Liu Tian, the first person to lay the foundation of the table tennis profession in the Republic. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you want to say that in the past 100 years, the most powerful players in the Republic of China and even in the world of football, everyone will point to Wu Lao, which is recognized.

However, the founders of table tennis in the world have their own opinions.

As far as the table tennis world of the Republic is concerned, this title can only be raised by one person, and in terms of laying the foundation of the table tennis world, in front of him, Wu Lao can only rank second.

Liu Tian, former No. 1 national player of the national team and former head coach of the national team.

Wu Lao is 66 years old, and Liu Tian is just three years older than Wu Lao, 69 years old.

At that time, although the republic belonged to the existence of a giant in the world table tennis arena, it could not reach a transcendent status after all.

Until someone appeared, yes, it was Wu Lao.

It can be said that Wu Lao was the only table tennis king of that era, he ruled the world table tennis for ten years, and the reason for his final retirement was not injury or age, but because he couldn't find an opponent, which was too boring.

But what we are talking about now is not Wu Lao, but Wu Lao's teammate back then, Liu Tian.

Liu Tian, about a year earlier than Wu Lao, entered the national team, when he first entered the national team, Liu Tian showed his strong talent in the field of table tennis, in just over half a year, Liu Tian swept all the members of the first team in the national team and became the No. 1 seed player of the national team.

At this time, Wu Lao joined the national team, and Wu Lao was a stunned young man at that time, and it can be said that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

His appearance brought a lot of interest to the national team at that time.

In the next half a year, Wu Lao learned from Liu Tian's practice and abused the members of the first team of the national team, except for Liu Tian.

Wu Lao fought against Liu Tian, and he lost ten battles.

As a result, the identity of the first person in the Liu Tian national team was officially established, and Wu Lao became the second person under Liu Tian.

At that time, it happened to be the time when the Republic Cup was held every ten years, and everyone thought that Liu Tian and Wu Lao would win the championship and runner-up for the Republic.

And the progress of the game is also the same as everyone expected, from the first round of men's singles to the semifinals, Liu Tian and Wu Lao crushed all the way and swept all the invincible players in the world of football.

Then came the semi-finals, where there were ups and downs.

Liu Tian successfully defeated his opponent in the semifinals and successfully advanced to the final.

And Wu Lao encountered great resistance, Wu Lao was in a very positive state that day, but the strange thing is that Wu Lao was suppressed by his opponent, Wu Lao and this opponent were not the first game, and the previous battle situation was always Wu Lao suppressed him.

This time, things seem to be the other way around, despite Wu Lao's full strength, but in the first three games, Wu Lao was still defeated and lost three games in a row.

It wasn't until the middle of the fourth game that the situation began to improve, Wu Lao went crazy, and in an almost desperate state, Wu Lao chased four games in a row and won the game with difficulty.

Then, it's time for the finals.

Almost everyone thought that Liu Tian would be the champion, while Wu Lao was the silver medalist.

However, the world is impermanent, and the dramatic ending of the game is that Wu Lao won the final victory, and Liu Tian was second.

The shocking events for the world's fans are yet to come.

In the next two years, it is no exaggeration to say that it was the era of Wu Lao and Liu Tian.

In almost all the big and small events in the table tennis world, these two are competing for the championship and runner-up.

However, this is where the weird happens.

Japan Open......

German Open ......

U.S. Open ......

and even the Republic Open, almost a series of open tournaments, Liu Tian won the championship.

Then, when it came to the World Championships, Liu Tian lost and ranked second; In the World Table Tennis Championship, Liu Tian still lost, and then in the Olympic Games, Liu Tian lost again......

Although judging from the number of battles between the two, Liu Tian has won far more times than Wu Lao.

But...... In the competition of the five major competitions in the table tennis world, Liu Tian lost all to Wu Lao.

As a result, Wu Lao became a Grand Slam winner, with supreme glory, but the first person in the world at that time was Liu Tian.

It's embarrassing.

Liu Tian, who was still young at the time, decisively quit, publicly announced his retirement, and gave up the position of the first person in the world table tennis to Wu Lao, and he began to gradually take charge of the coaching position in the Republic of China.

As a result, the decade-long reign of the Great Demon King Wu has officially arrived......

In the past ten years, Liu Tian has gone from coach to head coach of the national team and director of the table tennis sports management center.

However, at that time, the sky of the world table tennis world was always shrouded in the shadow of the Great Demon King Wu.

At that time, there was such a slogan in the world table tennis circle: the iron-clad Wu Demon King, the rookie of the Republic of Flowing Water.

Later, everyone also knows, Wu Lao has played enough, announced his retirement, table tennis players from all over the world celebrated, and the era of the rule of the Great Demon King is over.

But Liu Tian was wronged, and Wu Laolai competed with him for the position of head coach of the national team.

Of course, this is just a joke.

At that time, Liu Tian suffered from cataract in his eyes, and his vision was not as good as day by day, although he had several surgeries, but he was so sad, and several surgeries failed, accelerating the progress of blindness.

So, on the day when Wu Lao officially announced his retirement, Liu Tian's eyes also officially announced his retirement. (Ahem, don't joke about Liu Tian)

So, Liu Tian abdicated again, and Wu Lao took over Liu Tian's work, which was more than 30 years.

But one thing we must mention is that Wu Lao plays alone and seeks defeat, but when it comes to managing the team, he is far inferior to Liu Tian.

If it weren't for Liu Tian's ten-year reign and standardizing the training process of the national team players, Wu Lao, the head coach, would not have been able to do it for so long.

The reason for saying this is very simple, because Wu Lao has a little bit of a small family spirit in his bones.

As a simple example, as far as table tennis diplomacy is concerned, since the Great Decline incident, Wu Lao has stubbornly refused to open up the situation, and it was not until the recent Zhang Guohua that a new situation in table tennis diplomacy opened.

Therefore, when it comes to his contribution to the table tennis arena of the Republic, in fact, Liu Tian is greater than Wu Lao's.

But we can't deny Wu Lao's merits, after all, Wu Lao has made immortal contributions to the status of the Republic in the world table tennis arena.

Therefore, when Gu Yang heard the blind old man call himself "Liu", he patted his head and said in a low voice: "Hey, I should have thought of it a long time ago, at such an age, blind in both eyes, and the level of ball skills is still so high, except for you, there is no second person in the great republic." ”

The blind old man laughed and said, "Little guy, don't pat my ass, I don't like this, old man." Come on, we'll finish the game, I want to see how powerful this apprentice personally selected by Xiao Wu is. ”

"Xiao Wu?" Gu Yang smiled strangely, in the football world of the Republic, you are the only one who has this qualification, calling Wu Lao Xiao Wu.

(To be continued.) )