Feng Tianwei is a talented table tennis player. She won the first place in the Heilongjiang Provincial Table Tennis Competition at the age of 7, the National Youth Championship at the age of 16, and then successfully selected for the national team. Due to her high talent, the coach also attaches great importance to her. However, she later left the national team to play for Singapore. And because she was too powerful, the Chinese team once tracked down who let Feng Tianwei go? To hold the person who let her go accountable? So, since Feng Tianwei is so powerful, why did she leave the national team?
In 1986, Feng Tianwei was born into an ordinary family in Harbin, Heilongjiang. Feng Tianwei chose to play table tennis only because she had a mother who loved table tennis.
Feng Tianwei's mother, Liu Chunping, had a special affection for playing table tennis in her early years. However, for various reasons, she was not able to develop into a table tennis player. Therefore, after Feng Tianwei was born, she, like many mothers, pinned her unfulfilled dreams on her daughter.
Of course, Liu Chunping sent Feng Tianwei to play table tennis early, and there was another reason, that is, Feng Tianwei was weak when she was a child. Playing table tennis is more "gentle" than sports such as athletics. So when Feng Tianwei was 5 years old, Liu Chunping sent her to children's sports school.
In the children's sports school, Feng Tianwei is the youngest, and her height is not as high as the ping-pong table. But she is very good at learning, and her sense of ball and physical flexibility are also stronger than other young players. The coach was pleasantly surprised to realize that she had an unusual talent in playing table tennis. Therefore, in terms of training, she is particularly strict.
Not to mention, the coach's hard work was not in vain, Feng Tianwei learned table tennis for two years, and won the championship in the youth games in Harbin and Heilongjiang Province. There are very few people like her who have won provincial championships at such a young age. Therefore, at the age of 11, she was selected by the Heilongjiang Provincial Table Tennis Team and became the youngest athlete in the provincial team.
In the provincial table tennis team, Feng Tianwei got more systematic and professional training. Despite her young age, she trains every day with players who are several years older than her, but she never cries bitterly. No matter how heavy the task is, as long as the coach assigns the task, she will complete it meticulously.
With her innate talent and acquired efforts, Feng Tianwei's skills have been greatly improved, and she has also represented the provincial team in domestic competitions many times, and she has performed very well in the competition, and she has also stood out among the team members and become the core member of the provincial team.
In 2002, Feng Tianwei won the championship in the women's singles competition of the National Junior Championships, with her outstanding strength, she defeated her opponents and won the championship. And she also relied on this impressive record to enter the second team of national table tennis.
The national table tennis team is a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden. Generally speaking, famous players such as Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, and Guo Yue are all in the national table tennis team, that is to say, the national table tennis team is the main player, and major international events are basically played by them. Although the second national table tennis team is used as a reserve force, it is also one of the best talents in the provincial teams. Moreover, in order to motivate athletes to continue to improve, the national table tennis team often competes in the team, whether it is the first team or the second team. If an athlete on one team loses to an athlete on a second team, they are relegated to team two. As long as the members of the second team can reach the top 10, they can also be transferred to the first team.
Since the first team has more opportunities to play, as long as the players who can enter the national table tennis team, there is no one who does not want to rush into the first team. Feng Tianwei also especially wants to enter the first team, so she is especially hard in her usual training, and she also constantly seeks breakthroughs in technology and playing style.
However, Feng Tianwei's table tennis career is not destined to be smooth.
After feng tianwei trained for a while, she finally waited for the second team to be promoted and demoted.
Unfortunately, in the process of the game, she was eager to win, played unstable, and finally only achieved the 11th place result, and she was also missed the first team.
At that time, Feng Tianwei's coach Lu Lin was also very optimistic about her, believing that she belonged to a very potential team member in the second team, and as long as she trained well, it was only a matter of time before she became the main player.
In 2005, because the body could not withstand high-intensity training, Feng Tianwei suffered from myocarditis. Unable to recover, she was eliminated by the national team.
Leaving the national team is a big blow to Feng Tianwei, who loves table tennis. However, at that time, a Japanese table tennis club threw an olive branch to her and invited her to play professional table tennis in Japan. Although she played table tennis in the club and could not participate in international competitions, there was no better way out for Feng Tianwei at that time, so she went to Japan to participate in training.
For Feng Tianwei, the real Bole is Liu Guodong. Liu Guodong is also Liu Guoliang's older brother.
In early 2007, when Feng Tianwei was playing in the league in Japan, she met Liu Guodong, who was working as the head coach in Singapore. Liu Guodong was preparing to build a strongest overseas women's corps that could compete against the Chinese women's table tennis team, and he had seen Feng Tianwei play when he founded the "Guoliang Club" earlier. Therefore, after he saw Feng Tianwei in Japan, he was very happy. Especially after watching Feng Tianwei's performance in the league, he was keenly aware that Feng Tianwei was an athlete with unlimited potential, so he found Feng Tianwei and hoped that Feng Tianwei could play in Singapore.
If you go to Singapore to play, you have the opportunity to participate in international competitions. Feng Tianwei, who has always hoped to play international competitions, is certainly not willing to miss this opportunity. Therefore, with the help of Liu Guodong, she officially joined the Singapore Table Tennis Team in March of the same year.
