Sports never lack the breath of youth, but the old and strong are also part of sports, among the well-known veterans who are still active in the world table tennis world, the oldest is the former world champion Ni Xialian, who represents Luxembourg in the table tennis world, and she can still win the women's doubles medal at the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships at the age of 58 years old, which is really respectable! Austria's 43-year-old veteran Galdos showed his ageless side by beating last year's World Table Tennis Champion Falk/Carlsson in the men's doubles at the WTT Grand Slam with teammate Habezon.
Ni Xialian was the famous world champion of the Chinese women's team in the 1980s, and she won the mixed doubles championship and the women's doubles runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships as early as 1983. Ni Xialian retired and went to Luxembourg to settle down, because she could not give up that love for table tennis, Ni Xialian picked up the racket to participate in 5 consecutive Olympic Games, with the old straight board push play that is almost extinct today can still occupy a place, the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships Ni Xialian / Denut accidentally reached the women's doubles semifinals, won a medal for Luxembourg, the ongoing Singapore Grand Slam Tournament, the two once again joined hands to reach the women's doubles semifinals, burst out of the big cold, as long as she can still play, It is believed that the 58-year-old Ni Xialian will continue to participate in the 6th Olympic Games.
The 43-year-old Gardos is the highest ranking player in the World in Austrian men's table tennis, and he and Wang Liqin and Ma Lin should be players of the same era, but they have not achieved too bright results in the golden age of 20 or 30 years old. At this year's Düsseldorf regional tournament in Germany, Gardos suddenly broke out to win a men's singles championship, and Singapore Grand Slam Sagadoz/ Habbison eliminated the men's doubles champion Carlsson/Falke at the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships 3-2, clearing the biggest obstacle for the national table tennis championship.
Germany's world champion Bohr is also 41 years old this year, he began to become a rising star in the world table tennis world in 2000, won the world cup men's singles championship for the first time in 2002, personally held 7 European Championships men's singles championships and 3 World Cup men's singles championships, the only regret is that the World Championships and the Olympic Games have not yet reached the men's singles finals, the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships Pol still reached the semifinals, creating the best results, perhaps giving him the motivation to continue to work hard to the Paris Olympic Games.
40-year-old Chinese Taipei player Zhuang Zhiyuan once won the 2013 World Championships men's doubles championship, singles won the year-end finals, but on the stage of the World Championships and the Olympic Games, Zhuang Zhiyuan and Ball, every time fell in the first few rounds, did not have too many encounters with the national table tennis, did not get medals, the best result was the 2012 London Olympic Men's Singles Final Four. Zhuang Zhiyuan reached the semi-finals with Chen Jian'an in the Singapore Grand Slam Men's Doubles and immediately entered the Doha Challenge, and his professionalism is admirable.
Germany's Han Ying 39 years old, is also a very competitive Veteran of the European women's singles, Han Ying, who cut the ball, can participate in the Olympic Games in the German women's team for 2 consecutive years, which is not easy, after all, the German team has also been a strong team in the past, of which the Rio Olympics Han Ying also defeated the Japanese women's team with teammates Shan Xiaona and Solja to win a women's team silver medal. Han Ying reached the semifinals in the 2020 World Cup women's singles and fought with Chen Meng for 7 innings, showing good form and strong tenacity.
Compared with the 40-year-old veterans in Europe, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen of the national table tennis are 34 years old, 31 years old and 31 years old respectively, and they are still young juniors, but the national table tennis replacement has been a bit slow in the past two Olympic cycles, and there are not too many young players rushing out, creating enough obstacles for the veterans, so that the national table tennis is also slowly spawning a number of evergreen trees. Deng Yaping was only 23 years old when she retired at her peak, and Zhang Yining, Liu Guoliang, and Kong Linghui were only 27 or 8 years old, and now the improvement of security conditions has extended the life of athletes, which has made the main lineup of national table tennis have more veterans.