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After the Sydney Olympic Games, He Qianhong and Tian Jing withdrew from the German national team. He Qianhong gave birth to her first child in 2003, her son Timo (who shares the same name as Pol, I don't know if she is another famous general in the future); Tian Jing also has plans to have children. Here, Tian Jing's husband speaks Chinese very well, and Tian Jing's German is still at the intermediate level.
Chen Jing also basically withdrew from the international arena after the Sydney Olympics. At the end of 2000, Chen Jingye returned to his roots, returned to the mainland again after 10 years, and opened the Chen Jing Table Tennis Club in Guangzhou, attracting Hao Shuai and other chinese players to join.
In the Wuhan Flame Relay of the 2008 Olympic Games, Feng Mengya, Chen Jing and Qiao Hong were three consecutive sticks, I don't know if you remember?
In addition, after the 1996 Seoul Olympic Games, Chen Jing once wanted to enter the show business circle, when she became Lin Zhiying's "sister", and also published an autobiography, and wanted to complete her studies at the Taipei Institute of Physical Education. At that time, the tutor she chose was the strictest at the Taipei Institute of Physical Education, and few people dared to choose her as a mentor, so Chen Jingfei did not choose him.
In those years, Chen Jing did not play many world championships, and the occasional open tournament came out to earn some points. As mentioned earlier, she has always been depressed about not participating in the Sydney Olympics, so she did not systematically participate in the Open Until the second half of 1999.
Continue the story of women's table tennis for 30 years.
After being bored with a stick by Xu Jing, Zhang Yining lost a lot in domestic and international competitions. At the 2000 National Championships, the Beijing team led by Zhang Yining lost to the Hebei team composed of Bai Yang, Niu Jianfeng and Wang Tingting. It achieved the first team championship of Hebei team in 7 years.
In the singles final, Zhang Yining missed several match points again, losing to Bai Yang.
In the second half of 2000, Zhang Yining slowly came out of the trough of more than half a year, winning two open singles championships in Sweden and Denmark. She then defeated Wang Nan in the 2000 ITTF Pro Tour Finals to win her first major women's singles title.
This year, due to the state and age of Yang Ying, Sun Jin, Li Ju and others, the national team has no pressure to change blood for the time being, but the post-80s players headed by Zhang Yining have begun to slowly enter the main layer.
Here's an interjection, Bai Yang, Li Nan, Niu Jianfeng... At that time, these post-80s were all potential stocks, which was a pity. In this group of athletes around 1982, only one Zhang Yining was produced, and there was also Guo Yan, who was barely qualified as the main force. The talent rate feels a little low, unlike the 76-79 group.
The 46th World Championships were the last world championships in which teams and individual events were held together. Because the performance of the 45th Chinese team is too fierce, from the 46th session, the singles quota of each association has been reduced from the original 13 to 7, the doubles has been reduced to 3 teams, and the mixed doubles has been reduced to 7 teams.
Unlike in the past, everyone who has some ability in the national team can play the World Championships, from this session, under the situation of more monks and less porridge, the women's team began to qualify for the World Championships.
The team competition of 5 people, Wang Nan, Li Ju and Zhang Yining three people selected is ironclad, the rest of the people, Sun Jin Olympic singles lost the ball should not be, Yang Ying singles has not been a prominent highlight, at that time public opinion generally believed that the group meeting to come to a new person.
Among the newcomers, Guo Yan won the women's singles title at the Croatia Open in April 2001; Niu Jianfeng won 11 consecutive games after half-time in the Table Tennis Super League, which began in the second half of 2000; Li Nan was the third place in the women's singles of the last World Championships; and Bai Yang was the women's singles champion of the 2000 National Championships.
Therefore, from the state of the time, many people are optimistic about the old cattle group in excellent condition.
However, the final announced group is still Wang Nan, Li Ju, Zhang Yining, Yang Ying, and Sun Jin. In addition to Guo Yan, Niu Jianfeng, Li Nan, and Bai Yang, all of them have their own shortcomings.
Yang Ying and Sun Jin are both people from Jiangsu, and they cannot but say. However, such a team list is also reasonable, but Li Nan missed the recent opportunity to win the world championship.
