In the history of the Chinese table tennis team, there is an athlete whose development trajectory is breathtaking: she won the world championship at the age of 15, qualified for the Olympic Games at the age of 16, and was crowned the world table tennis singles champion at the age of 18, creating multiple historical records, but then fell into the abyss step by step, and finally "adjusted" the national team at the age of 25, which is a pity!
Yes, she is the talented girl of national table tennis, Guo Yue, who swept Zhang Yining at the World Table Tennis Championships and won the championship against Li Xiaoxia. However, guo yue's two opponents have achieved the great cause of grand slam, her own career is overshadowed, and many people blame it on the two coaches Kong Linghui, Shi Zhihao and others, so is this really the case?
Let's go back in time to that spring eighteen years ago, where the dream began , In Doha, Qatar.
In March 2004, the 47th Team World Table Tennis Championships kicked off in the Middle East, and although the then women's national table tennis team had only won a single World Table Tennis Championship in Paris the previous year, everyone had not forgotten the defeat at the 2002 Busan Asian Games, which also made the coaching staff fall into the point of "undecided" in the selection and employment of personnel:
In the end, is it to increase the training of young players? Or will veterans Wang Nan, Li Ju and others be reinstated as big responsibilities?
It was in this situation that Guo Yue became the focus of attention, because she became the top five main players of the women's team before she was 16 years old, and later won the gold medal without accident, which also made her the youngest world champion in the history of Chinese table tennis, and the future was infinitely bright.
Five months later, the Olympic flame was rekindled in Athens, and although Guo Yue did not get a singles performance opportunity, he was also entrusted by the coaching staff to participate in the women's doubles event with Niu Jianfeng (Li Ju regrettably failed), which in turn broke a new record for national table tennis, that is, the youngest Olympic participant in the history of the whole team, only 16 years old!
Since the head coach of the women's team during that time was Lu Yuansheng, everyone naturally regarded it as the Bole of Guo Yue's career. But soon after, Lu Yuansheng left in 2005, and Guo Yue soon welcomed two instructors:
The first is Kong Linghui, a Grand Slam star who took over Guo Yue after he retired from the army at that time; the second is Shi Zhihao, the new head coach of the women's team who replaced Lu Yuansheng. Soon after, the voice of controversy began.
As early as 2006, Guo Yue had already spread negative news such as playing big names, which triggered the dissatisfaction of the coaching staff, when she was passively fighting in the Table Tennis Super League, Guo Yue almost ended her career in the national team early, and what people did not expect was that this situation finally happened seven years later.
It was also in 2006 that Kong Linghui ended his career as an athlete and then transformed into a women's team coach, in charge of Guo Yue and others. Because the idol aura on Kong Linghui's body was too shining, Guo Yue shouted directly to the camera in an interview:
"So handsome!"
It is difficult to quantify how much Kong Linghui means to Guo Yue's life, but we have seen more than once that many geniuses can only believe in other geniuses, especially those who achieve more than themselves. Until she retired, Guo Yue's results could not match Kong Linghui's, let alone her that year?
Soon, Guo Yue was a hit at the 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, sweeping the Grand Slam Zhang Yining 4-0 in the women's singles semifinals, falling behind 1-3 in the final, and reversing Li Xiaoxia 4-3 to win the championship; before that, she also won the gold medal with Wang Liqin in the mixed doubles competition.
Kong Linghui, who was Guo Yue's head coach for a time, was also "a master and apprentice", which was recognized by many fans, and many people could not help but shout that Zhang Yining's era had passed, and the national table tennis women's team was about to usher in a new king - unfortunately, Guo Yue did not wait for this day.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, although Guo Yue realized his dream of winning the championship, he was swept down by the veteran Wang Nan and did not have the opportunity to advance to the final; in the 2009 Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue met Zhang Yining again, only to be successfully "revenge" by the other side this time, stopping the runner-up in women's singles.
It was also at this time that Guo Yue once again had a series of problems in his thinking, and as a result, by the time of the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, she did not even qualify for the women's team final, and finally watched her teammates Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning lose 3 points, and the national table tennis also lost the championship trophy.
At this time, many fans have expressed strong dissatisfaction with Shi Zhihao, believing that he has buried Guo Yue's talent. But to be fair, in Guo Yue's state at that time, not playing was not necessarily a bad thing.
By 2012, Guo Yue, who had already had two Olympic experiences, was completely excluded from the women's singles candidates for the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the coaching staff would rather use two players who had never competed, Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning, to play rather than Guo Yue, but at this time, the fans' opposition was obviously much smaller.
After all, in the two years after the end of the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue's performance has indeed fallen behind, as a "golden left hand" to participate in the women's doubles competition is acceptable, but it is a little reluctant to take on the heavy responsibility of women's singles again.
After the World Table Tennis Championships selection, Guo Yue withdrew continuously due to injury reasons, which eventually led to the adjustment of guoguo in 2014 - at this time, she was not yet 26 years old, even if she insisted on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, she was only 28 years old, so many people at that time fantasized that Guo Yue would one day return to the national team.
But when she left, it became forever.
For Guo Yue's dynamics, Kong Linghui, who was already the head coach of the women's team at the time, said bluntly: "I really can't judge whether Guo Yue is injured or serious. But such a repeated and incessant and unable to find the root of the disease will have a huge negative impact on the team and herself. And Liu Guoliang also made it clear that Guo Yue had "no longer played a role in the team."
Perhaps Kong Linghui and Shi Zhihao could have done better to save this disciple's career, but in the final analysis, the problem was still Guo Yue himself.
It is often said that character determines destiny, and Guo Yue spent seven years fighting against the shortcomings in his personality, but unfortunately failed in the end - we dare not say that the coach must not have the slightest responsibility, but compared to Li Xiaoxia, who started later, got fewer opportunities, and was also idle in the final of the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, guo Yue's own problems are not bigger?
But Guo Yue is also lucky - there are so many table tennis players in China, how many can become world champions and Olympic champions? There are so many talented people in national table tennis, who can create so many historical records like her? At the end of the day, there is one thing that everyone regrets:
Guo Yue, can also do better.
However, God closed a window for Guo Yue, but opened a new door, after retiring from the military, she was admitted to Tsinghua University to study, and later in and out of the business world, entertainment circles, from time to time to show their latest developments, from the former "tomboy" to a bright and moving fashion woman, in a new field broke out of a new world.
Life is more than the field, without table tennis, Guo Yue can also do better: come on, bless you!