Wang Shixian was born on February 13, 1990 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, when she was a child, she was a little fat, and was ridiculed by her classmates like a ball, which made her very sad, 8-year-old parents let her go to an amateur sports school to practice badminton in order to lose weight.
Since then, badminton has become her concern and attachment for the next 18 years, she has harvested joy and tears in this sport, she has the highlight of dominating Asia at the age of 20, and also has two consecutive times from the Olympic stadium is only a little bit of despair, badminton has achieved her career and love, she also added a bright color to the badminton court. From losing weight to playing for the national team, what kind of story has she experienced in her badminton life:
Female dolls who practice badminton to lose weight enter the national team
Wang Shixian has been squeamish since childhood
"I was squeamish when I was a kid, basically crying and beating it down. The first is hard work, the second is to leave home, double blows, basically crying every day, how to think it is so difficult, a hundred thousand do not want to play, but there is no way, play all played, halfway and abandoned it seems to be a little that..." Wang Shixian once said in an interview, even because of cutting her hair short can cry for a week.
At the age of 10, she lost a lot of weight by playing badminton, she wanted to continue, entering the provincial team, the national team and even appearing on the podium of the Olympic Games, she entered the Jiangsu Provincial Junior Sports School trial but was not admitted, the coach felt that this little girl was not tall and a little weak.
But that year in order to prepare for the Provincial Games she took a bus to the Shanghai Sports School, she was sent to Shanghai for training, which may be the only chance she wants to continue to stay in the badminton team, in shanghai a year of training she improved rapidly, the provincial Games Group B women's singles champion let her still enter the Jiangsu provincial team, Wang Shixian embarked on the fast track of her career.
Due to the lack of people in the national youth team at the age of 15, she entered the youth team, and this year's national youth team also transferred from Xiamen to Hubei boy his name is Chen Long, and the fates of the two intersect for the first time. A year later, with Wang Yihan and others promoted to the national team, the second team had a vacant place, and she entered the national second team, when her dream was to "reach the podium of the world championship as soon as possible".
In October 2007, Wang Shixian and her teammates lifted the team championship trophy of the Asian Youth Championship, she stood at the center of the world stage, and the story should be the plot of a talented girl who competed in all directions and defeated her opponents in a row to open a new era of Badminton in China.
But the reality is that she has not won the women's singles championship for a long time, has been wandering in the second team, Chen Long, who is one year older than him, has been training in the national team at this time, and she is still fighting for some regular places, when the coach thinks she is squeamish, picky eater, and loves to cry, these are not the character of excellent athletes, but Wang Shixian persevered.
Geniuses turned out to be born but it is difficult to realize the Olympic dream
In 2009, at the age of 19, she made a splash at the Changzhou Masters, Lian Ke Wang Yihan, Lu Lan, Wang Lin, three Chinese female singles players won the championship, she suddenly opened the second pulse of Ren Dou, in june the Malaysian Open final she defeated Wang Xin to win the first open singles championship, in October the National Games women's team final she helped Jiangsu win the championship, and the National Games singles she defeated Wang Lin to win the silver medal.
Li Yongbo is Bole
For a 19-year-old youngster, a year ago there was no achievement, but a year later she soared like a rocket, li Yongbo, then the head coach of Guoyu, said: "The emergence of Wang Shixian has made our women's singles in the process of preparing for the 12-year Olympic Games, adding a competitive figure, and is the representative of young players." ”
The youngest Asian Games women's singles champion
She was the only post-90s member of the national team at the time, and at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, she reached the final and defeated Wang Xin again, becoming the youngest women's singles champion in badminton at the age of 20 years and 8 months.
From 2010 to the beginning of 2011, Wang Shixian reached the final of various competitions for seven consecutive times and won four championships, and after winning the All England Badminton Crown, her world ranking rose to the first place, Zhang Ning retired in the 2012 Olympic cycle, Wang Xin in 85, Lu Lan in 87, Wang Yihan in 88, and Wang Lin in 89, competed for the female single sister, and at this time joined the younger Wang Shixian.
Sudirman Cup unexpectedly lost
She helped the Chinese women's team win the Uber Cup as a main force, but Wang Shixian, who had a smooth journey at the Sudirman Cup in May 2011, suffered the first rout of her career, and she played as the world number one, resulting in the first game against Germany's Schenck, she was mentally burdened and accidentally lost.
