Ping Pong Life

Chapter 449 The Final Event
There are two flowers blooming, one for each branch. While the table tennis super league is so hot, the battles in other places have also not stopped.

The schedule of the Table Tennis A and the Table Tennis Super League highly overlap, and this year's Table Tennis A, the most worthy of attention, is naturally the Royal New Town Club, which was just relegated from the Table Tennis Super League last year.

At the beginning of the year, everyone said that Didu Xincheng was a giant in table tennis. After all, there were two generals in the team, Liang Kunpeng and Lin Zijun. As a result, due to the frequent international competitions this year, these two giants were almost all playing in international competitions. It went directly back to the Bay Island Table Tennis Association, for which the Bay Island Table Tennis Association paid a fairly high amount of compensation to the Imperial City.

Therefore, the results of the Spring Split of the Imperial Capital New City Club were not very good.

Now that the autumn competition is approaching, Lin Zijun's schedule for himself is very similar to that of Wang Chao. When Wang Chao returned to the Table Tennis Super League, he also returned to the Table Tennis A.

Taking advantage of the rare two-month gap after the World Table Tennis Championships and before the Olympic Games, everyone who should return has returned, and Liang Kunpeng has also returned to the club.

So the Imperial Capital New City finally fulfilled the promise made at the end of last year, and began to kill the Quartet in the Pingjia.

In more than a month, after more than ten rounds of matches, the Imperial Capital New City not only won all games, but also scored a uniform 3:0. If you look at the scores of each game carefully, you will find more 4:0.

Lin Zijun went crazy!

Probably in order to exercise his doubles ability, Lin Zijun is currently playing in the second single, just to be able to play a doubles. In doubles, when no one in the table tennis can control the ball like Wang Chao, Lin Zijun's super speed is completely a problem. bug, he started to fly around unreasonably.

First he led the team's three singles to play, then led the team's substitute to play, and then led the team's second substitute to play. Lin Zijun proved one thing with practical actions: in doubles, as long as there is Lin Zijun, a tied dog can win.

It's that exaggerated.

So in mid-November, the total points of the Imperial Capital New City topped the list, and it was finally possible to speak openly to the outside world: "Table Tennis Super League, wait for me, we will return next year."

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Domestic competitions are so noisy, but international competitions are relatively uncharacteristically deserted.

I don't know whether it is because the influence of table tennis is expanding around the world, or there are KPI indicators that need to be completed within the ITTF. Going to the three major competitions made everyone exhausted.

Wang Chao, Luo Jiu, Lin Zijun and others all chose to give up all the open tournaments after the World Table Tennis Championships, shift their focus to China, replace training with league games, and concentrate on preparing for the Olympic Games at the end of November.

Veterans like Sun Tianlong, Bayer, and Ochumelov also chose to stay dormant after the World Table Tennis Championships. They don't need to carry out such high-intensity training. It is enough to be able to play at a normal level in the Olympics.

Before the big battle, you need to accumulate, thick accumulation can be thin, and too high frequency of participation will destroy the competitive state, so after September, basically, as long as they are looking forward to the Olympic Games, all players will calm down by coincidence .

As a result, the Open in the two months from the end of September to the end of November was deserted.

In mid-October, the Croatian Open is held.

At the end of October, the Dubai Platinum Open was held.

In mid-November, the Singapore Open was held.

On November 24, the Kimchi Country Platinum Station Open was held.

In fact, these four open matches should be more attractive from an objective point of view. After all, there are two platinum stations with high points, and the Dubai station has super high prize money because of the sponsorship of oil giants.

But those famous and surnamed figures in the world table tennis world were all absent.

Of course, just looking at the number of applicants and the scale of the competition, it is actually not low, because there are more than 100 table tennis associations in the world, and there are too many registered professional table tennis players. It's pure cannon fodder, but now that the masters are all in retreat, it's just their turn to come out to see the world. If they accidentally make it to the top of the main match, it may be the peak of their careers in this life.

Therefore, quoting the evaluation of the Huaping coaching staff is: a swarm of bees came, a meal of non-nutritive chaos, and finally left a lot of chicken feathers, not even a game worth analyzing.

The final men's singles champion of the Croatian Open is a kimchi country veteran.

The men's singles champion at the Dubai Platinum Station is Lu Feiyang, a teenager from Huaguo.

Yes, the cup of platinum station is quite nutritious, not to mention the competition sponsored by oil giants, so Huaping sent some young players under the premise of ensuring that all the main players are well trained, such as Lu Feiyang, Sun Wenwen , Wang Qin, He Peng and others.

