The Chinese table tennis team is known as the "dream team of Chinese sports" because there are so many Olympic champions and world champions in the history of the Chinese table tennis team.
And behind these world champions and Olympic champions, the Chinese table tennis team naturally has many very good coaches.
In fact, in addition to those head coaches and head coaches who are in the spotlight, the head coach is the backbone of national table tennis, and even to a certain extent, the head coach is the key to whether a player can succeed.
After all, the head coach and head coach generally grasp the general direction, lead the players to train, and formulate training plans are the tasks of the head coach, which is why the players are often "like father and son" with the head coach.
Today, we will take stock of the four best coaches of the Chinese table tennis team in the past two or three decades:
One: Li Falcon
In 1963, Li Falcon was born in an ordinary family in Beijing.
As long as the fans who pay attention to the Chinese table tennis team should be no stranger to Li Falcon, who is the current head coach of the Chinese table tennis team.
Before becoming the head coach of the national table tennis team, Li Falcon was the head coach of the women's team for more than 20 years.
In fact, fans who are familiar with national table tennis know that Li Falcon originally had no chance to become the head coach of the national table tennis team, but it was because in 2017 that the head coach of the women's team, Kong Linghui, was exposed to "shedu" that he sat in the position of head coach of the women's team.
After that, the head coach of the national table tennis Liu Guoliang was also transferred, and the head coach of the men's team Qin Zhijian led the players to "complain" for Liu Guoliang by boycotting the game, so Qin Zhijian was also expelled from the national team.
At this time, Li Falcon became the most senior coach of national table tennis, although he did not have the name of head coach at that time, he had the fact of head coach, and this situation lasted until the end of 2018 Liu Guoliang returned to the national table tennis again and was elected as the new chairman of the Table Tennis Association.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Li Falcon stepped down as the head coach of the women's team and served as the head coach of the national table tennis.
Li Falcon is the coach of the national table tennis women's team that entered in 1995, and the first disciple Li Falcon took over after entering the women's team was Wang Nan.
Wang Nan had been in the national team for two years at that time and had entered a bottleneck period, so after Li Falcon took over her, he began to formulate a training plan for her, and even began to make technical changes.
Under the leadership of Li Falcon, Wang Nan became one of the most outstanding young members of the national table tennis women's team at that time, and even after Deng Yaping retired, she became a new generation leader of Chinese women's table tennis with very outstanding results.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Wang Nan won the women's singles and women's doubles championships, and she also became the second Grand Slam of Chinese women's table tennis after Deng Yaping.
After the Sydney Olympics, Li Falcon handed over Wang Nan, because he wanted to focus his energy on Zhang Yining, after all, Zhang Yining was a member of the team he had been leading in the Beijing team.
Zhang Yining has been suppressed by Wang Nan before, especially in 1999, 2001, and 2003, when he lost to Wang Nan three times.
But after Li Ying focused on Zhang Yining, Zhang Yining not only won the women's singles and women's doubles championships at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
She also successfully won the women's singles championship at the Beijing Olympics, becoming the first and so far the only double-lap Grand Slam player in the world women's table tennis.
After Zhang Yining, Li Falcon focused on Li Xiaoxia.
Li Xiaoxia has been suppressed by Anshan hometown Guo Yue in the early stage of her career, and basically Li Xiaoxia's light has been covered by Guo Yue until 2010.
But after Li Falcon took over, Li Xiaoxia not only gradually took the lead in the competition with Guo Yue, but also won the 2012 London Olympics championship and the 2013 Paris World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship, becoming the fourth Chinese women's table tennis player to play a Grand Slam team.
After Li Xiaoxia, Li Falcon brought out Zhu Yuling, 2016 Rio Olympics 21-year-old Zhu Yuling is a member of the women's team P card, at that time she was also called the next successor of the women's team by fans.
But in 2017, Li Falcon was temporarily promoted to head coach, and Zhu Yuling could only be handed over to Qiu Yike, and then Zhu Yuling first fell into a trough, and then fell seriously ill, and after the Tokyo Olympics, the 26-year-old announced her retirement.
In Li Falcon's coaching career, three Grand Slam players have been trained, not to mention world champions and national champions.
Two: Wu Jingping
Wu Jingping was originally the table tennis leader of the Sichuan Sports Team, and it was a coincidence that he was able to enter the national team to coach.
In 1991, Cai Zhenhua, who had been the head coach of the Chinese men's table tennis for two years, was ordered to re-establish the coaching team of the men's team.
