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

Chapter 330: My Sixteen-Year-Old Self
The day of the WTT Regular Challenge Women's Singles Final was scheduled for Sunday evening.

Jinyang Binhe Sports Center was packed that night, which shows how much attention this final attracted!
You know, if it is other regular challenge matches, even in the singles finals, as long as there are no high-traffic players on either side of the finals, the audience on site will generally be sparse, and it will be impossible to have today's grand occasion.

This also shows from the side how eye-catching Jiang Yuan's professional debut was, as he showed his dark horse status.

In addition to the fans who went to the scene to join in the fun, her popularity on the Internet was also very high, almost to the point of being out of the circle, attracting many viewers who are interested in sports but don't usually pay much attention to table tennis events.

Wang Daqiang is such a spectator. He is a college student who just graduated and is still in the internship period. His usual hobby is watching various sports events.

He has a wide range of interests, whether it is football, basketball, or even F1 racing, boxing championships, etc., he can watch them with gusto and knows the top players in those events like the back of his hand.

However, he doesn't usually watch much of China's national sport, table tennis. He almost always pays attention to it only during the Olympics. If he has time, he will watch the process and occasionally see how the Chinese national table tennis team beats the weaker opponents, which is quite interesting. It is a kind of stable happiness. But more often, he only pays attention to the results.

In his impression, table tennis is too stable, just like China's diving "Dream Team", which is a must-win gold medal in the Olympics. If one of the events loses the gold medal, it will get higher traffic, just like the mixed doubles silver medal in the last Olympics.

Perhaps it is precisely because there is no suspense in this event that he is too lazy to watch the process. If there is no suspense at all in competitive sports, there will naturally be a lack of highlights. The most exciting game is always a dialogue between two evenly matched strong teams.

Plus, table tennis matches are not as exciting as those big ball games. As a sports fan who attaches great importance to the excitement of the game, he naturally watches less of it.

In his mind, the most interesting women's sports event is actually the women's volleyball team. Compared with the "killer volleyball" of the men's volleyball team, the back and forth of the women's volleyball team is really interesting. And there are also long-legged young ladies from various countries to watch. The Chinese women's volleyball team is also very competitive and can often bring surprises in major competitions.

Women's tennis is also good, especially when Sharapova was active on the court. Her screams every time she hit the ball were so exciting!
Then there is the figure skating in the Winter Olympics, which he also thinks is very entertaining. Although he has no artistic talent, he also thinks it is wonderful to simply watch those beautiful girls in beautiful figure skating costumes performing various difficult moves on the ice. It's just a pity that Chinese women's figure skating has been declining for a long time...

As a Chinese, when he watches these sports events, of course he hopes that the Chinese athletes can achieve good results, so that he can feel involved.

To sum up, Wang Daqiang has discovered that the women's events he likes to watch seem to be those with an average high appearance.

In fact, he used to like watching women's gymnastics, but in recent years, women's gymnastics has been taking the difficult muscular route, and it is lacking in beauty.

This time, Wang Daqiang paid attention to a small competition in the table tennis event. The reason, of course, was that he saw many sports event enthusiasts on the "Hupu Forum" that he often visited, promoting the talented and beautiful girl player Jiang Yuan.

Then he naturally saw a beautiful picture of Jiang Yuan wearing the national table tennis team uniform and a sports skirt.

She looked so young and immature, yet she looked so elegant, calm and indifferent as she stood in front of the table holding a racket.

Wang Daqiang believed that he was attracted by the temperament displayed by the other party, not because the other party had a top-notch, pitiful first love face...

When the game started that night, he sat on the sofa, turned on Migu Sports, projected the official live broadcast room's screen onto the TV in the living room, prepared snacks and drinks, and then happily watched the women's singles final.

Although before the game, those netizens who knew about football had vowed that it was unlikely that Jiang Yuan would be blacklisted forever, Wang Daqiang inexplicably believed in Jiang Yuan and he also supported Jiang Yuan unconditionally!

When he watches various sports events, what he likes to see most is the underdog defeating the strong!
Besides, there is no way around it, this is a world where looks matter. Jiang Yuan's opponent, Wang Yidi, is indeed average-looking, and fits Wang Daqiang's stereotype of the Chinese women's table tennis team very well - they are basically tomboys with short hair, and their playing style is also very aggressive.

Jiang Yuan’s painting style is very different from other first-line Chinese female players. This is why she is very popular, especially among male fans. Who doesn’t want to see a top-notch female player perform?

