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At the age of 16, she was selected for the national team and served for more than ten years, and she participated in the Olympic Games and Asian Games four times;
He has played 4 World Championships and 8 Asian Championships in succession.
In the eyes of fans, she is the first person in the Chinese women's basketball team;
In the eyes of foreign media, she is the "Great Wall of China" comparable to Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and others.
In the FIBA Hall of Fame, she is the first Chinese player to be inducted as a player;
Naturally, her name is indispensable in the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame - Zheng Haixia.
has made so many brilliant achievements for the Chinese women's basketball team, Zheng Haixia even made an exception to enjoy the treatment of a colonel.
But such an honor is also a lot of trouble for her.
With a height of more than two meters, such a "giant" height makes it difficult for her to find true love.
It wasn't until many years after her retirement that Zheng Haixia announced the good news.
But compared with her brilliant life experience, her other half is regarded by the outside world as a little unworthy of her.
Even after more than ten years of marriage, the two have never had children.
So, what kind of life does Zheng Haixia have now, and has she ever regretted the choice she made?
Ordinary birth, extraordinary growth
Zheng Haixia was born in Henan, a province with a large population, and grew up in an extremely ordinary peasant family.
Her father is 1.82 meters tall and her mother is 1.65 meters tall.
Although neither of them is short, it is by no means a particularly outstanding height of height.
Zheng Haixia is the fifth in the family and is the youngest child.
Before she grew up, her family never imagined that they would produce a world-famous basketball superstar.
At that time, Zheng Haixia's mother was 40 years old and could be called an elderly mother;
And her brothers and sisters are all ten or twenty years older than her, and they take good care of Zheng Haixia very much.
At a young age, Zheng Haixia is hardworking and brave, and she knows how to be considerate of her parents and brothers, and always scrambles to do housework.
Although the family didn't want her to work hard since she was a child, they couldn't resist her, so they could only pick some lighter jobs for her to do.
Accompanied by her family, Zheng Haixia grew up happily and healthily all the way.
Zheng Haixia's two elder brothers are both about 1.9 meters tall, and her sister is a normal height;
She is the only one who has reached a height of 1.72 meters when she graduated from primary school.
Seeing that her daughter is growing up day by day, her height has reached a point that her peers can't reach.
Zheng Haixia's family thought about it and decided to send her to a sports school for training, so as not to waste this excellent height condition.
When she first joined the sports school, Zheng Haixia didn't even have a pair of shoes suitable for playing ball.
Later, it was a kind carpenter master in the school, and she couldn't bear to see her playing barefoot on the court;
I found a mold to make a pair of portable clogs for her.
Not only that, but due to his young age, his body is underdeveloped;
Zheng Haixia didn't care when she walked, and the coach soon discovered that she had a serious X-leg.
In order to help her improve her leg shape, Zheng Haixia and the coach always came to the court in advance to do individual training for her.
After a full year, Zheng Haixia's leg shape finally improved, and she was able to run freely on the court.
After the difficulties were solved one after another, Zheng Haixia's talent gradually exploded.
Less than two years after entering the sports school, she was favored by the school recruiters of Wuhan Sports School and went to Wuhan for further special training.
At that time, Zheng Haixia put all her life focus on playing basketball;
Single-mindedly to create achievements that do not disappoint your family.
It is precisely with this diligent and hard-working attitude that Zheng Haixia was promoted to the national women's basketball team at the age of 16;
has reached a height in life that others can't reach.
Repeatedly
Zheng Haixia, who has just entered the national team, does not know how to restrain her temper because she is still young.
Before she trained for a few days, she quarreled with Chen Yuefang, who was also a center forward in the team;
Zheng Haixia also gave the other party a slap in the face under impulse.
However, unlike the imaginary blame, the coach at the time, Yang Boyong, comforted Chen Yuefang;
Instead, he encouraged Zheng Haixia, saying that she had a spirit of not admitting defeat.
In 1982, Zheng Haixia was selected for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Bayi Women's Basketball Team with excellent performance;
She also joined the national youth basketball team, participated in the women's basketball Asian Youth Championship, and successfully won the championship.
This championship made Zheng Haixia's position in the team pivotal.
The coach even developed a training plan and game plan specifically for her, so that the whole team trained around Zheng Haixia's strengths.
Two years later, Zheng Haixia led the team again and still won the championship of the Women's Basketball Asian Youth Championship.
In the same year, in the Los Angeles Olympics, 17-year-old Zheng Haixia appeared on the court as the main center of the Chinese women's basketball team.
This tall girl with a sturdy posture dunks one by one and jumps again and again.
His name was deeply imprinted in the minds of the audience.
In that game, Zheng Haixia's shooting rate was as high as 59%, ranking first in the team.
Under her leadership, the Chinese women's basketball team won the third place in the Olympic women's basketball competition for the first time, achieving a historic breakthrough.
It was also this game that brought Zheng Haixia the honorary title of "The Great Wall of China".
