Before the women's team final of the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Shi Zhihao, then the head coach of the Chinese table tennis women's team, suddenly decided to let Liu Shiwen, who was only 19 years old, serve as the first single, 20-year-old Ding Ning as the second single, and the veteran Guo Yan as the third singles.
You must know that Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning are participating in the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, and they have taken on such an important responsibility in the final.
In the end, Liu Shiwen lost two points, Ding Ning lost one point, and the Chinese women's table tennis lost to the Singapore women's table tennis team, missing the World Table Tennis Championships women's team for nine consecutive championships.
Because of this game, Liu Shiwen was labeled as having poor psychological quality at the beginning of her career, so that she never became the first main player until she retired from the national team.
Also affected was Guo Yue, the number one main force of Chinese women's table tennis at that time, who was abandoned at such an important moment, and her career ended early because of Shi Zhihao.
So was Shi Zhihao, the "culprit" of all this, finally punished?
Today, let's take a look at Shi Zhihao's unknown stories:
One
Shi Zhihao, who was born in 1959, is 65 years old this year.
Shi Zhihao is also a table tennis player, and he began to practice table tennis when he was 6 years old.
When he was 14 years old, Shi Zhihao entered the railway table tennis team, and a year later he entered the Bayi team, trained in the Bayi team for about three or four years, and Shi Zhihao entered the national team at the age of 19.
In the year when Shi Zhihao entered the national team, a female player from Shanghai who was three years younger than Shi Zhihao also entered the national team, she was Cao Yanhua.
It is worth mentioning that although Shi Zhihao was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, he settled in Shanghai with his parents when he was very young, so he is also a Shanghainese.
At that time, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua were both the leaders of the Shanghai team, and they knew each other before entering the national team, and they entered the national team at the same time, so naturally there were more topics.
Around 1980, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua already had a relationship that went beyond ordinary friendship, but at this time, the management of the national team was very strict, and Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao were still the main players, so they didn't have much time to think about these things at all.
In the 36th World Table Tennis Championships in 1981, the three main forces of the men's team were Cai Zhenhua, Shi Zhihao, and Xie Saike, and Cao Yanhua was the first main force of the women's team.
At this World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis men's and women's teams both won the team championship, Shi Zhihao also entered the top eight in singles, and Cao Yanhua also won the women's doubles championship and women's singles runner-up.
Although the Chinese men's table tennis won the team championship, this has little to do with Shi Zhihao, and even he lost two points in the final, which once put the Chinese team in a predicament.
is also because of his poor performance in the final, Shi Zhihao was adjusted out of the main layer after the World Table Tennis Championships, and left the national team soon after.
Shi Zhihao left the national team, but Cao Yanhua is still the No. 1 main force of the national table tennis women's team, the 37th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua not only led the women's team to win the team championship, but also was crowned the women's singles champion, and at the same time partnered Cai Zhenhua won the mixed doubles third place, and her partner Ni Xialian won the women's doubles runner-up.
In the 38th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua failed to win the team competition, but she successfully defended her title in the women's singles competition, and also partnered with Cai Zhenhua to win the mixed doubles championship and Ni Xialian to win the women's doubles championship.
At that time, table tennis did not enter the Olympic Games, so the World Table Tennis Championships was one of the highest-level competitions in table tennis, and Cao Yanhua won all the championships in all four events of the World Table Tennis Championships, and she was also the "Queen of Table Tennis" before Deng Yaping.
After this World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua, who was only 22 years old for various reasons, announced her retirement, and soon after she and her boyfriend Shi Zhihao entered the marriage hall.
Two
In 1987, Shi Zhihao was invited to coach in a German club, and Cao Yanhua chose to sing with her husband.
The income abroad is very high, so after a few years, they bought a luxury car and a villa, Shi Zhihao is teaching outside, and Cao Yanhua is used to being a housewife.
It's just that this kind of dull life at a glance may be okay at first, but Cao Yanhua, who was born as an athlete for a long time, feels very bored.
So in her spare time, she opened a restaurant with her friends, became her own boss, and soon developed Sino-German trade.
In 1995, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua took their son back to China to visit relatives, and the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships was held in Tianjin, China, this year, so the Chinese Table Tennis Association invited the two to watch the game.
At that time, the head coach of the Chinese table tennis men's team was Cai Zhenhua, a national teammate of Shi Zhihao's athletes. ”
Both Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua were moved, after all, in the past nine years abroad, both of them were concerned about their hometown, and after returning to China, Shi Zhihao became the head coach of Shanghai men's table tennis.
