Recently, Hao Shuai, a 38-year-old world champion of national table tennis, accepted the invitation of the Japanese T League and will go to Japan to participate in the T League.
Many young fans may not be familiar with Hao Shuai, and wonder how the 38-year-old veteran will be favored by the Japan Table Tennis Association and invited to Japan to participate in the competition.
In fact, Hao Shuai was once on a par with Wang Hao, and once called Wang Hao, Chen Xuan, Qiu Yike and others the Six Little Dragons of Chinese men's table tennis.
Hao Shuai, the same age as Wang Hao, was born in 1983, and as early as the age of 17, he entered the national first team.
In 2003, hao Shuai, who was 20 years old at the time, reached the men's singles final of the ITTF year-end finals, and the opponent he defeated in the semi-finals was Liu Chengmin, who later won the Athens Olympic Games, and Liu Chengmin defeated Wang Liqin in the first round of the year-end finals!
In the final, Hao Shuai played against Wang Hao, and the two young players who were only 20 years old at the time experienced seven rounds of bitter battles, and in the end, Hao Shuai lost 3-4 to Wang Hao, regrettably winning the runner-up.
And this competition also made Hao Shuai gradually in the competition with Wang Hao.
The following year at the Athens Olympic Games, Wang Hao qualified for the Olympic Men's Singles and Men's Doubles Games, while Hao Shuai did not have a chance with the Olympic Games.
One of the games that really affected Hao Shuai's career was at the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships, when the 22-year-old Hao Shuai passed the hurdles to reach the men's singles quarterfinals, and his opponent in the quarterfinals was the Danish player Metz, who eliminated Wang Hao.
In the last round of the game against Wang Hao, Metz frequently used the stunt of releasing high balls, which also made Wang Hao upset and anxious to attack, causing too many unnecessary mistakes, and in the end, Metz swept Wang Hao with a score of 4-0.
Hao Shuai against Metz, before the game, Hao Shuai made full preparations, the game began, quickly entered the state of the game, three consecutive sets, the big score 3-0 lead.
In the fourth game, Hao Shuai became more and more courageous, and won the pre-match 10-8, at this time, the cameras on the field were all aimed at Hao Shuai, waiting for the Chinese boy to break into the final four.
However, at this time, Metz once again sacrificed his own skill - putting a high ball.
Facing Metz's high ball, Hao Shuai made the same mistake as Wang Hao, he always wanted to kill the opponent with one board, but because he was too anxious to make mistakes, Metz saved two match points, and then scored two consecutive points to win a set with a 12-10 score.
In fact, although he was pulled back by Metz, if Hao Shuai can sink his heart and deal with Metz in the next game, there will still be a chance to win.
But unfortunately, Hao Shuai himself panicked, in the later games, Hao Shuai became more and more anxious, completely lost the rules, and in the end, Hao Shuai lost three more sets with 7-11, 9-11 and 6-11 scores, giving up the victory!
For Hao Shuai's defeat, Liu Guoliang was very dissatisfied, believing that Hao Shuai's psychological quality was too poor.
In the 2006 Direct World Table Tennis Championships Selection Competition, Hao Shuai won the first place in the Direct World Table Tennis Championships, but in the end, Hao Shuai still did not qualify for the Team World Table Tennis Championships, when Liu Guoliang sent Wang Liqin, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Chen Xuan and 18-year-old Ma Long!
In this way, Hao Shuai was ruthlessly abandoned by Liu Guoliang.
Even in 2007, there was a video of Liu Guoliang slapping Hao Shuai on the Internet, to which Liu Guoliang explained that he did not really hit Hao Shuai, but just a kind reminder, and Hao Shuai has not responded to this.
In the 2011 team selection competition, Hao Shuai achieved the top three in the team, but in the end, Hao Shuai did not qualify for the singles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships, and only qualified for the mixed doubles that was the least valued at that time! You know, at that time, the World Table Tennis Championships singles qualifications, each association had 7 qualifications.
For Hao Shuai's defeat, the explanation given by Liu Guoliang at that time was that Hao Shuai's external performance was not good, and it was impossible to participate in the Olympic Games, so there was no need to let him participate in the World Table Tennis Championships singles!
I don't know if such an explanation can convince the public, but at least the editor's heart is unacceptable, since the Beijing Olympic Games, each association can only have two athletes to participate in the Olympic singles competition, do we only send two athletes to participate in the singles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships?
Hao Shuai was played by his own ability, but he was ruthlessly abandoned by Liu Guoliang!
When Hao Shuai talked about how he had struggled for more than ten years, but his efforts had not been rewarded for a long time, Hao Shuai said that he was indeed very sad, but he had never despaired!
Hao Shuai said: Although my heart will be very uncomfortable, but I am not desperate, I have worked hard, and I have also presented a wonderful game to the audience, so I can also accept the final result. From the current point of view, table tennis is almost all of me, but I still have a long way to go, it should be not only table tennis, there are still many places that need to be worked on. After so many years, although there are more defeats than victories on the field, it will be very uncomfortable. But I never complain, and I don't regret choosing table tennis.
Today' Hao Shuai is 38 years old, and Wang Hao, who is the same age as him, has retired as early as 2014, and Hao Shuai still has not left his beloved table tennis table, and he still silently serves as a sparring partner in the team.
Now Hao Shuai accepts the invitation of the Japanese T League and will go to Japan to participate in the competition, in this regard, Hao Shuai said that this is the first time to participate in japan's T League, and he will do his best to strive for good results.
It is worth mentioning that this year's National Games, Hao Shuai will still represent the Tianjin team to participate, I hope That Hao Shuai can achieve good results in the T League and the National Games, come on!