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Zheng Haixia led the Chinese women's basketball team to win the runner-up;
Once again, a breakthrough was achieved on the basis of the original.
It can be said that Zheng Haixia at that time was like Yao Ming in the men's basketball team.
Her unique height and excellent explosiveness when dunking;
Help Zheng Haixia continue to surpass herself on the road of her career.
And Zheng Haixia is also the first player in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team to compete in the WNBA.
She was drafted to join the Los Angeles Sparks in the 1997 WNBA Draft with an annual salary of $40,000.
At that time, Kobe, O'Neal and other basketball players heard the news and rushed to Zheng Haixia's game site to observe.
O'Neal was impressed by Zheng Haixia's excellent free throw skills, and also specifically found Zheng Haixia to learn free throw skills.
In the two seasons that the Sparks played, Zheng Haixia gained a large number of overseas fans;
He also won the inaugural WNBA Best Sportsmanship Trophy.
Later, Zheng Haixia left the team due to injury and returned to Beijing as the head coach of the Bayi women's basketball team, where she worked for ten years.
In the past ten years, she brought the Bayi women's basketball team, which was originally at a low point, back to the ranks of the First Division;
He led the team to win four full seasons of championships.
In the early days of returning to China, Zheng Haixia was promoted to the rank of colonel and enjoyed super high treatment.
In 2019, Zheng Haixia officially announced her retirement and was inducted into the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame three years later;
He was also elected as the promotion ambassador of the FIBA China Youth Training Program.
Zheng Haixia's book of life, every page is full of rich and colorful descriptions.
The road to love
Even if she is two meters and eight meters tall, even if she is heroic on the court every day;
But in fact, Zheng Haixia is still a girl who needs love and longs for happiness.
In 1990, during the training of the national team, Zheng Haixia met her first love by chance.
The boy, nicknamed Dawang, is two meters tall and is the main center of the basketball team of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Two souls who love basketball, in a game, in a collision, there is an ambiguous feeling of sympathy for each other.
At that time, the only criterion for Zheng Haixia, who was still young, was that the other party was higher than herself.
She doesn't feel that her height is a stumbling block on the road to choosing a mate, and even regards it as the highest standard of love requirements.
and the "king" classmate with good academic performance, handsome appearance, and height is just a little taller than her;
is simply a Prince Charming tailor-made for Zheng Haixia.
Of course, this is in her own opinion.
However, in the eyes of others, these two tall people seem to be a couple made in heaven.
They always walk hand in hand outside of training and get together whenever they have time to discuss what they learned.
For Zheng Haixia, that pure and clean love is an unforgettable existence in her life.
However, this relationship soon collapsed with Zheng Haixia's fame.
Few men can tolerate that their girlfriend is more famous or successful than themselves, and the same is true for the king.
He can't stop Zheng Haixia from becoming more famous and popular day after day;
But he couldn't control the increasingly suppressed emotions in his heart.
The huge pressure made it difficult for him to let go, and finally chose to break up with Zheng Haixia.
After that, until a man who was Xu Qinghua sent letters one by one to express his heart;
Zheng Haixia finally opened the door of her heart and prepared to welcome her second love.
At first, the two were only in contact by letter and text message;
Xu Qinghua collects ambiguous love words in various places every day and relays them to Zheng Haixia, which makes her heart flutter.
In this way, the two confirmed their relationship before they met.
As their relationship deepened, the two soon put meeting on the agenda.
Xu Qinghua is only 1.9 meters tall, which is far from enough for Zheng Haixia when she was young.
But under the long-term communication, Zheng Haixia was moved by Xu Qinghua's seriousness and responsibility, and finally chose to hand herself over to him.
In 2010, 43-year-old Zheng Haixia and Xu Qinghua finally entered the palace of marriage hand in hand.
In fact, Xu Qinghua also worked as a basketball coach in a sports school in Henan before, and he knows basketball very well.
Although he later became a temporary street commissioner, he still kept an eye on the basketball court.
It is precisely for this reason that in the pursuit of Zheng Haixia, Xu Qinghua will always have something to talk to the other party;
Never let any of Zheng Haixia's words fall to the ground.
In this way, the relationship between the two that had lasted for three years finally came to fruition, and they are still extremely happy.
Regarding the question of children, Zheng Haixia said that her current height is a genetic mutation;
I don't know if the child is healthy or not, so I simply choose not to.
And Xu Qinghua naturally always supports all the decisions made by his wife.
epilogue
Looking back at Zheng Haixia's life journey, she has been working the basketball court since she was 16 years old;
At the age of 17, he has enough achievements in life to boast of for a lifetime.
In the past few decades, Zheng Haixia has contributed everything she has to basketball, in exchange for an injury, but she has never said a word of regret.
In 2021, Zheng Haixia was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, and the following year she was inducted into the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame.
Now that she has retired, she still has the responsibility of training the next generation of women's basketball on her shoulders.
Do you still have an impression of the achievements of this "Great Wall of China"?
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