Zhang Yining is a table tennis player that everyone is very familiar with, many fans call Zhang Yining the Devil King, and Zhang Yining is also the only athlete in Chinese women's table tennis to complete a double grand slam.
From this point of view, Zhang Yining can indeed be said to be the most outstanding among the contemporaries.
Zhang Yining completed the second round of grand slam at the 2009 Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, and in the women's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships that year, she defeated Guo Yue in a strong reversal after falling behind 0-2 and won her second World Table Tennis Championships singles title, thus completing her own double-lap Grand Slam.
However, after Zhang Yining defeated Guo Yue, coach Li Falcon commented on Zhang Yining's game and said that Zhang Yining's performance was not good.
What's going on here?
Let's take a look back at that classic game!
At the Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Yining defeated Liu Shiwen, who was only 18 years old at the time, 4-2 in the semi-finals, and once again reached the final.
Zhang Yining's opponent in the final was Guo Yue, who swept him 4-0 two years ago.
In the women's singles semifinals of the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb for two years, Guo Yue played against Zhang Yining, and the result was that Guo Yue played very well, and the whole game did not give Zhang Yining any chance, sweeping Zhang Yining with a score of 4-0, which also made many people in the industry believe that Guo Yue's era had arrived in advance.
Therefore, the Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, for Zhang Yining, is an opportunity to prove herself again.
After the game began, Guo Yue took the lead, and Zhang Yining was not willing to show weakness, the competition between the two was very fierce, Guo Yue won the first set with a score of 12-10.
But in the second set, Guo Yue was faster and controlled the situation on the field, while Zhang Yining was full of mistakes and played a bit conservatively, and in the end, Guo Yue easily won the game with an 11-3 score.
Seeing this, many people thought that the scene of two years ago would be repeated, and Zhang Yining once again lost to Guo Yue.
However, from the beginning of the third game, Zhang Yining became very fierce, changing the previous four-flat and stable playing style, decisively taking the initiative to attack, this change also caught Guo Yue off guard, 11-2! Zhang Yining easily pulled back a round!
In the fourth set, Guo Yue regained his strength and fought again, and at one point took a 7-5 lead, but he lost the game by losing six consecutive points.
The loss of the fourth game also seriously affected Guo Yue's confidence in the future, and Zhang Yining was more and more courageous, successfully winning the fifth and sixth sets, thus defeating Guo Yue with a score of 4-2!
Zhang Yining won her second World Table Tennis Championships singles title while also completing her second lap of Grand Slam.
After winning the championship, Zhang Yining was very calm, when she talked about her reversal of Guo Yue, she said that the main reason for her loss in the first two sets was that she was too conservative, and after losing the first two sets, she quickly realized that she could no longer be "stable", but more fierce and harder!
Guo Yue said that when talking about the defeat of Zhang Yining, he said that he mainly lost in the lack of experience in the big game, the first two games, he was mainly fighting, after winning the first two games, the mentality behind him changed, in the face of Zhang Yining's fierce fight, he was a bit too fierce, in the relationship between fierce and stable, he did not handle well, he wanted to be more fierce than Zhang Yining, but he wanted to be more stable and came to power first. Compared with Zhang Yining, he still has a great lack of on-the-spot strain, experience and handling the ball.
When Deng Yaping talked about Guo Yue's loss, she said that the main reason for Guo Yue's loss was that the handling of key balls was too casual, especially in the third game, Guo Yue completely gave up the game, and did not have a single point to entangle with Zhang Yining. If this problem cannot be solved by being too casual in the game, Guo Yue will regret it for a lifetime!
When Zhang Yining's head coach Li Falcon talked about Zhang Yining, he said that in fact, Zhang Yining's performance in the final was not good, and he played very generally and played more conservatively, but Zhang Yining still relied on experience and stability to finally defeat Guo Yue. It can be said that although Zhang Yining was once very passive in the game, it is good that Zhang Yining's will quality is very tenacious, and he takes the initiative to find ways to change the dilemma, at this point, Zhang Yining is worth learning from all athletes!
Tenacious will quality, which is also the main reason why Zhang Yining can finally achieve a double circle Grand Slam, I hope that today's young athletes, learn more from Zhang Yining, Ding Ning and other excellent athletes, and can achieve better results in the international arena, come on!