At the 2016 National Table Tennis Championships, the Sichuan women's team won the women's team championship. Guo Yan, who played several beautiful games, lost successively in the subsequent Table Tennis Super League, and the self-confidence he had just built up was seriously frustrated. "I thought I was going to have the ball, so I had a lot of hopes for myself, but I wasn't really at the level I thought I was." Guo Yan said that in the late stages of the Table Tennis Super League, she was even afraid to go to the field. This state of affairs continued until the National Games.
At one point, he was so desperate that he wanted to retire
In the semi-final of the women's team at the National Games, Guo Yan defeated Sheng Dandan in the fifth game, making a great contribution to the Sichuan team to advance to the final, and at the moment of victory, Guo Yan's self-confidence seemed to return. However, after losing to Wang Manyu in the final the next day, Guo Yan was "beaten back to its original form". Due to the long-term backlog of negative emotions, guo Yan was diagnosed with thyroiditis in November last year, and doctors recommended a month of rest. At first, Guo Yan, who had no free time for a long time, was still very happy, but it wasn't long before she began to play drums in her heart, "Every extra day of rest, I was left behind by my teammates a little more." Guo Yan began to look at the previous game video, but after watching it for a while, her mind drifted away again, full of negative thoughts, so that Guo Yan was once desperate to want to retire.
Finally recuperating, Guo Yan returned to the court to play the first match against Beijing Shougang's Table Tennis Super League, the third set of doubles her partner Yuan Yuan reversed the victory over Sheng Dandan/Zhao Lin, and also beat Sheng Dandan 2-0 in the fifth set. After harvesting two long-lost victories, Guo Yan summed up in a timely manner, "Before, I always stipulated what I wanted to play, and once I didn't achieve it, the burden in my heart became heavier and heavier. After the whole person relaxes, he plays at his due level. ”
Push yourself again
On the second-team round robin, Guo Yan was still peaceful even in the face of Qian Tianyi, who was awkward on the ball and fell behind several times, "The big score was 1-2, the fourth set was 1:4 behind, I equalized the score." Trailing 6:8 in the decider, I was born to carry it again. Guo Yan said that this game can bite down, feel that he is very strong, and his confidence has improved. But in the coach's view, the whole game has been playing behind the ball, indicating that Guo Yan has his own problems. After the first day of the game, Guo Yan, who won all five games, went back to summarize, saying that she did not pay enough attention to the opening and caused the score to fall behind, "Because it is a round-robin game, I finished one game, and the next game will be relieved at the beginning, then it is easy to be caught by the opponent." ”
After solving a problem, the next day and the third day of the competition, Guo Yan encountered new problems one after another, because it was the first time to participate in the selection competition directly related to the first and second team exchange competitions, and many situations on the field were not encountered before, and she was busy solving problems while playing. Entering the "four out of seven" with the second place in the second-team round robin tournament, Guo Yan finally ranked fifth, rubbing shoulders with the opportunity to be promoted to the first team. Before in order to enter the second team of national table tennis, Guo Yan forced herself to practice diligently, and now with the goal of being promoted to the first team, she said that she wanted to force herself again, "After all, I am not young, this year may be my last chance, I hope to do the best within my ability, without regrets." ”
Excerpt from Table Tennis World No. 4