At the Table Tennis WTT Kazakhstan Championship ended on September 18, Beijing time, Chinese Taipei player Lin Yunru won 2 championships and 1 Asian championships, with a 3-0 lead and a thunderous reversal, and 0-2 behind and 3 consecutive draws. It was a big ups and downs!
In all three events Lin Yunru participated in, we can see the same coach, who is Wei Qingguang, a former national table tennis Olympic champion. However, things are unpredictable. Now Wei Qingguang has already joined the Japanese nationality and changed his surname to "Weiguan". He will lead Lin Yunru to advance together and climb to the peak of the table tennis world again: Can it succeed?
Wei Qingguang was born in 1962 and is only 1 year younger than Cai Zhenhua, but their lives are very different: Cai Zhenhua became famous at a young age and became the world champion at the age of 20. He chose to retire at the age of 24. Later, he went abroad to coach and then returned to China to develop. He gradually became the men's team coach, head coach, and head coach of the national table tennis team. Later, he served as the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the chairman of the Chinese Football Association.
As for Wei Qingguang, he is a rare late-stage player in the table tennis world. He entered the national team at the age of 23, just in time for Cai Zhenhua to retire. However, three years later, Wei Qingguang actually won the men's doubles gold medal at the Seoul Olympics with Chen Longcan and . It's really unpredictable!
However, objectively speaking, Wei Qingguang's success has some opportunities for the times. Due to his limited singles, he quickly faded out of the top position of the national table tennis team. Later, he went to Japan to develop and even won the national championship in Japan at the age of 35. However, his nationality also became Japan, becoming one of the countless members of the Chinese table tennis "Overseas Corps".
Originally, Wei Qingguang had no connection with Lin Yunru, but Lin Yunru's coach resigned last year, so he hired Wei Qingguang to guide him. It has been more than half a year since then, and the two are inseparable on the court.
In this Kazakhstan Tournament, Lin Yunru led 3-0 in the men's singles final and lost 4 games to German player Firus, which was because of his lack of strength. Wei Qingguang also pointed out specifically about this. However, although he was correcting the shortcomings of his disciples, as the saying goes, the master led the door and practiced individually. Lin Yunru still has major problems at present, and he has to practice more in the future.
Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships is about to start, and Wei Qingguang is very likely to continue to serve as Lin Yunru's off-field coach. Can he lead his disciples to achieve good results by then? Let’s wait for the competition to kick off!
