Recently, the 41-year-old former Chinese table tennis Olympic champion Zhang Yining rarely appeared for a long time, she appeared at a wealthy dinner in Hong Kong, which almost gathered many champions living in Hong Kong, including gymnastics prince Li Ning, Chinese women's volleyball legend Chen Yaqiong, world women's professional Go champion Xu Ying, world gymnastics champion Tong Fei, diving Olympic champion Guo Jingjing, and the president of the Hong Kong Football Association and the president of the Muay Thai Association, can gather so many sports legends in one dinner. This is also called "sports giants dinner" by netizens, but 41-year-old Zhang Yining, who has not appeared for a long time, is still dressed plainly and simply when participating in this party, and even in photos with friends, netizens also ridicule her for looking like a passerby, and Zhang Yining has married Xu Wei, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman 20 years older than herself, since retiring from the military, and settled in Hong Kong, China with her husband, and has rarely appeared in the public eye in recent years, but now 41 years old she now has a son and a daughter
Zhang Yining is definitely an extremely rare player with a distinctive personality in the history of Chinese table tennis, although Zhang Yining personally won the number of world championship gold medals can not be compared with Deng Yaping and Wang Nan, but Zhang Yining's dominance of the world table tennis project in his career is absolutely unique, so Zhang Yining is also known as the "big devil" together with Wang Nan and Deng Yaping, at the peak of Zhang Yining's career, she has hardly lost a game, and has never encountered an opponent who can make her feel hard and difficult. Zhang Yining entered the national team at the age of 12, and won the first world championship of his career at the age of 20, in the first Olympic Games he participated in, Zhang Yining ushered in the peak of his career at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the first Olympic Games Zhang Yining alone won two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles, and since then, Zhang Yining's record in the global table tennis can be described as sweeping, she not only won the world championship women's singles championship, but also in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Once again, she won two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles, making her the first double champion in Olympic history, and from that time fans found that Zhang Yining had no opponents
This point is not only the views of the fans, Zhang Yining himself also thinks so, Zhang Yining's playing style and skills may find similar players in history, but her incomparable self-confidence is unsurpassed, Zhang Yining gives fans the impression of expressionlessness, is indifferent, and even in the mouths of many foreign fans, she seems to disdain any opponent, in fact, this is the most terrible thing about Zhang Yining, because she has a talent that all players do not have, that is, super psychological quality, She even once famously said: as long as some opponents shake hands with her, in fact, the other party knows that they have lost! Zhang Yining in every game in her career, whether it is good or bad, she is expressionless, and the opponent will almost always have panic in the eyes when facing Zhang Yining, or facial trembling, from these small details you can know that Zhang Yining's horror is not only personal strength, but also incomparable super psychological quality
So in the eyes of many table tennis seniors, Zhang Yining is definitely a wizard in the history of Chinese women's table tennis, some of the reasons for others to retire are because of age, some are because of injuries, and Zhang Yining retired because she could not meet any opponents who made her feel difficult, and even before Zhang Yining retired, an interesting thing happened, she was once not ranked in the world rankings, and the reason was that as long as she can win all the competitions she participates, So later, there were also many interesting jokes on the Internet about Zhang Yining, who was seeking defeat, such as someone asking who in this world can beat Zhang Yining's ball back? And the answer is: only the walls of the stadium! It can be seen how strong Zhang Yining's dominance in the world women's table tennis was back then
So after there was no opponent, Zhang Yining also chose to retire, and then the focus of the public's attention on her was on love and marriage, Zhang Yining once responded to this, saying that she hoped that she could find someone who could make herself look up, then this word came out, at least the person in the future will definitely not be a table tennis player, because in the world table tennis can make Zhang Yining look up to people I am afraid that there is really no, sure enough, Zhang Yining met Xu Wei, a Hong Kong billionaire who is 20 years older than himself, at a party, But after only knowing each other for three months, the two announced that they would get engaged, but part of it was not a blessing to them, but worry, because Xu Wei was a full 20 years older than Zhang Yining, to be precise, Xu Wei and Zhang Yining's father were about the same age, such a big age gap also made fans very worried about Zhang Yining's married life
But Zhang Yining, who has always been a maverick, did not care about these gossip, after the two got married, Zhang Yining gave birth to Xu Wei's first child in 2012, the daughter was beautiful, Xu Wei also took two months off for himself, dedicated himself to accompanying his wife and daughter, seven years later, Zhang Yining, who was 38 years old at the time, gave birth to a son for Xu Wei, but at this time Xu Wei was 58 years old, and the two also had a son and a daughter since then
Zhang Yining has been living in Hong Kong, China after marrying Xu Wei, because of her low-key and simple personality, Zhang Yining rarely appears in public, although her husband is worth more than 100 million, but Zhang Yining still maintains a simple and simple dress, for daughters and sons, Zhang Yining also hopes that they can try table tennis in the future, but sometimes the idea is very good, the reality may not be so, in 2020, Deng Yaping, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, the three "big devils" were very rare invited by the show to come to a live broadcast connection, And Zhang Yining also talked about the story of letting her daughter Qiaoqiao play table tennis in the live broadcast, Zhang Yining claimed that it may be because the current children's conditions are too good, her daughter only has two hours of table tennis practice time every day, but even so, her daughter Qiaoqiao only plays for 20 minutes each time and can't hold on, and even when she personally demonstrates for her daughter, her daughter turns around and runs away, which also makes Zhang Yining feel very helpless, She even said this sentence on the live broadcast at that time: I feel that playing with her is so crushing, I am either looking for children or coaxing children!
So Zhang Yining, who has lived in Hong Kong for many years, hardly participates in any dinners or parties, but this time the wealthy banquet held in Hong Kong was personally organized by Li Ning and Chen Yaqiong, coupled with the personal help of champions such as Guo Jingjing, so we rarely saw Zhang Yining appear, but she is still the same simple and simple dress
Contributing Editor: Jason