At the 2016 ITTF Slovenia Open, Feng Tianwei defeated South Korea's Olympic singles main player Tian Zhixi 4-2 to win the women's singles championship. As if the plot has come a big turn. Because at the Croatia Open not long ago, Feng Tianwei's women's singles lost to the Japanese amateur Maria Matsuzawa 3-4 in the second round, and was described by some domestic media as losing to the Japanese "amateur" player.
Feng Tianwei started playing at the age of 5, and started to get the first place in Harbin at the age of 7. First in Heilongjiang Province. In 1997, Feng Tianwei, who was only 11 years old, was exceptionally admitted to the Heilongjiang Sports School and trained with players who were four or five years older than him. Feng Tianwei won the women's singles champion of the National Youth Championship in 2002 and was selected for the national youth team in the same year. After entered the second national team, her results have been good. Just as she confidently attacked the first team, she ran into trouble: for the first time the first and second teams were promoted to the top 10, Feng Tianwei ranked 11th, and first The team passed by. Soon after, Feng Tianwei was diagnosed with myocarditis.
So, after joining the Singapore Table Tennis Association, Feng Tianwei's takeoff in the international table tennis world is naturally attributed to Singapore’s competent coach? This statement is naturally true, because behind every athlete’s success, the coach’s contribution is indispensable . However, Feng Tianwei once said in an interview with "Ping Pong" magazine that the training conditions, software and hardware of table tennis in Singapore are far from those of national table tennis, and there is even a certain gap between the high-level provincial teams. Therefore, it seems that this is not the decisive factor for her to defeat the national table tennis players.
has a huge impact on the players in international competitions. For Feng Tianwei, who has no obvious technical shortcomings but has a small psychological burden, he has a certain advantage. For the Rio Olympics that opened in August, for Feng Tianwei and foreign players like her, gold, silver and bronze medals are a victory! Putting aside distracting thoughts "desperately" is enough, but for the national table tennis players, only the gold medal is "the most glorious", and more importantly, losing the gold medal becomes a "sinner"! Therefore, if the national table tennis players lose the gold medal, the reason is not because they lost to Feng Tianwei, but because they did not have a "big heart" and lost in an external environment where they could not afford to lose.