Of course, Fan Xiaodong is not included in the list of teenagers. His level is different. He will directly enter the new main lineup of Huaping after Xiao Fei and Sun Tianlong retire next year.

What is there to say?

"You are still playing mud with your little friends, and I am already doing business with adults."

Zhang Benkuang is the men's singles champion at the Singapore Open.

This is also a small accident.

There is no doubt that Zhang Benkuang is going to participate in the Olympics, and it is very likely that he will play both men's singles and mixed doubles. However, on this basis, he still chooses to continue to register for the Open. It was too exuberant, and he really could bear it.

Finally, in the Kimchi Country Platinum Open, the men's singles champion was Arul from Nigeria.

Alur has made a great reputation in this year's Open, especially by eliminating the fourth German brother Qiu Shang in two consecutive rounds, which can be regarded as establishing his status as a first-class master. Now his life is much better than before, and he has found a sponsor. Now that I have my own personal assistant, I no longer need to work hard to book air tickets, find hotels and find training centers.

But he still upholds a very rational attitude towards the competition. Of course he will participate in the Olympics, but he does not expect to get a place in the Olympic Games where there are so many talents. He simply wants to feel the atmosphere of the competition, and his main focus of competition is still on making money.

Since it is to make money, it is definitely the best choice to take advantage of the opportunity that no master in the world can lurk, and participate in the last platinum station before the Olympics.

No one will go out to play other games a week before the Olympics.

But Arul will.

He successfully won the men's singles championship in this round, as well as a lot of points and a lot of bonuses. After that, instead of going home, he went straight to Mexico without stopping, looking for a place to live there, and waiting for the Olympic Games while practicing.

Yes, the venue for the current Olympic Games is Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It is like spring all year round. Even in late autumn, the temperature is still in the [-]s to [-]s. It can be regarded as a very pleasant place.

Regarding the Kimchi Country Platinum Open on November 11, there is one interesting thing I have to mention, that is, Tang Yuanyuan ran to participate in the women's singles event at this station.

The Huaping family has a big business, and there are many players, of all ages. Although the main players in the four stations before the Olympic Games are not popular, Huaping still sent some young players to meet the world. It was the last election When he was alone, Tang Yuanyuan took the initiative to ask to play.

Her reason is also very tenable: I have no other sports except mixed doubles now, but my partner Wang Chao has already gone to play table tennis, and it is impossible for me to participate in other sports in the Olympic Games. Isn't it good to play an irrelevant game outside?
Probably because of Aiwujiwu, Cai Guodong was very tolerant of Tangyuanyuan, and agreed without much hesitation.

Before going there, Tang Yuanyuan was full of ambition. After all, she was the world champion of mixed doubles. She also beat Wang Yushensha and others to win the women's singles championship at the Swedish Open. This time, the foreign associations are full of scumbags, not a single one with a name, so the champion should be pinched?

With the points from the women's singles championship at the Swedish Open, she directly entered the main match. The person she met in the first round was not an outsider, but a 14-year-old junior in her team named Kuai Wan. The selected Xiao Hua belonged to the same group as Wang Qin, Xu Bin, Yuan Li and others from the men's team.

Tang Yuanyuan intends to educate the younger generation well and let the young people know how hidden the dragon and the crouching tiger are in the Huaping women's team. She heard that Huaping veterans have a tradition of suppressing the younger generation, so she should also be an excellent whetstone.

Then she was picked up by Kuai Wan 4:0, and as the world champion of the women's singles in the Open, she successfully reached the first round.

It was only after this that Tang Yuanyuan really looked at herself squarely, and she realized with extreme despair that she really couldn't go back.

I have really become an absolute professional player who can only mix doubles and not singles.

Teammates who were evenly matched in the past, Wang Yushensha, Chen Tong, Yin Di and others, have all run ahead without a trace.

Even Kuai Wan and others who just joined the team have come from behind.

She was very sad, so she called Wang Chao and nagged for a long time, and when she hung up the phone, her mood brightened instantly.

Because she thinks what Wang Chao said is quite reasonable.

"What do you envy them for? Can they win the championship in the end after their hard work?"

"If you can't get it, there will always be only one who can really win the championship, and the others will be cannon fodder."

"And what about you? You are already the mixed doubles world champion. If there is no accident, we will continue to win the championship in the future and continue to win consecutive championships. If we can't make achievements in singles, then we will join hands to win the World Cup and World Table Tennis Championships. Wouldn't it be great to win both the mixed doubles champions in the Olympic Games and achieve the Grand Slam of the mixed doubles event and become the first combination in the history of mixed doubles?"

