Ping Pong Life

Chapter 491 Brushing Records and Changing Partners

The minds of the coaches are all active.

The three major schools are rich and powerful, occupying the innate advantages of the main players, and don't care about small gains and losses in one city or one place, but ordinary coaches like them care about it. Since the big guys put the overall interests of Huaping as the most important thing today, then they These little shrimps, they should take the opportunity to put some more meat in their bowls.

"Liang Kunpeng signed up for Dubai." Chen Taolue was the first to stand up: "He made great progress last year. I hope he can at least get a good start in the quarter-finals in the first competition this year."

"Gao Mingyuan signed up for the New Zealand competition." Cheng Aimin quickly followed up: "His progress is not great enough, so the Platinum competition will not be considered. We focus on participation and experience, and hope to enter the main competition."

"Lu Feiyang signed up for the New Zealand competition." Qiu Yinong also followed quickly: "He has always said that he wants to find an opportunity to learn something from Wang Chao. I think it is good to go out to compete with Wang Chao this time and live in a room for easy communication. of."

He looked at Wang Chao, and Wang Chao nodded naturally with a smile. You must know that with Xiao Fei's retirement, Lu Feiyang is now the only remaining seedling of the lineage of the master uncle, and he must take good care of it no matter what.

This kind of love includes not only the dedicated guidance during the usual training, but also the merciless beatings encountered in the arena.

Although Xiao Fei was new to the job, he was not stage-frightened. He was the last one to raise his hand and tried to say, "I want to enroll my student Wang Qin in the men's singles competition in New Zealand, is that okay? Besides, Wang Qin's doubles ability is really He is very strong. In the last few months of last year, he cooperated with Kuai Wan of the women's team in private. Liu Wen and I personally practiced for them. The test results are also good. If it is convenient, can you give them a temporary training? Form a junior mixed doubles?"

Cai Guodong was quite surprised: "Is there such a thing? I remember that Wang Qin is only 13 years old this year, right? How about this, after the meeting is over, let's go and have a look together and let them play a friendly match with Feisha. If the game is really good, let them go to New Zealand to test the waters."

For the applications of these juniors, Cai Guodong usually agrees as much as possible, because in essence, the current strength of these people is not enough to change the general trend of an open competition, and it will not affect the overall layout of Huaping. Next, Huaping doesn't care about the travel expenses for a few more people to go abroad to compete, of course, they will give opportunities as much as possible.

Speaking of this, someone will ask, since Huaping is not short of one or two places, why did Fang Xiaobo, Yan Pingan and Zou Zhengyu be so harsh last year?
This is because Fang, Yan, and Zou are veterans who have been famous for many years and have won important world-class championships. Their loss will greatly damage the face of Huaping, while the rookie will lose no matter how much he loses. There will be no problems in this regard.

After the juniors finished signing up, it was the turn of the three main players, Lin Li, Bai Feng, and Fan Xiaodong.

The reason why they are left at the end is that these three people cannot sign up at will. Although they are not qualified to be the bottom-up people, they have enough ability to affect the progress of the game. Their lower limit is too high. , it is very likely to create a miracle and eliminate his own teammates.

For example, in last year's Huaguo Open, Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo broke out and eliminated Lin Li and Xiao Fei. It's about to fall aside.

Imagine if Fan Xiaodong exploded, wiped out Luo Jiu, who was at the bottom of his pocket, and then lost to Hu Ke, resulting in Hu Ke winning the championship in the end, would this make Huaping's coaches feel so aggrieved that they vomited blood?Will Hook sing "Thank You" on the spot?
At this time, Sun Tianlong spoke first and said, "Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong can participate in the New Zealand competition together."

Wang Lu followed and said, "Then Baifeng should sign up for the Dubai station."

Cai Guodong nodded in agreement without asking any further questions.

But in fact, this kind of allocation certainly has a deep meaning, but the Huaping coaches all have an exquisite heart, and there are some very simple reasons, which are tacitly understood by everyone, so there is no need to say it out.

The reason why Bai Feng went to Dubai is because since last year, he has shown far more hostility towards Wang Chao than Lin Li, and after being beaten by Wang Chao in succession, he has also shown a more tenacious fighting spirit, and he has not been depressed , still wants to take revenge, but before his strength has made great progress, he has no confidence in defeating Wang Chao, so he doesn't want to face Wang Chao at all.

