As we all know, table tennis is China's "national game". Among China's 1.4 billion people, from ancient and rare elderly to preschool children, there are many people who can play table tennis. Chinese people regard table tennis as both a sport and a public entertainment. Therefore, there are many amateur players in the private sector, and their technical level is also very high. Someone once joked: if participates in a world-level table tennis competition, without having to dispatch a national team, table tennis players from various provinces can win the world championship! Although it is a folk joke, it is also a big truth.
In 1959, the 22-year-old Chinese team's men's singles player Rong Guotuan won the first world championship for China. Since then, the Chinese table tennis team has begun to rise. According to statistics, for decades, the Chinese table tennis team has won more than 120 world championships for the motherland. The Chinese table tennis team has also become a leader and an unattainable peak in the world table tennis. Table tennis teams all over the world take the Chinese table tennis team as their benchmark, and they dream of defeating the Chinese team one day.
Actually, table tennis originated in England. It is named after the sound of "pingpang" when it strikes. In the past, many European countries liked to play tennis. However, due to the influence of the weather and the venue, some British college students moved tennis indoors, using the dining table as the table, books or notebooks as the net, and using parchment paper to make rackets and hitting them on the table.
However, as the country of the invention, the United Kingdom, including many countries in Europe, has not won much honor in the field of table tennis. Instead, it is the Japanese team, which once dominated the world table tennis for a period of time. Until later, the rise of the Chinese team ended the dominant position of the Japanese team and became the real "boss" of the world table tennis. It is no exaggeration to say that table tennis in China has completely exceeded its own sports category. It is more of a spirit of tenacious struggle.
At this time, the Chinese table tennis team, as the dominant player in the table tennis world, has many world-class players. This was originally a good thing. However, there is also a problem that has plagued the Chinese national team: According to the regulations of the World Table Tennis Federation,There is a limit to the number of people participating in the competition. In other words, only a very small number of players can participate in the game. This means that there will be a large number of outstanding athletes who train hard at ordinary times and cannot participate in the competition.
Therefore, the national team will be cautious in the selection of participating players before each game. To be honest, the players who can be selected for the Chinese national table tennis team are all top domestic players and world-class players. They also have victories in their usual training. The level of competition is almost the same, and the gap is only a few millimeters. Therefore, the competition for the number of entries is very fierce.
In order to ensure the results of the game, the coaching staff should consider the characteristics of each player in addition to selecting the best. Those athletes with good psychological quality and tenacious will become the first choice. At the same time, it is necessary to combine and match the technical characteristics of the athletes. For example, in addition to the offensive players, the team must also match players with strong defensive capabilities. Because the gold medal in the table tennis team competition is very heavy.
However, some individual athletes lost their position in the face of national and collective honor, and only considered their personal interests. They violated organizational principles, disrupted the technical and tactical arrangements of the coaching staff, and brought great negatives to the national team. Influence.
In 1987, in the women's singles semifinals of the 39th World Table Tennis Championships in New Delhi, India, three Chinese players entered the semifinals. They were He Zhili, Guan Jianhua and Dai Lili. There is also a famous Korean player Liang Yingzi. The matchup was He Zhili vs. Guan Jianhua and Dai Lili vs. Liang Yingzi.
At that time, the coaching staff analyzed the situation: If Dai Lili loses to Liang Yingzi, Liang Yingzi will meet the winner of the battle between He Zhili and Guan Jianhua in the final. Liang Yingzi and He Zhili have had several encounters, and they are more familiar with He Zhili's style of play. Moreover, he defeated He Zhili in the recent Asian Games.On the other hand, Guan Jianhua, the player, is on the same level as He Zhili. Whether it is in the domestic competition or the usual team training, the two have each other's wins and losses. The most important thing is that Liang Yingzi has never played with Guan Jianhua before, and is not familiar with her style of play; in addition, Guan Jianhua is a cut, and the opponent needs to play more than a dozen balls to score a point, which consumes a lot of physical strength. Especially in the previous games, Guan Jianhua performed well, defeated many foreign masters, won the title of "sniper", and became the "secret weapon" for the Chinese team to defeat the enemy.
In the semifinals, He Zhili and Guan Jianhua met. Guan Jianhua kept as much as possible in accordance with the arrangement of the coaching staff, thinking about how to deal with Liang Yingzi, so she did not exert all her strength. However, He Zhili did not obey the arrangements of the coaching staff on the field. She blindly beat Guan Jianhua.
He Zhili's approach disrupted the coaching staff's prior technical and tactical arrangements, and also affected the rhythm of Dai Lili's game against Liang Yingzi. In the deciding game of the fifth game, Dai Lili, who had been leading all the way, was greatly affected psychologically after learning of the results of He Zhili and Guan Jianhua. She unexpectedly lost to the situation with a big lead. Liang Yingzi.