"Since entering the first team, it has been very smooth, I know it can't be so smooth all the time, setbacks will come sooner or later" But she herself did not expect that her first setback actually broke the record of the national badminton in 12 years, which was also the first time in history that the Chinese badminton women's singles lost in the group stage of the Sudirman Cup.
Li Yongbo said bluntly: "The tactics of Wang Shixian were used improperly. ”
Her bigger crisis in the national team comes from the contradiction with the head coach Zhang Ning, as a two-time Olympic women's singles champion, Zhang Ning believes that Wang Shixian needs to play "fiercely", but Wang Shixian's style is flexible, the two disagree on the idea of the game, sudirman Cup defeat after she said: "I can't understand the coach, the coach can't understand me." ”
In such a situation, the London Olympic points race opened, since that defeat she has not found the state for a long time, Singapore station Bidi Bowen, Indonesia station lost to Zheng Shaojie, the most important World Championship in 2011 was originally a good opportunity for her to lay the women's single sister, and she lost again to Zheng Shaojie.
She suffered 11 losses on the field in a year, which meant she could have missed a lot of opportunities, she had some problems with her state and psychology, she tried to adjust, but a younger player suddenly came out of early 2012.
Li Xuerui came out with a dark horse posture
She disrupted the puzzle of the national 3W (Wang Yihan, Wang Shixian, Wang Xin), she used 30 consecutive wins in 3 months to win the German, All England, Asian Championships, India laurels, this 21-year-old li Xuerui completely subdued Li Yongbo, Wang Shixian Although the Olympic points competition ranked third, but the unsatisfactory and undulating state of the foreign war finally made the national feathers make adjustments.
When Zhang Ning announced the Olympic roster, Wang Shixian recalled: "After knowing the results, I felt that I was not on the verge of that kind of collapse, I felt as if the sky was about to collapse at once, I only cried once, or I was led to tears when others comforted me." ”
Li Xuerui took the last train to London, and half of the ticket that Wang Shixian held in his hand instantly became waste paper, and in the summer of that year, after Li Xuerui was sealed in London, Wang Shixian became a spectator of everything.
At the age of 17, she fell in love with Chen Long and became the golden boy of The National Feather
Fall in love with Chen Long
She could only silently bless another person in her heart, and she hoped that he would come up with his own strength and win for the two of them, this person was called Chen Long, who was her boyfriend at the time.
Badminton King Zuxian
The two met in the national youth team, when Wang Shixian was beautiful, people gave the nickname "Badminton Wang Zuxian", in 2007 they began their own underground romance, this year Chen Long was 18 years old, Wang Shixian was 17 years old.
At that time, Lin Dan was the top of the national feather, Chen Long and Wang Shixian were both young generals, in 2013, before the suspected love affair was exposed, they were all in the stage of "underground love", and their love affair was concerned because the two of them traveled with The couple Xu Chen and Pan Pan of the national feather.
But the two remained silent about the relationship, and later a report in the British media mentioned for the first time that Wang Shixian was the title of "Chen Long's girlfriend", to which Chen Long said: "I did not want to hide, this is a private matter... I live my life and play my game. And Wang Shixian responded: "I think that things other than playing ball are normal... Playing is playing, and life is life. This ambiguous remark does not seem to deny that the situation of the national feather is still more enlightened than the national table tennis.
Li Yongbo, the head of the family, said: "As long as it does not affect the training and competition, and does not bring any negative impact on the team because of love, it is a qualified team member and has the opportunity to become a model for the national feather family." This may have something to do with Li Yongbo's life experience, when he fell in love with Xie Ying, an artistic gymnast who trained at the same venue, and talked about eight years of love during the athlete period.
Not participating in the Olympics is the biggest regret
"Not letting the five-star red flag rise on the Olympic field is my biggest regret as an athlete!" After London, Wang Shixian trained harder, and once as long as the coach did not say that she would not take the initiative to appear on the training ground, but at this time she wanted to regain the opportunity that was once so close to her.
