Ping Pong Life

Chapter 485 Ping-pong life in various poses

Another semi-final of the year-end finals ended with Hook defeating Lin Zijun 4:1.

This is the first time Hu Ke has defeated Lin Zijun after Lin Zijun mastered the super speed. This battle is very important for Hu Ke, and it clearly proves the significance of Hu Ke's choice to join the Table Tennis Super League.

While Hu Ke lost the possibility of defeating Luo Jiu, he made real progress.

No one can defeat Lin Zijun head-on in terms of speed. To win Lin Zijun must rely on strategy, tactics, skills and technical stability, not brute force.

Hook won this game, he is no longer a reckless man who plays with his body, but a real smart man who plays with the comprehensive ability of his mind and body. He already has an innate talent, It’s just that he lacked good enlightenment in the ping-pong desert of Brazil, which caused him to grow up for 20 years. Now, he has finally been pulled back, and he has become a seedling that grows healthy on the surface.

The reason for "on the surface" is because many things cannot be changed. His fundamental problems will still accompany him throughout his life. When he encounters an opponent who is too strong, his weaknesses will still be exposed.

He has only stabilized at a higher level, but he is not truly invulnerable.

But enough is enough.

Whether it is reaching the finals of the year-end finals or winning the MVP of the Ping Ping Super League, it is enough to make him the most successful professional table tennis player of the year.

It was this unprecedented success that endowed Hook with unrealistic fantasies, and he mustered up the courage to say a word in an interview before the final: "I know that I have a great disadvantage in the final, but I will do my best to fight for it." That slim chance."

Does it look quite humble?
But everyone in the Huaping coaching staff sneered after watching this interview, and then the most educated head coach Cai Guodong concluded with an old Chinese saying: "Hehe, it's really a summer insect."

Only the Huaping coaches with the best vision know how strong Wang Chao is now.

All the grand slams in the past have gone through a very tortuous road, and there are basically competitors of the same age, such as Liu Wen to Jin Ling, such as Xiao Fei to Sun Tianlong, but the big devils have won by taking Once champions have accumulated invincible confidence, and then turned confidence into strength, and achieved a great unity of spirit and spirit, they can finally widen the gap with competitors and achieve supremacy.

But Wang Chao did not take this path.

If other grand slams take the road of "seeking from outside" and need various incentives, then Wang Chao takes the road of "seeking from within". He only needs to practice behind closed doors, relying on such a single means , naturally relying on his unreasonable unparalleled talent to achieve the realm that others must use comprehensive means to achieve.

And when he reached the Olympic finals, in fact, he didn't need any invincible momentum, and there were no real competitors. He was one step ahead and achieved theoretical invincibility. Just tell the world the way.

With Wang Chao like this, Hu Ke actually dared to say that "the disadvantage is great" and "the chance is slim", he really has no self-knowledge.

He is clearly "disadvantaged" and "no chance at all".

In the next day's final, Wang Chao easily defeated Hu Ke 4:0.

Wang Chao didn't play hard this time, because there wasn't a black-bellied coach like Sun Tianlong secretly entrusting him to him, and Hu Ke, as an international friend who had been beaten badly by Luo Jiu in the past year, didn't care too much. Need to continue to feel the unevenness of the world, on the contrary, Hook is still a good friend of Wang Chao.

After all, everyone has beaten the force together, it can be regarded as one of the four irons in life.

所以四局比分分别是11：6，11：5，11：3，11：7。

It seems that the gap is quite obvious, but it is not a violent beating.

Only Hook knew how miserable he was.

He didn't even mobilize Wang Chao's true will to fight. He felt that Wang Chao was just playing calmly and step by step on the opposite side. He was neither excited nor serious, and he didn't pay much attention to it. He even softened his hands appropriately, which can be said to have given him enough face, allowing the most successful year of his career to end in a more dignified way.

