As the only Grand Slam winner in the history of the national table tennis men's team, the 32-year-old Ma Long is still writing his own legend.
In fact, in the very fierce competition of national table tennis, there are very few players who can still occupy the main position after the age of 30, and there are very few players like Ma Long who still have the strength to win the Olympic championship.
Today, Malone is still working towards the goal of defending the Olympic men's singles title, and he is very hopeful to make this history. As the captain of the national table tennis team, Ma Long has always done it.
Ma Long's mentor, Qin Zhijian, boiled his head in order to cultivate Ma Long.
Qin Zhijian, a native of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, is a Chinese table tennis player and coach. He won the 1994 World Cup Men's Team Championship, the 2001 World Table Tennis Championships Mixed Doubles Champion, and in November 2005, he officially retired as a coach. On July 18, 2016, the Chinese Olympic team for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games was established, and Qin Zhijian listed the table tennis coaches. Qin Zhijian is currently the head coach of the men's team of the Chinese table tennis team and the secretary general of the Chinese Table Tennis Association.
Why did Malone achieve so much?
This is thanks to his mentor Qin Zhijian.
And Ma Long's most admired mentor in his life was Qin Zhijian.
Qin Zhijian began to play at the age of six, and after his unremitting efforts and persistence, Qin Zhijian finally entered the national team. This is not easy for Qin Zhijian to walk along the road, and these experiences are also very valuable. So he cherished every opportunity to play. However, in the following nine years, Qin Zhijian did not achieve his ideal results, nor did he get a singles championship that belonged to him, and Qin Zhijian's performance in the later competitions was not very satisfactory, and gradually declined.
In the end, 29-year-old Qin Zhijian chose to go to the road of coaching.
Qin Zhijian's coaching career has cultivated Ma Long, a Grand Slam player.
Ma Long did not win the Olympic Championship until 2016 to achieve a Grand Slam, and it can be said that in the first ten years, Ma Long and Qin Zhijian were suffering. Ma Long, who used to lose to Wang Hao in the World Table Tennis Championships, once had the idea of giving up. In particular, the loss to Zhang Jike in the 2014 World Cup final caused Ma Long to fall into the trough of his career.
It is precisely because of Qin Zhijian's patient enlightenment that Ma Long has re-established his confidence. It can be said that Ma Long's achievements today are definitely due to Qin Zhijian's great credit. The most obvious example is last year's Men's World Cup, when Malone trailed Zhang Benzhihe 1:3. At that time, Zhang Benzhi and the front and backhand attacks of the serve, and the suppressed Malone was once unable to score. At that time, Malone also seemed to be more impatient, discouraged, and somewhat overwhelmed. In the process of intermission, Qin Zhijian asked Malone to change the high throw ball and adjust the rhythm of the attack.
Not to mention that after Malone changed to a high throw, Zhang Benzhi and the offensive rhythm could not adapt to it at once, and the result was finally reversed by Malone to win.
From athlete to coach, Qin Zhijian is conscientious and conscientious, and he knows deeply how hard a table tennis player is in his daily training if he wants to compete for gold and silver in the international arena.
Therefore, when Qin Zhijian became a coach, he always led his disciples to train hard. Every day, I have to pay a little more than others, a little harder.
Because Qin Zhijian worked hard enough, after he became a coach, he brought out Ma Long and Xu Xin successively. Because of having two big generals, Qin Zhijian's coaching path has also developed very smoothly.
Nowadays, Qin Zhijian has changed from an ordinary coach in the past to the head coach of the men's team.
Because Qin Zhijian's coaching level is very good, Liu Guoliang attaches great importance to him and allows him to hold a number of positions in the Chinese Table Tennis Association.
Qin Zhijian, who was in a high position, did not feel very relaxed, on the contrary, Qin Zhijian also underwent a lot of pressure.
However, it is indeed not easy for Qin Zhijian to become the head coach of the Chinese men's table tennis team.
