Zhang Yining and Wang Nan have both created their own table tennis era, and the two are even known as the "Great Demon King of National Table Tennis".
Not only them, in fact, Guo Yue also had her own glorious era, she used to be a table tennis player on the same level as Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, but later she quit the national team early and disappeared in the athlete world, and her career is still embarrassing today.
Guo Yue was born in 1988 in an ordinary family in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, she is lively and active, she has been a tomboy since she was a child, and her parents have no way to take her, this situation has continued until she goes to kindergarten.
For this reason, the kindergarten teacher was helpless, and found Guo Yue's parents to talk to several times, but they were parents who were reluctant to suppress their children's nature, so they had to play sloppy with the teacher every time, and the teacher had to propose whether the child could learn a sport, so that the child could not only exercise, but also let the child learn a skill.
Guo Yue's parents are also very worried about this, they don't know what their children like, whether they are willing to learn, and later because Guo Yue's father is a table tennis enthusiast, he can also guide his daughter in this sport, plus table tennis is an indoor sport, and there is no need to go outside to endure hardships, nor do you need to be exposed to wind and rain, you can still be your daughter's sparring partner when you are free, which is simply a multi-pronged thing.
Soon, Guo Yue's parents began to prepare for their daughter's table tennis training class, and after hearing that there was a table tennis training class in the nearby Children's Palace, Guo Yue's parents hurriedly took their daughter to consult and sign up.
In this way, the ignorant little Guo Yue started her table tennis training journey.
When she first came into contact, Guo Yue's parents thought she would reject it, but she didn't expect her daughter to unexpectedly like this sport, and her small body held a racket for more than an hour.
In this way, Guo Yue, who was only 8 years old, showed her amazing talent and ability in table tennis, and was later sent to the provincial sports school trials.
As the youngest player in the selection competition, she was inconspicuous among other opponents, but she defeated older players all the way, all the way to the first place in the group stage, Xiao Guo Yue's excellent performance was soon favored by the coach of the sports school, and the coach then contacted Guo Yue's parents to explain to them that he wanted Guo Yue to stay in the provincial sports school team.
Guo Yue's parents were of course happy about this, and she officially started her sports career, and her talent and hard work made her quickly stand out from her classmates.
Of course, this also attracted the attention of other coaches, and the coach of the track and field team also recognized Guo Yue very much, and felt that this kid was talented and suitable for practicing track and field, so he found Guo Yue's team coach to discuss this matter with him, but he did not expect to be strongly rejected by the other coach, and he had no choice but to give up this idea.
Guo Yue thus got professional and systematic table tennis skills training in the sports school, so the technology and skills also rose, and finally in 1998, he entered the Liaoning Provincial Table Tennis Team as he wished, and won the championship in the National Youth Table Tennis Trials after a year.
Her table tennis career was like a hanging, and she was soon invited to participate in the Asian Table Tennis Invitational Tournament, in which she achieved excellent results, and as a Chinese athlete, she became famous and won glory for the country.
At the end of 1999, Guo Yue was successfully invited to the national second team and became the youngest table tennis national player at that time, and became teammates with a group of hot national players such as Zhang Yining and Wang Nan, who were very famous at that time.
Although they are all table tennis players, Guo Yue has a very personal style in her playing style, she belongs to the fast attack style, and her strength is mainly focused on the attack power of the first three boards, and her strength and strength are very manly.
In 2004, 16-year-old Guo Yue participated in the women's table tennis team competition for the first time.
The hard work paid off, and they won the opponent 3:1 in this team competition, doing their best for the Chinese table tennis team to win the championship, and also contributing to the team's ability to win back the Cobillon Cup at that time.
Not long after the Athens Olympics, Guo Yue and Niu Jianfeng also won a bronze medal in women's doubles, and only three years later, Guo Yue ushered in the highest moment of her athlete career.
The turning point of all this came from the 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, this women's singles Guo Yue with super strength passed five levels and six generals, not only successfully counterattacked and reversed in the match with Li Xiaoxia, but even won the big demon Zhang Yining in the final and won the women's singles championship of this game.
Not only the women's singles championship, the mixed doubles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue and Wang Liqin won the mixed doubles championship, and then in the women's doubles competition, and Li Xiaoxia partnered to win the doubles championship.
