Crisp and neat, Ding Ning's retirement even made people a little surprised, but it was also in line with Ding Ning's power-driven personality. Ding Ning's retirement also reminds many fans of another national table tennis star-ZhangJike. Although ZhangJike is still a member of Guo Ping today, he has stopped training and competition and spent more time on variety shows. Why didn't ZhangJike follow Ding Ning's example and retire directly?
Why didn't ZhangJike retire? Although ZhangJike didn't delay the growth of young people because of his position in table tennis, it is obvious that he can't return to the status of an athlete during the blank period of 2-3 years. What kept him going?
First Liu played a big game of chess. Although the performance of table tennis is excellent, because of the problems of attention and exposure, the commercial value of table tennis players is not high, and their wages have not been able to go up. Putting ZhangJike on the variety show outside can effectively provide the exposure and attention of table tennis and enhance its commercial value. Through this concern, more people can know about table tennis, vigorously promote table tennis, and bring more excellent seeds for table tennis in China in the future. From this perspective, Liu's vision is still very long-term. Then there is the agreement between ZhangJike and Malone. As fellow players, Malone and ZhangJike's greatest wish is to retire together. Because of injury, ZhangJike has slowly fallen behind, and it is difficult for him to gain a foothold in the position of the first team of men's table tennis, but the agreement between men has not failed because ZhangJike faded out of the national team.
According to media reports, ZhangJike didn't insist because he didn't want to take advantage of the popularity of table tennis. To tell the truth, even if ZhangJike retires, he can still perform as a world champion, which has little influence on him. The reason why I insist is that I want to wait for Malone to retire together and fulfill the agreement between my brothers.
Finally, Liu gave the welfare to ZhangJike. Why do you say that? ZhangJike is working hard to promote the development of table tennis outside, leaving him in table tennis so that ZhangJike can have a guaranteed wage income; Secondly, ZhangJike not only participates in variety shows, but also follows the national team, which is convenient for ZhangJike to start studying, and can also better complete the transformation in the future and continue to contribute to the national team.