Ping Pong Life

Chapter 434 Goose Hen
On the morning of the sixth day of the World Table Tennis Championships, the men's singles quarterfinals kicked off.

In the afternoon, the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles kicked off.

When the game ended yesterday, everyone actually thought that today would be a more tragic battle than yesterday. When many spectators entered the arena, they carried bread and mineral water, and they were already prepared for the serious delay of the game.

They even went to the toilet deliberately once when they went out, because they were afraid that they would not find a space to go to the toilet during the whole battle without peeing.

But everyone guessed wrong.

Today's game generally showed a one-sided trend. The game was played very quickly. None of the games reached the seventh game. On the contrary, there were many zero-block games.

This was unexpected, but within reason.

Because in a sense, the audience's speculation about the "fierce battle" comes from the ambiguity of the comparison of the strengths of the two warring parties, and they feel that the two sides are evenly matched. There will also be a clear winning-losing relationship in a sufficient number of head-to-head duels, and then, this winning-losing relationship will gradually stabilize.

This is also the reason why Huaping has always emphasized "the king does not see the king" when practicing in the team.

In the international arena, there is no saying that the king will not see the king. If you sign up, and I sign up, and it happens that we are still drawn together, then we will do it without hesitation.

For example, Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong are like this.

In the past six months, Fan Xiaodong met Lin Li in two consecutive international competitions, but he lost both times.

And not long ago, he and Lin Li played against Lin Li twice in the through match of the strongest 12 players on the surface, but they ended in a 1:1 tie.

And in this World Table Tennis Championships 8-to-4 confrontation, he directly eliminated Lin Li 4:1.

This clearly shows a trend. Fan Xiaodong is making progress. He gradually narrows the gap with Lin Li, then equalizes the gap with Lin Li, and finally completes a complete overtake.

He represents the future of Huaping, full of vigor, and his strength is developing rapidly. When he forcibly defeats Lin Li in front of everyone this time, it means that in all the years to come, Lin Li will never have a chance to regain his position. .

Fan Xiaodong will ride Juechen to a distance where Lin Li can't even see his back.

In another game in the upper half, Ronaldo crushed Pique 4-0. This was the result that European fans had already vaguely expected. Although they still had a strong sense of loss when the score actually appeared in front of them, But overall, European audiences have expressed emotional stability.

In the second half, Hooker crushed Michel 4-0. This should have been a matter of course, but many fans expressed surprise.

Before the game, there were some noises in the fans' predictions for this game. The main reason is that Hook has been in a strange state in the past few months. You say he has become stronger. He is vulnerable to Luo Jiu, but You said he has become weaker, he has played in the Ping Pong Super League for more than a month but he has won all the league games, but when facing other players except Luo Jiu, he is fierce and stable, it seems that he has completely made up for it The short board is average.

Therefore, fans all over the world can't figure out whether Hook has become stronger or weaker. Most people tend to think that he has become stronger, but a few people think that he was cheated by Wang Chao.

It was also because of this that when he faced Michelle, the matchup would have had no suspense a year ago, but now it has suspense instead.

After all, Michelle is now in a state of complete technical transformation, the front rubber of the racket has been used to perfection, and the delicate balls in the table are already like an Asian player.

Even Lao Wa made a public statement, saying that the current representative of Swedish table tennis should be Michel, not Mollard.

Although this is because Lao Wa is a little disappointed with Morad's temper, it also means that he has strong confidence in Michelle, who has successfully transformed himself.

Under such a background, Hook's 4:0 strong crushing can be regarded as breaking a lot of rumors that are not good for him, and officially announced to the world that although he is not bald, he has really become stronger, and he is now the real world Super class player.

In the last game of 8 goals and 4 goals, the result of Wang Chao vs. Arul made most fans very surprised.

It's not that Wang Chao lost, but that Wang Chao won too comfortably. Not only did he score 4-0, but also Aruul didn't score more than 5 points in each game. It can be said that this new African brother is scoring eight goals. After Qiang got the best result in his career, what he encountered was an unprecedented tragic failure, and he was completely and mercilessly beaten.

That's weird.

Because everyone felt that Wang Chao wanted to take the opportunity to practice.

What a good sparring partner Alur is. He has rough skills and is not very threatening. However, as an African race, he has super-high physical fitness. His forehand kill has been considered by many people in the industry in recent months. He has already surpassed Lin Li of Huaping, Hooker of Brazil, and Seesfeld of Germany. He is the most powerful forehand in the world table tennis today.

