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

Chapter 326: Just a Hobby

The reporter who interviewed him did not find anything wrong with Jiang Yuan's answer. Instead, he felt that Jiang Yuan's ability to express himself was much stronger than that of ordinary contestants. At the same time, he appeared more confident and generous when facing the camera.

To be fair, these contestants give people a very good first impression. During interviews, they are most afraid of encountering contestants who are too aloof and cannot say a word for a long time, which is very torturous.

However, for the fans who were watching Jiang Yuan being interviewed in the live broadcast room, Jiang Yuan's answer contained a lot of information. Many fans were directly shocked.

"Fuck, is this true? I haven't used my left hand to play basketball for a long time, but when I used it at the critical moment, I killed Ito in seconds as easily as chopping melons and vegetables? Isn't this young player a little too Versailles?"

"When the draw came out and I found out my opponent was Ito, I felt lucky. How big is this guy's heart?"

"She seems to really find table tennis fun, and feels like a super pure player!"

"I feel like he's a bit like a big devil, always saying very arrogant things in a calm tone..."

"It's been a long time since I've seen a player who enjoys the game so much. Such professional players are probably born with big hearts. I'm really looking forward to her future!"

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The interview continued, and the reporters asked some common questions step by step, such as what it felt like to win this game, how the tactics were executed in the game, the outlook for the next game, what the goal of this tournament was, etc.

Jiang Yuan's answer was so comprehensive and flawless, which can be regarded as an innate talent. This kind of answer that makes everyone feel very comfortable to listen to is actually quite popular.

No matter which competitive sport, some players are strong but they cannot speak well during interviews. Naturally, they are not so popular with fans. They may even have some black spots because of their brainless answers. When the results are good, no one will pursue them, but once the results are not good, they will suffer backlash.

Jiang Yuan's demeanor, which can be called that of an official spokesperson, is very rare. As soon as you hear her speak, you can feel that her overall quality is quite high. She is not the kind of "rough person" with strong limbs and a simple mind.

As for the goal of this tournament, Jiang Yuan also used a classic joke from the e-sports circle. She smiled and said to the interview camera: "The goal is to win as many rounds as possible. Making it to the semi-finals will be considered a success!"

The joke about "even if the top four are successful" comes from the "Golden Left Hand" in the e-sports circle, who is always promising. Of course, he also has a nickname "Cowardly Hand". His game style is to bully the weak and attack with heavy punches. After marking the opponents as weak ones, he will show all kinds of killing skills. However, when it comes to the kind of competition between the strong opponents, he often becomes timid and just starts to mess around and hide.

Jiang Yuan's game style is certainly not the type of bullying weak opponents. Instead, she plays against the elite. The stronger the opponent, the more excited she will be, because she knows that when fighting against such a strong opponent, as long as she successfully completes a high-quality game, her skill progress bar will improve a lot.

This is like playing a game and fighting a high-level big BOSS. After winning, you will of course get better equipment and more experience points. No matter how you think about it, fighting such a big BOSS is more interesting than fighting small monsters.

Table tennis fans, some of whom are young and familiar with the e-sports circle, naturally got the joke instantly when they heard her answer and smiled knowingly.

As for the fans who don’t know this joke, they think that this young player who just defeated Ito Mima in an upset is quite pragmatic and humble, and does not aim too high.

Even though the top three players of the Chinese women's table tennis team did not participate in this regular challenge match, the following players did. Two of the "Five Golden Flowers", Wang Yidi and Chen Xintong, were both there, belonging to two different halves. If they want to reach the finals, they must break through the halves they are defending. How can a fledgling player possibly beat the absolute main force?
You know, in the field of women's professional table tennis, the toughest opponents are always the Chinese players. There are more variables in a civil war because they are teammates, the two sides are more familiar with each other, and the gap in strength is not big, so it is naturally hard to say who will win the game.

Jiang Yuan set her goal to reach the top four, which is why fans think she is very pragmatic. However, they don’t know that she is just joking. By then, even if she really meets the absolute main players in front of her, she will not be at all inferior.

Again, although Jiang Yuan doesn't care about winning or losing in this kind of professional competition, he will do his best when facing a strong opponent and will never be afraid before the battle.