Hook is a self-aware person. After the finals, he accepted an interview with Brazilian reporter Tavares. At that time, Tavares did not hear Qin Huachang’s live commentary because he was still on the scene. After understanding the game, this guy said enthusiastically: "Hook, today you faced Wang Chao, who is known as the most powerful demon king in Huaping history, and your performance was better than expected, even better than Sun Tianlong in the Olympic final. You have got more points, does this mean that your strength has surpassed that of Sun Tianlong a month ago? Regarding the next encounter with Wang Chao, do you want to take this opportunity to express your determination to the domestic fans who support you? ?”

Hu Ke looked at him quietly for a long time, finally sighed, and said: "Don't think about it, it's over. From now on, everyone will work hard for the runner-up."

Tavares was very surprised at that time, and wanted to persuade Hook to cheer up, but Hook didn't bother to talk to him, turned around and left.

So depressed, he uttered some words of complaint into the microphone, to the effect that the Chinese player Hu Ke was obviously too strong but lacked fighting spirit, while foreign associations such as Raulskov and his disciples had obvious strength. So ordinary yet so confident.

It wasn't until Tavares watched Qin Huachang's live commentary the next day that he realized that he had completely misread the game. He blushed with shame, and hurriedly posted a message to Hu Ke and the innocently mentioned Rolsko Husband and others apologize.

Raulskov didn't say anything. After all, he is a generation of famous coaches. His jealousy will only be directed at Huaping, who is stronger than him, and he will not look for a sense of presence in foreign reporters who can't understand a ball.

In short, there are many aftermaths in the year-end finals. For example, Fan Xiaodong lost to Xiao Linzi in the bronze medal match. There are many technical issues worthy of discussion. A mental and strategic breakthrough is required.

For another example, after Bayer returned to China, he announced something with lightning speed and jingle bells: he decided to retire, and a retirement ceremony was held in early March this year.

Later, he took the initiative to call Huaping and invited Wang Chao, Sun Tianlong and others to attend his retirement ceremony.

For the invitation of this European veteran with a truly noble character, everyone in Huaping gladly accepted the invitation.

Human beings are strange animals. Sometimes, it takes many years to decide on a matter, but sometimes, only through occasional emotional impulses, a crucial matter will be decided. At this time Bayer is exactly that.

More than a month ago, he still cheered up to participate in the Open, and wanted to grab points to enter the finals. He has a complete career plan, a future physical rehabilitation plan, and a complete analysis report on the current table tennis opponents. In fact, the plan is to play at least until the age of 40 like Ochumelov.

Even if he met Fan Xiaodong in the first round of the year-end finals and lost to Fan Xiaodong again, his fighting spirit was still alive.

He really decided to retire after watching Wang Chao beat Fan Xiaodong in the semi-finals.

He suddenly felt deeply exhausted. He saw the dark days in the future. Although he was sure that he could still occupy a place among the strongest in Europe, he was already tired and didn't want to hold on anymore.

Destroy it, tired.

He has a high spirit, unlike Wolf in his own country and Michel in Sweden, who are content to be kings and hegemons for a while. Although he looks gentle and refined, he always has great ambitions. The opponent he wants to defeat is always Hua. Ping, the reason why he has been able to hold on is because he always feels that there is still little hope, but now he feels that there is really no hope, so he chooses to give up.

It wasn't a good thing for him to leave, because the last few games of his career were lost badly.

He used to be Wang Wendong's old opponent, but later he achieved a record of losing dozens of games in the hands of Sun Tianlong, and then he was repeatedly defeated in the hands of Sun Tianlong's descendant Wang Chao, and finally he was defeated by Sun Tianlong's disciples three times in a row defeat.

Bayer is a very smart person. When he won the first World Cup men's singles championship in his career at the age of 19, he had an insight into the biggest weakness of Huaping: the internal competition is too fierce, which leads to the short career of outstanding athletes, and they must pass the overdraft of health. way to stay competitive.

So he has always had a good sense of proportion, ensuring that his body is running on a good and healthy track. He doesn't expect gains or losses in a moment or a place, but looks at the overall outcome. For example, I can't beat Wang Wendong, it's okay, Wang Wendong will eventually retire, and I can try to play his successor.

I can't beat Sun Tianlong, it's okay, no matter how invincible Sun Tianlong can last longer than me.

