At the 1973 National Table Tennis Championships, a 20-year-old girl took out a red long rubber-grained rubber racket from her blue backpack.
She, she wants to fight for herself.
It can be seen that this little girl is a little nervous, after all, this is her first time to participate in the national competition, if she plays well, there will be development in the future, if she does not play well, she will never want to pick up this racket in the future.
And this little girl is the Great Demon King Ge Xin'ai, who is several generations earlier than Deng Yaping.
Ge Xin Love
Today's Brief History Archive will talk to you about the story of Ge Xin'ai.
Zhang Xielin decided to recommend Ge Xinai to the national team
Ge Xinai can also be regarded as the old predecessor of Ma Lin, Wang Hao and others!
Although they play differently, Ge Xinai's straight-board cutting style of play is generally considered to be the predecessor of straight-board horizontal play, and it can be said that Ge Xin'ai is an innovator in this style of play.
And this big devil who has innovations in table tennis has experienced too many ups and downs when he was a child.
In 1953, Ge Xin'ai was born in a working-class family in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and although Ge Xin'ai began to play ball as a child, he was more out of fun and did not intend to play as a profession.
In 1965, 12-year-old Ge Xin'ai went to see the film of the 28th World Table Tennis Championships, and the playing style of Li Furong, Zhang Xielin, Lin Huiqing and others deeply attracted Ge Xin'ai, which was too exciting.
Li Furong
So under such an opportunity, Ge Xin'ai decided: to be a professional table tennis player.
Who dares to believe that this is a 12-year-old girl who can make up her mind, but Ge Xin'ai's parents fully support their daughter, understand that her daughter is a determined child, and immediately pay for her daughter to buy rackets and table tennis, so that she can devote herself to the cause of table tennis.
Sure enough, Ge Xin'ai was not a temporary favorite, and he was very serious about table tennis, whether it was the wall of the home or the bed board, he left Ge Xin'ai's playing marks.
But soon, Ge Xin'ai encountered difficulties, because of the dissolution of the sports school, Resulting in Ge Xin'ai's inability to continue systematic training and playing, and it was absolutely impossible to become a professional player by training on his own.
In order to train, Ge Xin'ai and his friends looked around for a training venue, and it was difficult to find a board room, but when they opened the door, they found that because of their age, this place was simply a garbage can.
Ge Xin Love
Many small partners were momentarily discouraged and did not want to play table tennis anymore, but Ge Xinai did not want to give up, and in the face of difficulties, he defeated it, so Ge Xinai called on his friends to start cleaning up their rooms, pieced together, and finally set up two table tennis tables, and then everyone began to continue training.
In order to be able to play, Ge Xin'ai always runs to this broken room rain or shine, just to be able to train a little more.
A coach surnamed Hua was impressed, so he volunteered to become a coach for Ge Xinai and others, and Ge Xinai was even happier, there was a table, there was a coach, even if these difficulties were nothing.
In 1970, Ge Xin'ai was selected into the Henan Provincial Table Tennis Training Team, of course, this was not only because Ge Xin'ai was hardworking, but also because Ge Xin'ai played straight-pat cutting ball, which was unique at that time.
Entering the professional team, Ge Xin'ai was snubbed, the beat monster, the playing style was strange, and the results could not go up, so in the period of time when he joined the provincial team, Ge Xin'ai did not participate in many competitions, and Ge Xin'ai also instantly felt the crisis of being eliminated.
Ge Xin Love
The difficulties are really wave after wave!
But Ge Xinai is strong, since no one values himself, then he stands out and amazes everyone, so Ge Xinai began to pay more effort than others to train, get up earliest in the morning, sleep the latest at night, Ge Xin'ai's technology is improving step by step.
In the 1973 National Championship, Ge Xin'ai had the opportunity to appear, only to see that Ge Xin'ai's opponent was a player from the Beijing team, although Ge Xin'ai played hard, but finally defeated his opponent and won the third place in this competition.
In the stands, I saw a man take out a notebook from his waist and write down three words:
Ge Xin Love.