At the same time as Shi Zhihao became the head coach of Shanghai men's table tennis, Cao Yanhua began to prepare for his own table tennis club and Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School.
After coaching the Shanghai team for two years, Cai Zhenhua invited Shi Zhihao to coach the national team, and Shi Zhihao readily agreed to this invitation.
Originally, Shi Zhihao wanted Cao Yanhua to go to Beijing with him, but Cao Yanhua was doing well in Shanghai, and he didn't want to put it in a career that had just gotten up.
When Shi Zhihao first entered the national team, he first went to the women's second team as the head coach.
The work of the national team is very busy, so Shi Zhihao did not have time to return to Shanghai until the National Day in 1998, when Cao Yanhua said to him: "I don't want to live like this anymore, you come back, my son can't grow up without his father." ”
Shi Zhihao was naturally unwilling to give up Cai Zhenhua's future blueprint sketched by himself, so he had to persuade Cao Yanhua to take his son to Beijing together, Cao Yanhua was unwilling to give up his career, which seemed to have become a dead knot, and when Shi Zhihao was leaving, Cao Yanhua cried and said to him: "I hope you really think about my feelings and my son's feelings." ”
After that, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua quarreled as long as they called, and no one was willing to give in to this matter.
In 1999, Shi Zhihao entered the first team to coach and was the head coach of Li Ju and Yang Ying, and there was a young player named Li Nan in the women's first team at that time, who was 22 years younger than Shi Zhihao.
At the beginning of 2000, Shi Zhihao returned to Shanghai again after a year, and his 7-year-old son looked at him very strangely.
In the three years since he went to Beijing, Shi Zhihao and his son have spent no more than 20 days together, but he owes too much to his son.
Wait until Cao Yanhua took out one of her son's essays "My Dad": "My father is very handsome, he is the coach of the national team, I miss him very much, but I don't know what he looks like......"
Shi Zhihao couldn't hold back his tears, and Cao Yanhua said: "Since we are not willing to give in to each other, then why torture each other like this." ”
In this way, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua went through the divorce procedures without telling their parents, and in order not to let the parents of both sides notice, Cao Yanhua continued to send his son to his grandparents' house every week.
Three
After returning to Beijing, Shi Zhihao was transferred to coach the men's team, and Cai Zhenhua at this time was not only the head coach of the men's team and the head coach of the national table tennis, but also the director of the table tennis department of the Table Tennis Center of the General Administration of Sports.
During this period, the head coach of women's table tennis was Lu Yuansheng, both of whom were senior coaches, and they also led the team well
But Cai Zhenhua and Lu Yuansheng are not in harmony, the reason is that Cai Zhenhua is younger than Lu Yuansheng, but Cai Zhenhua's position was promoted quickly, so there is some estrangement between the two.
After the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Li Xiaodong replaced Lu Yuansheng as the new head coach of the women's team, and Yin Xiao replaced Cai Zhenhua as the head coach of the men's team.
Li Xiaodong has not had a good relationship with Wang Nan, the No. 1 main player of the women's team, after taking office, coupled with the Chinese women's table tennis fiasco at the 2002 Busan Asian Games.
Therefore, in 2003, although he had a bad relationship with Lu Yuansheng, Cai Zhenhua dismissed Li Xiaodong in order to prepare for the Athens Olympics and let Lu Yuansheng continue to serve as the head coach of the women's team.
The head coach of the men's team is Liu Guoliang who replaces Yin Xiao, and Yin Xiao is Liu Guoliang's head coach, so there will be no gap between the two because of this.
Of course, at the most critical time, Cai Zhenhua escorted Liu Guoliang, and most of the decisions were decided by Cai Zhenhua, so he was also relieved to let the young Liu Guoliang be the head coach of the men's team.
Besides, Shi Zhihao, after divorcing Cao Yanhua, he put all his energy into work, and because of the failure of his marriage, he was afraid of love.
At this time, a woman came into his life, that is, the aforementioned female player Li Nan, who is 22 years younger than Shi Zhihao.
In the national team, Shi Zhihao is a coach, Li Nan is an athlete, not to mention that the two are 22 years apart, it is said that there is a natural gap in identity, but Li Nan admires Shi Zhihao very much, and he will find Shi Zhihao when he encounters any problems.
has always admired a person, and it will slowly become like, especially after learning that Shi Zhihao was divorced, Shi Zhihao slowly felt Li Nan's thoughts, but neither of them took the initiative to pierce this layer of window paper.
