Ping Pong Life

Chapter 336 Qatar Open

The Qatar Platinum Open, which took place in mid-May this year, was a bit deserted in the final presentation.

In the men's singles, Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong, the two Huaping superstars who have received much attention and controversy from the outside world, did not participate in the competition. The main players sent by Huaping were Xiao Fei, Luo Jiu, Bai Feng and Lin Li.

On the surface, four of the five main players of Huaping have gone, and all of them are here except for the world's number one Sun Tianlong. Fei is losing consecutively, and the world ranking has been dropping, so this time Huaping's default player is Luo Jiu, and the other three are escort wingmen, just like the Feisha combination and the Pluto combination escorting the Tang Dynasty combination. .

But what the outside world doesn't know is that Cai Guodong has another idea: he wants to take a serious look at the current relationship between the five main players and how far they are from each other.

This is related to the ranking of players within Huaping.

Yes, you guessed it right, before the Olympic Games, the head coach wants to rearrange the seats and select the new five main players.

This year, the three major table tennis events have been gathered together. It coincides with Huaping's internal competition to seize power and the emergence of supernovas in foreign associations. Clean up the inside.

So he very much hopes that there will be more civil wars in the Qatar Open this time. He hopes to see Luo Jiu defeat the other three generals to prove his status as a twin star. He also hopes that one of the three generals will rise up and suppress Luo Jiu again.

He is not afraid of accidents, because Luo Jiu has already proven his strength, so if someone can suppress Luo Jiu again, it can only mean that the other three of the five main forces have also undergone super-evolution.

If he had a choice, he hoped that this person would be Bai Feng.

Not only because Bai Feng is the youngest and has the most stamina, but also because Bai Feng bears the title of the world's number one straight bar and is also the pioneer and master of the advanced technology of straight bar horizontal hitting. Theoretically speaking, Bai Feng's upper limit is Very high, not even under Sun Tianlong Luo Jiu and Wang Chao.

Coach Wang Lu naturally guessed Cai Guodong's intentions. This time, he will lead the team to Qatar. Before leaving, his face was extremely serious, and he obviously understood that this was one of the few last chances for his beloved disciple Baifeng. .

If Bai Feng continues to stick to his reckless style and refuses to put down his body and learn to play with his head, then by the end of this year, Bai Feng may officially leave the main team.

The internal competition of the national team always exists, so what coach Wang Lu is targeting at this moment is not Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong, who are bound to grab the class and power in the future, but Lin Li and Xiao Fei, who are at the same height as Bai Feng.

Among the top five players, Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong can take up two positions at most, and Lu Feiyang, Sun Wenwen, Liang Kunpeng and others seem not to be too threatening. Therefore, Bai Feng only needs to compete with Lin at the Qatar Open. It is enough for Li and Xiao Fei to behave well.

Taking a step back, in fact, it is enough to perform better than Xiao Fei.

On the one hand, it was because Xiao Fei was very Buddhist and didn't have much desire to win. On the other hand, it was also because Sun Tianlong would retire next year, so there was another quota.

In the end, after the five-day Qatar Open, Wang Lu was quite satisfied.

Sure enough, Huaping had continuous civil wars in the main match. Luo Jiu met Lin Li, and Bai Feng met Xiao Fei as coach Wang Lu wished. Nine finally succeeded in winning the championship, crushing Baifeng 4:0.

This time the European associations collectively lost their voices.

It's not that Huaping's sudden genetic mutation has achieved great success, but it's a coincidence that this time in Qatar, and on the European side, Hooker Peak Bayer Morad Sissfield all did not sign up.

In Asia, Lin Zijun, Zhang Benkuang, water birds and eagles all did not sign up.

Hook didn't sign up because he was busy dealing with the final club league affairs. He planned to play table tennis in the second half of the year, and he had successfully contacted the Jiangcheng University Club through Wang Chao. This matter was absolutely heavenly for the Jiangcheng University team. When the pie fell, they were inexplicably surprised at first, thinking that they had encountered an international scammer, and after confirming with multiple parties, they found out that the matter was true, so they began to ask what happened, and then, the behind-the-scenes boss of the Jiangcheng University team directly called Fan Xiaofan, the owner of Spade Q in the office.

