Chinese badminton has a glorious history, having experienced the glorious 80s long before Li Yongbo took charge of the national feather. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese badminton had attracted worldwide attention because of the existence of a person, after retiring he embarked on a coaching position, and now he is still an indispensable strategic think tank coach of the Chinese badminton team, he is the lifelong adviser of the Chinese badminton team, known as the "evergreen tree" and "living fossil" tang Xianhu in the badminton world.
Tang Xianhu, born in Indonesia on March 13, 1942, was an athlete in Fujian in early 1961, retired in 1979, became a coach at the end of 1981, and has served as a coach in badminton teams in China, Macao, Indonesia and other countries and regions. From 1963 to 1975, he created an undefeated "myth" in international badminton competitions; after retiring, as a coach, he has trained Lin Ying/Wu Dixi, Wei Renfang, Ji Xinpeng, Xia Xuanze, Lin Dan, Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng and other top masters in the world's badminton world.
Influenced by his father from an early age, Tang Xianhu began to play badminton at the age of eight or nine, and soon he became a rookie in indonesia's amateur badminton team, representing the Indonesian national youth team to compete abroad. At the end of 1960, he was invited by Wang Wenjiao to return to China from Indonesia before graduating from high school and joined the Fujian badminton team. At that time, Tang Xianhu could only Chinese a few simple words, and could only communicate with the team's coaches Lin Fengyu, Wang Wenjiao, Chen Fushou and teammate Lin Jiancheng in Indonesian. In addition, at that time, it was a difficult period in China, and the embarrassment and hardships of life could be imagined. Such a living environment, superimposed with boring training, is undoubtedly lonely and intolerable, but Tang Xianhu will carry out his interest to the end and exert his youth and passion on the training ground.
It was this kind of hard work that made Tang Xianhu brilliant, and the first time he won the international championship was at the first Emerging Forces Games held in November 1963. The Emerging Forces Games is a "breakout battle" after the severance of relations between New China Sports and the International Olympic Committee. At that time, there were 51 countries and regions such as Cambodia, Guinea, Indonesia, Iraq, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Soviet Union, and the population of these countries and regions accounted for more than 70% of the world's total population, and the results of the competition were certainly worldwide and authoritative. At that time, Chinese badminton players won two championships in the women's team and men's singles in this competition, and Tang Xianhu was the only men's singles champion.
The attitude of excellence, the intensity of training, and the lingering sense of responsibility and mission have created Tang Xianhu's hegemony and brilliance. In the 12 years from 1963 to 1975, he won the badminton men's singles and team championships of the 2nd National Games in 1965, the men's singles, men's doubles and team championships of the Asian New Asian New Games in 1966, and the men's singles, men's doubles and team championships of badminton at the 3rd National Games in 1975, setting an unbeaten record in the international arena. In that particular historical era at that time, Tang Xianhu's brilliance as an athlete could not be simply measured and summarized by championships and figures. For political reasons, in the 1960s, the Chinese badminton team failed to participate in the Olympic Games representing the highest level of sports, but the technical and tactical level reached the world's advanced level, which was evident from various visiting competitions, and Tang Xianhu was one of the top "male protagonists" in the Chinese badminton world during that period.
Defeating Kops became a "myth" created by Tang Xianhu in the world feathering altar. In October 1965, the Chinese badminton team was invited to visit Denmark, known as the European badminton kingdom, and Sweden, a European badminton powerhouse, and participated in the International Badminton Invitational Tournament held in Denmark. At the beginning, the Danish media ridiculed the Chinese badminton team in the sports news: "Can the yellow race play badminton?" "The result of the game caused an uproar in the world. Visiting Denmark, the Chinese badminton team played a total of 24 games, each game was successful; visiting Sweden, the Chinese badminton team played a total of 10 games and won a big victory. At the International Tournament held in Denmark, Tang Xianhu defeated Koops, who had won the All England Championship singles championship five times, with an absolute advantage of 15-5, 15-0, and is still rumored to be a good story.
The glory of being an athlete is only the beginning of the Tang Xianhu era. After that, it is the excellence and legend of being a coach. At the end of 1981, Tang Xianhu coached the Chinese women's national badminton team. In just half a year, the women's doubles athletes Lin Ying / Wu Dixi have improved significantly, winning the women's doubles crown at the All England Open Badminton Championships in March 1982 and the women's doubles championship at the World Championships in 1983. Later, due to various reasons such as his family, Tang Xianhu left the national team to coach in Macao, and in 1987, he was hired by the Indonesian badminton team as the head coach of the Indonesian national team men's singles, and trained a group of badminton masters such as Wei Renfang, Adi, and Ye Chengwan. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Wei Renfang won the first Olympic men's singles championship in the history of badminton, which of course has a lot to do with Tang Xianhu's guidance, and he was also criticized by some people in China.
