The high-profile table tennis singles event of the National Games has been staged, and in the previous team competition, many national players have exposed the cold, Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Ma Long, Sun Yingsha and other players have lost, while the young players Chen Xingtong, Wang Yidi and Li Jiayi defeated the Shandong team led by Chen Meng to win the women's team championship. The Guangdong team led by Fan Zhendong defeated the Beijing team led by Ma Long to win the gold medal in the men's team. As a national player trained by the Shanghai team, Xu Xin received great attention after the injury and cold, so Xu Xin'en's teacher Cao Yanhua rarely gave a media interview and stood for Xu Xin. During the period, Cao Yanhua also told Xu Xin's growth path. Xu Xin came to Shanghai Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School in 2002 to practice, Cao Yanhua was initially not optimistic about Xu Xin in straight board play, but Xu Xin, who improved quickly, soon became the leader of the school, and entered the national second team 4 years later and became a national player.
It is precisely because of Cao Yanhua's cultivation that Xu Xin has achieved today's Xu Xin, so Xu Xin has a very good relationship with his mentor Cao Yanhua, and often goes to Shanghai to visit his mentor. The 59-year-old Cao Yanhua looks very young, her face is very well maintained, she can't see any wrinkles at all, and she is very fashionably dressed. Cao Yanhua was a very good athlete in the history of national table tennis, and at that time, the World Cup and the Olympic Games were not included in the table tennis event, and the World Championships were the most honored events in table tennis events at that time. In the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships team competition, only 17 years old Cao Yanhua played as a main player and won the championship with the team, two years later in the singles event, Cao Yanhua, who entered the final "restless in the team", was asked to give the ball to his teammate Tong Ling, and finally Cao Yanhua won silver in the first singles competition, and then in the singles events of the 1983 and 1985 World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua won the championship, during which she also won the women's doubles and mixed doubles championships. At that time, Cao Yanhua was recognized as the world's first.
But this year, the 23-year-old Cao Yanhua announced his retirement, which caused quite a stir at the time, and the reason why Cao Yanhua retired was because he accompanied her boyfriend Shi Zhihao to Germany to coach. If Cao Yanhua had not retired, the Seoul Olympics three years later would have won the first Olympic singles champion. Cao Yanhua and her husband Shi Zhihao lived together in Germany for 9 years, during which time they gave birth to a son. Not long after returning to China, Shi Zhihao served as the coach of the provincial team, and Cao Yanhua founded a table tennis school named after himself, which is now an excellent table tennis school in China, whether it is hardware facilities or software facilities. And the school has become the cradle of the Shanghai team, and almost many of the Shanghai team's provincial team players are from this school. Of course, Cao Yanhua also often trains players as a coach in school. The year after returning to China, Cai Zhenhua, who served as the head coach of national table tennis, invited Shi Zhihao to serve as the coach of the national team.
After that, Shi Zhihao became the head coach of the national table tennis women's team and served as the head coach of women's table tennis for 8 years. After that, perhaps because of the separation of the two places, the two eventually chose to divorce. However, after Shi Zhihao stepped down as the head of female table tennis, he went to Shanghai to serve as the vice president of the Shanghai Institute of Sport and concurrently served as the dean of the Table Tennis Academy, and Shi Zhihao also married his former disciple Li Nan, and gave birth to a son after marriage, but the child took the mother's surname. After the divorce, Cao Yanhua devoted all her energy to the development of the table tennis school. Although Cao Yanhua is a table tennis player, her height is not low, and she attaches great importance to body maintenance. In addition, Cao Yanhua announced her remarriage on social platforms in 2019, and this year Cao Yanhua was 57 years old, and her husband looked very young and handsome.