I don't know exactly what they talked about, I only know that Fan Xiaofan was beaming when he walked out of the office that day, sweeping away the bad luck brought about by the club's consecutive losses these days.

But if Pique didn't sign up, he was naturally still in retreat, vowing to make use of his already strong backhand technique and turn it into a unique and exclusive technique again.

As for Bayer, he is old and has suffered another injury.

Then there's Swedish star Mollard, who was banned for several months last month for smashing his racket at a match.

Sisfield was alive and well, and he also came to the match in Qatar, but I'm sorry, this time he only signed up for the mixed doubles.

So in the end, the four main forces of Huaping rushed over aggressively, and when they found that Europe sent Michelle a single seedling.

In the end, this single seedling fell into the hands of Buddhist contestant Xiao Fei.

This is also Michelle's bad luck.

After accepting Lao Wa's technical transformation and training, he has actually played very well. Not only is his forehand more delicate than most European players, but his forehand and backhand offensive ability is also extremely powerful. If he meets Bai Feng or Lin Li, in fact, had a chance to win, but it happened that he met Xiao Fei.

Xiao Fei belongs to the Buddhist family, ranking second in the world for many years is not a joke, his rhythm is slow, the problem is that Michelle is not fast, so Xiao Fei's weakness is covered up when facing Michelle Living.

Michelle's forehand is delicate now, but Xiao Fei is thinner than him.

Michel's tall horse and big offensive veneer are of extremely high quality. However, as mentioned above, Xiao Fei's boa constrictor turn-around forehand is both wonderful and powerful. It can be described as a unique skill. He firmly restrained from the forehand.

In the end, Michelle only made it to the quarterfinals.

On the Asian side, Lin Zijun and Zhang Benkuang didn't sign up because they, like Sisfield, have already sprinted to the mixed doubles track.

These two young supernovas were originally ambitious when they debuted last year, vowing to defeat Huaping Tulong to prove the Tao, but a year later, they were beaten to pieces by Sun Tianlong, Luo Jiu and Wang Chao. It's no longer the appearance that the heart is higher than the sky, but has become a hero who knows the current affairs, and directly chooses to avoid it.

The singles track is up to you, and the mixed doubles track is one step ahead.

Needless to say, Shui Niaoying, he would never appear in the singles arena of the same Open with Luo Jiu.

But he still came because he signed up for mixed doubles.

So this time there are not many things to watch in the men's singles. Even though the games are of high quality, the audience obviously prefers to watch the grievances and stalemates rather than unilateral crushing games.

So this time the focus is actually on mixed doubles.

After all, in this parallel world, this is the first time that mixed doubles has officially entered the list of events on the professional tour. Everyone is curious about what kind of debut Huaping will make on this brand new track, and what kind of debut will Huaping make? Is there such a hopeless dominance.

Zhang Benkuang and Shanye Meiya, Yichuan Mima and Shuiniaoying, Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing, Weng Chunting and Ai Qin, Zhu Shixian and Xu Jiaoyuan, these five pairs are all menacing.

There are also a few pairs in Europe, but in the end, the only ones that can really be seen are the pair of Sissfeld and Solga from Germany.

Facts have proved that the mixed doubles game is completely a situation in which Asian countries compete for the top. The root cause of this is that Europe does not pay too much attention to women's table tennis, so it is natural to suffer in the mixed doubles.

In the end, Xiao Fei and Liu Wen won the Qatar Open mixed doubles championship without any risk, which is also the first mixed doubles gold medal in the history of the Open.

From the performance point of view, Huaping has taken over all aspects without any regrets.

But in terms of content, Cai Guodong was not satisfied.

Because of winning the mixed doubles championship, there really were quite a few dangers.

After the Qatar Open, the World Table Tennis Associations also agreed that Huaping has no absolute advantage in mixed doubles. In the future, I have a very good chance to overtake in a corner. Even European countries temporarily plan to increase investment because of this. Invest more energy and money in mixed doubles.

Looking specifically at the game process, at the time of 16 to 8, the Gossip team was directly matched by the Lin Zijun Zhenjing team for the first time for two consecutive rounds, then stabilized and began to fight back hard, and finally won 4:2.

