In the history of Chinese table tennis, there are many very good athletes, but because of their bad luck, they have not achieved better results and have not had much popularity after retiring.
And such athletes will definitely have a lot of popularity if they are in other sports, because they can be remembered for many years after retirement, basically the main athletes at that time, and basically won the world championship.
But there are too many world champions in the Chinese table tennis team, there are more than 100, and only athletes who have won three singles titles or grand slams will be remembered.
Today, we will talk about an athlete who has many legends in the history of Chinese table tennis, but in the end he did not achieve anything too dazzling, that is, Chen Xuan, who is known as the "killing god".
One
Chen Xuan was born on April 15, 1983 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province (today is also his 38th birthday).
He began to study table tennis at the nantong amateur sports school at the age of 6, and showed his talent in table tennis from an early age.
At the age of 12, he was selected for the Jiangsu provincial team and entered the national youth team in 1999, but then in an internal game because of the loss, Chen Xuan broke his racket and was returned to the provincial team by the coach, this time he only spent 18 days in the national youth team.
After returning to the provincial team, Chen Xuan also held his breath, so in 2000 he re-entered the national second team, but this time he did not control his temper, and left the national second team because of a mistake, this time he stayed in the national second team for less than six months.
Two
In 2002, Chen Xuan defeated Kong Linghui, Liu Guozheng, Qin Zhijian and other famous athletes three times in the Table Tennis Super League, and directly entered the national first team, this time he was firm in the national team.
After Joining the national first team, Chen Xuan initially focused more on doubles, and he paired with Marlene, first winning the Men's Doubles Championship at the Korea Open and the MEN's Doubles Title in the ITTF Tour Finals.
Later, he was heavily involved in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games by the National Table Tennis Commission, and won the men's doubles championship at the Athens Olympic Games together with Marlene.
In this way, Chen Xuan has basically grown into the main player in the national men's team second only to the "two kings and one horse".
Three
In the final of the 2006 Asian Cup, Chen Xuan and teammate Wang Hao played against each other, but eventually lost to Wang Hao, missing the Asian Cup men's singles championship.
Chen Xuan, who has not had a better score in the men's singles, attaches great importance to this Asian Cup final, so when he loses, he can't control his emotions at all.
Directly in front of the audience, they made a big fuss on the field, kicked the chairs on the side of the field and were full of dirty words, which caused dissatisfaction among the audience, especially if this was a competition held in Japan.
The national team immediately decided to deal with Chen Xuan strictly.
Chen Xuan was asked to publicly apologize to the people of the whole country, and stay in the team for six months, fines, military training, and another item was to be sent to poor areas for a week, participate in labor, experience life, and receive re-education.
Four
This is the first pig breeder in the history of national table tennis, I remember that the sports channel at that time also reported on this incident, and the reporter also interviewed Chen Xuan.
However, according to the recollection of the village chief who went to a certain area in Hebei at that time, Chen Xuan did not understand how to do farm work at all.
Let him weed him but he pulled out all the rice, and let him feed the pigs to make the pig food either hot or too thick or too thin.
It can be seen that as the olympic champion of table tennis, Chen Xuan is almost clueless in this regard, so a week later, Chen Xuan returned to the national team again.
Although Chen Xuan was grumpy, his fierceness and fighting momentum on the field were very famous, and he shocked many opponents, so netizens gave him a nickname of "Killing God".
Five
Chen Xuan, who returned to the national team again, is still very outstanding, winning the men's doubles championship, team championship and other honors at the World Table Tennis Championships.
However, because table tennis events no longer have men's and women's doubles competitions since the Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Xuan can only miss the Beijing Olympic Games.
After all, at that time, Chen Xuan was indeed inferior to Wang Hao, Ma Lin and Wang Liqin in singles.
However, after the Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Xuan suddenly became famous, because the media broke the news that Zhang Yining and Chen Xuan were in love.
However, the two parties have not responded, and at that time, in the eyes of netizens, Zhang Yining was a double circle Grand Slam, an absolute world women's table tennis sister, while Chen Xuan was just an Olympic doubles champion, not a match.
Until Zhang Yining and Xu Wei got married in 2009, no one mentioned this matter anymore.
Six
Although the next Chen Xuan is still active in the front line, he is basically at the end of his career.
In many competitions, whether it is singles or doubles, it is almost impossible to win championships.
It was not until after the 2013 National Games that Chen Xuan decided to retire and serve as the head coach of the Jiangsu men's table tennis team.
At the end of 2018, Liu Guoliang became the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association and transferred his former disciple Chen Xuan to the national men's team as a coach.
Seven
At present, Chen Xuan's supervisor team member is most famous for Xu Xin, the main player of the men's team, because Chen Xuan was also a famous athlete with doubles.
Xu Xin is currently the best athlete in the Chinese men's doubles, not only to play the role of men's doubles in major competitions, but also to participate in the mixed doubles competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
However, there are two athletes who are very good in doubles during the athlete period, Chen Xuan and Ma Lin, and I believe that both men's doubles and mixed doubles can achieve very good results.
Conclusion: God closes a door for you, it will open a window for you, although Chen Xuan is grumpy, but he is indeed very successful in the cause of table tennis.