So Wang Lu, who is a teacher, has already seen that unless Bai Feng has a super-evolution in the next few years, he must avoid Wang Chao strategically.

Since Wang Chao is going to New Zealand, then of course Bai Feng will go to Dubai.

It is precisely because Bai Feng went to Dubai that Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong chose to go to New Zealand, which is a normal diversion.

As for why Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong were bound to participate in the competition, it was because they were both disciples of the Qin Clan. If one was assigned to be with Bai Feng, it would become a state of internal competition between the Qin Clan and the Wang Clan. If you don't want to engage in this kind of meaningless internal competition, it's better not to meet at all.

With the confirmation of the personnel of the first two stops, the meeting process began to speed up, and the coaches began to speak freely.

After the lack of the intrigue and observation process in previous years, everyone found that the atmosphere of this kind of meeting is quite good, the efficiency has become higher, and it is not so troublesome, and there is no need to worry about accidentally stepping into a pit.

They half-truths and half-false humility to each other, trying to gain a good impression of "one hearted for the public" in front of the head coach. There is an illusion that high mountains and flowing water meet bosom friends, as if at this moment everyone has transformed into the ancient ancestors of the Yao, Shun and Yu eras, living a simple life of harmony in the world.

After finishing the Open, the Asian Cup and Asian Championships will follow.

The Asian Cup is held once a year. Sun Tianlong won the championship the year before last. Last year, Luo Jiu defeated Sun Tianlong to win the championship. As for this year, there is no doubt that Wang Chao is in charge of it.

The Asian Championships are held every two years. The year before last, Sun Tianlong won the championship. This time, Wang Chao is still in charge.

It's not that Luo Jiu can't afford this background, but because Wang Chao is walking on a broad road to create new records, so the entire coaching staff is inclined to let him create more records.

If he wins the Asian Cup, he will be the youngest Asian Cup champion in history.

If he wins the Asian Championships, he will be the youngest Asian Championships champion in history.

If he can still win the men's singles championship in the Asian Games table tennis event next year, then he will have another "Asian Grand Slam" title, and at the same time win the record of "fastest completion of the Asian Grand Slam".

Although this title is far less valuable than the world-class grand slam of the three major competitions, who would think too many titles?

In fact, on the current women's team, while chasing the Grand Slam, Liu Wen is still thinking about setting a record for the "Asian Cup Women's Singles Four Championships".

And if Jin Ling hadn't been bullied too badly by Shensha and Wang Yu last year, which made her discouraged, she originally wanted to break the record of "three consecutive championships in the Asian Championships".

It can only be said that there are too many records, and there are many kinds. Not only can you arrange and combine different categories, but you can also repeatedly brush the same category. The pursuit of records by competitive sports athletes is endless. This is understandable, but it is worth encouraging. .

After all the major competitions were allocated, Cai Guodong talked about another matter, which was about mixed doubles.

"Mixed doubles is undoubtedly the highlight of this year, but the attendance rate of the Tang Dynasty team cannot be too high this year." Cai Guodong smiled at this point, very proud, but also very helpless: "If the Tang Dynasty team continues to win like this , I’m afraid that the ITTF will cancel the mixed doubles event...Of course we have to win important championships, but in normal times, it’s okay to give way to other associations a little.”

In fact, although the ITTF changes the rules every few days, they still need to have a basic face. Once you propose a project and implement it, you can't easily veto it, otherwise you will really slap yourself in the face.

After all, when you proposed it, you claimed to have carried out rigorous scientific demonstrations, so if you want to abolish it now, isn’t it equivalent to admitting that what you said at the beginning was fart?
This is something that will discredit the ITTF and lose its prestige, and it will shake the foundation.

In the past, they changed the size and material of the ball, and changed the serving rules. Although they brought a lot of trouble to Huaping, once Huaping got used to it, their modifications became meaningless again. It was proposed to restore the original rules, but after protracted and difficult discussions within the ITTF, none of the revised rules have been abolished so far.

Because they know very well in their hearts that the prestige of the ITTF itself is on the verge of collapse under the crazy face-slapping of Huaping. The possibility of the Table Tennis Federation or the World Table Tennis Federation.

In short, don't look at them having fun, but in fact, the possibility of them canceling the mixed doubles is still very small.

The reason why they yelled wildly was because they lost too badly on this track, and they couldn't accept it. They needed Huaping to give them a little bit of sweetness, so that they could have a drink of soup.

