As the chinese table tennis team the fastest to achieve the great slam Zhang Jike ushered in the 34th birthday, he can be said to be soaring in the London Olympic cycle, in the three years from 2010 to 2012, a surprise a year, in the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships men's team final bravely shouldered the burden and scored a key 1 point, and then there was the feat of winning the men's singles championship in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships and the 2012 London Olympic Games. Today's Zhang Jike has not officially announced his retirement, and in the case of his peers Ma Long and Xu Xin, who have married and had children, he still retains the identity of a golden bachelor.
Zhang Jike is a rare personality player in the Chinese table tennis team, with the characteristics of being untamed, and was selected for the national team before Ma Long in the Beijing Olympic cycle, but because he did not obey the management, he was returned to the Shandong team by the national team, and later returned to the national table tennis family again through the results of the National Championships. Born in 1988, Zhang Jike and Ma Long are the same age, but the two are like their respective personalities, the career trajectory is completely different, Ma Long became one of the main players of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2006, but has been tepid, Zhang Jike quickly became popular in the London Olympic cycle, the performance pressure Ma Long took the lead in getting the Grand Slam, but the red is also fast, Ma Long is still an indispensable member of the national table tennis.
Zhang Jike in the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships team selection, through round after round of layers of confrontation, finally luckily forced three-time World Table Tennis Championships men's singles champion Wang Liqin to become one of the team members, which is also the beginning of Zhang Jike, Ma Long and Xu Xin to seize the power of the class. In the moscow World Table Tennis Championships men's team final, Xu Xin and Wang Hao two straight board players were hidden in the snow, Ma Lin was unexpectedly ranked in the first main force, Zhang Jike was more unexpectedly played as the third single, in the first two sets to play 1-1, the key third set Zhang Jike withstood the pressure to defeat Germany's 2005 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles runner-up Sus, laying an important foundation for the Chinese table tennis team to win the championship. National table tennis gave Zhang Jike trust, he also lived up to expectations to seize the opportunity to take the upper position, after the Moscow war, Zhang Jike quickly became the successor of the new generation of national table tennis, while teammate Ma Long lost to Pol in the final of the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships.
At the 2011 Rotterdam World Table Tennis Championships in the Netherlands, Zhang Jike defeated Wang Liqin, Bohr and Wang Hao, three world champions, to win the men's singles championship deservedly, and in the same year won the men's singles championship of the World Cup, which also paved the way for Zhang Jike's London Olympic quota competition. At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Zhang Jirenk Ocharov and Wang Hao continued to perform highlights, becoming the shortest Grand Slam champion to win the title. Zhang Jike then defended the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles champion, but also won the 2014 World Cup again, issued a double circle Grand Slam rhetoric, but unfortunately the waist injury was serious at this time, the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships was blocked by Fang Bo in the final, the 2016 Rio Olympic Games men's singles final lost to Ma Long, the 2018 Japan Open was Zhang Jike's last appearance on the international field, lost to Zhang Benzhi and won the men's singles runner-up.
Zhang Jike did not rush to announce his retirement on the days when he faded out of the national team, and participated in a series of various activities, showing the versatility of the table tennis arena. At the time when Ma Long and Xu Xin have a family and have a lovely son, Zhang Jike is still single, the previous scandal with Liu Shiwen came to an abrupt end, and the love affair with Jing Tian also ended, and now 34-year-old Zhang Jike may be difficult to return to the game, and starting a family is the biggest blessing that fans have placed on Zhang Jike's birthday.