"I am an only child, and over the years, it is not easy to see my parents work hard from entrepreneurship to now. They are now in their 50s, and as a member of the family, I think it is necessary to grow up as soon as possible and share it for my parents. ”
When she said this, Zhu Yuling had already drifted away from table tennis.
In November 2022, the media interviewed former national table tennis main athlete Zhu Yuling, raising many questions about her dynamics in the past year or so, and she also responded one by one, after all, as a famous player who once ranked first in the world and won the world championship at the age of 19, Zhu Yuling has disappeared from the field for more than a year.
Although countless fans are looking forward to her comeback and fight again, as time goes by, this matter has long become a luxury, because now Zhu Yuling has entered a university to study for a doctorate in management, and began to participate in running her own family business, and embarked on the road planned by her parents.
So do you remember the glory and bitterness of her once in the arena?
First, he became famous at a young age and made rapid progress
On January 10, 1995, on the 19th birthday of senior Liu Guoliang, Zhu Yuling was born in Mianyang, Sichuan Province - for her family, there are many versions circulating on the Internet, but it is certain that Zhu Yuling's family is quite wealthy, and her father is a very successful business elite, so it is somewhat surprising that she later embarked on a career path in table tennis.
In 2003, 8-year-old Zhu Yuling entered the Sichuan Provincial Training Team, and then went through the screening of the provincial team and the national training team step by step, and finally entered the door of the national second team in 2010, and in July of the same year, she ushered in the opportunity to play the world champion in the foreign battle, and reached the women's singles final at the Japan Open, but finally lost to Singapore's Wang Yuegu.
Less than two months before the start of that game, Wang Yuegu soared into the sky, pulled Liu Shiwen, the new main player of national table tennis in the final of the women's team of the World Table Tennis Championships in Moscow, and took away 3 points from the Chinese team and won the gold medal with Feng Tianwei, but he did not expect to be attacked by younger national table tennis athletes in a blink of an eye:
A ragged colt may make a good horse!
Although she did not win, 15-year-old Zhu Yuling has shown a very strong competitiveness, and compared to most female table tennis players who are good at holding each other, her tactical awareness is very strong, and she has even been compared by some to the first Grand Slam winner in history, Waldner, and has a promising future.
In 2013, 18-year-old Zhu Yuling was more imposing, defeating the main team Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and others in international competitions, won various medals for many times, and was also selected for the World Table Tennis Championships list, won two bronze medals, and entered the main team of the national table tennis women's team the following year, realizing the dream of world champions.
In 2017, Zhu Yuling ushered in the peak of her career, defeating Liu Shiwen in the World Table Tennis Championships, Asian Cup and World Cup in a row, becoming the main force of the team's "three and two".
In the Rio Olympics the previous year, Zhu Yuling participated as a P card substitute, and according to the practice of national table tennis, this role generally has great hopes of being selected for the next Olympic List, and judging from Zhu Yuling's performance in 2017, if nothing else, she should be included in the Tokyo Olympic list.
It turned out to be unexpected.
Second, the foreign war suffered a crushing defeat and fell into a trough
Zhu Yuling's scenery only lasted for more than a year, and after the arrival of 2018, Japanese teenager Mimato Ito rose and launched a fierce attack on the three main players of the Chinese women's team at that time, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling.
Although Zhu Yuling was neither beaten 0-11 like Ding Ning, nor lost to each other in major competitions such as the World Table Tennis Championships like Liu Shiwen, she also lost two consecutive fiasco and lost more embarrassingly. And what is even more embarrassing is that compared to the two senior sisters, Zhu Yuling's "confidence" is obviously insufficient-
In terms of results, Ding Ning is a Grand Slam winner, and Liu Shiwen's results in major competitions are also better than Zhu Yuling; In terms of experience, the above two have participated in the Olympic Games, and it is not comparable to Zhu Yuling.
At the same time, the younger players in the team, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Xing, and others have also begun to rise, and as a result, Zhu Yuling has not survived until the Tokyo Olympics to start, and she first lost the singles qualification for the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships. So in a later interview, Zhu Yuling also saw her future and bluntly said that the Tokyo Olympics had "nothing to do with me".
And worse things are yet to come.
In 2020, Zhu Yuling finally returned to the top five main ranks through the team direct competition and obtained the qualification for the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships, but the competition was canceled due to the epidemic, and Zhu Yuling lost the best opportunity to rise again.
Soon after, Zhu Yuling disappeared from the public eye many times due to physical reasons, and later revealed to everyone that she had thyroid problems and other aspects in an interview. But even so, Zhu Yuling still has time to fight for herself to stay in the arena, so everyone also expects her to fight again.
However, in 2021, Zhu Yuling still continued to hang the exemption card, and after Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Liu Shiwen won 2 golds and 2 silvers at the Tokyo Olympics, she chose to continue to recuperate, and later exposed photos of her treatment in the cancer hospital.
For a time, the news of "the national table tennis world champion has cancer" spread all over the place, and although it was later roughly determined that there was no big problem, Zhu Yuling never returned to the arena. In May 2022, Zhu Yuling, who was once ranked No. 1 in the world, was emptied of points; And her legend in the field of table tennis was completely interrupted by this, and she has not renewed the frontier so far, and it seems that there will never be again.
Third, look down on winning and losing, and return to life
Although there has been no official announcement of retirement, as the distance between Zhu Yuling and the table tennis world is getting farther and farther, most fans have also acquiesced to the fact that she will not return to the arena. Sure enough, after the arrival of November 2022, Zhu Yuling officially accepted an interview and revealed her latest developments to everyone:
On the one hand, he is studying for a doctorate in management, and on the other hand, he is involved in family business management.
Strangely, although Zhu Yuling has always been known to the public as a table tennis player, world champion, etc., but now she makes many people feel that she is on the "right track", because with her family lineage, it seems inconceivable to give up superior conditions, be willing to endure hardships and fatigue, and leave a body of injuries.
But she chose this for more than ten years, and no one can explain why, probably the so-called fate!
On January 10, 2022, Zhu Yuling, who was busy with team training, and Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Table Tennis Association, spent their birthday together in National Table Ping, such a situation they should have experienced many times before, and Liu Guoliang may continue to experience it in the future, but for Xiaozhu, it is estimated that there will be no more in the future.
How to say goodbye? Like we just met?
New journey, I wish Zhu Yuling can continue to create her own new brilliance: there will be a period later, and I will not say goodbye this time!