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Former table tennis world champion Xi enting died at the age of 73

Original title: Xi enting, former world champion of table tennis, died of illness at the age of 73

According to the official account of Ping Pong world, official account of WeChat public, the world champion Xi Enting died in October 27th after suffering from the sudden rupture of thoracic aorta in the morning. He died 73 years after his rescue.

Xi enting, born in Tangshan, Hebei Province in 1946, entered Baoding amateur sports school for table tennis training in 1959 and entered the national team at the age of 19. He once won the 31st World Table Tennis Championship in 1971 and the 32nd World Table Tennis Championship in 1973. In 1975, Xi enting became the coach of the national youth team and later taught in Mexico and France. After returning from foreign aid, Xi enting successively coached the National Men's and women's teams, bringing out Olympic champions such as Chen Longcan, Wei Qingguang and Chen Jing. His innovative thinking and rigorous coaching style of straight board fast attack are very commendable.

During the athlete's period, Xi enting held the ball board with his right hand, which is a typical representative of the left push right attack. In order to adapt to the technical development trend of the international table tennis world, in less than a year from the 1973 world table tennis championships, under the suggestion of Xu Yinsheng, Xi enting changed to playing the reverse glue, and through unremitting efforts, he practiced the three killer maces of 'serve', 'push and block' and 'circle ball'.

In the men's singles competition of the 32nd World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team suffered losses in the previous rounds, only Xi enting broke into the top 8 alone, and the other seven players were all European players. In order to avoid mental tension, Xi enting formulated a set of 'ostrich tactics' - not paying attention to other games, but letting others tell him who his next opponent is. With no distractions, he won the men's singles championship in the semi-finals and finals with Yugoslavia's stipancic and Swede Johnson, becoming China's first direct grip anti glue men's singles champion. He is also the third person in the history of the Chinese team to win the "Saint middot" after Rong Guotuan and Zhuang Zedong; Brad Cup 'athletes.