Table tennis is China's national ball, and the dominance of the Chinese table tennis team in the world is even stronger than the American "dream team" in the international basketball world. Therefore, almost every friend who pays attention to sports will know some table tennis stars, such as Liu Guoliang, Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan, Deng Yaping and so on.
Because the domestic players are like clouds, the competitive pressure is very large, and many athletes do not have the opportunity at home and go to compete abroad. Therefore, China has also sent a lot of table tennis talents to various countries, and Li Jiawei is one of them.
<h1>Influenced by his father, he embarked on the road of table tennis</h1>
Born in 1981, Li Jiawei is an authentic Beijinger. At the age of 9, Li Jiawei entered the Shichahai Sports School for table tennis training. Five years later, she successfully entered the Beijing team and began to compete in the Warring States. In 1996, Li Jiawei traveled to Nanyang and became the main player of the Singapore national team.
Speaking of Li Jiawei, first of all, we have to talk about her father Li Wanxiang. Li Wanxiang is an ordinary grassroots table tennis coach in China, such a coach also once had the dream of a world championship, and later because of injury, Li Wanxiang hastily retired.
Despite this, his dream never gave up and he started a table tennis training class. Although his dream of becoming a world champion was shattered, he wanted to become the coach of the world champion. It is said that it was difficult because Li Wanxiang's conditions were really difficult at that time, in order to run classes, he changed his home into a training room, and his wife and daughter could only go to their mother to live and live, while Li Wanxiang lived in the training room.
Speaking of which, the plot seems a bit like the Indian movie Wrestlemania! Daddy". But the difference is that Li Jiawei's ping-pong relationship is an unintentional result, Li Wanxiang did not deliberately train his daughter to carry out table tennis training, but in a training, accidentally discovered her daughter's talent in this regard.
Once Li Wanxiang was training other team members, at that time many team members were not doing well, anxious he scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks. Li Jiawei on the side did not think so, "What is so difficult about this?" This sentence made Li Wanxiang notice his daughter, and he immediately asked Li Jiawei to try this action, but what he did not expect was that she did a very good job, not at all like an untrained person. Since then, Li Wanxiang began to train his daughter to take this road.
<h1>My father was strict in discipline and practiced his skills</h1>
The father became the coach, and the relationship between the two became delicate. Li Wanxiang began to be strict with Li Jiawei, because Li Jiawei was both a team member and a daughter, so her father was more strict with her. Li Jiawei had to do better than the other team members all the time, and now that she recalls, she still has palpitations about her father's discipline.
In Li Jiawei's own words: "Anyway, I am scolded every day, I really can't stand it, and every day I think about how I can leave home and not be scolded." My mother didn't cry less because of this, he was too strict. If I can't beat me, he will beat me. ”
At the same time, the young Li Jiawei's mind is not very mature, so she does not understand her father's good intentions, she always opposes her father openly and secretly, but often in exchange for stricter discipline.
Li Wanxiang also has his own views on this, he said that he never regretted the strict management of his daughter, because if he was not strict, there would be no good results for Li Jiawei in the future, and although other children were their own team members, they were not biological after all, and there would always be scruples when disciplined, so Li Jiawei became the "chicken" who "killed chickens and made monkeys". After all, their own children, how to discipline is not excessive.
<h1>Travel to Singapore and shine on the field</h1>
Later, after her father's teaching, Li Jiawei progressed very quickly. The Singapore Table Tennis Association saw a very good prospect and potential in her, so Li Jiawei was sent to Singapore for training at the age of 13. When she first arrived in Singapore, Li Jiawei did not adapt to the changes in the environment and once thought of going home. At this time, Li Wanxiang would appease his daughter who was far away in a foreign country. Slowly, Li Jiawei adapted to everything in Singapore.
Li Jiawei is not a Singaporean who joined after becoming famous, so although she is a player "produced" by China, she also needs a little struggle. After 5 years of devil training, Li Jiawei gradually made a world in Singapore. Of course, Singapore also attaches enough importance to Li Jiawei, giving her a very large growth space and guidance, Li Jiawei also lived up to expectations, quickly grew up, and helped the Singapore team to achieve very good results.
Speaking of Li Jiawei's achievements, there is one game that must be mentioned, that is, in the Athens Olympic Games, Li Jiawei's victory over China's Wang Nan.com. We all know that Wang Nan is a very strong Grand Slam player. As early as the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Wang Nan reversed Li Jiawei 3:2. What people did not expect was that Li Jiawei's revenge came so quickly, just to the next Olympic Games, she eliminated "Nan Sister" with the same score and color, and Wang Nan also cried bitterly after the game.
In 2008, it can be said that Li Jiawei "went home" to participate in the competition. She was born in Beijing herself, so this competition is of great significance to Li Jiawei. Fortunately, Beijing also brought good luck to Li Jiawei, she and Feng Tianwei, Wang Yuegu and others defeated South Korea in the women's team competition to advance to the final, although in the final Bai won the silver medal for the Chinese team, they still created singapore's best result since the Olympic Games. It can be said that this "trip home" was full of harvests, and Li Jiawei also cried with joy after the game.
In this regard, Singapore also gave a high evaluation, Singapore's sports minister Vivian said: "I would like to give Jiawei a hug ... Wanting her to know that we will definitely give her the utmost support. I don't want this to be Jiawei's last Olympics. ”
In 2009, Li Jiawei returned to Beijing to marry Li Chao and formed her own happy family. But Singapore hopes that she can participate in another Olympic Games, and Li Jiawei gladly accepted this invitation in order to repay Singapore's nurturing grace. Although she already had a family, she resolutely chose to return to Singapore for training and preparing for the competition. It can be seen that Li Jiawei is a very sentient player.
In 2010, she made a comeback with the Singapore women's team, defeating the powerful Chinese team to win the Women's World Table Tennis Championships. They won a bronze medal at the London Olympics. On the last day of 2012, Li Jiawei officially retired.
Throughout Li Jiawei's career, it is really a domestic "Wrestling! Daddy", her table tennis story with her father is very contagious. After retiring from the army, she married a wealthy merchant and lived the life of a husband and a godson, which was very pleasant.