The initial singles rosters were: Wang Nan, Li Ju, Zhang Yining, Yang Ying, Sun Jin, Niu Jianfeng, Li Nan;
The doubles are Wang Nan/Li Ju, Zhang Yining/Zhang Yingying, Yang Ying/Sun Jin;
The mixed doubles are Wang Nan/Wang Liqin, Li Nan/Liu Guozheng, Yang Ying/Qin Zhijian, Sun Jin/Liu Guoliang, Lin Ling/Zhan Jian, Ma Lin/Zhang Yingying, Li Ju/Yan Sen.
But after the last official warm-up match, the roster became:
Women's Singles: Wang Nan, Li Ju, Zhang Yining, Yang Ying, Lin Ling, Niu Jianfeng, Li Nan;
Women's Doubles: Wang Nan /Li Ju, Zhang Yining/Zhang Yingying, Yang Ying/Sun Jin;
Mixed doubles: Wang Nan/Wang Liqin, Li Nan/Liu Guozheng, Yang Ying/Qin Zhijian, Sun Jin/Liu Guoliang, Bai Yang/Zhan Jian, Ma Lin/Zhang Yingying, Li Ju/Yan Sen.
The biggest change in this list is the loss of Sun Jin's singles qualification.
The reasons are manifold. The first is Sun Jin's defeat at the Sydney Olympics, which greatly affected her position in Cai Zhenhua's heart. Although Sun Jin recovered well after the Olympic Games, he also won an open championship at the end of the year, and the last warm-up match before the trip was also the women's singles champion. But the failure of the Olympic Games made all her efforts in the hearts of coaches a typical example of "breaking the chain of the big game, the civil war, the outside world".
Another is the result of some balance of interests for the national team. As mentioned earlier, there were many places in the past, and many people were eligible to play games, and there was no problem of the distribution of benefits between teams and places. However, since this session, there have been few monks and porridge, and the quota has been determined to become the product of the mixture of many factors in several places, especially between key table tennis units, the mutual balance and coordination of certain interests.
At that time, the domestic boss of women's table tennis was the Jiangsu team, which was a veteran team and a national champion for many years, plus there was Cai Zhenhua, a big god, which was naturally full of weight. Although Sun Jin was from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, she was cultivated by the Bayi Team, and Cai, a great god, naturally could not cover her head.
There are also Beijing teams and Liaoning teams in the domestic table tennis arena, and Hebei, which has been providing many services such as logistical support for the training of the national team, has no merit and hard work, and it is also common for people to give more places.
And just in the last warm-up match, Poplar and Niu Jianfeng played very well in the women's doubles, and before that, their team had won 10 consecutive victories in the table tennis super league, as well as won the 2000 Swedish Open and the 2001 Croatia Open doubles title, which can be described as a strong momentum.
At that time, the national team coach generally believed that the pair was much stronger than Zhang Yining/Zhang Yingying. But the women's doubles list has been out, and the two people are the absolute main force in the future, one is the Beijing team; the other is the Jiangsu team, it is unlikely to get them down, but the coaches generally think that they should give Bai Yang a chance to exercise, so they reported Bai Yang on the mixed doubles.
In this way, Lin Ling's only chance to play is facing the possibility of losing, and the coaches can't bear it - such a conscientious and good player does not even have to play a mixed doubles.
Sun Jin should also be unlucky. While the coach was considering the change in the list, she lost the racket again, and Lao Cai, who had always been "angry" with her, simply used this as an excuse to remove her. Her singles were replaced by Lin Ling, and the mixed doubles were changed to Bai Yang and Zhan Jian.
Sun Jin also became the only player in the history of Chinese table tennis who reported to the group but did not play singles.
In addition, at that time, the national team came up with a regulation exactly the same as later, and in the women's singles 7 place, one was vacated for the team selection competition, who won the championship and who was on. Later, Guo Yan won the selection competition, but in the end she did not have her share.
This kind of backlash was also staged in the 2003 and 2005 World Championship rosters, which fully confirmed the phrase "in the national team is also a small society", which is the last word, we will talk about it slowly later.
The roster for the 2001 Osaka World Championships was fixed.
The Women's Team of North Korea, which lost to Kuala Lumpur last year, finally recovered, and in the quarter-finals they defeated the previous runner-up Chinese Taipei team 3:0, and Chen Jing, who planned to withdraw from the table tennis world after the Sydney Olympics, was in no state, and defeated the North Korean team's second main force Kim Heung-mi 0:2.
