In the history of Chinese women's table tennis, there have been many excellent athletes, so far, a total of five athletes have won the achievement of grand slams, but among these five athletes, only Wang Nan has completed the feat of winning the world table tennis championships three times in a row!
After Wang Nan completed the feat of winning the world table tennis championships in a row, the first person to thank him was not his former head coach Li Falcon, but another person.
What's going on here?
After Deng Yaping retired, Wang Nan quickly stood out in the competition with Li Ju and Yang Ying, and won four gold medals alone at the 1998 Asian Games, becoming the new leader of Chinese women's table tennis.
Since then, Wang Nan has won the Women's Singles Championship of the World Cup, the World Table Tennis Championships and the Olympic Games, and has also become the second Grand Slam winner of Chinese women's table tennis after Deng Yaping.
However, at this time, Wang Nan encountered the biggest crisis in his career and suddenly fell from the altar to the bottom.
At the 2002 Busan Asian Games, Wang Nan suffered a career Waterloo, she lost two points in the team competition, resulting in the Chinese women's table tennis failed to defend the title, while in the women's singles, Wang Nan lost to Zhang Yining in the final, and the women's doubles and mixed doubles also lost the game.
This defeat hit Wang Nan very hard, and Wang Nan even had the idea of retiring at one point.
In this extremely difficult situation, the national team transferred Qiao Hong to the national team as Wang Nan's head coach.
During Qiao Hong's tenure as Wang Nan's head coach, the two people about three chapters of the law, Wang Nan said, I said the ugly words to the front, I always look like a smile on the surface, but the temper is not very good, after the real top bumped into you, it may be the fire on the brain door, certainly not from the heart.
And Qiao Hong also said frankly to Wang Nan: Sometimes I have no mouth, if you don't give you face in public, don't go to your heart.
In this way, Wang Nan and Qiao Hong, a pair of world champions, walked together. With the help of Qiao Hong, Wang Nan quickly came out of the shadow of defeat.
Finally, in 2003, Wang Nan staged the scene of the return of the king, and she won the championship in the three competitions she participated in!
After winning, Wang Nan was very excited, and in an interview, she expressed her gratitude to Qiao Hong.
Wang Nan said: After the Asian Games loss, Qiao Hong came back to take me, Qiao Hong is a very important person I want to thank, after Qiao Hong returns, whether it is technically, or psychologically, especially in ordinary life, the care for me is meticulous, I want to be very grateful to Qiao Hong, without her, I will not win the championship today!
Many fans will feel very strange, does not it mean that Li Falcon is Wang Nan's head coach? Why didn't Wang Nan thank Li Falcon?
It turned out that in 2003, Li Falcon was no longer Wang Nan's head coach.
After Wang Nan won the sydney Olympic Games, at that time, in addition to Wang Nan, there was a very potential athlete like Zhang Yining in the Li Falcon team, coach Li Falcon had limited energy after all, and with two main players at the same time, one of them would definitely be snubbed.
In the case that Wang Nan has already won a Grand Slam, Li Falcon chose to cultivate a younger Zhang Yining, while Wang Nan went to Li Xiaodong's coaching team.
However, coach Li Xiaodong and Wang Nan have conflicts in personality, and they are not happy to work together, especially after Wang Nan's defeat at the Busan Asian Games, the contradictions between the two broke out.
In the end, Wang Nan chose to leave Li Xiaodong's coaching team and proposed to the coaching team that Qiao Hong be his supervisor. It turns out that Wang Nan's choice was correct, and it was under the guidance of Qiao Hong that Wang Nan's career lasted for another five years, until he retired after Beijing won the women's team championship and women's singles runner-up in 2008.