"So, you have to treat, after all, I took you to fly."

The more Tang Yuanyuan thought about it, the more she felt that she owed Wang Chao a lot. After all, she had won the world champion without much effort. Looking at Wang Yushensha and the others, it was really hard work.

It's really not easy for Wang Chao.

So she started flipping through her mobile phone in the middle of the night, logged into her ICBC account, Agricultural Bank account, China Construction Bank account, Huaguo Bank account, Moubao account, Weicha account, Penguin account, etc., and calculated carefully one by one. How much money I have saved over the years, and how much prize money I have won from playing games, I began to seriously consider where I should invite Wang Chao to have a good meal.

If one meal is not enough, it is okay to ask for a few more meals, after all, they are good brothers.

On November 11th, the day before the last open tournament before the Olympics, Spade Q ushered in the last table tennis Super League game in November.

After today, the Table Tennis Super League will be suspended for a long time until the Olympic Games are completely over and all players return.

Domestic competitions give way to international competitions, which has been the norm for many years.

The autumn competition of the Table Tennis Super League has reached the second round of the round, so Spade Q encountered their old opponent they had played more than a month ago: Liao Province Heavy Steel Club.

Speaking of which, Spade Q and Liao Province Heavy Steel are very destined.

In March of this year, in the spring competition of Table Tennis Super League, it was the collision of these two teams that gave birth to the two peerless battles between Sun Tianlong and Wang Chao.

In fact, the impact of this ball is even more profound, because Sun Tianlong saw Wang Chao's terrifying potential from this ball. The status guarantees Wang Chao, so that Wang Chao has enough opportunities to perform, and successfully gained Cai Guodong's trust before the Olympics.

And in September of this year, just after the autumn competition started, Spade Q met Liaoning Chonggang again.

At this time, Sun Tianlong was no longer in the team, and Qi Hao, the second dan, had completed his technical transformation and had just returned to the team. Therefore, in this match, Liao Province Zhonggang had Qi Hao as the core, and finally crushed Spade Q 3-0.

Now that the time has come to November, the two teams meet again, but the situation is very different.

Due to the long-term absence of the main players of Liaoning Provincial Heavy Steel, it seems that they will not be able to enter the playoffs this season. As a shit-stirring team for many years, they have not even completed the task of stirring shit this year. The root cause is Sun Tianlong Too many absences this year.

As for Spade Q, because of its winning streak in the past month or so, not only is it in full swing, but its points have also reached the top of the list, and it looks like its place in the playoffs is about to come.

It can be said that time has changed and the world has changed, and the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides have just been reversed.

This is the last game before the Olympics. In fact, most of the fans are not able to calm down and watch the game seriously, because everyone's mind has already flown to the distant Mexico City.

But when the two sides announced the list of players in advance two days before the game, everyone was still shocked.

It turned out that Sun Tianlong, who had been silent for several months at Chonggang in Liao Province, returned.

Oh my God!
Sun Tianlong then accepted the interview, with some guilt in his speech, he seemed very sincere: "I want to take this opportunity to say sorry to coach Tang Jiuzhou. I really didn't fulfill the responsibility of a main player this year. I'm sorry for the coach and the team. I'm also sorry for the boss who paid me... It's the last game before the Olympics. I feel that I'm in good shape recently. Maybe it's good to come out for some activities and accept the actual combat test. If I can win the game before the league is temporarily closed The next victory should also inspire the follow-up games."

The reporter asked him: "Are you confident in defeating the q of spades?"

"This..." Sun Tianlong thought about it seriously, shook his head and smiled, "Not really. Wang Chao and I should have a [-]-[-] split. Qihao has made great progress recently, and his stability has also increased, but can he do it? I can't judge whether he won the force, I have paid close attention to the force, his progress is too fast, I watched his game four days ago, but after all, it has been four days, I don't know how he is. How much progress has been made in four days."

What Sun Tianlong said was the truth, but he didn't know that his playing brought Wang Chao a lot of trouble, because Wang Chao had sworn in front of the Q of Spades as early as March this year , will never fight Sun Tianlong on the field.

He is serious.

Grand Slam is certainly his strongest desire in this life, but if it is Sun Tianlong, he can wait another four years.

At the World Table Tennis Championships, Luo Jiu imitated Sun Tianlong's style of play to practice with Wang Chao. The reason why Wang Chao cooperated was largely because he did not want to let down the deep friendship of his seniors.

