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Kong Linghui
Kong Xiangzhi is the father of Olympic table tennis champion Kong Linghui, born in Heilongjiang in 1949. He was originally a professional table tennis player who coached in the Heilongjiang Provincial Table Tennis Team after retiring.
Before Kong Linghui entered the national team, his father had been his supervisor coach, and the media praised them as the "number one father and son soldier in table tennis".
Kong Xiangzhi and his son had tearful years of struggle, but Kong Linghui left the national team after the glory, and the love with the beautiful actress Ma Su also passed away with the wind, and his life fell into a trough. Kong Linghui's current situation made his father Kong Xiangzhi heartache...
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Kong Xiangzhi is the eldest son of the family, and Kong Linghui is the eldest grandson, who has been pampered by the whole family since childhood. After Kong Xiangzhi retired from the Heilongjiang Provincial Table Tennis Team, he was assigned to work as a table tennis coach at the Heilongjiang Sports School.
Kong Linghui as a child
Kong Linghui and his father Kong Xiangzhi
Kong Linghui's mother, Gu Shuxia, is a primary school teacher and gave birth to Kong Linghui at the age of 25. When Kong Linghui was 3 years old, his father sent him to the heilongjiang provincial sports school kindergarten.
The little guy is restless, lively and active, and often drills under the ping-pong table to pick up balls for the older children. His father asked him if he could play table tennis, and Kong Linghui shook his head and said, "Don't play." ”
When Kong Linghui was 4 years old, his father sent him to the Second Kindergarten of the Heilongjiang Provincial Government to attend the middle class. At that time, Kong Linghui still watched the ball and picked up the ball, but did not play.
After being promoted to the senior class at the age of 5, Kong Linghui took the initiative to say to his father: "Dad, I want to play." Kong Xiangzhi was puzzled: "Why didn't you play before?" ”
Kong Linghui looked up at the small red face and said, "Before, I couldn't beat the big children, but now I can beat them." ”
Childhood Kong Linghui with father
It turned out that his son was competitive at a young age, which was a must-have personality for athletes, and since then Kong Xiangzhi began to teach his son to play, and he also became his son's enlightenment coach.
Kong Xiangzhi loves his son, but is selfless on the training ground. On Sunday, he rode his son to the Children's Palace for training, and at noon Gu Shuxia went to deliver food to the father and son.
Kong Xiangzhi wanted to take his son to train all day, so that Kong Linghui could not stand up on both legs, and when he returned home, he was carried by his father on the 5th floor.
Sometimes Kong Linghui had a high fever of 38.5 degrees, and Kong Xiangzhi had to let his son go to training. Kong Linghui shed tears while practicing. Gu Shuxia complained to her husband: "Your heart is too fierce, don't you hurt your son at all?" ”
Kong Xiangzhi blushed and said, "Xiao Hui's talent for table tennis is not outstanding, how can he have a future without practicing fiercely?" ”
At the age of 7, Kong Linghui went to elementary school. He usually practices without delay, but his academic performance is still very good, and he is good at drawing.
In 1983, the school held an exhibition with Japanese children, and many of Kong Linghui's works were exhibited.
In 1985, 10-year-old Kong Linghui faced a life choice: should he concentrate on playing ball, or would he concentrate on studying and enter the university in the future?
Kong Linghui's parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts have launched a fierce debate about this. Because taking a wrong step may affect Kong Linghui's life.
Everyone disagreed, and Kong Xiangzhi finally asked his son: "Xiaohui, what are your plans?" Kong Linghui said, "Dad, I want to play." Kong Xiangzhi asked, "Then how far can you fight?" Kong Linghui said: "I want to enter the national team and be a world champion." ”
Early years Kong Linghui
Kong Xiangzhi gently caressed his son's little brain melon: "Good looking, ambitious, Daddy is optimistic about you!" ”
It was also in this year that Kong Xiangzhi was transferred from the provincial sports school to the provincial table tennis team to coach, and he took Kong Linghui with him.