"Of course Wang Chao should use him to practice his forehand defensive ability." The fans thought so.

So regarding this game, the odds and odds were opened on the periphery. No one bet on the win or loss of the two sides. They bet on how many rounds the game can play. Most of the betting dogs believed that the result of this game should be 4: 2.

The reason why it is not 4:3 is because Wang Chao has to leave a margin after all, otherwise it would be bad if he was negligent and capsized in the gutter.

But in the end, Wang Chao didn't think about practicing the ball at all. He rushed to attack the whole court, played very utilitarianly, and used all targeted techniques, directly making Alur into a fool.

Foreign fans just kept expressing surprise and surprise, and didn't realize what Wang Chao's style of play today means.

"That naturally means that Wang Chao thinks he doesn't need Alur's training partner anymore." Qin Huachang said the truth in the live broadcast room: "Let me tell you, I guess Wang Chao's current defensive ability may It is stronger than you expected, as for why it is so strong, you don’t know, and I don’t know, after all, we are normal people and cannot guess monsters.”

This time, Lao Qin was really not an excuse. He was too far away from the match scene and the coaching staff of Huaping.

He didn't even think about calling Sun Tianlong, because the moment he picked up the phone, he suddenly thought that the answer to this question probably belonged to the highest-level secret within the Huaping coaching staff, right?But he is no longer a member of the coaching staff.

This also makes him a little sad, because no matter how active he is in front of people, he is no longer Huaping's most fundamental "insider".

In short, after this morning, the top four men's singles surfaced, forming two sets of duels: Luo Jiu vs. Fan Xiaodong, Wang Chao vs. Hu Ke.

By this time, the fans were too lazy to marvel at the fact that Huaping had three finalists. They were used to it. They skipped the results of the semi-finals and started discussing the match between Wang Chao and Luo Jiu with great interest. It was as if Fan Xiaodong and Hu Ke had turned into dead people.

In fact, Europe and South America naturally do not really regard Hook as a dead person. They just absorbed and borrowed too many behaviors and habits from Asia in the event of table tennis. Know all kinds of things.

So, they were talking, crazy, bragging desperately about the strength of Wang Chao and Luo Jiu before the start of the semi-finals, and while bragging, they silently cursed these two people to lose the game quickly and lose the game.

——So you see, the cultural output of advantageous sports is so powerful, and the significance of sports in the peaceful era lies in this.

The mixed doubles kicked off that afternoon, and nothing unexpected happened. The final semi-finalists were: Xian Youwen and Che Songxin from Jindalai Country, Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan from Hua Country, Yichuan Mima and Niwa Xiaoxi, Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing from Wandao.

The only one worth mentioning here is the Bay Island combo.

As we all know, when the mixed doubles just entered the Olympics, Wandao already had this pair, but their performance in the Open for three consecutive months was a mess. Lin Zijun completed the super-evolution in the Open, and the pair never registered for the subsequent Brazil Open and Portugal Open.

Therefore, this time the World Table Tennis Championships is actually Lin Zijun's first appearance in the mixed doubles event after his evolution.

Their style of play is completely different from before.

In the event of mixed doubles, his speed far surpassed that of ordinary people, which made him really play well.

He gave up his offensive attributes completely and became a complete do-it-yourself nanny.

No matter what kind of sneak attack the opponent makes, he can catch up.

No matter how strong the opponent's attack is, he can stop it.

In singles, the opponent can rely on changing techniques and continuous rhythmic attacks to break through Lin Zijun's defense, and even use "no strength" and "no offense" to confront Lin Zijun. However, in mixed doubles, In general, male players must play the ball, which is determined by the nature of the mixed doubles competition.

And what Lin Zijun is most afraid of is the opponent's crazy force to hit the kill board.

Therefore, the Bay Island Table Tennis Association was ecstatic to discover that Lin Zijun's super speed mode was simply tailor-made for doubles.

This is simply a double-handed skill!

So during the preparation period of the last two months, Zhen Jing completely changed her position. She began to practice offense desperately, using all means to improve her strength, and after she really entered the field, what she had to do was to attack desperately.

In a sense, their style of play is even a bit similar to that of Tang Dynasty.

Although Zhen Jing's offensive power was far inferior to Tang Yuanyuan's, Lin Zijun's defensive ability was even more perverted than Wang Chao's in some respects. At least, he was not afraid of sneak attacks at all.

