Ping Pong Life

Chapter 505 The storm of youth is coming, and there is no master in the world anymore

But now, the whole world can see that the so-called new four kings in the table tennis world are well-known, but against Wang Chao, no matter in terms of technology, mentality, or strength, they really have no advantage at all.

This is really the darkest night in table tennis so far, not even a shimmer of light can be seen.

In the past few years, the horror of the big devils is that they can be invincible after careful preparation.

But now, the scary thing about Wang Chao is that he can be invincible casually.

European fans have been touting Lin Zijun these years, thinking that he is the only ray of light in the dark night, but Sun Tianlong judged objectively, but felt that the real ray of light was Fan Xiaodong, because Fan Xiaodong had actually reached more finals, but Because he was also in Huaping, his light was completely covered up.

This year, Wang Chao undoubtedly won the year-end finals. The only thing worth mentioning is that his final opponent this time is Morad.

The former wrestling boy, relying on his strength and a little bit of luck, finally made it to the finals for the first time. In the previous rounds, Wang Chao had already eliminated Fan Xiaodong, Hu Ke and Lin Zijun. Qiu Shang, Michelle and Zhu Shixian lost the power suddenly in the semi-finals and lost to Morad.

Wang Chao defeated Morad with a 4:1 like controlling points, and won the championship of the year-end finals again.Counting, this is already his fourth year-end finals championship, which is another record, but compared to a series of glittering titles on his body, even this heavyweight title is a bit pale.

For example, the title of "Mvp Player of the Year in Table Tennis Super League" is definitely higher than the title of the year-end finals champion.

Although Luo Jiu retired this year, Spade Q bought the rising Lu Feiyang under Wang Chao's operation. They still won the final table tennis championship, and Wang Chao also undoubtedly won the annual table tennis championship. mvp player.

He is also the first player in history to win the honor.

If the rule of those big devil kings in the past were all selective, then what Wang Chao showed was the real "I want it all".

He never let go of a single award, and winning the championship has already made the fans a little bored. When many fans read the news, as long as they see table tennis-related words, their first reaction is "what kind of championship does Wang Chao win this time?" .

time goes by faster

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth year of Wang Chao's time travel.

In May of this year, Zhu Shixian, the first brother of Kimchi Country, announced his retirement. There was a lot of mourning in Kimchi. In the match, they were completely explosive. They defeated Qiu Shang in 25 of 16, and defeated Zhang Benkuang in 8 of 8. In the semi-finals, they even fought a tragic battle with Lin Zijun, and finally lost 4:4 due to exhaustion. Come.

Yingzhi's style of play was indeed too exhausting, and at this time, Lin Zijun's combat style with super speed was too fierce. Li Zhengzhi, who has the talent of "iron man", finally couldn't run anymore.

But the fans of Kimchi Country are very satisfied, because in their view, although Li Zhengzhi has always carried the title of "the world's number one cherry straight" in the past, he is actually a colored pen. Lin Zijun is really not ashamed at all, not to mention that he can even catch up with Lin Zijun who has a super attack speed by virtue of his running all over the field, so if he meets other people in the future, won't he be someone who can't be killed no matter how hard he fights? cockroach?

Facts have proved that no matter what nationality or country, there will always be someone who will come forward when the crisis is at stake. Li Zhengzhi has spent many years and has been silent for six years since his stunning debut at the age of 19. Now, after Zhu Shixian chose to give up, he learned from the painful experience and broke through. Cocoon into a butterfly, he showed an extremely good competitive state in the second half of the year at the Opens, and finally reached the 11th place in the world ranking, which is the highest position in his career. At the same time, he also Successfully entered the year-end finals at the end of the year.

As a result, the kimchi national table tennis world can finally stand upright when facing the old opponent Sakura country. You have Zhang Benkuang, I have Li Zhengzhi, and everyone is still on the same starting line.

What?You said Zhang Benkuang is better than Li Zhengzhi?What's the point of that, anyway, we can't beat Hu Ke, Lin Zijun and Fan Xiaodong, let alone Wang Chao, we are still in the same tier, brother, between fifty paces and one hundred paces, why is it too urgent?

