The name Shang Juncheng may be a little strange to many sports fans, but his father Shang Yi and his mother Wu Na believe that everyone is not unfamiliar. Born in a sports family, Shang Juncheng did not inherit the mantle of his father and mother to play football or table tennis, he chose a new path - playing tennis!
Shang Juncheng's father is former national footballer Shang Yi, and his mother is Wu Na, who has won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with Liu Guoliang. The combination of football genes and table tennis genes "gave birth" to Shang Juncheng, who is now the fourth tennis teenager in the ITF International Tennis Federation Youth World Rankings. Although he doesn't play football or table tennis, Shang says he inherits "Dad's speed and Mom's feel." In addition to athletic talent, Shang Yi and Wu Na also brought Shang Cheng a "relatively straight and flat athlete's road".
Look, this is also quite Versailles. After all, his father was Shang Yi and his mother was Wu Na.
Shang Yi, a former Beijing Guoan team player, has been selected for the Chinese national team and is the first Chinese player to land in the Spanish league. As a member of the national table tennis women's team, Wu Na has won numerous championships, including the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with Liu Guoliang.
Think about the love crystallization of these two people, in addition to inheriting the high appearance of their parents, the sports gene DNA is even more enviable, worthy of "Versailles".
Shang Cheng, who just celebrated his 16th birthday last month, has soared to no. 4 in the world on the ITF International Tennis Federation Youth World Rankings. It is also worth a chance at Versailles that the 3 players ahead of him were all born in 2003, and shang juncheng was Aquarius in 2005.
Unlike the unspoken rule of changing the age that was once prevalent in the Chinese sports industry in order to allow players to achieve the effect of "playing small with big" in his youth, Shang Juncheng played all the way up "with small play" from childhood, which also painted a layer of background for his style of play. Shang Juncheng said: "I have always been playing with children older than me since I was a child, and at that time I could only start with defense; after all, my body was not as strong as them, and the strength of the attack was not enough, so I could only fight defensively and counterattack first. ”
However, from going to the United States in 2006 to train at the famous Sanchez Kassel Tennis Academy, to moving to IMG Academy in June 2019, Shang Juncheng has grown taller and stronger, and his playing style has also evolved. "I'm playing a bit like De Minar now, with a lot of defensive coverage and the ability to switch from defense to attack at key moments. But after my physical abilities have further improved, I hope to learn from Djokovic, who is extremely strong in terms of consistency and flexibility, and the techniques of the bottom line, serve and serve are extremely balanced, like an enhanced version of Deminault. Shang Juncheng analyzed.
Don't mistake Shang Juncheng for a kid who will only run around the field desperately to save the ball, he proudly said: "My forehand attack ability is very strong!" Under the tutelage of the world-class coach of IMG Academy, Shang Juncheng is practicing a more aggressive play style of pressing the opponent within the bottom line, "the opponent will always guess when I will suddenly attack; plus my defensive ability is relatively strong, it is easier to disrupt the opponent's thinking." ”
Although he could not conduct face-to-face interviews with the business process in Florida only through WeChat, the logic and order of his conversation can still be felt through the mobile phone screen, and he also has the ability to analyze quite precociously.
At first, it was his parents who felt that Xiao Juncheng was too noisy at home, hoping to consume his exuberant energy on the sports field. Although he used to play table tennis with his mother and football with his father when he was a child, he soon fell in love with tennis. Shang Yi once wanted his son to inherit his father's business, but for Wu Na, out of his mother's love for his child, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief at his son's choice. Shang said: "After I was born, my father had two very big surgeries, and until now my knees are still uncomfortable. Mom didn't want me to suffer the same injury, she told me that she was happy that I chose tennis. ”
Shang Juncheng can certainly feel the precious genes left to him by his parents, in addition to "running fast, like dad; feel good, like my mother", he learned any new technology very quickly, "I am recently changing the serve action, a week basically changed." ”
However, what parents left for Shang Cheng is far from just natural sports genes and physical abilities, but more in the strong "software" support. It is precisely because Shang Yi and Wu Na have been athletes who have reached the top level, they know how great a sacrifice must be made to achieve all this, and they are particularly strict with their children from an early age.
