When Guo Yan's two World Cups still did not qualify for the Olympics, why did Chen Meng's World Cup become a singles favorite?
Today's Chen Meng, the results of the competition is not the best athlete in the team, her front Ding Ninggui is a Grand Slam, holding 7 three-time singles champions, Liu Shiwen also has 5 World Cup singles champions and a World Table Tennis Singles champion, and even Zhu Yuling, who is one year younger than Chen Meng, has also won the World Cup singles championship as early as 4 years ago, and is also a three-consecutive championship in the National Championships and the Asian Cup.
On May 16, 2021, the Chinese Table Tennis Association officially announced the participation list of the Chinese table tennis team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Chen Meng was selected.
In the past 10 years or so, after experiencing the Zhang Yining-Wang Nan era, Chinese women's table tennis has been intertwined with a new gemini combination that has briefly appeared Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia. And the subsequent new combination of Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen also shone briefly. Nowadays, the main layer of Chinese women's table tennis has emerged the new gemini trend of Zhu Yuling-Chen Meng.
Chen Meng, 19 years old, has won the Qatar Open and China Open women's singles championships last year. Zhu Yuling is only 18 years old, and her latest world ranking has also reached 20. The rise of the two new women's table tennis forces has certainly been highly valued by the national table tennis coaching team, and they will certainly be given more opportunities to exercise on the international field in the future.
Before Chen Meng, there was an athlete who had won the World Cup singles title twice, but in the end she had not even participated in an Olympic competition.
This athlete is Guo Yan.
Guo Yan (Born June 24, 1983 in Beijing) is a former Chinese table tennis player.
Guo Yan is a member of the right-hand side brace, who has been selected for the national team, won the ITTF Pro Tour Championship, the British Open Women's Singles Final and the World Table Tennis Championships Women's Singles Championships, won four gold medals in women's singles, women's team, women's doubles and mixed doubles at the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and was the first female player to win this honor at the Asian Championships.
When he was a child, Guo Yan was a typical "problem player".
Challenge the rules from time to time. The team did not let her go out at night, she felt "uncomfortable" and tried to run out. Often caught, often invited by parents. Entering the national team, still give the coach a headache, not to wrestle the board, or to quarrel with the coach, not to turn off the lights on time at night, rather than fine money, never "compromise". The coach had no way to take her, and from time to time, Guo Yan's father was "invited" to the team. When Guo Yan was a child, everything was self-made, never discussed with her parents, and her mother often said to her: "Guo Yan, you really have too big an idea, and when you want to do something, we don't know." ”
Guo Yan is the only daughter in the family, and is pampered at home, although the family conditions are not very superior, but as long as Guo Yan opens her mouth, her parents will spend how much money to buy her. Maybe everything came too easily, and Guo Yan didn't know how to cherish it when he was a child. Coupled with good conditions and outstanding achievements, Guo Yan has felt super good about himself since he was a child. She still remembers that she just went to the first team, played the first intra-team game, and won Wang Nan, "The world championship is just like that." Now people often say to Guo Yan: "It is not easy for you to fight until now." "That's how easy it was for him not to see me before I was 15, and I'm paying for my childhood now."
Guo Yan has repeatedly rubbed shoulders with the Olympic Games.
When it was another year of the Olympics, fans who like table tennis today mentioned Guo Yan, who missed the London Olympic Games in the last cycle, and still regretted it, and some people even said it unfairly.
That was the third time Guo Yan passed by the Olympic Games, after Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, the two sisters, retired, Guo Yan, who had outstanding ability and strength, was generally optimistic about the outside world, and everyone felt that London should have a place for Guo.
However, this is not the case.
In the 2010 Women's World Cup, Guo Yan once again won the World Cup singles championship, becoming the best performing employee in the women's table tennis team at that time. In the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yan, who was originally aiming to win the championship, lost to Liu Shiwen in the quarterfinals and missed the final four.
However, after the end of the World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yan still relied on the advantage of 4 points ahead of Ding Ning and was reported to qualify for the women's singles competition at the London Olympic Games. At the 2012 Asian Championships, Guo Yan alone won four gold medals in women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and women's team, becoming the four champions of the World Table Tennis Championships.
However, in the team final of the 2012 World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yan did not get a chance to play.
At that moment, Guo Yan understood that the thing he was most worried about had happened, because his teammate Ding Ning had won the World Table Tennis Championships and World Cup singles championships in 2011, and had surpassed himself in the results of the competition, and he was likely to lose his olympic qualification.
Sure enough, at the final deadline of the registration period for the London Olympic Games, Guo Yan was disqualified from the London Olympics singles competition on the grounds of injury, and replaced by Ding Ning, the singles champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships.
