Just saw a video of Sun Yingsha XiaoSha's 2017 China Open, she broke into the Final of the China Open again after the Japan Open double, and defeated the second seeded player Liu Shiwen 4-0 in the semi-final. After the game, the little girl was not ecstatic but said that Sister Zao had just finished playing the World Championships physically tired, the quality of the ball was still higher than her own, Sister Jujube played not too well, and she had no pressure to fight, before the league and the team selection match were lost to Sister Zao.
Look, Sasha was a low-key and introverted child from the beginning. It is after this open tournament that everyone calls Sasha "Little Devil", let's see how Sasha changed from "ugly" to real "Little Devil". And what "nobles" did she meet after entering the national team?
01 "Tusha" and "Ugly" selected for the national team
Little is probably known to everyone that Sasha did not actually live a collective life before entering the national team, when she trained during the day and came home at night. Therefore, after entering the national team, for half a year, because he was not very accustomed to leaving his parents to do the chores of life, his self-care ability was somewhat poor, because he could not do anything, and he was also jokingly called "Tusha" by his teammates.
In September 2015, Sasha entered the national second team, the head coach was Zhang Qin, Zhang Qin recalled Sasha said, "At the beginning she was very thin-skinned, as soon as she said her, she would hide to the side, or ignore me." Later, I calmly talked to her once and told her that in the talented national team, we must learn to be thick-skinned, not afraid of criticism, and only by finding out the problems can we make progress. "Obviously, Sasha belongs to the kind of children who are more introverted and shy and have strong self-esteem. After a deep conversation, Sasha liked Zhang Qin's guidance, and even asked to sleep with Zhang Qin when she was uncomfortable, and regarded her as a mother.
Zhang Qin recalled that Sasha said that she liked table tennis very much, and she spent more time on the ball, and usually there was nothing else to interfere with her, and she was a very simple child. He is also more talented in playing, and his awareness and comprehension skills are very good. A little over a year later, sasha entered the national first team in early 2017.
After entering the first team, Sasha's head coach was Huang Haicheng, but Sasha had an extra nickname, that is, she was called "Ugly". Why? It turned out that Huang Haicheng was very strict with her, saying that playing badly was ugly. Little Sasha recalled: "Huang Dao said that I was ugly if I didn't play well, and only by fulfilling every request he asked me would I become beautiful." ”
She also revealed that so far Huang Haicheng has not praised her, and the most she says every day in training is "this ugly, that ugly.". In fact, the little girl understands in her heart that the coach is exercising her ability to resist pressure, she said, "Huang Dao said that if he says that I am not good now, I can't stand it, and in the future, standing on a bigger field, the opponent will put more pressure on me." ”
Sasha recalled those days, saying that during the closed training period for the Düsseldorf World Table Tennis Championships, Huang Haicheng, as the head coach of her and Chen Meng, not only took Sun Yingsha to prepare for Chen Meng to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, but also set herself a new goal of impacting the main layer. I also feel that I have been smooth on the road of table tennis before, and for the first time, I have a sense of competition, and I really feel the existence of pressure.
In this way, Zhang Qin and Huang Haicheng are both Sasha's "nobles".
02 The Japan Open became famous in one battle, and the Chinese Open defeated her sister Liu Shiwen to become the "Little Devil King".
Sasha's fame battle is the Japan Open, that competition, the three main players of the women's team Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Zhu Yuling because of the participation in the World Table Tennis Championships rest adjustment, led by Chen Meng a group of young players Wang Manyu, Chen Ke, Chen Xingtong, Sun Yingsha, Yuan Xuejiao and so on to participate. In the end, Sun Yingsha brought unexpected surprises to everyone, which can be described as a world war success. Because she won the women's doubles championship in the women's doubles partner Chen Xingtong against the South Korean duo Tian Zhixi / Liang Xiayin, she also defeated the strong opponent in the women's singles and laughed to the end.
In that Open Tournament, she defeated Du Kaixuan in succession, Singapore's Feng Tianwei and German straight board player Shan Xiaona, defeated teammate Wang Manyu in the semi-finals, and won three consecutive sets after falling behind 1-3 with Chen Meng, and reversed Chen Meng 4-3 to win the women's singles championship. Like Malone, she became the biggest winner, the "double champion" of the Open, and she became the biggest dark horse of the Japan Open. The Japanese media directly shouted: There is a new monster in the Ping-Pong Kingdom!