So under the recommendation of another coach Yang Guangyan, Cai Zhenhua transferred Wu Jingping, who he was completely unfamiliar with, to the men's team as a coach.
Wu Jingping failed to coach the Sichuan team at that time, and after two years of coaching abroad, he returned to the Sichuan team as a team leader, so he was not optimistic about Wu Jingping from top to bottom at that time.
Just entered the national team, Wu Jingping was in charge of Lu Lin, Wu Jingping didn't have much experience at that time, all he could do was to work overtime to accompany Lu Lin to practice, and at the same time, he was good at summarizing, and he wrote several dense training summaries.
In 1992, Lu Lin partnered Wang Tao in the Barcelona Olympics to win the doubles championship, and after that, Wu Jingping's group came in with young players such as Ma Lin and Qin Zhijian.
Because, when he took over Lu Lin, Lu Lin was already a world champion, so Wu Jingping was eager to cultivate a world champion by himself at that time.
In 1996, Cai Zhenhua explained an important job to Wu Jingping, that is, to cultivate an excellent straight plate anti-glue, at that time, the straight plate was glued with Liu Guoliang, and the straight plate anti-glue was an important way to play in the mainland, but after Guo Yuehua, there has been no representative.
In this way, Wu Jingping began to put 80% of his energy on Ma Lin's body, under Wu Jingping's training, Ma Lin improved very quickly, and the 1999 World Table Tennis Championships broke into the men's singles final, although he finally lost to Liu Guoliang, but Ma Lin was only 19 years old at the time.
In addition to Ma Lin, in 2000, because of his good relationship with the Bayi team, Wu Jingping also brought Wang Hao, who was also a straight board, into his command.
In the 2004 Athens Olympics, the eldest disciples Ma Lin and Chen Xi won the men's doubles championship, it is worth mentioning that Chen Xi was also a member of Wu Jingping's group at that time, and he was specially asked to go to his group in 2003, just to partner with Ma Lin in doubles.
The second disciple Wang Hao also reached the men's singles final in the end, but only won the silver medal in the men's singles.
After the Athens Olympics, there were three main players in Wu Jingping's group, so he separated Chen Xi, leaving Ma Lin and Wang Hao, who had been taking him.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Ma Lin and Wang Hao met in the men's singles final, and finally Ma Lin, as a senior brother, won the men's singles championship of the Beijing Olympics.
Wang Hao has been the number one player in the men's team since the Beijing Olympics, and he participated in the Olympic Games for the third time at the London 2012 Olympics, and although he lost to Zhang Jike again in the men's singles final, he has reached the final of three consecutive Olympic Games, which also proves his strength.
After that, Wu Jingping also brought Xu Xin, the last glory of the direct shooting, and Fan Zhendong, the number one main force of Chinese men's table tennis, and successfully helped Fan Zhendong to change his skills.
In Wu Jingping's coaching career, although he failed to bring out a Grand Slam, this does not affect his greatness, after all, Wang Hao, the head coach of the men's team of the Chinese table tennis team, and Ma Lin, the head coach of the women's team, are both direct disciples of Wu Jingping.
Three: Xiao Zhan
Xiao Zhan was born in Sichuan Province in 1968 and is 56 years old this year.
Xiao Zhan's father was a table tennis player when he was young, and after retiring, he also became the chairman of the Sichuan Table Tennis Association.
Xiao Zhan is also a table tennis player, and has also entered the national team, but he has almost no presence in the national team, and his best result is the runner-up in the 1989 National Championships.
After that, Xiao Zhan slowly faded out of the national team, and then he went to Yugoslavia, Qatar, and Taiwan, China to coach.
It wasn't until 1998 that Xiao Zhan returned to Sichuan as the head coach of the men's team, and he discovered Qiu Yike and successfully delivered talents to the national team.
In 2002, Xiao Zhan and Qiu Yike came to the national team together, Xiao Zhan was coached in the second team at the beginning, and soon after he entered the first team, successively taking Liu Guozheng, Qiu Yike, Chen Xi and other players.
It's just that Liu Guozheng, Chen Xi and other team members were already world champions or Olympic champions in Xiao Zhan's group, so at that time, Xiao Zhan also wanted to cultivate a world champion by himself.
At this time, Zhang Jike, who entered the national team for the second time, was assigned to Zhang Jike's group, and at the beginning Xiao Zhan focused on Chen Xi, because Chen Xi was the main force at that time and had the ability to compete for the Beijing Olympic Games.