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At that time, Kong Linghui did not have a living allowance, and all the expenses had to be borne by himself. Kong Xiangzhi and Gu Shuxia saved money and gave their son strong nutrition.
Previously, Kong Linghui played a straight board fast attack, and Kong Xiangzhi was sensitive to realizing that the combination of horizontal plate arc circle and fast attack method was the mainstream playing method of the future world table tennis. So he decisively let Kong Linghui beat the horizontal shot.
Kong Xiangzhi is Kong Linghui's coach, sparring partner, or his life consultant, father and son eat and live together, inseparable.
Kong Linghui (left) and Liu Guoliang
Kong Linghui (right) and Liu Guoliang
On the first day of several consecutive Chinese New Year's Day, it snowed heavily in Harbin, and Kong Xiangzhi also took his son to practice. After returning home, the father and son were covered with snowflakes on their bodies and heads, becoming two snowmen.
Once, the relevant departments in Heilongjiang held a "Family Cup" table tennis competition, which was held in Yichun City. Yichun is far away from Harbin, and Kong Xiangzhi took his son to the competition at his own expense. To save money, the father and son lived in a cheap little hotel.
It was summer, the ceiling fan in the room was broken, Kong Xiangzhi did not sleep all night, sitting on the edge of the bed to fan his son to catch mosquitoes, so that his son slept peacefully.
In 1988, Kong Linghui was selected for the national table tennis youth team. The following year, he won the Men's Singles Championship of the National Junior Table Tennis Championships and made a name for himself in the domestic table tennis scene.
In 1990, Kong Xiangzhi accompanied his son to Jinzhou to participate in the National Table Tennis Association Cup, and 15-year-old Kong Linghui defeated the world champion Chen Longcan and became famous in one fell swoop.
Kong Linghui with his father
At the end of the competition, many media surrounded Kong Xiangzhi and his son to interview, learned about the stormy ping-pong years that Kong Xiangzhi and his son had walked through, calling them "the number one table tennis father and son soldiers".
In 1991, Kong Linghui entered the national team and has since handed over everything to table tennis.
Every spring festival, Kong Linghui does not go home and stays in the team to train. Chinese New Year's Eve, Kong Xiangzhi and Gu Shuxia rushed to Beijing to accompany their son for the New Year. Kong Linghui lives in the athletes' dormitory building, Kong Xiangzhi and his wife live outside in the hotel, and the family spends the New Year in the hotel.
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Kong Linghui got up early in the morning and went to the playground to run 10,000 meters. In the cold wind, Kong Xiangzhi and his wife went to accompany their son, until the son ran 10,000 meters, and the family returned to the hotel for breakfast.
Kong Xiangzhi and his wife only stayed with their son until the third day of the first lunar month, and then returned to Harbin. For 14 Spring Festivals, they all accompanied their son to Beijing for the New Year.
Kong Linghui and Liu Guoliang won the men's doubles silver medal at the Sydney Olympics
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Kong Linghui participated in the men's singles and men's doubles competitions, and more than 20 local media wanted to accompany Kong Xiangzhi and his wife to watch the ball. Many relatives and friends of friends also wanted to come to the house, but Kong Xiangzhi and his wife refused one by one.
Because kong Linghui lost in the men's singles competition at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he vowed to turn the tide at the Sydney Olympics. While Sweden's veteran Waldner is determined to win the men's singles gold medal, Kong Linghui is under great pressure.
During his time in Sydney, Kong Linghui shaved his hair three times in a row, and finally cut it into a board inch. Kong Xiangzhi knew that this was a manifestation of his son's psychological pressure, and he decompressed him on the phone every day.
In the men's doubles match that ended first, Kong Linghui and Liu Guoliang won the silver medal and lost to their teammates Yan Sen and Wang Liqin.
In the next singles final, Kong Linghui played against Waldner, who led 2-0 in a big score, and then Waldner returned two sets.