The Chinese women's team beat Hong Kong 3:0 to reach the semifinals, while the Japanese team also defeated Romania 3:2 to advance to the semifinals after using two former Chinese players, Li Jun and Fan Jianxin.
Fan Jianxin, who was strong but never had any chance to play international games for the Chinese team, cried excitedly after the game. For her, to be able to go to the World Series once, but a wish, is really a mixed feeling.
This rural girl from Hebei who came out of the small village next to the Zhengding base of the national team quit the Japanese national team after fulfilling her wish and lived a happy life of her husband and godson.
In the first half, China plays Japan, and the second half is a clash between South Korea and North Korea.
There is no suspense in the Sino-Japanese semifinals. Except for Xiao Xixing, who was still full of momentum at the time, who snatched a round from Zhang Yining's hand, everything else was basically one-sided - Wang Nan defeated Fan Jianxin 21:14 and Li Ju beat Li Jun 2:0.
Second half of the inter-Korean semi-finals. The South Korean team was inverted, and Kim Mao School played the number one main force and defeated Kim Heung-mi in the first battle. But then north Korea won three consecutive teams and beat their opponents to advance to the final. Since 1995, the South Korean team has not reached the team final of the World Championships.
In the final, although the Chinese team finally defeated North Korea 3:0 to win the championship, the process was not easy. In addition to Wang Nan's first 21:16 and 21:10 light wins against Jin Xiangmei, Zhang Yining and Li Ju played three sets against Jin Yingji and Du Zhenshi, Zhang reversed Jin at 18:21, 21:18 and 21:13; Li Ju saved the match point and narrowly defeated Du Zhenshi at 17:21, 23:21, 21:14.
In the women's singles competition, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Niu Jianfeng and Li Nan were divided into the upper half, and the lower half was guarded by Li Ju, Yang Ying and Lin Ling.
Unexpectedly, the second half of the district broke out at the time of 32 into 16. Kim Yun-mi, the fourth odd player of the North Korean team who used the reverse long glue bump to create opportunities for his forehand, defeated Li Ju 3:1.
Li Ju, who has been in a mediocre state since the Olympic Games, was extremely uncomfortable with the long glue playing style against the opponent in the game, and after being entangled by the other party, he was eager to get rid of the other party, and as a result, he made frequent mistakes in the active attack, and finally was blown out by the opponent.
Liu Jia, who went out of the Beijing team, eliminated Yang Ying with the same score, and Yang Ying's 4 World Championships women's singles did not once enter the top 8, making the Chinese team form in the second half of the region immediately tight.
All four players in the first half of the zone passed, and Niu Jianfeng lost one set in 15:21, and won three consecutive sets to defeat Boros, who had never won before, even one set.
By 16 into 8, Li Nan performed well, winning 3:0 against Liu Zhihui, Zhang Yining 3:0 to win Li Jiawei, and Wang Nan and Niu Jianfeng won the top 8 seats in the upper half of the district.
In the second half of the district, Lin Ling began a lonely journey, defeating Chen Jing at sunset in 16 into 8 and entering the top 8 together with Liu Jia, Steve and Jin Yunmei.
In the 8-in-4 match, Wang Nan defeated Li Nan 3-0, and Zhang and Niu fought in 5 rounds. Zhang Yining's decider became more and more calm, while the Niu tiebreaker was obviously suffering from gains and losses, and Zhang easily won the decider and entered the semifinals.
In the second half, after defeating Chen Jing, whose confidence had increased greatly, Lin Ling, who had never won before, won 3:0 against Liu Jia, and the big dark horse Jin Yunmei who lightly won Steve would meet in the semifinals.
After many years, people may know the real situation of Zhang Yining and Wang Nan's women's singles semifinals. Boza, an Italian journalist who has traveled to China many times to cover table tennis, said: "I only saw a young Chinese girl in tears of sadness, and many years later when I stopped being a journalist, I would write the story behind this scene." "Then let's wait patiently for Boza's revelations."
In the second half, Lin Ling did not disappoint the old Cai who praised her, and terminated the opponent's dark horse tour 3:1. Lin played very patiently in the game, not in a hurry to attack, and when he was entangled in the opponent's long glue, he steadily pulled out the arc ball and held the opponent. Long glue is like this, not afraid of violence, afraid that you do not take the initiative to hit it, you turn it more.
