In preparation for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November, the national table tennis team will assemble in Wenzhou on October 17 for a month of closed training. National Table Tennis announced the news related to the closed training today, in which the news of the departure of Sun Yingsha's head coach Huang Haicheng caused heated discussion. In fact, compared with the new coaching team members announced by the national table tennis two years ago, huang Haicheng is not the only coach who left.
This time, the national table tennis announced that the coach of the women's team, Huang Haicheng, took the initiative to apply to leave the national team for family reasons. Huang Haicheng is the head coach of the main team member Sun Yingsha, who accompanied Sun Yingsha from the second team to the first team and became the main force of the women's team. After Sun Yingsha became the main force of national table tennis, most of the women's table tennis head coach Li Falcon who served as her off-court coach during the game was Huang Haicheng's number of times to accompany her on the field, and only in the training of some competitions, the figure of the two masters and apprentices could be seen together. During the Tokyo Olympic Games, although Huang Haicheng also arrived in Tokyo to accompany Sun Yingsha, he could only appear in the stands to cheer for Sun Yingsha. In the Paris Olympic cycle, Huang Haicheng chose to leave, and women's table tennis head coach Li Falcon said that the new cycle will make a complete plan for Sun Yingsha, but who will become Sun Yingsha's head coach is still unknown.
In fact, compared with the Chinese Table Tennis Association holding a briefing in 2019 to announce the list of national table tennis coaching staff, the women's team in addition to Huang Haicheng, the world champion, Guo Yan, who served as Ding Ning's head coach, is not in the team. It is not particularly clear when Guo Yan left the national table tennis team, perhaps when Ding Ning decided to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympic competition at the end of June last year, and Guo Yan, as his head coach, had already left. In February 2019, when the new coaching team of national table tennis was formed, Ding Ning's mentor Chen Bin left the national table tennis for physical reasons, and Guo Yan, as the coach of the Beijing team, entered the national team and became the new head coach of Ding Ning, but since then, Ding Ning's competitive state has declined, and finally withdrew from the Tokyo Olympic Competition in advance, and Guo Yan has faded out of the national team. In addition to the adjustment of the women's team coach, there was also a coach named Zhang Yang in the men's first team at that time who did not appear in the national table tennis training list, and the rest of the coaches were all there.
The national table tennis closed training, the women's first team and the women's second team together to train, while preparing for the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Youth Championships. In the list of coaches of the women's team, there are also the names of Yan Sen and Li Dacheng, both of whom are the coaches of the women's second team. Among them, the Sydney Olympic men's doubles champion Yan Sen is still the head of the coaching team of the women's second team, but there is currently news that Yan Sen has been promoted to the women's first team and has been guiding Chen Xingtong in training for the past two months. With Guo Yan and Huang Haicheng leaving the national table tennis, the women's first team does need to strengthen the coach, and it is reasonable that Yan Sen has been coaching in the second team for many years.