In October 2012, at the 16th Asian Youth Women's Volleyball Championship held in Thailand, the Chinese women's volleyball national youth team won the championship.
And a girl is slowly becoming known to people.
Her netting and slamping often make opponents feel desperate.
The excellent performance on the field also earned her the first MVP (Most Valuable Player) in her life.
Since then, in her volleyball career, she has been out of control.
1, when the good meet the famous handsome
Looking back, Zhu Ting said that there were two encounters that were key nodes in her life, one was volleyball, and the other was Enshi Langping.
In her own words: "Lang Dao is my mentor, if there is no Lang Dao, everyone can not see the current Zhu Ting."
Lang Ping first saw Zhu Ting in January 2011.
Guangzhou Evergrande and Henan played a game, and Lang Ping was the head coach of the Evergrande women's volleyball team at this time.
At that time, 16-year-old Zhu Ting had just emerged on the field, making mistakes one after another, and the commentators did not have a high evaluation of her.
"This child is very coordinated, that is, it is particularly thin and soft" This is the first impression that Zhu Ting left on Lang Ping.
When Lang Ping says "soft", he means that the physical fitness is not very strong.
In April 2013, Lang Ping was officially appointed as the new head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In Zhu Ting's eyes, Lang Ping is both a mentor and a parent or a friend.
Because he usually spends the most time with Lang Ping, Lang Ping listens to Zhu Ting's voice like a mother.
On the field, Zhu Ting was more of love and respect for Lang Ping.
She believes that Lang's strictness is to make the players better athletes and to be responsible for them.
At that time, Zhu Ting's killer skill was a high point strong attack, but the slam line was relatively single.
As a main attacker, a pass and defense are her shortcomings.
Seeing this, Lang Ping began to polish Zhu Ting in all directions.
From strength training to offensive means, to a pass and a net, no one can be less.
In order to build Zhu Ting into a comprehensive attacker, in the 2014 Swiss Women's Volleyball Elite Tournament, Lang Ping arranged for Zhu Ting to take over a pass.
No matter how bad Zhu Ting's pass was at that time, Lang Ping had no intention of changing or changing the pass system.
At that time, many people believed that Lang Ping should not let Zhu Ting practice more passes, but enhance his own strength - offense.
Through the unremitting practice of the short board, Zhu Ting can pad, buckle and block on the court.
From the pass in 2014, to the more comprehensive in the back.
It turned out that Lang Ping's approach was correct.
Lang Ping's boldness of preferring not to have achievements but also to push hard makes Zhu Ting more and more comprehensive and more powerful.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the most exciting thing was not the final but the semi-final.
In the previous group stage, the Chinese women's volleyball team was unfavorable, only to win the fourth place in the group, and met the host Brazil team in a narrow way to play the quarter-finals.
Before that, the Chinese women's volleyball team played against Brazil, winning less and losing more.
At night, I was going to fight with the Brazilian team, and after training at noon, Zhu Ting was sitting alone in the car in the Olympic Village, just getting ready to rest, and her mobile phone rang.
It was WeChat sent by Lang:
"Zhu, the two of us are fateful, my apprentices are all over the world, and you are the proudest of me." At the moment of the big war, I believe in you, you must also believe in yourself, standing on the field you are the best! Come on! All difficulties are tests, I believe you will be able to overcome the difficulties! ”
Sure enough, in the first inning, the Chinese team was unfavorable.
Coupled with Brazil's home field advantage, it led China 25-15.
A lot of people think the whole game is going to be cold.
But the women's volleyball team bites point by point.
At the last critical moment of the final innings, a Pass from China was in place, and Zhu Ting was successfully smashed.
In the end, it was a 3-2 victory over Brazil.
Zhu Ting said: "That game is very heart-wrenching, the pressure is very high, in fact, not only that game, but also because of the previous process, evolved into the end of this ball, if you don't take this ball down, then you can really roll up and go home." ”
After the Rio Olympics, Zhu Ting was drowned in flowers and applause.
Some merchants have even seen the huge commercial value in her and issued invitations to her to show.
A young man who has just succeeded can easily get lost in Vanity Fair.
As a coach, Lang Ping knows this very well in his heart.
She soon contacted Zhu Ting with the Turkish Wakif Bank Club.
The world's top volleyball club.
Later, thinking back on this, Zhu Ting understood Lang Dao's good intentions.
Although she missed the vacation, relaxation, and recording programs, it was this decision that allowed her to successfully get away from the hustle and bustle and avoid the impetuous period of life.
This period in Turkey has great significance for Zhu Ting's career.