And this man, is Zhang Xielin, although Ge Xinai did not win the championship, but the connoisseur looks at the insider, Ge Xinai's heritage attracted Zhang Xielin, he decided to recommend this Henan rookie to the national team.
Zhang Xielin
It seems that Ge Xin'ai is about to hit the head!
Ge Xinai was selected to participate in the 33rd World Table Tennis Championships
In 1973, Ge Xin'ai was selected by Zhang Xielin to join the national table tennis training team.
This flattered Ge Xin'ai, who did not expect that his dream would come true, and then Ge Xin'ai's teacher Cheng Zhang Xielin began to learn the amazing technique.
Of course, Ge Xin'ai is not exactly the successor of Zhang Xielin's playing style, it can be said that it is a self-contained style of play, many people do not agree with Ge Xin'ai's strange playing style, and feel that it is too risky, but Ge Xin'ai does not think so.
Sure enough, after Ge Xinai entered the national team, under the arrangement of Zhang Xielin, he replaced it with a piece of long rubber granular rubber that was re-developed.
race
In an instant, Ge Xin'ai can't play the ball, hit the left side to the right side, hit the right side to the left side, a game down, Ge Xin'ai doesn't seem to be able to play the ball, some people began to taunt:
"Look, Ge Xin'ai may have to change it back."
However, how could Ge Xin'ai give up lightly?
Ge Xin'ai understands that her playing style is a killing weapon in the world, even for the national team, she must insist on this way of playing, and now she will not play, which means that her kung fu is not home, she continues to work hard.
Sure enough, Ge Xinai practiced it, and skillfully mastered many techniques such as direct shooting to cut the ball, attacking the ball, blocking the ball and hitting the ball with a backhand, especially the one-handed slashing ball, and the landing point is changeable, which is simply rare in the world.
Zhang Xielin
Zhang Xielin was very happy and chose Ge Xinai to participate in the team competition of the 33rd World Table Tennis Championships, and he understood that Ge Xinai would not live up to his trust.
At the World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese girl appeared, and the South Korean celebrities Zheng Hyun-sook and Lee Alyssa, who were practicing balls, suddenly stunned, who is this girl with black-rimmed glasses? In addition to South Korea, almost all journalists are also questioning, who is she?
And she is Ge Xinai.
In fact, at the beginning, Ge Xinai was very nervous, not to mention that she had just joined the national team, and Ge Xinai had not participated in the World Series, what if she failed to live up to the trust of the coaching team?
Zhang Xielin was not impressed, and joked:
"What's so nervous, I see you can do it, in case you blow the stage, it's a big deal that you go back to your Henan Province, I'll go back to my Shanghai Steam Turbine Factory."
Ge Xin Love
Ge Xin'ai couldn't help but smile bitterly, since the coaching staff believed in her, then she would go on!
Ge Xinai scored 2 points for the Chinese women's team to win the championship
The 33rd World Table Tennis Championships Women's Team Final begins!
In the first set, Zhang Li played, she and Ge Xinai, are from Henan, and Zhang Li did not live up to the coaching team and won the first set.
In the second set, Ge Xin fell in love with the game against the best chipper in the world today, Jeong Hyun-sook.
After the start of the fight, Ge Xin'ai seemed very restrained, some could not be let go, the technical movements were somewhat deformed, and Zheng Xianshu was worthy of being a world famous player, and soon adapted to Ge Xin'ai's playing style and successfully won the first set.
At the beginning of the second set, Ge Xinai began to let go, giving full play to the change of his straight shot and cutting the ball, and won the second set 21-10.
Ge Xin Love
In the third set, the two people obviously wanted to do their best, first Ge Xin'ai led 14-8, and then Zheng Xianshu overtook 18-16, one after the other, the two played very anxiously.
Only to see Ge Xin'ai suddenly stop, push his black-rimmed glasses with his hand, and then made a move to prepare for a backhand serve, Zheng Xianshu was indeed hit, and immediately sent a straight line to prepare to seal Ge Xinai's line, which was right in Ge Xin'ai's arms, and immediately changed the landing point to hit Zheng Xianshu by surprise.
2-1, Ge Xin'ai won.