After the reporters asked those standard post-match interview questions, some reporters who were very curious about her finally asked Jiang Yuan some personal questions, such as how old she was, what school she went to, whether she started playing basketball since she was a child, and what other sports she liked.

Jiang Yuan also answered the questions truthfully and openly without hiding anything. In fact, even if she didn't answer, as her fame in the table tennis circle grows, or even becomes an outsider, then everything will be revealed to the public.

As long as her strength continues to improve, she will definitely not always participate in such small competitions. The most famous and recognized events in the table tennis circle are the so-called "three major competitions", namely the World Cup, the World Table Tennis Championships, and the Olympic Games, especially the last two competitions, which are the most valuable. To achieve a Grand Slam in an individual event, it is necessary to collect the championship titles of these "three major competitions".

When Jiang Yuan shines in such a high-profile competition, she will definitely become popular due to her skills, appearance, identity and other factors. Nowadays, the traffic of stars in the sports circle is no worse than that in the entertainment circle, and their image in the public's mind is also much stronger than that of the entertainment circle. After all, they really have skills.

Of course, the public is actually quite disgusted with those who are not top-notch but like to engage in marketing, and they still do marketing, with high traffic and many fans. For example, a certain female athlete in the track and field circle is very good at pretending and showing off before the competition, but after the competition, her results are just so-so. It would be strange if the public did not dislike this.

After all, competitive sports are all about strength. As long as you can keep winning, it won't matter if there are some black spots in your private life. There will be great scholars to debate for you, like the NBA superstar "Lao Da" who once claimed that "Shaq did it too". Who cares what his private life is like? As long as he is strong enough and his fadeaway jump shot is as beautiful as a painting, he will still have fans all over the world.

After Jiang Yuan truthfully answered how old he was and which high school he attended, a reporter exclaimed and interrupted, "Jiang Yuan, aren't you training in a professional sports school? Why are you attending an ordinary full-time high school?"

"I go to a normal full-time high school. In order to participate in this competition, I have taken a few days off. When the competition is over, I have to go back to school. After all, I am only in the first year of high school and will have to take the college entrance examination in the future. As for training, I will take out my free time after class to go to the provincial team to serve as a sparring partner for the main players. The training effect is also very good." Jiang Yuan responded with a smile.

After receiving such a clear answer, the reporter who interrupted was completely stunned. China's table tennis project is a national system. Many professional players often start learning to play at the age of five or six. If they show talent from a young age and decide to go professional, they will go to professional sports schools to receive professional training, from municipal sports schools to provincial sports schools, and finally see if they can successfully enter the national team. If you can achieve results in the professional arena, you don't need to take the college entrance examination at all. Famous universities will not reject well-known athletes. As long as the athletes are willing, the universities will recruit them.

Therefore, top athletes will not worry about whether there is a good university to go to. The more famous the athlete is, the more favored they will be by top prestigious universities. It is a two-way process.

"So you are not the kind of professional player who has received the most professional training since childhood? Then what does table tennis mean to you?" the reporter couldn't help but ask.

"To be honest, it was an accident that I became a professional player. Table tennis is just a hobby for me..."

Jiang Yuan explained to reporters how she was discovered by a physical education teacher at school. It happened that the physical education teacher had a good relationship with the coach of the provincial team, so he recommended her to the provincial team for a trial.

The provincial team coach certainly hoped that Jiang Yuan could devote herself to training and hone her skills. With her talent, her future would be limitless. Unfortunately, Jiang Yuan decisively refused.

The reporters were all stunned when they heard this. It turned out that she was such a good table tennis player, but it was just a hobby?

Not to mention the reporters, the fans who were listening to her interview in the live studio were totally furious.

"Don't we all say that you shouldn't use your hobbies to challenge other people's careers? But Jiang Yuan actually did this?"

"Invisible pretense is the most deadly. He beat Ito Mima just by playing around. What a terrifying talent!"

"There really is such a wild talent in this world. If it wasn't discovered by the physical education teacher, she would never have become a professional player in her life, right?"

"I feel it's a bit too exaggerated. I don't really believe it. I must search her personal information later to see if she is talking nonsense!"

