A few days ago, the editor released an article, which probably means that the "four beauties" of Chinese women's table tennis: an inventory of the four generations of "the first beauty of national table tennis": Chen Meng's plump figure wins, and Qian Tianyi's appearance wins!
As a result, there are many people in the comment area who question, saying that these female national table tennis players can only be regarded as not ugly at best, not beautiful at all, and some people say why they only count beautiful players and not "ugly women".
Not only that, but there is also a fan who said the names of several players, he thinks that he is the ugliest player in Chinese women's table tennis, so today let's take a look at the four "ugly girls" of national table tennis in the eyes of this fan, and whether they are consistent with everyone's hearts:
One: Deng Yaping
Deng Yaping, who was born in 1973, is 51 years old this year.
She is the first Chinese women's table tennis player to play a Grand Slam and the first athlete in the world women's table tennis to win the Olympic women's singles championship for consecutive consecutive years.
Many people may know that Zhang Yining is the only double-lap Grand Slam winner in the world women's table tennis, but if the Women's Singles World Cup is held as soon as possible, then Deng Yaping will definitely be the first double-lap Grand Slam in the world women's table tennis.
The first singles World Cup was held in 1996, and Deng Yaping was the winner of the first Women's Singles World Cup, and Deng Yaping announced her retirement in 1997.
If the singles World Cup had been held a few years earlier, then Deng Yaping would have been able to win a few more World Cup women's singles titles, after all, in those years, except for the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games women's singles final Deng Yaping lost to Japan's Koyama Zhili (He Zhili), Deng Yaping almost never lost in the international arena.
And from 1989 to 1997's retirement, Deng Yaping's world ranking has been No. 1 in the past six months, and she is the female athlete who has been ranked "No. 1 in the world" for the longest time in the history of table tennis.
It can be said that whether it is in terms of strength, achievements or influence, Deng Yaping is one of the top athletes in the world table tennis world.
However, when Deng Yaping first started practicing, she was not favored, and she was not even selected for the provincial team for a while, the main reason for this is that Deng Yaping's height is too low.
In most sports, tall people are dominant, especially basketball and volleyball, which are simply "high" sports.
Although there are no strict requirements for height in table tennis, the height and width of the table tennis table are there, and people who are too short do not have an advantage.
Therefore, Deng Yaping, who is only 1.55 meters tall, is naturally considered unsuitable for table tennis, although her father used to be a professional table tennis player, although Deng Yaping has laid a solid foundation with her father since she was a child.
was not favored by others, Deng Yaping did not give up because of this, but worked harder in training and competitions, and finally was not favored by the Henan Provincial Team, but defeated those athletes who were favored by the Henan Provincial Team.
But despite this, many professionals still think that Deng Yaping's victory is all luck, which does not mean that she will definitely grow into an excellent athlete in the future.
Maxima often has but Bole is not often, this sentence applies everywhere, an outstanding athlete like Deng Yaping, if it weren't for Zhang Xielin, who was the head coach of the Chinese women's table tennis at the time, who took a fancy to her and recruited her into the national team under pressure, then Deng Yaping would not have achieved such outstanding results.
Deng Yaping's performance as an athlete was almost perfect, but several things Deng Yaping did after retiring have been controversial.
However, none of these things affected Deng Yaping's status in the world table tennis arena.
Two: Wang Nan
Born in 1978, Wang Nan is 46 years old.
Wang Nan is another leading figure in Chinese women's table tennis in the post-Deng Yaping era, and the winner of the second Women's Singles World Cup in 1997 is Wang Nan.
At that time, after Deng Yaping announced her retirement, there were no players with outstanding achievements and strength in women's table tennis, which means that several team members were qualified to become the "first sister" of Chinese women's table tennis, such as Li Ju, Yang Ying and so on.
Even in front of Yang Ying, Wang Nan is just a junior, but Wang Nan has won the women's singles championship in the 1997 Women's Singles World Cup, the 1998 Women's Singles World Cup, the 1999 World Table Tennis Championships, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics with her tough strength.
became another Grand Slam winner of Chinese women's table tennis after Deng Yaping, and thus established her status as the "first sister" of women's table tennis in the post-Deng Yaping era.
In the Athens Olympic cycle, Wang Nan won the women's singles championship at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships, and thus became the only Chinese women's table tennis women's singles champion at the World Championships three times in a row, and also won the Ji Geist Cup Replica Cup.