In her three seasons in Turkey, Zhu Ting won eight titles with the team, including two World Women's Volleyball Championship club championships and two Champions League titles, four times was elected as the best attacker, and six times won the Most Valuable Player.
In addition, in the world powerhouse of Wakif Bank, she has the opportunity to participate in the Turkish Cup, Champions League, Super Cup, League and other 4 semi-finals, finals and crossovers, which makes her more experienced and her ability to control the situation stronger.
At that time, the UEFA Volleyball League named the best non-European women's volleyball player in the Champions League in the past 20 years, and Zhu Ting, who had only played for three seasons, ranked first.
Gudti, the Dutch coach of turkey's Wakif Bank Club at the time, said: "Zhu Ting is a phenomenon player he has met once in 20 years, she is strong and talented, the players are willing to play with her, and the coach is willing to teach her."
On the volleyball road, Lang Ping is Zhu Ting's most important leader.
2. "Hold on for another week" – the family behind the champion
At one end of the road is her volleyball career, and at the other end, it is her family who has been guarding her in obscurity.
At that time, 13-year-old Zhu Ting, riding on her father Zhu Anliang's agricultural tricycle, walked out of the village for the first time.
Zhu Ting is in her hometown, ZhuFu Village, Qiuqu Township, Zhoukou County, Henan.
There are six children in the family, five women and one man, and she is the third oldest.
But in 2007, my younger brother, who was less than 6 years old, died of systemic organ failure.
There are few people in the land, and the Zhu family has a total of three acres and six points of land, with the elderly on the top and several children to raise.
In addition to farming, Zhu Anliang also opened a car repair shop in the shack at the head of the village.
This will only sustain the family's livelihood.
Sending Zhu Ting to sports school is the most correct decision Zhu Anliang thinks he has done in his life.
But he also had some small regrets.
The eldest daughter, Zhu Juanying, is 1.87 meters tall and left school early to go out to work.
If he had money, he would also send his eldest daughter to sports school, so that there would be two athletes in the family.
Entering the provincial sports school, watching the parents of other team members can see their children once a month, Zhu Ting is very envious.
She has always been close to her father and sometimes wants to lie in front of her parents.
But I always can't expect them to come to see themselves, and my father's words will go to see them when he has time, which may be once a year.
After many years, Zhu Ting told her father about the grievances in her heart, and only then did she know that it was to let her learn to persevere and endure.
"Because our approach is different from other parents, we will have you now."
Zhu Ting, who has just entered the sports school, is still a little uncomfortable.
Several times I had the idea of giving up, and I cried many times in front of my parents.
The mother was soft-hearted and wanted to take her daughter back.
But Zhu Anliang's heart clearly knew that this was perhaps Zhu Ting's best and only way out.
As time went on, Zhu Ting stopped crying.
Later she said to her father, "Dad, I will hold on for another week, the last week."
In this way, week after week, Zhu Ting insisted from the city team to the provincial team.
In order to provide for Zhu Ting's expenses in the sports school, Zhu Anliang kept taking over the work, and there was no longer "farming".
People in the village often joke that the Zhu family has produced two stars, one is a volleyball star and the other is a car repair star.
Zhu Anliang was very popular with this praise, "Ten Miles and Eight Villages, if you want to talk about car repair technology, I am this" while saying it, he gave a thumbs up.
"Just by the sound of a random car, I know what's wrong."
Relying on this technical work, plus the money from selling grain, he paid for the cost of Zhu Ting's first three years of training.
Afterwards, Zhu Anliang summed it up to 126,000 yuan.
"Didn't it cost you 120,000 yuan, and I'll pay you back later."
Zhu Ting's personality follows his father, and the two often joke together.
But Zhu Anliang's efforts, Zhu Ting is in the eyes.
After repairing the car for 20 years, he often lay on the ground, and Zhu Anliang's waist and legs also fell ill.
A large man of 1.8 meters weighs only 120 pounds.
But he felt it was all worth it.
Speaking of her father, Zhu Ting's words revealed admiration and gratitude: "He can raise each of our children so well, I think my father is quite cattle!" ”
In the eyes of her parents, Zhu Ting has always been very sensible.
During her time at sports school, she knew that her family was difficult and never spent money indiscriminately.
Zhu Anliang recalled: "The canteen in the team does not care about meals on weekends, and other people's children can still go out on weekends and buy some delicious food, but Zhu Ting is reluctant to go out and buy some food at will." ”
When Zhu Ting first got her grades, she didn't earn much, but she still saved money to buy a washing machine and refrigerator for her parents.
