Recently, Shanghai University held the Autumn Games, and Xu Xin was also invited to attend the opening ceremony and was hired as a visiting professor. This also means that when Xu Xin ends his career, he may consider going to Shanghai University to teach. Since all the members of the national table tennis team are training in Wenzhou, Xu Xin belongs to the leave of absence, so the national table tennis coach cannot accompany him to the event, and the person who appeared with him at Shanghai Sport University is 59-year-old Cao Yanhua, the former sister of the national table tennis.
Many fans know that Cao Yanhua was Xu Xin's coach in the Shanghai team, and although the two did not work together for a long time, they still maintained a deep mentor-apprentice friendship. Cao Yanhua is very low-key on weekdays, almost never releasing personal dynamics, nor is she willing to show her face in front of the camera, but at the appointment ceremony of her beloved disciple Xu Xin, she made a rare appearance, which also greatly touched many xu Xin's fans. What is surprising is that Cao Yanhua is nearly 60 years old, but he still maintains an excellent body shape, and his fair skin and temperament are very outstanding, and he still looks radiant in the crowd.
Born in 1962, Cao Yanhua is from Shanghai, began to learn table tennis at the age of 5, and after 10 years of hard training, he was successfully called up for the national team. Just 2 years later, 17-year-old Cao Yanhua won her first world championship title, and her straight arc ball combined with fast attack created the history of women's table tennis, and she also became the object of foreign players to follow. In the case of the gradual decline of the straight board playing style, Xu Xin was able to maintain his peak state for a long time, which was due to the careful teaching of his mentor Cao Yanhua at that time, which can also show that Cao Yanhua was indeed an athlete with solid basic skills and excellent personal ability when he was young.
The 36th and 37th World Table Tennis Championships were the peak of Cao Yanhua's career, when she was about 20 years old, she had become the first sister of the national table tennis women's team with her outstanding performance. In these two competitions, Cao Yanhua won the silver medal in women's singles and gold in women's singles respectively, but her biggest contribution was in the team competition. At the 36th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua made a total of 20 appearances in team events, and was the number one contributor to the Chinese team winning all 7 championships. In the 37th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua's performance was still stable, and her mixed doubles combination with Cai Zhenhua and the women's doubles combination with Ni Xialian broke into the top three, and the individual singles won the championship. Cao Yanhua has won a total of 56 championship titles in her career, 7 of which are world champions, which can be called the first Chinese women's table tennis.
However, after the 37th World Table Tennis Championships, due to the international table tennis federation's restrictions on the player's tactical play, Cao Yanhua's strength was seriously affected, coupled with liver disease, she chose to bid farewell to the field at the age of 23, which made the coach and teammates feel very sorry. It is worth mentioning that the love affair between Cao Yanhua and shi Zhihao, the former coach of the national table tennis women's team, was once a major news within the national table tennis, and the two also withstood huge pressure and successfully married a couple, but in the end they parted ways, but when Cao Yanhua was 57 years old, he once again harvested love and married a rich man with a solid family, which can be described as stepping into the rich. Today, Cao Yanhua has been away from the coaching position for many years, but the school she founded is still sending a steady stream of talents, and her contribution to Chinese table tennis will never be forgotten by the outside world.