Recently, the former South Korean table tennis team's main player, Zhu Shihe, posted a few rackets for auction, and then went on a sightseeing tour with friends, which was not comfortable - think of how brightLy joo Se-hyuk performed at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris eighteen years ago! Marlene, the world champion of national table tennis, and The European star Glinka won the silver, becoming the only player to break into the men's singles final in more than half a century.
However, in 2012, before he retired, Zhu Shihe was diagnosed with extremely rare Behcet disease and had to use drugs to maintain his body, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered, and won the team runner-up in the Olympic Games with his teammates, which was not easy!
Do you remember this ill-fated table tennis player?
Born in 1980, Zhu Shihe is a banner of the world table tennis chipping style of play, he rose in the 21st century, at this time the International Table Tennis Federation has implemented the 40mm large ball reform, and the types of granular glue have been more stringent restrictions, all of which make it difficult for chippers to move forward, almost in the top field "extinction".
But in the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, Zhu Shihe turned out to be the 61st in the world, and the result was to overturn Marlene, Glinka and other famous players, and finally lost 2-4 to Austria's Schrage, missing the championship gold medal - after the 1/4 final of that year, Marlene angrily threw the racket into the sky, and this scene has become an eternal pain in the hearts of countless Chinese fans.
After that, Zhu Shihe galloped in the table tennis world for more than ten years, although he did not achieve better singles results, but he could also pose a threat to the national table tennis from time to time, including eliminating Ma Long at the World Table Tennis Championships and defeating Wang Liqin in the Open Tournament.
However, after an ankle injury in 2012, Zhu Shihe was diagnosed with Behcet's disease in the hospital, which could hardly be cured and could only be controlled by drugs. After that, Zhu Shihe insisted on participating in training and competitions while fighting the disease, and his behavior also touched countless table tennis fans and Behcet patients, which made people move.
Nowadays, times have changed, Andree Seung-min, who fought with Zhu Shihe, has long been promoted to the chairman of the Korean Table Tennis Association, while Wu Shangyu has become the head coach of the Korean men's team, and Zhu Shihe has rarely made high-profile appearances because of physical reasons, and Chinese fans know very little about his dynamics - now seeing that Lao Zhu can still live so leisurely and return to peace, everyone is at ease!
Finally, I wish Zhu Shihe's retirement life can be happy and happy, and I look forward to passing on his cutting skills to newcomers if he has the opportunity, so that the competition in the table tennis world will be more exciting: come on!