National table tennis players are generally called into the national team from the age of 10, male and female players train together for a long time, and the team members are in the period of youth, the age of the flower season, but also the beginning of the love sinus, male and female team members to talk about love is also very inevitable.
However, when Cai Zhenhua was the chairman of the Table Tennis Association, in order to ensure the quality of training, the players were forbidden to fall in love. However, the feeling is difficult to control, and the love between the team members has turned underground.
Later, the famous 2004 team rectification occurred, and three pairs of players who fell in love were caught: Ma Lin /Bai Yang, Wang Hao / Fan Ying, Hou Yingchao / Li Nan. The final punishment result: three female players Bai Yang, Fan Ying, Li Nan, plus Hou Yingchao were expelled from the national team! Ma Lin, Wang Hao because of the good results, stay in the team to check.
Marlene Poplar's love affair was announced by Yang Ying, the commentator of CCTV at the time, when it was broadcast in the mixed doubles final of the 2003 World Military Championships. Bai Yang from Hebei was the first beauty of the national soldiers at that time, and she was also famous for crying, a bit like Fukuhara Ai. She and Marlene were in a relationship before the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships. That year's Mixed Doubles Finals at the World Table Tennis Championships. Bai Yang Liu Guo was facing Ma Lin Wang Nan, and there was a controversial ball in the game, which should be a score for Bai Yang, but the referee did not see it, and there was no replay at that time. Bai Yang wanted Ma Lin to confirm it, but after all, it was a double project Ma Lin also had to worry about her teammates, so she didn't say anything, and when she left the scene, Bai Yang cried, crying like pear blossoms with rain, poignant dreams, Liu Guo was busy comforting, at this time, Yang Ying said: "Marlene also does not go to comfort her girlfriend" This love affair was announced to the whole country.
Poplar returned to the provincial team, and his relationship with Marlene ended, and then he was sent to Play in Europe, and after retiring, he enlisted as a glorious female soldier.
Marlene married actor Zhang Ningyi in 2004, but the marriage did not go well and then divorced, a famous divorce property war occurred, and now she is the coach of the national table tennis women's team.
Wang Hao / Fan Ying At that time, both were not older than one 20 and one 17 years old, Fan Ying was a little girl from Zhenjiang, who won the Asian Championship women's singles championship at the age of 16, and after returning to the provincial team in 2004, he returned to the national team with his efforts, but his love affair with Wang Hao was over, and after retiring in 14 years, he married Gao Xin, who was also a table tennis player. Now the two have two daughters, and the family of four lives happily ever after
Fan Ying is Wang Hao's first love, the second lover is also a female member of the national team, named Peng Luyang, who was also the team flower of the national team at that time, and later the two broke up due to personality problems, and the third lover is the current wife dancer Yan Boya.
Hou Yingchao / Li Nan, this pair of lovers is different from the first two pairs, they were both expelled from the national team, both of them are players of the Beijing team, after returning, the two returned to the national team after hard training, although they returned to the national team, but the love between the two also ended.
Hou Yingchao did not quit the national team until the age of 35, but never left the table tennis sport, and Hou Yingchao, 41, also played for the Shaanxi team in the National Games in 2021. Hou Yingchao's married life is also happy, although he broke up with Li Nan, but married to a ballet dancer, and currently has both children and daughters!
The most unexpected is Li Nan, who returned to the national team, she had a relationship with Shi Zhihao, the then head coach of the women's team at the age of 23, and later the two married in a low-key manner, and Shi Zhihao's ex-wife was the famous beauty athlete Cao Yanhua. Life is so difficult to foresee, maybe Li Nan did not expect that his idol when he was a teenager and his mentor when he became an adult became his life partner!
After Liu Guoliang took charge of the national table tennis, he did not advocate or prohibit love in the team, and later did not break out any earth-shattering events! That is, the legend has passed zhang Jike and the gossip of the little jujube.
Nowadays, the members of the national table tennis team have a pure and open relationship, and the boys and girls are lively and cheerful, and dedicate their youth to their own table tennis career!