There is no shortage of athletes in China, and Japanese table tennis player Zhang Benzhihe, whose ancestral home is Sichuan, China, is now a Japanese national, and has won many table tennis championships on behalf of Japan, but the athlete mentioned today is even more incomprehensible.
Hu Na is a tennis player born in Sichuan in 1963. Grandpa is an excellent tennis coach, Hu Na practiced tennis under the tutelage of her grandfather at the age of 4 and entered the Sichuan team early.
Hu Na won the national junior women's singles championship at the age of 15. At the age of 16, she won the national Group A women's singles championship, and Hu Na also won the Asian women's singles championship and won the opportunity to compete in the United States.
In 1982, He Na and teammates Yu Liqiao, Wang Ping and Li Xinyi, under the leadership of head coach Shen Jianqiu, represented China in the United States in the Tennis Federation Cup, and in the first round, the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team 3:0 and easily advanced to the next round, against germany. Unexpectedly, the night before the match against the German team, Hu Na actually tricked her teammates from the Chinese team's station to flee and seek political protection from the US government, and the US government actually agreed to apply for the granting of Hu Na American citizenship shortly after. In the absence of Hu Na, the Chinese team defeated germany 0:3.
The nature of Hu Na's escape incident was vicious, and it also alarmed high-level exchanges that year, and China and the United States stopped sports exchanges for 3 years because of this matter. Hu Na's development in the United States was quite uneven, with constant injuries, and announced her retirement in 1992. She never saw her parents during her 8 years in the United States. She once said that in the most difficult time in the United States, Japanese friends gave her rice to eat, and thanked Japanese friends very much for their care.
After retiring from the army, Hu Na moved to Taiwan, where she settled for a long time. In 2004, she returned to the mainland once a year at the strong request of her parents, and since then she has accompanied her parents to visit her relatives once a year. She returned to Beijing in 2011 as a commentator on the China Open, the first time she has been on the spot to interpret a match for a Chinese player.
Now in her fifties, Hu Na does not know whether she regrets her act of fleeing the United States?