However, in the third set, the fourth set, China lost the game, and then played a big score of 2-2 draw.
In the fifth set, the decider, Ge Xinai played again, against Li Alyssa, Li Alyssa is also difficult to deal with, known for arc balls, and sure enough, as soon as he came up, he gave Ge Xin'ai a few serve threats.
Ge Xin'ai and Li Alyssa play
Only this time, Ge Xinai did not give Li Alyssa a chance, giving full play to the strangeness and changes of the beat, and in just a few tens of minutes, Ge Xinai defeated Li Alyssa 2-0 and won the championship for the Chinese women's team.
Li Elisamon, completely unaware of what the fight was, did not react until afterwards:
"At the time, I thought there was an earthquake."
In this way, Ge Xin'ai acted as a surprise soldier and made great contributions to the Chinese team's victory.
Ge Xin'ai has his own love
After becoming famous in World War I, Ge Xinai became the magic weapon for the Chinese team to win.
In the next few years, Ge Xinai quickly became famous in the world table tennis arena and became a presence that everyone could not ignore, but just when Ge Xinai was preparing to show his skills, he suddenly fell ill, so Ge Xinai had to leave the team to go to the Xiaotangshan Sanatorium in the suburbs of Beijing to rest.
Ge Xin Love
It turned out that after playing the game, Ge Xin'ai suddenly felt tired, the abdomen also began to faintly hurt, and even the appetite decreased a lot, so Ge Xin'ai went to the hospital for examination, and after the test results came out, Ge Xin'ai learned that he was suffering from intestinal tuberculosis, and the doctor frankly said that it was caused by fatigue, so Ge Xin'ai had to listen to the doctor's words and began to recuperate his body.
But Ge Xin's love can't stay idle, even if he lies on the hospital bed, he must be compared, and he must study the action of playing ball and technical statistics for a while, and the doctor has to comfort him when he sees it:
"Tell you to recuperate, you can calm down, don't worry about your game."
Suddenly, Ge Xin'ai remembered what someone said to her not long ago, and that person said that Ge Xin'ai had played well in the past few years and had made a contribution, so it was better to take the opportunity to retire.
Ge Xin loves the game
No!
Ge Xin'ai is unwilling, as long as the motherland needs her, then she can still stand in front of the table tennis table and strive to play more competitions and win glory for the country.
"You're 28 or 9 years old, you take advantage of your poor health, quit the table, and we'll be together earlier."
Ge Xin'ai turned around and looked at the man talking in front of him.
This man is Ge Xin'ai's boyfriend, named Zhang Guoqiang, who was originally a worker at the Zhengzhou Coal Machinery Factory and is now a reporter for Henan People's Radio, and they have been loving each other for several years.
As early as after the end of the 33rd World Table Tennis Championships, Ge Xin'ai returned to China to reunite with his mother's family, and his cousin also came, and there was a friend around him, and this friend was Zhang Guoqiang, Zhang Guoqiang claimed to want to see the style of the world champion, so he came with him.
Ge Xin Love
In this way, Ge Xinai and Zhang Guoqiang met.
One after another, Ge Xin'ai felt that Zhang Guoqiang talked elegantly, and liked music and reading like her, and had the same interests, the two young people soon began to communicate with each other, Ge Xin'ai returned to Henan to meet Zhang Guoqiang, and Zhang Guoqiang went to Beijing on a business trip, but also to visit Ge Xin'ai.
After some matchmaking, the two finally came together.
Thinking back to this moment, Ge Xin'ai did not agree with her boyfriend's suggestion, she wanted to continue to play the game, at least after the 34th and 35th games to talk about retirement and marriage.
Of course, Ge Xin'ai also understands that she can't be so selfish, she decided to retire after the fight, never regret it, and then go to run the love between the two.
Ge Xinai retired after winning 3 championships at the World Table Tennis Championships
Ge Xin loves the game
In 1977, at the 34th World Table Tennis Championships, Ge Xin'ai competed again, and finally won the third place in women's singles and women's doubles, and once again contributed to the Chinese team's victory in the women's team championship.