In 2004, Li Nan was basically not competitive in the national team, so she was eliminated from the national team, which made her very depressed, but she couldn't tell her family about these things.
Li Nan could only complain to Shi Zhihao, Shi Zhihao had to keep comforting her, and slowly Li Nan came out of this state, and she and Shi Zhihao slowly began this relationship that was not recognized by others.
Four
After the Athens Olympics, Cai Zhenhua was promoted to assistant director of the General Administration of Sports of China, and has an absolute say in table tennis.
Therefore, in the new round of coach competition for the national table tennis team in 2005, Shi Zhihao successfully replaced Lu Yuansheng as the new head coach of the women's team.
When Shi Zhihao first became the head coach of the women's team, the echelon construction of the women's team was very good, with Wang Nan and Zhang Yining as the absolute main force, Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia in the Mesozoic Generation, and Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning in the younger generation.
Because in the next few competitions, the Chinese women's table tennis has achieved good results, after all, the big devils at that time were too strong, and almost no one could match them.
During this period, the relationship between Shi Zhihao and Li Nan has also made full progress, after all, the pressure after becoming a head coach is greater than before, especially during the preparation for the Beijing Olympics.
And Li Nan, as a former member of the national team, understands Shi Zhihao's feelings very well, which also makes Shi Zhihao recognize Li Nan even more in his heart.
However, the huge gap in age and identity still made Shi Zhihao have deep concerns, and at this time, Li Nan's words dispelled Shi Zhihao's concerns: "Now we are both single, it is normal for men and women to love, they just say go, they can say a month or a year, then it is not our problem, but they have a problem." ”
After the Beijing Olympics, the relationship between Shi Zhihao and Li Nan began to be known by more people, but at this time, more people paid attention to the situation of the women's team after Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, the two big devils, retired one after another.
At that time, the women's team also had many very outstanding players after Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, the most outstanding being Guo Yue, who won the world championship at the age of 16 and the Olympic champion at the age of 20.
But perhaps it was the encouragement of his little wife Li Nan that made Shi Zhihao "full of energy" in everything he did, and he had the heart to make a career in the women's team.
Although Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia are very good, they entered the first team when Lu Yuansheng was the head coach, while the youngsters Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning entered the first team when Shi Zhihao was the head coach.
Therefore, in Shi Zhihao's heart, Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning are his descendants, and the "energetic" Shi Zhihao must want his descendants to become the new leaders of the national team.
At this time, Guo Yue and Liu Shiwen respectively gave Shi Zhihao an opportunity, Guo Yue asked for the same treatment as Wang Nan at that time, but there was a clear gap between the two in terms of results and time to enter the team, how could they be treated equally.
Therefore, Shi Zhihao has ridiculed Guo Yue's low emotional intelligence in public more than once, and Guo Yue has lost in the team finals of the World Table Tennis Championships twice before.
Liu Shiwen won the Women's Singles World Cup in 2009 at the age of 18, the youngest women's singles champion in the history of the World Cup.
Therefore, in the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships women's team finals, Shi Zhihao was full of ambition to let Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning replace Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia, who were at their peak, as the first and second singles of Chinese women's table tennis.
In the end, it caused the ending we talked about at the beginning, and the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships is also the only time that the Chinese table tennis women's team has lost the women's team championship since 1991.
The key is that this match made Liu Shiwen, who was on the rise at the time, begin to fall into self-doubt, so much so that she later missed the London Olympics and failed to get the singles quota place in the Rio Olympics.
If there was no Shi Zhihao's behavior of pulling out seedlings, according to Liu Shiwen's development at that time, she would at least be able to achieve the Grand Slam, after all, she was only one step away from the Grand Slam.
As for Guo Yue, if Shi Zhihao was not suppressing during that period, but encouraging and teaching according to his aptitude, then Guo Yue's goal was to chase after top demons like Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining.
Instead of retiring in 2014 at the age of 26.
Of course, Shi Zhihao also paid the price for his actions, that is, after the London Olympics, he left the national team, and Kong Linghui replaced him as the new head coach of the women's team.
In terms of feelings, Shi Zhihao married Li Nan in 2011, and Li Nan gave birth to a daughter for Shi Zhihao in 2012.
Later, Shi Zhihao returned to his hometown of Shanghai to serve as the vice president of the Shanghai Institute of Sport and the first president of the China Table Tennis Academy, and was also elected vice president of the International Table Tennis Federation.
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