In the long history of the development of China's table tennis team, a number of famous players have emerged, and retired athletes such as Zhang Yining, Wang Nan and Deng Yaping are also familiar to fans. However, before they created brilliance, there was also a person known as the "Demon King of Table Tennis", who was the athlete of the national table tennis women's team in the 70s of the last century, Ge Xinai.
Ge Xinai has been interested in table tennis since childhood, and her father is a physical education teacher, so she is also very supportive of her daughter's hobby. In addition to studying, Ge Xinai's favorite sport is to play table tennis, she often plays with her peers, among them Ge Xinai is the best one to play. Ge Xin'ai is highly talented in table tennis, and after several years of practice, in 1970, the 17-year-old Ge Xinai joined the Henan provincial team and officially began her career as a professional athlete.
In the provincial team, Ge Xinai's style of play is very different from other teammates, she is good at straight board and sharp ball play, which is very strange, so she is not too much attention from the coach. For a long time, Ge Xinai did not participate in the official competition, which also made her a little confused about her future, but she never relaxed her training, and still stayed in the training hall every day until late to go back. Later, at the 1973 National Table Tennis Championships, Ge Xin'ai finally waited for his chance.
Ge Xinai won the third place in that national table tennis championship, which made the flame of hope in her heart become bigger and bigger, and she believed that as long as she did not give up, she would definitely enter the national team to win glory for the country. I have to say that Ge Xinai is lucky, although the third place result is not the most dazzling, but Zhang Xielin noticed this little girl with a unique style of play. Zhang Xielin felt that Ge Xinai was a malleable talent, so he recommended her to join the national team. In 1973, Ge Xin'ai successfully entered the national team. Although his style of play is very strange, Ge Xinai has always insisted on himself and has always worked hard to improve his skills. Later, Ge Xinai's cutting ball became a must, which was extremely rare in the entire table tennis world.
The 33rd World Table Tennis Championships in 1975 was Ge Xin'ai's first participation in an international competition, she did not live up to the expectations of her coach, with a unique way of playing, Ge Xinai not only won the third place in women's singles, but also helped the national table tennis team win the gold medal in the women's team. In 1977, Ge Xin'ai appeared again at the World Table Tennis Championships, winning the third place in women's singles and women's doubles, and won the women's team championship with her teammates. At this time, Ge Xinai is no longer a fledgling young general in everyone's eyes, but a secret weapon of national table tennis with rich experience in the competition.
In 1979, Ge Xinai stood on the 35th World Table Tennis Championships. She is very calm at heart and extremely stable in her play. In the women's doubles and women's team competitions, Ge Xinai won two gold medals in a row, and before the final of the women's singles began, Ge Xinai did not have any ideological baggage, she felt that as long as she played normally, it would be best if she could win the championship, but if she rubbed shoulders with the gold medal, she would not have much regrets.
The final of the women's singles was extremely fierce, and Ge Xinai finally won the match with an absolute advantage. A 3-0 score successfully sent Ge Xinai to the podium of the women's singles champion. So far, Ge Xinai has won a total of three gold medals at this World Table Tennis Championships. Ge Xinai has created his own brilliant journey. After the end of the World Table Tennis Championships, Ge Xinai unexpectedly ended her sports career, and for love she decided to retire and leave the national team.
Ge Xinai has a boyfriend Zhang Guoqiang, who has been in love for a long time, he has always supported Ge Xinai's table tennis career, and does not want to live up to his boyfriend's Ge Xinai, has long decided to participate in the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships to retire, and then enter the palace of marriage with his lover. After marriage, Ge Xin'ai worked as a coach for the Henan team for a while, and then went to the United States with her husband and settled there. Ge Xinai, who is far away in the United States, still has not put down table tennis, she chose to come to a table tennis club as a coach, and she also enjoyed a happy life with her family after work.
Perhaps in the eyes of many people, it is too bad that Ge Xinai chose to retire after winning three championships in the World Table Tennis Championships, and she will also feel that if she does not retire, she will continue to shine in the field of table tennis in the future. However, if from Ge Xinai's point of view, the World Table Tennis Championships won the triple crown, she has completed her glorious mission and realized her dream of being a champion. She doesn't want her boyfriend to continue to wait, and she also wants to have a warm home of her own, so it is not a pity for her to retire, and how can family happiness not be a success in another sense?