As the former No. 1 beauty in women's basketball, Sui Feifei has never lacked suitors, and there have been waves of scandals about her, such as Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and other basketball stars, all of whom have been rumored to have scandals with Sui Feifei, among which in 2010 it was rumored that "Wang Zhizhi divorced and Sui Feifei remarried", and in 2016, there was news that Sui Feifei resigned to get married...
1.84 meters Sui Feifei was the scoring champion of the Chinese women's basketball team in the Athens Olympics, and also participated in the Beijing Olympic Games, and won the fourth place, in addition to her won a number of Asian championships, WCBA championships, and served as the head coach of the Bayi women's basketball team after retiring.
So how did such an excellent Sui Feifei come to be? What is the truth of her scandals? What is she doing now? In this issue, Kong Yiji, who doesn't like to steal books, will take you into the legendary story of Sui Feifei!
01 Gong Xiaobin's little sister
Qingdao, Shandong is the blessed land of the Chinese women's basketball team, out of Sui Feifei and Chen Nan two women's basketball achievements, but unlike Chen Nan, who was born as an "amateur", Sui Feifei was born in a basketball family, her father Sui Fuan and mother Hu Lixia were basketball players in the Jinan Military Region Army, and they have been engaged in sports-related work since retiring.
In 1982, when Sui Feifei was three years old, Sui Fuan transferred from the army to the Shandong Youth Men's Basketball Team as the head coach, and he trained many basketball stars for the Shandong men's basketball team.
Among the many disciples, the most proud of Sui Fuan are Gong Xiaobin and Sui Feifei, one is the senior brother and the other is the junior sister.
But Sui Feifei's basketball path is not logical, although Sui Fuan has wanted Sui Feifei to practice basketball since he was a child, but this was strongly opposed by Sui Feifei's grandmother, who believes that Sui Feifei should be a knowledgeable urban beauty, rather than an injured athlete after retirement.
As a result, learning the electronic organ, learning the piano, learning to paint, and learning English became the main theme of Sui Feifei's childhood.
Sui Feifei inherited her parents' excellent sports genes, and she likes to participate in various sports meetings since she was a child, whether it is to participate in high jump, long jump, or quadathlon, as long as she participates, she is the first, and Sui Feifei's father is also ready to let Sui Feifei go to school at Luoyang Foreign Chinese College (Military Academy).
But at a sports meeting in Qingdao, witnessing his daughter's walking in the 4*100m final, Sui Fuan completely subverted his idea, he felt that his daughter's physical fitness should go to basketball.
After a series of ideological struggles with his mother-in-law, Sui Fuan realized the idea of letting his daughter practice basketball, so in 1993, 14-year-old Sui Feifei entered the Jinan Military Region Physical Workers Team at the door of her home for basketball training.
It may be a little late to start basketball training at the age of 14, but this is nothing new for Sui Fuan, because he personally snatched 15-year-old Gong Xiaobin from the football team to the basketball team.
Sui Fuan is a soldier, and he is not good at expressing his emotions, he mostly expresses his love for his daughter through practical actions, he will personally practice for Sui Feifei three times a week, he does not allow his daughter to be a little squeamish, and he spares no effort every time he fights, often knocking Sui Feifei to the ground, and Sui Feifei is blue and purple after every practice.
In addition, Sui Fuan will also arrange for Sui Feifei to train with the athletes of the men's youth team, after all, women's confrontation ability is not as good as that of men, Sui Feifei is often hit to the ground, and shouts to his father for help "I can't stand it", but Sui Fuan ignores this, because he knows that only if he suffers can he get ahead in basketball, otherwise he will go back to study.
With her outstanding physical fitness and tenacious character, Sui Feifei's basketball career was soon on the right track, and soon joined the women's basketball team of the Jinan Military Region, but the good times did not last long, only half a year later, the women's basketball team of the Jinan Military Region was disbanded, and Sui Feifei could only continue to go back to school.
As soon as they heard the news that Fei Fei was going back to school, Grandma and her mother were simply happy, and began to contact Sui Feifei with various interest classes, preparing to let her continue to be a lady, but Sui Feifei, who has a strong nature, has already had a "deep love" for basketball and is unwilling to go back to study at all.
In fact, Sui Feifei's basketball career is far from over, and soon after the disbandment of the Jibu women's basketball team, Sui Feifei was called into the Bayi women's basketball team to continue the basketball road.
