Table tennis, as the national ball of our country, has not only won many honors for our country, but also cultivated a group of outstanding talents. Excellent people will always attract each other, the beauty of youth, the purity of working together for dreams, are worth recalling, today I will share with you those beautiful first loves in the national table tennis champion team.
1. Liu Guoliang & Wang Jin
Liu Guoliang Wang Jin in his youth
Liu Guoliang and Wang Jin met at the age of 14, when Wang Jin was the main force of the national youth team, Liu Guoliang also came to prominence in the national team, the two young people felt sorry for each other and came together, because the national table tennis team has very strict regulations on governing the army, the team is not allowed to talk about love, Wang Jin for love, in order to support Liu Guoliang to continue to struggle in the national team, resolutely decided to give up the main position of the national youth team, go away to Japan to play, so far the two talked about foreign love for five years. Later, Wang Jin returned to Shanghai Jiaotong University for further study before ending this period of foreign love. Liu Guoliang also obtained a master's degree from Jiaotong University.
Liu Guoliang Wang Jin at the wedding
In 2006, the two ended a 14-year love run and held a grand wedding in Beijing. At the wedding, many big celebrities from the table tennis industry came to watch the ceremony. After marriage, the two had twin daughters.
A family of four
2. Marlene & Poplar
Poplar, born in 1984, is 171 cm tall. Bai Yang, who has been practicing table tennis since she was a child, was selected for the Hebei Provincial Team at the age of 10, and in 1997, at the age of 13, she was selected for the national team. A year later, Poplar won two titles and runners-up in women's singles at the World Junior Table Tennis Championships. Since then, Poplar has risen even more rapidly, especially in the women's doubles competition. In 2005, at the age of 21, she won the mixed doubles runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships and the third place in the women's doubles, and people were full of expectations for Poplar at this time. In addition, Poplar not only plays well, but also looks beautiful, and is also known as the first beauty of the table tennis team, so it attracts many suitors, but Marlene is the most powerful, and won the big beauty of Poplar in one fell swoop.
What Poplar did not expect was that in the mixed doubles final of the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, a mistake by the commentator exposed their love affair. At that time, close to the Athens Olympic Games, perhaps for the sake of building a strong wind, Cai Zhenhua expelled both Marlene and Poplar from the national team. What makes Poplar even more sad is that not long after the incident, she and Marlene also broke up. The two also had a completely different career, Marlene returned to the national team to become one of the best men's singles players, and Poplar later passed the Eighty-One Workers' Team to become a soldier and is now a second lieutenant.
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Marlene Poplar
Poplar Marlene
3. Wang Hao & Fan Ying
Fan Yingzuo's playing style is somewhat similar to that of former world champion Ding Song, at that time, the national team did not train with her, and Wang Hao actively helped her train, and over time developed feelings, but at that time, it was close to the Athens Olympic Games and Wang Hao was the main member, so after the love affair was discovered, Fan Ying was expelled from the national team and went down to the provincial team to reflect. However, a few months later, Fan Ying returned to the national team, and by this time she and Wang Hao were already on the same road. Fan Ying became the main member of the national team in 2011, helping the Chinese team win the women's team championship in the World Cup, which is also her only world champion. In 2014, Fan Ying retired from the army and married former national table tennis teammate Gao Xin, and had a son and a daughter after marriage.
Wang Hao Fan Ying
4. Wang Hao & Peng Luyang
In 2009, the love between Wang Hao and Peng Luyang was exposed, Peng Luyang was recognized as a big beauty in the Chinese women's team, Peng Luyang, who was 1 meter 75 tall and sweet-looking, had a history of playing Mandarin ducks with sticks in the past, but now has adopted a tolerant attitude towards the couples in the team. However, in the end, it did not go to the end.
Wang Hao Peng Luyang
5. Li Xiaoxia & Zhai Yiming (12 years in love)
As a fellow liaoning countryman and a member of the national team, the two met together on the train back to their hometown in 2005, and since then they have opened a beautiful fate. Li Xiaoxia won 19 world championships and is the fourth women's Grand Slam winner. Zhai Yiming, who has not been able to play well, retired from retirement in 2013 and returned to Liaoning to become a coach. The two were also separated, and after the 2016 Olympic Games, Li Xiaoxia chose to retire and reunite. In September 2017, the two held a grand wedding, and there were 9 world champions at the wedding scene, becoming the most world champions in the national table tennis wedding. He now has a son and a daughter.
Zhai Yiming Li Xiaoxia
6. Xu Xin & Yao Yan
Yao Yan and Xu Xin met in 2003, when they both played in the Shanghai team.
On September 30, 2009, he established a relationship and chose to retire in 2011 in order to support Xu Xin's career.
In November 2016, he proposed marriage at Xiao Jingteng's concert, and after 4 days, he was licensed to marry and now has a son and a daughter.
Xu Xin Yao Yan
7. Zhang Jike & Liu Shiwen
This pair is called the world's first love by fans, and it is also the team that fans are most interested in, almost every four years (for details, you can see the blogger's video series).
In 2002, Zhang Jike entered the national second team, and in 2004, Liu Shiwen also entered the national second team, and they are all small players in the national team, and they not only have more opportunities to meet each other, but also have more exchanges.
At that time, Zhang Jike was just fifteen or sixteen years old, and Liu Shiwen was also twelve or thirteen years old, both of which belonged to the age of the initial opening of the love sinus, and after getting acquainted with liu Shiwen, she became a "small talker." The feelings between the two heated up during the period when Zhang Jike was returned to the provincial team for violating team rules. At that time, Zhang Jike's QQ space was only open for Liu Shiwen to watch, and all kinds of small feelings of love. This relationship bumped and bumped until seven years later, when the national table tennis forbade the team to fall in love, the two people are talented teenagers, are the main members of the national team, for the sake of the table tennis career or choose to break up.
Although the two people are in a state of separation, because they are the main players of the national team, they have participated in many public events together, including the Olympic Games. (For details, please see the blogger's video series)
Both are now single.
Zhang Jike Liu Shiwen
Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Postscript: Table tennis is China's national ball, national table tennis for the country to compete for a lot of honors, it is their generation after generation of inheritance and dedication, only in the decades of national table tennis hegemony. I hope they are all happy. Bless the national table tennis!