On September 6, Beijing time, the latest blockbuster news came from the Chinese table tennis team. Another Grand Slam player from the national table tennis team announced his retirement, and it has instantly become a hot search. This person is the fifth Grand Slam player Ding Ning of the Chinese women's table tennis team. At the age of 31, she announced that she has officially ended her table tennis career.
Ding Ning wrote on her personal social media: "Today I came to Peking University to register, and from now on I will be the freshman 'Xue Ning' at Peking University. She will continue to work hard and continue to contribute to the cause of sports. Then Ding Ning reviewed He has a 26-year football career. He started learning to play at the age of 5. He came to Beijing to pursue his dream at the age of 10. He won a Grand Slam at the Olympic Games and served as the flag bearer for the Chinese delegation at the closing ceremony in Rio.
Table tennis can be said to be the church. Ding Ning learned a lot. Finally, Ding Ning mentioned that the most important thing that table tennis taught her is that sportsmanship is much more than winning and losing. She thanked the entire national table tennis team, all her coaches and teammates, and also thanked her Supporters and fans. Ding Ning's remarks announcing his retirement received 2,000 comments and 15,000 likes in just 50 minutes. It is currently ranked first in the hot search. It can be seen that Ding Ning's attention is very high. A 31-year-old veteran, this is the first time in her career that she has competed in an international competition for the Chinese table tennis team. This can be traced back to when she was 13 years old. After competing for her country for 18 years, Ding Ning won three Olympic gold medals and one silver medal. And she has three World Championships singles championships and three World Cup singles championships, leaving behind 21 world championships, creating her own glory and great achievements, and she has already been selected into the ITTF Hall of Fame
and even Ding Ning. She also created a miracle that belongs to her. She is the first national table tennis athlete to serve as the Olympic flag bearer. Although she is the flag bearer at the closing ceremony, it is still a terrifying achievement. Ding Ning, who has won 21 world championships in her career, can be said to be Liu Shiwen. The lifelong enemy of , she originally had two duels with Li Xiaoxia and in the Olympics. In the finals, they each won an Olympic championship and achieved Grand Slam respectively. However, more often she fought against Liu Shiwen and created There are many famous scenes.
And in fact, she is indeed worthy of being Liu Shiwen's biggest enemy, and of course she is also Liu Shiwen's good friend. In terms of the overall performance of the two, Liu Shiwen has the upper hand against Ding Ning, but when it comes to the crucial competition. , Liu Shiwen always loses to Ding Ning. The most classic scene is undoubtedly the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships women's singles match. Ding Ning was suddenly injured. She was already lagging behind Liu Shiwen, but she chose to persist in the game. At that time, Liu Shiwen's mentality fluctuated greatly. Ding Ning finally completed the reversal and defeated Liu Shiwen 4-3 to win the championship.
Then she gradually reached the peak of her personal career and later won the Olympic championship in the Rio Olympics. But in fact, Since 2020, Ding Ning has gradually missed many competitions. In 2021, she completely faded out of the national table tennis team. After she missed the roster for the Olympic Games and the National Games, everyone also knew that. The time for Ding Ning to retire is definitely coming. She has already gone to Peking University for further studies.
Now Liu Shiwen's lifelong enemy Ding Ning has withdrawn. But Xiaozao is still persisting, which is also very touching. It is indeed not easy. Now there are only 5 of the 6 main players in the national table tennis team, and the older generation players are all fading out.