On the train that sent Sui Feifei to Beijing, the father, who has always been strict, said to his daughter: "Don't blame Dad for being ruthless." In fact, when I was practicing, I heard you shout 'I can't stand it', and when I saw that you were blue and purple, my father was also distressed. ”
Looking at the red eyes of her father, who had always been severe, Sui Feifei made up her mind that she must achieve something on the road to basketball, so as not to waste her father's teachings...
02 The road to fame
Although the Chinese women's basketball team in the early to mid-90s of the last century was strong, the young women's basketball team was still weak, and there has never been a worthy successor, so they can only eat the "old book" of Zheng Haixia and other older generation stars.
So in 1996, the youth women's basketball team began to recruit people, Sui Feifei, Miao Lijie and other future cores entered the national youth team, and won the 1996 Asian Youth Championship with the team, of which Miao Lijie won the MVP of the Asian Youth Championship, and Sui Feifei also played a brilliant performance, and was favored by the Bayi women's basketball team.
After entering the Bayi women's basketball team, Sui Feifei quickly jumped a grade, not only becoming the leader of the Bayi women's basketball team, but also quickly selected for the national women's basketball team led by Ma Yuenan.
Although Sui Feifei can run and jump, her confrontation ability and physical fitness have not been improved, so she gradually went to the edge of the national team, and in the process of her going to the edge, the Chinese women's basketball team gradually declined, losing the Asian Games championship in 1998 and the Asian Championships in 1999, and therefore missed the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
It was the only time that the Chinese women's basketball team missed the Olympic Games after returning to the Olympic family in 1984, and the leaders couldn't hold their faces, so they ordered to tear down and rebuild, and Gong Luming, who led the men's basketball team to the quarterfinals of the 1996 Olympic Games, took office.
Gong Luming's guidance has a fierce vision, and as soon as he takes office, he goes to various places to select young players. Sui Feifei, Miao Lijie, Chen Nan, Ye Li, Chen Luyun and other future cores were all selected into the national team, and immediately went to the plateau and started devil training.
Gong Luming off the court is a caring and warm man, deeply loved by female basketball players, and is called "old man" by others, but Gong Luming on the court is a ruthless person, with great training intensity, and ruthlessness.
On that plateau in the winter of 2000, the cold wind roared everywhere, but Sui Feifei and her teammates measured the playground with their feet for 25 laps and a total of 10,000 meters, but Sui Feifei never ran into the 50-minute passing line, one day, two days, three days... Consistently fails.
Although Sui Feifei has always been very hardworking, Gong Luming showed no mercy and severely criticized her: she is talented and intelligent, and her conditions are superior, but she can't endure great hardships and endure great work.
But Gong Luming did not abandon Sui Feifei, but pulled her to train every day, until she passed, and forcibly raised Sui Feifei's physical fitness.
The 2002 Women's World Basketball Championship (now the World Cup) was Sui's debut in the World Series, and Sui Feifei participated in all nine games, averaging 11.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, helping the women's basketball team to the best finish since the runner-up in the 1994 World Championships - sixth place.
In the Asian Games a month later, Sui Feifei and the Chinese women's basketball team won the championship of the Busan Asian Games, and when the championship game against the archrival South Korean women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team once fell behind.
In the last two minutes, Sui Feifei scored seven points in a row to help the Chinese women's basketball team defeat the South Korean women's basketball team 80-76, and won back the Asian Games championship after a 16-year absence, plus the Asian Championship in 2001, which is enough to announce the return of the Chinese women's basketball team to Asian hegemony.
Sui Feifei has beautiful appearance, plays well on the ball, and after several consecutive outstanding performances, she has become the darling of domestic fans, and is also known as the first beauty of the women's basketball team, and has become the most popular women's basketball player that year.
In 2002, Sui Feifei won many awards such as the top ten athletes in the country, the most popular women's basketball player, the most influential women's basketball player, and sports style athletes, and was awarded the second-class merit by the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army.
But as the so-called popular people are right and wrong, just after Sui Feifei played a score, everything about her was magnified, and she had to be severely criticized for dyeing her hair, and the scandals about her were flying everywhere, among which the most ferocious was the scandal between her and Wang Zhizhi, and it was even rumored that Sui Feifei was going to play in the WNBA and meet Wang Zhizhi in the United States.
Sui Feifei and Wang Zhizhi are of the same age, and they are both members of the Bayi Labor Team, and they are both the most famous athletes in the men's basketball and women's basketball teams at that time.
But in fact, Wang Zhizhi and his girlfriend Song Yang got together as early as the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and officially got married at the end of the same year, so when the scandal between Wang Zhizhi and Sui Feifei came out, Wang Zhizhi had already taken Song Yang to live a rich life in the United States, but Wang Zhizhi and his wife have kept it secret, so their marriage has not surfaced.