A few days later, at the China Open in Chengdu, she once again played amazingly, and met the No. 2 seed Liu Shiwen in the semi-finals of the second half of the consecutive victories over Du Kaixuan Feng Tianwei, and as a result, she won 4-0 over her sister, and even she herself did not expect to play so well. After defeating Liu Shiwen, she sent Huang Haicheng a photo of herself shaking her fists to celebrate after winning the game, and also "hissed" to give the coach a beautiful picture. It's just that in the final because of poor handling of the serve, Ding Ning also shot her with her left hand and finally lost to Ding Ning 1-4.
However, with these two perfect performances, coupled with her winning the women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and women's team championships at the 2017 Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships, it took her only 21 days, from no world ranking, to become the tenth in the world, squeezing Ito Out of the top ten, is it not very powerful?
03 Downturn and efforts after fame
The road to success will not be smooth, and so will Sun Yingsha. From being lonely and nameless to becoming a "little devil", everyone else will slowly shift their attention to her. At first, others did not pay enough attention to her to win the game, but with the study of her, she also had times of failure. For example, at the Austrian Open in September 2017, Sun Yingsha lost 2-4 to Wang Manyu in the semi-finals, and lost to Wang Manyu 3-4 in the women's singles final of the Hungarian Open in January 2018. In the German Open in March, Sasha lost to Zheng Yijing, a sister of the Chinese Taipei team, and the fifth and sixth innings were reversed under the opening lead, which made the head coach Huang Haicheng a little bit hated iron and steel, and did not pay attention to Sasha herself, which once caused fans to discuss, saying that Huang Haicheng should not do this to a small player.
Then came the first round of the China Open, when Sasha was coldly defeated by Japan's Yuki Hamamoto and was banned at the Japan Open. Because according to the relevant documents of the Table Tennis Association at that time, the first round of the main game was lost and the next game could not be participated. Later in the Korean Open, Salsa lost 2-4 to Ishikawa Yoshijun, and these losses put Sasha in a slump.
Sasha had to precipitate herself, and the loss was also noticed by head coach Li Falcon, who felt that Sasha was not hard enough and not disciplined enough, and punished Sasha for running 10,000 meters. He told reporters, "Sun Yingsha showed some ups and downs in the previous open game, and the reason for the problem is that she usually trains to herself is not high, the goal is not clear enough, and even rarely meets the training requirements of the whole team." At the beginning of this closed training, Sun Yingsha still had this problem, and did not show the desire to win in the training competition, when I punished her, punishing her for running 10,000 meters. With everyone's help, Sasha began to come out of the trough.
04 Rise and eruption
2019 is a year of Sasha harvest. This year she won the World Championships Women's Doubles Championships, the Japan Open Women's Singles Champion, the Australian Open Women's Singles Champion, the Asian Championship Women's Singles Champion, the German Open Women's Singles Champion and the 2019 World Cup Women's Team Champion, growing into a true world champion.
After the downturn of 2018, Sasha began to work harder in training than before, and her efforts paid off. In the early 2019 World Championships, she won the second place, directly squeezing out world champion Zhu Yuling, and participating in the World Championships with Chen Meng, Ding Ning, Wang Manyu and Liu Shiwen. In the singles match, despite losing to Wang Manyu in the quarter-finals, her 4-1 victory over Ito Mimako in the quarter-finals was praised by Liu Guoliang, saying that she won the battle of youth in the duel with Ito Mimachi.
In the doubles match, Sun Yingsha Xiao Sasha and Manyu passed the barrier all the way, and in the women's doubles final, they fell behind 0-2 to achieve a reversal victory over Ito Mimachi and Hayata Shina to win the women's doubles championship, laughing again to the end.
Then in the Japanese Open in June, she passed the first round 4-0 Xu Xiaoyuan, 1/8 final 4-0 Ishikawa Yoshijun, 1/4 final 4-0 Wang Manyu, semi-final 4-1 speed Chen Meng, in the final also met the same good state of the Xinke World Championship women's singles champion Liu Shiwen, 2-3 behind the reversal of the reversal 4-3 victory over the sister, this championship gold content is really high. In July, she defeated Ding Ning in the australian open women's singles final, and in September she defeated Ding Ning again in the semi-finals of the Asian Championships, and once again defeated her sister Liu Shiwen in the final to win the women's singles championship. In the women's singles final of the German Open in October, she defeated Ito to win the championship. This year she justified herself with three Open Women's Singles Titles and Asian Championship Women's Singles Titles, and she has risen to prominence.
