December 23, 2023.
China Table Tennis Super League 2023 Men's Team Semifinals.
Xu Xin, who represented Shanghai No. 1 Club, partnered with Zhou Kai and lost 1:3 to Yuan Licen/Xu Yingbin of Shandong Luneng Club in the men's doubles duel.
This is basically the last video of the competition that Xu Xin left in the public eye.
After that, in the order of the top competition in the table tennis world, we will never see Xu Xin's name and figure again. The python that has accompanied us for 18 years, the wave saint who left countless scenes, waved goodbye to the first line:
The people's artist has become a masterpiece
There is no wave in the world
First, Xu Xin's ten basic information
1. Date of birth: January 8, 1990
2. Place of birth: Xuzhou, Jiangsu
3. Height: 180cm
4. Playing style: Playing horizontally with a straight board with the left hand, countering glue on both sides, and attacking the whole Taiwan
5. Table tennis enlightenment age: 5 years old
6. Education: Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, MBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
7. Honors: 20 world champions (currently the second in the national table tennis men)
8. Current position: Visiting professor of the School of Physical Education of Shanghai University, vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation
9. Record: China's first left-handed player to win the men's singles title in a Grand Slam event, the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive wins in a ITTF World Tour Finals, and the total length of the world ranking is 14 months
10. Marriage: On November 30, 2016, he married Yao Yan, a former member of the national table tennis team, and currently has a son and a daughter
Second, Xu Xin's top ten memories
1. In the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, Xu Xin and South Korean female player Liang Xiayin formed a multinational combination and won the mixed doubles championship. This is Xu Xin was ordered to carry out the aid export task of national table tennis, and he strongly supported it, alleviated poverty with technology, and successfully completed the national mission.
2. The first master of hitting the ball in the back, this is Xu Xin's high-energy ultimate, he has completed the most successful shots in the back in official games. Turn an unconventional technique into your own daily operation.
3. Revenge for Zhang Jike, beating Zhang Yuzhen 11:0. In the men's singles 1/8 finals of the 2015 Table Tennis Asian Championships, South Korean player Zhang Yuzhen won Zhang Jike, arrogantly and provocatively, almost causing a conflict. Xu Xin then went down and beat Zhang Yuzhen 11:0, which made him lose face and regarded it as a great shame in his life.
4. The "Xinwen Simulcast" combination regretted losing the first mixed doubles gold medal in Olympic history. In the first mixed doubles event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen combination unexpectedly missed in the final, and was reversed by the Japanese pair Mizutani Hayabusa/Misei Ito, regretting the loss of the first mixed doubles gold.
5. In 2018, Xu Xin was named and praised by the central media, praising his playing for his great ornamental and artistic effects, and he can be called a "people's artist". So Xu Xin was awarded the beautiful title of People's Artist, which is also one of the strongest titles received by Chinese table tennis players.
6. The king of doubles that is universally adapted. Xu Xin is the undisputed doubles king in the history of the national table tennis team. He has a strong ability to interpret the game, can adapt to the characteristics of his teammates in the shortest time and strengthen the shortcomings of his teammates, and is the most popular universal adaptor in national table tennis.
Ma Long, Wang Hao, Yan An, Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xingxing, Liang Jingkun, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling, etc., Sun Yingsha and other more than a dozen players have been paired with doubles, and they have all achieved good results, and they are well-deserved doubles kings. Its doubles physique is unparalleled in the world.
7. Tomokazu Haramoto won all eight matches, and is the only top player in the world to hold this record. Zhang Benzhihe and Xu Xin's "eight defeats" is a record that will be sealed forever, and the small motorcycle has this one-minded demon, and the table tennis career in this life cannot reach a satisfactory state.
8. The first person in national table tennis to make a collection of fairy balls. Xu Xin's playing is both delicate and wild, both fairy and extremely coquettish, and he simply interprets the word "wave" and the word "crazy" to the extreme. The fairy balls he played can be made into highlights, and there is no one else who has produced so many good balls and has a high quality of wonderful balls.
9. Ask Liu Guoliang to retire from the game. At the 2017 ITTF World Tour China Open, Xu Xin withdrew from the tournament with teammates Ma Long Fan Zhendong and was fined $20,000. But Xu Xin has no regrets, is willing, and shows the world his most valued identity: a man who is affectionate and righteous, knows how to repay kindness, and has the courage to take responsibility!
10. My biggest knot: I have never been able to match doubles with my left hand. Xu Xin has a small wish hidden in his heart, which has never been realized, he really wants to match a teammate who is also a left-handed teammate to have a major doubles. From Chen Xi and Hao Shuai to Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan, from Guo Yue to Ding Ning, they are all doubles goals that Xu Xin never obtained. Xu Xin has even been a chipper with doubles, but the wish of "left and left" has never been achieved.