Ping Pong Life

Chapter 413 The Strongest 12-Player Race on the Surface
Hu Ke was still very face-saving, and immediately fought a round with force.

Wuli is still very calm, showing a natural big heart. He takes this round very seriously. However, facing Hu Ke, who can be called the most violent figure in the table tennis world today, Wuli's defense line was knocked to pieces. It was defeated in just 5 minutes, the score was 11:2.

The fundamental difference between Hu Ke and Wang Chao can be seen from the score. He actually beat Hu Ke very badly, even worse than Wang Chao. It can be said that Lao Tzu beat his son, but in the end he still scored two points for force. , One point is that the force finds an opportunity to attack and score, and the other point is that Hook makes an offensive mistake to send points.

On the contrary, not long ago, when Wang Chao used force, he shaved his head.

Therefore, for the factor of "stability", players from other associations really can't keep up with Huaping.

After a round, Hook asked, "That's it?"

Wang Chao said, "Another game?"

Hook was puzzled, but still agreed.

This time the force persisted for 2 minutes, and lost at 7 minutes. The score was still 11:2. The reason for the increase in time was actually the increase in the number of rounds. More intuitively speaking, Hook did not do anything in this round. When it came time to kill with one blow, the force tried its best to catch a few kills.

After this round was over, there was no need for Wang Chao to speak, so Wu Li said, "Again?"

Hook nodded: "OK."

The two sides fought again, and the final score was 11:1, with fewer points than the previous two rounds, but after this round, Hook took the initiative to say: "Again?"

Wang Chao no longer intervened. He sat on the stool next to him with his arms folded to watch the excitement. He watched seven innings of the ball, which took exactly one hour.

In seven rounds, Wu Li didn't win any of the rounds, and none of the rounds scored more than 4 points, but Hook's emotions were mobilized. He actually took the initiative to hug Wu Li and praised Wu Li.

This kind of enthusiasm of the Samba people makes it a little embarrassing for the force who is not used to physical contact.

"How is it?" Wang Chao asked while the two sides were resting.

"It's very interesting." Hook stretched out his thumb: "Wang Chao, if you don't practice with me, let him stay here and let him go back when you have a competition."

Wang Chao shook his head.

"Wang, you can't do this. You invited me to come to the Ping Chao, but you didn't play with me yourself, and you didn't let your friends play with me... Obviously this kind of practice is more beneficial to him, this is you Do you think I can't see the reason for bringing him here?" Hu Ke fought hard.

"That's not what I mean." Wang Chao smiled and said, "I just want to say that he can stay here, but he won't go back even if the Q of Spades has a match. Before Cheng goes to Hungary to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, he will stay at the base of Jiangcheng University to be your personal training partner, do you accept it?"

Hu Ke opened his mouth wide again, stared at Wang Chao for a long time, and then said, "I accept, but is he not competing?"

Wang Chao shook his head: "Anyway, it's a loss, and it's not bad for the few games he was absent."

"I have another question." Hook frowned: "My training may be a bit too much..."

So Wang Chao and Wu Li laughed together.

"Please be sure to increase the amount of training." Wuli said seriously: "At least in terms of actual combat, it is best not to be less than 12 hours a day."

After listening to the translation, Hu Ke showed a surprised expression, a little disbelieving, and turned to look at Wang Chao.

"What he said is true." Wang Chao said: "He is very patient, please feel free to squeeze him, ravage him, don't let him win a ball, don't let him get a point, no matter how you beat him , it doesn't matter."

He patted Hook on the shoulder: "So, please be as violent as you want, vent your anger that you can't beat my brother, and vent it on him as much as you want."

……

Wang Chao's arrangement for force has not ended.

He is well aware of how eager pressure is today's Wuli. It can be said that in the past many years, Wuli has not really awakened his "Hundred Refinement" talent. potential.

After the potential is activated, force should actually have a long process of "squeeze-enhance-squeeze-enhance-squeeze-enhance". However, he was only squeezed by Wang Chao for a while, and he Returned to the most basic low-pressure training state.

This is equivalent to a sword that was already burning red and waiting to be quenched, but was suddenly put aside to dry.

From February to August of this year, the force was in this stocking state.

But people are not swords after all. In this drying process, Wuli did not become a salted fish, but became more hungry and thirsty. If you use a sponge to describe it, it is this sponge called Wuli. The more holes and crevices, the more water can be absorbed in the fibrous tissue.

