I traveled through time and became a cute girl, I just want to be a fun person

Chapter 320: Taking Advantage of Every Occasion to Extract Pain Value

In fact, according to common sense, a very young and unknown provincial team player like Jiang Yuan should play in the WTT youth series or the WTT branch series even if she is arranged to participate in the WTT series of competitions.

The points for the above two events are even lower than those of the WTT regular challenge. They are basically aimed at new stars and local masters in table tennis. Only by achieving outstanding results in these two events will you be eligible to go further.

In addition, many Chinese national players have already trained in the "World Youth Championship" when they were about the same age as Jiang Yuan. Although they cannot win the most prestigious singles championship, it will not be a problem for them to at least win a team championship or achieve good results in doubles.

After all, many national players started playing table tennis at the age of five or six. The talented ones will stand out in the youth competitions, and then be selected into the national team at the age of twelve or thirteen. This is the foundation of Chinese table tennis!

Therefore, players like Jiang Yuan who "realized the truth in Longchang" and "reached the highest level" at the age of fifteen and whose level improved by leaps and bounds are extremely rare in the entire table tennis world, and there is basically no precedent.

This naturally resulted in her resume being very pale. Only the provincial team coach who understood her level, and the national team coaching staff who were sent to observe her, knew how far her level had improved.

It was also because of the extraordinary potential she showed that a certain "fat guy who doesn't understand football" boss nodded and allowed her to skip the two lower-level WTT events and participate in the WTT Regular Challenge Jinyang Station, starting from the qualifying round.

Such a debut arrangement is basically unprecedented and will most likely never be repeated in the future, which is enough to show how much the bigwigs above value her.

Of course, if she fails to perform at the same level as in training matches in such formal professional competitions, and is just a "training match god of war" or "shock wave" with a bad mentality, then she will definitely not have such starting resources in the future, and will be thrown directly into the following feeder competitions and youth competitions for training.

What puzzled the coaches the most was that Jiang Yuan's playing style was so strange that it could be described as an "offensive kaleidoscope". Both her forehand and backhand attacks were very sharp, but her offense was so strong that she insisted on playing defensive chip shots!

In addition, although Jiang Yuan was a pure amateur, her foundation was extremely solid. Whether it was her frame or her steps, it was natural, as if she had received instruction from countless famous teachers since she started playing table tennis...

It can only be said that this is the power of practicing with the system, this "famous teacher". It is precisely because Jiang Yuan plays in an imaginative, unconventional and spiritual way that her ball path is very difficult to study!
Everyone knows that the reason why China's national table tennis team is so strong is that in addition to the extremely talented players themselves, the coaching staff and sparring team are very luxurious, especially those coaches who are good at studying foreign associations. Their presence can ensure that if China's absolute main players accidentally fail once, they will basically be able to win the second time they play.

And those sparring players can imitate the main opponents of the outsourced team according to the coach's arrangement and serve as sparring partners for the main players. In this way, when the main players play against the outsourced team again, it is basically equivalent to an "open-book exam".

The most abnormal thing about Jiang Yuan when she was serving as a sparring partner for the provincial team players was that she could imitate the style of any player at will and could switch between using her left and right hands. She could be called the "Kakashi of table tennis". It was as if she had opened the Sharingan and could force a 50-50 tie with anyone.

This kind of talent certainly dumbfounded those coaches with rich coaching experience. Generally, for up-and-coming players, one can often find a template for comparison, but for a player as weird as Jiang Yuan, how could there be a template?
Her undefinable playing style will give opponents a headache, because every time they play against her it will be like a "closed-book exam" and targeting her will be completely useless. She might be playing with her right hand and then switch to her left hand. What the hell is this?

Therefore, if you fight with Jiang Yuan, you can only rely on pure hard power to defeat her extremely flashy fighting style!
Of course, there are also self-willed coaches who want to correct her extremely weird playing style. Since she is so talented, why doesn't she specialize in one style, hone it to the extreme and then become invincible?

As long as she can fulfill her talent, she might become the new generation of the Chinese women's table tennis team. According to her age, she will just take over the position of the current "little devil" Sun Yingsha...