In addition to these theoretical fits, the Bay Island team also won a very convincing battle. They crushed another pair of Chinese table tennis mixed doubles players who participated in an international competition for the first time with a big score of 4:0: Pluto combination of Wang Yu and Gao Mingyuan.

The Pluto combination did not have any record in the World Series before, but it doesn't matter, because this is the combination of Huaping.

Huaping sent the Pluto team to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, which is enough to show how strong the Pluto team is. What's more, in essence, this pair actually has a hidden mission: to escort the Tang Dynasty team.

The so-called escort means that when the host is disconnected, the escort plane must be able to step up and replace the host to complete the tasks that should be completed.

In other words, the Huaping coaching staff believes that the Pluto combination has the strength to win the championship.

Then the Bay Island combination can beat the Pluto combination with a crushing momentum, which undoubtedly shows that the Bay Island combination does have the ability to win the championship, and it is not just a compliment from the outside world.

It is also because of this that even though they only played a few games in the World Table Tennis Championships, the Bay Island combination has won unimaginable optimism. Numerous fans from foreign associations believe that they can compete with the Tang Dynasty combination.

Against the background of the whole world uniting against China, the Wandao Mixed Doubles has become the last ray of light in the hearts of fans all over the world, and it has also become the only track that has not fallen in this World Table Tennis Championships so far.

As for the other four tracks, the men's singles is very likely to be a civil war in Huaping, because there are three Chinese nationals in the top four, and the only foreigner who mixed in was Hook, who was pressed to the ground by Luo Jiu not long ago.

On the women's singles side, it has been determined that it is a civil war in Huaping, because the semi-finals have already been rounded up.

As for men's doubles and women's doubles, no matter Sun Tianlong Xiaofei's combination or Jinling Liuwen's combination, they are all recognized by the world as invincible combinations that have lasted for many years, and their dominance in their respective fields is far better than Wang Chao and Tangyuan Round Tang Dynasty composition.

Therefore, some fans in Kimchi Country have spontaneously established a fan support club for the Bay Island Group, with the banner slogan: Let's run, Lin Zijun.

In fact, there is also a fan support club in Sakura Country who wants to do this. The banners are all ready, and it says "Attack Lin Jun", but this time it was disturbed by the Sakura National Table Tennis Association. China's own players are still on the court."

Soon, the semi-finals of mixed doubles came out: the Tang Dynasty team vs. the Sakura country team; the Bay Island team vs. the Jindalai country team.

Everyone is very satisfied, because the two combinations they are optimistic about will meet at the top.

Only He Jingping became very nervous, because he has been a coach for so many years, and he has never stood at such a height as a coach.

In the men's singles, it is very likely that his two disciples are in a civil war.

In mixed doubles, it is very likely that his disciple will reach the pinnacle.

And in a few days, ideally, his disciples would win two gold medals and one silver medal.

If this moment is Wang Chao's highest peak as an athlete so far.

Then this moment is also He Jingping's peak as a head coach.

It was also in this situation that the ITTF officials obtained the consent of He Jingping and conducted a special interview with him, and the content of the interview was made public before the start of the seventh day of the competition.

The content is very interesting.

Reporter: "If Wang Chao and Luo Jiu enter the men's singles final of this World Table Tennis Championships, which one of them do you think has a better chance of winning?"

He Jingping: "I don't know."

Reporter: "It doesn't matter, you can make a random prediction, for example, based on their pre-match state and technical and tactical characteristics, deduce their game process and so on."

He Jingping: "I really don't know."

Reporter: "This...you are the head coach of the two of them, and you are also the builder of the technical and tactical systems used by the two of them. Your understanding of them should surpass anyone in the world, right?"

He Jingping: "I'm not, I haven't, don't talk nonsense."

Reporter: "Hello, Coach He, here is a special interview on the ITTF official live broadcast platform. Now fans all over the world are paying attention to this grand event. Could you please disclose some information we are interested in?"

He Jingping: "But, I really don't know."

Reporter: "Then you have to say something?"

He Jingping: "Okay, I can only tell you that this game may be 4:0, or 4:3, Wang Chao may win, Luo Jiu may win, everything is possible, because table tennis is round .”

……

In a sense, this interview should be regarded as a bad ending, because the reporter really didn't ask any useful information, but in fact, He Jingping was very wronged, because the blond foreign girl reporter had a very good attitude. He spoke very politely, and he was smiling when he said goodbye. In addition, the communication between the two parties needed to be carried out through an interpreter. The emotions of the two parties in the question and answer could not be directly perceived by each other, so he felt good until the end of the entire interview process. Didn't realize it was already broken up.

