One
On September 5, 1986, Zhao Yunlei was born in Yichang City, Hubei Province, to a sports family, her father Zhao Lijun graduated from the basketball department of Wuhan University of Physical Education, and her mother Qu Xiaorong was a women's 7thlon in athletics.
After Zhao Yunlei was born, both her father and mother worked at yichang sports school, with her father being a basketball coach and her mother a tennis coach.
Born in such a family, Zhao Yunlei inherited her parents' excellent sports genes from a young age, but when she was in kindergarten, she was more brilliant in literature and art, and often made cameo appearances as small hosts.
The teacher saw that she hosted very well, so he recommended her to the "Little Three Gorges Stone" storytelling program of Yichang City Television Station, and did not expect that Zhao Yunlei was really selected.
At that time, Zhao Yunlei's parents were working at Yichang Sports School, and every afternoon from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. they had to lead the team to train, so Zhao Yunlei often played alone.
Every day after school, she will come to the sports school to "accompany" her parents, running between the basketball hall and the tennis hall, until 1994, when Zhao Yunlei was 8 years old, her parents felt that since they came to the sports school every day after school, they would find a project for Zhao Yunlei to practice, and they could also exercise.
But Zhao Lijun and Qu Xiaorong are both professional coaches, know the hardships of athletes, and they have never thought of cultivating their daughters into a professional athlete, so they chose a relatively easy sport - badminton.
They handed over their daughter to the hands of their colleague badminton coach Chen Jiyong, at first Zhao Yunlei was not interested in badminton, every morning in the sports school training, morning exercises, she always can't get up.
Her parents originally did not have high hopes for her, just wanted to exercise, coach Chen Jiyong as a colleague naturally knew the thoughts of Zhao Lijun and his wife.
Therefore, in the first two years of practicing badminton, Zhao Yunlei was late for training, could not get out of bed, and her parents did not care much, but Zhao Yunlei's good athlete genes made her outstanding in the badminton team of Yichang Sports School.
In 1996, the province organized a game, and Zhao Yunlei was beaten by the small members of the provincial training team, which aroused Zhao Yunlei's competitive spirit, when she asked her parents: "Where are those children training, where can they play the ball well?"
Her parents told Zhao Yunlei that she was a member of the provincial training team, so Zhao Yunlei began to train hard, looking forward to entering the provincial training team.
Two
In this way, after Zhao Yunlei returned to the city sports school, she was able to get up on time every morning, participate in morning exercises, and was also very active when training, and even often her teammates had finished practicing, and she had to practice.
Around March 1997, Zhao Yunlei finally got the notice of the selection of the Hubei Provincial Training Team, and her persistence also changed the idea of her father Zhao Lijun, and he also helped his daughter convince his wife Qu Xiaorong: "She is so insistent, she must like to play, since she likes it, let her try it."
However, before going to the provincial team, my mother still talked to Zhao Yunlei once: "I will negotiate the conditions with you in advance, once selected, no matter how hard and tired the training is, you must resist, and you must not give up halfway."
These problems did not scare Zhao Yunlei, but her mother often worried about her, and when the other members of the provincial training team went home at the weekend, only Zhao Yunlei was left.
Qu Xiaorong sometimes calls her daughter and says, "You are alone, or we will come back."
Zhao Yunlei always said lightly: "I don't go back, it's very good here."
In fact, Qu Xiaorong was still worried about whether her daughter could persist, after all, it was too hard to become a professional athlete, and Zhao Yunlei's cultural class results at that time were not bad, if she did not practice, she would not be worth the loss, but Zhao Yunlei was bent on "killing" a way in badminton.
After training in the provincial training team for half a year, one day Zhao Yunlei called her mother with a crying voice: "No fight, it is not fair."
Qu Xiaorong knew that her daughter should have been wronged, so she rushed to Wuhan, found the coach and team members to understand the situation, helped Zhao Yunlei analyze and the problems of her teammates, and after several communications, Zhao Yunlei was relieved.
After the end of this provincial training team, Zhao Yunlei returned to Yichang City to continue her original life, because she was not selected by the provincial team, badminton was temporarily faded out of Zhao Yunlei's life.
But she still insisted on training every day, but the momentum was not as strong as before, until 1999, when the provincial training team once again threw the olive branch to Zhao Yunlei, this time the parents gave the choice to Zhao Yunlei.
