The Chinese men's table tennis team has always been a place of talent, and many star athletes have emerged from there. However, among these star athletes, if you want to talk about personality, it must be Chen Xuan. He was twice expelled from the national team and was also penalized for pig breeding. However, he was unanimously loved by his teammates, known as the world's strongest "doubles king", and became the only one who did not have a singles world champion, but was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame. So, what kind of person is Chen Xuan?
Born in 1983 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, Chen Xuan was active by nature and mischievous from an early age. When he was 6 years old, his father saw that he could not study quietly and simply sent him to Nantong Amateur Sports School to play table tennis.
Not to mention, for an energetic child like Chen Xuan, the training of a large amount of exercise every day is really very appetizing to him. At the same time, he plays table tennis and is good at using his brain and likes to study how to catch the ball. So, after training for a while, he stood out among the small players. The coach also found him very talented in table tennis and paid special attention to him.
At the age of 12, Chen Xuan, who had become a lone loser in Nantong, was selected into the Jiangsu provincial team and trained in the provincial team for 3 years. During this period, Chen Xuan achieved good results in domestic competitions with excellent skills, and was successfully selected for the national second team in 1999.
Originally, a talented teenager like Chen Xuan, who had excellent skills, as long as he obeyed the management and trained well, he could definitely be transferred to the national first team as the main team member in a short period of time. However, his explosive temper made him expel him and return to the provincial team only 18 days after entering the national second team.
It turned out that the national table tennis team had been fiercely competitive, and the intra-team competition was as frequent as the exams for high school students. This was not to blame, but Chen Xuan broke the racket in half because of a loss in a team match. The coach looked, well, this kid is not very old, his temper is not small! So, in a fit of rage, he was returned to the provincial team.
However, Chen Xuan was also really powerful. After returning to the provincial team, he was again selected for the second team of the national team in 2000 through excellent performances. This time, Chen Xuan stayed in the second team for about half a year, and as a result, he went out with his teammates to party until three or four o'clock in the morning before returning to the dormitory. Soon after the East Window incident, his teammates "confessed". But no matter how the coach asked, Chen Xuan refused to admit it. The coach saw that he did not obey the discipline, and in a fit of rage, he was expelled from the national second team again.
In 2002, The Thorn Head Chen Xuan played very well in the Table Tennis Super League, he defeated Kong Linghui, Liu Guozheng and Qin Zhijian and other national players, thus gaining Liu Guoliang's appreciation and promotion, and in November of the same year, he was transferred to the national first team. Since then, Chen Xuan has opened the highlight of his table tennis career.
In 2003, Chen Made his first appearance in the international table tennis arena at the Korea Open Table Tennis Championships. At that time, Chen Xuan, who was only 20 years old, was not afraid of tigers, his wrists were explosive, he played the ball very fiercely, and he was even more murderous and passionate in the aura, defeating all the way to the final. Although he eventually lost 2:4 to Marlene, he only finished second. However, in the men's doubles final, he and Marlene teamed up and won the championship through fierce matches.
Subsequently, Chen Xuan continued to partner with Marlene in the ITTF Pro Tour, sweeping all opponents and easily winning the men's doubles title.
In a short period of time, he won 2 gold medals, and Chen Xuan's emergence shocked the world table tennis world. And he also quickly rose to the 5th place in the world table tennis rankings with his fierce skills.
In 2004, Chen Xuan once again turned the tide at the Athens Olympic Games. At that time, the women's table tennis team performed poorly, Niu Jianfeng, Wang Nan, etc. were eliminated successively, and only Zhang Yining persisted until the end. The men's table tennis team is not in better shape than the women's table tennis team, Kong Linghui and Wang Hao have also been eliminated, and Marlene also played abnormally in the men's singles competition and failed to reach the final. In this way, whether Chen Xuan and Ma Lin can win the doubles match has become the only hope of the national table tennis team.
At that time, Marlene's state was not good, and repeated mistakes made the other party score a lot. However, Chen Xuan became more and more confident the more he fought. His passion eventually infected Marlene, and the two worked together to win the men's doubles title.
After the game, when everyone congratulated Ma Lin and Chen Xuan, Ma Lin sighed that this doubles was not that I played well, but that Chen Xuan's attack was fantastic.
