The 2019 Sudirman Cup counts down to 4 days. A few days ago, the main force of national feathers participating in the Sudirman Cup was preparing for the battle in Nanning, and on the training ground, there was a familiar figure - 36-year-old Fu Haifeng. As a member of the national team's expert group, Fu Haifeng was invited to support the men's doubles this time. He has not touched the racket for nearly two years, and today he is personally on the team as a sparring partner for Li Junhui.
Fu Haifeng retired after the National Games in September 2017 with regret that he did not win the championship. However, the lack of gold medals at the National Games can not cover up the dazzling achievements of "Bao Ge" on the field, and it can be said that Fu Haifeng has created the history of national feather men's doubles. In 2006, 2009 and 2011, Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng won the Men's Doubles Championships four times; at the 2012 London Olympic Games, Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun won the Olympic men's doubles gold medal for the Chinese team for the first time; at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Fu Haifeng/Zhang Nan won the men's doubles championship, and Fu Haifeng became the first athlete in history to defend the men's doubles Olympic champion.
In the team competition, Fu Haifeng was the main member of the 6th Sudirman Cup champion and the main member of the 5th Thomas Cup champion, and the combination of Fu Haifeng and Cai Yun was the Dinghai God needle for the national feather to win the championship. It can be said that from the time Fu Haifeng entered the national first team in 2002, in the next 15 years, he was the main force of the men's doubles of the national feather!
Although Fu Haifeng was far away from fierce competition after retiring, he was concerned about badminton. At the end of 2017, he took the Guangdong Dongguan Club to participate in the Badminton Super League, while being a coach and a player; in 2018, Fu Haifeng attended badminton promotion activities many times; in 2018, he still led the team to participate in the Badminton Super League, mainly responsible for the guidance of Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen; and also participated in the training of the national feather, assisting the men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles to prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Compared with Lin Dan, Cai Yun and other players of the same batch, Fu Haifeng is very low-key, he has not been on variety shows, rarely appears in the audience's field of vision, and even on the Internet there are few photos of his life flowing out. His appearance is always when the national team needs it, this time as a member of the national team's expert group, to support the men's doubles, on the one hand, it shows that Guoyu attaches great importance to this Soviet Cup and is fully prepared; on the other hand, it also shows that Fu Haifeng's experience and guidance ability are also excellent. Looking forward to Guoyu's good results in the Su Cup!