After careful consideration, Zhao Yunlei still decided to try it, so she once again went to the provincial training team.
Three
This time, Zhao Yunlei finally entered the Hubei Provincial Team, and after three years of training in the Hubei Provincial Team, in 2002, the 16-year-old Zhao Yunlei participated in the adjustment of the national youth team.
For this game, Zhao Yunlei was very interested, but she twisted her feet before the game, so Zhao Yunlei finally only achieved the fourth place in the women's singles and entered the national youth team.
After entering the national youth team, Zhao Yunlei played with dexterity and delicacy, and her pre-net skills were outstanding, and she gradually came to prominence in doubles matches.
In 2004, Zhao Yunlei and Ding Jiao won the women's doubles title at the 2004 Asian Youth Championships, which was also the first champion in Zhao Yunlei's career to cross the country.
With such a doubles advantage, Zhao Yunlei successfully entered the national second team in 2004, and after entering the national team, the intensity of training increased significantly, from Monday to Saturday, there were at least five or six hours of training every day.
This kind of training has also made Zhao Yunlei's level significantly improved, especially in doubles, and in 2006 she once again won the women's doubles championship at the Asian Youth Championship.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhao Yunlei finally entered the national first team as she wished, and after entering the first team, she partnered with Cheng Shu from Jiangsu, and in the Japanese badminton super competition, the two defeated the Malaysian duo of Chen Yihui and Huang Petty 2-1 in the final to win the first badminton super series.
In September, the two defeated the Chinese Macau duo Zhang Dan and Zhang Zhibo 2-0 at the China Badminton Masters to win the series championship again, and in December, the Zhao Yunlei Chengshu combination lost to Zhao Tingting and Zhang Yawen at the Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships and finished second, while the two ranked in the top ten in the world.
In 2009, Zhao Yunlei won the women's doubles championship with Cheng Shu at the German Open, then won the mixed doubles championship with Xu Chen 2-0 against teammate Zheng Bo Majin, and won the women's doubles championship with Cheng Shu in the subsequent All England Open, Indonesia Super, China Masters and French Super.
In the world rankings released in April, the combination of Zhao Yunlei and Cheng Shu jumped to second place, behind the Malaysian duo of Chen Yihui and Huang Petty.
In August, Zhao Yunlei and Cheng Shu entered the final for the first time in the World Championships, and finally lost to teammates Zhao Tingting and Zhang Yawen only finished second, on August 22, the BWF announced the latest edition of the world rankings, and the combination of Zhao Yunlei and Cheng Shu ascended to the world number one throne in women's doubles for the first time.
Four
In 2009, the BWF proposed a new Olympic competition rule, a doubles event can only produce two teams of players, after a month of thinking, the Chinese badminton team made a bold attempt to let Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan pair mixed doubles.
They reached the final four for the first time, but they did not become a regular partner after this, but this time the cooperation made the two have a good impression of each other.
Zhang Nan is a native of Beijing, introverted, Zhao Yunlei was born in Hubei, but because her grandparents and father are from the northeast, she has the delicate gentleness of a southern girl and the casual generosity of a northerner.
The personalities of the two just complement each other, and the love of badminton has made them have more common topics, with the increase of cooperation, they are more tacit on the field, and their feelings are unconsciously heating up off the field.
In the 2010 All England Open, Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan partnered again, and in the previous German Open, Zhao Yunlei and Chai Fanbiao cooperated, zhang Nan and Tian Qing were paired, but neither achieved good results.
So in the All England Open, the coach let Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei cooperate, this time the two were like a bamboo, won consecutive victories, and finally won the championship, after winning the championship, Zhang Nan hugged Zhao Yunlei and kissed his forehead.
At that time, the two just had a good feeling for each other, but did not determine the relationship, and Zhang Nan's kiss was also because of the loss of the previous few games, so he was more excited after winning the championship.
But the fans obviously misunderstood, and the two officially began to communicate, and the championship also laid the foundation for the two to become a fixed partner.
Since then, they have been given more opportunities to train and compete together, and if they don't win a championship, the two may not be a regular partner, and even the relationship does not progress so fast.
The 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games was zhao yunlei's first large-scale multi-sport event, and she was very excited that at the end of October, the Chinese badminton team went to Guangzhou for the final training before the Asian Games.
Zhao Yunlei has come to Guangzhou many times before for training, but this time it is obviously different, there is almost no adaptation time, and the training class has been a high-intensity and dense project from the first day.