Of course, what is really worth explaining this year is not the mere rise of Li Zhengzhi, but this year is similar to four years ago, and it is the most frequent cycle of events. There are World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup, the Olympic Games, and the National Games. Yes, and the Asian Cup.

But this year is not as high as 15 Opens as it was four years ago.

It is also because of this that Wang Chao can continue to compete at a high frequency.

A total of 10 open tournaments, Wang Chao participated in five times and won five gold medals, including three finals against Lin Zijun and two finals against Hu Ke, some of which were 4:1 and some of which were 4:2.

But the fans no longer speculated wildly because of 4:2. Everyone defaulted that Wang Chao was controlling points in a vicious way.

The reason why I didn't meet Fan Xiaodong in the Open this year is because Fan Xiaodong has officially become the second main player of Huaping. He and Wang Chao jointly took on the task of covering the bottom line and reached a new relationship of "the king does not see the king".

In the five open tournaments that Wang Chao did not participate in, Fan Xiaodong made it to the finals. He met Lin Zijun four times, won two and lost two, and met Hu Ke once and lost.

It was also this year, because Fan Xiaodong did not meet Wang Chao in the finals again, so Lin Zijun was highlighted more clearly, and his challenges in the finals were ruthlessly crushed again and again, which made him even more tragic. The only light in the dark night in the hearts of fans around the world.

But all the light can do is resist, but it can't stop anything from happening.

In July of the same year, Wang Chao led Fan Xiaodong and Wang Qin to win the World Cup team championship.

In September of the same year, Wang Chao fought again in the Olympic Games and won two gold medals in men's singles and mixed doubles. So far, he has completed the goal that Sun Tianlong failed to achieve when he was playing, and unlocked the unprecedented "Double Lap Grand Slam" achievement.

In November of the same year, Wang Chao won the men's singles gold medal in the National Games, and joined hands with the force who had become the main player of the national team at this time, leading the Hubei Provincial Team to win the team championship.

So far, the double-lap grand slam achievement has also been completed.

In January of the following year, according to the lunar calendar, it was still the sixth year of Wang Chao’s crossing. Wang Chao voluntarily abstained from the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. Finally, through a difficult direct cycle, Fan Xiaodong, Wu Li, and Bai Feng won the competition places.

This is the most intense World Table Tennis Championship in recent years. The reason is that there is no suppression from the big devil on the head, so the princes from all directions want to take the opportunity to take the top position.

Fan Xiaodong, Lin Zijun, Morad, Zhang Benkuang, Qiu Shang, Li Zhengzhi, Hu Ke, Wu Li, all these young players became the main theme of this World Table Tennis Championship. Human Hook easily crushed it.

This is really a brand new era. Compared with when Wang Chao first came to this world, those well-known figures have all disappeared from the arena, some chose to retire, and some never made it to the final stage of the top competition.

For example, Wolff and Sissfeld of Germany were both once ranked in the top 20 in the world, but now they are both blocked from the top eight.

After the youth storm swept through, Fan Xiaodong had the last laugh.

After being suppressed by Wang Chao for five full years, he finally won the first gold medal in the three major competitions in his career this year.

The final final was between Fan Xiaodong and Hooker. The game started at 03:30 in the morning of the imperial capital. Qin Huachang chose to stay up all night and live broadcast the whole process. That night, he put his hand on his chest, full of passion, talking endlessly, from the beginning to the end At the end, many fans who watched the live broadcast were a little surprised by his excited mood. They always felt that anchor Qin was a little different today.

When Fan Xiaodong won the championship, Qin Huachang even had some crystals in the corners of his eyes, faintly flickering under the fill light.

No one knew why Qin Huachang was so excited.

Only Sun Tianlong vaguely guessed something.

He remembered the scene when he and Wang Chao went to see his mentor two years ago. At that time, the mentor said that he would seek a championship for Fan Xiaodong from Wang Chao. Now, Wang Chao chose to withdraw from the World Table Tennis Championships for no reason. Ask for a chance.

