The 2021 China Table Tennis Club Super League decided the men's team championship on the 12th, And Shandong Weiqiao, led by Liang Jingkun and Zhou Yu, won the championship in five sets, and the Shandong Luneng men's team with Ma Long and Wang Chuqin failed to defend the title.
The replacement of the championship, the replacement of the men's table tennis national team is also underway, yesterday (12th) belonged to the table tennis Super League champion, runner-up team Zhou Yu, Fang Bo, Yan An jointly chose to announce their withdrawal from the national team today, which triggered many people's feelings about the "national table tennis small three musketeers".
The three former male table tennis players of the national team, born in 1992 and early 1993 respectively, are affectionately known as "92line" by fans because of their similar age. The three have won numerous awards in their careers, all of which have reached the top of national and international competitions, because there are Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Xu Xin, who are known as the "three musketeers of national table tennis", and then there is a new generation of Fan Zhendong, fans will call these three "card" in the middle of the strength players as "national table tennis small three musketeers".
On the morning of the 13th, @Zhou Yu, who won the table tennis super championship with Shandong Weiqiao the day before, announced his withdrawal from the national team in a post on Weibo, "Thank you for the team's 14 years of training and help to me, thank you to the leaders of the association, sincerely thank every coach, you are hard, Chen Daoma guide Huang Dao Liu Dao thank you for your help to me."
@Zhou Yu said that he will continue his "love for table tennis", "retirement does not fade, retirement does not retire", and thanked the fans at the end.
Born in 1992 in Siyang, Jiangsu Province, Zhou Yu entered the national second team in 2007, promoted to the national first team in 2010, won the men's singles championship of the National Table Tennis Championships in 2012, won the men's team championship of the 12th National Games, the men's doubles champion and the 13th National Games men's doubles championship, participated in the Incheon Asian Games in 2014 and won the men's team championship, won the Hungarian Open men's doubles championship in 2017, and won the Mixed Doubles championship of the Asian Table Tennis Championships in the same year.
According to the interview video released by senior sports reporter @ Li Wujun on the 13th, when talking about the reasons for quitting the national team, Zhou Yu said: "14 years, leaving is definitely a bit reluctant, but there is no way, because at this age, I do feel that my competitiveness is weak, if I still have a strong impact, I will also consider staying in the team, but the competitiveness does decline year by year, which is objectively existent, and I can accept it." ”
In addition, Zhou Yu believes that in his career, whether it is changing the ball or changing his technology, he has not made a breakthrough, and his body is also very difficult, "it is easy to be injured on the upper volume, and it is difficult to break through without the amount", which are the reasons why he chose to withdraw from the national team, but "retiring from the national team does not mean retiring, and the ball may still play."
Zhou Yu revealed that there is no plan for the future for the time being, but more attention will be paid to life in the future. If other aspects of development are also good, they will also try.
When the fans were still immersed in the regrets of the "Little Three Musketeers" in the past, on the afternoon of the 13th, the "national table tennis comedian" @ Fang Bo also announced the end of his nearly 16-year national team career, "Being able to wear the national uniform to fight for the country is the greatest honor of my life, there are too many people who need to be thanked, I can get the recognition of all coaches and athletes, it is enough to be hugged, this big family will always open the door to me, enough."
Born in 1992 in Tongcheng, Hubei Province, Fang Bo was selected for the national second team in 2005, promoted to the national first team in 2009, and in December of the same year, at the 7th World Youth Table Tennis Championships, Fang Bo alone won four gold medals in men's team, men's doubles, mixed doubles and men's singles, becoming the first male player in history to win four gold medals in the World Youth Championships. In 2010, Fang Bo won the overall championship of the Table Tennis Super League, in 2015, he won the World Cup team championship, the 53rd World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up, and in 2020, he won the Men's Team Championship of the Table Tennis Super League.
At 18:38 on the 13th, after Zhou Yu and Fang Bo successively announced their withdrawal from the national team, Yan An, the last member of the "Little Three Musketeers", also announced his withdrawal.
Yan An posted on Weibo, "Retiring from the team is not retiring, losing is not the end of the world, silver medals can win respect, I will continue the cause I love, but in a different way."
Yan An, born in January 1993 in Beijing, entered the national team in 2006, won the men's team championship of the National Table Tennis Championships in 2012, won the Kuwait Men's Doubles Championship of the ITTF Professional Tour in 2013 with Xu Xin, won the men's singles runner-up of the ITTF Austrian Open in 2017, and won the silver medal of the men's team at the 14th National Games in September 2021.
After the "Little Three Musketeers" announced their withdrawal from the national team, the old acquaintance of the national table tennis and sports journalist @ Li Wujun forwarded the microblogs of the three people in a row to send encouragement and blessings.
Fans have also left messages to express their reluctance, some people lamented, although they did not see these three people standing on the "peak", but they also stood for the national team and their respective provincial teams to stand the last shift, hoping that the three can work together to start a new journey.
Source: Observer Network
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