Poplar, if not a 10-year table tennis fan, might have been a forgotten name, and she was once seen as a genius. Entered the Hebei provincial team at the age of 10, entered the first team of the national team at the age of 13, won the women's team and women's doubles championship at the World Youth Championship at the age of 14, the runner-up of the women's singles, the 16-year-old table tennis super league champion, the Swedish Open champion, the 20-year-old national championship champion... How many people love your young face, that young poplar thrives.
But compared to the results, Poplar's bigger label is beautiful, the first beauty of national table tennis, the four beauties of the world table tennis and other titles seem to make people forget her achievements that year. Teenage genius, beautiful actress, expelled from the team, peak retirement, what did she experience in the middle?
He entered the national team at the age of 13
He started practicing at the age of 5
In 1984, Bai Yang was born in Baoding City, Hebei Province, when she was a child, she was not in good health and was always sick, her parents thought of letting her exercise her physique, so they sent 5-year-old Bai Yang to the Baoding Amateur Sports School to practice playing table tennis, and her enlightenment coach Tang Yinsheng felt that this woman had a good talent and "played smart." At the age of 7, she got up at 5 o'clock every day to go out to exercise, sleepy in class in the morning, trained in the afternoon, and wrote homework in the evening, so repeated but she did not feel bored, "Every day I can touch the racket and feel that anything is worth it." ”
"I belong to the kind of person who loves to put pressure on myself when I play ball, and I think about it a lot, and I've been like this since I was a child. If I want to do something, I must do my best. "When she was a child, her father would tell her the story of clay people and teach her to be serious in doing things, and to concentrate on doing one thing and doing a good job. So she trains harder than everyone else, but more people only notice her appearance, so she wants people to see her strength more.
I especially love to cry
When she was a child, she especially loved to cry, crying when she lost the ball, and crying when she won the battle. The military training of the national team is particularly strict, Bai Yang was punished to stand in the military posture for half an hour, and as a result, after 5 minutes, she began to cry, and the whole could not stop, even the instructor said: "Bai Yang is so powerful, he can cry for such a long time, it is simply convinced." She kept telling herself not to cry, not to cry, but she just couldn't control it.
At the age of 13, she entered the first team of the national team, but not long after because of the results were returned to the second team, she only had to silently compete with herself, with more hard training to hone her skills, when her style of play was very similar to Chen Jing in Chinese Taipei, so she became a sparring partner of the first team, specializing in practicing Chen Jing's style of play, "Usually, where can there be so many opportunities to play with Wang Nan and Li Ju, at the beginning I couldn't play with them at all, the level was too much." But after practicing for a while, I felt better and better. I thought to myself, in fact, they are also using sparring for me!"
At the age of 16, she led Hebei women's table tennis to the championship at the national championships, and the women's singles final defeated 19-year-old Zhang Yining to win the championship. "At that time, as long as I played the game by myself, the results were good." Genius girl was born, during that period she was praised in the sky, she wanted to prove herself too much, the greater the psychological pressure, "for a period of time my grades are not very good, many people think that I do not work hard or do not care, in fact, I give myself too much pressure, I want to play well, I have been working hard." ”
The ideal in her heart has not changed, she wants to win the world championship, she wants to win the Olympic championship.
The World Table Tennis Championships are regrettably lost
In 2003, the 19-year-old Bai Yang ushered in the closest opportunity to the world championship, she and Liu Guozheng partnered in the mixed doubles of the World Table Tennis Championships, all the way to the final, their opponents are Ma Lin and Wang Nan. "I was very disappointed at the time, feeling that I had not been able to grasp such a good opportunity." In that unfortunate defeat, she cried a lot, and the media after the game only paid attention to this crying player, and did not say anything about her efforts and efforts.
"After the World Table Tennis Championships, I read a lot of reports about myself on the Internet, and no one commented on my ball, all talking about how I looked. Maybe my appearance doesn't feel like I'm particularly pursuing a career. "That defeat hit her hard, and even if she reached the final, people still focused on her appearance.
"It doesn't matter if I take it or not, but I'm responsible for you and I'll take you to the final." After the defeat of the mixed doubles, Liu Guozheng told her, but unfortunately they never had a chance again.
At the age of 19, he fell in love and was expelled from the national team
He was expelled from the team because of his relationship
A "dismissal order" that changed the course of her career came.
At 14:00 on the afternoon of January 2, 2004, the Athens Olympic national table tennis entered the final sprint stage, and they received an urgent notice to go to the multi-purpose hall for a meeting, which is very important that all players must not be absent.
Head coach Cai Zhenhua announced the penalty decision
Cai Zhenhua as the head coach at the meeting solemn: "Now the phenomenon of love in the team is serious, perhaps some people say that it is inhumane not to allow players to fall in love, but you are different from ordinary people, the golden period of athletes is very short, you must cherish, if you also spend time in love with ordinary people, how can you be worthy of the expectations of the country?" If you dedicate your youth to your career, I believe that your career will also give you more happiness. ”
Expelled from the team
These words made several players in the team bow their heads, including the 20-year-old Bai Yang, "I announced that the athletes Bai Yang, Hou Yingchao, Li Nan and Fan Ying had affected the training because of their love, and the team decided to return the four of them to the provincial team." ”
This incident happened suddenly, and the parties concerned had no idea at all, and there was no doubt that these four people were thunderbolts on a sunny day. At that time, Hou Yingchao was the only chipper in the team, Li Nan ranked ninth in the world, and the two of them were ruthlessly expelled from the team because of their love. Fan Ying is only 17 years old, and she and Wang Hao are closely related.
Poplar is in contact with Marlene.
