Ping Pong Life

Chapter 266 The rain is coming
Before Sun Tianlong's arrival, the Huaguo Open kicked off first.

As a regular event that is held more than ten times a year, the Huaguo game has a completely different meaning from any other station in the world table tennis world.

In terms of points, the points of the Huaguo Open are no different from those of other platinum stations.

In terms of bonuses, the Huaguo Open is not even comparable to the open tournaments in Qatar and other places sponsored by those wealthy sheikhs.

In terms of the venue, the Huaguo Open is held in Tianfu City all the year round, and Tianfu City is not the most developed city in the world.

But because Huaping is invincible in the world, it has become a very symbolic thing for world players to come to China to play and win in China.

This feeling is similar to that foreign players want to win the title of best individual player in the Chinese National Table Tennis Super League.

This is the symbol of the uncrowned king.

Over the years, the Huaguo Open has been full of masters. Almost no players will give up this grand event. They don't even come here for points, but just to see the performances of various legendary masters on the spot. A rare experience.

Therefore, three days before the official start of the Open, countless foreign players have already entered Tianfu City.

Almost all of those ping-pong powers were dispatched, as if they were about to fight a decisive battle.

Germany's troika all came, Hans Bayer, Dimitri Wolff, Heathfield Patrick, including the newly-emerging Asian player Qiu Shang and his German partner.

A month ago, after playing the Hong Kong Open, Bayer actually publicized the relapse of an old injury. As for Wolff, he also spared no effort in the semi-final match against Pique, exhausting himself and playing the best performance in recent years. A bloody, toughest battle.Both of them are wounded, but even if they are injured, they still have to come to the scene to watch the excitement. If the situation of the lineup draw is good, then they can recover while watching the market, and they can choose to withdraw at any time. Well, they will retire directly, as if they are German spectators who came to watch the game.

K. Michel and M. Michel from Sweden came with their junior Mollard.

K. Michelle is actually undergoing difficult technical transformation under the guidance of Lao Wa this month, but even under such circumstances, he refuses to miss this Open. He chooses to temporarily suspend technical transformation and come to Tianfu City to seek opportunities , whose mentality is similar to that of the German duo, whether to fight or not depends on whether the draw is good or not.

England's Pique and Brazil's Hook came here with the expectations of the two countries respectively. It is worth mentioning that the Brazilian journalist Tavares also came here in high spirits.

He recorded the video of Wang Chao and martial arts training a month ago, and after returning home, he really became a hit, and his career has reached a higher level since then.

It's just that this time he was very cautious. After coming here, he has been working hard to do his homework, and he didn't dare to plan any weird street visit plans.

Li Zhengzhi and Zhu Shixian from the Kimchi Country are here. They have had poor grades in the past six months and their lottery luck is extremely poor. This time they are gearing up and vowing to draw a good lottery.

Zhang Benkuang from Sakura Country came with the Sakura Country Men's Table Tennis Team. He didn't see him for a short time, but he seemed to have jumped up again, showing great fighting spirit.

All those who could and could not be named came.

Among the top 50 players in the world rankings, apart from the absence of Huaping players, only Shuiniaoying from foreign associations is absent, because he has already decided that he would rather touch Sun Tianlong than Luo Jiu Wangchao—let us congratulate him Mouth and pray.

In fact, the registration rules of the Open Championships over the years will be adjusted according to the specific conditions of the host host. Most of the organizers cannot afford too many players. They will add a lot of clauses to keep some players out of the registration threshold. .

This is not only because too many people will cause excess expenses in entertaining manpower, accommodation, food, etc., but also because it will greatly prolong the game time.

In fact, the overall time of an open match is usually three days, but the Hong Kong Open a month ago was played for four full days. Make sure you finish the game on time.

The last time the port area was able to entertain more than 200 players, it was because the port area is actually Huaping’s younger brother, and it can often ask for help from the Hua Guo Sports General Administration.

The reason why the Huaguo Open is so special is probably because it is the only open tournament that does not limit the number of registered players at all.

At this point, Huaping, who has dominated the world for 20 years, has shown a broad mind that is tolerant and tolerant.

In terms of candidates for the Huaping Open over the years, Huaping has shown a certain domineering arrogance.

"Let your thousands of troops come, I will only go with one, two or three."

In this open tournament, Huaping has never had a day when the main force is at its best.

Even if Huaping knew that it would be very unacceptable for Huaguo fans to be won by foreigners on their own territory, and it was something that even Cai Guodong had to explain to the General Administration of Sports.

The reason why foreign players flock to this station, even if they are injured, is to watch the wind direction, because they also want to see the excitement of Huaping.

But Huaping still maintains this calm posture.

This is both confidence and helplessness.

Huaping was really put on the grill.

With more than 20 years of glory, they must show a calm and confident appearance, and refuse to show their suffering, worry and anxiety in front of the world table tennis world.

