As we all know, table tennis is China's national ball, and the Chinese table tennis team has always been in the ranks of the world's first-class table tennis team, its own strong dominance is obvious to all, known as the "master of the king" of the national table tennis in the international competition, for the country to win countless honors, they are also the pride and pride of the majority of Chinese fans.
However, with the changes in the pattern of the world table tennis in recent years, the continuous rise and catch-up of the outsourcing team, the supremacy of national table tennis has been greatly challenged, for example, in the mixed doubles final of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the mixed doubles combination of Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen, who represented the national table tennis competition, encountered the tenacious sniper of Hizutani Hayabusa / Mimato Ito in the opening two games, and finally the Japanese combination defeated Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen with a big score of 4-3 to win the Tokyo Olympic table tennis mixed doubles championship.
Because she missed the first mixed doubles gold medal in Olympic history, after the end of the competition, Liu Shiwen, who did not play well, apologized to the fans in tears in front of the interview camera, and the scene of crying was all moving, and careful fans found that Zhang Jike, a member of the national table tennis team, then posted a video of himself defeating Hayabusa Mizutani in the 2010 World Cup on the Internet, and attached a domineering copy under the video: "National Pingping, come on!"
I saw Zhang Jike in the video, walking like a fly, agile, like a Tibetan mastiff that had just come out of the cage, in the confrontation with Mizutani Falcon, gradually took the initiative, Mizutani Falcon had no chance at all, and finally Zhang Jike took the game 4-3.
As soon as Zhang Jike's video was released, it quickly attracted many fans to pay attention and discuss enthusiastically, and a joke from a fan once again pulled people's memories back to the unforgettable green years when Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen had been.
The fan said this, "In the past seven years, Zhang Jike still left his preference to Liu Shiwen, his girl was bullied, and Zhang Jike was angry for her!" "Yes, he just wants to be angry for his little girl!"
So, is Zhang Jike eager to play and defeat Mizutani Falcon again, or does he feel sorry for Liu Shiwen? Probably, only he himself knows!
After all, for Liu Shiwen, this is likely to be her last Olympic representation for her country.
Zhang Jike, born on February 16, 1988, from Qingdao City, Shandong Province, because his father is a table tennis player and coach, Zhang Jike has been practicing table tennis under the guidance of his father since he was 5 years old.
Unlike many children of the same age under the careful care of their parents, carefree, laughing and playing, parents holding it in the palm of their hands and afraid of melting in their mouths is not the same as the happy childhood, Zhang Jike's childhood spare time in addition to learning to play table tennis, or playing table tennis, Zhang Jike's father is very strict with him, so Zhang Jike often plays while shedding tears.
In 2000, 12-year-old Zhang Jike entered the Shandong Luneng table tennis team, in March 2002, entered the national second team, only about half a year, won the first World Junior Challenge Men's Singles Championship, in January 2003, entered the national first team, in September, won the World Junior Tour New Zealand Open Final Championship.
In February 2004, more than three years younger than Zhang Jike, born on April 12, 1991, Liu Shiwen, who is from Liaoning, was also selected for the national second team, and won the women's team and women's doubles championship of the table tennis Asian Junior Championship in July of the same year.
Liu Shiwen's mother likes to play table tennis very much, Liu Shiwen was just born, her mother very much hoped that she could also like this sport, under her mother's words and deeds, Liu Shiwen was 4 and a half years old, compared to the racket.
In 2005, Liu Shiwen successfully entered the national first team, and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, she and Guo Yan cooperated together to win the women's doubles championship.
Common profession, similar age, by chance, Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen, two young people from different places, invariably started their careers in the national team, which not only became the starting point of their future ups and downs in table tennis, but also laid the groundwork for their young and ignorant seven-year love.
Because the network at that time was not very developed, the entertainment software on the mobile phone was relatively small, the members of the table tennis men's and women's teams usually got together to chat and communicate between training, as the days of getting along more and more, Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen are also slowly familiar, and they understand each other more and more, and finally they found that the two have a lot of common topics, just like that, the two young hearts are gradually closer, but because of the national table tennis regulations, the team members are not allowed to fall in love, so they can only chat through QQ in private, Express your affection for each other.
Just when Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen were immersed in a beautiful vision of the future, an unexpected thing happened, in October 2004, Zhang Jike was returned to the Shandong provincial team for violating the team rules, which was a big blow to the stubborn Zhang Jike, who was confused about his career prospects.
Many years later, Liu Guoliang also talked about the ins and outs of this matter on an interview program, Liu Guoliang said, in fact, it is not a big deal, this adjustment of national team members in and out is normal, Zhang Jike has many advantages, but also has many shortcomings, he is a player with a relatively distinct personality, but also the key training object of national ping, but Zhang Jike has an impetuous atmosphere in his character, and he must experience a major blow and setback before he can really face it, otherwise he always feels that he is good, He doesn't know how to get up after falling, and only after grinding can he really grow.
