Ping Pong Life

Chapter 458 Abnormal Luo Jiu

On December 12, the table tennis women's singles and men's singles events were launched at the same time, with the women's singles at the front and the men's singles at the back.

In the singles competition, a total of 128 players from 56 associations around the world entered the main match, and then they still played one round in one day.

On the 13th, 128 into 64.

On the 14th, 64 into 32.

On the 15th, 32 into 16.

This schedule can be said to be quite easy. After three days, the top 16 will be decided. Although there are some upsets, in general, the so-called upsets are basically concentrated in the middle and low ranks.

For example, a player ranked more than 300 in the world beat a player ranked more than 100 in the world, or a player ranked more than 100 in the world defeated a player ranked more than 50 in the world. Naturally, it can be regarded as a shocking upset, and it is a matter of national honor, but in the entire table tennis industry, it is just like a slightly larger shrimp in the water farting a bunch of light farts. ripples.

After all, those well-recognized giants still maintain the momentum of winning all games, all small rounds, and a few rounds of haircuts. They are building up their momentum little by little, and are preparing to meet their number one enemy.

It is worth mentioning that the rule that "each association can only play a maximum of three players" is completely aimed at Huaping, but in fact, it is not without other associations that were accidentally injured.

For example, in Germany, there are actually four chariots that are being cultivated now, but because they have to choose three out of four, Qiu Shang gave up the men's singles.

Of course, because Qiu still has the men's doubles event, he must appear in the singles list of the German Table Tennis Association, so of course, he is a substitute player for the men's singles.

As for Sakura Country, there are actually many rising stars. Apart from Zhang Benkuang who is the main force of Iron Fighting, the other two also came to the fore after a tough domestic selection.

The same situation also happened in kimchi country women's table tennis, cherry blossom country women's table tennis, Swedish men's table tennis, Jindalai men's table tennis and other places.

Another rule of the foreign association is the "principle of avoidance of players from the same association".

Many years ago, in order to ensure the absolute fairness of the competition, the ITTF had this principle of avoidance, and its core content was only one: if two players from the same association were grouped together during the selection ceremony of an event, then according to this principle , the number of one of the players will be moved down sequentially to ensure that players from the same association try not to meet before the final.

Doing this is naturally to prevent players from the same association from killing each other, and to make loved ones hurt their enemies faster.

However, under the blessing of this principle, Huaping has won the championship and runner-up in various competitions for a long time, and often reaching the finals, it is already an all-in-one civil war. Therefore, at a certain meeting, the ITTF gave up. The principle of absolute fairness has canceled the "principle of avoidance of players from the same association".

Of course, they still relaxed the rules for the top players. For example, in this Olympic Games, at least the top 2 players in the world will be divided into the upper and lower halves, and the next top ten players in the world, Also try to assign them to different communities to ensure that they don't meet prematurely.

As a result, No. 1 Luo Jiu and No. 2 Wang Chao will never meet before the final.

Luo Jiu, ranked No. 1, and Sun Tianlong, ranked No. 4, will never meet before the semifinals.

Similarly, Hook, as No. 3 in the world, will never meet Wang Chao before the semifinals.

As for Lin Zijun, who is ranked 6th in the world, he will definitely not meet a player with a higher ranking than him before the top 8, but if Wang Chao and Hu Ke have not accidentally capsized before the top 8, then Lin Zijun will One of them is bound to come across.

After explaining this, let's briefly talk about which players were accidentally injured during the three-day race.

The most typical is Heathfield.

Heathfield is ranked 15th in the world, which is high enough, so the first two rounds were uneventful. However, in the third round, he lost the protection of the rules and met Bayer, a player from the same association.

If you meet Wolfe, Sissfield is actually worth fighting. After all, he now specializes in left-handed violence, which can be regarded as a path that has blazed a trail. Because he is too violent, even if his flaws are obvious, everyone knows How to hit him, but when it comes to fighting, few people can really catch his flaws.

But the opponent is Bayer, who is getting older and more bewitching. He is a technical master player with the best hand feeling, the most delicate ball in the table, and the top five ball control ability in the world.