When a reporter asked if Sui Feifei was Wang Zhizhi's girlfriend, Sui Feifei's face immediately sank: "Hey! It's incredible! This reporter has nothing to do, and is idle to make up some lace news to coax readers." It's just gossip. ”
She also told reporters: "Don't mention Wang Zhizhi again, don't mention my hair again, I'm a player, and I mainly play ball." ”
And as Wang Zhizhi fell into the "No Return Incident", his marriage with Song Yang also surfaced, and the first scandal between Sui Feifei and Wang Zhizhi also came to an end, and the rumor-mongers also brought humiliation on themselves because of this incident.
03 There are tears behind the scenery
Although Sui Feifei has excellent jumping ability, but her body is thin, so she is always riddled with injuries, not only has a serious back injury, but also has many ankle injuries, in February 2004, Sui Feifei suffered a serious ankle injury against the Heilongjiang women's basketball team led by Miao Lijie, and should have undergone surgery immediately, but for the Athens Olympics, Sui Feifei chose conservative treatment and returned to the court in only three weeks.
However, not long after returning to the arena, Sui Feifei suddenly fainted during the game, and after checking, she found out that Feifei's diet had been irregular, so her blood sugar was low.
In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Sui Feifei fought with an injury, and she handed over an excellent data of 16 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game, ranking first in the team in terms of scores, but at the same time, the number of violations was also the first in the team, because her thin body was used as a breakthrough by European and American players, and she made great moves at both offensive and defensive ends.
Especially in the key game against New Zealand, the Chinese women's basketball team still played with the opponent until the last moment when Chen Nan and Chen Luyun left the court with injuries and Ye Li left the court, but 6 seconds before the end, Sui Feifei slipped due to physical exhaustion, and finally let the opponent shoot a key three-pointer, resulting in the women's basketball team missing the quarterfinals, and Sui Feifei's 21 points and 9 rebounds were also a bamboo basket.
Because of their outstanding performance in the Olympic Games, Sui Feifei and Chen Nan have won the favor of the WNBA, but because of Wang Zhizhi's non-return incident, military basketball did not dare to be released easily, so Sui Feifei's road abroad was not smooth, and she was almost stopped in the country.
In the end, after some consideration above, Sui Feifei finally got the opportunity to play abroad, of course, Sui Feifei also had a special task - to persuade Wang Zhizhi to return.
However, due to special reasons, Sui Feifei failed to meet with Wang Zhizhi, and the mission was declared a failure, and due to injuries, Sui Feifei was not reused in the WNBA.
In September 2005, Sui Feifei returned to China to prepare for the National Games and helped the People's Liberation Army women's basketball team win 7 consecutive championships, and then Sui Feifei received an invitation from the WNBA again, but because of an ankle injury and preparation for the World Championships and Asian Games, Sui Feifei refused the invitation.
In February 2006, Sui Feifei suffered a recurrence of her old injury and suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and fracture, and had to travel to the United States for surgery.
From March to May 2006, Sui Feifei underwent a total of 4 surgeries and removed 12 bone fragments.
According to the doctor's plan, Sui Feifei should rest for 4-6 months, but because of the serious shortage of women's basketball forwards, Sui Feifei only rested for 2 months and played in the World Championships that year with an injury.
After this injury, Sui Feifei missed almost all the games in 06-07, and even after her comeback, her form declined seriously and her efficiency declined seriously.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Sui Feifei led the team as the captain, and the coach at that time began to try the "one big and four small" lineup in order to deal with the tall inside line in Europe and the United States.
In the game, Sui Feifei suffered knee and ankle injuries again, but Sui Feifei still chose to play with injuries and finally helped the women's basketball team reach the semifinals.
Although Sui Feifei's average of only 5 points and 4.4 rebounds per game is not outstanding, coach Maher still affirmed Sui Feifei's performance, saying: "Feifei is actually a 'semi-disabled person', she is almost dragging her feet to play now, and she can have such a performance, which is already a super level of performance." ”
In the 2009 National Games, Sui Feifei and the People's Liberation Army women's basketball team won 8 consecutive championships, at the award ceremony, Sui Feifei affectionately saluted the fans and leaders at the scene, and said her retirement declaration: "This is my last game, I have no regrets." ”
Leaving youth off the court and injuries off the court, Sui Feifei bid farewell to her basketball career with the words "no complaints and no regrets", and the fans also played a banner of "Sui Feng is flying, Fei Fei is the strongest" to send Sui Feifei off the court.