"The case is solved. No wonder her resume is so blank. She has never participated in any junior or youth competitions. She has not even appeared in the World Youth Championships. It's like she jumped out of a stone. It turns out that she didn't follow the traditional sports school path at all!"

"She attended Jiangzhou No. 1 High School, which seems to be the best key high school in the area. No wonder she showed such high personal qualities during the interview. I am not discriminating against athletes from sports schools. Their cultural level is indeed different from those who receive normal primary, secondary and university education."

"It seems that this young player is far from reaching her ceiling. With such explosive talent, I am even more looking forward to her future!"

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Jiang Yuan then answered the question about what other sports hobbies she had. For example, some table tennis players also like to play badminton, and some also like to play basketball, football, etc., but she answered that she also likes figure skating.

Neither the reporter who interviewed her nor the audience in the live broadcast room thought too much at this time. They thought that the "figure skating" she mentioned was a normal hobby different from table tennis. It is impossible for you, a big shot, to show off your hobby of figure skating in the professional arena, right?
That is too much and too unbelievable. Although there have indeed been "cross-season" athletes in history who have participated in both the Olympic Games and the Winter Olympics, such athletes are indeed too rare. Once they appear and have the strength to win the championship in two events, they are simply legends among legends, and their news value is astonishingly great!
Obviously, no one realized the seriousness of the matter at that time. At first, everyone thought that this "white, thin and beautiful" girl with top appearance was just a future star who had emerged in the field of table tennis...

The competition of this station will continue. Since Jiang Yuan "unexpectedly" defeated the famous Japanese player Ito Mima, who is a seeded player and the strongest in this quarter, this means that Jiang Yuan's next opponent will be relatively easy.

Her next opponent is Wu Yonglin, a main player of the Huaguo Xiangjiang team. She defeated a Singaporean player and entered the round of 5. She will play a BO match with Jiang Yuan in the round of , still in a best-of-five format.

To be honest, this player from the Hong Kong team is a little bit inferior to Ito Mima in terms of hard power, and she is not very famous. The most famous female player of the Hong Kong team is Du Kaiqin, and her mixed doubles combination with the "light of straight blade" Huang Zhenting is quite powerful.

After Jiang Yuan fought with the opponent, she even felt that the opponent's strength was not as good as her teammates in the provincial team. In fact, a special administrative region like Hong Kong can also be regarded as a special province, and they are all provincial teams, but Jiang Yuan's Jiangzhou Province has Qian Tianyi and Kaiman, who are left-handed generals who are second only to the "Five Golden Flowers" and are trained as the focus.

For this kind of "small monster" type opponent, she just used normal back-slicing style. As a result, it was not known whether it was because after she defeated Ito, the opponent was too afraid of her, or maybe she was not good at back-slicing. Except for a symbolic struggle in the first game, the opponent was directly defeated!

Jiang Yuan defeated her opponent 3-0 and advanced to the quarterfinals. Her next opponent is none other than Japan’s main player Miyu Kihara!

In the round of 16, Miyu Kihara defeated Chinese table tennis player Chen Yi with great momentum. If the normal scenario had followed, she would probably have competed with Ito Mima for the semi-finals. She also had a chance to beat Ito, and then would have faced the strongest Chinese player Chen Xintong in this half of the zone in the semi-finals.

In the other half of the group, the talented Japanese girl Miwa Zhang Ben unexpectedly suffered a setback. She lost to Chinese table tennis player Shi Xunyao with a big score of 1 to 3 and failed to reach the quarterfinals.

This made those viewers who were expecting Jiang Yuan, who was one year younger than Zhang Benmeiwa, to compete with the other talented girl quite disappointed...

But in fact, the two of them were not placed in the same half zone, which means that even if they meet, they can only make it to the finals. This possibility is too small. For a small competition like this with 400 points, Zhang Ben Miwa will not take it too seriously, so naturally she will not "explode", and it will be easy for her to fail when playing against the national table tennis team.

In the final analysis, Zhang Benmeihe's hard power is still not enough, but because she is very young, normally, she is in the second year of high school, but she can represent Japan to play in the Olympics, so many people praise her as a genius girl, and then these people very much hope that such a genius girl will appear in the national table tennis team...

(End of this chapter)