As the saying goes, severe illness requires strong medicine. In this case, even Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong could not quench their thirst for force. Only Hu Ke, the most violent turtle in the world, could.

But not enough.

Because the talent of "Hundred Refinements" cannot be inferred from one example, it is pure "wherever you get beaten, you will get up from there".

It cannot "get up from this pit and never fall into other pits".

So Wuli practiced with Hooker, and what he finally developed was only abnormal defensive ability in the face of extreme speed and strength.

But if athletes want to become real masters, they need more other aspects.

So after Wang Chao returned to the spade q base, he found Fan Xiaofan directly and made a suggestion to him.

"Directly spend money to ask Hou Xijia to come and practice with Wuli?" Fan Xiaofan's eyes widened. At first he felt that this idea was too unimaginable, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't help but let out an "oh": "It seems to be really good..."

Hou Xijia is a very old traditional chipper, but he is so good that he returned after retiring for many years. He can actually play tricks on the basis of traditional chipping. He uses ancient rubber and outdated style of play to match the current The most popular trend is to self-comprehend a set of technical and tactical systems that combine attack and attack. This system is not advanced, but it is very complete and can theoretically cope with most of the current technical and tactical routines.

It was also because of this set of things that he managed to win the men's singles championship in the National Table Tennis Championships a few years ago, killing countless young players from the first and second national teams along the way.

Of course, the biggest factor for him to win the championship is that the five main players did not participate that time, but even so, Hou La Liga is enough glory.

Just last year, he was ranked third in the selection of the most valuable player of the year in the Table Tennis Super League.

If it were an ordinary athlete, as an ace player in the mid-table team of the Table Tennis Super League, it would be absolutely impossible to practice with players from other clubs, because the status and status are here, and I can't afford to lose face.

But Hou Xijia is indeed an exception.

He is over forty years old and has seen through many things. He has made a lot of friends in the table tennis world and believes that connections are more important than anything else. The father of a child has to earn money to buy milk powder.

Just because he doesn't participate in any international competitions and is dedicated to playing table tennis, no club owner will care about him because of the trivial matter of making extra money.

Is Wang Chao good?
Better than Hou La Liga.

Is Wang Chao's personal value high?
Higher than Hou La Liga.

But compared to his contribution and practicality in the Table Tennis Super League, he is really not as good as Hou La Liga, because his eyes are on international competitions, and Hou La Liga specializes in table tennis super games.

The most important thing is that the headquarters of the Yinqiu Feiwu website is in Jiangcheng, so Hou Xijia's professional live broadcast room is also in Jiangcheng. .

A perfect win-win.

"What else is there?" Fan Xiaofan didn't question any of Wang Chao's decisions. As a smart boss, the most important thing is to trust professionals on professional issues, and don't force your own brains.

"I don't need anything else." Wang Chao said with a smile: "Actually, it's not enough to deal with violent attacks and chopping the ball. He also needs to learn how to deal with all kinds of skilled players, but this problem cannot be solved in Jiangcheng City. , After the Olympics, I will take him to the national team to find Brother Long."

Fan Xiaofan nodded in agreement, but his heart was filled with joy and some balls of sadness.

The rise of force is inevitable, because Wang Chao even invited a super partner like Hu Ke, and he will never allow failure.

But Wuli will go to the national team next year...

Going to the national team means playing in the World Series and missing the Table Tennis Super League...

If the results of the World Series are good, then you will continue to miss the Table Tennis Super League...

"My spade q is full of disasters." Fan Xiaofan sighed deeply.

……

At the end of August, Wang Chao returned to the Huaping base. In the following days, the atmosphere in the base gradually became tense.

The biennial "Surface's Strongest 12-Player Through Competition" kicked off.

This game with a rather strange name is actually a qualifying competition for the Chinese Table Tennis Team of the World Table Tennis Championships.

Many years ago, the selection of places for the World Table Tennis Championships was not made public, and it was basically an opinion of the coaching staff. But then, the outside world called for "fairness, justice and openness" more and more, and Huaping kept pace with the times and decided to A special domestic event will be launched to select the places for the World Table Tennis Championships.

After careful discussion, the coaching staff decided to first select 12 players from the national team, and then the 12 players will go through a big cycle within the team. According to the final points of the big cycle, the top five players will take part in the competition.

There are 3 points here that need to be specifically explained.

The first is why there are five places.

The ITTF’s basic rule for the quotas for each association in the World Table Tennis Championships is 3+1+1, that is, each association has 3 basic quotas for singles events. Within 100, one more quota will be added, and then, if there is a player ranked in the top 20 in the world, another quota will be added.

