As we all know, in the history of Chinese women's table tennis, a total of five athletes have won grand slam achievements, they are Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning. These five can also be said to be the most successful chinese women's table tennis athletes so far.
For athletes, when they reach a certain age, they will definitely choose to retire, such as when Deng Yaping retired at the age of 24, and Wang Nan announced his retirement immediately after playing the Beijing Olympic Games, when Wang Nan retired, he was already 30 years old.
Although Zhang Yining announced his retirement in 2011, in fact, Zhang Yining played in the 2009 Full Games and successfully defended his title and never participated in a competition.
Li Xiaoxia, like Wang Nan at that time, also announced her retirement after playing the Olympic Games.
Ding Ning, on the other hand, is somewhat similar to Zhang Yining, gradually withdrawing in 2020 and announcing his retirement in 2021.
But no matter what, these five Grand Slams, after retiring, still maintain a very good contact with the national table tennis, after all, they are athletes who came out of this team, and they still have a lot of feelings for the national table tennis group.
Whether it is Deng Yaping Wang Nan, or Zhang Yining Dingning, when they retired, they all chose to leave calmly, but there was a Grand Slam, when they retired, they secretly dissed the coaching team, making the women's table tennis coaching team controversial, but now because they have obtained a position in the International Table Tennis Federation, they thank Liu Guoliang.
This athlete is Li Xiaoxia.
What's going on here?
In fact, before the Olympic Games, Li Xiaoxia wanted to retire due to injury, but under the repeated invitations of the coaching staff, Li Xiaoxia finally decided to return to the team and prepare for the Rio Olympic Games.
In the Rio Olympic Games, Li Xiaoxia also successfully completed the task of the competition, successfully defended her own line in the women's singles competition, although she fought hard in the final for seven sets, and finally lost to Ding Ning 3-4 to be the runner-up, but for Li Xiaoxia, who was 28 years old at the time, it was also a perfect ending.
At the same time, in the women's team competition, Li Xiaoxia partnered with Ding Ning Liu Shiwen to successfully help the Chinese women's table tennis defend the championship of the women's team.
In this case, Li Xiaoxia had just finished playing the Olympic Games and announced the news of her retirement on the social platform.
It is said that before the Olympic Games, I wanted to retire, and now I have successfully completed the olympic task, and I have no regrets, and if I want to retire, the coaching staff and fans can also understand.
However, a few months after Li Xiaoxia announced her retirement, she suddenly posted a complaint late one night, saying that good and evil were reported, not that the time had not come!
And this also made fans feel confused, do not know where the coaching staff made Li Xiaoxia feel dissatisfied, and even some fans speculated that Li Xiaoxia was forced to give the ball to Ding Ning in the women's singles final of the Rio Olympic Games.
Although Li Xiaoxia herself publicly stated that she did not let the ball go, but that the time for her to resume training was too short, and Ding Ning has been training diligently, and winning the championship is also deserved, but Li Xiaoxia's words of good and evil are rewarded, or it is still imaginative!
For a long time after that, Li Xiaoxia had almost no contact with the national table tennis coaching staff.
But recently, Li Xiaoxia has begun to frequently take the initiative to show goodwill to the national table tennis, and even more openly thank Liu Guoliang.
Originally, under the recommendation of Liu Guoliang, Li Xiaoxia now has a new position, that is, she has entered the International Table Tennis Federation and becomes a member of the World Ranking Working Group of the International Table Tennis Federation.
Li Xiaoxia said: It is a great honor to be a member of the ITTF World Ranking Working Group, and thank the Chinese Table Tennis Association for its recommendation and trust. I hope more people from all over the world can participate in table tennis, I will continue to work hard!
It is reported that Li Xiaoxia was approved by the Executive Committee of the International Table Tennis Federation to join the new institution under the recommendation of Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and he previously recommended Xu Xin to be elected as the first vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation. Liu Guoliang once said that in the future, more outstanding players will be recommended to participate in international table tennis affairs and promote the development of table tennis.
It can be seen that Li Xiaoxia today has also completely walked out of the feeling of grievance at that time, after all, the national table tennis coaching team did not do anything to be sorry for themselves, but they felt unwilling in their hearts.
Now under the recommendation of Liu Guoliang, Li Xiaoxia finally has a job, and she must thank Liu Guoliang for her recommendation.
Finally, I hope that Li Xiaoxia can have a happy life in the future work and life, getting better and better, come on!