When the cake was distributed at the beginning of the year, Cai Guodong complained secretly about the Huaguo Open. The head coach admitted in front of all the coaching staff that he wanted to send all the main players to the game and wanted Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong go together, plus a double insurance.

However, this is neither in line with the annual plan of the Qinmen Zhumen behind Sun Luo, nor in line with Huaping's consistent attitude towards the Huaguo Open for many years.

Therefore, in order to maintain a competitive position, in the end it was still Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu who competed for the places to play.

Wang Chao finally overwhelmed Qin Huachang and won this position for Luo Jiu, and by the way, put infinite pressure on Luo Jiu.

As the back-and-forth player in this battle, if Luo Jiu loses the chain in this battle, the consequences will be quite serious.

So in the end, the final list of personnel sent by Huaping at this station is: Luo Jiu, Lin Li, Bai Feng, Lu Feiyang, Sun Zhongwen, Yan Ping'an, Fang Xiaobo, Ma Angxing, and Hu Buming.

The above are Wang Chao's acquaintances. As for those Wang Chao is not familiar with, there are also some young players from the second national team, and some veterans from the first national team who are purely mixed points to maintain their rankings.

Surprisingly, this included Qi Hao, the second single player of Liao Province Chonggang Club who was about to face Spade Q.

It is said that Qi Hao’s reason for participating in the competition was as follows: "Anyway, he rarely broke out of the qualifying rounds in the past, so let him try. If he gets into the main round, then work hard. Come back to play Ping Chao."

Such a weird reason was actually allowed by Cai Guodong, and it was also because Qi Hao was really too weird.

He is not very old, he is 25 this year, and he is in the same group as Bai Feng, and in various assessments in the national team, he beats Bai Feng all the year round.

Yes, you read that right, he can beat Bai Feng, the main player of the national team, all year round.

In fact, he can beat a lot of people. He can basically beat anyone who has been in the national first team for more than two years.

And in the table tennis super games these years, Qi Hao has also defeated all the players of the national team, and he is not at all inferior to anyone.

Even in the internal through competitions of the three major competitions in the past three years, he once had an amazing record of defeating Sun Tianlong and winning the No.1 through.

Such a vigorous man, he has fought in the World Series for three years, participated in dozens of times, only once made it to the main match, and made it to the first round. In this way, the way of death is strange, and it is a common occurrence to be tortured and killed by unknown foreign teenagers who are not ranked more than 100 in the world.

Tell me, is this person's potential big or small?
You said, should Cai Guodong continue to give him opportunities?
In fact, Cai Guodong had a lot of sweat for letting him enter the Huaguo Open. He was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that this guy would accidentally enter the main match and be in the same group as Luo Jiufen by accident. The small universe erupted and directly wiped out Luo Jiu.

That's a lot of fun.

As for expectations, of course there are.

What if this guy accidentally made it into the main match, was put in a group with Hu Ke by accident, and the small universe broke out and wiped out Hu Ke?
That would be great.

So until now, Huaping's coaching staff doesn't know whether to pray for him to win or to pray for him to lose. Perhaps only his own head coach sincerely hopes that he will win.

Of course, the head coach of the Liaoning Heavy Steel Club hoped that he would lose 100%, because in this way, the Liaoning Heavy Steel Club could guarantee the greatest chance of winning when facing the q of spades.

It was also in such an atmosphere that the rain was about to come, the Liao Province Heavy Steel Club and its party arrived in Jiangcheng City three days in advance, and were warmly received by the Spade Q Club.

This "warm reception" is by no means a cliché, but even Fan Xiaofan, the owner behind the club, was mobilized, took all the members of Spade Q, and personally followed the bus to the airport to pick them up. It's not like an opponent who will fight to the death three days later, it's more like a fan is picking up a star for a star.

The root cause is still because of Sun Tianlong.

Sun Tianlong's popularity is too high, he is like a god in the hearts of Huaguo fans and even Huaguo table tennis practitioners.

This is not only because of his unprecedented record, but also because of his consistent image.

For so many years, he has always been diligent and kept a low profile. He has never had any scandals, and he has never done anything inappropriate. On the contrary, there are many touching stories from time to time.

Besides, he's not bad looking.

As an athlete, his figure is naturally excellent, his facial features are correct, his temperament is firm, his image is sunny, his conversation is decent, he knows how to deal with people, and he is never arrogant or servile.

He is the only table tennis player who has reached the highest position in the world without any talent.

He is also the only hexagon fighter recognized worldwide.

He has never said a bitter word in public. After winning the championship, he said the most to thank the coach and the team, but anyone who thinks about it for a while can imagine how much unimaginable effort he has put in to get to where he is today.

The perfect idol - Sun Tianlong.

Senior fans - Fan Xiaofan.

That's the truth of the matter.

To Wang Chao's great surprise, there was a person who absolutely shouldn't be here with the team: Qin Huachang.

