Ping Pong Life

Chapter 228 Advance to the Main Match
When Zou Zhengyu was defeated, the young player from the Kimchi Country looked flustered, but he did not give up. He insisted on finishing the fourth match of the 13th group this morning with Wang Chao, and ended up losing 0:4 as expected.

This is the end of this group's competition. Although there are still three players in this group, Zou Zhengyu and Kimchi Junior Junior, both have yet to play, but because Wang Chao has taken the lead in accumulating three points, he has theoretically become unsurpassable. group first.

On the morning of that day, more than half of the 32 qualifying rounds had already decided the final winner.

Because there are really a lot of people who abstain, especially when someone in the group is obviously stronger than others.

For example, in the group of Gao Mingyuan and Lu Feiyang, three people abstained directly, and the group of six became a group of three. Afterwards, the Belarusian player in the group invited Gao Mingyuan to play the first round, but they were defeated.

Then Gao Mingyuan played against Lu Feiyang. The two sides played very stalemate. In the end, just like the last Huaping selection, they reached the deciding game, and Lu Feiyang still had the last laugh in the deciding game.

Gao Mingyuan was very frustrated after the game, because he was really only a little bit close to revenge, but at the critical moment, his mentality went wrong again, and he was reversed by Lu Feiyang with the advantage of two match points.

The problem is that the winner, Lu Feiyang, was also very frustrated because he was scolded by his teacher Zhu Zeshi, saying that he played too badly.

This is actually justifiable, because in the internal evaluation of the Huaping coaching staff, Lu Feiyang is far better than Gao Mingyuan. In fact, if there were no accidents such as Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong in the second half of last year, the Huaping coach this year would have been better than Gao Mingyuan. The group is ready to focus on training Lu Feiyang.

That is to say, if Wang Chao hadn't crossed over and Fan Xiaodong hadn't run away from home, then Lu Feiyang would be Huaping's chosen one to hit the Grand Slam in the next ten years.

Such a seed player can beat Gao Mingyuan who has major flaws like this, how could Zhu Zeshi accept it?

When Lu Feiyang made it out of the group stage, Morad followed suit.

This little Swedish boy holding a polygonal racket has gradually attracted the attention of many interested people in the table tennis world. Don't forget that he eliminated the third German Sissfeld in T2 last year, and this time, he eliminated the Huaping player Sun Zhongwen.

Sun Zhongwen's reputation is not obvious because he participated in an international competition for the first time, but his evaluation in the Huaping No. [-] team is not low. He is only the second seed after Lu Feiyang. A few days ago, He once easily defeated Hu Buming in the relegation and relegation rounds of the team trials.

In any case, being able to beat the No. [-] seed in the Huaping underage group proves that Morad also has the potential to soar into the sky. In time, he might become another Pique or Hook.

If we take into account the long heritage of Swedish table tennis, then this country that gave birth to the "greatest player in foreign associations, Lao Wa" may rise a world-renowned super star.

But it is a pity that apart from knowing the result of Molard's 4-0 match against Sun Zhongwen, no one knows exactly how Morad won, because there was no live broadcast and no one recorded it.

Immediately afterwards, another important event came to an end. Zhang Benkuang defeated German player Sissfeld 4:3 and qualified first in the group.

Sisfeld has performed quite well in Europe in the past two years. He has been publicly praised by the head coach of the German Table Tennis Association many times, and praised him as the third-generation standard bearer of Germany after Bayer and Wolff. His performance in the past few years can only be said to be unsatisfactory. After being eliminated by the rookie player Morad in T2 last year, this time he was eliminated by the underage player Zhang Benkuang again.

Considering that he is 26 years old, with this defeat, his status in the world table tennis world will plummet.

There were only a few games worth paying attention to in the morning games, and the rest of the games that lasted until the afternoon were all because the players in the team had little difference in strength, and everyone felt that they had a chance.

For example, Liang Kunpeng's team.

This is a seven-member team. Except for Liang Kunpeng, a Chinese player, five of the remaining six members are relatively well-known.

The first is the 27-year-old veteran of the Kimchi Kingdom. He holds the racket horizontally with his right hand and uses fast break combined with the popular style of loop ball. He ranks 38th in the world and is considered a very strong veteran.

The second is the 23-year-old Yinghua Guoqiang newcomer.Sakura Country has vigorously developed table tennis in the past two years. Women's table tennis has achieved outstanding results, while men's table tennis has been slightly inferior. However, it has indeed produced a group of good rookies. This is one of the best. He won No.5 in the men's singles at the National Games of the People's Republic of China.

The third person mentioned before is the first Portuguese brother, Freitas. This eldest brother is almost 40 years old, and his strength and speed have declined sharply. Seeing that the status of the first brother in the country is also in jeopardy, he belongs to fame rather than strength. Players, but no matter what you say, they beat Wang Wendong and Sun Tianlong in their heyday. They belonged to the skinny camels that are bigger than horses. In this group, they are definitely the favorites to qualify.

The fourth player is a Chinese. He is only 23 years old this year. His name is Qiu Shang. Although he is not well-known in the world table tennis world, he is already well-known in Europe. under.