Although, in the next championship battle, He Zhili defeated Liang Yingzi to win the championship. However, her narrow concept of personal heroism has been criticized and educated by the organization. In the face of organizational assistance in education, He Zhili adopted a passive attitude of resistance.
In 1989, He Zhili chose to retire. Later, she went to Japan to settle and became a Japanese citizen. At the same time, she changed her name He Zhili to "Koyama Zhili" with her Japanese husband Hideyuki Koyama.
Actually, as early as four years ago, He Zhili and the Japanese youth Hideyuki Koyama met. Hideyuki Koyama was born in a prominent family in Osaka, Japan. His father Fujihei Koyama is a well-known local person. He is very friendly to China and once served as the president of the Osaka Japan-China Friendship Association. Hideyuki Koyama is his third son, and he is a civil engineer.
Hideyuki Koyama and his family are all table tennis fans. His father Fujibei Koyama, who likes table tennis, was elected as the honorary president of the Osaka Table Tennis Association.Under the influence of his father, Xiaoshan Yingzhi has loved sports since he was a child, especially playing table tennis. Although he is not a professional athlete, he has a high level of table tennis skills. Koyama Hideyuki once won the men's singles table tennis championship in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Moreover, he is also the executive director and amateur coach of the Osaka Prefecture Table Tennis Association.
Because of their common hobbies and He Zhili's position in the world table tennis, the two got married soon.
After marriage, He Zhili resumed training with the help of her husband Xiaoshan Yingzhi. However, compared with China, there is a certain gap between training intensity and training standardization. However, He Zhili seemed to hold a resentment in her heart. She was training desperately almost in a crazy state...
In 1993, He Zhili represented the Japanese team in the 42nd World Table Tennis Championships. This is her first time representing the Japanese team. He Zhili wants to prove her ability too much. However, what she didn't expect was that fate still made a big joke with her. In the first eighth of the match, He Zhili was defeated by the Chinese team's Chen Zihe .
In 1994, the Asian Games were held in Hiroshima, Japan. He Zhili prepared well this time. In the women's singles table tennis match, she represented the Japanese team through five rounds and cut six generals. In the final, she ushered in the "big devil" Deng Yaping .
At that time, Deng Yaping was only 21 years old. She was the winner of two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. She was also the world's number one female player in the ITTF . At this time, He Zhili is already a 30-year-old veteran, and she has not participated in a world-class competition for many years. Therefore, for such a game, the outside world unanimously believes that Deng Yaping will undoubtedly win.
However, He Zhili's performance in the finals was unexpected. At that time, He Zhili was very excited as soon as she came on the court. She was running around in front of the table, still muttering to herself. After the game started, He Zhili was even more excited.Whenever she hits a good goal or scores a point, she clenches her fists and yells "Zhe Xi" loudly in Japanese. He Zhili's move not only surprised Deng Yaping who was present, but also made the Chinese audience in front of the TV feel indignant. It’s hard for everyone to understand that an outstanding player who was born in China, grew up in China, and was trained by the Chinese national table tennis team for many years, actually faced his former teammates and TV in just a few years of becoming a Japanese citizen. Hundreds of millions of Chinese audiences in front of the plane chanted Japanese to provoke the bottom line of Chinese emotions.
In this way, under He Zhili's crazy shout, Deng Yaping unexpectedly lost to He Zhili.
After He Zhili won the championship, she was very excited. In an interview with reporters, she "showed" Japanese and expressed her gratitude to Japan for giving her this opportunity. She even ecstatically said: is even more happy to win the Asian Games championship for Japan than to win the world championship for China. In response to this, the Japanese folk and major Japanese mainstream media responded calmly. Although He Zhili joined the Japanese nationality and changed her name to Koyama Zhili, and she was still full of "show" in Japanese, but the Japanese people's national concept was deeply rooted, and they never recognized "Koyama Zhili" as a Japanese.
In fact, as early as when He Zhili and Xiaoshan Yingzhi married, there were voices of opposition in Xiaoshan Yingzhi's home. Tobei Koyama has three sons. The eldest son's family grew up in the United States, and his second son settled in Singapore. Only the third son Hideyuki Koyama is by his side. After He Zhili and Xiaoshan Yingzhi married, they lived with her husband Xiaoshan Yingzhi's parents.
At that time, Xiaoshan Yingzhi's brother did not approve of the combination of He Zhili and Xiaoshan Yingzhi. Their reason is that the Koyama family is a well-known family in Japan, and he should marry a Japanese woman as his wife to ensure the purity of the blood of the next generation. However, with the support of his parents, Xiao Xiaoying chose the Chinese girl He Zhili without hesitation.