So when the interview was made public, the fans generally showed two attitudes.

One group thinks that Huaping is petty, and the finals are about to start, but they still hide it. I don’t know what they are afraid of, so can’t they just say something dry and let us learn by the way?
There are not many people in this faction. The reason is that in the past year, Lao He has basically been the one who has told the most truths among the Huaping coaches. The video of him and Wang Chao discussing how to play Hook in the restaurant is still high so far. Hanging on the hot list of many table tennis websites, in addition to that, he also publicly criticized Raulskov, and his speech at that time was also full of technical flow.

If there is anyone in Huaping who is most willing to take out dry goods generously, it is undoubtedly He Jingping.

So even if Lao He behaved strangely this time, everyone was more willing to believe that he had other reasons than being stingy.

As for the other group of viewers, they burst out laughing. They intercepted He Jingping's remarks, paired them with the female reporter's depressed and angry but still trying to maintain a subtle expression on her face, and made a ghost video, which immediately became popular all over the world.

Because of the appearance of the second faction, even the female reporter was depressed.

After the interview yesterday, she deliberately cut the video, but she didn't dare to mess around, but just made He Jingping's expression more cold and hard, and cut out some soft words that were slightly explanatory. She wanted a little With a sigh of relief, she asked everyone to spray Lao He together, but she didn't expect that she would also be cut into it.

The most amazing thing is that she didn't even know that my expression can be so rich, complex and vivid. Those fleeting subtle expressions can't be seen unless you look carefully, but the masters who are ghosts insist on using The super slow motion shows every subtle change of her expression vividly.

So it seemed that although Lao He was not very polite, she was more like a monkey being played around by the impolite Lao He.

In short, a video, both sides hurt, fans didn't get any meaningful information, only a world where both sides were hurt together inexplicably completed.

In the live broadcast room, Qin Huachang laughed until he fell down: "I understand Lao He, he is wronged, he really doesn't know."

Others don't know the details of Lao He, how can he not know?
In front of Wang Chao, Lao He has never been a coach, but has always been a nanny, so how could he figure out what Wang Chao's little silver coin was thinking?
Originally, Lao He knew Luo Jiu quite well, and Luo Jiu was willing to let Lao He help formulate tactics and strategies, but this time, Luo Jiu also tensed up, and he wanted to use his own strength to defeat Wang Chao in an upright manner. He is not allowed to accept a little extra help from the teacher.

Since Wang Chao is independent, Luo Jiu should also be independent.

So He Jingping is really an outsider. Even though he always sits behind the fender as the on-site coach when watching the game, in fact, he never called a timeout from the beginning to the end, and he didn't talk about tactics during the intermission.

Because it really doesn't need to.

Wang Chao would rather play thrillingly than follow his own rhythm.

Luo Jiu was crushing the whole process and didn't need guidance at all. Even though the fight against Lin Zijun looked thrilling, in fact, he was still holding his hand firmly and steadily.

So I ask, what does Lao He know?
"He knows a chicken feather." Qin Huachang became more and more interesting as he thought about it. It had been a long time since he was so happy, and he couldn't help laughing: "There is only one difference between him and me. I watch the ball from a distance, and he watches it on the spot."

"Didn't I tell you two days ago that the battle between Wang Chao and Luo Jiu is completely incomprehensible to me, because I have no idea what state these two people have reached now, and what cards they have prepared in private , I can’t even guess whether they want to fight head-on, or if they want to come up and fight.”

"Will they use outside tricks?"

"Are they playing kingly or cunningly?"

"Is it still a kingly way and a tricky way?"

"Who came up to fight first?"

"In the first game, did they test their attack power first or their defense power first?"

"These things, Lao He and I, really..."

Because he was in such a good mood, Qin Huachang, a Cantonese native, even played a dialect stalk in the end: "Goose and hen."

(Brothers are changing today, blowing the air conditioner and catching a cold, and my head is dizzy. If it is writing a transitional plot, I can still stick to it, but the next one is the decisive battle that has been paved for a long time. I feel that I may write it down if I continue. If you want to write badly, let’s stop here first, 6 words, it’s a pity that you can’t make up two chapters, let’s make it a big chapter. By the way, the last game will take two to three days to write, if you are impatient If you can read it after three days, then you must finish writing, and the process should not let you down.)
(End of this chapter)