Since Li Yongbo stepped down as the head coach, Zhang Jun was appointed as the head coach in a crisis. His achievements cannot be compared with Li Yongbo's. Zhang Jun was the coach of men's doubles in Li Yongbo's era, when the most successful traditional combination was Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun.
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At that time, the world men's doubles level was in full bloom, such as Li Longda/Zheng Zaicheng in South Korea, Gu Jianjie/Chen Wenhong in Malaysia, Hendra/Quito and Hendra/Ashan in Indonesia, and Bowie/Morgensen in Denmark. Fortunately, Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun in China had excellent technology, so they could get good results in such a background.
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In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games after the London Olympic Games in 2012, the Lee Long Da/Liu Yanxing combination of South Korea was the hot team to win the championship at that time. Unexpectedly, they were suddenly eliminated by the Wu Weisheng/Chen Weiqiang combination of Malaysia on the way, nor did they expect that Fu Haifeng's partner Zhang Nan could welcome his second spring and win the men's doubles gold medal in the Rio Olympic Games.
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After Zhang Jun became the head coach, he also formed the men's doubles team according to the traditional Chinese style. With the retirement of Fu Haifeng, the new traditional combination in China is Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen. There is no problem with this combination in terms of attack, but the two men are too tall, so they do not have an advantage in the front and middle court draw, and their performance is also passable, Only after the Tokyo Olympics, Li Junhui retired.
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Then Liu Yuchen was paired with Ou Xuanyi to form a new "double tower". This new "double tower" Ou Xuanyi was inferior in terms of killing the ball and technology. As he grew older, he had no advantage in attack. Even the double pressure play was not rotating smoothly, and his performance was also retrogressed all the way. Fortunately, at this time, the new combination of Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang, a traditional play, appeared.
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The reason why Zhang Jun made the right decision is that he made Chen Qiqiu, the women's doubles coach in Li Yongbo's era, take full charge of the men's doubles. Since Chen took over the men's doubles, he has not only kept the traditional men's doubles play, but let us see that he is also trying new play, which is similar to Malaysia's all-around coherent play, and will not fix which one is responsible for the net, Which is responsible for the attack.
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When I saw the performance of Ren Xiangyu/He Jiting in the 2024 Thomas Cup, especially the last point of winning the championship, I saw Chairman Zhang Jun rush to the court to embrace Ren Xiangyu. At first, I thought it was because it was Ren Xiangyu's first world champion, but after thinking about it carefully, I think it is more important than this, Chairman Zhang Jun saw that in addition to the traditional way of playing, the Chinese men's doubles team has tried new ways of playing and has seen results.
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Coach Chen Qiqiu's attempt at a new style of men's doubles is very successful. Everyone knows that the traditional Chinese style of playing requires frontcourt players to do the ball. In case of poor performance, or the attackers can't keep up with the consistency, the results will naturally be unstable. We often see the combination of Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang. They are really prone to ups and downs, especially sometimes leading by many points, They were also caught up by others. Some people said that it was because they were still young. I think it was due to the unbalanced technology.
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Now, Wu Shifei/Izuding from Malaysia play in a very consistent and fast way. This is their traditional skill. When Ren Xiangyu/He Jiting beat them in the semi-final of the Thomas Cup, they learned from foreigners to defeat them. And when they met Fikri/Mullana from Indonesia in the final, they played in the same way, But they are not as good as Malaysia.
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Up to now, I think there are two technical styles in the men's doubles of the Chinese team, both of which are very successful. They are dual core technologies. The coaching team can boldly select young reserve talents according to these two ideas.
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