He gave a lot, and just look at his full white hair and the vicissitudes of his face show how hard and hard he worked.
Every time in the game, you can find Qin Zhijian frowning and watching the game, only 43-year-old national table tennis head coach Qin Zhijian has white hair on both sides, and when watching the game with coaches older than him, he will mistakenly think that Qin Zhijian is older than these coaches, and whenever the table tennis players play badly or when there is a mistake, Qin Zhijian will come down to point out the mysteries for the players and point out key mistakes for them.
Qin Zhijian's desire for the championship is so strong, Qin Zhijian frankly said: "The national table tennis team must win the championship. "Because of Qin Zhijian's guidance, the national table tennis men's team will become so powerful." At work, Coach Qin Zhijian treats the trainees harshly, hoping that they can achieve excellent results, and put all his energy on Chinese table tennis affairs, in life, Qin Zhijian has a happy family, life is very low-key.
Compared with the harvest of the "big instrument late" court, Qin Zhijian's love life is also late.
Qin Zhijian's life in private is also very low-key, although he is the head coach of the national table tennis men's team, and he has taught excellent disciples such as Xu Xin and Ma Long under his hands, but he is rarely seen to show off.
Even getting married is very low-key.
Originally, the handsome guy didn't want to fall in love too early, because he felt that falling in love would definitely affect training and competition.
There was once a girl with good personal and family conditions who chased him closely.
However, Qin Zhijian felt that there was not much common language between the two in the exchange, and the words did not turn into fate, so he had to give up.
Son, his wife picture, checked the whole network
In order to confirm that he had not been in love before, Qin Zhijian said: "There is a group of scenes in "National Golfer" that I acted particularly poorly, that is, I sent Liu Wei, who played my girlfriend and teammate, out of the country, and when I hugged Liu Wei in the car, the action was very unnatural, and the director shouted urgently: Hold tight, kiss the hot spot. But I've never hugged a girl, and my hands don't listen. When the film was sent to the Central Station for pre-trial, the director said that I didn't act very well in this scene, it looked very awkward, and I wanted to cut it, but then somehow I didn't cut it, so everyone saw me hugging Liu Wei awkwardly. This sentence is not false. Careful viewers can also see from the awkward look of Qin Zhijian in the face of Yang Ying's sudden excitement after winning the gold medal in the mixed doubles final of the CCTV Live Osaka World Table Tennis Championships, but he is so shy, restrained and "if he is gone".
Later, a beautiful Nanjing girl had come to Qin Zhijian's house in Zhenjiang with Qin Zhijian twice, and met Qin Zhijian's parents, relatives and friends.
Girlfriend surname Zheng, the same age as Qin Zhijian, height 1.70 meters, in the provincial city of a company work, the two are very compatible. Parents on both sides respect their children's choices – "we are happy as long as they are satisfied".
However, Qin Zhijian, who is immersed in a beautiful vision, still regards table tennis as his favorite.
Qin Zhijian's wife is an outsider in the sports circle, they married in 2006, and in 2010, the child was born.
Now his son Qin Maolin is 11 years old, white and clean, very handsome.
The wife is low-key and virtuous, and the son is obedient, which is the guarantee factor for Qin Zhijian's success.
In this regard, Qin Zhijian once said: "Work is very busy, time to spend with my family is very small, I owe them a little, thank them for supporting me so much." ”
Qin Zhijian's coaching level is also at the top of the world table tennis!
Behind the success of Xu Xin and Ma Long is also inseparable from Qin Zhijian's efforts, and Now qin Zhijian, who is only 43 years old, is already full of white hair and looks much older than his actual age. Compared with Liu Guoliang, who is the same age, he is not at all in the same age group.
In the athlete period, Qin Zhijian did not achieve too good results, and the mixed doubles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships with Yang Ying was not very conspicuous in the national table tennis team, after all, there were indeed many world champions in the national table tennis team. However, this does not affect his coaching level, and it is no exaggeration to say that his coaching level is also among the top in the world table tennis world.