I can't beat Wang Chao, it's okay, Wang Chao will retire in ten years, but at that time I was only Ochumelov's age, and I could still play.

No matter how strong Huaping is, there will be ebbs and flows. It is impossible for every generation of big devils to be invincible. For example, Jin Ling of the women's team has become the most watery grand slam now?It can be seen that as long as you have patience, you can always wait until the day when Huaping weakens.

But Fan Xiaodong rose again.

Bayer really wanted to say "I can still survive", but he calculated his age and found that he really couldn't survive.

If you want to survive until Fan Xiaodong retires, you have to survive until you are 50 years old.

How many times will I be beaten violently in this long ten years?
Bayer was really tired of being beaten.

He saw that Fan Xiaodong was almost in tears when he was beaten by Wang Chao, it was really miserable, but what he felt at that moment was not joy and schadenfreude, but a deep sense of vigilance.

If it was Fan Xiaodong who was extremely proud of his youth, he would not be afraid.

But Fan Xiaodong was already so strong, but he was still beaten like this, he was beaten to death, and he doubted his life. This caused Fan Xiaodong to break through crazily under high pressure, train hard, and seek to become stronger.

Whether active or passive, in short, Fan Xiaodong will be forced to train crazily.

What is there to say?

"People who are stronger than you work harder than you."

how do you win
The 35-year-old Bayer can't be like a little boy, 16 hours a day of devil training, in fact, he only exercises for two hours a day, just to ensure the feel, and his hard power, in fact, has not been obvious since many years ago Improvement, most of the homework over the years has been analyzing specific opponents and formulating targeted strategies.

So he chose to retire while still retaining a bit of face.

After the news of Bayer's retirement spread around the world, the Belarusian evergreen veteran Ochumelov shouted to him from the air: "Thank you."

When Bayer saw this sentence, he was surfing the Internet while warming himself by the fire in his big warm house. The three short words came into his eyes, and he almost burst into tears.

He knew that Ochumelov understood him. After all, everyone was a veteran who had worked hard in foreign associations for so many years.

Ochumelov said that he worked hard because Ochumelov always knew what his goal was.

Persistence with Huaping as the goal will of course be extremely hard.

On the other hand, Ochumelov only aims to be number one in the country, which is a typical utilitarian thinking mode. He insists on playing just to ensure that he has enough reputation, status, prestige and exposure in the table tennis world, so as to ensure that he can win every year. I can get enough competition prize money, advertising revenue and various professional and non-professional announcements, but I have already left behind the dream of "beating Huaping" when I was young.

Doing salted fish is always happier.

So the 43-year-old Ochumelov will continue to play, while the 35-year-old Bayer chooses to leave.

This is the epitome of real sports. There are various forms of life in table tennis. Compared with other industries, the life plan of sports players is relatively simple and clear. The weak may change careers, but the strong will continue to play until they can no longer play. Switch careers to be a coach, still shine in the industry I like, and use my own power to help the entire industry thrive.

Every ping-pong life represents a professional player's deep love for his career. Although everyone intends to be difficult, they still have no regrets. Even if there is an afterlife, if you still remember the obsession in this life, the next life will also Then invest in it to realize the dream that was once impossible to realize.

They may have also had a dream. In the dream, they have unparalleled talent and wisdom, crushing all super geniuses in the world, and reaching heights that they dare not even dream of.

Isn't that what Wang Chao of this world did?The difference is that others can only dream, but he has the opportunity to realize his dream.

I still remember that last year, Bay Island veteran Zhuang Huishen retired. Both Ochumelov and Grandma Ni from Luxembourg spoke publicly, and their tone was full of some kind of self-showing. But this time Bayer retired, Ochumelov was rare It showed a bit of sorrow for the death of a rabbit, and Grandma Ni didn't speak from the beginning to the end.

In fact, this also means that everyone has a mirror in their hearts, and can clearly see this complicated table tennis world, who really has dreams, who just wants to be peaceful, who is hardworking, and who is numb , who is even moisturizing, everyone can see clearly.

(End of this chapter)