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In May 1995, Tianjin City was like a blazing sun, enthusiastically welcoming the arrival of the World Table Tennis Championship finals. In the heart of the Tianjin Stadium, more than 7,000 fans gathered to follow and witness every moment on the pitch with full attention, and it was an exciting competition.
This match is a top-level competition brought by the Chinese men's table tennis team and the traditional rival Swedish team. The pre-game situation was difficult for the Chinese team, losing the first game and getting off to an unfavorable start.
However, at this critical moment, Ma Wenge, the soul of the national team, stepped forward and took on the responsibility of turning the tide.
Faced with a huge gap of 9:4, Ma Wenge's face was as calm as water, but his heart was burning with endless fighting spirit. He clenched his racket tightly, his eyes like a torch, keeping an eye on his opponent's every move, patiently waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
Ma Wenge used the backhand raw rubber play that he had painstakingly studied for many years, and shuttled flexibly on the court, and the opponent's fierce attacks were skillfully defused by him. Before the audience was aware of it, Ma Wenge had successfully equalized the score, which made the fans boil.
In the stands, the Chinese players were excited and burst into tears. Ma Wenge's outstanding performance undoubtedly injected strong confidence into them and rekindled their fighting spirit and state.
At this moment, Ma Wenge cried with joy, tears coming out of his eyes. Years of hard work and dedication have finally earned him the coveted championship honor, which will forever be engraved in his heart and become the most glorious peak moment of his life.
Interlude: Ma Wenge, who has been determined to become a member of the national team since he was a child, began professional training in table tennis as early as Tianjin. He is extremely talented, and under the careful guidance of the school's coach, his skills have improved rapidly, and he has repeatedly achieved great results in inter-school competitions.
At the age of 12, he was recognized by the Tianjin Sports Brigade, and since then he has embarked on the road of professional training, and finally realized his dream step by step and became the mainstay of the national team.
The talented Ma Wenge has devoted himself to the study of table tennis since he was 6 years old. He was deeply influenced by his sister and developed a keen interest in the sport. With his keen sense of touch and super ability to imitate, Ma Wenge's skills improved by leaps and bounds in the training of the school team, and soon won one championship trophy after another in the inter-school competition.
At the age of 12, Ma Wenge received deep attention from the instructor of the Tianjin Sports Work Brigade, successfully integrated into this dynamic team, and began his professional and rigorous training process.
On this challenging stage, he met a stern but wise master – Coach Cai Zhenhua, who had a profound and indelible influence on his game.
Coach Cai put forward strict requirements for Ma Wenge, so that he must keep up with the pace of the times and constantly innovate his playing style. After countless attempts and painstaking research, Ma Wenge finally succeeded in developing a backhand raw rubber play, and became famous in an important tournament in Japan, opening up a new path for Chinese table tennis.
With this unique technical and tactical system, Ma Wenge has repeatedly won good results in various competitions and achieved remarkable results. With the increasing sophistication of his skills, Ma Wenge soon attracted the attention of the national team's coaching staff and became the backbone of the national team.
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships is approaching, and as the main force of this event, Ma Wenge shoulders a great responsibility.
After arduous preparations, Ma Wenge made great achievements at the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships, and he helped the Chinese team overcome many difficulties with his outstanding personal performance, and finally won the men's team championship in one fell swoop, creating a glorious history.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, in 2009, Ma Wenge received a sincere invitation from the men's table tennis team in his hometown Tianjin, and he decided to return to his motherland with his family to start a new chapter in his life.
This decision was undoubtedly a major challenge for Ma Wenge and his family, but with the firm support and deep understanding of his wife Li Fan, they resolutely bid farewell to life in Germany and embarked on a new journey.
In 2009, Ma Wenge was invited to return to Tianjin, officially opening a new chapter in his career as a table tennis coach. As the head coach of the Tianjin men's table tennis team, Ma Wenge quickly led the team to regain its past glory with his excellent coaching wisdom and rich practical experience.
Under his careful guidance, the Tianjin team has won many good results in many heavyweight events such as the National Games and the National Championships, and has successfully promoted the reputation of Tianjin table tennis to the whole country. Watching his disciples win the championships one after another in the arena, Ma Wenge's heart was filled with endless joy and pride.