But in last year's European Championships, he personally eliminated Sisfield. This is certainly because of Sisfield's poor condition, but it also proves that Qiu Shang's strength is definitely above his fame, and if you go to Check the information more, and you will find that as early as a year and a half ago, Qiu Shang also defeated Bayer and Wolff in the German domestic club league.

Therefore, Qiu Shang must not be underestimated. He plays the role of an unknown killer. If you don't pay attention, you will be stabbed to death by him quietly.

The fifth is even more terrible, but the brother of the current Swedish elder brother K. Michel, named M. Michel.

K. Michel is ranked 11th in the world, and his strength can be imagined. As his brother, this m. Michel has inherited the same excellent table tennis genes. Naturally, his strength should not be underestimated. Although the world ranking is only in No. 49, but in Sweden, he is a proper number two. Because he often practices with his brother, he is outstanding in terms of hitting quality and catching ability. This style of play has great power against rookies who are generally impetuous.

And the only one remaining in this group is from Africa, a 17-year-old player with dark skin, bright eyes, and white teeth. It is very rare that he is a left-handed candy bar player. Just to increase knowledge and learn the style of play of outstanding players from various countries.

So even though this group is so dead, the young African has no intention of abstaining from voting. On the contrary, he is very excited, waiting to be ravaged by the six big brothers in turn with great anticipation.

This group did not play all the games until 08:30 pm local time.

Because they played for too long, the matches of other groups had already ended, so in the end, almost all the professional players on the scene watched the matches of this group, which also brought a lot of pressure to the players of this group.

In the end, the German Chinese player Qiu Shang and the former Portuguese brother Freitas tied for the first place. Both of them had a record of 5 wins and 1 loss.The only game Qiu Shang lost was to Liang Kunpeng, while the only game Freitas lost was to Qiu Shang.

Therefore, according to the mutual relationship of victory and defeat, Qiu Shang qualified.

Liang Kunpeng was exhausted and frustrated when he walked out of the arena. In fact, when he was in the Table Tennis Super League, his eyes were above his head. He always felt that the relegation of the Imperial Capital Xincheng team was the problem of his teammates, not his own problem.

But in the past few months, he lost consecutively to Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong, and now he didn't even break into the top three in a group whose average level was not very high. He felt deeply frustrated. His blind confidence in the quality of his forehand veneer is fading little by little.

Because he found that when these foreign association players hit him, almost all of them stared at his backhand. His forehand burst was powerful, but from the beginning to the end, he really didn't have a few chances to make a shot.

This made him finally couldn't help but start to think about a question: Should I practice other skills first?Such as swinging short, such as rubbing the ball, such as twisting the backhand, such as changing the line, such as changing the serve.Since they don't let me make a forehand burst, then I have to rely on other techniques to pull out the chance of a forehand burst.

Then he saw Gao Mingyuan with a lonely face, and for some reason, he felt that his mood brightened up for no reason.

Well, after all, there is another unlucky guy who is the same as me. If I remember correctly, his ranking among the six dragons is still lower than mine.

And I was eliminated after playing all day, but he seemed to be eliminated after playing one game in the morning?
In any case, the hell schedule of the group round robin finally came to an end at [-]:[-] p.m. local time. After almost no waiting, the organizers re-drawn lots for the knockout round of the second qualifying round.

The 32 contestants will be divided into 16 pairs according to the lottery results, and a simple and rough knockout match will be held tomorrow morning. Those who win will enter the main match, and those who lose will be eliminated directly.

This round of lottery was so tense that it was suffocating, because at this time, the 32 temporary winners included almost all the world-wide players who failed to directly enter the main match. These people are all pursuing world rankings. For those who have played many times in the main game, they can enter the main game if they win another game. Once they enter the main game, even if they are at the bottom, they still have points.

But if you can't make it to the main game, it's really useless.

Unlike Huaguo players, where the country is responsible for all the basic necessities of the trip, the vast majority of foreign players are responsible for their own profits and losses. They play to earn bonuses by taking rankings. This is their job.

If you can't even make it to the main race, then the accommodation, air tickets, food, and daily expenses for this trip will become a pure waste of money.

Ten minutes later, the dust settled, and all sixteen games were clearly displayed on the big screens around the arena.

Wang Chao probably scanned around. Fortunately, at least he and Lu Feiyang didn't run into each other. Otherwise, this open tournament would really be a cursed one, and the probability of a civil war in Huaping was ridiculously high.

In fact, according to the practice of the Open over the years, the qualifiers have to be finished on the same day, but because there are too many people this time, it is too late, so the second stage of the qualifiers will be held tomorrow morning.

The port area was not peaceful that night, and the competition venue was open all night, because more than half of the 32 qualifiers returned to the venue after a hasty dinner, intending to hurry up and practice the ball and hug each other temporarily.

After all, there is not much difference in strength between everyone. Under the premise of determining the opponent, there is always no harm in doing targeted training.

Even Lu Feiyang felt very pressured, even though his opponent was only a Peacock player ranked more than 70 in the world, he took the initiative to drag Zhu Zeshi to the venue after eating, and took a sparring partner by the way.

In the end, only Wang Chao slept peacefully.

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