Zhang Jike

essential information

Sports career

accumulate steadily

In 1993, Zhang Jike began to learn table tennis from his father. In the first half of 1995, Zhang Jike came to the Amateur Sports School of Er ti. In 1998, he joined the Qingdao professional team and practiced three days a day. In 2000, he entered Shandong Luneng table tennis team.

In March 2002, Zhang Jike entered the second national team and won the team champion of the Korean open. In June, he won the first Hungarian World Junior challenge men's singles, doubles and team championship. On September 15, in the men's singles final of the U-21 Japan open, 14-year-old Zhang Jike pulled four sets in a row and won the championship with a 4-3 result after falling 3-0 behind Yasunari.

In January 2003, Zhang Jike joined the national first team and studied under Liu Guoliang. On September 28, he won the men's singles title of New Zealand Open of World Youth tour.

In 2004, Zhang Jike won the team champion of Asian Youth Championship. In October, he was sent off the national team for violating the team rules and was reduced to the provincial team.

Face up to difficulties

In 2005, Zhang Jike won the singles championship in the National Excellent Youth match.

In 2006, Zhang Jike entered the top eight of the national championship and returned to the national first team.

In 2007, Zhang Jike participated in the Zagreb World Table Tennis Championships, mixed doubles with Yao Yan, and lost to Susie / Woxi of Germany in the second round.

In May 2008, Zhang Jike, as the number one main player of Shandong Luneng, played in the Table Tennis Super League after the Beijing Olympic Games, occupying the top three in the winning rate list for a long time. In December, in the national championship, Zhang Jike cooperated with Wang Hao and others to win the men's singles championship for the PLA. After winning the men's singles championship for the PLA, Zhang Jike won the men's singles championship for Ma Lin, Wang Liqin and Wang Hao.

The start of 2009 was not wonderful for Zhang Jike. Because he didn't obey the coach's suspension arrangement in the Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, he lost the chance to participate in the West Asia open and World Table Tennis Championships. In June, Zhang Jike began to set out again and won his first World Championship in the world cup. After that, he also won the championship of the men's team in the Asian championship.

Career peak

On March 28, 2010, Zhang Jike defeated Gao Ning 4-0 and won the individual Asian Cup Men's singles championship for the first time. In March, after Zhang Jike failed in the first stage of the "direct to Moscow" team trial, he regained his strength in the second trial, successively defeated Wang Liqin, Wang Hao and Ma long, and won the championship; therefore, he was qualified to participate in the world table tennis team competition for the first time. In May of the same year, Zhang Jike made three appearances in the group stage of the World Table Tennis Championships without losing a set; he beat Japan's Tokugawa Shengye 3-1 in the third set of the semi-final; in the final, Zhang Jike replaced Wang Hao as the third singles player five minutes before submitting the list, won Susi and won a key point to help the Chinese men's team win the championship. On August 22, Zhang Jike beat Ma Lin 4-3 to win the first men's singles championship in the China open of the International Table Tennis Federation tour in Suzhou. In September, Zhang Jike's ranking in the International Table Tennis Federation rose from the fifth to the third place. On October 31, in the semi-final of men's singles in the world cup of table tennis in Germany, Zhang Jike faced Japan's shuigu falcon. With a big score of 0-3 behind, he reversed the victory in four consecutive sets (7 sets: 11-13, 10-12, 6-11, 11-9, 11-5, 14-12, 11-4); but in the final, he lost 1-4 to Wang Hao and won the second place.

In May 2011, Zhang Jike and Wang Hao entered the top four men's doubles teams and won the men's singles championship in the 51st World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. On June 7, Zhang Jike was shortlisted in the 2012 London Olympic singles list released by the Chinese table tennis team. In November, Zhang Jike won the singles championship in the world cup in Paris. On November 29, Zhang Jike won the men's singles and men's doubles with Ma Lin in the final of the International Table Tennis Federation in London. On December 1, Zhang Jike surpassed Wang Hao and won the second place in the International Table Tennis Federation ranking.

In August 2012, in the men's singles final of the London Olympic Games, Zhang Jike defeated Wang Hao 4-1 to win the championship. At the same time, he also achieved the Grand Slam of World Championships, world cup and Olympic Games, becoming the third Grand Slam player in the history of Chinese men's table tennis after Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui.

On February 20, 2013, in the Kuwait Open, Zhang Jike defeated his teammate Malone 4-2 to win the first championship of the season, and won the second place of the men's doubles with Malone's men's doubles combination. On February 25, Zhang Jike retired from the Qatar Open due to injury and won the second place in the men's doubles with Malone. On May 20, Zhang Jike defeated Wang Hao in the men's singles final of the 52nd World Table Tennis Championships to win the championship. At the same time, he became the seventh man in history to successfully defend his title.