After the Beijing Olympics, Xiao Zhan focused on Zhang Jike.
When Zhang Jike entered the national team for the second time, the ranking of the national team was completely behind Ma Long, so at that time, when Wang Hao was still at his peak and Ma Long was focused on training by the coaching staff, it was not easy for Zhang Jike to play.
But it was in this passive situation that Xiao Zhan took Zhang Jike step by step from the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships men's team final to win the men's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam and then to the men's singles championship at the London Olympics.
Zhang Jike only took 445 days to become a Grand Slam, overtaking in the corners.
It can be said that Zhang Jike is a grand slam outside the national table tennis plan, if it is not Zhang Jike, the third grand slam in men's table tennis is likely to be Wang Hao.
After Zhang Jike, Xiao Zhan went to the women's team to bring Wang Manyu, before Xiao Zhan coached Wang Manyu, Wang Manyu was just a young player who had just entered the women's first team.
But after Xiao Zhan coached, Wang Manyu quickly played, and in 2018, she became one of the main forces of the women's team at the age of 19.
Today, 25-year-old Wang Manyu has won the women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships, and she is also one of the absolute main forces of the women's team.
After Wang Manyu, Xiao Zhan became the head of the mixed doubles team of the national table tennis team, and he was also the head coach of Wang Chuqin.
Before Xiao Zhan coached Wang Chuqin, although Wang Chuqin was the next successor of the men's team, he did not have any hard results.
But after Xiao Zhan coached, Wang Chuqin visibly rose to the naked eye, especially in the Hangzhou Asian Games, Wang Chuqin defeated Fan Zhendong in the men's singles final to win the Asian Games men's singles championship.
After entering the Olympic year, Wang Chuqin's strength is still improving, while Fan Zhendong's state is declining.
At present, there is really a lot of suspense about who will win the men's singles championship at the Paris Olympics.
Four: Qin Zhijian
Qin Zhijian was born in Jiangsu in 1976 and is 48 years old this year.
Qin Zhijian should be the best of these four coaches, the best performance as an athlete, he once won the World Cup men's team championship with the team in 1994, and also partnered with Yang Ying to win the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2001.
Qin Zhijian entered the national men's team as a coach in 2005, his first disciple was Ma Long, and his second disciple was Xu Xin.
Before Qin Zhijian took Ma Long, Ma Long was already a key player of the men's team, and in 2006, in the second year of taking Ma Long, Ma Long was promoted to the main level of the men's team.
It's just that at that time, Ma Long basically didn't have any chance to participate in the Beijing Olympics, not to mention that Wang Liqin and Ma Lin were still at their peak, even Wang Hao and Chen Xi were much better than Ma Long at that time.
After the Beijing Olympics, Wang Liqin was assigned to Qin Zhijian's group, although Wang Liqin was still the main force of the men's team at this time, he was already at the end of his career, so most of Qin Zhijian's energy was still on Ma Long and Xu Xin.
If Zhang Jike hadn't been born, Ma Long would have become the new brother of the men's team after the London Olympics.
However, Zhang Jike successfully overtook Ma Long in the London Olympics, which led to the fact that after the London Olympics, although the coaching staff still made Ma Long the number one main force of the men's team according to the established plan, Ma Long always felt that he was a dwarf when facing Zhang Jike.
Especially after losing to Zhang Jike again in the men's singles final of the 2014 Tokyo World Cup, Ma Long has already thought about retiring.
At this critical moment, Qin Zhijian has been helping Ma Long find a way, and it is precisely because of Qin Zhijian's encouragement that Ma Long can win the men's singles championship at the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, the men's singles championship at the Rio Olympics, and the ...... in Dusseldorf Talent in Budapest...... to be able to ...... at the Tokyo Olympics
Although Qin Zhijian's coaching career has brought out disciples, Ma Long is the world's GOAT in table tennis, and he deserves to be the first person.
Speaking of Xu Xin, as the best straight board glory of national table tennis, Xu Xin not only won three World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles championships in his career, but also won two World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles championships, and won two team championships at the same time.
It can be said that when it comes to table tennis doubles in those years, the first athlete who comes to mind will be Xu Xin, although he still failed to break through the fate of the left hand of the national table tennis men's team, but he also pushed the left and right of doubles with his left hand to another peak, worthy of the title of "doubles king".
In the end, these four outstanding coaches were not too good as coaches during their time as athletes, which also confirms the saying "a good athlete is not necessarily a good coach, and a good coach is not necessarily a good athlete".
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