Table tennis can be said to be one of the most widely circulated sports in China, and this sport that originated in the United Kingdom can blossom everywhere in China, thanks to its "people-friendliness". Unlike football, basketball, golf and other ball games, which require larger sports venues. A table, two rackets and a small ball can play a unique game.
However, the seemingly simple sport also contains the university question, if you want to be an excellent table tennis player in addition to having superb skills, you must also have the spirit of "never give up, never give up". Therefore, any athlete who can achieve excellent results in table tennis must have extremely strong qualities.
Mr. Zhuang Zedong is the most representative one. His love for table tennis has been integrated into his bones and blood, because table tennis has achieved his career and gained love. It can be said that Zhuang Zedong took Chinese table tennis to the world, and table tennis has also achieved Zhuang Zedong's happiness.
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Zhuang Zedong was born in Xiangmendi and had a good life, so he was exposed to table tennis entirely because of his hobbies, and he did not think of getting ahead through it. But from the beginning of playing he was very serious and hardworking, so although he did not have an advantage in age, he still achieved very good results.
At the age of 14, he was selected into the table tennis group of the Beijing Children's Palace, and won the singles championship in a relatively large domestic competition the following year, which was also the first championship in Zhuang Zedong's life. From this time on, his talent in table tennis gradually revealed, and he began a brilliant road to the championship.
Zhuang Zedong, who won the championship, was not proud and forward, he still trained his ball skills hard, not only learning the techniques of his predecessors, but also thinking hard and studying the playing techniques. At the age of 16, he had already created his own "two-sided attack method of middle and near Taiwan", which is still widely used today.
The 19-year-old Zhuang Zedong was selected for the national youth table tennis team and won three championships in the men's singles, men's doubles and men's team at the Navia International Table Tennis Championships that year. It was also this event that performed well, and Zhuang Zedong was appointed as the main attacker of the national team. It laid the groundwork for his subsequent "ping-pong diplomacy".
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Zhuang Zedong's most brilliant achievement is undoubtedly his "ping-pong diplomacy".
Because zhuang Zedong has always had excellent results, he quickly became the main force of the national table tennis team and switched between major competitions. In 1971 he participated in the World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya. When the bus was about to depart, an American athlete suddenly broke into the bus, and due to the tension between China and the United States at that time, everyone did not know how to deal with it.
While his teammates were hesitating, Zhuang Zedong stood up and greeted the American player warmly, presented him with Chinese souvenirs and invited him to the arena with him. When the two got off the bus at the same time, they attracted the attention of reporters from all over the world present, and recorded this precious scene with their cameras, which attracted the attention of all parties for a while and directly eased the rigid relationship between China and the United States.
Because this small matter greatly promoted the development process of Sino-US relations, the leaders of the country at that time all praised Zhuang Zedong as "pushing the big ball with a small ball", because of the outstanding contribution of this competition, Zhuang Zedong was appointed as the leader and head coach of the national youth table tennis team in the next year, and was appointed as the director of the National Sports Commission two years later.
However, due to the special period in China, Zhuang Zedong's career was not smooth. Although his career suffered some blows, Zhuang Zedong gained a lover who was dependent on life and death and a peaceful and stable life in the second half of his life during this time.
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Zhuang Zedong and his wife met in Japan, and although Atsuko Sasaki is an authentic Japanese girl, this Japanese girl is a table tennis fan. It is precisely because of this hobby of hers that the two have laid the groundwork for the two to meet and fall in love.
Zhuang Zedong met Atsuko Sasaki during the Japanese competition, and after the game, Zhuang Zedong returned to China and the two did not have any intersection. But Atsuko Sasaki has been following Zhuang Zedong's movements. Later, Atsuko Sasaki temporarily lived in Beijing due to work reasons, and began to inquire and search everywhere after work, and finally found Zhuang Zedong in the Children's Palace.
At this time, Zhuang Zedong had already ended his first marriage, and the two had love for each other after a period of time together, but Zhuang Zedong's identity was not allowed to combine with foreigners in the social background at that time. In order to prevent the two from joining, Atsuko Sasaki was repatriated to Japan and could no longer obtain a Chinese visa.
Zhuang Zedong did a very risky but never regrettable thing, he submitted an application to the superior leaders, hoping that the organization would approve their marriage. In the social context at that time, this application was likely to ruin zhuang Zedong's future in life. Fortunately, after much approval, the organization agreed to their marriage request. Atsuko Sasaki changed her nationality and married Sho Norido.
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Time flies, and suddenly more than twenty years of time have quietly passed, and Zhuang Zedong and Atsuko Sasaki have walked together for 29 spring, summer, autumn and winter. In these years, Zhuang Zedong still uses his own methods to contribute to the cause of table tennis, he has summarized his years of practical experience, compiled into a book, this book called "Breaking and Creating" is still widely circulated as a textbook in the table tennis industry.
However, in the vicissitudes of sangtian, the former "little tiger" was finally dying of old age, and in 2008 Zhuang Zedong was diagnosed with terminal cancer. For the next five years, Zhuang Zedong has been actively cooperating with the treatment in the company of his wife Atsuko Sasaki. From Shanghai to Beijing, my wife has always followed her all the way and never abandoned.
His wife's affection for himself, Zhuang Zedong looked in his eyes, the fact that his life was about to come to an end he could accept calmly, but he could not let go of his wife. At the time of his death, Zhuang Zedong also entrusted his old friend to take care of his wife on his behalf.
Despite various treatments, Mr. Zhuang Zedong still did not survive the invasion of the disease and left his beloved table tennis career and his beloved wife in February 2013. After Zhuang Zedong left, Atsuko Sasaki still ran for her husband's favorite table tennis career.
Until recent years, Mrs. Atsuko Sasaki, who is over seventy years old, has been living in Japan for a long time for physical reasons, but she still inherits her husband's legacy and must attend the "ShoZe-dong Cup" every year. Mrs. Dunzi said that whenever she saw excellent athletes playing well, she felt very relieved. As long as her body allows her, she will always do her best for the cause of table tennis.
Mr. Zhuang Zedong's life is undoubtedly enviable, he has done the ultimate in the cause he loves, and in the trough of his life, he has harvested unswerving love and companionship for a lifetime. His life has experienced countless games and faced countless wins and losses, but in this "ball king", what we see is not to lose and lose, but the spirit of "never accept defeat, never say defeat" that he has been silently adhering to, and this is the highest realm pursued by sports competitions!