At the same time, she also participated in the 2019 World Cup Women's Team Competition with Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu. In the final, she fell behind 2-0 against Ito and turned the tables 7-10 in the decider. Once again proved her strength, the little girl can look forward to the future.
05 Taking on a heavy responsibility, at the age of 21, he stepped onto the Olympic singles stage, defended his own half, singles and Chen Menghui division final, team competition and teammate Chen Mengwang Manyu worked hard to win the Tokyo Olympic Women's Team Championship.
2020 is the year that Sun Yingsha continues to break out, she won the women's singles mixed doubles and women's team championships in the Olympic Simulation Tournament, in October she won a valuable singles spot in place of the injured Zhu Yuling in the World Cup, this time she won the match again, and defended the lower half of the district alone, all the way to defeat Diaz, Ishikawa Yoshinori and Ito Mimachi, and met the final with her sister Chen Mengshi. Although he eventually lost to his sister, he proved his ability to successfully defeat Ito Mimakoto by defending the zone alone.
In this way, Sun Yingsha has won the trust of Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff of the Table Tennis Association with her great progress in 2019 and 2020. In the case of a one-year postponement of the Olympic Games and Liu Shiwen's elbow injury, she was fortunate to qualify for the Olympic singles, and like her predecessor Niu Jianfeng, she won the Olympic singles place with the Asian Championship women's singles champion.
And she did not live up to the trust of Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff, after Xu Xin Liu Shiwen lost to Mizutani Hayabusa ito in the Tokyo Olympics, it was Sun Yingsha who boosted the morale of the team with a hearty victory. In the women's singles semifinals on July 29, Sun Yingsha Xiao Sasha defeated Ito Mimakoto with a 4-0 score to defend the honor of the national ball, and was highly praised by Liu Guoliang, saying that she was an idol of the new era, not only belonging to table tennis, but also to the entire sports world.
Although Sun Yingsha lost to Chen Meng in the final, her courageous spirit was still praised by everyone. Later in the women's team final, she defeated Ito Again and laughed to the end. The national table tennis team won the women's team championship, and Sun Yingsha also withstood the test.
Sun Yingsha can stand out in the fiercely competitive table tennis team, inseparable from Liu Guoliang's appreciation and trust in her, from this point of view, Liu Guoliang, like Zhang Qin and Huang Haicheng, is a noble person in Shasha's life.
06 Not arrogant, forge ahead, live up to Shaohua, and become the popular king of national table tennis.
After the Olympic Games, Sun Yingsha had no pride, the National Games women's singles reached the final, houston world championships also reached the final, although both lost to Wang Manyu, but a week later in the WTT World Cup Finals women's singles final, she defeated teammate Wang Yidi 4-2 to laugh to the end, and Manyu stopped losing to Du Kaixuan in the first round of the regular match.
In March's Grand Slam tournament, although Sun Yingsha lost to Wang Manyu in the semi-finals, she could see that she had improved after the guidance of the new head coach. Singles defeat, but won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles, like the Houston World Championships, with two titles in the book.
On April 19, the quarantine period of the national table tennis players in Hainan has ended, the team members have taken a holiday, and most of the team members have returned to the provincial team. But Sun Yingsha XiaoSha did not return to her hometown of Shijiazhuang, but followed the coach in charge Qiu Yike to Sichuan, accompanied by teammates Sun Mingyang and Ku Man. As you can see, Sasha is working hard. She wants to use other people's vacation time to make up for classes, check for omissions, and make herself stronger.
In the face of the hard work of Sasha, her head coach Qiu Yike is full of expectations, he said that he hopes to be able to rush forward with Sasha and help Sasha achieve greater dreams.
It is precisely because Salsa strives to keep a low profile, the style of the ball is tough, and the results of foreign wars are good, so many fans like Sasha. In a voting event for athletes on a certain platform, Sasha is currently far ahead of other athletes with more than 18 million votes, which shows that Sasha is very popular. Do you like Salsa too?
Here to wish Sasha good luck at the Asian Games in September, and I hope that she will win the women's singles championship in the blessing of the fans, and cheers!