On March 12, Beijing time, the national table tennis suffered a fiasco at the WTT Grand Slam in Singapore, and the 18-year-old young rising star Xiang Peng lost 0-3 to Denmark's Gross was eliminated. At the end of the game, Xiang Peng's off-field coaching and Cui Qinglei, who had just entered the national team as a coach, caused a lot of controversy.
Just after Xiang Peng lost the game, Cui Qinglei directly backpacked away, and left the scene without waiting for the disciple, and some netizens questioned this: Is this a responsible performance? However, some people remember that after Sun Yingsha lost in 2018, her then head coach Huang Haicheng also did something similar, thinking that it was not a big deal and did not have to expand its impact.
The result of the battle between Xiang Peng and Gross is indeed somewhat surprising, although the former is still very young, but has recently become famous, especially a few days ago in the WTT Oman Tournament eliminated the world champion Wang Chuqin, which is impressive, but I did not expect to lose miserably in the Grand Slam in the blink of an eye, losing to Gross.
In terms of technical strength, Gross can hardly be called a first-class master in Europe, and the threat to national table tennis is also very general, but this time Xiang Peng's performance is quite unsatisfactory, and Coach Cui Qinglei is obviously not very satisfied.
After the game, Cui Qinglei's behavior was also criticized by many netizens, many people believed that as a coach, he should not do this, and even some people criticized him for not respecting people and not taking responsibility.
However, some people also expressed tolerance for Cui Qinglei, believing that the disciples did not argue, the coach's bad face was purely normal, and the strict master could produce high disciples, not to mention that it was not completely abandoned, and it would definitely be summed up when he went back.
In fact, the situation that Xiang Peng is now encountering, Olympic champion Sun Yingsha has also encountered - in 2018, Sun Yingsha lost to Chinese Taipei veteran Zheng Yijing in the Open, and her head coach Huang Haicheng also turned his head and left, causing a lot of controversy, but soon the two masters and apprentices cooperated tacitly to get many honors, and Huang Haicheng is now also known as Sun Yingsha's mentor.
So sometimes the communication between the master and apprentice in the national team is not too complicated, after all, no one is a winning general, and it is understandable that the athletes are not playing well, and it is understandable that the coach is angry, and it is enough to summarize the lessons - so what do you think about this matter? Feel free to leave a comment and write your own opinion!