There are a lot of top 20 in the world in Huaping, so every time you participate in the competition, you will get five places.

The second is why it is called the strongest on the surface.

In fact, it is also very simple, because Huaping claims to be invincible in the world, so the 12 players selected by us through scientific methods are of course the strongest team in the world, called the strongest team on the surface, and there is nothing wrong with it .

In fact, after this competition came out, there were indeed few people in the foreign table tennis circles who said strange things, and everyone acquiesced.

The third is, what are the specific rules of this game.

In fact, it is not complicated. The top six players in the 12-man roster are determined directly according to the player's world ranking. The top six players are exempted from the audition and directly entered the main match list, similar to the seed players in the Open.

The remaining six will be openly selected for all players of the national first team and second team. As long as you are interested, you can sign up. There is no limit to the number of people. After everyone has signed up, the coaching staff will flexibly plan to eliminate them according to the number of signups. According to the rules, it takes a few days to finish the game, and finally six people are selected to enter the main match.

Finally, there is another point that must be mentioned, that is, the coaching staff still enjoys the right to directly assign places in principle.

In fact, in the World Table Tennis Championships over the years, there has never been a single round-robin competition to select five players. Instead, the coaching staff will first designate one or two players who must participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, and the remaining places will be passed. Straight-through selection.

For example, in the World Table Tennis Championships two years ago, the coaching staff directly assigned Sun Tianlong to participate, and the remaining four places were selected by the competition.

In the World Table Tennis Championships eight years ago, the coaching staff directly assigned Wang Wendong and Sun Tianlong, and the remaining three places were selected by the competition.

Of course, the assignment of the coaching staff is not really a matter of words, there are still traces to follow, usually the players assigned are the strongest and no suspense, and basically the world's number one big devil.

This kind of player does not play through games, in fact, it is to protect other players, lest they lose confidence.

But this year, in theory, Sun Tianlong is still eligible to be appointed.

Xiao Fei could be assigned or not, but he didn't sign up at all, and he wasn't going to fight at all.

Although Luo Jiu's strength has been achieved, his grades have not been achieved. If he appoints him, the others will not accept it.

However, Sun Tianlong told Cai Guodong early on that he would not participate in the competition and would leave the places to other players.

So this year's "The Strongest 12 Players on the Surface" is very special, because this is the first time in history that all five players are selected by the big round.

When the news was released, even the foreign table tennis circles paid close attention to it, and Rorskov and his like even praised it sourly: "This is the fairest through match of Huaping.".

The implication is that Huaping has never had real fairness in the past.

On September 9, Cai Guodong directly announced the names of the top 2 players who entered the 12-player roster in the direct match, namely: Luo Jiu, Lin Li, Bai Feng, Wang Chao, Zou Zhengyu, and Fan Xiaodong.

As soon as this list came out, many people felt emotional.

Because there is a very intriguing name in it: Zou Zhengyu.

As we all know, Zou Zhengyu, Yan Ping'an, and Fang Xiaobo have already been tacitly retired by the coaching staff. Cai Guodong has also expressed similar intentions many times in public, and he has solicited the opinions of the three in private, asking them Whether to transfer to a training partner, transfer to a coach, transfer to a local provincial or municipal team, or go to school, but the three have never made a decision.

Now that the three of them have passed this list, they have already expressed their intentions.

Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo chose to give up, but Zou Zhengyu wanted to fight one last time.

This is understandable.

After all, Zou Zhengyu had the worst luck last year. He met Wang Chao in the qualifying round of the Hong Kong Open at the beginning of the year and was eliminated directly. Makes sense.

However, Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo continued to explode in the subsequent open competitions, defeating Lin Li and Xiao Fei successively, and they succeeded in blooming their last light. They were satisfied, but at the same time lost the will to fight again, which is very reasonable.

So you see, sometimes, purely the difference in lottery determines the future destiny of athletes.

The world of competitive sports, behind the passion and blood, also has its extremely cold and cruel side.

In the following two days, the national team was very lively. The players of the first team and the second team rushed to sign up, no matter whether they had confidence or not, as if they were going to participate in a carnival. According to the last statistics, the total number of signups reached an astonishing 32 people. , which is almost the same as the total number of the two teams combined.

