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After the 21-year-old Zheng Qinwen won the championship, overnight, the legends about her were dug up:
1. Suppress the opponent to the point of breaking the defense, and fall into a state of impotent rage with roaring and smashing the racket.
2 Swiatek, the No. 1 international women's tennis player, cried for six hours after losing to Zheng Qinwen.
3 The first Olympic singles gold medal in the history of Chinese tennis and the first gold medal in Asian singles, breaking the myth of European and American races.
4 Before the competition, Nike, Rolex, McDonald's, Yili, Gatorade, Ant, Bawang Chaji, Lancôme and other brands bet heavily on signing, and commercial brands are unanimously optimistic about this future star.
So here's the problem, three years ago, Zheng Qinwen was just a newcomer ranked 108th in the world.
But now, it has ranked among the top ten in the world, and in the foreseeable future, it can write a legend that surpasses Li Na.
How did this outstanding talent come about?
In many media reports, Zheng Qinwen's success is inseparable from the support of her "tiger father".
Zheng Qinwen is from Shiyan, Hubei, and his father Zheng Jianping is a track and field athlete.
After thinking about it, I decided to choose the tennis route.
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Unlike traditional sports such as table tennis, Chinese tennis is basically a "national system" in which the state is responsible for all expenses.
However, the players lack the right to speak, cannot choose their own teams, and give priority to obeying the official event arrangement, and the income such as bonuses and endorsements must also be divided into a certain proportion to the state.
Tennis, on the other hand, is quite independent:
Coaches, rehabilitators, and medical teams can be invited by themselves, and the competition can be selected by themselves, and the income from the event can also be fully pocketed.
Of course, the state will give much less resources.
And in order to make his daughter the top tennis player, Zheng Jianping found a way to hire a coach by himself.
He contacted Li Na's provincial team coach Yu Liqiao, but Yu Liqiao believed that Zheng Qinwen was not tall enough and overweight, and once refused to be her mentor.
Seeing this, Zheng Jianping kept looking for someone to intercede, and even took his children and wife, and a family of three knelt down for Yu Liqiao, begging Yu Liqiao to be Zheng Qinwen's godmother.
Later, Zheng Qinwen practiced with Yu Liqiao for more than 1 year.
In the process, Zheng Jianping gradually became dissatisfied with Yu Liqiao's traditional training model, and then brought his daughter to Beijing to study under Li Na's foreign coach Carlos · Rodriguez.
In order to cultivate his daughter more freely, Zheng Jianping did not hesitate to take all his net worth.
In order to send his children to Beijing for training, it is rumored that Zheng Jianping even sold his hometown house.
Paying for a personal trainer has a different effect.
During the four years of practice in Beijing, the coaching staff held weekly meetings around Zheng Qinwen's progress and made a special physical training plan.
Zheng Qinwen gradually became famous and got some results.
Under normal circumstances, many people of the same age who are in a similar situation to Zheng Qinwen will apply for foreign schools or embark on the training route within the system, but Zheng Jianping insists on taking the route of raising children independently.
In Europe, where competition training costs at least 3 million a year, Zheng Qinwen raised money everywhere and invited Spain coach Pere · Riba for his daughter.
Pere · Riba once said: Zheng Qinwen is always the first to arrive and the last to leave on the training ground, and even if he is exhausted, he shows a desire to continue training and is often dissatisfied with the intensity of training.
"I have never seen someone who works as hard as Zheng Qinwen in my life."
In 2019, with Zheng Qinwen's efforts, IMG, the world's top sports agency, saw her potential and signed her.
After that, Zheng Qinwen's commercial value soared, and the family never had to worry about money anymore......
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Zheng Qinwen's "solo flight" is different from Li Na, she was able to integrate with the international system when she was more than 10 years old.
Exposed to the most cutting-edge training methods, and can freely contract coaches, freely contract commercial companies to increase commercial income.
Everything is "adapted to local conditions".
In comparison, Li Na's road to victory was much more tortuous, and she was 29 years old when she won her first Grand Slam title.
And Li Na's achievements are inseparable from Sun Jinfang, who reformed China's tennis system.
In 2003, the legendary female volleyball player Sun Jinfang was transferred to the tennis management center of the General Administration of Sports.
When she first arrived there, she learned that the tennis management center only had more than 4 million yuan a year, and the sponsor could only give 1 million.
Internationally, tennis is one of the most commercialized sports, and athletes need a lot of money for training and competitions, such as Li Na's team's annual training fee, which will cost 5 million.
But the body didn't pay much attention to it at the time.
What to do?
Sun Jinfang decided to boldly carry out reforms, delegate power to the players, and allow them to go out on their own to "find food".
She encouraged Li Na, Zheng Jie, Yan Zi, Peng Shuai and other good seedlings to "fly solo" and enjoy a certain degree of coaching freedom, bonus freedom, and freedom to participate.
At the same time, he plunged headlong into the tide of the market economy, looking for relationships and running business, so that the original 3 million sponsorship rose to 30 million.
Sun Jinfang once said that she has been "arranged" all her life, whether it is the volleyball work that she has accompanied for many years, or later in politics, she did not choose it herself.
And making Chinese tennis move from a "national system" to a "mixed system" is Sun Jinfang's biggest attempt.
In the process of reform, Sun Jinfang withstood a lot of pressure.
But it is precisely because of Sun Jinfang's cultivation and relaxation that Li Na has achieved brilliant results later.
From Li Na to Zheng Qinwen, the commercial value of Chinese tennis is constantly highlighted, and more players have gone international.
One of the key takeaways is:
We can't ignore the cultivation of outstanding talents, but we must not manage too much.
It is necessary to find a path that is conducive to the growth of seedlings, but also cannot be over-supervised and over-guided.
After clarifying the "traffic light", the contestants should be treated as venture capital projects, with less interference and less intervention, giving the contestants more oxygen and freedom.
Of course, this development idea is not only applicable to tennis.
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