Through this Sagrel World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue directly qualified for the Beijing Olympics, but her performance in the Olympics was not satisfactory, she failed to play the peak state of the World Table Tennis Championships, and only won the bronze medal in the women's singles event.
However, in the team competition, she, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining teamed up to win the gold medal in the team event at the Olympic Games, which is of great significance to China and Chinese table tennis!
In the 2009 Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue also achieved extraordinary results, although he lost to Zhang Yining in the women's singles competition and won the runner-up, he defeated another group of Chinese players Guo Yan and Ding Ning in the women's doubles match with Li Xiaoxia and won the doubles championship.
At the later World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam, Guo Yue surprisingly did not win the women's singles competition, but defeated her opponent in the women's doubles competition and won the championship.
In the 2012 London Olympics, Guo Yue did not participate in the women's singles event, but only participated in the women's doubles event with Li Xiaoxia, and it was also in this game that Guo Yue and the two successfully defeated their Japanese opponents and won the gold medal in the women's table tennis team event, allowing the world to see the real strength of China's table tennis.
In the 2013 Paris World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue still participated in the women's doubles table tennis competition, and her partner is still the well-known Li Xiaoxia, which is also the third time that the two of them have joined forces.
After this competition, the strongest combination of Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia became famous all over the world, and since then Guo Yue has also become a regular guest of the Olympic Games, having participated in three consecutive Olympic Games, in which he has achieved extraordinary results.
In addition, there are various World Table Tennis Championships and other open championships, Guo Yue's figure on the podium is frequent, and these countless medals are enough to prove her ability and status in table tennis.
People are looking forward to more and more glorious moments for Guo Yue, and also looking forward to her inheriting the mantle of Zhang Yining and Wang Nan, who have retired, and leading Chinese women's table tennis to a higher peak.
After the Beijing Olympics at that time, Guo Yue's state was much worse than before, which directly led to her position in the team declining, and many outstanding juniors rushed to catch up, such as Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, etc., who have emerged, and Guo Yue lost to the big demon Zhang Yining in 09, and even took her to the world ranking in singles plummeted, at that time she had and could only maintain the results of the women's doubles competition.
The reason for this result, a large part of which comes from her injury, daily high-intensity training is very consuming her body, and after a long period of competition, her injury problems are gradually revealed, cervical spine problems are the biggest reason why she can not train at high intensity, she often feels dizzy, physical exhaustion, and even unable to maintain a good physical condition, unable to train normally, over time, her strength has gradually declined.
In addition, Guo Yue's personality was not very smooth at that time, so she rarely had special communication with the female coach at that time, which also intensified the conflict between her and the coach, and Guo Yue could not maintain a normal state.
In January 2014, Guo Yue was removed from the coaching staff and bid farewell to the national team completely.
Guo Yue did not leave completely, but turned to coach the Liaoning Provincial Table Tennis Team, but it didn't take long for her to give up this position and decide to go back to college to make up for the knowledge she missed because of playing, and her stubborn character of not admitting defeat provided great help for this.
A year later, Guo Yue successfully received an admission letter from Tsinghua University, which was July 17, 2015, which was also her 27th birthday, and she ushered in another turning point in her life.
In the past, she had short hair, but now her long hair is fluttering, and her free and easy sportswear has also become a suit and skirt, and the temperament of the whole person has also changed, rich in poetry and calligraphy, Guo Yue's whole person looks gentle and elegant, and she has successfully transformed into a goddess with both body and knowledge.
And she has also changed from an athlete to a career related to her own financial profession, but she is still active in front of the screen and participates in a TV variety show.
Now, she focuses on the public welfare of left-behind children, and she also serves as the star promoter of this project, really going deep into the countryside, communicating and playing with them and teaching them to play table tennis.
In November 2023, she also published a video of participating in the "Super Witty Youth Conference" on a blog platform, which shows that she has already transformed.
In terms of feelings, she also has unexpected gains, now her object is the graduate student brother she met during college, and the relationship between the two is also very stable, and now Guo Yue has completely changed her face and become a strong woman with a bumper harvest in life and career.