However, Jiang Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to the coach. She was not the kind of person who had no other way out except table tennis.

If a coach insisted on teaching her how to play correctly, she would just quit. Chinese table tennis didn't need her to save it anyway, and she didn't need the title of national player. She even thought that being a sparring partner was pretty good. As long as she had the opportunity to play against those masters, her skill progress bar would increase.

Jiang Yuan's reckless behavior directly left a self-willed coach speechless, especially after knowing that she was actually a player of the provincial figure skating team. What a bold move it was to play both table tennis and figure skating. The most ridiculous thing is that these are just her "hobbies"!
You're really using your hobby to challenge someone else's career, right? You're brave!
The key is that Jiang Yuan's academic performance is still so good. If he doesn't play basketball at all and takes the path of the college entrance examination, his future will be infinitely bright...

Of course, what made the coach dare not say any more was Jiang Yuan’s unfathomable background. She was the daughter of a chaebol and her hobby just happened to be table tennis. But he actually had to dictate how she played. Wasn’t this just trying to make her unhappy?
In front of that self-willed coach, Jiang Yuan fully demonstrated her eldest daughter's temper. In the beginning, they had clearly begged her to join the provincial team. If he had the courage, he could have just kicked her out. Anyway, she had already become familiar with those national players, and they were willing to practice with her. It didn't matter to her whether she had the identity of a provincial team player or not.

The phrase "strength comes from lack of desire" is the best way to describe her. In the end, the stubborn coach had to bow his head, and Jiang Yuan reaped the opponent's pain.

In fact, the Jiangzhou Province Table Tennis Team does have many top players, but facing the "Five Golden Flowers" who are firmly in the top five, they basically cannot make any impact. Jiang Yuan, this eccentric and unconventional player, has become the only hope of Jiangzhou Province!
In this case, the coaching staff of the Jiangzhou provincial team will definitely coax her. Geniuses are qualified to be willful, and competitive sports are winner-takes-all. As long as you can win, no one will make a fuss even if your playing style is weird.

In the Jinyang station of the WTT Regular Challenge, the top three main players of the Chinese men's and women's table tennis teams will not participate in the singles events. That is to say, three of the "Five Golden Flowers" of the women's table tennis team, namely Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Cheng Meng, will not play singles. The other two, Wang Yidi and Chen Xintong, will directly participate in the main competition as seeded players.

Basically, if nothing unexpected happens, Wang Yidi and Chen Xintong will definitely meet in the final. It can only be said that this is the quality of the five absolute main players of the Chinese women's table tennis team!
"Grand Slam" events with higher points often send out these "five golden flowers". They basically take the top four places directly. The unlucky ones who don't make it into the top four also lose the civil war.

The "Five Golden Flowers" are extremely strong. Perhaps the only thing that frustrates the national table tennis coaching staff is that these five female players are all right-handed, which makes it difficult for them to play doubles together. Anyone who knows a little about table tennis knows that for doubles, a left-hand and a right-hand combination is the most reasonable, and both positioning and receiving the ball are more comfortable.

Because of this, female left-wingers with a little potential will receive more resources, such as the player Kaiman from the Jiangzhou Provincial Team. As a female left-winger, she is very good at doubles. The mixed doubles "Animation Combination" formed with Ling Shidong has defeated the top mixed doubles combination "Shatou Combination" in China several times. Unfortunately, they are the classic domestic heavy punches and foreign wars. They are very good at "open book exams", but when they meet an unfamiliar mixed doubles combination, they are often beaten very badly and often overturned.

Therefore, this "anime combination" will definitely not be able to challenge the "Shatou combination". The latter combination is basically aiming for the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal. It is the combination that the Chinese table tennis coaching staff has high hopes for after the failure of the "news combination" of Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin in the last Olympics.

The "Shatou Combination" is also the traffic leader of the entire national table tennis team. They did not participate in the singles competition this time, but they participated in the mixed doubles competition in this stop. The above arrangement is also very obvious, which is to sell tickets. If the "Shatou Combination" is in the game on that day, the tickets will need to be snapped up.