This game made everyone discover that the rumored pair of veterans has a fatal weakness: the start is too slow, and the overall speed and rhythm are slow, which is in stark contrast to the ultra-fast-paced play of the Bay Island combination.

They can win entirely because of the suppression of personal strength, as well as game experience and details.

When the 8 entered 4, the Gossip team even directly played the decisive game with the Zhang Ben Kuang Shanye Miya team. After winning, the two broke out in a cold sweat.

This time their weaknesses were exposed more clearly, and the rhythm and speed were still insufficient. In the past, Liu Wen was responsible for the acceleration and Xiao Fei was responsible for the deceleration. Both fast and slow opponents can adapt, but the problem is that Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Miya played too fast this time, to the point where they sacrificed quality and pursued speed extremely.

This style of play is obviously slanted, not kingly, but there is no doubt that the Gossip team was a little flustered and almost failed.

During the resumption after the game, the Huaping coaching staff agreed that Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Meiya's style of play was correct for them.

After all, Zhang Benkuang is still underage, with a thin body and insufficient strength. He can't hit the board by himself. If he doesn't take the speed route, should he forcefully take the quality route?
As for Yamano Miya, she plays in an extreme speed style in singles, and her performance in mixed doubles is nothing more than her natural performance.

After this game, the Gossip Team's game mentality has undergone a huge change. They began to race against time to train and discuss tactics, and then analyzed the game videos of other teams in the past few days with the coaches. With a double ranking of the world's number one figure, he treats the follow-up opponent as a boss who is equal to or even stronger than himself.

But even so, they faced Yichuan Mima and Shuiniaoying in the final, and they still reached the decisive game again.

This match was watched with other players in the dormitory of the national team training base.

At first, Yichuan Mima and Mizutaka showed obvious discomfort in the game. Although they had practiced a lot and studied a lot of tactics, they were not as experienced as old partners like Gossip, let alone the two of them. It was the first time to play mixed doubles in an official arena, and it was also the first time to meet such a strong opponent, so the start was a bit ignorant.

This time, he was stunned for two rounds, and was beaten by the Gossip team into a 2:0 lead.

At this time, the players watching the game in the dormitory already felt that the overall situation was settled, only Wang Chao did not dare to take it lightly.

Because he always remembers that in the mixed doubles match of the Olympic Games in the previous life, the Huaping team lost in the final that Huaping would always regret.

And that game happened to be a match between Huaping Veteran Team and Sakura Country Young and Young Team.

It was as if there was a mysterious force in the dark that wanted to make the story repeat itself. Wang Chao watched Yichuan Mima and Waterbird Ying start to break out against the trend when they were two games behind. It scored a 3:3 lead.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the dormitory was silent, and no one was talking and laughing anymore.

Then the Gossip team broke the boat and started to fight, regaining another round, and the score became 3:3, entering the decisive round.

Wang Chao has always thought that he has a very good mentality. In his previous life, he was a coach and an off-field guide. No matter what kind of desperate situation his players fell into, he would never panic, and there was no such thing as taking quick-acting heart-relief pills. The precise vision in the key rounds helped his players turn defeat into victory and create miracles.

But at this moment, he was still a little panicked.

Because the whole direction of this ball is exactly the same as the ball in the Olympics in his previous life in his memory.

It's all about winning two games, losing three games, and then recovering one game.

This made him wonder if there is really some invisible force that dominates everything, causing the same plot to repeat itself in different time and space.

In the previous life, it was the Huaping team that collapsed in the last game.

Will it be the same this time?
Wang Chao looked down with trepidation until the end, and finally let out a long breath.

Won.

The Gossip team played perfectly in the last round, they should be steady and fight hard, their style of play is generally behind, but they are completely ahead in terms of coordination, details, experience, and mentality, so In the end, they finally ushered in a different ending from Wang Chao's previous life, and won the final battle by relying on backward compatibility.

Huaping got his wish and won the first mixed doubles gold medal in the Open.

But it is far from being taken lightly, because this is just training.

Huaping's ultimate goal is to win the Olympic Games' first mixed doubles gold medal.

　Thanks to "Menphisto" for the reward of 1500 coins.

　　Thanks to "Hai Ziyuan" for the reward of 500 coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)