In 1979, Ge Xin'ai took brisk steps into the land of the 35th World Table Tennis Championships in Pyongyang, and all the spectators in the stadium applauded Ge Xin'ai.
At this time, Ge Xinai had already won two championships, the women's team championship and the mixed doubles championship with Liang Geliang. Although singles also entered the top three, Ge Xin'ai felt that his task had been completed, and the women's singles championship was won by Zhang Deying and Zhang Li and others, and he could relax.
Unexpectedly, north Korean famous Li Songshu actually played more and more courageously, eliminated Zhang Li and Zhang Deying in succession, won the right to the final, and met Ge Xin'ai for the final.
The first on the right is Zhang Deying
It seems that Ge Xinai is going to summon up the spirit to win this victory.
Before the women's singles match began, Zhang Li deliberately found Ge Xin'ai and told Ge Xin'ai about his experience of failure, Li Songshu cut the ball long and did not turn, and must judge the correct rotation.
Ge Xin'ai nodded, she was actually calm and self-assured, but her body did not allow her to be too confident, she had been playing with closed needles for the past few days, but she was still a little uncomfortable, even before playing, she only ate some tomatoes.
But Ge Xin'ai understands that she can't lose in this women's singles final.
At the beginning of the game, Ge Xinai quickly threw himself into the state and immediately won the first two sets with a big score.
The key is the third set, if Ge Xinai can take the best, can not take it will face physical and mental problems, sure enough, to this round, Li Songshu let go, just like Zhang Li said, began to cut the ball long without turning, Ge Xinai suddenly did not adapt, so Li Songshu quickly led Ge Xinai 18-16.
Zhang Li
Ge Xin'ai couldn't move a bit, but she still equalized with her ability to resist and bite, not so much that Ge Xin'ai was playing, but rather that she was holding on with her willpower.
Soon, to the last ball, Ge Xinai got the match point, only to see Ge Xinai began to mobilize Li Songshu left and right, Li Songshu was not willing to show weakness, tenaciously saved the ball, the left and right mobilization did not work, Ge Xinai had a plan, towards the middle of the road a board of slam, and finally won the game.
3-0, Ge Xinai won, successfully won the 35th World Table Tennis Championships Women's Singles Championship, in this World Table Tennis Championships, Hao won three crowns!
Of course, Ge Xin'ai did not forget her lover, she promised Zhang Guoqiang, after playing, she retired, so shortly after the end of the game, Ge Xin'ai chose to retire for love, although Ge Xin'ai understood that she could continue to fight, but for love, she was willing to leave at this moment!
Ge Xin Love
Ge Xin'ai went to the United States to obtain a green card
Zhang Guoqiang waited for his lover for 4 years and finally waited.
The provincial radio station made room for the two newcomers, with a double bed and a few simple furniture, which was the new room for the two.
Although the wedding is simple, the two newlyweds are as happy as they are.
On the second day of the new marriage, the reporters planned to go to Hexi, but suddenly found that zhang Guoqiang was alone, where did the bride go?
It turned out that Ge Xinai prepared for the Henan table tennis team to participate in the 4th National Games, after retiring, Ge Xinai chose to return to her hometown Henan team to coach, although he did not stay too long, but he could get the guidance of the world champion, which is what many people dream of!
Ge Xin Love
After coaching for a while in Henan, Ge Xin'ai received an invitation and then went to North Korea and Egypt to coach, bringing the excitement of Chinese table tennis to the world.
Later, Ge Xinai's family went to live in the United States, and Ge Xinai also successfully obtained a green card, her husband and children lived and worked in the United States, and she went back and forth between the United States and Egypt.
However, such a day made Ge Xinai very uncomfortable, so after thinking about it again, Ge Xinai took the initiative to resign from the position of head coach of the Egyptian team and decided to go to the United States to reunite with his family and share the joy of the world.
After returning to the United States, Ge Xin'ai did not give up his beloved table tennis career, and chose to become a coach in a club in Chicago, teaching and teaching local young people who love to play table tennis, and life is very happy.
Ge Xin Love
It is not difficult to see that Ge Xin'ai has not given up table tennis at any time.
Because, she will always love it...