"Shouldn't you be in Tianfu City now?" Wang Chao asked.

Qin Huachang's expression was very unhappy today. After seeing Wang Chao, he kept blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, as if Wang Chao had offended him. When he heard Wang Chao's question, he just snorted coldly and squinted at him: "Why, The old man can't come?"

Wang Chao could only apologize.

When representing a rich family, he can naturally find ways to plot against Qin Huachang, but when representing an individual, he must give full respect to this black and thin senior who looks like a villain.

So he could only desperately guess what Qin Huachang was here for.

You must know that Liao Province Chonggang itself has a head coach, and it is not Qin Huachang's turn to be a guest coach at all.

The table tennis super competition is relatively simple compared to the world competitions. It is really not the national team coach that must be better than the table tennis super coach.

So what is the significance of Qin Huachang's coming?
Could it be that he wants to guide Sun Tianlong to torture me on the spot?
He doesn't hate me so much, does he?
Thinking of this, Wang Chao shrank his neck, not very confident. In fact, he has indeed calculated Qin Huachang many times recently.

But then he thought that the Guozihao coach was not allowed to give on-the-spot guidance during the civil war among Huaping players.
Well, he is really not a shameless old man.

Just as he couldn't figure it out, the heavy steel players from Liao Province stayed in Jiangcheng City, and that night, Sun Tianlong took the initiative to visit Wang Chao, but invited him to watch the game together.

Naturally, it was the Huaguo Open.

The day before the game was a lottery, and before the lottery the eight seeded players were Lin Li, Hu Ke, Bayer, Luo Jiu, Bai Feng, Pique, K. Michel and Weng Chunting.

这八人的世界排名分别是3、4、5、6、7、9、10、11。

It is worth mentioning that after the Hong Kong Open, although the point gap between Lin Li, Hu Ke and Bayer has been further narrowed, it has not affected the world ranking for the time being.

On the contrary, because of the two highlights in the past six months, Luo Jiu successfully rushed to the front of Bai Feng, pushing Bai Feng who was originally No. 6 to No. 7.

And England's Pique and Sweden's Michel also successfully entered the top 10 by virtue of their results in the Hong Kong Open.

Then came the draw for the remaining eight players who were directly selected for the main match. The rules were the same as the Hong Kong Open. The two players in each group still occupied the first and fourth positions respectively, and they did not confront each other in the first round.

The final partition is as follows:
District 1/8: Lin Li, Ochumelov.

Zone 2/8: Luo Jiu, Wolfe.

District 3/8: Bai Feng, Li Zhengzhi.

District 4/8: Weng Chunting, Zhang Benkuang.

District 5/8: Michelle, Lin Zijun.

District 6/8: Pique, Zhu Shixian.

District 7/8: Bayer, Fang Xiaobo.

District 8/8: Hu Ke, Yan Pingan.

The lottery before the qualifying round was actually not much topical, so taking this opportunity, Wang Chao asked Sun Tianlong: "Brother Long, in this round of competition, are you playing first or second order?"

Sun Tianlong seemed extremely calm, without even the slightest hesitation, and said directly: "Of course it's a single order."

Then he asked, "What about you?"

Wang Chao also acted very calmly, opening his mouth and saying, "Then I'll make a second order, I don't want to fight with you."

Sun Tianlong laughed.

Wang Chao also laughed.

Wang Chao knew in his heart that although Sun Tianlong was a hero, how could Huaping players have a real upright boy?

The really upright boy had already been gnawed to the bone in the internal competition.

Sun Tianlong also knew in his heart that Wang Chao was originally a small silver coin, so don't even believe a single punctuation mark in what Wang Chao said.

I can't count as Wang Chao, but it doesn't matter, because I brought my teacher here this time.

So I only need to practice the ball, and for the rest, this is a head-on decisive battle between the little silver coin and the old Yinbi.

Due to the large number of players, this qualifying match cannot be completed in one day anyway, so this time the schedule is not as hellish as the Hong Kong Open, and there are two days to play slowly.

And these two days, it was the time for Spade Q and Liao Province Chonggang to arrange their troops behind closed doors to calculate and practice with each other.

After these two days, on the first day of the Huaguo Open, Wang Chao will also truly meet his most terrifying opponent in history, and perhaps the most terrifying opponent in the history of the world.

At this time, the lottery has ended, and the qualifying competition will officially start tomorrow, so Sun Tianlong said goodbye and left, then turned around and got into Qin Huachang's room next door. The room was full, and everyone was waiting.

And Wang Chao also opened the door again after sending Sun Tianlong away, turned around and went to Fan Xiaofan's room on the other floor, the room was also full, and everyone was waiting.

(Brothers, there will be an update today. Forgive me. This time, the Open Championship and the Ping Ping Super League are parallel. I have to spend some time on the settings. Today is almost done, and I will definitely explode later to make up for today’s owed Come back, it's a deal)

(End of this chapter)