However, given the opportunity, it is another matter whether he can seize it, so Qin Huachang was actually very nervous. He saw the international arena turbulent and masters emerged in large numbers, so he was naturally worried that Fan Xiaodong would miss the opportunity.

If you miss this time, the next time will be a few years later.

Fortunately, Fan Xiaodong seized the opportunity and had the last laugh.

In February of this year, when the year-end finals kicked off, Qin Huachang suddenly fell ill during the commentary game, temporarily shut down the broadcast, and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. There has been no news since then.

After the year-end finals, Sun Tianlong stopped Wang Chao, who had just won the championship, and said with a serious expression: "Come with me to Yangcheng again."

At that time, Wang Chao's heart skipped a beat, and he blurted out, "Ok."

He and Sun Tianlong saw Qin Huachang for the last time.

Roughly calculating, it has been six years since Qin Huachang was diagnosed with cancer and retired.

He had heart problems many years ago due to excessive thinking and various bad habits in life, and then as he continued to serve as an off-field coach, the heart problems continued to intensify because of the ups and downs on the field, but in the end, he The cause of death was not a heart attack, but a recurrence of lung cancer after surgery.

Qin Huachang still insisted on this before he left. He smiled and said: "My occupational disease as a coach is heart disease. As for lung cancer, it is purely caused by my liking for smoking, but I contracted it before I became a coach. I am addicted to smoking, so I don’t regret being a coach at all. I just blame myself. Why didn’t I quit smoking earlier? Obviously, Cai Guodong, who learned to smoke with me, quit when he said he would quit .”

At the end of the year, it was supposed to be a festive day for every household to celebrate the Spring Festival, but the news of Qin Huachang's death caused many people to choke with sobs.

Many people can't understand these ordinary fans' feelings for Qin Huachang, that's because they don't know how far-reaching impact Qin Huachang's live broadcast has on the promotion and literacy of table tennis. At least [-]% of the credit for the expansion of influence in the world lies with Qin Huachang alone.

As an event with a very high threshold and extremely difficult to watch, the difference between understanding and not understanding table tennis is probably between 1 and 100.

People who understand can feel unparalleled stimulation, physical collision, brainstorming, changing situation, and deep-seated calculations, but those who don't understand can only see a small ball flying around Go, even the ball is a little unclear.

What Qin Huachang did was to magnify the viewing experience of many fans by a hundred times.

In this world, only the top coaches of the Huaguo national team are qualified to do this.

For decades, only Qin Huachang chose to really do this, and persisted until the last moment of his life.

He left countless classic commentary scenes, even surpassing the famous scenes played by the players on the field, and his classic spoiler commentary has become a legend in the table tennis world, and no one will be able to successfully reproduce it in the future.

It is not an exaggeration to praise him as a master of the world.

Lao Qin is a well-known person, even if he dies, he must leave some news. In fact, he is a relatively dark and dirty person in his heart, but after his death, Qin Zhenyu dug out from the drawer of his live broadcast that he had written a long time ago. In the suicide note, there was an extremely majestic analysis and flaunting of himself in a high-sounding manner. When this suicide note was released to the world, it once again earned him a wave of eyeballs and tears.

He said in his suicide note: "I spent most of my life planning and planning. I cherished my broom and was caught in petty profits without knowing it. It was not until I was forced to retire due to a terminal illness that my mind became more open. This is the way of live broadcasting. Trying to spread the essence of table tennis to the whole world. Although it seems that Wang Chao alone is suppressing the contemporary table tennis world, in fact the world's top players are on the same page. The overall level of the world is significantly improved compared to when I was a coach ten years ago. I have learned a lot, and I should have contributed a lot to enlightenment.”

"In the future, Huaping may no longer have the dominance it used to have, but the table tennis world in the future should also be more prosperous and prosperous. I think that what I have done may not be due to Huaping, but it must be due to world table tennis. Sports, if that’s the case, this life is enough.”