Rio Olympic cycle he worked hard, won the French Open in 2013, won the second All England championship in 2014, and won the Indian Open, Wang Shixian was full of fire, but a similar scene happened again. In the 2015-2016 Olympic points race, the women's singles quota was reduced from 3 to 2, in the final battle she lost to Neville Xena, the final stage points were overtaken by Wang Yihan, and four years ago, it was also the last battle, it was also a regret to lose the opponent, standing at the other end of the court is still Neville Xena.
Fate seemed to be joking with her, "In the preparation of the four-year cycle, I tried my best." After the Asian Championships she said: "The opportunity has been given to others! "This once world number one, 18 years of hard work but failed to stand on the Olympic field, this is the cruelty of competitive sports."
Accompany Chen Long to win the championship
"Although I did not participate, at the 2016 Rio Olympics, I participated in a badminton match for about ten days in another capacity, witnessing the whole process of Chen Long winning the championship." At that time, Lin Dan was getting old, Chen Long carried the banner of the national feather men's singles, defeated Li Zongwei in the final, and he kissed Wang Shixian under the gaze of the audience.
She rented an apartment in the Olympic Village, and every time Chen Longbi finished the game, Wang Shixian prepared his own love meal for him, "This time to win the championship to thank Wang Shixian, during the Rio period she will make me the right Chinese food every day, and life is very accommodating to me." ”
He retired from the national team at the age of 26
She quit the national team shortly after the Olympic Games, and the 26-year-old should have been the peak of a player, but she was close to the opportunity to give it to people, and the new people in the national team came on, and she said goodbye to the place where she had fought for 10 years with a regret of not being able to raise the national flag at the Olympic Games.
"12 years I regrettably missed the Olympic Games, 16 years have not been able to participate, it is false to say that it is not sad, after all, all athletes have an Olympic dream in their hearts, not to say that the champion even if they participate in it is also an affirmation of their careers, today received too many fans of concern, whether it is a private message or a message I have seen, but competitive sports is a cruel reality, the winner is the king of the loser for the Kou the truth I believe everyone can understand ...". She bid herself farewell with a long essay, turning those regrets and glories into medals for the next stage of her life.
Runners-up at the National Games
The 2017 National Games is her last thought, 8 years ago as a young she had turned the tide and played her own battle of fame, but in the final 8 years later, she once again lost to the opponent to win the runner-up, standing opposite her is Chen Yufei, born in 1998, when Wang Shixian first appeared she had just entered the provincial team.
Wang Shixian probably felt that the afterlife was fearful, "There are surprises and regrets, I stood out from the surprise and ended my game in regret." She announced that she had retired from the army and started a new life at the age of 27.
After the Olympic Games, Wang Shixian once asked Chen Long: "When will you marry me?" This made Chen Long stupid, and he replied casually, "You can do it at any time." As a result, Wang Shixian became angry, "Let's tie the knot in four years." ”
10 years of love long-distance running to cultivate positive results
Just two months after the end of the National Games, Chen Long formally proposed to Wang Shixian, which was the 10th year they had walked together, which was also the first year of their new beginning, Wang Shixian put down her racket and entered the classroom, chen Long continued to fight for the glory of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
After retiring from the military, he became a college coach
In 2019, the two ushered in the birth of their child "Little Coffee", the pair of national feather golden boys and jade girls rose to parents, in 2020 was named the 2020 class counselor of the North Sports University Athletic Sports College, and now Wang Shixian has become Coach Wang. In May 2021, she and her former teammate Wang Yihan met at the 24th China Collegiate Badminton Championships in Chengdu, and they became coaches on both sides, Wang Shixian said: "The previous memories are back, we are still badminton participants. After retiring, she participated in many badminton promotion activities and also led the badminton varsity team at North Sports University.
Dai Jinbiao, a national team training expert, once said: "Wang Shixian still lacks the final scoring shot, which means that her killer skills are not sharp enough." "Maybe it's because she's too gentle, the years are very good for her, she has a good family, originally practiced for weight loss and accidentally entered the provincial team, from the provincial team to the national team to become the youngest Asian Games champion, at the beginning of the love sinus met Chen Long The two have gone through more than 10 years of ups and downs together, and now have their own family and children." The only regret is the Olympic Games, she almost realized her dream twice, maybe fate also thinks she is too smooth, she still loves to laugh, still that is gentle as water Wang Shixian.