Once the "Shatou Combination" is eliminated early in such a competition, the price of scalper tickets will plummet. However, in such small competitions, these two people will basically just play casually. If they encounter an external war, they will definitely win, but if they encounter a civil war, the chance of failure will be very high.

The time finally came for Jiang Yuan to play in the qualifying round. Although she was not yet a national team player, she was still fortunate enough to be a national player, took the same bus, and stayed in the same five-star hotel "Bingzhou Hotel".

Then Jiang Yuan saw how popular the top players in the national table tennis team were. Every time they got off the bus, went to the gym for training, or returned to the hotel, there would be many female fans around them, screaming for them and taking pictures for them.

This kind of posture basically replicates the entertainment industry, and there is no doubt that some leaders would like to see it happen. If there weren't these fanatical female fans, how could tickets for table tennis matches sell so well?
In the past, small table tennis competitions would not attract so many people's attention, let alone selling tickets that cost hundreds of dollars. It can be said that except for the Olympic Games held every four years, such small competitions would definitely not attract any attention.

Jiang Yuan is the youngest player participating in this regular challenge. The Japanese genius player Zhang Ben Miwa, who is also participating in this competition, is one year older than Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan also made full use of the advantage of his young age. Once the term "social terrorist" was introduced, he was mingled with the national table tennis players, calling them "brother" and "sister". It can be said that he was very likable and quickly became familiar with other masters.

This was also her first time appearing in the public eye. Of course, the female fans who followed the "Shatou Group" also noticed her, a fledgling young star.

Fans couldn't help but discuss privately -

"When did our national table tennis women's team get such a young player? She looks younger than Zhang Ben Miwa?"

"This girl's appearance is a bit too good. I thought Wang Tianyi was already very pretty, but compared to this girl, she is far inferior."

"She seems to have a good relationship with Qian Tianyi. They are both on the Jiangzhou provincial team, right? What competition did she participate in this time?"

"I checked and found out that she only participated in the women's singles event. She, Xu Yi, and Fan Shuhan, three of our women's players, had to play in the qualifying round. The latter two were also new generation players, but they looked much older than her."

"What the hell is the coaching staff doing? Even if this young player has outstanding talent, isn't it a bit of a hassle to just let her play in the WTT regular competition?"

"There's no need for our Chinese women's table tennis team to copy Japan's gimmick of using a genius girl. Even if Zhang Benmeiwa is a genius, she would be beaten to tears if she met our Sasa!"

"That's right, the so-called genius girls are all just marketing bullshit. Japan has Zhang Ben Miwa and Korea has Shin Yubin, they are all shock waves. In terms of real strength, the biggest threat is still Hayata Hina. She is now the world's number one female left-hander. Although she has fought with Sasa fifteen times and never won once... hehe."

"It's a pity that Hayata didn't come to participate this time. It seems that she went to participate in the Rio station. The Japanese players participating in the Jinyang station this time are Ito Mima, Kihara Miyu, Hirano Miu, Zhang Ben Miwa... All of them are from the Mei generation, which is okay."

"Although the Japanese women's team can beat our absolute main force, my rookies don't have much chance of winning against them. The talent on the women's side is a bit dwindling, and there are no super talents that will make people shine."

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Although these fans are basically here to chase the "Shatou Group", they are indeed very familiar with the current situation of the national table tennis team. Even the players who are ranked lower in the national table tennis team, they know them all.

Compared to the main competition, the two-day qualifying round received basically no attention. The huge Jinyang Binhe Sports Center was sparsely populated with spectators, and there was no cheering or support during the competition.

Jiang Yuan's opponent in the qualifying round was a player from Singapore, whose level was much lower than her teammates from the provincial team. However, she followed the principle of not wasting any energy and still used the tormenting style of play. Her main goal was to squeeze out the opponent's pain value, give the opponent hope of victory, and then ruthlessly wipe them out. It was estimated that the opponent would not even notice that she was controlling the score...

In this way, Jiang Yuan fought hard for five games, exhausted the opponent's physical strength, and "narrowly won" with a total score of 3 to 2 to enter the top 32 of the WTT Regular Challenge!
The first player she faced in the main competition was the powerful Japanese female national player - Mima Ito!
(End of this chapter)