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“I think that one day, I will retire with Ma Long, the wonderful brother who has accompanied me through many ups and downs of my career. My brother, Ma Long is so great, I don't know how much longer he can play. Indeed, I think this is the first time someone like him is playing at the highest level at an age when he should have retired a long time ago. It's not easy to be on the Chinese team at the age of 30, he not only still plays but also shows his excellence and greatness every day, every hour, he is a person who always does impossible things."
Fan Zhendong answered so very humbly in the show "People in the Olympic Year" when CCTV interviewed the Chinese National Table Tennis team at the training camp preparing for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The two past years have been the most difficult time in Fan Zhendong's career. It probably all started with the Chinese team announcing a new set of coaches for each player in early 2023, with Luu Hang directly planning the technical and tactical plans for the world No. 1 at that time. . Luu Hang, a coach born in 1981, loves to use his mind when competing. He is famous for his nickname "little Gia Cat", his philosophy is extremely loved by the athletes.
With this addition, everyone hopes that Fan Zhendong will learn a new set of tactical techniques, which can not only improve his performance but also save a lot of physical energy. China's prestigious sports newspapers have given the above kind words to the young coach and are extremely happy, hoping for innovation and more flexibility in Fan Zhendong's playing style, helping the number of players. 1 world can make your career last longer.
But life is not that beautiful. In the next tournaments, people saw Xiao Pang (Fan Zhendong's nickname) stick something on his knee like he was having a serious injury. Sometimes people took pictures of his hand bulging where he was holding the racket. At some point, internal news leaked out that Fan Zhendong had back pain... Fans were extremely worried about Fan, some even said that , when the Olympic athlete selection cycle was at the most important stage, Fan was assigned a coach who was once a member of the Beijing team to lead, perhaps the deep-seated conspiracy was not good. This idea was later widely supported even though it was just a conspiracy theory.
When you enter the chain of misfortunes, things will not stop there. This time, even though it's just a rumor, no matter what issue Chinese netizens mention, it more or less has a chance of happening. They said that there was a rift in the relationship between Liu Guoliang and Fan Zhendong, it seemed to be due to conflicting copyright interests or it could also be due to Fan Zhendong's decline in performance that bothered Chairman Liu...many other things. again. When you are rumored to have trouble with a powerful President like Liu Guoliang, the trouble and influence are very obvious whether the rumor exists or not.
There are difficulties with powerful people, there are also difficulties with direct trainers, so what about teammates? This is probably the easiest topic to find in China, because if you just type Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong quarreled with Fan Zhendong, you will find hundreds of topics like “Why does Wang Chuqin always feel dissatisfied with Fan Zhendong?", "The leak of messages between Lin Shidong and Wang Chuqin talking about Fan Zhendong shows you how bad the team is internally?"... There are even conflict topics such as like "Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, who has better personality?", these questions are like someone deliberately tried to put down Fan Zhendong and asked that.
The biggest problem, consuming the most ink in a long time, is the topic "Fan Zhendong's tactical techniques are outdated and outdated". There are three key and reputable figures who have largely affirmed this. The first person was Chen Qi, who said on live TV around mid-June 2022, “Fan Zhendong's fruit lacks spin.” Next, Xiao Pang's old teacher, the coach who guided him from a very early age, Wu Jingping, directly affirmed on his official weibo that Fan Zhendong was very outdated, this status line was later deleted. But the online community quickly captured it.
And most recently, Wang Hao, head coach of the National team, when summarizing and summarizing the recent mainstream trend of table tennis, gave the example of the match Fan Zhendong lost to Hugo Calderano at the World Cup. WTT Champions Incheon 2024, he said that Fan Zhendong's playing style deviates from the mainstream and makes everyone feel a bit out of rhythm, you cannot control the ball too much, of course you have to control the ball short in table, but you should only control one and two short ball cycles and never go for the third short ball, it is best to attack immediately after controlling a short ball.