At that moment, Guo Yan was extremely painful, guo Yan was already 29 years old at the time, and missing this Olympic Games also meant that she would never qualify for the Olympic Games. When Guo Yan talked about his failure to win the Olympic Games, he said: It is not that I will collapse without competing for qualifications and not playing in the Olympic Games. I always say "I can walk out and can't get out", in fact, I myself feel that I am not immersed in it, there is no such thing as walking and not going out. Since it is competition, it is possible that it will not be able to fight, and it may fail, and we must be prepared for this kind.
Fans cheered for the female table tennis captain, and Guo Yan frankly said that he had done his best to compete for the Olympic Games, "Many people feel that I am sorry that I was not selected, or even unfair." As for myself, I have a lot of deficiencies in the past ten years. If I try my best and don't get it, it's not enough ability, don't complain later. Last time at the Olympics, I did everything I could. ”
So excellent, but very sad, how helpless!
Guo Yan's three failures show that our women's table tennis is indeed full of talents, on the other hand, it shows that the coaches are still more inclined to athletes with personality and sharp edges in the selection of materials. Frankly speaking, Guo Yan is too low-key, and the coaches are still slightly conservative in her choice.
But this can not hide the greatness of Guo Yan, to put it bluntly, Guo Yan's stable play has helped the echelon construction of women's table tennis a lot, it is with a group of athletes like her, everything is based on the overall situation, for the honor of national table tennis do not care about gains and losses, silent dedication, willing to be a behind-the-scenes hero, national table tennis can achieve today's achievements.
Now Guo Yan has become a female coach of the Beijing team, and she has also opened a table tennis club to continue to contribute to the promotion of national football, which is worthy of recognition.
After retiring, Guo Yan returned to the Beijing team and took Ding Ning as part of her job.
Ding Ning
For Ding Ning's head coach Guo Yan, it can be said that he was once a veteran of national table tennis.
For Guo Yan's career, it is full of great regrets. Because of Guo Yan's era, there were Wang Nan and Zhang Yining before, and then There were Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning, who never participated in the Olympic Games in their careers, and I have to say that there are huge regrets. Now people say that Liu Shiwen is a tragic hero of national table tennis, which is actually a misunderstanding. After all, Liu Shiwen has also participated in the London Olympic Games and the Rio Olympic Games, although once through the P card, once in the team competition, but compared to Guo Yan, who did not participate in the Olympic Games, she was much luckier.
As the only female coach of the national table tennis coaching team, with the gradual transformation of Ding Ning, the current Guo Yan is also in retirement like his career, rarely appearing in the field of vision of the national table tennis training. Therefore, many fans believe that the coaching staff at that time should let Guo Yan coach younger players, so as to know people well. However, it is not easy to occupy a place in the current national table tennis coaching team and become the only female coach. Many fans believe that Guo Yan has walked out of the same trajectory in the player era and the coach era, and they lack a certain sense of existence, which is indeed regrettable.
Of course, for Guo Yan, even if she is not coaching the national team in the future, she has her own table tennis club, which can cultivate more outstanding young players, focus on the front line of the more grass-roots level, and send talents for national table tennis, which may play a greater role.
Guo Yan is not currently married.
She is a former women's table tennis captain, as a world champion but 3 times missed the Olympic Games, and now she has successfully started a business and been urged to marry.
Guo Yan is now not only the owner of the club, but also the assistant coach of the Beijing women's table tennis team, and the former little sister Ding Ning is now her disciple, and the relationship between the two is also a teacher and a friend.
Now Guo Yan is 39 years old, in the career all the way to the wind, but she is not optimistic in terms of feelings, Guo Yan is a straight girl, single for so many years has not been rumored any gossip. I think maybe she dresses more neutrally, coupled with the short hair style that has always been fresh and clean, and her personality is more straight forward, which may be the reason why many men stop.
When the reporter asked about the love affair in the interview, she bluntly returned that if she met the right one, she would contact it, but she thought that everything went naturally, and it would always come.
Guo Yan also revealed that the family was very anxious about her marriage, and once urged the marriage, not only the family but also relatives and friends tried their best to introduce her to the object, but in the end they were fruitless.
Guo Yan, who suffered from the urge to marry, still said with a calm and peaceful attitude: You can't be in a hurry, just follow the fate.
Nowadays, Guo Yan is doing his favorite business, facing life with a smile every day, and occasionally traveling with friends to see the scenery, which is also a great joy and happiness in life.
Finally, I hope that Guo Yan's career will get better and better, and she will find her own happiness as soon as possible and bless her!