Tian Bingyi and Zhang Nan
In the Uber Competition, we met a familiar face, the meritorious coach of the Chinese women's doubles, the world champion Tian Bingyi during the athlete period. After the departure of his old partner Li Yongbo, Tian Bingyi is currently an advisor to Guoyu, but still came to Bangkok, Thailand, to supervise the Uber Cup.
In July, Tian Bingyi will turn 55, and in April last year, the Chinese Badminton Association announced the list of coaching teams, Tian Bingyi and Zhong Bo appeared together in the advisory column. After retiring in 1992, Tian Bingyi remained in the team as a doubles coach, and was later promoted to deputy head coach, in charge of the women's doubles team. Tian Bingyi was the mentor of the women's doubles champion group Ge Fei /Gu Jun in 1996 and 2000, and also brought out a number of world champions, and the national women's doubles can rule the world for a long time, Tian Bingyi is indispensable. Unlike Li Yongbo, who has been in the wind and fire for many years, Tian Bingyi is much more low-key.
Tian Bingyi watched the Chinese women's team face Malaysia
Although Tian Bingyi has worked hard for many years, he is ultimately powerless to return to heaven, especially when there are many problems in the national team. In the women's doubles three-four competition at the Rio Olympics, Yu Yangchong coach Tian Bingyi "shouted" and threw the towel heavily on the ground. And Tian Bingyi couldn't do anything at this time.
Tian Bingyi and Li Yongbo were ace partners when they were athletes, and after becoming coaches, they became Li Yongbo's best helpers. The merits have been said by posterity, but from the point of view that Guoyu was able to get out of the trough, this group of coaches was successful, although later Li Lingwei, Li Mao and others left one after another, and Li Yongbo's management was chaotic in the later period, etc., but the results from beginning to end could not be erased.
Doubles head coach Zhang Jun
Now 55-year-old Tian Bingyi is still in the front line, although his identity is only a consultant, he still dutifully assists Zhang Jun's group of coaches, which can also be regarded as a ride on the horse. This professionalism is still worthy of recognition. At present, the national feather women's doubles has suffered the lowest trough in more than twenty years, although Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan won the world championship last year, and is currently ranked first in the world, but it does not have the kind of team members such as Ge Fei / Gu Jun, Gao Kun / Huang Sui, Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen, Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei and other players who stand in front of the net and make the opponent shudder, in the face of the women's doubles group that needs to start again in the trough, Tian Bingyi's role this time has changed, but the persistence and love are still there.