Sun Yingsha lacked a competent coach, and head coach Li Falcon thought twice and assigned Chen Xuan to Sun Yingsha. In the men's team, Wang Hao guided Fan Zhendong, Liu Guozheng guided Wang Chuqin, and Qin Zhijian guided Ma Long, and the combination of coaches and team members was very reasonable. In the Paris cycle, the national table tennis will continue to optimize in terms of coaching staff, and while cultivating young coaches, it will also explore a unique set of "Bole" in the "Maxima" model.
(Luo Treasurer)