Kong Linghui and Waldner
Kong Linghui won the championship for a moment
In the fifth set of the tiebreaker, Kong Linghui was full of momentum, defeating Waldner 21-13 to win the Olympic men's singles gold medal. Kong Linghui burst into tears. Hundreds of reporters waiting under Kong Xiangzhi's house rushed up to the 5th floor, and Kong Xiangzhi opened the door, so excited that he could not say a word, but only shed tears.
Since then, Kong Linghui has become the third Grand Slam winner in the world men's table tennis.
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After Sydney won the championship, Kong Linghui returned to Harbin to accompany his parents for 3 days and did the following things: First, let his parents bring 40,000 yuan from home and fund 10 poor college students of Harbin Institute of Technology to complete their studies;
The second is to select 5 poor primary school students from Nangang District and sponsor them to graduate from middle school.
The third is that he gave him the championship winning reward given by the Harbin Children's Palace to the coach who taught him to play.
Fourth, he brought back two famous watches from Sydney and gave them to the former sparring partner of the provincial team.
Kong Linghui's parents
A month later, Kong Linghui went to Europe to compete, and asked his father to help him collect the shoe numbers and clothing sizes of the 10 poor college students at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Because a sportswear company wanted to sponsor him, Kong Linghui asked the other party to sponsor the 10 poor college students.
Gu Shuxia said to her son on the phone: "Then get a set for your cousin." Kong Linghui declined: "Mom, I am sponsoring poor college students." ”
Also in 2000, Kong Linghui bought a three-bedroom apartment in Beijing. After that, when my parents came back to Beijing for the New Year, the family did not have to go out to stay in a hotel.
Ever since Kong Linghui entered the national team, his father has maintained close contact with his supervisor coach. Kong Xiangzhi often talked to each other on the phone to understand his son's physical, training and living conditions, and to help his son design techniques and tactics. It can be said that Kong Xiangzhi is his son's non-staff coach.
Masu
Stills from Ma Su's "The North Wind That Blows" (2009)
In 2002, Kong Linghui and Ma Su established a romantic relationship, and Kong Xiangzhi and his wife were very happy.
Ma Su was born in Harbin in 1981, 6 years younger than Kong Linghui. She graduated from the Dance Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts and was later admitted to the Beijing Film Academy's higher vocational class of acting.
Since his debut, Ma Su has starred in many film and television dramas such as "The North Wind That Blows", "Iron Man", "Cheongsam", "Women Like Flowers", "Beijing Youth" and so on, and has won the "Golden Eagle Award" audience favorite actress award of Chinese television, and the outstanding actress award of the Chinese TV series "Feitian Award", and is a popular actress loved by the audience.
Kong Xiangzhi and his wife have met Ma Su and feel that this girl is not only beautiful, but also cultivated, and hopes that she can become his daughter-in-law.
In 2006, Kong Linghui retired from the national table tennis team and worked as a coach in the national table tennis women's team. At this time, Kong Linghui was 31 years old, and Kong Xiangzhi hoped that his son would consider marriage.
Kong Linghui and Ma Su
Kong Linghui felt that he had just become a coach, that it would take a long time to successfully transform, that he did not have the energy to take care of his family, and that he wanted to get married a few years later. Moreover, Ma Su is only 25 years old, and his career is also in the ascending stage.
Kong Xiangzhi and Gu Shuxia understood their son and stopped forcing marriage.
In 2010, Kong Linghui was 35 years old, marriage was imminent, kong Xiangzhi and his wife began to force marriage.
At this time, Kong Linghui and Ma Su had been in love for 8 years. Maybe the love time is too long, each other has no impulse to marry, and it is still good to feel that they are in a state of love.
Kong Linghui knew that if he told his true thoughts, his parents would be sad, so he perfunctorily said: "I am still an ordinary coach, and after my work has improved, I will get married." ”
Kong Xiangzhi and Gu Shuxia have entered their old age and regard their son's marriage as the biggest thing in the family. They have no other goals or pursuits, and they think about it. At this time, it is more important for them to have a son getting married and having a baby than anything else.
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Since then, Kong Xiangzhi and his wife seized the opportunity to urge and force marriage, which brought great pressure to Kong Linghui.
