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In 2006, as the last ball was knocked out of the field, Zheng Jie and Yan Zi hugged each other tightly, and their excitement was beyond words. This is the first tennis women's doubles Grand Slam championship won by Zheng Jie and Yan Zi for China, and the audience gave a standing ovation to send the warmest applause and blessings to Zheng Jie and Yan Zi.
At the moment when Zheng Jie and Yan Zi held the trophy high, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, the 90-year-old Wan Li touched the table with his hand in front of the TV and excitedly said to the staff around him:
"These two girls are so tenacious, I'm going to invite them to dinner! ”
Hearing Wanli's words, the staff felt very surprised, this is the first time that Wanli has taken the initiative to invite someone to dinner after he retired.
More than half a month later, the national women's tennis team returned to Beijing, training and preparing for the next match. After Wan Li learned the news, he immediately sent someone to contact the tennis management center, saying that he wanted to meet the children of the national team and play against them.
In the afternoon of the same day, Wan Li dressed in a tennis outfit and came to the tennis hall of Xiannongtan Stadium. Wan Li is very familiar with this red clay field, not only because he often exercises here, but also because the Xiannongtan Gymnasium was built by Wan Li.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Xiannongtan was the place where the emperor worshiped the gods, and the outer wall was demolished during the ** period, part of it was used as a market, and the other part was used as a park, and a stadium was built to be open to the public. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the leaders did not forget the development of sports in their busy schedules, and personally took charge of the director of the Sports Committee to grasp the sports cause.
In the early fifties, the 36-year-old Wan Li was ordered to enter Beijing and served as the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Construction Engineering. Whenever he rests, Wan Li always has to play tennis with a few ** comrades and learn some skills.
Regarding Wanli's preference for playing tennis, it can be traced back to the 30s of the last century. At that time, tennis had just been introduced to China, and Wan Li, who had just been admitted to Qufu Second Normal School, saw tennis on the playground for the first time.
It's a lot of fun. Wanli said enviously.
At that time, Wanli had no money to buy rackets and balls, so he borrowed the children of rich families to practice, and as long as he had the opportunity to play a few times in his spare time. At that time, the racket handle was made of wood, and the ball was made of cotton thread, which was such a simple condition that allowed Wanli to learn to play tennis.
With the development of sports in New China, more and more people have begun to practice tennis, and the state and Beijing have also begun to organize professional tennis teams. Wan Li often asks the members of the junior tennis team to play, and the confrontation with these teenagers makes Wan Li seem to return to the era of sweating on the playground of the Qufu campus.
Seeing that more and more people were involved in tennis, several of the Founding Fathers decided to build several decent tennis courts in Beijing. Under the personal leadership of **, the comrades of the National Sports Commission traveled all over the city, and finally agreed and repaired the Beijing Sports Branch Hall and the Xiannongtan Tennis Hall.
After the completion of these two venues, they also became training grounds for a group of early tennis players in Beijing.
After ten years of political turmoil, Wan Li was appointed as the first secretary of Anhui Province. He brought tennis players from Beijing to Anhui, set up a tennis team for Anhui Province for the first time, built a regular tennis court, and strongly promoted the local sports cause.
After returning to work in the 80s, Wanli has a clear guiding ideology for sports work, that is, sports play an important role in the prosperity of the country and the nation, the enhancement of people's physique and the improvement of cultural level. He repeatedly stressed that party and government leaders at all levels, especially the educational circles, the Communist Youth League, and trade unions, should attach more importance to sports work, and any province that does not attach importance to sports is irresponsible to the Chinese nation.
In 1982, more than 50 veteran comrades in the capital formed a tennis team, and Wanli, who never wrote an inscription, made an exception to inscribe the name of this tennis team. As the backbone of this tennis team, Wanli's skills have won the admiration of everyone, and he has won the national senior tennis championship three times, and has also won many tennis invitational championships.
In 1993, after Wanli retired, he began to fade out of people's sight and lived a peaceful retirement life. After leaving, Wanli demanded himself".Not in his position, not in his politics, not asking about things, not caring about things, not causing troubleHe only served as the honorary president of the Bridge Association, the Tennis Association and the Chinese Literature Association.
As the lifelong honorary chairman of the Chinese Tennis Association, Wanli is deeply loved by athletes and friends, and every year at the China Open, Wanli will also come to the scene as an ordinary spectator.
And Zheng Jie and Yan Zi's performance at the Australian Open made Wan Li make an exception to invite them to dinner.
After a brief exchange with Zheng Jie, Yan Zi and other women's tennis players, Wan Li signaled that he was ready to play. On the indoor sand court, the 90-year-old Wanli took to the field to "compete" with the two Australian Open champions. Although he is old, Wanli is still majestic on the court, winning the applause of the people around him.
This rare "old and young match" finally ended with Wanli and his partner winning 7:5. After the game, Wan Li hugged Zheng Jie and Yan Zi and said to them
"You can only lose to me, not to others! ”Under the influence of Wan Li, his second and third generations are also very obsessed with tennis and have been active on the tennis court.
Four boys and one girl in the second generation, plus their spouses, are all able to swing a racket. In addition to exercising, tennis has given the family more time to get together, and the court has become a platform for family members to exchange ideas.
Many people are full of envy when they see Wanli, a father and son, brother and sister playing ball together.
Because of his insistence on playing tennis all year round, Wanli's family is extraordinary, especially Wan Wan's eldest son, Wan Boao, who has won the championship and runner-up in the national press editor-in-chief group several times, and is quite famous in the news industry.
And Wanli's five granddaughters have watched their grandfather play since they were young, and they all like tennis very much. Unlike their parents, who taught themselves and practiced on their own, Wanli's five granddaughters have all been taught by professional athletes and coaches, starting with the most basic moves, and also buying professional game videos**.
In 1996, the elder Bush, who had retired from his position as the first leader, went to his hometown in China to revisit and play friendly games for about 10,000 miles. When Bush was still the director of the liaison office in China, he began to hold an "official competition" with Wanli. Although Wan Li was nearly 70 years old at that time, Bush was not "polite" at all, and Wan Li was disadvantaged at the beginning of the game.
When the Chinese staff saw that the Americans were playing for real, they immediately became anxious and quickly found a professional athlete as Wanli's partner, and finally won the game by a very small margin. After returning home, Wanli said to his son meaningfully
"People's tennis in the United States developed much earlier than ours, that is, it played better than us, and the overall level is much higher than that of China......”Later, every time Bush Sr. went to China, he had to find a way to make an appointment with Wan Li for a few rounds, and tennis became a common language between the two old men.
In this friendly game in 1996, Wanli's granddaughter baby went to cheer for her grandfather, and after the game, the baby ran up to the court to ask Bush Sr. for an autograph. Unable to find the ideal thing, the baby simply took his sneakers, and the elder Bush happily signed his name.
For this reason, the baby also wrote an article published in the newspaper. Although Wan Li didn't say anything after reading it, he was very proud in his heart.
Every time the granddaughters compete on the tennis court, as long as they have time, they always watch them play a game, and point out their strengths and weaknesses, so that the coach can teach them well. Wanli also often proudly says to guests".The five golden flowers are good, their playing posture is more standardized than me and the second generation, they are all good-looking!
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