Table tennis as a mainland national ball, in the women's athletes have emerged Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning, Chen Meng and many other star players, now more and more fans see Wang Manyu manly play, very competitive, and the women's way of playing masculine has to mention a person is Li Ju.
Mention of Li Ju has to mention that when the Asian qualifiers of the 2004 Athens Olympic Table Tennis Tournament kicked off, the famous Li Ju quietly left the national team. In an interview with Li Ju, he confessed that he felt "regret, grievance, and not quite understanding" about his failure. After Li Ju's mood was relieved, she thanked the fans who liked her. In 2002, the Chinese women's table tennis team ushered in the trough at the Busan Asian Games, Li Ju accepted the call of the national team after a year of not playing, re-put on the national brand shirt, and after three months of recovery, won the third place in the women's singles and women's doubles events at the World Table Tennis Championships, which was greatly praised by the outside world, and also made the outside world have higher expectations for Li Ju to continue to play in the Athens Olympic Games, but there was also a scene at the beginning of this paragraph.
Li Ju was born in Nantong in 1976, at a very young age, Li Ju was very lively and active, has a great interest in table tennis, with the support of the family, Li Ju began to engage in table tennis events, and gradually entered the national team from the provincial team, its right hand horizontal grip racket arc circle combined with fast attack method; the front and back hands can pull the arc circle ball, and have high quality rotation and speed, the backhand can also force the bounce, with unique playing characteristics and playing quite fierce, Li Ju gradually gained a foothold in the national team, and there is no lack of victory over Deng Yaping At one time, he was known as Deng Yaping's bitter lord.
Li Ju also qualified for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games with excellent performance, won the runner-up in the women's singles field, partnered with Wang Nan on the women's doubles field to win the championship, first in the semi-final stage, in the case of 1-2 behind, won two consecutive sets, and finally defeated south Korean athletes Liu Zhizhi / Jin Mao School 3-2, and in the open tournament before the Olympic Games, it was the south Korean combination that was defeated, and successfully defeated teammates Yang Ying / Sun Jin on the final stage to win the women's doubles championship.
Li Ju with the failure to qualify for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, gradually withdrew from the professional arena, with outstanding skills and high appearance has been recognized by the fans, became the torchbearer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, in 2016, Li Ju appeared in people's field of vision, Li Ju in Jiangsu as the deputy dean of the School of Physical Education of Jiangsu Nantong University, through the photos can be seen that Li Ju compared to the athlete period of the body appeared a certain degree of happiness, but quite a leadership temperament, In terms of family, he entered the marriage hall with his lover in 2014 and wished Li Ju's family happiness and smooth work.