Recently, Zhu Yuling, a retired former national table tennis player, updated her personal social media content. In the article, she specially thanked her senior sister Ding Ning for helping her grab tickets.
Let us witness the deep love of this pair of sisters!
Ding Ning's style of play is characterized by defensive counterattacks, and she has won the singles championship of the World Cup, World Table Tennis Championships and Olympic Games in succession in the era of table tennis with long arms, large platform protection area and ability to resist, thus becoming the seventh Grand Slam winner in the mainland.
She and Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen are known as the "three women" during the London Olympics and the Rio Olympics, and after failing to impact the Tokyo Olympics, she decisively chose to quit and left the opportunity to young people.
Zhu Yuling is also a representative of defensive counterattack play, but she is different from Ding Ning, her characteristic is to resist one more board than her opponent. Before the International Table Tennis Federation changed the material of table tennis for competitions, in the era when the game was still spin-based, Zhu Yuling defeated Chen Meng twice in the Asian Cup to win the championship. Even in that era, people used to call her "second sister", which meant that she would succeed Ding Ning and become the leader of the new generation of Chinese table tennis.
But unfortunately, two things happened in 2018 that completely ruined Zhu Yuling's future and brightness. One thing is that the ITTF has changed the material of the ball used in the game and replaced the celluloid ball with a plastic ball. The result of this change is that the ball is getting faster and faster, and the spin of the ball is weakened.
During the 2018 China Open, it was precisely because of the ball that Zhu Yuling lost to the unknown Japanese player Oda Saki in the game Link3 was a big upset.
Another thing is the well-known incident against Misei Ito, who lost twice in the final to Misei Ito, the main opponent of national table tennis at the time, thus allowing herself to completely slide out of the main layer of the national team.
On the eve of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Ding Ning issued a document to withdraw from the national team. After the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Zhu Yuling chose to retire from the national team in obscurity.
With the departure of the two, the representatives of the Chinese women's table tennis generation of defensive counterattacks have also withdrawn from the stage of history.
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From the words of Zhu Yuling's post, we can feel that the friendship between her and Ding Ning is warm and affectionate!