Li Jiawei is a Beijing girl born in 1981, leaving her "tiger" father at the age of 15 and leaving the "Lion City", ping-pong is like time turning rapidly, and the Years in Singapore are no easier than in Beijing.
Li Jiawei's choice and hard work have bought her four Olympic Games and many world championship opportunities, and successfully left her own story in the world of table tennis. For Li Jiawei, table tennis has a career, family affection, separation, youth, sweat, laughter, responsibility, years...
<h1>"Strict Master"</h1>
In the eyes of young Li Jiawei, her father Li Wanxiang is like a "devil". As a grassroots table tennis coach, Li Wanxiang is undoubtedly successful, yanshi out of high apprentices, he has cultivated a lot of excellent seedlings, including world champion Guo Yan and daughter Li Jiawei, etc.; but as a father, it is more than strict, insufficient love, and even can be said to be Li Jiawei's childhood shadow.
Looking forward to the daughter Chengfeng, Li Wanxiang demanded his daughter with the highest standards, and wanted Li Jiawei to become a role model for the sports school, and his severity was based on Li Jiawei's outstanding talent. This hellish exercise environment has created a good foundation for Li Jiawei and has also been of great benefit to her career.
Li Wanxiang was almost obsessed with table tennis, cruel to his disciples, even more cruel to himself, and insisted on teaching for five or six hours a day due to injuries and illnesses. Gradually, the "pain point" between the two masters and apprentices became the daughter's heartache for her father. At the age of 9, she still entered the Shichahai Sports School and became a good partner with Zhang Yining, who was two months younger.
<h1>"Nan" off</h1>
Li Jiawei's right hand horizontal grip racket fast attack combined with arc play, very aggressive, forehand low ball assault quality is very high. Coupled with a good height, swing speed and a solid technical foundation, at the age of 19, he had the opportunity to impact the Olympic Games and challenge the "big devil" Wang Nan in the women's singles quarterfinals of the Sydney Olympic Games. At that time, Li Jiawei was 19 years old and Wang Nan was 21 years old, and in the eyes of the outside world, their strength gap was far greater than the age gap.
In the case of not being optimistic, Li Jiawei forced Wang Nan into a desperate situation, and once won four match points. In the end, Wang Nan fought to the death, crushed the mentality of the young Li Jiawei, successfully reversed the game and won the championship with great success. Judging from the results, Li Jiawei has not gotten anything, but she has let the world know of her existence.
Sydney did not cross the "Nan" pass, Li Jiawei did it in Athens, proving that she is not a short-lived dark horse. In the quarter-finals of the 2004 Olympic Games, she defeated Wang Nan 4-1. In this game, Li Jiawei completely suppressed the "Great Devil King", and the only game Wang Nan won was a big score reversal, and she also burst into tears after the game.
This game is Li Jiawei's fame battle, she completely made a name for herself in the women's table tennis world, after this "Nan" pass, Li Jiawei still has not been on the podium, but she has driven to the "fast lane" with Singapore women's table tennis.
<h1>"Go home"</h1>
In the first decade of the 21st century, Singapore women's table tennis achieved a rise, and their progress curve is very clear, and Li Jiawei is undoubtedly a key figure in it. The Sydney Olympics almost pulled Wang Nan off the horse, and the Athens Olympic Games women's singles fourth place, these results gave the Singapore team great confidence.
Although the Doha Asian Games lost to the Chinese women's table tennis and won the team silver medal, this is already their best result in history, and Singapore has also given heavy awards. With their sights set for the 2008 Guangzhou World Table Tennis Championships and the Beijing Olympics, Li Jiawei set out on her way home.
At the Guangzhou World Table Tennis Championships, Li Jiawei led the Singapore women's team all the way through the barriers, defeating the Netherlands, Japan and other teams to enter the final for the first time. In the final, Li Jiawei took the lead, 3-0 "crying" Guo Yue, but then Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu lost the battle, and Li Jiawei challenged "Fa Xiao" Zhang Yining in the life and death game, and the result was reversed 1-3 and won the silver medal.
At the Beijing Olympics, Li Jiawei really returned home once and won the most important medal of her career. The Singapore women's team is still eye-catching, and in the semi-finals, she fought with the Korean women's team for five matches, and Li Jiawei lost to South Korea's kim Jing'e in singles, but she quickly adjusted her form and won a point with Wang Yuegu in doubles.
In the end, the Singapore women's team reached the final, and Li Jiawei was in tears, unable to make herself. In the final, facing the host China team, Singapore lost unsurprisingly.
<h1>retire</h1>
In 2009, Li Jiawei married Li Chaochao, a billionaire, and prepared to give way to young people. However, after repeated retention in Singapore, she quickly recovered and led the team to win the women's team championship at the 2010 World Table Tennis Championships, creating history. At the 2012 London Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the team competition and ended her career perfectly.
After the London Olympics, 31-year-old Li Jiawei officially retired and returned to her family. Even from the field to the field, she did not completely remove the three words "soldier table tennis ball", and will devote herself to the teaching and promotion of table tennis. In addition, she often shares the happy life with her family and children.
Once, our elite athletes were naturalized by other countries as "traitors"; now, perhaps we can now look at their choices with a more objective eye and understand their stories.