Since ancient culture and sports do not divide families, the sports circle and the entertainment industry are quite close, and many couples and couples have been achieved, when it comes to the combination of athletes and stars, then we have to mention Zhang Jike and Jing Tian.
One is a handsome Grand Slam table tennis player, and the other is a white-skinned and beautiful female star of the world's rich and noble flowers, who does not admire a "good match".
However, it is a pity that the two who are so well matched finally parted ways, and 4 years after the breakup, they were on the hot search because of Zhang Jike's various disputes, which made people sigh with great emotion.
From the spirited "Tibetan Mastiff" on the field to the "variety show" who has appeared in major programs, Zhang Jike has not officially retired so far, and he can be called a legend whether it is a sports career or emotional experience.
Unruly star player
Zhang Jike was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province in 1988, where his father Zhang Chuanming was a table tennis player and later became a coach.
Because Zhang Chuanming likes football, he originally planned to send Zhang Jike to learn football, but unfortunately, the national football team at that time often lost, and in a fit of anger, he let his son learn table tennis, which can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business.
In 1993, 5-year-old Zhang Jike began to learn table tennis with his father, and his entire childhood and adolescence were only the task of playing well, only one day off every year, and the rest of the day played.
Zhang Chuanming is a very strict coach, his view of competitive sports is "table tennis champions and runners-up, one day by one, do not play to stop, play must play the championship".
Under the influence of his father, Zhang Jike became competitive and domineering, and he did not hide his desire to win, saying that "winning is very cool".
Practicing with the goal of "must take the first", Zhang Jike improved very quickly, he was able to beat his father at the age of 10, and entered the national second team at the age of 14.
But life can't only win, Zhang Jike is the best among his peers, but he doesn't have much advantage over children a few years older, so he was not selected for a certain competition.
That night, he stole a kitchen knife, singled out the child who was selected for the competition, and said "chop the finger if you lose, chop the left hand and chop the right hand." From here, we can see Zhang Jike's strength of not admitting defeat, and it is difficult to tame.
Some people may think that Zhang Jike's competitive spirit is too strong, but for competitive sports, it is actually a good thing, of course, athletes must be eager to win, otherwise what do you do on the field.
So when 15-year-old Zhang Jike met Liu Guoliang, who had just transformed into a coach, he proudly said that he wanted to be a world champion, and he has been working hard in this direction.
However, it would be nice if there really was such smooth sailing.
In 2004, 16-year-old Zhang Jike was returned to the provincial team for violating team rules, and as for the reasons for being downgraded, some said that he played negatively, and some said that he was in love, in short, there were various things.
But later Liu Guoliang revealed in an interview that the team deliberately found a small mistake in Zhang Jike to return him, in fact, to take the opportunity to hone him.
For Zhang Jike, a teenager who was full of spirit at that time, being returned to the provincial team was tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and his whole person became very negative, going to the provincial team every day to roll out, and not training, he had to give up on himself.
Fortunately, at that time, coach Yin Xiao left the national team to return to the provincial team to coach, saving Zhang Jike.
Who is Yin Xiao? He was the coach of Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui, brought out two Grand Slam players, and was known in the industry as "Grandmaster".
After seeing Zhang Jike again, Yin Xiao looked at the boy in front of him who was muddy all day, and he couldn't help but scold "Without the spirit of striving upward, he is a coward."
Later, coach Yin Xiao took Zhang Jike to the mountain to drop the plate, and the broken plate represented a break with the past and a new start.
Zhang Jike woke up from the scolding and began to train seriously with Coach Yin Xiao, who instilled the most advanced training system in him for two years in the provincial team, and his skills also advanced by leaps and bounds.
In 2006, Zhang Jike signed up for the National Table Tennis Championships, and according to the criteria for entering the national team, as long as he reached the top 8, he could return to the national team. This time, he succeeded.
I thought that after returning to the national team, he would be able to continue his unfinished dream, but in fact, in the past two years, the situation in the team has long changed.
At that time, 18-year-old Ma Long had already participated in the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships with the team and became a world champion, which was Zhang Jike's dream, but it was realized by Ma Long, who was once inferior to himself.
Also in this year, 16-year-old Xu Xin entered the national first team, because the left-handed straight board play became the focus of the team.
The prototype of the Three Musketeers has already existed, but Zhang Jike is far behind the other two at this time, and can only be a sparring partner in the team.
For the competitive Zhang Jike, it is of course uncomfortable not to be valued by the team, but he can only comfort himself that there is nothing wrong with being a sparring partner for the world champion, and the two train together, which is not equivalent to the world champion being a sparring partner for him.
20 years old, is the best time for athletes to make results, Liu Guoliang is a grand slam at the age of 20, and Zhang Jike at that time was still a penniless, young player with no achievements, completely suppressed by Ma Long and Xu Xin.
Although the results are not as good as other main players, Zhang Jike's energy is unique and dares to seize every opportunity.
In 2010, Zhang Jike participated in the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships with the team, and that year the women's table tennis defeated, Liu Guoliang's pressure doubled, and it happened that the absolute main force Wang Hao at that time was not in good condition, and there was a problem with the racket.
Women's table tennis has already lost, the Chinese table tennis team can not withstand the wind and waves of losing again, but Wang Hao has no belief in winning, five minutes before the final submission list, Liu Guoliang made a bold decision - to use Zhang Jike.
In the final, after Ma Long lost a game first, Ma Lin regained a point, and the big score was 1-1, Zhang Jike, who was the third singles, won a point beautifully, laying the foundation for the victory of the Chinese team.