But the team only let Fan Ying and Bai Yang return to the provincial team, Wang Hao and Ma Lin stayed, because they were the core of men's table tennis, and the team did not want them to be distracted during the critical period of preparing for the Olympic Games, and Bai Yang became the victim of the "strict investigation" of the national table tennis.
Zhang Yining is Bai Yang's best friend
Bai Yang was packing her bags and crying, everything seemed to be over, including the budding career and love, she had to say goodbye to her teammates and return to the Hebei team's base in Zhengding, and the people she was most reluctant to do except Ma Lin and Zhang Yining.
Zhang Yining is her best friend, the big devil who has always been poker face loves to play with her, she calls Zhang Yining "Lao Zhang", their favorite game is to stare at each other to see who can't help but laugh first, of course, the winner of the game is often Zhang Yining. "If I can win the world championship, I'd rather be ugly," was the last words she left for Zhang Yining when she left the national team.
The relationship between Bai Yang and Marlene was known to the public as the mixed doubles final of the World Table Tennis Championships, when a controversial ball wiped the net referee out of bounds, Bai Yang let Marlene testify, the ball was valid, but Marlene did not say, after the game, Bai Yang cried while turning his head and leaving, the commentator At the time, Yang Ying casually said: "Marlene also does not take care of her girlfriend Poplar." ”
After Bai Yang left, Marlene did not try to save the relationship, after the two broke up, she and actor Zhang Ningyi became lovers, the two married in 2008, a year later announced divorce, for the property court.
Return to the provincial team to train hard
On the one hand is Marlene's scenery is infinite, on the other hand is the lows of poplar wandering, back to the provincial team she wrote a letter of inspection to the leader, the Spring Festival did not rest directly into training, she too much wants to win back everything that has been lost, the conditions in the team are not as good as the national team, there is no heating in the training hall, poplar training sweat blows cold wind on the cold, so she has always insisted, she knows that once she misses the opportunity, there may be no chance to go back, she also understands what Cai Zhenhua said "the peak period of athletes is short".
Returning to the national team could not find a place, and overseas players refused to be naturalized in Japan
Bai Yang and Guo Yue
She was expelled from the team for falling in love, and this result was somewhat "disgraceful" At that time, the pressure she was under was quite large, fortunately, she returned to the national team with her own persistence, but at this time, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining had become unshakable leaders, and there was a menacing Guo Yue behind...
Missed the second chance to win the title
At the 2005 World Table Tennis Championships, she and Liu Guozheng teamed up in mixed doubles and broke in the final, and she was doomed to lose the world championship.
Rejection of Japanese naturalization invitations
In 2007, Poplar was sent to Croatia to play in the club league, which meant that the door of the national team seemed to be closed to her forever. She received an invitation from the Japan Table Tennis Association, they promised Toyo a large salary and a seat in the 2008 Olympic Games, but the 23-year-old Poplar refused, "The country has spent a lot of money to train me, and I only play table tennis for China." ”
She didn't win a title in the two years since she returned to the national team, and she left her best self until she was 20 years old, the young talent, the beautiful golfer who wanted to prove her strength. In 2009, she represented the Hebei team in the 11th National Games, she knew that there were not many opportunities left for herself, she should think about her future, partnering with Niu Jianfeng to win the third place in women's doubles was the last honor she left for the table tennis world, after the National Games she announced her retirement, 26 years old from scratch.
After surviving the confusion of his retirement period, he is now an officer
After retiring from the army, he joined the army
In 2010, she became a staff officer in the Sports Brigade of the Political Department of the Armed Police through special recruitment, with the rank of captain. She said that she is a person who thinks more, just like playing chess, one move falls, in fact, the last three steps have been thought out. Before joining the army, she wanted to continue to contribute to the cause of table tennis and become a commentator like her predecessor Li Ying.
No world champion university dreams shattered
She wanted to enter the Communication University of China, and through the interview, the school agreed to recruit Poplar to study, but the special graduate student needed the approval of the Ministry of Education, but at that time her application was returned - because she did not have a world champion.
She had to come to a short-term media training class held by the Communication University of China, he found that he was still far from the commentator, originally thought that this was relying on his table tennis knowledge to talk about the ball, but the lack of theoretical knowledge and cultural foundation made her feel that this matter seemed to be just her own "wishful thinking", "After the class, I just feel that with my existing ability, I really can't do it, maybe from the beginning, it is my own vanity at work." ”
Again and again I fell into confusion
Confused and predicament, her favorite table tennis is moving away from herself, 5 years old began to pick up the racket, 26 years old completely put down, but what else does she have besides table tennis? "When athletes are used to it, they suddenly have no goal when they are idle, and they can't even stay still." But then again, even if you just find a job, what can you do? ”
Until she passed the special move of the armed police sports brigade, she was dressed in a military uniform, and she said that the future road is very long, and she must enrich herself. There is not much information about her today, and she is said to have been promoted from captain when she joined the army to major, and she said in an interview: "For active athletes, it is definitely necessary to put playing first." Because since you have chosen the path of table tennis, when you are an athlete, playing ball is accumulating the capital of life. ”
Perhaps she has also revisited the things that happened to her in the past, and regret or no regret has become a past tense. When she retired from the army, many people were blessed to her, who could bear to hurt a person who kept working hard for her dreams? And she was actually a victim of that year, the relationship was never one-sided, but the competitive sports results are king, people care too much about her appearance, and even think that she went to play table tennis a bit of "violent things". Zhang Yining, who was 29 years old at the time, married Xu Wei, a 48-year-old financial tycoon, and some people commented that she brought countless gold medals to the Chinese team, but she owed herself a love that belonged to youth. But for Poplar, she may have a different view, and now that she mentions her appearance, please remember that her most beautiful appearance is the moment when she constantly strives to improve on the ping-pong table. Her name is poplar, a poplar that grows upward forever.