So Sisfield was brutally played to death by Bayer. The audience was extremely aggrieved, and the violent left hand could not be used at all. Bayer pressed his forehand from the beginning to the end, just like Wang Chao used to press Sun Tianlong. , The landing points of the small balls are all concentrated near the bottom line of the forehand position, the goal is clear, the stand is firm, and there has never been a half-point deviation.

In the end, the top player Heathfield, who is fully qualified to enter the top 16, went to the top 32.

The other two who died more tragically were Gananaka, the elder brother of the Peacock Country, and Kazik, the elder brother of the Beautiful Country.

The strength of these two is just on the edge of the top 30 in the world, but because of the limited number of registrations, if they are only ranked among the contestants this time, they can actually be ranked around the 16th, which is a typical edge Characters, because of this, both of them are full of confidence and plan to make a good charge.

As a result, in the round of 32 to 16, Ghana Naka met Lin Zijun, Kazik met Wang Chao, and they all had a 0:4 resentment. They lost so much that they didn't even have any desire to struggle, and they just lay flat from the first round. up.

In addition, the Belarusian national treasure-level evergreen star Ochumelov was too old after all, and this time he was also upset, but it was not a strong player who defeated him, but a certain No. 80-ranked Greek veteran.

Finally, I must mention that the current Swedish No. 10 brother, K. Michel, who is ranked 17th in the world, lost to Sakura Country No. [-] brother, Zhang Benkuang, who just turned [-], under circumstances that no one expected. .

Michelle is the only top 16 player in the top 10 in the world, and the only world-recognized super-class player.

His defeat set off a huge storm in the table tennis world. Everyone was not surprised by his accidental miss, but by Zhang Benkuang's crazy outburst, because from the scene of this game, Michelle played really well. There was no problem at all, the reason why he lost was because Zhang Benkuang played too well.

This underage boy, whose ancestral home is in Western Sichuan Province, China, immigrated to Sakura Country with his father when he was young, changed his nationality, and became a naturalized player of Sakura Country. He was hailed as a supernova when he debuted. In the face of everyone, there was a rumor that Zhang Benkuang had encountered a professional crisis in Sakura. Even in Huaguo, many fans ridiculed him for forgetting his ancestors and admitting that a thief was his father, and expressed all kinds of "deserved" for what happened to him.

As for his unique talent "prestige", it even upset many people on the field, which almost ruined the popularity of passers-by.

But Zhang Benkuang did not really degenerate. He began to explode after a short period of silence. At the end of this year, he won the championship at the Dubai Platinum Station at the end of October. Then today, in front of fans all over the world, he came from the front. Defeated Michel, Sweden's current well-deserved first brother, who was placed high hopes by Lao Wa, completed the technical transformation.

If it is possible to say that winning the championship in Dubai may be due to the fact that there are no tigers in the mountains, then today's battle really showed his prestige and momentum, and it also made fans all over the world suddenly figure out a truth: why is Zhang Ben crazy? He has been losing all the time, but the Cherry Blossom National Table Tennis Association has always given him various opportunities to participate in various competitions, and even the Olympics have allowed him to play both men's singles and men's doubles?
In fact, Zhang Benkuang would have had the chance to have all three events if he hadn't lost to Yichuan Mima and Niwa Xiaoxi in the domestic qualifiers in the mixed doubles.

This is because, within the Cherry Blossom National Table Tennis Association, they have always been optimistic about Zhang Benkuang, and they have never wavered in the slightest.

This 17-year-old boy has a promising future. As he grows older, his strength continues to grow. From this moment on, he has truly entered the ranks of the world's top masters.

On the night of December 12th, the men's singles top 15 list was officially released. Except for a few unpopular players, all the familiar masters entered the list, including: Luo Jiu, Wang Chao, Sun Tianlong, Hu Ke, Lin Zijun, Bayer, Zhang Benkuang, Pique, Zhu Shixian, Arul, Wolf, Morad, and so on.

But that night, when extra training was supposed to take place before the competition, Luo Jiu left the Olympic Village.

In this regard, everyone said that it has long been no surprise.

