These days the T2 Diamond League is underway, which is a newborn commercial flavor of the table tennis competition, relying on the "kidnapping" of international points, and the temptation of somewhat high bonus factors, gathered almost all the masters of the world table tennis world to participate, CCTV also enabled the mobile APP platform "CCTV Sports" to broadcast the game live. The anchor of CCTV was replaced by a young Gao Han this time. For Yang Ying, a regular table tennis anchor on CCTV for more than 10 years, many netizens and fans have different feelings and views. As an anchor, Yang Ying's biggest advantage is the former world champion. So in fact, many people are not clear, Yang Ying has won those major championships?
Yang Ying was born on July 13, 1977, just a few days before his 42nd birthday. First of all, we must admit that Yang Ying is a very talented table tennis player. She was selected for the national team in 1993 and won her first career world title in 1995. In fact, many people who have gone abroad to make a living from table tennis in recent years have not even entered the door of the national team, such as Zhang Benzhihe's father Zhang Yu, who was only a provincial player of the Sichuan team.
When athletes who don't want to win the world championship? Not to mention the Chinese table tennis team that entered the championship division. Yang Ying has also been a more personality player since she was a child, and she once had such a classic golden sentence in the team, she once said: "Is there any difference between a world champion and many world champions?" ”
In the field of table tennis, the champions of the three world major competitions (including singles, doubles, mixed doubles and teams) are considered world champions, and Yang Ying has actually won the world championship title five times in his career. In the 1995 Women's Table Tennis World Cup team competition, Yang Ying won the championship with Qiao Hong, Liu Wei, Qiao Yunping and Deng Yaping in the final. At that time, the competition was held in August, and it was used by the organizers as a table tennis test match for the second year's Olympic Games, and Yang Ying, who had just turned 18, became the world champion, which can be described as a teenager's fame.
In 1996, the first Women's Table Tennis World Cup was held in Hong Kong, China, and the Chinese team sent Deng Yaping, Yang Ying and Wang Chen to participate. According to the latest world ranking in August 1996, Deng Yaping ranked first in the world, and although Yang Ying and Wang Chen were newcomers, they ranked 6th and 5th in the world respectively. Qiao Hong and Liu Wei, who ranked second and fourth in the world, are on the verge of retirement. At that time, Chinese women's table tennis occupied six seats in the world's top ten, and Wang Nan, who was not yet 18 years old, was ranked seventh in the world at that time. At that time, Yang Ying was trained by the national table tennis before Wang Nan.
At that time, Yang Ying and Deng Yaping reached the final, and the 19-year-old Yang Ying lost 0-3 to Deng Yaping to win the second place, which was also the closest Yang Ying was to the three major singles world championships in his career.
At the 1997 World Table Tennis Championships in Manchester, England, Yang Ying won the women's team championship, and also partnered with Deng Yaping to win the women's doubles championship. Then something happened in Yang Ying's career, in January 1998, she was punished by being transferred back to Jiangsu Province for returning to the team three hours late after the Spring Festival holiday, and she returned to the national team in March of that year. Subsequently, Yang Ying also won the second place in the women's doubles at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games (losing to Wang Nan/Li Ju in the final with Sun Jin), because this is the achievement achieved on the Olympic stage, and Yang Ying's women's doubles Olympic runner-up is the most well known to the majority of fans.
At the 2001 Osaka World Table Tennis Championships, Yang Ying won the women's team championship and won the mixed doubles championship with Qin Zhijian, which was the fifth world championship title Yang Ying won in his career. Yang Ying's career in the women's singles world ranking has been ranked No. 4 in the world five times, the earliest time was in December 1996, when she was only 19 years old. To make an inappropriate comparison, the results achieved by the 19-year-old Yang Ying (1 World Cup team champion and 1 World Cup women's singles runner-up) were better than the current 19-year-old Sun Yingsha.
The Chinese table tennis team hides the dragon and crouching tiger, and it is not easy to win the world championship from the cruel competition within the national table tennis team. It is even more difficult to further win the national championship. When Yang Ying was a player, he won three National Games table tennis championships, namely the women's team and mixed doubles champion of the 1997 Eight Games, and the mixed doubles champion of the 2001 Nine Games. Two of them won the mixed doubles, and her partner was Qin Zhijian. Combined with the above Yang Ying International record, 1997 was the peak year of her career.
Yang Ying has not won the national championship, in 1995 when she was 17 years old, she won a national championship women's singles third place, in 1996 the national championships she won the women's singles runner-up (the final lost to Wang Hui), and Qin Zhijian won the mixed doubles runner-up (the final lost to Xiong Ke/Wang Chen). In addition, in the 1999 National Championships, she and Sun Jin won the women's doubles runner-up (the final was lost to Wang Nan/Li Ju, and this scene reappeared at the Sydney Olympics a year later).
Yang Ying has been very smart since childhood, good at playing with his mind, bold, fast changes, good first three boards, and belongs to highly talented players. In the 2001 World Table Tennis Championships women's doubles final, the two sides were still Yang Ying / Sun Jin vs. Li Ju / Wang Nan, when there was a round Yang Ying / Sun Jin 11-12 behind, Yang Ying himself made a mistake in receiving the ball, the ball flew out high, Yang Ying made an impromptu performance action that was difficult for players to make at that time - using his head to top the ball, which was comparable to the classic scene of Zhang Jike kicking the ball with his feet and hitting the ball behind Xu Xin.
Finally, to sum up, Yang Ying, as the world champion of table tennis, has indeed achieved very good results. And it is indeed not easy for her to transform from a professional athlete who has played ball since she was a child to a table tennis anchor of CCTV for more than 10 years. Now the audience has high requirements for her, mainly because modern information is developed, and the information that everyone can receive, distinguish and share is too fast. Coupled with the fire of table tennis after the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the national table tennis has become a collective Internet celebrity, and Yang Ying, as the anchor of CCTV table tennis, naturally faces more challenges than ever before.
In fact, CCTV itself, as well as Yang Ying itself, is also actively making some adjustments, including inviting Grand Slam winner Deng Yaping to be a guest some time ago, and everyone generally reflects that Yang anchor is better at speaking the ball under the leadership of Deng Yaping. Since table tennis is so popular with the majority of netizens and fans, CCTV can completely list a luxurious guest lineup, including Zhang Yining, Wang Nan, and even Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, can be included in the guest group, please come to explain important games, so that Yang Ying's commentary will be smoother, and the effect of CCTV's live table tennis broadcast can be significantly improved.