In the final, Lin Ling played well in the first set 21:14, and then Wang Nan did not give Lin Ling the opportunity to become a dark horse. Wang firmly grasped the weakness of the slow swing on both sides of the opponent, resolutely sent the other side to the middle of the road, Lin Ling's good COSCO platform could not get any play, 21:12, 21:12 and 21:19 in a row to win three sets.
This final is a contest of real knives and real guns, and Lin Ling's runner-up also proved her strength, which is also her last goal to play for the Chinese national team.
The strength of the South Korean women's doubles at the Sydney Olympics and the good form of the North Korean team since the start of the World Championships gave me a glimpse of their hopes for a good result in doubles. However, after the double open match, it is still China's big package, and the gap between the world and China is getting bigger and bigger.
The women's doubles 16-8 pairs of the two strongest opponents, South Korea's Yoo Ji-hye / Kim Mo-scho, met with North Korea's Kim Young-hee / Kim Heung-mi, and the Result North Korean team reversed the South Korean combination in a 12:21 first loss, which actually helped the Chinese team.
After the two gold combination won 4 first and then lost, and was eliminated by Zhang Yining/Zhang Yingying, the Chinese team has no opponent in the women's doubles.
After the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Olympic Games, Wang Nan/ Li Ju swept Yang Ying and Sun Jin 3:0 for the third time to win the championship.
Koji Matsushita's wife, Akiko Takeda, partnered Masaru Asayo, and won a bronze medal for Japan.
Mixed doubles matches are also uneventful. Although there was no biaoqiang who won the top eight in the previous edition, Wang Nan/Wang Liqin lost to Hong Kong's lame man with Wang Jing/Gao Lixuan, and Li Nan/Liu Guozheng and Sun Jin/Liu Guoliang lost to the same pair of Jin Mao School/Wu Shangyan, which is just a small episode.
In the final, Yang Ying and Qin Zhijian defeated Jin Mao School/Wu Shangyu in 3 21:15, and Qin unexpectedly fulfilled his dream of world championship at the end of his sports career.
In the last minute, Bai Yang, who was given the opportunity to participate, also performed well, and teamed up with Zhan Jian to win 3:0 against the defending champion Marlene/Zhang Yingying and finally won the third place.
Hey hey, I don't know what Marlene thinks psychologically, in the future, when he and Wang Nan partnered and defeated the BaiYang/Liu Guozheng combination, so that his first love girlfriend left a sad tear without a world champion, what did he think?
After the 46th term, Wang Nan further established his unbreakable position.
The other three female players participating in the Sydney Olympic Games, Sun Jin was injured, Yang Ying could not see any growth, li Ju was also deteriorating due to physical and injury reasons, in this case, the women's team began to investigate and cultivate new people.
After He Qianhong, Chen Jing, Tian Jing, He Zhili, the world champions of that year, and the national players have faded out of the table tennis arena, Li Jiawei, Liu Jia and other post-80s who went abroad to play at a young age have resisted the banner of overseas corps, and the Chinese women's team has become less and less rival.
In 2001, the focus of the Chinese women's team was Niu Jianfeng, Guo Yan, Bai Yang and Li Nan, who were later known as the "Four Little Flower Dan".
Among the four people, Niu Jianfeng is the oldest, the earliest to become famous, the right hand cross plate two sides of the arc, pulling the ball very turned, by Liu Guoliang described as the old cow backhand pulled up even he is not easy to defend.
The old cow also has a squat serve trick, the old cow won the Yugoslav Open in 1997, and after two years of silence, it began to erupt in late 2000. In the Super League, he not only led the Hebei team all the way to win the championship, but also was named the best female athlete with a score of 19 wins and 3 losses.
Guo Yan is the tallest and strongest, with a good serve, balanced strength on both sides, and a large pulling force, winning the Croatia Open women's singles championship before the World Championships, and winning the championship in the World Championships team selection competition.
Li Nan's left-handed straight board anti-glue fast arc play, after becoming famous at the 1999 World Championships, she performed well in a series of competitions, especially the external win rate is quite high.
Bai Yang is the youngest, left-handed horizontal board forehand anti-glue backhand raw glue, playing style similar to Chen Jing, in the 1999 World Championships was taken by Lu Yuansheng to learn Chen Jing, Sydney Olympics as a full-time sparring partner went to Sydney, in 2000 two victories Zhang Yining won the national championship team and singles championship.
