Deng Chao's "Chinese Table Tennis" was finally released after the Spring Festival file was urgently changed.
Word of mouth and box office are not good.
According to Maoyan Agency, the total box office of this film will not exceed 110 million.
However, the total investment of this film is 300 million, which means that the film lost nearly 200 million.
What a miserable word.
Compared with the misery of movies, China's table tennis industry has been very good since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
During this period, a batch of outstanding table tennis players also emerged.
Among them, there is one person, I have to mention.
From not being optimistic, to the benchmark in China's table tennis industry, what has she experienced?
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"She doesn't have any value in nurturing."
In 1982, the Henan Provincial Table Tennis Team, a 9-year-old girl's table tennis dream was sentenced to death.
Who knew that seven years later, she won the world championship in one fell swoop, ranking first in the world for 8 consecutive years, winning a total of 18 world championships and 4 Olympic gold medals.
She is Deng Yaping, who is only 1.55 meters tall. Samaranch, the IOC's honorary president for life, spoke highly of her.
After retiring, Deng Yaping still achieved extraordinary.
Even though she only learned English at the age of 24, she completed her Cambridge doctoral thesis in English, became the deputy secretary-general of the People's Daily, and then managed hundreds of millions of funds.
Her husband was also a member of the national table tennis team, and later joined the French Leap Club and now holds a high position in a state-owned enterprise.
However, Deng Yaping, who can be called a winner in life, was embarrassed to laugh at herself and was slapped in the face when she mentioned her son, what happened?
In 1973, Deng Yaping was born in Zhengzhou, Henan. Her father, Deng Dasong, was the head coach of the Henan Provincial Table Tennis Men's Team. Under her father's ears, Deng Yaping became interested in table tennis.
When she was 5 years old, Deng Yaping took the initiative to ask to play table tennis, but she was not as high as the table, so she had to pad a wooden box under her feet. In 1982, Deng Yaping, who was a champion of many amateur competitions, was given the opportunity to participate in the training of the Henan provincial team.
Unexpectedly, even if Deng Yaping defeated the invincible team of the provincial team, the coach bluntly said that she was too short and had no future for training, and asked Deng Father to take her home.
In the face of this situation, many parents may be afraid of hurting their children's self-esteem, do not tell them the truth, and directly do not let them continue to play.
However, Father Deng's approach was different.
Father Deng not only told Deng Yaping what the coach said, but also let the 9-year-old choose whether to continue playing or study.
Deng Yaping was deeply hurt by the coach's words, she hung her head, and tears fell to the ground one by one. Just when Father Deng thought she was going to give up, she wiped away her tears, clenched her fists and said loudly: "I am not convinced!" I'll have to try. ”
So, she entered the newly formed Zhengzhou table tennis team and began the hardest days of her table tennis career.
The Zhengzhou team is very poor, and the training ground is located in an abandoned bathhouse, and only four tables can be put down. The women slept on a wooden chase bed in the locker room, next door to which the coach lived.
Compared with the training conditions of the provincial team, it can be described as one in the sky and one in the ground. But Deng Yaping didn't care about the difficult conditions, and he wanted to defeat the provincial team with one mind. But height is a hard injury, how can she turn things around?
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The disadvantages brought by height to Deng Yaping are mainly in two aspects.
First, because of her short legs, she runs from one side of the table to the other, several steps longer than a tall person.
Second, the opponent will target the weakness of her slow leg sprinting, play more balls on the sides of the table, and mobilize her to run back and forth.
To this end, Deng Yaping practiced her footwork and techniques hard. Weighing only 60 pounds, she carries 30 pounds of sandbag training every day. By the time the weight was removed, she moved more than twice as fast.
She also deliberately hit the ball faster and harder, forcing her opponent to return the ball to the middle, and there was no time to move her to both sides.
The effort pays off.
Three years later, with her record as a junior singles champion, she was invited back to the Henan team by the coach who said she couldn't do it, and won the women's singles championship at the National Table Tennis Championship, which was a blockbuster.
According to the rules, Deng Yaping can enter the national first team. But the national team also felt she was too short and didn't want her. Fortunately, coach Zhang Xielin had a discerning eye and fought for Deng Yaping three times, allowing her to enter the national youth team.
