Cao Yanhua, Queen of Table Tennis: Smoking, perming and puppy love all take up, but the coach is locked up by his grades.

1962 12 Cao Yanhua was born in an ordinary family in Hongkou District.

Cao Yanhua lived in a special period when she was a child, so her childhood life was very hard. Sometimes eating a fried dough stick can make her feel full of happiness.

Cao Yanhua became attached to table tennis because her sister practiced table tennis when she was a child, and Cao Yanhua always followed her sister to pick up the ball.

Slowly, Cao Yanhua also began to beat a few times. Cao Yanhua's father watched his daughter like table tennis so much that he simply asked Cao Yanhua to practice table tennis like her sister.

In this way, Cao Yanhua began to practice table tennis at the age of five, and with the passage of time, her talent in table tennis gradually emerged. When she was eight or nine years old, almost all her peers were no match for her.

1975, 13-year-old Cao Yanhua participated in the adult group competition of the Shanghai Table Tennis Championships. She went all the way to the final, and the final opponent was Gu Zhijuan, the Shanghai women's table tennis champion.

At that time, almost everyone was optimistic about Cao Yanhua. After all, she was just an unknown teenager at that time, but the final result was that Cao Yanhua defeated Gu Zhijuan 3-/kloc-0 and became the champion of the adult group of the Shanghai Table Tennis Championships.

When 13-year-old Cao Yanhua stood on the podium, many people were deeply moved by this little girl, and Cao Yanhua successfully entered the Shanghai table tennis team with this champion.

After joining the Shanghai table tennis team, Yu Changchun, the head coach of the Shanghai team, has high expectations for Cao Yanhua and also has very high requirements for her.

Once, in Changchun, Cao Yanhua was invited to play ball with a male player who won the seven-time championship. Cao Yanhua agreed without fear, but the male player hesitated for a long time.

After the head coach asked the male players several times, he barely answered the word "hmm", from which we can see the difference between them, and the final result of the competition also confirmed the strength of Cao Yanhua. The male player can't accept this reality and can't create his former glory again.

1977, after a national competition, Cao Yanhua, who was still training for the Shanghai team, was called to the front by Yu Changchun, the head coach of the Shanghai team. At that time, Li Furong and Xu Yinsheng, the "giants" of table tennis in China, were sitting beside Changchun.

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This is the first time that Cao Yanhua has met Xu Yinsheng and Li Furong in reality. She has only seen them on TV before, but she is well aware of the influence of these two predecessors in table tennis in China.

So, after seeing these two men, Cao Yanhua stood obediently, afraid to look up and look around. At that time, Li Furong asked Cao Yanhua this sentence: "Do you want to win the world championship?"

Cao Yanhua didn't know whether she could win the world championship, but she still expressed her strong desire for it.

So, a month later, Cao Yanhua, aged 15, suddenly received a notice from the national team to let her go abroad to participate in the competition. After the news was known by her friends, no one wanted to believe it After all, going abroad was still an incredible thing for most people at that time.

Next, Cao Yanhua was transferred to the national team for training. After a month's training, Cao Yanhua was sent to the Soviet Union to participate in the Scandinavian competition, the last competition besides the World Championships at that time.

In the end, Cao Yanhua won the Scandinavian championship successfully, and was the youngest Scandinavian champion in history.

With this good result, Cao Yanhua played well and stayed in the national first team. You know, Cao Yanhua was not in the official establishment of the Shanghai team before.

After winning the youngest Scandinavian champion, Cao Yanhua began to be called "a talented athlete" and "the future of table tennis in China" by the media. These honors made Cao Yanhua, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, lose himself.

So, in the next two years, Cao Yanhua failed in many competitions because he didn't make much breakthrough in technology and didn't work hard in training.

Especially in the National Games of 1979, Cao Yanhua failed to win the championship, so questions from all sides flocked to her, and her mood also fell into the lowest point.