04 Life after retirement
On the second day of her retirement, Sui Feifei received an order from the Bayi Workers' Brigade and became the youngest head coach in the history of the Bayi women's basketball team.
In the first year after taking office, Sui Feifei failed to lead the team to the top due to the death of Wang Fan of the Moko women's basketball team, but she still won the best coach in the league with her excellent record.
However, a small incident in March 2010 made Sui Feifei the target of public criticism, when Sui Feifei was wearing a red and white coat, with a bright red Japanese flag printed on the upper left corner of the jacket, and a capital "JAPAN" in the upper right corner, although it did not attract too much attention at the scene, but after the game, someone posted Sui Feifei's photo on the Internet, which triggered countless speculations among netizens, and Sui Feifei also suffered a huge cyber violence.
Sui Feifei did not respond positively to this matter, but sent a text message to the reporter: Those who clear themselves will clear themselves.
Not long after the clothing turmoil, a blogger named "Don't pour the temperature three points" broke the news on Weibo, "According to reliable internal information, Dazhi will marry Sui Feifei for the second time in the near future, believe it or not".
Because this blogger is from Zhejiang Newspaper Group, has a large number of reporters and media friends, and the news is in Ningbo, where Bayi's home stadium is located, plus a photo taken by Dazhi and Sui Feifei in Sanya in 2008, this incident caused an uproar in the domestic basketball world.
Soon after, Wang Zhizhi received a call from a reporter, who asked suspiciously: "You have been doing good things lately?" Wang Zhizhi wondered: "What's going on?" The reporter asked again: "Do you want to get married?" and Sui Feifei?"
When Wang Zhizhi heard this, he said with disdain: "Nerves!"
And the reporter's answer from Sui Feifei was the same: "Who did you listen to?
And Qian Limin, the leader of the Bayi Labor Brigade, also responded to this matter: "If Dazhi and Sui Feifei get married, how can we not know?"
Although many parties strongly denied it, it still caused a huge sensation, fans often coaxed Sui Feifei at the game site, and even Liu Yudong of the Bayi team made jokes about Sui Feifei, which made the matter confusing, but as the incident passed, the matter still became light.
In 2016, Sui Feifei, who continued to work as the head coach of the Bayi women's basketball team, suddenly announced her resignation, and her teammates rumored that she would resign to get married, but there was no news in the follow-up.
Seeing that Miao Lijie, Ye Li, and Chen Nan, who were the same era as Sui Feifei, were all married and had children, Sui Feifei's mother was also worried, and urged Sui Feifei many times, but they were all excused to shirk, Sui's mother said: "We are anxious for her, but the girl is not in a hurry."
Sui Feifei didn't talk about her boyfriend, but because she was too good, those boyfriends felt insecure, and they always thought that she would fly away at any time, so they all died without a problem.
Sui Feifei has long looked down on her marriage, she said in an interview: "I can't just pin the rest of my life on a man for the sake of others." ”
She also stated her criteria for choosing a mate: "First of all, there should be no communication barriers, and both parties should feel happy in their interactions." At the same time, the other party must have their own careers, and both parties must be independent in their careers, and their height is at least not shorter than mine. ”
This requirement seems not difficult, but it is not simple at all, and the height alone excludes a large number of people.
In 2018, Sui Feifei was hired as a visiting professor at Sichuan Normal University and coached the Sichuan Normal women's basketball team on the spot.
Since then, Sui Feifei seems to have evaporated from the world, and almost no news has come out, until 2021, she did not appear in public again, she was interviewed by "Basketball" magazine, revealing that she will still go out to coach when the opportunity is right, she said: I have not disappeared, but I have become light.
In 2023, Sui Feifei began to return to the screen, she first participated in the commentary of the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games women's basketball game, and now she frequently appears in the Tencent Sports live broadcast room, participating in Tencent's "Big Coffee Watching Basketball with You" program, in which she not only analyzed the prospects of the "European double fat" Jokic and Doncic in the NBA new season, but also analyzed Durant's plight in the Suns.
It is worth mentioning that Sui Feifei has entered the shortlist for the 2023 Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame, and it would be a blessing to see Sui Feifei inducted together with Miao Lijie and Chen Nan!
As the hero and heroine who have had many scandals in the past, Sui Feifei and Wang Zhizhi's current situation is very different, Sui Feifei is now 44 years old, but her relationship is still a mystery, and 46-year-old Wang Zhizhi has already divorced Ms. Song, and has been a beautiful host of Guangxi TV and has a second married daughter and lives a happy life.