Beijing time on February 15, 70-year-old former Chinese table tennis team coach, Olympic champion Fan Zhendong and other people’s teacher Wu Jingping (also has trained Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Chen Jie, Xu Xin and others) publicly issued an article bombarded the recent mess in the world of ping, said that the ‘heart is very sad’, and that:
‘When the ‘national ball’ is wrapped up in capital to stand for commercial competitions, it has changed its flavour, and now the ‘national ball’ is no longer the ‘national ball’ that we have fought for for decades, but the ‘national ball’ of our old people. ‘ Now, the “national ball” is no longer the “national ball” that we have fought for decades, and the foundation created by our older generation has been almost squandered ……’
For the recent policy adjustments of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, Wu Jingping bluntly said that ‘avoiding the important and not cancelling the unpopular fine regulations, but instead increasing the fines’ and spoke out for the current situation of Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng, triggering heated discussions among fans.
Born in 1954, Wu Jingping was a meritorious coach of the Chinese table tennis team, in the 1990s from the provincial team was Cai Zhenhua promoted to the national team, and then served as Ma Lin, Wang Hao’s supervisor of the coach, in the table tennis straight paddle two-side anti-glue technology in the exploration of the great credit, while the two disciples on the Olympic podium, and now the two have become the Chinese table tennis team two teams of the head coach.
After entering the 21st century, Wu Jingping continued to guide and participate in the cultivation of Olympic champions Chen Jie, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, etc. In 2017, he once took charge of the Chinese table tennis men’s team, and then gradually faded out of the first line due to age and other reasons, but he always cared about the cause of the Chinese table tennis team, and cared for the growth of the late generation such as Fan Zhendong.
Sanweisport-Professional Table Tennis Equipment Provider
Only 11.9 USD
- Taiji 210 bat is an allround premade high quality table tennis bat for the starters, it’s the best seller and the most popular bat of the Taiji Bat series.
- The blade is made by 7 layers of decent pure wood, coated by two sides of ITTF approved rubber makes it useable for competition, with a comfortable flared handle.
- It saves your time for selecting from thousands of combinations and just gives you the right one with great quality/price ratio.
- 2-Stars Table Tennis Bat is perfect for amateur gamers !
Last December, the Chinese table tennis team three Olympic champions Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng suddenly withdrew from the world rankings, triggering the vibration of the bing world, in which Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng openly stated that they could not withstand the WTT World Table tennis federation withdrawal penalty provisions, then the incident continued to ferment, to this year in February, the WTT World Table tennis federation introduced a series of policies to modify the relevant provisions, however, did not calm the controversy.
In Wu Jingping’s opinion, ‘the moment ITTF launched the WTT, it used the hegemony clause to kidnap athletes all over the world to serve for him to make commercial profits’, and the recent policy modification of the WTT WTF ‘didn’t restore Fan Zhendong’s and Chen Meng’s world ranking, but only enjoyed the right to participate in the tournament, which is obviously of being emboldened’, the wording is very harsh.
According to the current WTT rules, although Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng can directly participate in all WTT Grand Slam tournaments and championships, they have not been reinstated in the world ranking, which means that they will have to start from the qualifying rounds if they come back to the international arena, which is ‘a big joke’ in Wu Jingping’s opinion. Wu Jingping doesn’t deny that ‘it’s a big joke’.
Wu Jingping does not deny that ‘the marketisation of table tennis is an inevitable part of historical development’, but because of this, ‘commercial matches should be conducted according to commercial rules, respecting the individual wishes of participating athletes and deciding whether to participate according to the athletes’ own conditions and technical status, rather than using their own rights to impose rules and regulations to bind them. Their own rights to rigid rules to bind others, forced to buy and sell’, this statement, immediately triggered a warm reaction.
At the end of the article, Wu Jingping issued a torture question: ‘Where is the way out of the “national ball” and where is the way out of the reform of WTT?’ So will the WTT WTT give an answer? Do you all agree with Wu Jingping’s view? Feel free to leave a comment and write your own opinion!