4 Xiaohuadan has their own strengths, taking turns in the World Championships and a series of international competitions after that, and have achieved good results, but their fate has changed significantly later.
In 2001, the biggest competition in the domestic table tennis arena was the National Games, and the Guangdong Nine Games also became a big stage for domestic novices represented by the four small flowers to show their strength.
Beijing, Liaoning, Jiangsu and Hebei are the favorites to win the championship before the game, Liaoning has Wang Nan, Li Jia and Zhang Rui; Hebei has Bai Yang, Niu Jianfeng and Wang Tingting; Beijing is Zhang Yining, Guo Yan and Jia Beibei; Jiangsu is Li Ju, Zhang Yingying and Yang Ying.
As a national team champion for many years, Jiangsu, which has three world champions, did not qualify in the group stage, which was a big surprise. Although Li Ju and Yang Ying were not in a good state and Zhang Yingying's strength was thin, after all, it was a skinny camel that was bigger than Ma, and no one thought of this ending before the game.
The biggest mistake of the Jiangsu team was to exchange Fan Ying to Heilongjiang, and used Zhang Yingying, who did not have the upper hand for anyone. In the life-and-death battle with the Hebei team, the Jiangsu team used Zhang Yingying to play the second main force, losing to Bai Yang and Niu Jianfeng in a row, and Jiangsu lost 2:3 at the same time, but also missed the top 4.
The final four of the group were Beijing, Hebei, Liaoning and Guangdong, which did not have a single national player.
Pictured: Wang Hao's first love Fan Ying
In the semi-final Hebei vs Liaoning, Bai Yang played well in this match, one person defeated Wang Nan and Li Jia to win two points for Hebei. He and Wang Nan fell behind 13:19 in the first set to score 8 points, and Li Jia also fell behind by nearly 10 points in the first set, all of which were pulled back.
The ball was played very intensely, the score was very close, and the game was played until nearly 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.
Niu Jianfeng beat Li Jia 24:26, 21:17, 21:18;
Poplar 21:19, 21:14 victory over Wang Nan;
Wang Tingting 17:21, 21:12, 18:21 lost Zhang Rui;
Old Cow 16:21, 21:14, 18:21 lost to Wang Nan;
Poplar beat Li Jia 21:18 and 21:19.
If the fierceness of this ball is not unexpected, in another semi-final, the Guangdong team without a single national player forced Beijing to that point, which is a big surprise.
Mai Lele and Zhang Yining did not have to fight, 7:21 and 8:21 crisp defeats; then Guo Yan defeated Cao Xingni 2:1, and Beijing took the lead.
At this time, the Guangdong team suddenly broke out. After Wang Shaohua swept Li Qiangbing, Cao Xingni lost the first set at 14:21, and actually won two sets in two consecutive sets of 21:9 to defeat Zhang Yining!
Tiebreaker. Inspired by his teammates, Maille played crazy, and after winning the first set, the second set was also pressed guo Yan to play, once leading by as many as 9 points. Maybe victory was in sight, and Malalle played a little noisily, and was equalized by Guo, but then Mai picked up his spirit and fought with Guo Da.
One cricket pair even fought against the 27 boards, so much so that Qiao Yunping said it was not a women's game, Guo Yan saved the match point 27:25 to win the game, and the decider was taken down, bringing Beijing to the final.
Before the game, Beijing regarded Hebei as the biggest opponent and made full preparations, and the most important preparation plan was the division of labor among the three people. Jia Beibei specialized in dealing with the horizontal board, Li Qiangbing specialized in cutting the ball, and the result was not in vain, Li Qiangbing caught Wang Tingting in the crucial third game.
Bai Yang was ranked as the first main force because of his outstanding performance in the semi-finals and his good record against Guo Yan, and he really caught Guo Yan, and 21:17 and 21:18 for Hebei.
Zhang Yining played very well in the second game, sweeping the old cow 21:9 and 21:11; The third appearance of Li Qiangbing, several training with the chipping ball were not in vain, and won Wang Tingting 2:0.
By this time, Beijing had the upper hand. Sure enough, in the fourth game, although Bai Yang played very hard and the score was tightly clenched, he still lost to Zhang Yining in two 17:21, and Beijing won the National Games championship for the first time!
(To be continued)