FLASH QUOTES - Coach Junya Chen on coaching daughter Anqi to bronze in table tennis

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We’ve been waiting for this Commonwealth Games medal for more than 10 years. The medal is so important for the team. We know that’s tough for us. We always get the bad draw in the team event but we still fight, we still try to do our best on the other events.

In all our [other] events we lost in quarter final so that’s why we have so much pressure here.

I looked calm but can you imagine? Anqi is playing, my daughter, so how nervous I was? I had be calm to the players and then I had to tell a solution to them.

We changed the strategy. I know why sometimes they weren’t successful because of the nerves, the mental, because I know the players. I try to find a solution.

I’m so proud of her because I was so nervous as a mom.