The youngest member of the Chinese table tennis national team, the youngest world champion in the history of table tennis, these two exciting halos are actually from an athlete, and this athlete is 26 years old, the peak of his career, helplessly quit the national team, but then studied tsinghua university and Hong Kong Chinese University MBA in finance, and now has a successful career, this person is Guo Yue.
First, the talent is fully displayed
Guo Yue was born into a very ordinary working family in Anshan, Liaoning Province. It is said that Liaoning is a major sports province, and Anshan is the cradle of Olympic champions, and it should be known that Ma Long and Li Xiaoxia, who are the same age as Guo Yue, are both Anshan people.
When he was a child, Guo Yue was thin, but as a girl, Guo Yue never liked to grow long hair, and usually dressed like a "tomboy". Due to frequent illness, as a father, Guo Xiangsheng took the very young Guo Yue to participate in physical exercise, because there was a table tennis competition in his factory at that time, so Guo Xiangsheng often took Guo Yue to the factory to play table tennis, and gradually let Guo Yue like the sport of table tennis.
When Guo Yue followed his father to play with others in the factory, he was very angry if he lost, so Guo Yue had a spirit of not accepting defeat since he was a child.
Slowly, the 6-year-old Guo Yue gradually showed his talent in table tennis, and there was almost no opponent in the factory. At this time, Guo Xiangsheng had an idea, that is, he wanted Guo Yue to embark on the road of table tennis. Therefore, after consulting with his lover, he quickly registered Guo Yue at the municipal sports school for professional table tennis training. This year, Guo Yue was 7 years old.
Second, invincible
In 1996, Liaoning Province organized a provincial youth competition, when Guo Yue was only 8 years old, in fact, it did not meet the age of registration, but Guo Yue, who was 1 year younger than the age of registration, was recommended by the coach to enter the competition. And it was in this competition that Guo Yue, who was smaller than other players, won the final first place, and it should be known that there were more than 70 people registered at that time, which also made Guo Xiangsheng firm to let his daughter take the road of table tennis.
It was after that game that 8-year-old Guo Yue was sent to a sports school in Shenyang and began to receive more professional training. At this time, Guo Yue is a lonely and defeated existence in the competition with his peers. Two years later, the Liaoning provincial team took a fancy to Guo Yue, and at this point, the 10-year-old Guo Yue successfully entered the Liaoning provincial team, when the former world champion Zhu Xiangyun was Guo Yue's head coach.
After being guided by Zhu Xiangyun, Guo Yue's progress was even more rapid. In 1999, the country organized a junior table tennis selection tournament, and Guo Yue, then 11 years old, represented Liaoning Province. In this game, Cai Zhenhua, who was the head coach of national table tennis at the time, watched all the participants on the sidelines. In the end, Guo Yue won the championship in one fell swoop, so cai Zhenhua decided that this little girl was not simple, so he promoted Guo Yue, who was only 11 years old, to the national second team.
Third, the master is like a cloud
In 2000, the 12-year-old Guo Yue officially entered the national first team and began to become teammates with world champions such as Wang Nan, Li Ju and Zhang Yining. At this time, Guo Yue found that she was invincible in the previous games, and when she arrived at the national team, she lost almost all training matches. So Guo Yue, who did not accept defeat, began to train desperately, constantly challenging Wang Nan and Zhang Yining who had defeated him, so that later Zhang Yining said when recalling, "At that time, I was most afraid of Guo Yue!" ”
In Guo Yue's heart, if he loses, he is very angry, and he must continue to play and win back. And such a stubborn personality has also made him repeatedly reprimanded by the coach of the national team. It can be said that this also made the national table tennis coach have a bad impression of Guo Yue.