At this time, several leaders of the national team intended to let Cao Yanhua return to the Shanghai team. When they reported this opinion to Xu Yinsheng, then deputy director of the State Sports Commission, Xu Yinsheng simply said: "She is still young, give her another chance."

It is because of Xu Yinsheng's words that 17-year-old Cao Yanhua can stay in the national team.

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Cao Yanhua, 17 years old, not only stayed in the national team, but also the coaching staff gave him a new head coach after discussion. The new head coach is Zhou Lansun.

At that time, Zhou Lansun was carrying out an experimental training of women's masculinity, which required extremely high physical strength and explosive force, and generally only male athletes could achieve it.

It is very challenging for female athletes to receive this kind of training. Cao Yanhua learned the lesson from the previous time. During the three-month training of coach Zhou Lansun, she worked harder than before.

During the training, she collapsed and was injured, but she never thought of giving up, but she just survived with strong willpower.

Fortunately, many things happen. After three months of devil training, Cao Yanhua's strength has been significantly improved, which not only keeps her advantage of serving well and actively in the first three boards, but also makes up for her weakness in basic skills. Taiwan Province's forehand loop is more powerful.

1980, Cao Yanhua won the Open Championship for seven times, and established her position as the "first sister" of table tennis with this excellent result.

However, when Cao Yanhua was in the spring breeze, a hepatitis patient was found in the table tennis team. Although this hepatitis player is a promising young athlete, he was sent back to his hometown for the safety of the team.

Not only that, but then the whole China table tennis team began to conduct a comprehensive physical examination, fearing that "fish escaping from the net" would be mixed in this huge group, which would do harm to a large number of the backbone of the China table tennis team.

Before long, Cao Yanhua and teammate Tong Ling were called to have a blood test again. A week later, Tong Ling said happily: It's all right, but their head coach Zhou Lansun is still moping all day, and Cao Yanhua feels very bad. Did he become a "fish that slipped through the net"?

Fortunately, Cao Yanhua just got hepatitis B, commonly known as "Australian anti-positive", and her transaminase is not high. The doctor judged that it should not be contagious to others, so he did not send her back to her hometown.

But for the sake of future safety, Cao Yanhua was arranged in the suite opposite the trash can at the end of the dormitory. This room is a treasure, and later Deng Yaping became the tenant of this room.

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Every weekend, everyone else is working overtime, but Cao Yanhua is gone, either falling in love with Shi Zhihao or having fun with a group of players who are also Shanghainese.

Once, Cao Yanhua and a large group of them gathered in the room of Da Diao, a Shanghai-born swimmer who was about to visit abroad. Everyone is smoking, and the room is on fire.

Because they are all familiar people, they are also very casual. After smoking, they threw cigarette butts on the waxed floor and trampled them out. After the battle, they cleaned up the battlefield. All "evidence of crime" should be cleaned up to avoid being discovered by the coach.

But this time, they were unlucky. The cigarette butts they didn't trample out were thrown into the mop sprinkled with kerosene and slowly caught fire. At midnight, someone passed by this window and found a room on fire on the second floor, so they quickly reported it to the building duty room.

As a result, their "gang" was discovered. At that time, there were regulations in the training bureau: athletes were not allowed to smoke, fall in love, play mahjong, wear strange clothes or perm.

And Cao Yanhua accounts for almost everything. If you find it, you will report it to the leaders of the Sports Commission, and you will also call the leaders of each team for a lecture.

After these leaders are trained, it is natural to settle accounts with these players. At that time, the leaders of the table tennis team first had to confirm whether Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao were in love.

To this, Cao Yanhua refused to admit, and the leaders also checked Shi Zhihao's blood from time to time. If he is also "Australia anyway", it is irrefutable evidence.

Fortunately, nothing was found. Cao Yanhua acted like an innocent person all day, but her coach Zhou Lansun was unlucky. If a player has a problem, the leader will definitely look for him first.

He assured the leader: "Cao Yanhua's level has improved rapidly. Even if she really falls in love, it has not affected the training competition and has not been distracted."

