On March 8, 2022, Beijing time, German table tennis world champion Pol ushered in his 41st birthday. As an athlete who has defeated the main force of national table tennis many times and won the world championship twice, Pol is still in constant condition in recent years, but he has also experienced the setback of contracting the new crown virus, and has also been impacted by young players from China and Europe.
But what is certain now is that Bol will continue to play on the field and will not retire until at least 2025: his career legend is not over, and we still have the opportunity to see the veteran continue to write brilliantly with the national table tennis!
Born in 1981, Ball is a legend in the history of table tennis, he began to participate in the World Championships in 1997, and in 2002 he won the European Championship and World Cup singles championships, and also defeated Wang Liqin, Kong Linghui and others.
In the 2005 World Cup, Bohr single-handedly overthrew the three main players of national table tennis, Wang Liqin, Ma Lin and Wang Hao, and was crowned with laurels again, which also made him the most wary opponent of Liu Guoliang, the head coach of the national table tennis men's team at the time; and in the 2017 World Cup, the 36-year-old Bohr eliminated the only two contestants in the national table tennis, Lin Gaoyuan and Ma Long, which shows how strong his strength is!
However, the glory of the past has belonged to the past, in recent years, Pol's state has declined significantly, although last year's World Table Tennis Championships defeated the national table tennis player Zhou Qihao, but then lost to the 20-year-old Swedish young man Moregaard in the semi-finals; this year's European Championships, Pol once again lost to Moregaard, also stopped in the final four.
All indications are that Bol has difficulty in moving further in the World Series, and his supremacy in the European Competition has been shaken: it is difficult for a good man to mention the courage of the year, and Pol cannot resist the natural aging process.
However, even if the results decline, Ball's insistence and enthusiasm for table tennis has not weakened in the slightest, not long ago officially renewed for the club in Germany, and the contract will continue until 2025, so his retirement time has also been put to at least three years later, during which there are still Paris Olympic Games to fight, we are entirely likely to see him lead the team again.
During last year's Olympic Games, many Chinese fans sighed: when I was a child, I saw Pol playing, and now after more than ten or twenty years have passed, he has not retired, which is really worthy of being an evergreen tree! Now that the 41-year-old Ball has no intention of withdrawing from the game, can he still create new results? Let's wait and see: Come on, veteran!