It stands to reason that with this result, Wang Nan definitely has the strength to win the women's singles championship at the 2004 Athens Olympics, so that Wang Nan will not only become the second Chinese women's table tennis player to win the Olympic women's singles championship compared to Deng Yaping, but also become the first Chinese women's table tennis double-lap Grand Slam.
It can be said that before the start of the Athens Olympics, many people had great confidence in Wang Nan, but who knew that in the women's singles one-sixteenth finals, Wang Nan lost to Li Jiawei of Singapore's women's table tennis, and even failed to enter the top 16.
Although Wang Nan failed to win the women's singles championship at the Athens Olympics, there was still Zhang Yining in the Chinese women's table tennis at that time, and Zhang Yining finally lived up to expectations and won the women's singles championship at the Athens Olympics.
According to media reports at the time, after the Athens Olympics, Wang Nan handed over the scepter of the first sister of the women's table tennis to Zhang Yining, and I don't know if Wang Nan volunteered or Zhang Yining succeeded in grabbing power.
The upset of the Athens Olympics was not the worst for Wang Nan, the worst thing was that she suffered from thyroid cancer in 2005, although this disease was called "the mildest cancer" and "immortal cancer", but it was also a very serious disease at that time.
Moreover, what is most afraid of the disease is never the disease itself, but people's perception of the disease and the recovery process, especially Wang Nan was still an active athlete at that time.
Originally, after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, both Wang Nan's parents and her husband Guo Bin, who had just received the certificate, persuaded Wang Nan to retire, but Wang Nan and her coach wanted to fight again.
So, after a long recovery period, Wang Nan once again stood on the table tennis field, and successfully won the last place in the competition with Li Xiaoxia in the final stage of the competition for places in the Beijing Olympics.
At the Beijing Olympics, Wang Nan defeated the talented girl Guo Yue in the women's singles semifinals and successfully entered the final, but ultimately lost to Zhang Yining.
The Beijing Olympics is the last major event that Wang Nan participated in, after which she announced her retirement, although she failed to win the women's singles gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, but Wang Nan also ranked first in the number of world championships in national table tennis with 24 world championships for more than ten years.
Three: Zhang Yining
Born in 1981, Zhang Yining is 43 years old.
Zhang Yining is the third leader of Chinese women's table tennis after Deng Yaping and Wang Nan, and is also the third Grand Slam player and the only double-lap Grand Slam.
In many people's subconscious, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan are considered athletes of two eras, but in fact, the age difference between the two is only three years old, and Wang Nan announced his retirement after the Beijing Olympics, and Zhang Yining also announced his retirement after participating in the National Games in 2009.
It can be said that there is a lot of overlap in the careers of the two, and Zhang Yining's promotion to the main force of national table tennis is only two or three years later than Wang Nan.
Not only that, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan are the players who have played the most in the international arena.
The first time the two met was in the women's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships in 1999, when Wang Nan was already the number one main force of the national table tennis women's team, but she failed to win the women's singles championship of the World Championships and the Olympic Games, and her status was unstable.
Second, Zhang Yining is still a young player and participated in the World Championships for the first time, so no one was optimistic about Zhang Yining at that time, but after the game started, Zhang Yining quickly took a big 2-0 lead.
At that time, the competition system was still a best-of-five system, with 21 points in one game, so as long as Zhang Yining won the third game, then she won the women's singles championship in her first participation in the World Championships, and even at the age of 17, she will become the youngest women's singles champion in the history of the World Table Tennis Championships.
But it's a pity that in the third game, Zhang Yining didn't play as resolutely as in the first two games, and finally Wang Nan seized the opportunity, and when she was entangled by Wang Nan, the balance of victory gradually tilted to Wang Nan's side.
In the end, Wang Nan defeated Zhang Yining 3-2, and this was only the beginning of the competition between the two.
Although Zhang Yining failed to create a miracle at the World Championships, she was among the main players in women's table tennis with her outstanding strength, but in the subsequent Sydney Olympics qualifiers, Zhang Yining lost consecutive games and failed to win the Sydney Olympics quota.
In the women's singles final of the 2001 National Games, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan met again, but this game seemed to be the same as the World Championships two years ago, Zhang Yining led 2-0 at the beginning, and was finally reversed by Wang Nan to win.
Not only that, Zhang Yining was also punished by the national team for his negative attitude in the game this time.
In the 2001 World Championships women's singles semifinals, the 2003 World Championships women's singles finals, the 2003 Women's Singles World Cup semifinals, etc., Zhang Yining lost to Wang Nan in these major competitions.