But after the World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Chao never took the initiative to ask Luo Jiu to be a training partner even though Spade Q and the Jiangcheng University team visited every day.

He didn't want to practice that kind of backhand at all, because he didn't regard Sun Tianlong as an imaginary enemy at all.

"When I meet Brother Long in the future, I will admit defeat unconditionally."

"The only thing I don't want is to play against Long Ge."

The oath that year was still in my ears, but Sun Tianlong took the initiative to walk in front of him.

Wang Chao and Spades q studied for a long time, trying to guess that Sun Tianlong would be the first to appear on the stage, but in the end they still couldn't come to a definite conclusion.

After all, Tang Jiuzhou, the head coach of Liao Province Heavy Steel Club, is also a recognized smart person.

What's more, Sun Tianlong himself is a master of formation.

So Wang Chao simply made a phone call: "Brother Long, are you on the first order or the second order?"

"Why, have you started playing psychological warfare?" Sun Tianlong found it interesting: "Should I answer truthfully, or should I intrigue with you? You have to tell me how to play first, otherwise I don't know which of your words is true , which sentence is false."

"I didn't want to play tricks, I was very serious." Wang Chao was very helpless: "I just want to tell you, I want to avoid you."

Sun Tianlong was surprised.

He didn't know the oath that Wang Chao had made. In fact, in a sense, he really wanted to meet Wang Chao before the Olympics to see the effect.

After all, his imaginary opponents were also Wang Chao and Luo Jiu. Considering that Wang Chao had won against Luo Jiu in the World Table Tennis Championships, if one had to choose someone to try, obviously Wang Chao was more suitable than Luo Jiu.

But after he thought about it for a while, he still chose to tell the truth: "I originally wanted to play in the second single to catch you."

He paused: "I have also practiced doubles, and I want to touch you and Wuli."

Wang Chao smiled wryly: "Then I'll buy one, don't change it, can you?"

Sun Tianlong said: "Okay."

On the day of the match, Sun Tianlong played the second single as promised, and Wang Chao didn't do anything like "I predicted your prediction". He honestly chose one single to play, and both sides successfully avoided it.

In the end, Wang Chao won the first game, and Sun Tianlong won the second and third games. Then, in the fourth game, Wang Chao met the opponent's three-single Xue Hui and won easily, so the game entered the decisive game. It was still Mr. Key who confronted Qi Hao after completing the technical transformation by force.

This time force did not have the last laugh.

He played very hard, and the quality of the game was also very high, but now Qihao has truly possessed the strength of the main force of the national team. When Qihao is playing normally, he is still firmly a head above the force.

In the end, Qihao defeated Wuli 4:1, and Liaoning Chonggang also defeated the Q of Spades with a total score of 3:2.

This campaign can be described as anticlimactic. Before the match, everyone was looking forward to it, but in the end, it was uneventful. The perfect staggering of the two ace players made the audience less exciting.

Both sides of the battle can be regarded as happy. Liao Province Heavy Steel has won this, and the results are stable in the middle and lower reaches. Although it is not good, it has at least left the relegation zone.

And Spade Q doesn't care about this loss, as long as Wang Chao and Wuli can't lose the chain, they can still enter the playoffs steadily.

As a result, the Table Tennis Super League was completely closed, and domestic competitions ceased, while the foreign associations, the T2 League in Sakura Country, the Club League in Germany, as well as the European Cup, European Championships, ITTF City Challenge, u15, u18 Youth Tournament When all competitions, large and small, also stopped, the world table tennis world showed an extremely rare calm at this moment.

Everyone knows that the rain is about to come and the building is full of wind, and after the calm, there will be the greatest excitement.

November 11 is the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games held every four years, which will kick off the prelude to this worldwide sports carnival.

As for the Huaguo table tennis team, as one of the most successful sports in Huaguo, the participating players will also form an Olympic phalanx alone, and follow the mighty troop to Mexico City to accept the final test.

The huge Huaping base is rare and clean. The autumn is deep, the wind blows, and there are many yellow leaves falling on the square outside the base.

"They all left..."

The old man with white hair, white beard and immortal demeanor wore a thin moon-white Tang suit and swept the floor in the square. He seemed to be completely unafraid of the autumn cold. He raised his head and looked in the direction of Mexico City, muttering to himself: " The full attendance is over, the gold medal is almost over, and it's time for me, Brother Sanjiang, to leave, Wang Chao, you must achieve the grand slam..."

With a sigh, it was blown away by the autumn wind, with some reluctant nostalgia.

When I looked again, the square was empty, but there was no one there.

(End of this chapter)