A person's choice is often just a thought, but it may bring irreversible misery to others.
Hu Na, a talented girl in tennis, has won excellent results in many competitions, but during the period of representing her country in the United States, she chose to defect overnight and apply for "political asylum" from the US government, and her choice caused the national team to fail miserably.
Influenced by her family, Hu Na began to contact tennis at the age of 4, and since then, tennis has grown with her.
She is also extremely talented in this area, winning the national junior women's singles championship at the age of 15 and the national group A women's singles championship at the age of 16.
Of course, this is inseparable from her hard practice in countless days and nights, and her efforts, whether it is family, relatives and friends, or even the country, are in the eyes.
After she won all the tennis championships, almost all the eyes were on, and this rising star gave everyone hope and high hopes.
She was valued by the country and soon entered the national team, and in 1979 took her to the United States for exchange and study, which also greatly changed Hu Na's mentality.
At that time, the United States was relatively good in terms of development and sports, which seemed to be a new world for Hu Na and had become her longing.
When competing against American players, her excellent performance was favored by American tennis coaches and extended an olive branch to her, inviting her to train in the United States.
Hu Na, who heard the news, was overwhelmed, and she felt that this was an opportunity given to her by God, and going to that place would definitely make herself better.
However, due to the national conditions at that time, this invitation was quickly rejected by the mainland.
I don't know if because she failed to get her wish this time, so she planted the seeds of dissatisfaction in her heart, so that before the 1982 game, she fled.
In 1982, invited, the mainland participated in the 20th Confederations Cup in San Francisco, USA, this women's tennis tournament is very important to the mainland, although worried that the United States will poach Hu Na, but she still represented the country with strength.
Sure enough, in the first game, because of the perfect cooperation between Hu Na and her teammates, she defeated the Japanese team 3-0. Everyone's cheers reached the peak, and they looked forward to the next performance of the Chinese team.
After the excellent results, the teammates are also full of confidence and ready for the next match, this time against Germany.
But just before the next day's game, an accident happened, and teammate Hu Na disappeared.
Li Xinyi, a teammate in the same room, got up and found that Hu Na was not there, thinking that it was a morning exercise, but after a long time, the game was about to start, and Hu Na was still missing.
The coach and teammates were very panicked, worried about Hu Na's safety on the one hand, and the game was about to start again.
Just when everyone burned their eyebrows, they were told by the competition organizing committee that Hu Na had appointed a lawyer to let them inform the Chinese side that she had applied for political asylum to the US government and would not participate in the competition, so don't look for her.
The coach and teammates were disheartened when they heard the heavy news, the team originally had only 4 people, and at this time there was no Hu Na of equal strength, and everyone was distracted because of this matter, resulting in a 0-3 defeat to the German team in the second game.
This incident had a serious impact on the mainland, because Hu Na's defection, the American media often made a big fuss about it, slandered the mainland, and even fermented into a follow-up diplomatic problem.
It also caused the mainland to stop sports exchanges and events with the United States because of this matter.
Hu Na, who stayed in the United States, applied for residency in the United States the following year, and has been living in the United States since then, pursuing her tennis career, but the tournaments she participated in were all setting results for the United States, but had nothing to do with the mainland.
In 1996, Hu Na, who was injured many times, quit the tennis scene and moved her family to Taipei to become a tennis consultant, training girls to learn tennis.
In 2004, she set foot on the land after more than 20 years of parting, and the impression of returning to China was completely different from that of 20 years ago.
Also, in China at that time, she did not have any nostalgia, she was bent on going to the United States, and she had ambitions at a young age, let alone now.
Now that the motherland is prosperous, how could she let herself lose this opportunity. So in 2008, he took three students to Beijing to compete, and began to show up constantly and look for opportunities.
In 2011, she was invited by Sina to work as a commentator in Beijing, and although she was popular on the mainland, the masses were still angry at her choice and did not buy her at all.
She once said in an interview that she would open a tennis club on the mainland to train children with potential, but whether this dream can be realized is unknown.
Everyone has the right to choose the life they aspire to, but should we be cautious when this choice involves countless people and the glory of the country? After all, she represented the country at that time, not herself.