Fourth, the First World War became famous
However, genius will not be buried, 16-year-old Guo Yue was given high hopes by the coach, was selected to participate in the 47th Qatar Doha World Table Tennis Championships team competition, and finally won the championship with Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, so far, Guo Yue has also become the youngest world champion. However, Guo Yue did not stop the pace of the outbreak, in the same year, at the International Table Tennis Federation Finals, the 16-year-old Guo Yue became the youngest singles champion of this event, which can be said to be famous!
Also in the same year, Guo Yue was selected by the national table tennis team, participated in the Athens Olympic Games, partnered with Niu Jianfeng, who was 7 years older than himself, played in the doubles competition, although he lost to Wang Nan/Zhang Yining in the semifinals, but finally won a bronze medal, 16 years old stood on the stage of the Olympic Games, and won a bronze medal, it can be said that in the talented Chinese table tennis team, Guo Yue is a miracle.
At this time, Guo Yue still very much wants to win the singles championship of the three major competitions, so as to prove his strength. In the 2007 Zagreb World Table Tennis Championships, 19-year-old Guo Yue passed the hurdles, first defeating the "Big Devil" Zhang Yining 4:0 in the semi-finals, and then defeating his compatriot and Li Xiaoxia, who also grew up with him, in the final, and finally won his first three-major singles championship!
5. Retired due to injury
Guo Yue's outstanding record has allowed the outside world to see the hope of succeeding Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, however, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Guo Yue was blocked by Wang Nan in the singles final, and finally won a bronze medal, and then in the World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games, Guo Yue lost to Zhang Yining, it can be said that Guo Yue has never crossed the two mountains of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining.
However, after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Wang Nan retired, Zhang Yining retired after the 2009 National Games, which made Guo Yue see hope, but it backfired, at this time, the level of other teammates in the national table tennis team improved rapidly, even Li Xiaoxia, who was the same age as himself and had not been able to beat himself before, frequently defeated himself, Guo Yue gradually began to doubt himself, and his naturally lonely personality made him dislike communication with others, which also made Guo Yue very depressed and lost.
At the 2012 London Olympics, he lost to Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning in the singles quota competition, but still won the gold medal in the team competition with two teammates. You know, at this time, the 24-year-old Guo Yue has participated in three Olympic Games.
At the beginning of 2014, Guo Yue's state has not improved, and due to years of large-scale exercise training, he caused spinal injuries, and finally withdrew from the Tokyo World Table Tennis Championships that year on the grounds of injury, which can be said to have angered the national table tennis coaching team!
6. Leave the national team
Just in 2014, Guo Yue's withdrawal from the World Table Tennis Championships made Kong Linghui, who was then the coach of the national table tennis women's team, very angry, and immediately transferred him out of the national team! Before that, Shi Zhihao, who was the head coach of the national table tennis women's team at the time, was very dissatisfied with Guo Yue, believing that Guo Yue was willful, stubborn, repulsive, and uncultured.
Later, Liu Guoliang's words were meaningful: "Guo Yue's departure from the national team is the result of careful consideration by the coaching team, but we did not say that Guo Yue will never let him enter the national team after that, as long as he has a correct attitude, the door of the national team is still open for Guo Yue, but in the current state of Guo Yue, it is difficult to compete with young players such as Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen." ”
At this point, the 26-year-old Guo Yue left the Chinese table tennis team and never entered again!
Seventh, the cause is successful
Perhaps Guo Yue always remembered a sentence that Coach Shi Zhihao reprimanded himself at that time: there is no culture. In July 2015, Guo Yue was admitted to Tsinghua University and Hong Kong Chinese University for MBA in Finance and Finance, preparing to pursue graduate school, and after this news was issued, he was congratulated by Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui for the first time. I don't know how Shi Zhihao felt in his heart at that time, the so-called uncultured students he once said were now pursuing MBAs from Tsinghua University and Hong Kong Chinese University by virtue of their own strength.
Now 33-year-old Guo Yue works in a banking regulatory agency, becomes a Bai Fumei, and completes a gorgeous turn! And at this time, who could have imagined that the former Guo Yue was a "tomboy"!