This suicide note was translated into multiple languages ​​and spread all over the world. Many fans who fell in love with table tennis because of Qin Huachang cried bitterly. Afterwards, many professionals were inspired by Qin Huachang’s confession, either because of interests or because of belief. I chose to become a professional table tennis commentator, trying to repeat Qin Huachang's chapter of elegance.

However, the facts have proved that Lao Qin is indeed not something others can learn, whether it is his vision, knowledge, ability, or his unique pride, black belly, self-willedness during live broadcast, and even his dark, thin and ugly face. As far as they are concerned, no one can replace them.

The Yinqiu Flying Dance website lost anchor Qin, and the traffic on the main site dropped by half. Guo Yukun cried and fainted in the toilet.

When Wang Chao saw this suicide note, he could imagine Lao Qin's complacent look when he wrote the suicide note. This old man, even if he was about to die, would use his own death to make a name for himself. The brilliance to cover up his not bright heart.

Thinking of this, Wang Chao originally wanted to sneer, but in the end he smiled and burst into tears.

The relationship between him and Qin Huachang was full of calculations. Qin Huachang's only help to him was to help him win a chance to participate in Sakura Kingdom T2 at the beginning of the end. Two years ago, Qin Huachang asked him to show mercy to Fan Xiaodong's subordinates, and this secret war finally came to an end, and it ended with Lao Qin admitting defeat.

But it was just thinking of Lao Qin's surrender that made Wang Chao feel uncomfortable, because it represented Lao Qin's love and love for his disciple Fan Xiaodong from the beginning to the end. The earnest heart of the coaching career and even the talent training of Huaping.

He is not a good person, but he is definitely an undoubted good coach, a well-deserved top coach in the world.

He is the pride of Huaping.

At Qin Huachang's funeral, all the coaches and players of Huaping, as well as many retired coaches and former national team players were all present, and in the next few days, fans from all over the country and even the world came one after another. It is said that he earned enough face and exaggerated the posthumous glory to the extreme. This matter was logically included in the heavyweight sports news of the Yangcheng, Guangdong and provincial TV stations, as well as the CTS national TV station.

The ITTF even suspended an ongoing open tournament for one day as a memorial.

He is the first and most likely the last to receive such a posthumous honor as a retired coach and personal anchor.

This is a watershed, which represents the complete fading out of the old generation of Huaping. New talents are emerging from the wildfire one after another, enduring suppression, unswervingly determined, and tenaciously walking on the road of grabbing classes and seizing power.

In the seventh year of Wang Chao's crossing, Bai Feng chose to retire and stayed in the team to become the new coach of Wang's family.

This year, the German veteran Wolf met the 18-year-old Chinese table tennis player Wang Qin in the first round of the Danish Open, the first stop of the year. He was beaten 4-0 and announced his retirement on the spot after the match.

This is another foreign association player who was beaten to despair because of his age. His mental journey of retiring is exactly the same as that of Bayer back then.

On the same day, the Belarusian veteran Ochumelov in the first round of the race also met a young player from France, LeBron. This young player wears glasses and has a straight forehand. The traditional Chinese-style candy bar that almost no one practiced in Europe, he used a fierce style of play that Ochumelov was extremely uncomfortable with, and directly eliminated the seniors who were more than twice his age 4:0.

After the game, Ochumelov, who had already reached the fifth place, might have been stimulated by Orff. He was a bit sad, and he also chose to retire on the spot. He said this publicly: "I originally had Ambitious, I want to follow the example of Senior Ni Lilian and insist on playing, but the competition in the table tennis world has become more and more fierce in recent years. I feel obviously unable to do so in too many competitions. Old age can still enter the semi-finals and quarter-finals of various competitions in three days, but I can't do it, because the competition in men's table tennis is too fierce, far from being comparable to women's table tennis. If I fell to the point of qualifying, I might as well save myself the last bit of face."

The implication is that he doesn't want to retreat, he was forced to retreat.

(End of this chapter)