Joe Red
11 world championships. After winning the Women's Singles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships in 1989, she formed a golden partnership with Deng Yaping, and the world ranking has long been ranked in the top two. After the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he retired from the military and served as the coach of the Chinese table tennis team, and was awarded the title of "Top Ten National Athletes" and the "Outstanding Contribution Award of Chinese Table Tennis".
Soft and slow tone, cheerful and bright smile, the woman in front of her is introverted, gentle, unobtrusive, and can't see a little of the appearance of a world champion.
She is Qiao Hong, the most famous "female number two" in the history of Chinese table tennis, and the most precious "green leaf" partner next to the two "ping pong empresses".
Hold out the world champion
Unlike most table tennis players, looking back now, Qiao Hong still believes that she and table tennis did not call at the beginning.
The first year was selected for the varsity team. In elementary school, the memory that table tennis brought to Qiao Hong was always around a typo, "Every time I lose and cry, I don't feel happy at all." "Gentle personality, easy to meet, perhaps also in the bones of this indisputable with the world, so that Qiao Hong does not adapt to the general law of table tennis fame to be early." 12 years old into the provincial team, obviously extremely talented, but only mixed in the middle of the stream, "In our time, if fourteen or fifteen years old has not yet entered the national youth team, it is basically equivalent to the top echelon has closed the door." ”
In 1987, 19-year-old Qiao Hong stood on the fork in the road of life.
Unhappy, no results, the double-sided side-tapping method of table tennis players at that time was only a sparring level among the mainstream table tennis players... Qiao Hong is ready to play the full games and retire. However, Qiao Hong, who has no quarrel with the world, has passed the hurdles all the way and finally won the runner-up, so he is favored by the national team and is directly recruited into the team.
In the national team, Qiao Hong, who became a late bloomer, met "the person who opened my soul": the coach zeng Chuanqiang. Qiao Hong remembers that after entering the national team, almost no coach is willing to accept himself - old, non-mainstream technology, easy to be nervous on the spot, and his personality is more "warm"... Such Qiao Hong has almost been labeled as a "sparring edge player". "During training, the players younger than me secretly laugh at my ugly movements behind my back." However, Coach Zeng favored her. Teaching according to her aptitude, zeng chuanqiang helped Qiao Hong to cut techniques and tactics, and never "nervous" with her.
The girl who loves to laugh will not have bad luck. In 1989, the 40th World Championships became the highest moment in Qiao Hong's life, in the women's singles competition, when Deng Yaping, who was generally optimistic before the match, and others were unexpectedly defeated, and the Chinese legion was almost completely destroyed, Qiao Hong killed a bloody road.
Women's singles, women's doubles, women's team, that World Table Tennis Championships, Qiao Hong was crowned the three golden kings. After the game, some media called her "the world champion who was held out". It was from that moment that she "realized with hindsight" that she was quite talented in table tennis and "really confident." ”
The golden partner of "abandoned"
Speaking of Qiao Hong, people immediately think of another tough figure - Deng Yaping. As doubles partners, they are the most successful golden combination in the history of Chinese table tennis.
Recalling the beginning, Qiao Hong laughed and said that her doubles combination with Deng Yaping was a "combination of the same disease" composed of two "disliked people" - "I played too badly, she played too well." In these words, although there is an element of self-effacing, it also shows a characteristic of the gold medal combination - complementarity.
Hardworking, competitive, smart, showing great talent from an early age, facing the "red flower" Deng Yaping, other teammates are reluctant to be the "green leaf" covered by the light. Contrary to the competitive Deng Yaping, the experience of the late stage has cultivated Qiao Hong's obscure, non-contentious, and humble stadium personality, and she is willing to dedicate herself, and is undoubtedly the only candidate for Deng Yaping's perfect partner.
As a golden partner, Qiao Hong and Deng Yaping's doubles were unbeatable in the table tennis world at that time, and being good at cooperation was Qiao Hong's evaluation of herself, although Qiao Hong won the singles world championship earlier than Deng Yaping, but every time she trained in doubles, the coach focused on guiding her, "When matching with Xiao Deng, it was very nervous." I felt that I should think more about her and understand her. Plus she's offensive, I'm steady, I'm responsible for getting the ball on stage and she's going to attack. ”
Like water and fire, Deng Yaping, who is good at attacking the city and plundering the ground, is responsible for playing a killing move, while Qiao Hong, who is willing to cooperate, is the one who helps her fill in the leaks and feeds her the ball.
From the 1992 Olympic Games until 1997, deng Yaping has always been the champion in singles competitions large and small, and the runner-up has always been Qiao Hong. Many people sighed, "Both Qiao He Sheng Deng", but Qiao Hong herself is very relieved, she said: "Comparing the efforts of me and Xiao Deng, I feel that I am good enough to take the second, and she practices an hour more than me every day." I'm better than everyone else, except for Dumber. To be honest, I admire Xiao Deng, I don't have the perseverance of her. I'm more casual, I don't force myself, try my best first, if you can't do it, forget it. ”
As the saying goes, a mountain does not allow two tigers, and it is also a particularly excellent athlete for both, but Qiao Hong did not have it at all, and she and Deng Yaping united to win many honors for China, and also laid the female hegemony of Chinese table tennis in that period.
Wang Nan's "Psychological Trash Can"
After retiring in 1996, Qiao Hong was sent by the Chinese Table Tennis Association to the Japanese Panasonic Electric Company team. Relieved of her responsibilities and pressure, she played and taught the ball over there, and her life was very leisurely. However, she is a person who will not enjoy "Qingfu", and she is so idle that she panics, so she gives up her job in Japan and returns to the national team as a coach.
Inheriting the strong style of the mentor, Qiao Hong's character advantage is also shown when she is a coach - she can get along with the team members happily, just like a big sister, and talk about everything with the team members. She is particularly good at enlightening the team members, motivating the team members, and letting the team members put down their baggage and go to the battle lightly. "I learned a lot from mentoring. For example, when I play, I rarely think about winning or losing, and I have been instructed to find the reason for losing first from myself, and develop the habit of self-examination from an early age, so that external interference is relatively small. ”
Qiao Hong's most famous apprentice was Wang Nan. From a certain point of view, Qiao Hong's generation should be regarded as Wang Nan's sister - both of them had studied under Zeng Chuanqiang during the national team.
After encountering "Waterloo" at the Busan Asian Games, Wang Nan once entered a low point of self-hatred. Changing qiao hong as a coach was Wang Nan's own idea, "At that time, she actually wanted to find a confidant." Qiao Hong's guidance allowed Wang Nan to get out of the shadow of the defeat at the Busan Asian Games, and won the women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles championships in the 47th World Table Tennis Championships.
Recalling the past, Qiao Hong modestly said that her help to Wang Nan was actually more at the psychological level - simply put, it was the psychological garbage can of Wang Nan. "During that time, it was the most difficult for Wang Nan, and she needed someone who could trust and know her heart, and listen to her speak from her heart. I just acted as a talking partner, cooperated with her in this regard, and tried to make her feel good. There are fewer worries, and the energy invested in training is naturally more, and the key to playing is still on her own. ”