2.06 meters of women's basketball giant Zheng Haixia, now 54 years old, is China's first Chinese athlete inducted, FIBA Hall of Fame, won such an honorable legend, after retirement life is not satisfactory, due to the athlete career, perennial high-intensity competition and training, resulting in leg deformation, 10 years after marriage has not had children, husband also do not know where to go, how is she now? Today, let's take stock together, what exactly has this women's basketball giant experienced?
In 1967, Zheng Haixia, born in Shangqiu, Henan Province, lived in an ordinary peasant family since childhood, inherited the excellent genes of her parents, resulting in her height from childhood, are very outstanding, with a height advantage, she is often invited by others to play basketball, condescending on the court to abuse children of the same age, even boys have no way to her, so Zheng Haixia fell in love with basketball, through hard training, and the teaching of school teachers, she was admitted to the municipal sports school, during the school period, Parents market admonished her to keep her original intention, let her stick to the basketball she loves, do not feel any inferiority because of her birth in the countryside, in this way, Zheng Haixia trained on the basketball court day after day, as the most talented athlete in the team, but still the hardest one, so she was loved by her classmates and teachers, and the coach also made a strict training plan for her. After specific training, Zheng Haixia's basketball skills have improved a lot, in the game can always cut the highest score in the team, so under the recommendation of Coach Chen Changfeng, she was selected for the national team at the age of 16, although the national team is full of talents, but at that time, Zheng Haixia, was already the tallest person in the team, and the physical strength was also very good, both offensive and defensive, and even the shooting rate was very high, in the face of such an all-round person, the national team coaches showed a happy smile, so they specially trained for Zheng Haixia, During the training, Zheng Haixia constantly asked the coach, and then a little harder, and even reached the training intensity of the men's basketball team, when others take a holiday break, she is training, when others lie down and play mobile phones, she is practicing shooting, which really confirms that sentence, people who are more talented than you are working harder than you.
Zheng Haixia, who is making rapid progress, ushered in the first big test of her life, the International Big Stage Olympic Games, to know that the Olympic Games, gathered elite athletes from all over the world, but zheng Haixia, who is only 17 years old, showed a performance that shocked the world, scoring, rebounding, and defense are all perfect performances, and finally led the Chinese women's basketball team to achieve the fifth place. In the same year in the Seoul Asian Games, led the women's basketball team to win the championship, to the 1994 World Championship, she single-handedly led the team to victory, the whole game completed 34 points and 14 rebounds of outstanding play, shooting rate as high as 83%, and the showdown is still, the host team Australia, after the game was named the best player, as well as the honor of the scoring king, when Zheng Haixia, became the world's attention to the women's basketball player, since then, Zheng Haixia era also announced.
Through the excavation of the scout, Zheng Haixia was soon invited to the world women's basketball team at the highest level of the WNBA, as the first female athlete in Asia to participate in the event, is undoubtedly the pride of the Chinese people, and when she got there, she performed well, facing black athletes who were more talented than her, she was not afraid at all, but inspired her strong desire to win or lose, became a shining giant in the event, in the three years of the WNBA, she broke the event record many times, and has always been the key defense object of the opposing team. In order not to let her go to the basket, using joint defense, pinch attack, etc., but this can not stop the Chinese women's basketball lions, in the face of Zheng Haixia, who can run and jump, and has exquisite foot skills under the basket, the opponent can only watch her score.
As we all know, the golden age of basketball in those years, due to physical reasons, Zheng Haixia's body injuries are numerous, legs, knees, waist, etc., have serious injuries, and even the legs have appeared obvious bending, helplessly chose to retire from the WNBA, but she loved basketball all her life, did not give up the basketball career, but accepted the invitation of the Bayi women's basketball team, became the head coach of the Bayi team, under her leadership, from a team facing relegation, to a class A team, it can be said that in the basketball career, Zheng Haixia gave everything she had, the green years, in exchange for a body of honor, but at the same time with injuries. What is even more lamentable is that Zheng Haixia's emotional life has encountered many ups and downs.
In 2007, Zheng Haixia and Xu Qinghua were burst into love, the two after 3 years of love run, in 2010 hand in hand into the marriage hall, married life, Xu Qinghua has always been a good husband, whether it is going out or attending activities, he always took good care of Zheng Haixia, after all, at that time she was inconvenient on her legs and feet, just like this, every time I saw the figure of the two people's love, without envying others, she was also known as a model couple in the sports world, but the heartache behind it was unknown, due to physical injuries, Led to infertility, but this is not over, to 2017, Zheng Haixia ushered in the lowest moment of life, the reason is that her husband, Xu Qinghua disappeared for no reason, when asked in the interview, Zheng Haixia also did not respond, so some netizens speculated that whether the two had a marriage change, whether it was because of Zheng Haixia's infertility, which led to Xu Qinghua's betrayal, but now both sides have no positive correspondence.
Today's Zheng Haixia is still contributing to the cause of national basketball, although her emotional life is not satisfactory, but it is undeniable that she is the pride of China's women's basketball team!