The Chinese table tennis team is a dream team and a star team in the world table tennis world. Whether it is a men's team or a women's team, as long as they play in the World Series, they can almost lock in the championship, and they have also given birth to big devil players such as Deng Yaping, Zhang Yining, Ma Long, and Zhang Jike. In the national table tennis team, there is an athlete who has to be mentioned, he is Wang Hao. At the peak of his time, Wang Hao's strength was very strong, and he had suppressed Ma Long for many years, but on the stage of the Olympic Games, Wang Hao failed to win gold in 3 battles. Behind those 3 silver medals, who did Wang Hao lose to?
Wang Hao is a talented player, he became famous very early, became a member of the national team at the age of 15, and showed great strength. At the age of 18, Wang Hao had already won the men's singles championship at the Egyptian Open, and he was already in the top ten in the world. After that, Wang Hao also made steady progress. With outstanding performance and strength, Wang Hao successfully qualified for the Olympic men's singles, and at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the 21-year-old Wang Hao went out for the country.
As the world's top player, Wang Hao's road to promotion is very easy. He played all the way to the semi-finals and met Wang Liqin. Before that, Wang Hao had never won Against Wang Liqin, but in the semifinals Wang Hao ushered in an outbreak, directly defeating Wang Liqin and reaching the men's singles final. His opponent was South Korea's famous Liu Chengmin, but this time Wang Hao did not resist the pressure, Liu Chengmin attacked fiercely, and finally Wang Hao lost 2-4 and won a silver medal.
This defeat gave Wang Hao a lot of psychological pressure, and after that, he once won the runner-up in major events for 4 consecutive times, and was once known as the "millennium old two". In 2007, Wang Hao's state picked up and entered the peak, winning a number of men's singles and men's doubles championships in a row, and is still the core figure of national table tennis. So Wang Hao continued to play at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and this time he still successfully reached the final, against teammate Marlene. But in the end, Wang Hao lost 1:4 to Marlene and failed to win the gold medal.
At the end of the Beijing Olympics, Wang Hao was only 25 years old, so he quickly adjusted. Although the performance has fluctuated, it has also won a number of world championship titles. At the 2012 London Olympics, the men's singles 2 places, Wang Hao pk lost Ma Long, and Zhang Jike played together. In the end, Wang Hao and Zhang Jike did enter the final hand in hand, as the division brothers, the strength of the two was not much different, but the peak Zhang Jike was in a brave state, and Wang Hao once again lost the final 1:4.
As we all know, the most important thing in national table tennis is talented players, and Wang Hao can qualify for the Olympic men's singles for 3 consecutive times, which has proved his strength. He also successfully reached the finals 3 times, but lost to Liu Chengmin once, Lost to Ma Lin once, lost to Zhang Jike once, and finally won only 3 silver medals, no Olympic gold medals, which is the biggest regret of his career. In 14 years, Wang Hao announced his retirement in a low profile, and thus did not have the success of the Grand Slam.