At the same time, I earnestly asked Cao Yanhua, "I am asking you now not as a coach, but as a father. Are they telling the truth? "

What did Cao Shenyan Huaneng say in front of Zhou Lansun like his father? Besides, in the face of Zhou Lansun, she never lies. Zhou Lansun didn't blame her for this, nor did he order her not to associate with ShiZhihao again. He only made one request, that is, "never affect the training, just fight for a breath."

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Under the guidance of coach Zhou Lansun, Cao Yanhua began to clear his mind and become a good boy again.

Although Cao Yanhua was really a thorn in the side of the women's table tennis team at that time, her strength was indeed the strongest. In the 36th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua, as the leader of the women's team in China, made 20 appearances in the team competition and won all of them, showing her elder sister demeanor.

In individual events, Cao Yanhua also had a pleasant journey. In the semi-final, she defeated South Korea's first main force, Li Shouzi, but lost to teammate Tong Ling in the final. In the women's doubles, she finally won the championship with Zhang Deying.

At the 37th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua was still the first main player in women's table tennis. In the team competition, she will play singles and doubles first, and her partner is Shanghai teammate Ni.

In the end, Cao Yanhua helped China beat the Japanese team in the final and successfully defended the women's team championship in the World Championships. In individual events, Cao Yanhua and Cai Zhenhua won the third place in mixed doubles, and Ni won the second place in women's doubles.

In the women's singles final, Cao Yanhua defeated Liang and realized her dream of becoming a world champion in singles.

After the 37th World Table Tennis Championships, ITTF's regulations on rackets made Cao Yanhua lose the threat of changing serve and ball, and had to replace the rubber with a long rubber.

1983 In the 5th National Games, although Cao Yanhua helped Shanghai win the team championship, she lost to rookie Jiao Zhimin in the women's singles final.

In the women's singles final of the 38th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua defeated Geng and successfully defended the women's singles title. She and Cai Zhenhua also won the mixed doubles title.

However, after the 38th World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua announced her retirement due to liver disease and other reasons, when she was only 22 years old.

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In Cao Yanhua's era, table tennis did not have the World Cup, nor did it enter the Olympic Games. Therefore, the World Table Tennis Championships is the highest honor and the competition is more intense. Therefore, Cao Yanhua won the reputation of "Queen of Table Tennis".

After retiring, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao, who had been in love for many years, entered the marriage hall. 1987, Shi Zhihao was invited to give lectures by the German Glen Algae Society, and Cao Yanhua went to Germany with her husband.

Foreign wages are high. Three years later, they bought a house, a car and a son. But this endless life is not what former world champion Cao Yanhua wants.

So, in 1995, Cao Yanhua and her husband Shi Zhihao returned home with their son at the invitation of Cai Zhenhua, then the head coach of China men's table tennis.

After returning to China, Shi Zhihao first served as the head coach of the Shanghai team, then joined the national team to coach, while Cao Yanhua founded the table tennis club and Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School.

Xu Xin, Shang Kun and other national players are all from Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School. Cao Yanhua's career is getting better and better, and Shi Zhihao's position in the national team is also rising again and again.

At this time, the contradiction between them appeared, because Cao Yanhua wanted Shi Zhihao to return to Shanghai and Shi Zhihao wanted Cao Yanhua to come to Beijing, so in 2000, 38-year-old Cao Yanhua and her husband Shi Zhihao went through the divorce procedure.

After the divorce, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao did not "die of old age", but got along as friends. After all, they have a son.

Later, Shi Zhihao married Li Nan, a 22-year-old female disciple, and Cao Yanhua also married Diao Ming, a former national player. Judging from the photos exposed on the Internet, they are very happy, and the edges and corners of Cao Yanhua's youth have completely disappeared.

Now, Cao Yanhua is 60 years old, but she is still making contributions to table tennis in China. It is precisely because there are so many predecessors and feats that the China table tennis team can be so powerful for decades!