When it comes to domestic basketball players, most people may first think of Yao Ming leading the golden generation. In the sport of basketball, male athletes receive much more attention than female athletes.
So many people may not know that the women's basketball team was also very brilliant at that time, especially the beauty of the basketball world, Sui Feifei. Nowadays, Sui Feifei is still unmarried. Why did she choose the path of basketball, and what is her current situation?
After retiring, Sui Feifei kept a low profile and rarely could see her whereabouts. The last time she appeared in the public eye was during the 2022 Women's Football World Cup. As an athlete of one of the three major sports, Sui Feifei also paid attention to football.
At that time, she quietly sat in the stands to watch the game. Although her face showed signs of aging, she was still the fair-skinned and outstandingly beautiful ice beauty.
It is clear that after retiring, Sui Feifei has been living as an ordinary person. No one knows the details of her love life, except that Sui Feifei is still unmarried.
She once had a scandal with basketball star Wang Zhizhi. At that time, Wang Zhizhi had just divorced, and Sui Feifei was the leader of the women's basketball team. Many people thought they looked well-matched standing together, so they naturally assumed there was a relationship between them.
It was because of these speculations that Sui Feifei received a lot of negative comments, suspecting that she had broken up Wang Zhizhi's marriage.
After the rumors spread, Sui Feifei was naturally unhappy inside and found it difficult to clarify. It was at this time that a journalist happened to ask her if she really had emotional entanglements with Wang Zhizhi, as the public speculated.
Already dissatisfied with various rumors, Sui Feifei immediately retorted, "I'm full and bored, doing nothing but making up these rumors to report." It was this angry retort that proved her innocence, and many friends came out to say that Wang Zhizhi had already reconciled with his ex-wife at that time. Although Sui Feifei and Wang Zhizhi were friends, their relationship was not that close.
Although this media rebuttal clarified her own rumors, it made many media start to look for flaws on Sui Feifei with a magnifying glass, wanting to use this to slander Sui Feifei.
The most ridiculous thing was that a journalist used the fact that Sui Feifei was unpatriotic to stir things up. Because she once wore a piece of clothing with the letters "Japan" at an event, the media hyped up that Sui Feifei was unpatriotic.
You should know that Sui Feifei once served in the Bayi Team and held the rank of lieutenant colonel. She was a firm member of the PLA. How could she be unpatriotic.
Sui Feifei became famous in one battle at the Busan Asian Games. At that time, the match between China and South Korea could not be separated, neck and neck, and the game was very fierce.
In the last five minutes, the South Korean team widened the gap and led by seven points. The game was coming to an end, and the players were already exhausted. It was not easy to catch up with the points in five minutes.
In the final moments, Sui Feifei shot a three-pointer from the baseline and scored. After receiving the ball, she crossed the opponent and made a beautiful turnaround layup to score another two points.
Then after getting a free throw, she withstood the pressure and made both free throws. These last five minutes were really exciting. Sui Feifei thus wore the number 10 jersey into the hearts of all the spectators. In the end, relying on Sui Feifei's initiative, when the whistle blew at the end of the game, our country led South Korea by four points and won the game.
Sui Feifei became famous, and everyone was looking forward to her future development. But no one could have expected that when Sui Feifei first joined the basketball team, she was not favored.
She was not in good health as a child, and her parents always protected her, worried about her injuries. In order to strengthen her body, Sui Feifei began to get involved in sports, improved her physical fitness, and determined to pursue a career in sports.
It wasn't until junior high school that Sui Feifei finally found a sports project that she liked and was suitable for, which was basketball. From then on, she began systematic basketball training. Compared to other athletes, she started late,
Fortunately, her father was strict with her, and she also had a competitive spirit that didn't accept defeat. Under her father's guidance, Sui Feifei made rapid progress and officially became a basketball player. Her body was no longer as fragile as before.
After joining the women's basketball team, Sui Feifei met Coach Gong, who was much stricter than her father. When the coach gets strict, he can point his nose and criticize. He once said to Sui Feifei, "Good talent, good conditions, but there is a kind of arrogance, not very able to endure hardship."
Hearing this, Sui Feifei was very unconvinced and decided to practice more on her own. Relying on her talent and persistent efforts, Sui Feifei began to stand out in the team. Later, she also became the captain of the Chinese women's basketball team.
Her amazing performance at the Asian Games made Sui Feifei's name frequently appear in the public eye, but the next decision of Sui Feifei surprised many people.
Any basketball player wants to compete in the NBA court, which is the best stage to prove their skills and commercial value. Sui Feifei wanted to go to the WNBA.
Sui Feifei was considered very outstanding in the Asian basketball world, but in the WNBA, there were many athletes like her, and she did not have much competitiveness in the WNBA. Later, she might not even get the chance to play at all.
Moreover, in the WNBA, it is completely different from being in the national team. As an outsider from Asia, she would not receive much preferential treatment, nor would she have the same systematic training tailored to each individual as in the national team.
But Sui Feifei still wanted to give it a try. In 2005, she joined the Sacramento Monarchs and became the second Chinese athlete to join the WNBA.
Although she relied on her strong adaptability to gradually get used to taking care of herself abroad, unfortunately, she did not make a name for herself on this court. With regret, she terminated her contract and returned to the Bayi Team.
In the 2009 National Games, Sui Feifei led the Bayi women's basketball team to win the gold medal of the 11th National Games women's basketball, and then decided to retire. At that time, the position of head coach of the Bayi team was vacant, and Sui Feifei was quickly appointed as the head coach of the Bayi women's basketball team. She served for another seven years before choosing to leave.
After she left, many people speculated that she chose to leave the team to get married, but now it seems that this was also a rumor. There was no clue about who her boyfriend was, but Sui Feifei once openly expressed her feelings, saying, "I've had several boyfriends, and I'm not as domineering as everyone imagines, but very obedient."
Now 45-year-old Sui Feifei is still unmarried, and few people know the reasons for this. But she once said, "I won't marry just for the sake of marrying." That means that at present, she has not yet met the person she is willing to entrust her life to.
As a former athlete who fought for the country, Sui Feifei has been very low-key after returning to the life of an ordinary person, and we also hope that she can find her own happiness and fulfillment.