Zhang Yining’s story: The only double-lap Grand Slam in the table tennis world, she is loved by her husband who is 20 years older than her.

My surname is Zhang, arrogant Zhang

Zhang Yining, the "big devil", was born on October 5, 1981, and is a native Beijing girl. Many people jokingly call Zhang Yining's "arrogant" "Zhang", and she does have the capital to be arrogant. From joining the national team in 1995 to retiring in 2009, Zhang Yining won a total of 19 gold medals in the Olympic Games, World Table Tennis Championships and Table Tennis World Cup during the 14 years of fighting for the country, surpassing Deng Yaping and becoming the world's top table tennis player. She has won the most championships in history and is the only female table tennis player to have won the "double-lap Grand Slam" (two Olympic women's singles, two World Table Tennis Championships, and four World Cup women's singles championships).

In addition, Zhang Yining has never lost to an opponent other than the national table tennis team in the international arena, creating the myth of "undefeated in foreign battles". In 2011, she occupied the first place in the world's female table tennis player rankings. For 6 years and 11 months, Zhang Yining chose to retire because of the "loneliness" caused by "invincibility", but the legend of the "Big Devil" is still circulating in the world.

It is said that she was once invited to the United States to compete with male players, and defeated the U.S. champion and Olympic runner-up Lou Prescu, and even made her opponent's hands tremble when serving.

In the quarter-finals of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zhang Yining defeated Singaporean opponent Feng Tianwei with a spare racket as hard as the sole of a shoe.

In Zhang Yining’s eyes, the outstanding Japanese player Ai Fukuhara is just an athlete who can only do a few pulls with her backhand. However, when she met Ai Fukuhara in the 2008 Olympics, her performance was “poor.” "The handicap performance has become a classic.

Of course, the most widely circulated among these legends is the one where the daughter is allowed to play with the gold medal as she pleases, but cannot touch her only silver medal, and if she wants to play with the silver medal, she goes to Uncle Wang Hao. But in fact, Zhang Yining has more than one silver medal. She has won 4 silver medals and three bronze medals in total! Although it is a joke, it is enough to prove Zhang Yining's power.

Since the daughter is mentioned, it is natural to talk about Zhang Yining’s husband. What kind of man can be favored by the devil who is invincible in the arena?

As long as you love each other, age does not matter

Zhang Yining and her husband Xu Wei were introduced to each other through gymnastics champion Ma Yanhong after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Xu Wei, who is well-known in Hong Kong's financial circles, is a full 20 years older than Zhang Yining. After only three months of dating, the two people with a huge age difference have already reached the point of discussing marriage.

However, their marriage was not favored at the beginning, and Zhang Yining's parents also thought they had differences over the son-in-law. In the opinion of his mother, Wang Fengying, Xu Wei is mature and steady. He is 20 years older than his daughter and he should know how to take care of her better. Her daughter will be much easier in her future life; but her father, Zhang Yuanyuan, was not happy when he learned the news. Because this "future son-in-law" was too close to his own age, which made him feel very awkward, so at the beginning he did not fully support his daughter marrying Xu Wei.

But in the end, the father could not defeat his "big devil" daughter. Coupled with Xu Wei's unremitting efforts, the father finally agreed to entrust Zhang Yining to Xu Wei. After the 2009 National Games, the two held a wedding in Beijing. Table tennis stars such as Deng Yaping and Wang Nan, as well as celebrities from various sports circles such as Li Ning, came to send wedding blessings to the two. The two people, who are 20 years apart, finally became friends after knowing each other for more than a year.

After getting married, Zhang Yining quickly chose to retire and follow her husband Xu Wei to live in Hong Kong. Just as Zhang Yining's mother thought, her husband Xu Wei, who is 20 years older, loves Zhang Yining very much. He invited the best rehabilitation doctors to recuperate Zhang Yining's body from many injuries due to years of fighting. It became a daily routine to transport Zhang Yining to receive physical therapy. Xu Wei even taught himself acupoint massage just to recuperate Zhang Yining's body with his own hands.

Although Xu Wei very much hoped that Zhang Yining would be a full-time housewife at home and have a good rest, when Zhang Yining proposed that she wanted to study abroad, even though Xu Wei was unwilling to do so, even though he and Zhang Yining had a relationship because of this. Contradictory, but he was the one who finally compromised. In 2010, soon after Zhang Yining entered Beijing Sports University, she was arranged to go to the University of Wisconsin in the United States for further study. After only one year of marriage, the two people lived a life of "separated living in two places". During this period, despite the time difference, Xu Wei had to talk to Zhang Yining on the phone for a long time every day. Whenever he had time, he would fly from Hong Kong to the United States to visit his wife.

In June 2011, after learning that Zhang Yining was pregnant, 50-year-old Xu Wei finally acted aggressively. He "ordered" his wife to immediately drop out of school and return to Hong Kong to raise the baby. He did not want his wife who was far away in the United States to Anything unexpected happens to your wife. But unfortunately, his strength was rejected domineeringly by the "Big Devil" again. Zhang Yining, who was born as an athlete, felt that such a trivial matter as pregnancy was not a problem for him. It was not until 2012 that the "Big Devil" finally returned as his due date was approaching. Expecting to give birth in Hong Kong.

During the more than 50 days that Zhang Yining was waiting for delivery, her husband Xu Wei showed his meticulous side. From daily routine to diet and nutrition, what time should you do moderate exercise every day, what time should you rest in bed, every detail is handled by Xu Wei. Once, Zhang Yining almost fell down due to "carelessness". Xu Wei immediately stopped all work, rushed home, and stayed with his wife until the birth.

In October 2012, their daughter was born in Hong Kong, and their happy "world of two" was upgraded to a "family of three." After the birth of his daughter, Xu Wei still insisted on staying with his wife until she fully recovered. In June 2013, Zhang Yining completed her graduate studies and graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, Zhang Yining rejected the generous offer from the United States and returned to China. In 2014, she accepted an invitation from the China Table Tennis Association and prepared to work at the China Table Tennis Academy.

As before, her husband Xu Wei once again expressed his opinions on Zhang Yining's approach. He wanted to make Zhang Yining give up the idea of ????working on the grounds that his daughter was still young and needed someone to take care of her. This time Zhang Yining realized that her husband was right, but since he had accepted the invitation from the Table Tennis Association, Zhang Yining, as the "big devil", must fulfill his promise. So, she brought her parents to Hong Kong to help her take care of their daughter, and then left for Shanghai to work at the job offered to her by the China Table Tennis Academy.

In her new job, Zhang Yining is very successful and has traveled with the China Table Tennis Academy to various parts of the world to provide guidance to local table tennis players. During the preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she recommended Sun Yingsha to the national team to compete in the women's singles competition, and personally taught Sun Yingsha the "trick" to deal with Japanese player Mima Ito. And Sun Yingsha also lived up to expectations, sweeping out Mima Ito 4:0 in the semifinals, locking the championship and runner-up for the Chinese team in advance.

In 2019, Zhang Yining and Xu Wei welcomed their second child, a boy. The two of them used their loving married life as a son and a daughter to prove to people who had doubted their marriage that as long as they love each other, The age gap is not a problem at all. Nowadays, Zhang Yining will take her daughter to watch table tennis matches together. She can proudly tell her daughter when her daughter cheers for the players on the court and laments how awesome they are: "Look, these people are all defeated by my mother!"< /p>