On October 26, 2014, in the men's singles final of the table tennis world cup, Zhang Jike defeated his teammate Malone 4-3, only one Olympic gold medal short of the second Grand Slam.

Fall into a low ebb

After the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships in May 2015, Zhang Jike missed some activities of the Chinese national team due to a low back injury, and then missed several stops of the Table Tennis Super League and the Japanese open. The trouble of injury and the instability of his state gradually made him enter the low point of his career.

In 2016, Zhang Jike began to recover and took the "last chance" given by Liu Guoliang to play in the Kuala Lumpur team World Table Tennis Championships. Therefore, he gradually recovered his state. On March 20, Zhang Jike beat Malone 4-1 to win the men's singles championship in the Kuwait Open of the world tour of the International Table Tennis Federation. Before that, Zhang Jike also beat fan Zhendong 4-1 in the semi-final. On the morning of August 12, in the men's table tennis singles final of the Rio Olympic Games, Zhang Jike lost 4-0 to his teammate Malone and won the second place. On August 18, in the final of the team competition of Rio Olympic Games, he and his teammates Ma Long and Xu Xin beat Japan 3-1 and won the championship, thus realizing the third consecutive championship of Chinese men's team in the Olympic Games.

In February 2017, Zhang Jike defeated Portugal's Apollonia 4-1 in the first round of Qatar Open; in early April 2017, Xiao Zhan, who had been Zhang Jike's coach for nearly 10 years, was transferred to the women's team. On April 15, in the men's singles competition of the Asian Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Jike beat Lin Gaoyuan to enter the final four and finally won the third place in the final. At the beginning of June, Zhang Jike was defeated by Li Shangzhu in the World Table Tennis Championships in Dusseldorf. On August 27, at the 13th National Games, Zhang Jike served as the flag bearer of Shandong delegation again after 2013.

In June 2018, Zhang Jike lost 3-4 to Zhang benzhihe in the 2018 ITF Japan open, ranking second in the competition.

In January 2019, Zhang Jike has withdrawn from the competition of the preliminary and final stages of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2019 due to lack of systematic training.

Career data

Table Tennis World Cup Men's singles

World Table Tennis Championships Men's singles

Men's singles of table tennis in summer Olympic Games

Group data

Award winning record

Personal life

family life

Zhang Jike's father, Zhang Chuanming, is a table tennis player and coach. When he was 5 years old, he began to learn to play with his father. He had no childhood, no youth, just endless training. His father's "ruthlessness" left many shadows for Zhang Jike. Zhang Jike lied that he couldn't swim when he grew up, because his father took him to swim in the sea to exercise coordination since he was 7 years old, so that he "wanted to vomit when he saw the sea". He never eats shrimp, because his father said that the shape of shrimp is like an arc. He eats more shrimp, and the arc ball is well pulled, so he hurt himself when he was a child. Zhang Jike cried because he was scolded by his father when he was a child. He always lifted his left hand to wipe tears, which made his left eye smaller than his right eye. He never cried since he was ten years old.

Love life

On March 28, 2018, Zhang Jike posted a hand in hand photo of actor Jing Tian on his microblog, officially disclosing their love affair.

On June 9, 2019, Jingtian tweeted, "thank you for meeting. I hope everything will be well in the future." Announced to break up with Zhang Jike.

Injury distress

Zhang Jike, who has made great contributions to the doubles of the Rio Olympic Games, revealed in an interview after the match that he had a serious back injury and had problems sleeping and moving. Zhang Jike, who fought too hard in the semifinals of the men's team, had a relapse in his waist, which made it very difficult for him to sleep and move. During the interview, he couldn't even stand and could only lie on the guardrail. In waiting for the stage, Zhang Jike can not sit on the stool, can only sit on the ground.

social activities

public benefit activities

On June 18, 2013, the Chinese table tennis team went to Changzhou children's welfare home to visit the children and employees. On behalf of the team, Zhang Jike, champion of men's singles in the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, donated his championship prize of 10000 US dollars. After finishing the charity activities of Changzhou children's welfare home, Guoping and his party also went to Xingchen experimental school to give one-to-one guidance to the children of the school's table tennis team.

On April 25, 2016, Liansu Group became the sponsor of the national table tennis team (Zhang Jike, Ma long, Liu Shiwen)

On the afternoon of October 8, 2016, Zhang Jike came to Lantian home children's welfare home in Laoshan District to have a warm interaction with the children in cutting cakes and exchanging skills with fans. Zhang Jike to the welfare home

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