Once Kong Linghui said to his father: "Dad, if you and your mother force marriage like this again, I don't have the heart to work anymore." After that, Kong Xiangzhi and his wife no longer forced marriage, but the anxiety and entanglement in their hearts were more than one day.
In 2013, Kong Linghui officially became the head coach of the Chinese women's table tennis team due to his excellent work. It was also in this year that Kong Linghui broke up with Ma Su and ended an 11-year relationship. Kong Xiangzhi and his wife were very sad after knowing.
Liu Guoliang family portrait
Since then, Kong Linghui's personal problems have become the knot in the hearts of Kong Xiangzhi and his wife. Every Spring Festival, when Kong Xiangzhi saw his son, he always asked him when he would get married.
Kong Linghui said: "I just became the head coach, the pressure is so great, who is in the mood to consider personal problems? ”
Kong Xiangzhi replied sadly to his son: "When the work is never finished, the pressure is always there, can't you allocate part of your energy to consider your own affairs?" You debuted with Liu Guoliang, he is a few months younger than you, he has two daughters, but you don't even have a girlfriend, can I and your mother not be in a hurry? ”
Kong Linghui did not want to dwell on this issue with his parents and quickly changed the topic.
At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Kong Linghui led the national table tennis women's team to win two gold medals in women's doubles and women's singles, defending the honor of the national ball. Kong Xiangzhi was happy for his son's achievements, but when he thought of his son still shouldering his burden, a faint sadness surged in his heart.
In May 2017, Kong Linghui was implicated in gambling by relatives and had no choice but to leave the national table tennis women's team. This was a huge blow to Kong Linghui, who suffered a heavy blow to his career and life, and his life fell into a trough.
At the most helpless and vulnerable time, Kong Linghui returned to Harbin. Although he was calm on the surface, Kong Xiangzhi saw the pain in his son's heart. He and his wife are more heartbroken, more entangled, and more guilty than their sons.
For the next two years, Kong Linghui remained unemployed. Due to his bad mood, he gained more than 10 pounds and became a middle-aged uncle. He had white hair on his sideburns and eye bags, and he was judged by the little handsome guy at that time.
The current situation of his son made Kong Xiangzhi and his wife heartache. The son now has no job, no family, no stable source of income, thinking of his son's former glory, and then looking at his current situation, Kong Xiangzhi is suddenly like a dream.
In 2019, Kong Linghui went to Chongqing Junior Table Tennis Team as a coach. Due to the long distance, kong Xiangzhi had difficulty seeing his son again. In 2020 and 2021, two consecutive Spring Festivals, because of the impact of the epidemic, Kong Linghui did not return to Harbin to accompany his parents for the New Year.
Seeing that the Spring Festival in 2022 is coming again, because of the impact of the epidemic, Kong Linghui cannot go home for the New Year.
Kong Xiangzhi and his wife especially miss their son, thinking of their 47-year-old son working alone outside, no family, no one to take care of and love, Kong Xiangzhi was heartbroken and wept.
His biggest wish now is that his son can find a love for the opposite sex and get married and have a baby as soon as possible. If the son's marriage is not resolved one day, his and his wife's hearts will not be at peace for a day!
epilogue:
"Detailed celebrity" comments: Kong Linghui is handsome, exquisite in ball skills, and is a Grand Slam winner, who created the "Kong Linghui era" and was once very popular.
Kong Linghui took a group photo with fans
Outsiders think that he has been smooth along the way, but in fact, there are many hardships and tears behind him. As a witness to his son's growth along the way, his father Kong Xiangzhi was the most heartbroken.
Kong Linghui and Ma Su are quite a match, if the two can get married early, maybe the children will be in middle school. For various reasons, the two failed to enter the marriage, bringing regrets to themselves and their parents.
After experiencing the trough of his life, Kong Linghui finally stood up again, which is a gratifying thing.
The most important thing he should do now is to fall in love, get married and have a baby. Parents are getting older day by day, the white hair on their heads is more and more, so that their lives are complete, so that their parents' old age is comfortable, is the most important thing for a man to do!
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