It was this battle that allowed Liu Guoliang to see Zhang Jike's bloodiness, and it was at that moment that he decided to use Zhang Jike.
Everyone knows the story later, Zhang Jike was reused by Liu Guoliang, and successively won the singles championship of the 2011 Rotterdam World Table Tennis Championships and the singles championship of the 2012 London Olympics, achieving a grand slam.
And he is also the fastest table tennis player in history to achieve a Grand Slam, in just 445 days, this road of ups and downs, finally has a perfect answer.
But because of the natural bone crack, Zhang Jike's sports career did not last long, in 2016, at the age of 28, he again participated in the Rio Olympics, when he had to support his waist when walking, and he had to lie on the bed for meetings, and his body could not bear it.
However, he still managed to participate in singles and successfully met his teammates in the final, and finally lost to Malone, which can be regarded as completing the task assigned to him by the coaching staff.
The same age Ma Long can still play in the Olympics and win the singles title in 2021, while Zhang Jike faded out of sports as early as 2018, and although he did not officially announce his retirement, his world ranking has been erased.
It was also in this year that he and Jing Tian fell in love.
A bumpy emotional road
Before Jing Tian, Zhang Jike's emotional experience was not rich, perhaps because he trained in the team for many years, and he had fewer girls in contact, and his gossip girlfriends were all female table tennis team members.
His first gossip girlfriend was table tennis player Liu Shiwen, and "Kewen Love" once made a fuss.
In terms of results, Liu Shiwen is not much worse than Zhang Jike, she entered the national team at the age of 13, she has been known as a talented girl since she was a child, and has been the main player of the national team for nearly 20 years, winning more than 20 world championships.
Unfortunately, Liu Shiwen has never participated in Olympic singles, and she is close to this medal to achieve a Grand Slam.
And Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen's entanglement is also very early, the two have known each other since they first entered the national team, and the relationship between boys and girls has always been very good.
In the two years since Zhang Jike was returned to the provincial team, Liu Shiwen has also been in touch with him, accompanying him through the trough of his life, and the two encouraged each other and made progress together.
Until Zhang Jike returned to the national team, the relationship between the two was well known, it can be said that they are the golden children and jade girls in everyone's eyes, and at that time, there were even reporters who asked "Kewen Lian" in public, and the two stammered and could not answer.
However, everyone also knows that the relationship between the two is difficult to describe in the future, and the breakdown of their relationship seems inevitable.
In the past, the national team was not allowed to fall in love, and many couples in the team were separated, and the party with poor results would even be returned to the provincial team.
In fact, the national team is not without couples, Xu Xin's wife Yao Yan was once an athlete on the table tennis team and Liu Shiwen's senior sister, but after the two were together, Yao Yan's results were average, and he soon quit the national team.
It is not difficult to see that one of the two people must make a sacrifice, and at that time, Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen were the main force, and it was not good to sacrifice anyone.
Very dramatically, in 2010, Zhang Jike shined at the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, while Liu Shiwen fell into the trough of her career.
At that time, the coaching staff used 19-year-old Liu Shiwen as a singles in the team competition, she failed to resist the pressure, lost two points in a row, resulting in a fiasco for the Chinese team, and the 8-game winning streak of the Women's Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships was interrupted, and Liu Shiwen became a "sinner".
It is obvious that there was a problem in the relationship between the two at that time, and Zhang Jike once posted some sad sentences on social platforms, "It's a pity it's not you, accompany me to the end" "Two parallel lines, there will never be a happy tomorrow"...
Later, in the interview, he also talked about "Ke Wenlian": We are both very strong people, so we can supervise the progress together, but it is precisely because we are both too strong, so it is inevitable that we may separate.
With the end of "Kewen Love", Zhang Jike had a scandal with female table tennis players Ding Ning, Chen Meng, etc., but later his only public girlfriend was Jing Tian.
In 2018, Zhang Jike has faded out of the sports world and entered the entertainment industry, and his relationship with Jing Tian can be said to have shocked the entire entertainment industry, although everyone is skeptical about the authenticity of this relationship, but does not deny that the two were indeed sweet.
In this relationship with Jing Tian, Zhang Jike has always generously shown love, and when participating in variety shows, he wrote "K" and "T" representing the two in the snow, drew love in the middle, and specially asked the photographer to take pictures.
Even the two went to meet their parents, and Zhang Jike's chest was also photographed suspected of having a tattoo representing Jing Tian, and some netizens once suspected that they would get married.
However, the two who were very high-profile in love announced their breakup after a year of public romance.
In 2019, after breaking up with Zhang Jike, Jing Tian's psychological condition had problems, severe depression, could not get out of the room for several days and nights, could not control his emotions, and was in a very bad condition.
On the other hand, Zhang Jike still lives very dashingly, frequently appears on variety shows, blind dates with female stars, and frequently has scandals with beautiful women, but in the end he did not admit his relationship, and he is still single.
Jing Tian is also the same, who has remained single in recent years, and also expressed his envy of female stars with objects during his participation in variety shows, and longed to meet a sweet relationship.
epilogue
Zhang Jike's first half of life had ups and downs like a novel plot, he was handsome and dashing, and his heroic posture on the field fascinated thousands of girls, but now he is on the hot search together with his predecessor Jing Tian because of various negative news, which has once again caused heated discussions on the Internet.
In the days when he was playing, he said: competitive sports you win the championship, you will raise the national flag, play the national anthem, so this is this sense of honor that competitive sports bring to everyone, of course, there is also cruelty, these are things that money can't buy.
The rebellious teenager on the stadium stepped into Vanity Fair, wondering if he would miss the old days.
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Author: Peach Canned
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