Of course, those are just the biggest difficulties over the past year for the former world number 1. In addition to big difficulties, there are also... smaller difficulties. Like, being teased when he was an 11-year-old boy was chatting vulgarly with girls, then going to watch football, going to the movies before a match and performing poorly... When things were difficult, it was like that. A series of scrutiny and criticism will come to you...
Fan Zhendong answered so very humbly in the show "People in the Olympic Year" when CCTV interviewed the Chinese National Table Tennis team at the training camp preparing for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The two past years have been the most difficult time in Fan Zhendong's career. It probably all started with the Chinese team announcing a new set of coaches for each player in early 2023, with Luu Hang directly planning the technical and tactical plans for the world No. 1 at that time. . Luu Hang, a coach born in 1981, loves to use his mind when competing. He is famous for his nickname "little Gia Cat", his philosophy is extremely loved by the athletes.
With this addition, everyone hopes that Fan Zhendong will learn a new set of tactical techniques, which can not only improve his performance but also save a lot of physical energy. China's prestigious sports newspapers have given the above kind words to the young coach and are extremely happy, hoping for innovation and more flexibility in Fan Zhendong's playing style, helping the number of players. 1 world can make your career last longer.
But life is not that beautiful. In the next tournaments, people saw Xiao Pang (Fan Zhendong's nickname) stick something on his knee like he was having a serious injury. Sometimes people took pictures of his hand bulging where he was holding the racket. At some point, internal news leaked out that Fan Zhendong had back pain... Fans were extremely worried about Fan, some even said that , when the Olympic athlete selection cycle was at the most important stage, Fan was assigned a coach who was once a member of the Beijing team to lead, perhaps the deep-seated conspiracy was not good. This idea was later widely supported even though it was just a conspiracy theory.
When you enter the chain of misfortunes, things will not stop there. This time, even though it's just a rumor, no matter what issue Chinese netizens mention, it more or less has a chance of happening. They said that there was a rift in the relationship between Liu Guoliang and Fan Zhendong, it seemed to be due to conflicting copyright interests or it could also be due to Fan Zhendong's decline in performance that bothered Chairman Liu...many other things. again. When you are rumored to have trouble with a powerful President like Liu Guoliang, the trouble and influence are very obvious whether the rumor exists or not.
There are difficulties with powerful people, there are also difficulties with direct trainers, so what about teammates? This is probably the easiest topic to find in China, because if you just type Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong quarreled with Fan Zhendong, you will find hundreds of topics like “Why does Wang Chuqin always feel dissatisfied with Fan Zhendong?", "The leak of messages between Lin Shidong and Wang Chuqin talking about Fan Zhendong shows you how bad the team is internally?"... There are even conflict topics such as like "Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, who has better personality?", these questions are like someone deliberately tried to put down Fan Zhendong and asked that.
The biggest problem, consuming the most ink in a long time, is the topic "Fan Zhendong's tactical techniques are outdated and outdated". There are three key and reputable figures who have largely affirmed this. The first person was Chen Qi, who said on live TV around mid-June 2022, “Fan Zhendong's fruit lacks spin.” Next, Xiao Pang's old teacher, the coach who guided him from a very early age, Wu Jingping, directly affirmed on his official weibo that Fan Zhendong was very outdated, this status line was later deleted. But the online community quickly captured it.
And most recently, Wang Hao, head coach of the National team, when summarizing and summarizing the recent mainstream trend of table tennis, gave the example of the match Fan Zhendong lost to Hugo Calderano at the World Cup. WTT Champions Incheon 2024, he said that Fan Zhendong's playing style deviates from the mainstream and makes everyone feel a bit out of rhythm, you cannot control the ball too much, of course you have to control the ball short in table, but you should only control one and two short ball cycles and never go for the third short ball, it is best to attack immediately after controlling a short ball.
Of course, those are just the biggest difficulties over the past year for the former world number 1. In addition to big difficulties, there are also... smaller difficulties. Like, being teased when he was an 11-year-old boy was chatting vulgarly with girls, then going to watch football, going to the movies before a match and performing poorly... When things were difficult, it was like that. A series of scrutiny and criticism will come to you...
