Zhang Yining out of the mountain! About to go abroad as a coach Another national table tennis Olympic champion also traveled with him
Recently, the official website of the European Table Tennis Association announced an important news, that is, two Olympic champions from China are about to become the coaches of the European talent development training camp, one of which is the very familiar "big devil" Zhang Yining, and the other is Yan Sen, the old partner of Wang Liqin, the current vice chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, who was the head coach of the national table tennis women's second team.
In this regard, many fans are both happy for them, but also raise questions: Why can't they guide the juniors in National Pingping? In particular, Zhang Yining has never served in the national table tennis coaching staff, why did he go out to Europe to coach this time?
Zhang Yining is a very familiar table tennis player, the third Grand Slam winner in the history of women's table tennis, the first double slam athlete in table tennis, has won two Olympic women's singles gold medals, in addition to winning women's doubles and women's team championships, dominating the arena for many years, so he is known as the "big devil" by fans. After retiring from the military, Zhang Yining married into a wealthy family and has been living the life of a Kuo wife, so he did not embark on the road of coaching.
Yan Sen was the men's doubles champion of the 2000 Olympic Games, when he teamed up with Wang Liqin to defeat the defending champions Liu Guoliang/Kong Linghui, his career fell due to a car accident, and after retiring, he transformed into a coach, training many young talents for the national table tennis team.
As mentioned earlier, Yan Sen previously served as the coach of the women's second team, this position is not low, as long as he goes further, he can be among the first team, and there is hope to be in charge of the main players, but it is clear that he did not step into this rank in the end.
According to the European Table Tennis Association, the European talent development training camp is for players under the age of 17 and under 15, so it seems that Yan Sen is "returning to the old business", but from the training of national table tennis young players to European young players, as for the training camp is held from August 23 to 30 this year, the venue is in Luxembourg, that is the home of Ni Xialian's grandmother.
Although many fans are worried that Zhang Yining and Yan Sen will help European players to deal with the Chinese team, it seems that this concern seems to be superfluous, because the European table tennis training system is completely different from the national table tennis training camp, and their talent development training camp is far from our training team, so the symbolic significance of Zhang Yining and Yan Sen's coaching may be greater than the actual role.
Relatively speaking, the training system of Japan and South Korea is more complete, and instead of caring about the dynamics of the two Olympic champions, it is better to pay more attention to those Chinese table tennis talents who go to Japan and South Korea to develop, because the threat they pose may be much greater.