Under the long-term words and deeds of his parents, Shang Juncheng has always been a very disciplined child. He barely plays games because he "doesn't want to have unnecessary distractions"; he usually watches movies that are "helpful for thinking", such as "Inception" and Jordan's biopics, and loves "Burst Drummer". "My sleep management is also very good, and I sleep enough so that my body can prepare for the next day's training and competition." Especially at this stage, he attaches great importance to diet, work and rest, and physical training, "these are the foundations that determine what height I can hit in the future, just like the foundation of a building, the deeper the foundation, the higher the building can be built." ”
Although he is a famous person, Shang Juncheng said that what his parents gave him from childhood was "the education of ordinary people". "They played down the achievements they had made and would only tell me sometimes about the difficulties and circumstances that had been encountered in that year's competition. They are always just ordinary people themselves, just breaking through themselves in a certain period of time and doing a little unusual thing. ”
In the past few years, Shang Yi has been accompanying his son in the United States, while Wu Na can only fly on both sides. Shang Juncheng smiled and said, "My parents have paid a lot for me, and although my father is very hard, he also enjoys all this." He said to me, playing with me, training, it's like growing up with me, very happy. Although my mother didn't spend much time with me, I was very happy every time she came over, because she would cook a lot of delicious Chinese food for us. ”
It can be heard that although it is far away from China and the United States, it is really a small family that enjoys the taste of struggle together and has a close relationship, with the troubles of ordinary people and the ordinary happiness of ordinary people.
So, what is the most important lesson that Shang Zhencheng learned from his parents? "My parents always told me to find a link between sport and life – to be a better player only if I'm a better person first."
This sentence, which is often heard by famous stars and veterans for many years, is still quite shocking when it is spoken softly by a 16-year-old teenager. Although he must not have fully understood the connotation of this sentence, and more abundant life experience is needed to confirm this philosophy of life in the long road ahead, it is gratifying enough that a teenager can grow up under the guidance of such a sentence early.
It's just a "three-no-boy"!
Listening to Shang Juncheng chatting, a feeling often appeared in my heart: in the end, the children who grew up in the sports family did have a unique way of thinking at a young age.
For example, perhaps because his parents were sports stars themselves, Shang Juncheng did not have that kind of "idol admiration". He doesn't have a specific tennis icon, but when it comes to players, he is more interested in the game of tennis itself.
For example, the following paragraph is Shang Juncheng's analysis: "I don't have a player I particularly like, but I will learn from all the good players – for example, Murray's ability to pick the ball high when his opponents are on the Internet, Ferrer's bottom line and patience, Djokovic's serve and tough bottom line, and the French Embel, I like the way he plays." ”
Even for a player like Herbert, who is more known for doubles and has never been in the top 30 in the world in singles rankings, Shang Juncheng is full of appreciation: "Herbert, who just reached the final in Marseille, his thinking is very clear. Because of his ability in doubles, singles can often come to the net – you'll find that he can always stay calm and always magically anticipate where the opponent will hit. ”
China is still slow to produce a top 100 ATP world ranking player, and every star of hope is inevitably pinned on high hopes. However, Shang Juncheng was very independent in thinking: "I am not interested in these things such as expectations and goals." The process is the most important thing, and expecting this thing will make people lose judgment, because having expectations means that you have begun to think about the results in advance, and once the process deviates, you will not be able to concentrate. I just want to do the right thing as best I can and it won't be bad. ”
Such an idea clearly comes from the profound influence of my parents, who admits: "My parents have never let me think too much about rankings and championships, but just work in the right direction." I have also wanted to rank and win the championship before, but the results were not particularly good, and my parents dragged me back to reality in time. ”
Although it is not ranked and results-oriented, people still can't help but think that they are already the 4th in the world for teenagers, and they don't want to impact becoming the 1st in the world.
In fact, to some extent, the world's No. 1 ranking is already a must for Shang Chengcheng. Due to the special ranking rules under the epidemic, the player's points in 2019 are still counted, but Shang Juncheng has basically no points two years ago; in addition, due to the impact of the epidemic, he did not have the opportunity to participate in the Grand Slam youth event last year - so he hit the world's 4th high under the premise of his own disadvantage in earning points. What's more, as the youngest of the world's top 10 ITF teenagers, he still has plenty of time to hit the higher rankings.
Since the beginning of this season, Shang Juncheng's performance has clearly gained momentum. In February, ecuador first division, because of the epidemic can not fly directly, he traveled more than 20 hours to reach the venue, and finally won the championship, the youth world ranking rose to 8th. At the end of last month in Brazil, after the semi-finals, he lay down on the ground with severe cramps; because there was no stretcher, he did not dare to move him casually, so he could only lie on the ground for more than 1 hour before being helped off the field.
Originally, the next race was to be withdrawn, but because the epidemic had not had a chance to play for a long time, Shang Juncheng, who had eased from cramps, still wanted to play, and finally won the A-class event 10 days ago, and the world ranking continued to rise to 4th. As for the orange bowl, the most well-known youth event among fans, Shang Juncheng reached the top 4 in the 18-year-old age group last year, and as early as April 2019, at the age of 14, he became the first post-05 to win the ITF tournament.
Although he is still old enough to play well in the youth tennis world for a few more years, Shang Has begun to look forward to professional tennis, but also admitted, "It depends on the improvement of my physical ability, so the maintenance of the body in the next few years is very critical." "What about career goals? It's really hard to "get" any rhetoric out of his mouth. Shang Juncheng said: "Every child who plays football dreams of becoming the world number one in the future; but this goal is not something you can think about. ”
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Source: Sports Weekly