In fact, from the first day of staying in the Olympic Village, Luo Jiu often went out. Of course, he did not violate discipline, because he asked He Jingping for leave every time, and He Jingping agreed without exception.

But there are differences: before that, he had to prepare for the men's doubles match. Luo Jiu only went out during non-training time, but he didn't dare to occupy the training time, because he couldn't delay his partner Sun Tianlong. This was the most basic professional ethics.

But now only the men's singles are left, and the men's singles is his own business, so Luo Jiu is even more unscrupulous. For the past three days, he has disappeared after dinner every day, and will not come back until the early morning of the next day.

As the head coach, Cai Guodong naturally knew about this kind of thing. He didn't say a word for the first three days. On the one hand, it was because He Jingping was Luo Jiu's teacher and he didn't want to do it for him. They are all small fish and shrimp, no matter how you fight, you will win, and it is difficult to be upset.

But in tomorrow's 16-to-8 match, Luo Jiu's opponent is not an ordinary person, but the only remaining seedling of the Swedish Table Tennis Association, Morad.

Considering that the Swedish top brother Michel has been upset, the Swedish Table Tennis Association must have become a real underdog at this time. This promising and talented blond brother Morad is very likely to be in the Tomorrow, unimaginable combat power will erupt.

What's more, there is undeniable news that the Swedish legend, Lao Wa, has come to Mexico City with the team at the invitation of the head coach Persson, stayed in the Olympic Village, and became a temporary national team of the Swedish Table Tennis Association. coach.

Don't forget that Morad was originally excavated and guided by Lao Wa. Even his strange polygonal racket was designed by Lao Wa himself.

Then what Morad will type tomorrow may be more scary than everyone imagined.

Under such circumstances, Lao Cai couldn't bear Luo Jiu's unrestrained and underestimating the enemy, so he went to visit He Jingping in person at night and asked, "Can Luo Jiu do it tomorrow?"

He Jingping nodded: "OK."

Cai Guodong waited for a long while, but He Jingping did not continue to talk, so he had to continue to ask: "You talk about it, how do you do it, he doesn't train at all every day, I don't know what to do."

He Jingping immediately showed a somewhat embarrassed expression, and said, "This... I don't know either, and I haven't gone out with him before."

Cai Guodong was choked by him for a long time before he said, "Then you still say he can do it?"

"Of course he can do it." He Jingping said as a matter of course: "Although I don't know how he has been training recently, I can tell that Xiao Jiu really wants to win. A player can't hide his desire to win, let alone He never hid from me at all."

Cai Guodong blinked.

He Jingping also blinked.

The atmosphere in the gymnasium was a little weird for a while, only the monotonous sound of ping-pong not far away when Wang Chao was practicing.

After a long time, Cai Guodong said: "Old He, is this how you usually teach your apprentices?"

He Jingping turned his head to look at Wang Chao, who was sweating profusely from practice, turned around, and nodded firmly: "Yes."

When these two words came out, there was a faint expression of embarrassment and deliberately pretending to be nonchalant, as if he didn't understand that Lao Cai was asking for responsibility, but instead pretended to be a comparison on the spot, and the blood pressure in Cai Guodong's body was forced to rise. many millimeters of mercury.

Cai Guodong is also a man of good self-cultivation, he was reprimanded by He Jingping, instead of getting angry, he started to think, and after a long time, he patted He Jingping on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Old He, I know what you teach disciples The method is different from the rest of us, and I don't know whether it's good or bad for you, so I won't point my fingers... Anyway, you can show me Luo Jiu, if something goes wrong with him , I’ll take you as a question.”

When it comes to the last sentence, the tone is still severe after all. It is obvious that the head coach is still very upset at the moment, and he is just relying on self-restraint.

He Jing nodded steadily. He didn't know whether he really didn't understand or pretended not to understand. He calmly sent the head coach out, and then his unchanging face collapsed, saying hello Said: "Stop, stop, Wang Chao, come here, ouch, I'm still in a panic, why don't we talk about your senior brother again?"

　Thanks to "A Yao yo" for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)