In the early morning of the 18th, Beijing time, the first leg of this season's Serie A Women's Volleyball League finals started. Chinese player Zhu Ting's Scandicci FC played away and finally defeated Conegliano 3-2 (25:22, 16:25, 25:22, 24:26, 17:15).
Image source: Scandicci social media
In this game, Zhu Ting, who started the game, performed well, scoring the second highest score in the team with 16 points, and helped the team to overtake in a backward situation.
Lang Ping, the former coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, appeared as a guest, she escorted the championship trophy into the arena, and hugged Zhu Ting affectionately after the game. The warm picture moved many Chinese fans.
Image source: Zhu Ting's agent social media
Lang Ping and Zhu Ting's master-apprentice relationship with each other is rumored to be a good story in the sports world, the two are master and apprentice, but they are more than master and apprentice. For Zhu Ting, Lang Ping is her teacher and her Bole, and in Lang Ping's eyes, this girl who is about the same age as her daughter is like her own child.
Zhu Ting had just entered the national team, and Lang Ping saw the shadow of his youth in her: "This child is too similar to me, and I was very thin and soft when I was a child. In order to supplement Zhu Ting's nutrition, Lang Ping would buy her protein powder out of his own pocket, and told her to eat more vegetables during meals......
With the help and training of Lang Ping, Zhu Ting has gradually grown from a fledgling teenager to an "MVP harvester", and has shined in international competitions such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup. And Zhu Ting's "birth" also helped the Chinese women's volleyball team, which was difficult at that time, to return to the top of the world.
Image Credit: Scandicci Club Social Media
After the Tokyo Olympics, Lang Ping stepped down as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team and lived a quiet retirement life; Zhu Ting left the field for a short time due to injury, and fell into a trough due to external criticism.
During this period, Lang Ping encouraged Zhu Ting to return to the national team many times to continue to fight for the country, and helped her analyze the physical and technical problems, and urged her to strengthen physical training. With the help of her mentor, Zhu Ting's competitive state gradually improved.
Not long ago, Zhu Ting, who came out of the trough, announced that she would return to the national team during this year's World Women's Volleyball League and contribute to the Chinese women's volleyball team to qualify for the Paris Olympics. However, at present, Zhu Ting's most important task is to help Scandic stand on the top podium of the league.
According to the rules of the competition, the Serie A women's volleyball final adopts a best-of-five system. Scandicci, who has already won a game, has the lead on the road to the title. In the next game, Zhu Ting will return to the home field with the team and continue to fight for the championship trophy!
Source: China News Network