However, Ma Wenge paid more attention to the training of young people. He knows that it is precisely because of the important platform of the school that he can stand out from many outstanding athletes and become an outstanding athlete.
Nowadays, Tianjin's youth training industry is facing a serious shortage of talents.
In order to solve this problem, Ma Wenge made up his mind to carry out a wide range of table tennis talent selection activities throughout the province. He braved hardships and traveled from place to place, and finally found a group of talented children in various schools.
However, it is not enough to just discover talents, but more importantly, how to nurture and guide these children so that they can truly grow into leaders in the table tennis world.
To this end, Ma Wenge did not hesitate to share his valuable experience and correct the children's various deficiencies with great patience and care.
Ma Wenge's strict requirements for students often lead to some controversy and misunderstanding. However, these growing young people quickly grasped the meaning of Ma Wenge, and he just wanted to see the students perform at their best.
As a result, under the careful care of Ma Wenge, the Tianjin Table Tennis Youth Academy has flourished, continuously sending high-quality talents to Beijing, and some of them have embarked on the broad road to the national team, which makes Ma Wenge's heart full of deep joy and pride.
Incidentally, Ma Wenge's encounter with his wife, Li Fan, originated at a business center in the community where they lived. Because of their frequent visits to deal with various affairs, the two gradually entered each other's lives, got to know each other, and finally decided to hold hands to spend the rest of their lives together.
This prosaic love story reveals another side of Ma Wenge's life, in addition to his brilliant career as an athlete, he is also a humble and hardworking ordinary citizen with endless deep affection for his family.
In the first year after marriage, Ma Wenge played with the team as the main force of the national team, and had a rare opportunity to go home to visit his family. However, his wife, Li Fan, has no complaints, knowing that as a professional athlete, it is her husband's duty to devote himself to the competition.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Ma Wenge ushered in the year of his 29th birthday, and as the years passed, his physical condition was no longer able to withstand high-intensity training, and finally chose to retire with honor, bidding farewell to his nearly 20-year career as an athlete.
After retiring, Ma Wenge did not stay away from table tennis. On the contrary, he took on the role of coach in Tianjin, turning his love for table tennis into motivation to teach.
However, with the dissolution of the club, Ma Wenge's figure has gradually faded out of people's sight, this period for Ma Wenge, is undoubtedly a short and lost trough period in his life, he has been in contact with table tennis since he was a child, that enthusiasm for the sport and the desire to win the game, only a real athlete can deeply understand the loss of the court, he seems to have lost the vitality of life, and his heart is full of endless emptiness and loneliness.
Although the career of an athlete is full of shortness and passion, table tennis has been deeply imprinted in the heart of the famous Chinese player Ma Wenge. Whenever I see others sweating on the table, I always feel envy and yearning for this sport.
After careful consideration, Ma Wenge made an important and remarkable decision to rekindle his passion for table tennis - to go to Germany to continue his table tennis career.
In the autumn of 2000, with a vision for the future, he embarked on a long journey to a foreign country with his beloved wife Li Fan and two young children.
When he first arrived in Germany, the language barrier undoubtedly caused a lot of troubles for Ma Wenge, but with the meticulous care and assistance of his wife, he quickly adapted to the rhythm of local life and successfully joined a table tennis club.
With the skills of the former world champion, Ma Wenge has won many championships in various competitions in Germany, and has tirelessly won one honor after another.
Over time, Ma Wenge gradually gained a large and loyal fan base in Germany. At the end of the competition, he could always drink wine and talk about life with these supporters, which was the greatest joy of his life for Ma Wenge.
After spending nine years in Germany, one day in 2009, Ma Wenge received a special call from his hometown Tianjin, inviting him to return to China as a coach. Faced with this decision, Ma Wenge's family was in a dilemma, they had already settled down in Germany, where their two children also received high-quality educational resources.
However, with the full support and understanding of his wife Li Fan, Ma Wenge resolutely made a decision and led the family to embark on the journey back to China again.
Since then, Ma Wenge has devoted himself to promoting the development of table tennis. The former world champion is continuing his table tennis dreams with a new attitude.