On October 13, Beijing time, after the end of the last men's team final last night, the 2021 Table Tennis Super League also ended, and finally the Shandong Luneng women's team won the women's team championship, the Shenzhen University women's team won the women's team runner-up, the Shandong Weiqiao men's team won the men's team championship, and the Shandong Luneng men's team won the men's team runner-up.
In the final men's team final, every player of the Shandong Weiqiao team was indispensable, among which the veteran Zhou Yu's doubles partner Zhou Qihao defeated Wang Chuqin Yan'an in the first set, which also laid a solid foundation for the victory of the Shandong Weiqiao team. Although malone failed to win the third set, it also caused Ma Long a lot of difficulties from the perspective of the battle situation, and also made his teammates feel the strength of his hard work.
But what I didn't expect was that Zhou Yu, who had just lifted the men's team championship trophy and was just 29 years old, announced this morning through his personal social account that he would quit the national team, and there was an officially announced national team member after Zheng Peifeng, but the difference was that Zhou Yu said a sentence in the copy: retirement does not fade, and retirement does not retire.
This sentence seems to imply that even if it does not represent the national team in the future, you can still see Zhou Yu's posture on the field, just like the 40-year-old veteran Hou Yingchao, although he has withdrawn from the national team for many years, he is still active in the National Games, the National Championships, and various commercial leagues, so there will still be opportunities to see us Yu Brother play in the future.
With the official announcement of Zheng Peifeng and Zhou Yu, many fans began to worry about Fang Bo and Yan An, because some fans said that the two of them were suspected of also submitting an application to withdraw from the team, seeing this news, everyone also sighed, is the "92line" combination going to end collectively?
(To put it simply, "92line" refers to Fang Bo and Zhou Yu, two born in 1992, but now refers to Fang Bo, Zhou Yu, and Yan An, and the three of them are also known as the "Little Three Musketeers.") The top three men's singles in the 2008 National Junior Tuning Tournament seem to be the three of them. ）
Recently, a picture of the national table tennis team Wenzhou closed training report notice, from the picture can be clearly seen that Zhou Yu, Fang Bo, Yan An are not in the report list, which also makes everyone more "sure" That Fang Bo and Yan An may also be about to retire (or quit the national team).
According to the practice of national table tennis for many years, after the end of the National Games in the second year after the Olympic Games, there will be a group of national table tennis players who choose to retire (or quit the national team), although the Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed for one year, but the National Games were not postponed, so the team members still chose to make such a decision at this moment. Just like the graduation season, the national team has also ushered in the "retirement season".
Although they have left the national team, I believe that in the future life, they can live a colorful life, break out of their own new world, and bless them!