After winning the women’s singles championship in the Asian Games, He Zhili’s desires were somewhat inflated. She believed that defeating Deng Yaping, who was ranked number one in the world at the time, was equivalent to having reached the highest level of world table tennis women’s singles. . then,He Zhili stepped up training. She set her goal on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
However, this time the balance of fate did not tilt for her again. In the one-eighth match, He Zhili was directly eliminated by Chinese girls and Qiao Hong 3-0. Her dream of Olympic champion was completely shattered. At the same time, to her surprise, her marriage was also lit up. It turns out that He Zhili’s Japanese husband, Hideyuki Koyama, who has always been proud of, “derailed”, and the “cheating” happened under her “eyelids”, and the target of Hideyuki Koyama’s “cheating” was a coach of He Zhili. Young Japanese female players. This female team member is only 1.4 meters tall and is a "pocket girl". She is 22 years younger than Xiaoshan Hidezhi.
As everyone knows, He Zhili is a Shanghai girl, but she lacks the kind of gentle and virtuous woman from the south of the Yangtze River. Her character is straightforward, stubborn, and even paranoid. In this regard, from her violation of the coach's technical and tactical arrangements, to leaving the Chinese national team to join the Japanese nationality, to shouting "Xi Xi" at the Asian Games, He Zhili is a relatively self-conscious person.
After learning the truth, He Zhili completely collapsed. She moved out of Hideyuki Koyama's home immediately and quickly filed a divorce application to the court. In view of the early "derailment" by Xiao Xiaoying, the court ordered Xiao Xiaozhi to compensate He Zhili 6.5 million yen. At the same time, He Zhili also recovered the US$40,000 that He Zhili had lent to Xiao Xiaoying's relatives through the court.
After the divorce, He Zhili also reflected on her exotic love: one is that different countries and different ethnic groups have their own cultures and customs, and people of two different backgrounds need to overcome many difficulties when they come together; the other is Xiaoshan The English House is a well-known family in Japan. Although it is a transnational marriage, the family concept is an insurmountable gap. Third, I am busy with training and ignore the existence of her husband. What's even more pity is that I put too much emphasis on the results of the competition, so that I don't have time to have children. This is the root cause of the breakdown of the marriage.
In 2000, at the Sydney Olympics, 36-year-old He Zhili once again reached the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, He Zhili met the top player of the Chinese team Wang Nan .At this time, Wang Nan did not give He Zhili any chance, she defeated He Zhili 3-0.
From then on, He Zhili gradually faded out of the game and ended her career as a professional athlete.
After He Zhili left the field, she became the head coach of a Japanese bank table tennis team. However, there is one thing that makes it difficult for many Chinese fans to understand: After He Zhili's divorce, he still uses the name "Xiao Xiaozhili". Regarding this, He Zhili explained: First, because "Zhili Koyama" has enjoyed a high reputation in Japan, she does not want to be an unfamiliar person; second, in Japan, the procedures for changing the name are very troublesome and she does not have much time. Go to change.
In 2004, He Zhili used her savings to buy a large house in the prosperous area of Osaka. She did not remarry, but lived alone.
Regarding her future marriage, He Zhili made up her mind this time to never marry a Japanese again. She wants to find a Chinese husband, preferably from Shanghai. She hopes that her future husband will be a man who is loyal to feelings, who can care for her and be considerate of her. She even listed specific requirements: taller, decent appearance, not too bad economic conditions, and it is best to have a foreign passport to facilitate entry and exit from Japan.
However, due to He Zhili's stubborn personality, she is not good at socializing, therefore, her favorite "Prince Charming" never appeared.
In 2005, the 48th World Table Tennis Championships was held in Shanghai. He Zhili returned to Shanghai as a guest at the invitation of the Table Tennis Center of the State Sports General Administration of China. He Zhili was deeply moved by this trip to Shanghai. Recalling her extreme actions back then, the motherland has given her tolerance and understanding.
At that time, a reporter asked her to comment on the difference between her hometown of Shanghai and Japan. He Zhili believes that: Shanghai is her hometown, which reminds her of childhood memories; Japan is clean and the quality of people is high, but the relationship between people is relatively weak.
With a flick of a finger, decades have passed. He Zhili also slowly turned from a staunch athlete to a gentle woman.However, one thing to her regret is that the achievements and current social status of the main female players of the Chinese national team during the same period as He Zhili are beyond comparison by He Zhili. Perhaps this sense of loss will accompany He Zhili's life.