The coaching staff then gave the selection criteria: lottery, two-two matches, two rounds of knockout rounds first, the top eight players are selected, and then draw lots, still two-two confrontation, the winning four directly enter the main match, and the losers The four of them will draw lots again, and there will be two more knockout matches. The winner will advance, and the loser will be eliminated.

The rules are simple and clear, and there are not many games, but because of the elimination of the whole process, the cruelty and chance are directly full. This competition system will obviously cause the players to be too nervous and affect their performance. However, in the eyes of the coaching staff, the state of the competition and the competition Psychology itself is the focus of the assessment. If you are nervous about the assessment within the team, then why go to the international arena?
So after another two days of excitement, the remaining six contestants also successfully surfaced, and five of them were acquaintances, namely Lu Feiyang, Liang Kunpeng, Ma Angxing, Zhu Ding, and Qi Hao.

It was a surprise that Cheng Aimin's disciple Gao Mingyuan was not selected, because Gao Mingyuan has actually made great progress in recent months, his batting posture has been greatly improved, and his usual practice is also well received, but in this In the tense game, his mentality was out of balance again...

Another thing worth noting is Ma Angxing, who was once evaluated by the Sakura Kingdom as the last of the new generation of six dragons. He has been so low-key that he almost disappeared in the past six months, but the child who walked out of the mountains in the northwest still has enough tenacity and perseverance. Practical, his rapid improvement was beyond everyone's expectations. He relied on hard power to fight all the way up. He defeated Sun Zhongwen, who was highly rated by the second national team, and then lost to Lu Feiyang in the knockout round of the quarterfinals. , and then in the last round of pk, he defeated Gao Mingyuan who was the most popular.

The selection of Ma Angxing made the relatively calm coach Wang Lu smile these days.

As for the other member of the six dragons, Hu Buming, although he had a hard mouth, he was very self-aware, so he didn't sign up this time.

Zhu Ding directly entered the main match with a complete victory record. The creator of Happy Ping Pong has been Luo Jiu's queen training partner for the past few months, just because he can satisfy Luo Jiu's needs alone. What is his current strength? In fact, the coaching staff did not put him on the list of the follow-up six players on another internal strength evaluation list, but directly put him in the main team of Huaping. list.

Finally, the person to be highlighted is Qi Hao
Qi Hao, the second single of the Liao Province Heavy Steel Club, is on the same team as Sun Tianlong, his killing skills are top-notch, his killing is a pure amateur, anyone dares to win a civil war, and anyone dares to lose a foreign war, a strange player, 25 years old this year, in good condition Extremely unstable.

You may remember that after the Huaguo Open, Cai Guodong made a special trip to Jiangcheng’s spade q base to ask Wang Chao’s opinion in private for Qi Hao’s technical improvement. Wang Chao said at the time that Qi Hao needed technical improvement. It is recommended to learn from Qin Huachang.

However, Cai Guodong had just recalled Qi Hao to the national team, and before he had time to officially restart this matter, Lao Qin was diagnosed with cancer and left the team directly.

Cai Guodong couldn't get off the tiger, so he couldn't just send Qi Hao back, could he?He went to look for He Jingping, and wanted He Jingping to accept Qihao, but He Jingping's mind was full of the dispute between the two disciples at the World Table Tennis Championships, the Olympic Games, and the Grand Slam. Confused, where does the energy come from to help Qi Hao do such painful things as technical transformation?He directly refused.

In the end, Cai Guodong had no choice but to put Qi Hao under Zhu Zeshi, who was relatively free for the time being.

The entire coaching staff knew about Qi Hao's situation, and Lao Zhu also felt that this matter was too troublesome and troublesome, and because Qi Hao was not young, and his future seemed uncertain, so Lao Zhu wanted to refuse, but his subordinates really No one was there for the time being, so I had no choice but to hold my nose and accept it.

Now that he accepted it, with Lao Zhu's character, he naturally started to take it seriously. He has a dignified temperament, and he has become even more serious in his treatment of Qi Hao. Qi Hao has suffered a lot these days, but fortunately he himself knows that he is now a professional At the turning point of his career, no matter how harsh Lao Zhu was, he endured it, obediently cooperated with Lao Zhu to conduct various physical index tests and technical ability tests, tried to break the original technical and tactical system, and recreated a new technical and tactical system. After a few months, he was finally put back together bit by bit from the fragmented state.

He was reborn.

This time, like Zhu Ding, he also entered the 12-man main selection list with a complete victory record. Hong, silently vowed that he would grab a spot from the main players of Huaping who are now seriously involved.

(End of this chapter)