The table tennis competition at the Tokyo Olympics is nearing its end, and while Chinese fans are cheering on the national table tennis athletes, a 40-year-old foreign veteran has also attracted the attention of countless people, and some young netizens have asked after seeing his name: Is this the person I knew when I was a child?
That's right, he is the table tennis player that many people have seen growing up with - the German famous Bohr! 19 years ago, he had already defeated Kong Linghui in the World Cup and became an important opponent for us. And Pol, who is 40 years old this year, has won two consecutive points against the Japanese team in the Olympic men's team competition and reached the final, and is about to compete with the national table tennis for the championship again: it is really a treasure sword!
Born in 1981, many people may not have a clear understanding of the concept of table tennis in this year, so I will find a few athletes of similar age to compare:
Liu Guozheng, born in 1980, only 1 year older than Pol, has been retired for 13 years; Marlene, born in 1980, is only 1 year older than Pol and has been retired for 7 years; Wang Hao, born in 1983, is 2 years younger than Pol and has been retired for 7 years; Liu Chengmin, born in 1982, 1 year younger than Pol, has been retired for 4 years in name, and actually faded out of the game earlier.
I think that when Pol debuted, Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui were still the main force, and Wang Hao had not even emerged. In 2002, Pol defeated Wang Liqin and Kong Linghui at the age of 21 to win the men's singles championship of the World Cup; in 2005, he won three core players of the Chinese team - Wang Liqin, Ma Lin and Wang Hao, and once again reached the top, shaking the entire table tennis world.
In the 2017 World Cup, Ball "destroyed" the national table tennis team for the second time, knocked out Lin Gaoyuan and Ma Long in one go, paving the way for teammate Ochalov to reach the top, and he was 36 years old at the time, which was really powerful!
In this Olympic Games, although Pol failed to achieve good results in singles competitions and lost to South Korea's Jeong Young-sik, the team competition has been very stable. In particular, in the semi-finals, he first defeated Mizutani Hayabusa/Niwa 3-2 with Francesca, and then defeated Mizutani Hayabusa 3-1 in singles, which made the first contribution to the promotion of the German team.
And tonight at 18:30, Ball will continue to challenge the Chinese team and play against Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin, so can he still defeat our main force this time? Can other German players make a big deal out of it? The answer is about to be revealed, let's sit back and wait for this peak battle to come!
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