Before Zhang Jike left, Liu Guoliang also gave him a parting message, "The door of the national team is always open to you, as long as you can completely change yourself, one day you will come back, I believe you will definitely be able to fight back!" ”
After 22 months of precipitation and introspection, in November 2006, Zhang Jike returned to the national team, and when Zhang Jike returned to the provincial team, Liu Shiwen also chatted with QQ by phone and carried out bitter enlightenment and persuasion, Zhang Jike finally realized his mistakes and shortcomings, regained his strength, and began the journey of his table tennis career.
In 2009, Zhang Jike won the first world championship in the World Cup team competition, in 2011, he won the first world table tennis championship men's singles championship in the men's singles final of the Rotterdam World Table Tennis Championships, in 2012, he won the World Table Tennis Team Championship, in August of the same year, won the men's singles championship at the London Olympics, achieving the grand slam of the three individual championships of the World Championships, the World Cup and the Olympic Games, and he is also the third Grand Slam player in the history of Chinese men's table tennis after Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui.
In October 2009, Liu Shiwen defeated her teammate Guo Yue 4-3 to win the women's singles championship of the Table Tennis World Cup, which was also the first time that Liu Shiwen won the women's singles championship in the World Series, and then, Liu Shiwen won the women's team championship of the World Cup team competition together with Guo Yue, Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning.
However, compared with Zhang Jike's climbing peak after experiencing setbacks, Liu Shiwen's table tennis journey has many twists and turns, the 2010 Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships men's and women's team competition was held in Moscow, because the head coach of the national table tennis women's team Shi Zhihao hopes to achieve the replacement of the old and the new as soon as possible, did not send the two absolute main forces Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia who were in the limelight at that time, but sent Guo Yan, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen composed of an old and two new lineup, wanting Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning to receive more exercise, and train them into absolute cores as soon as possible, But unfortunately, after Ding Ning, who was the first to play, lost the game, the young Liu Shiwen's psychology fluctuated and changed, and she was defeated by her opponent twice, and finally the national table tennis women's team did not win the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships team championship.
The Moscow World Table Tennis Championships team competition is the biggest defeat in the recent history of Chinese women's table tennis, and Liu Shiwen also bears a lot of pressure because she lost two points in this competition, so that she can't get out of the psychological shadow for a long time.
Therefore, whether Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen broke up because of the opposition of Zhang Jike's family or because of Moscow's defeat, there are many opinions, there is no answer, perhaps, only the parties know the reason.
After the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships in May 2015, Zhang Jike missed some matches due to a back injury, and his injury troubles and instability made him enter the trough of his career.
During the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Zhang Jike's back injury was further aggravated, when the media interviewed him, Zhang Jike could not even stand, Rio Olympic men's singles final, he lost 0-4 to Ma Long, won the runner-up, and then, Zhang Jike gradually faded out of the national team, failed to continue to create more brilliant results.
However, Zhang Jike, who faded out of the arena, did not stay away from the public's sight, he cross-border transformation into the variety entertainment industry, he not only released his own music works, but also on many large-scale variety shows in China, Zhang Jike's active figure can be seen, and he, it was in the variety entertainment industry where the stars shone, met the big-name star Jing Tian and began his second relationship.
On March 28, 2018, Zhang Jike posted a photo of holding hands with film and television actor Jing Tian on his personal social media, officially announcing the relationship between the two to the outside world.
However, this relationship, which received many blessings, only lasted for more than a year and ended without a problem, and on June 9, 2019, Jing Tian posted "Grateful for having met, may everything be fine in the future." "Announced the official breakup with Zhang Jike.
In the past two years, there have been various news about Zhang Jike's new relationship, but the parties have not shown up to respond, Zhang Jike is still single in front of the public, but, at midnight, I don't know if he will recall the days with Liu Shiwen? Will you regret the beautiful relationship you lost?
And Liu Shiwen, who has experienced many setbacks and ups and downs in her career, has always stuck to the center of the table tennis arena, never put down her beloved racket, has won five World Cup women's singles championships, once World Table Tennis Championships singles champion Liu Shiwen, was not only elected as the chairman of the ITTF Athletes' Committee in December 2022, but also elected in the selection of China's top ten brand women at the beginning of this year's new year, such an honor is also a praise and affirmation for her persistence for so many years, just, Liu Shiwen has also not had the good news of a relationship so far!
The past is like the wind, everything has become the past, I hope Zhang Jike, Liu Shiwen, the future is safe!
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