Later, he bought a "Santana" for his father, went out to play ball, and did not forget to bring local souvenirs to his family.
Zhu Ting's first huge amount of money from playing was in the 2013 Fiat Women's World Volleyball Championships in Macau.
For the best slam and the best net, Zhu Ting received a prize of 30,000 yuan, and she handed it all over to her parents without moving.
Zhu Anliang told reporters that now the family expenses are all her burden, the two sisters go to school in Beijing, she will not let the two sisters suffer like the sister.
Once she looked at the door of the provincial sports school and said to her father: "If you can enter the provincial sports school in the future, you don't have to go home to farm, Zhu Ting did it."
Zhu Ting went home very few times, and only returned on the twenty-ninth day of the new year every year, and left again on the third day of the first year.
Once, I only came home once every two years.
In 2016, the family was rarely reunited.
In Zhu Ting's bedroom, a large bed specially customized for her was placed, which was 2.3 meters long and 1.8 meters wide.
The two sisters also deliberately rushed back from other places.
The mother slaughtered her own chickens and personally prepared a family feast for her daughter.
Because Zhu Ting's competition training was rotated continuously, Zhu Anliang's happiest thing was to sit in front of the TV set and watch her daughter play.
He will score the team while watching, record it on the cigarette box, and naturally become half an expert when he sees more.
Sometimes, villagers are called to their homes to watch together and act as commentators.
Zhu Ting and her family have always maintained a simple style and are also very peaceful in life.
Back home, Zhu Ting still likes to eat her mother's steamed buns, rolled noodles, and no star shelves.
3, "Athletes can't win forever, the body allows, I am willing to keep fighting"
However, there are no winning generals on the field.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team did not play well and missed the quarterfinals.
In the conversation between Fan Deng and Zhu Ting on November 19, 2021, Zhu Ting first revealed the reason for the defeat of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
First of all, it is the recurrence of one's own hand injury.
"Every time [the ball] is smashed, it's really like someone punches you, or like a needle prick, it's a kind of pain that will be instantaneous, it's stinging."
Zhu Ting told Fan Deng that his hand was already injured two years ago, and he still played with an injury at the Tokyo Olympics, and the angle of receiving the ball and the strength of the slam were obviously affected.
The reduction in matches caused by the epidemic has prevented the team from discovering its own problems in time, which is another reason.
Fan Deng asked Zhu Ting if she was looking forward to the Paris Olympics in three years.
Zhu Ting replied very frankly: "There are expectations, especially every athlete, there is a feeling of expectation and struggle." ”
Referring to her hand injury, Zhu Ting was very confident that after half a year to a year of recovery, there was no problem.
Fan Deng tentatively asked Zhu Ting, "How old are you going to play volleyball?" ”
She playfully replied with a serious tone: "I have two more Olympic Games to play!" ”
Fan Deng looked at her in surprise: "My God, after Paris, you still have to play two times, your heart is really big!" ”
"I think this is if I'm willing to fight, as long as my physical condition allows, I will continue to fight."
In fact, winning or losing is only a result.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has long surpassed the game itself.
As Zhu Ting said in her speech as a deputy to the National People's Congress during the two sessions in May 2020:
"The spirit of the women's volleyball team has always existed, sometimes we know that we can't get the championship, we will do our best, we don't care about winning or losing, this belief has always been there, it has never changed."
On March 23, 2022, Zhu Ting successfully completed the operation.
On April 6, she posted several photos on her social media accounts.
There is a short caption under the photo: "Surgery - Plasterboard - Big Protective Gear - Small Protective Gear, Focus on Recovery, Feel Progress." ”
It is not difficult to see that the operation was very successful, and her mental state is also very good.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has recently had major personnel changes.
Coach Lang Ping retired, coached by Jiangsu women's volleyball team head coach Cai Bin, the main force Zhang Changning has just been married.
Nowadays, Zhu's father is most worried about his daughter's marriage, Zhu Ting, born in 1994, is 28 years old, most of the same age in the village has long been married, and netizens are also concerned about this matter.
On June 1 this year, the women's volleyball team will usher in the first game after the combination of personnel - the 2022 Women's Volleyball National League.
At that time, Zhu Ting may still be recuperating.
I look forward to her early recovery, and also look forward to the future women's volleyball team, there will be a more outstanding performance.
Resources:
CCTV "Face to Face" Zhu Ting: Behind the champion
"The Idealist" Bi Xiaonan interviewed Zhu Ting
Deng Yaping interviewed Zhu Ting
2020 "Global People": Zhu Ting, an international superstar who has risen
In 2021, Fan Deng talked to Zhu Ting video