The strong here are like clouds, and Deng Yaping feels great pressure. However, she was not discouraged, but trained extremely harshly, practicing 40 minutes more than others every day, and 48 more days a year.
Most importantly, she switched her eyes and dug out an advantage from her height disadvantage. People of different heights see the ball in different positions.
Some of the ball positions are relatively low in the eyes of tall people and dare not play, while in the eyes of the short Deng Yaping, they are higher than the net, so they are all offensive opportunities.
In this way, she used a fierce and domineering offensive strategy to defeat one opponent after another, and was promoted to the national team a year later.
Only 4 months after entering the national team, 16-year-old Deng Yaping won the women's doubles championship of the 40th World Table Tennis Championships with Qiao Hong.
At that time, they were both a little confused, and asked each other: "This is the world champion?" ”
On the car returning from the award ceremony, the hardships and pains of playing for 11 years poured up towards Deng Yaping, and tears blurred her eyes.
She suddenly had an idea: "If I had children, I would never let him play table tennis." "It's not because I don't like to play, it's that it's been so hard.
At that time, Deng Yaping never expected that her future husband was also a table tennis national player, under such genes and edification, can the child really not touch table tennis?
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Deng Yaping's husband is Lin Zhigang, who was once a Guangdong main player of the national team. He looks Sven, but he can play as fast and accurate as Deng Yaping. The two often practiced against each other, quietly breeding a different kind of feeling, but no one said it thoroughly.
Until November 1993, on the way to Zhenjiang by bus. The two were at the end of the line and sat together in the last row.
While his teammates were not paying attention, Lin Zhigang quietly stuffed something into Deng Yaping's hand. Deng Yaping looked at it strangely and found that it was a box of heart-shaped chocolates. In an instant, she was at a loss, too shy to look at Lin Zhigang.
After breaking the window paper, the two accompanied each other to the peak of their careers. Deng Yaping almost won the singles and doubles championships of major competitions, opening the 8-year era of "Deng Yaping".
Lin Zhigang and Liu Guoliang won the Swedish men's doubles championship together, and also won the nickname "Ma Lugang" because of his beautiful and dashing playing movements.
However, the national team did not allow love between players, and Lin Zhigang was sent back to the Guangdong team. Even if he tries hard to return to the national team, he can no longer become a first-line worker, and he has to serve as a sparring partner for his teammates participating in the Olympics.
Just as Lin Zhigang and Deng Yaping were getting farther and farther apart, a girl accelerated the breakdown of their relationship.
In 1997, during an exhibition game visiting the United States, a Chinese-American female fan was madly fascinated by Lin Zhigang. She not only shouted "I love you" to Lin Zhigang, but also flew from the United States to Guangdong just to see him, and even wrote many times to express her admiration for him.
In this regard, Lin Zhigang was indifferent, just out of politeness, occasionally replying to a letter. But this changed in Deng Yaping's eyes, thinking that he intended to betray.
What's worse, they are very stubborn, and no one is willing to explain the misunderstanding first, and finally they can only regret breaking up.
Since they have broken up, why did they get married and have children later?
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Fast forward to 1998, and both chose to retire.
Lin Zhigang joined the French Leap club, which helped the team rise to the third place in the French Premier League that year, and then won two consecutive championships.
And Deng Yaping did not want to be a coach, and could only play table tennis, so she chose to enter Tsinghua for undergraduate.
Not long after, something deeply stimulated her.
Once, she went to a meeting of the International Olympic Committee and found that among the top athletes in the room, only she had brought an interpreter. She has to rely on translators to convey them in order to understand other people's words, let alone express opinions.
This made her feel obviously dwarf, so she gritted her teeth and decided that no matter how much hardship she suffered, she had to conquer English.
At the time, she was 24 years old, but she couldn't write all 26 English letters, and she felt that she was the worst student at Tsinghua. Fortunately, she once again used positive eyes to find confidence from disadvantages.
She feels that she is indeed far behind other students in terms of knowledge, but others do not have her years of experience and insight in competition, which is her advantage.
In this way, she found self-confidence, and after studying at Tsinghua, she mastered a master's degree from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, and even decided to go to Cambridge to study for a doctorate in economics.