So Cai Guodong followed suit, and in the new year, he planned to let the Tang Dynasty team rest first. Anyway, we still have two sets of spare tires, the Feisha combination and the Pluto combination, and they happened to go to the international arena to exercise.

The men's team's meeting was almost here, but the women's team's simultaneous meeting was much more heated than the men's team.

This is because the internal competition on the women's team is already more intense. Everyone's strength is similar, and no one has an overwhelming advantage, so no one will accept the other.

What's more, there is a unique and wonderful existence on the women's team: Tang Yuanyuan.

Tang Yuanyuan does not participate in women's singles or women's doubles. She only participates in mixed doubles and is only paired with Wang Chao.

So throughout this year, under the guidelines of "reducing the attendance rate of the Tang Dynasty team" proposed by Cai Guodong, her task has become too easy, which undoubtedly made many coaches feel dissatisfied.

Everyone has tried their best to stay in the national team, so why do you just stay here casually?
In fact, even Ge Miao, Tang Yuanyuan's teacher, felt a little embarrassed. She suggested that Tang Yuanyuan try to pick up the women's singles again.

Tang Yuanyuan was very obedient and tried hard to regain the women's singles, but after some attempts, she still couldn't, because her style of play had obvious traces of mixed doubles.

It’s fine if it’s a regular mixed doubles style, but she has followed a special style of play from the beginning. The way she cooperates with Wang Chao is different from any other pair of mixed doubles partners in the world. The various details formed in the process, and various processing methods that seem to be inconsistent with the ball, are actually completely used to adapt to Wang Chao's style of play.

In a sense, Wang Chao and Tangyuanyuan can be regarded as two non-standardized precision parts, they can fit perfectly, but taken out separately, this mixed doubles style of play is different from anyone else. It is not worthy to go together.

The reason why Wang Chao can play men's doubles and men's singles at the same time is because he has unparalleled talent. He does not need any fixed muscle memory, and he can freely switch between various playing modes and detailed habits.

But Tang Yuanyuan is not good, she is just an ordinary girl with a genius and strange power, not a cheating girl, she worked hard to change herself into a special appearance in order to cooperate with Wang Chao, now she can't reverse it, if you want to reverse it forcibly, Then it is very likely that when she regains the women's singles, she will lose the tacit understanding with Wang Chao.

So Wang Wendong had to weigh the interests: Is the Tangyuanyuan of a women's singles player valuable, or is the Tangyuanyuan of a mixed doubles player who can perfectly cooperate with Wang Chao valuable?

There is no doubt that mixed doubles is more promising.

Because before Tang Yuanyuan was paired with Wang Chao, her comprehensive strength in the women's singles could not compete with Shen Sha and Wang Yu. Although she won the women's singles gold medal at the Swedish Open last year by her own ability, that was Winning is due to her big heart, on-the-spot status and a little bit of luck, but it doesn't mean that her potential really exceeds that of Shen Sha and Wang Yu.

So Wang Wendong fell into a very difficult situation.

He did not object to letting Tang Yuanyuan stay in the women's team relaxedly, feeding them with delicious food and drink, after all, the national team is not short of such a spot.

What he is really worried about is that in terms of the competition rules of the three major competitions, last year's Olympic Games took the lead in making changes, requiring players participating in the mixed doubles event to sign up for singles, and this regulation did have a certain impact on Huaping.

Last year's Olympic women's singles candidates should have been Jin Ling, Liu Wen, and Shen Sha as the main candidates, and Wang Yu as the substitute. Because of this damn rule, in the end Wang Yu missed the Olympics, and Tang Yuanyuan took the substitute spot.

This caused substantial harm to Wang Yu.

In the future World Cup and World Table Tennis Championships, if the ITTF continues to change the rules in this way, the situation of Tangyuanyuan will become even more embarrassing.

The Olympics is at least a 3+1 model, and Tang Yuanyuan can also be used as a substitute.The World Table Tennis Championships is an invitational tournament. At that time, Tang Yuanyuan will not only take up the women's singles quota, but will also play for real. If she plays a round, she will not only lose face of Huaping, but also waste a precious spot in the three major competitions.

How to do this?

Wang Wendong remained calm at the meeting, but after the meeting ended, he called Wang Yu and Shen Sha's coaches and asked them to talk to He Jingping. There was only one point of discussion: Can you find a way to persuade Wang Chao to change partners?
(End of this chapter)