Chen Xuan achieved brilliant results in a short period of time, not only making the fans applaud him, but even named him a "killing god". Even veteran coach Cai Zhenhua marveled at Chen Xuan's performance, believing that he was a miracle in The Chinese national table tennis for 15 years.
Chen Xuan not only made a partner with Ma Lin, but also with Wang Liqin, Wang Hao, Ma Long and other famous players.
Interestingly, no matter who the partner is, as long as you play with him, the men's doubles champion can't run.
Therefore, for a long time, there was a saying that "the doubles chen xuan won the world", and Chen Xuan became a veritable "doubles king".
Of course, capable people have a big temper, and Chen Xuan's stinky temper has not changed at all.
In 2006, when Chen Xuan participated in the Table Tennis Asian Cup in Japan, he finally reached the men's singles final. You know, although Chen Xuan is fierce and domineering in playing, his fast attack method also has drawbacks. Blindly attacking, the defense is relatively weak. At the same time, the rhythm and stability of the game are not well controlled. In doubles, with the cooperation of your partner, you will become the protagonist. But when he is singles, the drawbacks of his playing are easy to create opportunities for the opponent, which is why he has not won the singles championship for a long time.
It was for this reason that Chen Xuan paid special attention to that game. However, in the final, he still lost to Wang Hao. After losing the game, Chen Xuan was extremely angry, failed to control his emotions, and threw the beat on the ground on the spot, kicking a chair on the side of the game and kicking it away, while he was also full of dirty words, which made the audience extremely dissatisfied with his performance.
Due to the bad impact caused by the impact and the fact that he was playing abroad, the national team was very angry about his behavior, and quickly made him apologize to the people of the whole country, and imposed penalties such as staying in the team for six months and fining him. Another of them is to send him to the countryside to undergo labor "reform."
In this way, Chen Xuan not only had to weed and plant land in the countryside, but also raised pigs to feed cattle. Suddenly, countless media came to "visit" him. After all, the Olympic champion raises pigs, how exciting is this news! Even CCTV, at that time, recorded a set of programs for him, recording the "hard years" for him.
However, Chen Xuan's fiery temper will only erupt on the field, and he is actually very low-key in his usual life training. At the same time, he has a chivalrous spirit, so in the national team, he and his teammates get along very well.
On the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the ITTF cancelled the table tennis doubles event at the Olympic Games. This has a huge impact on Chen Xuan, who has a doubles king. For the sake of singles, despite Chen Xuan's best efforts in the selection competition, he still could not squeeze into the male table tennis player selection list, and could only participate in the Olympic Games as a substitute team member with a fourth place result.
Although he can no longer appear on the field as a doubles king in the Olympic Games. However, the INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS Federation believes that Chen Xuan has won 6 world championships in doubles events, so he has also been elected to the Hall of Fame, who has not won a men's singles title.
In fact, in the Olympic Games, although there is no table tennis doubles competition, the table tennis doubles event is still retained in international events such as the Table Tennis Super League and the Open. Therefore, Chen Xuan can continue to play those professional games for the provincial team. However, Chen Xuan, who has a chivalrous style, gave up the opportunity to play to his teammates, and he only gave his teammates as a sparring partner. Later, when his teammates went to the London Olympics, he also followed in order to do a good job of logistics and sparring for everyone.
In London, Chen Xuan thinks about making nutritious food for his teammates every day. At the same time, he also insisted on being a good sparring partner. When the reporter saw him carrying a vegetable basket to squeeze the subway, he was very curious, after all, he was also an Olympic champion. In the face of curious reporters, Chen Xuan was very calm. He said he would definitely work the ball, but at the same time he knew where he was in the team. So he thinks it's really not a lot of logistics for his teammates to do when they're fighting for honor for the country.
In 2013, the 30-year-old Chen Xuan retired from the army and returned to Jiangsu Province as the head coach of table tennis. After Liu Guoliang became the chairman of the Table Tennis Association, in order to supplement the coach of the national table tennis team, he transferred Chen Xuan from the Jiangsu provincial team back to the national team, and let Chen Xuan serve as xu Xin's supervisor.
Of course, this time back to the national team, Chen Xuan is no longer the thorn head of many years ago. Today, he not only has a wealth of coaching experience, but also his personality is much calmer.
When it comes to the past, Chen Xuan always laughs, he said, who has not been young!