Just as she was upgrading her studies, she unexpectedly received a call from Lin Zhigang.
In fact, Lin Zhigang has always remembered her, but he feels that he has not developed well enough, and he is embarrassed to see her.
It was not until 2002 that Lin Zhigang entered a stable period in the Feiyue Club, not only outstanding achievements, but also the privilege of living alone outside, which contacted Deng Yaping.
In fact, Deng Yaping also wanted to go to France to see Lin Zhigang for a long time, but he didn't want him to see his hard time nibbling on books.
As soon as the two who cared about each other met, they naturally held hands, and the dusty love returned.
The following year, Deng Yaping returned to China to join the market development department of the Chinese Olympic Games, and the two also bought a wedding house in Beijing. Lin Zhigang, who was on vacation, took care of the renovation and housework.
In October 2004, the two registered their marriage in Beijing. Two years later, Deng Yaping gave birth to her son Lin Hanming in Paris, France.
After that, Deng Yaping completed her doctoral thesis on "The Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Contemporary China" in English while balancing family and work.
During the defense, she domineeringly said to the judge in English: "Just ask, I'm fine." At that moment, the big devil king on the ping ping altar returned.
After winning her doctorate, Deng Yaping made many successes in her career. She served as Deputy Secretary-General of People's Daily and became an adjunct professor at China University of Political Science and Law.
In 2016, she went into business again and managed the "Deng Yaping Sports Industry Investment Fund" with hundreds of millions of funds.
Deng Yaping has a successful career and everything is under control, but her son's future career path makes her anxious.
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Deng Yaping's son is called Lin Hanming. In the 2022 Beijing Table Tennis Championships, the 16-year-old won the doubles and team championships.
This was originally a good thing for her son to inherit his mother's business, but Deng Yaping once decided that she would never let her child play table tennis, but now she personally teaches her child to play, so while she is proud of her child, she jokingly claims that she hit herself in the face.
Many people wonder that Deng Yaping has made a fortune by relying on table tennis, why don't you want her children to play? This starts with her bumpy table tennis career.
Lin Hanming originally preferred e-sports, and once hit "Beijing's first Sun Shangxiang". Deng Yaping was very supportive of him, and also went to investigate and found that professional e-sports players train 12 hours a day, which is harder than practicing table tennis.
But she didn't make a decision for her son, and after Lin Hanming gave up e-sports to play table tennis, Deng Yaping began to train him to play.
Although Deng Yaping changed his mind about not wanting his son to play, he did not force him to become a professional player.
Deng Yaping understands that his son may not be able to reach his height in the table tennis world, and instead of blindly entangled, it is better to use his playing experience to help him hone his "big heart" without fear of setbacks.
If my son does not take a career path, it is good to rely on table tennis specialties to go to a good school in the future.
In addition to accompanying her son, Deng Yaping not only managed the fund well, but also published the psychological inspirational book "Heart Power", and even recorded "Round Table Party" across borders. In the show, she explained competitive sports in simple terms, making the audience shout that they had not heard enough.
After Lin Zhigang left the Feiyue Club, he joined Beijing Gas Group and is now the vice chairman of the labor union.
In their spare time, the family of three goes to play basketball. Deng Yaping and Lin Zhigang are both the world's top table tennis players, but they play basketball very jerky, repeatedly throwing "3 non-stick" balls.
Deng Yaping also took her parents to her side and often gave them haircuts, which can be described as a happy career and family.
Looking back at the first half of Deng Yaping's life, he was short when he played and had a poor foundation when he was studying, and he really caught a bad hand. However, instead of feeling sorry for herself, she found opportunities in her shortcomings and rose to the challenge with confidence.
In life, we will also be in adversity, and whether we can look at difficulties with a positive light is the key to swimming against the current.
Maybe we don't have a high education, but good health is also a weapon for doing business; Maybe we work ordinarily, but family harmony is already very happy; Even if we are alone, as long as we have a future in our hearts, we can live with hope.
"The meaning of life lies in how we look at life", change your eyes, life may see the clouds from now on.
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【Author|Water Long Flow】
【Editor|Xiaoya】