Shortly thereafter, Tang Xianhu led the Indonesian team to Shanghai to compete, and when he talked off the field with his old friend Lin Jiancheng, he said: "Starting from a coach, I must hope that the players he has trained can beat all opponents, but when my team members beat the Chinese players, I have an unspeakable discomfort in my heart." ”
In 1997, at the invitation of He Shaochuan, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and honorary chairman of the Provincial Badminton Association, Tang Xianhu returned to China from Indonesia with his mother, wife and children after dealing with his father's affairs, and was hired as the head coach of the Fujian badminton team in 1998. Less than a year after working, Li Yongbo, head coach of the Chinese badminton team, invited him to Beijing to coach the national team. For the sake of national interests and needs, Tang Xianhu had to leave his family again and go north alone. Cultivating Young Chinese Male Singles Athletes has become his entire job, and Xia Xuanze, Sun Jun, Ji Xinpeng, Chen Hong, Lin Dan, Bao Chunlai and others have all been guided and dialed by him.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Ji Xinpeng, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, made a big splash in the final, achieving a "zero breakthrough" for the Chinese team to achieve the Olympic badminton men's singles gold medal. "The tactics set up by Director Tang are very favorable to me, which is the most crucial reason for my victory." After Ji Xinpeng won the championship, his gratitude to Tang Xianhu was overflowing with words. What is even more breathtaking is that the top three badminton men's singles in this Olympic Games: champion Ji Xinpeng, runner-up Ye Chengwan (Indonesia), and runner-up Xia Xuanze are all disciples personally cultivated and guided by Tang Xianhu, which is another "myth" written by him as a badminton coach.
At the 22nd Thomas Cup Badminton Tournament held in Guangzhou in May 2002, the Chinese team lost the trophy at his own doorstep, and head coach Li Yongbo stressed: "Men's doubles must have a breakthrough! He found Tang Xianhu and asked him if he had the confidence to guide the men's doubles, and Tang Xianhu replied: "The leader trusts me, I will do it." Therefore, just when the men's singles players he trained were in the world badminton scene, Tang Xianhu turned away from the most beautiful coaching seat, and was invited to serve as the head coach of men's doubles at the age of 60, and soon "turned stones into gold", and the performance of Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng and Zheng Bo/Sang Yang was significantly improved. In May 2004, in the final of the Thomas Cup, Zheng Bo and Sang Yang defeated the Danish players 2-0, making a contribution to the Chinese team's final victory over the Soup Cup, and the weakness of the badminton men's doubles that plagued China for a long time finally broke through; after that, at the Badminton Tournament at the Athens Olympic Games held in August 2004, the Chinese men's doubles players also rushed to the top 8 although they lost in the competition for the final four, which made Tang Xianhu, who has always been demanding high standards, feel that "the expected effect has not been achieved", "The Chinese badminton men's doubles is still in the rushing stage." If we take time, there should be progress."
In October 2004, Tang Xianhu, who was in poor health, was finally allowed to return to his home in Fuzhou to accompany his family. Although he has left the Chinese badminton team, he still "retires" without "resting", and the titles and identities of "lifelong adviser to the Chinese national badminton team" and "member of the Expert Group of the Chinese badminton team" make him never want to say goodbye to badminton and badminton in his life.
In August 2006, less than two years after recuperating at home, Tang Xianhu was asked to return to Beijing to guide women's singles. A year later, he was assigned as a men's singles coach, focusing on coaching Lin Dan. Previously, at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Lin Dan performed poorly, and many people advised Tang Xianhu to "not take this stubble, so as not to be safe in the late festival", but Tang Xianhu chose to face the difficulties. He soon found the crux of Lindane's problem. The two masters and apprentices cooperated tacitly and almost talked about everything. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Lin Dan finally won the badminton men's singles championship. At the moment of winning the championship, Lin Dan and coach Tang Xianhu hugged each other tightly, which was moving...
In May 2010, the 26th Tang You Cup Badminton Tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the 68-year-old Tang Xianhu accompanied the team on an expedition to coach Lin Dan and help him win one point in each opening match, making an important contribution to the Chinese team's victory over the Thomas Cup. Surprisingly, when speaking after the game, Lin Dan changed his previous wildness and appeared atmospheric, rational, calm and calm, just like the low-key and calm of coach Tang Xianhu. It is said that when he was young, Tang Xianhu's temper was not as peaceful and low-key as it is now, but also hot. But after returning to China in 1998 to coach, he almost never got angry. Maybe it is the vicissitudes of the years, or perhaps the coaching experience in many countries and regions, grinding away the edges and corners of his youth: "In China, the sense of superiority is obvious, after going out, it is not the same, people look at your work, not fame." "In the national team, Tang Xianhu is one of the most respected predecessors of the players.