It can be said that in the early days of Zhang Yining's career, Wang Nan was the biggest stumbling block to her to the top podium of women's singles.
However, after Zhang Yining was successfully sealed at the Athens Olympics, Wang Nan did not have such a strong advantage in the face of Zhang Yining.
After the Athens Olympics, Zhang Yining successfully defeated Wang Nan 4-2 in the women's singles World Cup final of the same year.
However, in the final of the 2007 Women's Singles World Cup, Wang Nan defeated Zhang Yining again 4-1, proving that he was "quite old and still able to fight".
However, during this period, Zhang Yining also won the 2005 World Championships Women's Singles Championship and the Women's Singles World Cup.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zhang Yining defeated Wang Nan again in the women's singles final, it can be said that Zhang Yining was at an absolute disadvantage against Wang Nan in the early part of his career, and the two had mixed results in the later part of his career.
Four: Li Xiaoxia
Li Xiaoxia, who was born in 1988, is 36 years old this year.
Li Xiaoxia is the fourth Grand Slam of Chinese women's table tennis, but among these Grand Slam players, Li Xiaoxia is the most non-existent player.
Speaking of Deng Yaping, we all know that she is the first Grand Slam of Chinese women's table tennis, ranked No. 1 in the world for eight consecutive years, speaking of Wang Nan, she is the only World Championships women's singles champion three times in a row, and speaking of Zhang Yining, she is the only double Grand Slam.
But when it comes to Li Xiaoxia, in addition to the name of the Grand Slam, it is difficult to think of other adjectives, and in terms of performance, Li Xiaoxia has only won one Olympic women's singles championship, one World Championships women's singles championship, and one World Cup women's singles championship in her career, which just happened to achieve a Grand Slam.
The most important thing is that there is a lot of controversy about the only Olympic women's singles champion.
Li Xiaoxia won the Olympic Women's Singles title at the London Olympics, when she faced teammate Ding Ning in the final.
Ding Ning defeated Li Xiaoxia in the World Championships and World Cup women's singles finals before the London Olympics, so most of the two were optimistic about Ding Ning at that time.
At the London Olympics, Ding Ning used a squat serve, which is also her stunt, but this way of serving is easy to foul, so in the women's singles final, Ding Ning was sentenced to foul many times, and the referee also showed a yellow card.
In the end, Ding Ning collapsed directly, and Li Xiaoxia also won the final victory, in the eyes of many fans, if it wasn't for the referee's judgment that made Ding Ning's psychology fluctuate, then it would be difficult for Li Xiaoxia to achieve the final victory.
Especially after the London Olympics, the executive referee of the women's singles final was revealed to be an amateur, and even engaged in a profession completely unrelated to table tennis.
In addition, under the circumstances at that time, Ding Ning had collapsed, and Li Xiaoxia still shouted in celebration every time she scored a point, so many fans were attacking Li Xiaoxia.
Even under such circumstances, Li Xiaoxia withstood the pressure and successfully reached the top of the 2013 World Championships, and defeated Ding Ning again in the semifinals of the women's singles.
Although Li Xiaoxia has only won three singles world championships in her career to achieve a Grand Slam, which seems to be not outstanding, the editor believes that she may be the Grand Slam with the highest gold content in women's table tennis.
In the early days of her career, there were Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, two historical-level "big devils", and Guo Yue, a rare genius girl in Chinese women's table tennis.
Therefore, before Wang Nan and Zhang Yining retired, Li Xiaoxia could only accompany the last seat in the main layer, and it was not until 2009 that she gradually became a new generation leader of women's table tennis with Guo Yue.
But at this time, another talented girl Liu Shiwen played out, and she was also menacing, which can be seen from Ding Ning's successive World Championships and World Cup women's singles championships before the London Olympics.
In such a situation, the talented girl Guo Yue failed to win the Grand Slam in the end, but Li Xiaoxia withstood the pressure, and it can be said that she won a limited championship in a limited number of games and achieved a Grand Slam.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning met again in the final, this time Li Xiaoxia obviously had the upper hand, but perhaps she thought that she won the London Olympics, and in the end she lost to Ding Ning 3-4.
Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, and Li Xiaoxia are all members of the women's table tennis Grand Slam team, to be honest, their looks are not beautiful, but they are not ugly women.
Ma Yun once said: Appearance is inversely proportional to achievement!
It may be that it is the ordinary appearance that allows these athletes to be more focused in training and competitions, so as to achieve such excellent results.
If you have any different opinions, please leave a message in the comment area to discuss!