Zheng Haixia, height 206 meters, a legend of the Chinese women's basketball team, was the first Asian female athlete in the WNBA.
Despite her outstanding achievements with the rank of colonel, her life choice was to marry an ordinary employee.
After many years of marriage, they had no children.
How did this ordinary person win Zheng Haixia's heart?
What is the life of the two of them?
When it comes to the first person in Chinese basketball, many people think of Yao Ming. In 2000, Yao Ming represented the Chinese team in the Olympic Games for the first time and showed an outstanding performance.
However, in the crucial matches against New Zealand and Italy, Yao Ming's performances were remarkable.
Two years later, his staggering stats at the World Championships made him a member of the Rockets.
At the 2006 World Championships in Japan, Yao Ming's performance was even more amazing.
By the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team had made a breakthrough, and Yao Ming played an important role in the game against the German team.
Along with Yao Ming, Zheng Haixia of the Chinese women's basketball team. Back in the 1994 World Championships, she won with a whopping 26The average score of 3 points and the shooting percentage of 80% set an astonishing record, leading the Chinese team to the silver medal.
In the WNBA, Zheng Haixia became the first Chinese player to participate in the league, attracting the attention of many fans through her technical excellence.
Although she has obtained a stable income abroad, she has never forgotten her responsibility to the country and chose to return to China and join the Bayi women's basketball team.
In 1998, under the leadership of Zheng Haixia, she led the Bayi women's basketball team to win a big victory in the Group B competition of the National Games and was successfully promoted to the Group A level.
She has been recognized for her great contributions to Chinese basketball, and has been rated as an outstanding soldier in the military for many times in a row, and has been promoted to senior general.
In 2021, Zheng Haixia became a member of the FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame, creating Chinese basketball history.
In the same year, she was inducted into the list of candidates for the "Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame".
In October 2022, Zheng Haixia successfully entered the "Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame Selection List" that year, and participated in the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame award ceremony in April 2023.
Zheng Haixia's path to basketball superstar began in her family. As the fifth of five children, she showed something different from an early age.
At birth, he was taller than the average baby and was hailed"Hercules"。
At the age of twelve, her height was close to 1.80 centimeters, and in order to change her fate, her brother recommended her to a sports school in Shangqiu area and started her basketball career.
At the peak of her basketball career, Zheng Haixia's love life was tortuous and bumpy.
Many relationships did not end well until 2007, when she met a fan named Xu Qinghua.
Xu Qinghua is a basketball player, and after a ten-year crush on Zheng Haixia, through long-term correspondence, the relationship between the two gradually sublimated.
In October 2009, Xu Qinghua proposed to Zheng Haixia on a special date, showing sincere feelings.
After a year of preparation, the two tied the knot in June 2010.
However, Zheng Haixia had physical problems due to long-term training, and Xu Qinghua gave up his job in Shenzhen to take care of her and came to Beijing to accompany her.
He gave Zheng Haixia meticulous care in her daily life, learned massage and other nursing skills, and helped her relieve the pain caused by training.
Despite the financial difficulties, the two persevered together. Considering the health of her future children, Zheng Haixia chose not to have children, and Xu Qinghua understood and respected this decision.