Liu Guodong hoped that Feng Tianwei could participate in the 2008 Olympic Games, but at that time, Feng Tianwei had no Singapore citizenship and no world ranking, and was a completely obscure little role. If she follows the general process, even if Feng Tianwei wants to participate in the Olympic Games again, she will at least have to wait until 2012.
However, Liu Guodong's bold idea was echoed by Feng Tianwei, who was too eager to prove herself. In order to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games, she had to race against time, not only to train wildly for a year and a half, but also to constantly participate in various open competitions and earn enough points to compete for the world rankings.
Years later, Feng Tianwei recalled that training time and said with great emotion that Liu Guodong was her West Point instructor.
You know, Liu Guodong himself was very strict when he was training. He not only has to train the team's skills, physical fitness and tactics, he also attaches great importance to the psychological pressure ability of the training team members. In addition to training with everyone, after the training, Liu Guodong also left Feng Tianwei alone to do sparring for her.
Under the training of Liu Guodong, Feng Tianwei's skills and playing style have been greatly improved, and Liu Guodong has continuously let her participate in various open and tour tournaments in order to make her get the world ranking. In 2007 alone, Feng Tianwei won 4 gold medals and 3 silver medals in various open and tour competitions, and her ranking was also from scratch, and she rushed to the 9th place in the ranking table at a rapid speed, and finally passed the Olympic qualifiers and qualified for the Olympic Games.
In the Beijing Olympic Games, although Feng Tianwei was defeated by Zhang Yining in the women's singles competition, she contributed an important 2 points in the semifinals of the women's team, and finally defeated the South Korean team to reach the final. Although he lost to the Chinese team, he still won the silver medal and set a new record for Singapore to miss an Olympic medal in 48 years.
It was also at the Beijing Olympic Games that Feng Tianwei's performance in the competition made the Chinese team feel an unprecedented threat. Even the Great Demon King Zhang Yining said that Feng Tianwei's threat was much greater than she thought.
Interestingly, at that time, according to rumors, the national team also once tracked down who let Feng Tianwei go, and wanted to pursue the responsibility of the person who let her go. However, because Feng Tianwei did not leave the national team to join the Singapore headquarters, the matter of pursuing responsibility could only be eliminated in the end.
In September 2008, Feng Tianwei defeated Guo Yue in the Women's Singles World Cup and Defeated Wang Yuegu in the semifinals to finish third in the women's singles.
However, what makes Feng Tianwei most happy is that at the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, through fierce competition, she not only defeated Ding Ning, but also made Liu Shiwen her subordinate. In the end, she helped Singapore win the women's team championship in one fell swoop. And Feng Tianwei also realized her dream of becoming a world champion.
Subsequently, Feng Tianwei continued to have a good performance at the 2012 London Olympic Games, winning the third place in women's singles and the third place in women's team. She also won the honor of "Singapore's Best Female Athlete" in that year for her contribution to Singapore's sports.
However, as a naturalized player, although Feng Tianwei won a lot of honors for the Singapore team, when the contract was about to expire in 2016, the Singapore Table Tennis Association suddenly announced that Feng Tianwei would be removed from the Singapore team on the grounds that "Singapore needs more young people in the future".
In fact, Feng Tianwei was only 30 years old at the time. Although for athletes, injuries and age will always be unavoidable problems that hinder the continuation of their sports careers. But Feng Tianwei's state of the game at that time did not actually decline.
On this point, the Singapore Table Tennis Association still said bluntly in the face of reporters' questions that when the Tokyo Olympic Games were held four years later, Feng Tianwei was already a 34-year-old veteran. The future of sport in Singapore needs more young people, and she obviously can't integrate with the plans that follow.
For Singapore's approach, many netizens are very dissatisfied, believing that they are completely unloading and killing donkeys, so they are upset about Feng Tianwei and worry about her career.
After all, Feng Tianwei's sports career is really too bumpy! First, he rushed into the national team, and as a result, he was eliminated by the national team because of myocarditis. Later, he went to Japan to wander, and finally was able to represent Singapore in international competitions and achieved good results, but because of his age, he was removed from the team by Singapore. Among them, no matter which link went wrong, it is likely that Feng Tianwei's sports career has long been terminated. It was really not easy for her to get to this point.
However, Feng Tianwei was very indifferent to Singapore's desperate approach. Shortly after the statement from the Singapore Table Tennis Association, she said on her social platform that she would continue to participate in international competitions, but in another form.
After that, Feng Tianwei began a "solo flying" life. In order to continue to maintain good grades, she needs to find a professional coach at her own expense. At the same time, when participating in various races, you also need to be responsible for the return and return fares.
At this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, although Feng Tianwei was not in the Singapore national table tennis team, she still represented Singapore in the team competition again because of her strong strength. Although she was defeated by China's Sun Yingsha in the course of the competition, she was not surprised by this ending. In her view, the Chinese women's table tennis is indeed indestructible, and she has gone all out, and she also said that after the Tokyo Olympic Games, she has no regrets and decided to retire.
For an athlete, Feng Tianwei did experience very bumpy. But from Feng Tianwei, we see a tenacious and powerful spiritual force. It was also this spiritual strength that made Feng Tianwei achieve great success. I believe that after retiring, Feng Tianwei will also be able to achieve more brilliant results in her life after that.