The Paris Olympics is approaching, the Chinese table tennis team’s participation list is now out, the Chinese table tennis players Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu get qualification. And late at night on the day the table tennis association announced the list (May 14), Chinese table tennis team Fan Zhendong made a comment while forwarding the relevant content online, which contained two English words:
“Last dance.”
Literally, this is the “last dance”, many fans can not help but question: is the Paris Olympics will be the last battle of Fan Zhendong’s career, 27 years old, he wants to enter the retirement countdown?
Born in 1997, Fan Zhendong is the Chinese table tennis team’s “flower season veterans”, as early as 2013 when the men’s single final of the National Games, and then quickly among the men’s team five main lineup and continue to this day.
Review Fan Zhendong’s career, rising momentum in the early period, however, met the ping world before and after the “championship demon” Ma Long, the results were repeatedly suppressed by the other side, the Olympic Games, the World Cup, the World Cup, the Games lost a whole; Paris Olympic cycle, Fan Zhendong won two consecutive World Series men’s singles champion, but the age is also growing, the results gradually fluctuated. Age is also growing, gradual fluctuations in performance.
The age of 27 was originally the perfect age for a table tennis player to combine technique and psychology, but the competition in today’s table tennis world is very fierce, with many young players having super strength at a very young age, while Ma Long, who is already 35 years old, still has a world-class level, which makes Fan Zhendong, who is sandwiched in the middle, even more difficult to move forward.
In the last year or so, Fan Zhendong has been defeated in both internal and external battles, losing a lot of balls and being broken by Wang Chuqin, Lin Sidong, Lin Gaoyuan, Ma Long, Hugo, Franziska, Alex, Lee Sang-soo, Cho Dae-sung, and Zhangmoto Zhiwa, which is indeed worrying.
Previously Fan Zhendong then mentioned in an interview that he might retire with Ma Long – the two are nearly nine years apart in age, but with Fan’s playing style and current form, his prediction might not not come true.
For athletes, results are the best cardiotonic, if Fan Zhendong can fight to the end in the men’s singles in France, won the gold medal, then there is a great possibility of renewing the glory; if the fight for the title fails, then the Olympic Games may really become the “last dance” of his career: let’s wait for the battle of Paris to come together!
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