In the 1960s, the Chinese table tennis team repeatedly made extraordinary achievements. Regrettably, the Chinese women's team has been lingering on team events. In the 27th World Table Tennis Championships in 1963, the Chinese women's team only won third place in the four events of women's team, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the Beijing International Table Tennis Invitational a year later, the Chinese women's team suffered another heavy blow, losing to the Japanese team in all four finals. The newly emerging Japanese women's team player Fukatsu Naoko, in this visit to China, won 12 consecutive games against the Chinese players. He Long, then director of the State Sports Commission, saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.
Naoko Fukatsu
So President He found Rong Guotuan and he told Rong Guotuan that there are 650 million people in China, and you alone are not a strong champion. In that case, it's up to you and you will take everyone to fight together and make a tough one. Then President He solemnly handed over the women's team to Rong Guotuan.
In the early 1980s, the Changjiang Film Studio made a film called "Marshal and Soldier" based on the 10-year relationship between He Long and Rong Guotuan. It was under the encouragement of Marshal He Long that the 27-year-old Rong The National League was in danger and was appointed as the head coach of the Chinese women's team. Shoulder the important task of training the women's team.
Rong Guotuan
After taking office, Rong Guotuan carefully analyzed the situation of women's table tennis in the world at that time. He encouraged the female players to say: Don't be afraid of Naoko Fukatsu. Although she won twelve games in a row, she scored very well. Close, the gap between China and Japan is just a thin window paper. We must despise them strategically, believe in ourselves, and dare to win.
Rong Guotuan and his teammates
In order to boost morale and enhance fighting spirit, Rong Guotuan often invites comrades of the men's team to give lectures to the teammates of the women's team. The famous table tennis player Xu Yinsheng was born in Shanghai in 1938 and his ancestral home is Suzhou, Jiangsu. In 1959, Xu Yin was born as a player on the national table tennis training team. Because of his excellent record, he was known as one of the "Big Three" in China's table tennis industry. In 1964, Xu Yinsheng gave a speech "On How to Play Table Tennis" to Chinese female table tennis players.Helping teammates eliminate many blindness in their minds, and inspiring the Chinese women's table tennis team to fight a turnaround the following year, which aroused positive responses across the country.
Xu Yinsheng
On January 12, 1965, after Mao Zedong read this speech by Xu Yinsheng, he picked up a pen and wrote an instruction: For many years, he has not seen such a work. It's about playing basketball. What we need to learn from him is theory, politics, economy, culture, and military. On January 17, 1965, the People's Daily published the full text of Xu Yinsheng's speech entitled "How to Play Table Tennis" in a large format.
On April 15, 1965, the 28th World Table Tennis Championships kicked off in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. The Chinese women’s team made it into the finals, and before the start of the decisive third set, Rong Guotuan told the upcoming Zheng Minzhi, believe in yourself, now you can raise your soldiers for thousands of days and use them for a while. Now is the time to fight. NS.
It is this sentence that gave the female players confidence-the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team that has maintained the title of world champion for eight consecutive years. Rong Guotuan, the man who once proudly raised China’s first men’s singles world championship trophy and the first men’s team world championship trophy, led the young Chinese table tennis players to defeat the four-time world championship. The Japanese women's team took home China's first world table tennis women's team championship trophy-the Corbyron Cup.
Foreign telecoms have commented, “Rong Guotuan led the team to win the world championship in half a year. He is not only a talented player, but also an outstanding coach. He once again made history!”
received by Chairman Mao Players of the women's table tennis team
The 28th World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese Ping Pong Team received frequent reports. In this competition, the Chinese table tennis team brought back five golden trophies. The young team of the Chinese table tennis team has reached the pinnacle of the world table tennis at an astonishing speed, and China has since established its status as the world's table tennis power.
The news that the Chinese table tennis team has achieved a brilliant record has once again become the most sensational news in China.He Long, director of the State Sports Commission, personally went to the airport to greet the ping-pong athletes who had returned with praise. Table tennis is a sport that He Long grasped with one hand, from scratch to the brilliance of this moment. All these processes have condensed too much effort of the old man.
He Long meets the Rongguo League
Table tennis carries the dream of the Chinese people in that era, and it is precisely because of the indomitable spirit of struggle carried by table tennis that table tennis has become the national game of our country.
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