Chen Yufei used the championship to prove the re-emergence of women's singles

"The Chinese women's singles has done it! I did it! After winning the Olympic gold medal, Chen Yufei repeatedly pointed to the national flag on his chest toward the camera. After 9 years, the national women's singles once again stood at the top of the Olympic Games, Chen Yufei domineeringly declared: "This championship proves the re-emergence of our Chinese women's singles." ”

Chen Yufei, who was born in Zhejiang in 1998, said she was not a "genius girl." At the beginning of her promotion to the national team, she was also returned to the Zhejiang provincial team. Because after entering the national team, Chen Yufei actually lost to a provincial team player, which caused her to be very depressed. Later, after hard work, she won the tournament again in the transfer three months later and returned to the national team.

Since she was a child, Chen Yufei has never been able to win He Bingjiao, who is similar to her own age, and she has suffered 11 consecutive defeats against Chinese Taipei's dai Ziying. "They're really geniuses, but when they can't win, they haven't reached that level yet." In the face of the "genius girl", Chen Yufei can only continue to work hard.

Although not a "genius girl", chen Yufei has been a person who has been constantly achieving breakthroughs along the way. At the 2016 World Youth Championships, she won the championship, which is since 2007, after 9 years, the Chinese women's player has won the gold medal in the women's singles of the World Youth Championships.

After the Rio Olympics, the national women's singles alternated between the old and the new, and Chen Yufei, who had just been promoted to the national first team, was pushed to the forefront. At that time, Chen Yufei was just a little girl less than 20 years old with a big grin and no heart and no lungs. In the 2018 Uber Cup, when she lost as the first main player of the national women's singles, Chen Yufei was touched, and she felt that she was not good enough to take on the heavy responsibility for the team. However, it was also this defeat that made Chen Yufei usher in a transformation, and she, who was always "indifferent", began to yearn for victory. "There's no more form in the game, and I don't want to lose casually."

At the China (Fuzhou) Open in November 2018, Chen Yufei lifted her first 750 super championship, breaking the "curse" that the Chinese women's singles had not won gold in high-level competitions for two years. Throughout 2018, Chen Yufei's record is 2 round trips, 5 times in the quarterfinals, 3 times in the top four, 5 times in the finals, and 1 gold medal. In 2019, she ushered in an outbreak, winning 7 crowns in a year and ascending to the world number one position at the end of the year. Growing up in adversity, Chen Yufei became more and more powerful.

As an athlete participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, even as the No. 1 seed, Chen Yufei is facing every game with an impact mentality. She made it all the way to the final.

In the final, Chen Yufei faced an opponent of Dai Ziying, and the previous record of the two sides was that Chen Yufei won 3 and lost 15. The final was equally intense, with the two sides playing three innings, the last ball, the two sides engaged in a contest of more than 40 beats, and when Dai Ziying returned to the ball and went to the net, Chen Yufei fell on the ground. "There were so many shots and I can't remember what I did, I just got excited and thought I had won." Recalling the moment of winning the championship, Chen Yufei's brain was blank, "Very happy, also very unbelievable, the champion fantasized, but it is not easy to get it, or to do a good job." ”

Being able to win, Chen Yufei won in a good state of mind. "In the past, I lost a lot, didn't have too much pressure, tried my best to fight, and had the mentality that taking one more point was one point." I have always regarded Dai Ziying as a goal, a driving force for training, and slowly made breakthroughs. ”

Looking back on the game process, Chen Yufei said that the second set was a pity, the first 11 points were still leading, and the back was a bit anxious and made some mistakes. In the third set, when he was leading, he told himself not to be too anxious, but the opponent's ball was very threatening and fierce, Chen Yufei has been losing points, and there are some rushes, but try to calm yourself. And when her physical fitness declined, she told herself: don't give up on the field, no matter what difficulties you encounter, go to persistence, find a way to solve, and don't give up easily.

In the final, compared with Dai Ziying, Chen Yufei made fewer mistakes and performed more stably, but this is the characteristic of Chen Yufei's playing style. "I am a stable style of play, how to play my own characteristics to the extreme, is the direction of my efforts." Talking about the Tokyo cycle's own progress, Chen Yufei said.

Winning the championship, Chen Yufei remembered the hardships and difficulties of the national women's singles along the way in the Tokyo cycle. "After 2016, we encountered many difficulties in women's singles, and in the 2018 Uber Cup, our women's singles group lost. Today's standing on the podium is an affirmation of China's women's singles, but also an affirmation of themselves. With this championship proved that our women's singles is back on the rise. ”

After winning the championship, Chen Yufei and Luo Yigang, the head coach of the national feather women's singles team, warmly embraced, and the head coach of the national feather singles team in the stands, Xia Xuanze, waved his fists to celebrate. "I grew up thanks to Luo Dao, Xia Dao, Zhang Dao (Zhang Ning) and many other coaches who helped me out of adversity, and this honor belongs to all of us." Chen Yufei said.

On August 1, the "March of the Volunteer Army" was once again played at the Musashinomori Sports Complex in Tokyo. Watching the national flag being raised and listening to the national anthem played, Chen Yufei was grateful and proud. "Since the beginning of the epidemic, the state has given us a good guarantee, and I am very happy that I can be born in China, because of the protection of the motherland, our training is very effective every day, and we have also held simulation competitions, and finally I have played on the field."

Walking off the field, 23-year-old Chen Yufei also has a childish side. In training, she didn't like jumping rope, and when she encountered it, she wanted to dodge, but every time she did it carefully. This time Chen Yufei changed a new hairstyle to appear in Tokyo, the reporter asked, she said triumphantly: "How, it's okay!" At the press conference after winning the championship, as soon as she entered the press conference hall and sat down, she began to study the microphone. Asked how she wanted to celebrate after winning the championship, she laughed and said: "You can buy something to reward yourself." ”

Summing up her first Olympic trip, Chen Yufei said that before the game, she just held the goal of trying her best to play a game, and taking one more point is a point to do, and she was very happy to be able to persist to the end, and she was also affirming herself.

An Olympic champion is just the beginning, and Chen Yufei, 23, who is still very young, said she will do her best to win more honors for the Chinese women's singles. Looking to the future, she hopes to work with others to continue to show the style of the national women's singles in Paris. "To get off the podium and start from scratch, you still have to take every step steadily." Chen Yufei said.

Zhou Yuan, a special correspondent of this newspaper

Source: China Sports News