Five
This training is simply devil training for Zhao Yunlei, but the effect is still good, on November 14, the women's team final Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing were arranged to play in the fifth, but in the end, the Chinese team won the women's team championship with a 3-0 victory over the opponent.
Zhao Yunlei did not contribute in the team match, and she wanted to go all out in the next single event, but who knew that her partner Cheng Shu sprained her foot during training the night before the game.
Therefore, Zhao Yunlei can only form a temporary partner with Tian Qing, which directly confuses Zhao Yunlei, because no one can replace Cheng Shu's position in her heart from the emotional and cooperative tacit understanding, and she does not want to believe it.
But she can't help but be sane and strong, because she knows that she is a professional athlete, anything can happen in the game, and she has to learn to face these things.
In this way, the two people who did not cooperate much, trained together every day, watched videos together, and communicated in time when there were problems, so the two reached the final all the way.
The opponents in the final were teammates Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli, who were called "strong and strong combination" by the coach, but in the end, Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing defeated Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli 2-1 to win the women's doubles championship.
The temporary partner miraculously won the gold medal, but in the mixed doubles final, Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan lost to the South Korean team Of Lee Hyo-jeong and Shin Baek-cheol, and the Guangzhou Asian Games won a total of two golds and one silver.
On February 5, 2011, the International Table Tennis Federation announced a new edition of the world rankings, Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan mixed doubles ranked first in the world, this year's Asian Championships and Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing won the women's doubles championship, and Zhang Nan won the mixed doubles championship, and was also elected as the best female athlete.
In the same year, Zhao Yunlei Zhang Nan defeated the hosts Ad cork and Banker at the World Championships to win the Mixed Doubles Championship for the first time, and at the end of the year, the two also won the Mixed Doubles Championship in the International Badminton Federation Finals.
In 2012, Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing won the women's doubles championship for the first time at the Asian Championships, followed by the mixed doubles championship at the London Olympics, and then the women's doubles championship with Tian Qing.
Six
At this time, the love affair between Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan has almost been made public, and everyone is unanimously optimistic about these two, believing that they are another star couple in the Chinese badminton world after Lin Dan and Xie Xingfang.
And after that, Zhao Yunlei's performance is still very dazzling, winning the Women's Doubles Championship of the National Games in 2013, the Women's Doubles Champion of the 2014 Asian Games, the Mixed Doubles Champion, and the title of the Best Female Athlete of the Year by the International Badminton Federation in 2014.
But after that, some problems occurred, with Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing losing to The Japanese in switzerland and the Tang You Cup to the South Koreans.
The most important thing is that at the World Championships, when Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing competed in the women's doubles competition, there was no communication at all, without saying a word, what words the two turned back to the coach and said that after the two fell, there was not even a mutual support action.
Even many foreign fans know that these two people should be in trouble, and the subsequent facts are also illustrated, because Zhao Yunlei and her mixed doubles partner Zhang Nan also have zero communication for "three months".
The seats selected by the two men in the players' area were separated by two rows, and throughout the game, neither of them said a word, but they talked and laughed with the others.
Rio Olympics, originally Zhao Yunlei was going to participate in the women's doubles and mixed doubles events, but just before the Olympic Games, Zhao Yunlei suddenly announced that she would give up women's doubles because of the following reasons: to ensure mixed doubles and not to do both.
So Tian Qing failed to participate in the Rio Olympic Games, and Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan ultimately failed to defend their titles, only won a third place, and then about Zhao Yunlei blew herself up and broke up with Zhang Nan, and also announced that she retired from the Rio Olympics.
At this time, some netizens speculated whether Zhang Nan and Tian Qing were together, and sure enough, it was not long before the netizens' speculation was confirmed, and it had to be said that she was betrayed by her boyfriend and girlfriend at the same time, and Zhao Yunlei could bear to participate in the competition.
In June 2018, Zhao Yunlei announced that she was married to her younger brother Hong Wei, and in December, Zhang Nan and Tian Qing also announced that they were licensed to marry, but the comments on both sides were completely different, with blessings on the one hand and ridicule on the other.
This badminton triangle has made the chaotic scene of the Chinese badminton team seen by everyone, and the layout of the national badminton in the Rio Olympic Games has also been disrupted.
After that, Li Yongbo, the head coach of the Chinese badminton team, stepped down, and sometimes the results are important, but the character and morality are also the top priorities!