There is no doubt that the table tennis circle now has more female fans, especially in the fan circle. Anyone who has been to the scene will know how large the proportion of female fans is. The cheers at the scene are almost all female voices. They follow the game of the players they like as if they were following a star concert...

This time, contrary to the norm, there were more male spectators coming to watch the women's singles final, which is undoubtedly something that the top leaders of the national table tennis team are happy to see. Now that the Shatou combination is taking advantage of the female fans of the CP, if Jiang Yuan can be brought out in the future to take advantage of the male fans, wouldn't that be a huge win?
At this time, Jiang Yuan and Wang Yidi began to practice warm-up, that is, they were located diagonally opposite each other and kept returning the ball with forehand or backhand.

Wang Yidi's expression was very serious, and it was obvious that she took the final of this competition very seriously. Even if it was a small competition, she would not show any mercy as long as there was a chance of winning.

And because the final was a civil war and all the players were from China, Wang Yidi did not have any psychological burden, which allowed her to bring out her maximum potential.

After practicing, the two came to the referee to bet on who would serve first, and then checked each other's rackets.

Chinese players generally use standard rackets, DHS brand. Since many players admire Team Long, they like to use "Kuang Hurricane Dragon" rackets, which have Team Long's portrait printed on the handle.

Jiang Yuan's racket was not a standard one, but one she exchanged from the system mall by spending a small amount of "pain value" gold coins. Although it was a blank equipment with no attribute bonus, it was a system product and was the most suitable for her to use, equivalent to being tailor-made for her.

Wang Yidi casually checked Jiang Yuan's racket. Although she was a little curious about the brand of the racket, which was obviously not the DHS brand they usually used, she did not raise any objections. After both parties finished the inspection, they returned the rackets to each other.

There seems to be a legendary "equipment master" in the table tennis circle, referring to those who are not very good at playing table tennis but like to study equipment. They even make the rackets themselves. This is the classic example of "poor students have a lot of stationery".

Next, the much-anticipated women's singles final officially begins!
Wang Yidi can be said to have made a good start. Her concentration was visibly evident and her condition was obviously very good. She served first and chose to attack in the first three balls. She took the initiative to move sideways and return the ball with great force, which directly gave Jiang Yuan, who was slightly less prepared, a warning!

It can only be said that Wang Yidi's playing style is different from the opponents Jiang Yuan has encountered before in this tournament. Ito Mima is very strong, but her opponent is not a power player, but a smart one, and also a smart one. The opponent in the semi-finals, Chen Xintong, is not a power player who hits hard and rushes hard, but a speed player. Chen Xintong is easier to play than Ito Mima. On the one hand, she is not fully mobilized, and on the other hand, her changes are actually less than Ito, so playing slice seems to be more difficult.

Choppers are afraid of players who have high-quality boards and many variations in their shots. Sun Yingsha, the top player of the Chinese women's table tennis team, has this style. Her forehand is very strong and her shots are very explosive. However, when playing against choppers, she does not just hit hard, but instead uses various variations, which can often make choppers easy to play with.

Wang Yidi is one of those players who has a good quality single board, but lacks variety in her playing style. She is too lazy to use her brain, and her main strategy is “great force makes miracles happen”!
It's true that Jiang Yuan's soft-to-hard chopping style of play was put at a disadvantage right from the start when he encountered this unreasonable "powerful force works miracles" style of play.

The opponent's strength was too great, so it was difficult for her to return the ball with high quality. As a result, the mediocre quality of the return ball would naturally allow the opponent to hit the ball with more force and at a more tricky angle. She would fall into this vicious cycle and losing points was inevitable.

Jiang Yuan's right-handed chopping style of play, after all, is only at the expert level of Lv4 in table tennis. Only by obtaining the "left-handed" entry bonus can her skill level be fully raised. It seems that if she wants to challenge for the championship today, she can only unlock the seal again...

Many of the audience members at the scene shouted in unison to cheer for Jiang Yuan at the beginning, but she fell behind at the start, and those new fans who came here because of her reputation were a little disappointed, and their cheers were almost silenced.

The barrage in the live broadcast room of the event is of this style:

"As expected of a master of civil war, Wang Yidi is really ruthless!"

"Wang Yidi is really too cruel. She plays much more fiercely than the gentle Chen Xintong before. When will she be able to be so fierce when playing against the Japanese women's table tennis team? Haha."

"She played too enthusiastically today. She clenched her fist and shouted every time she won a ball. It's like I'm timid in foreign battles, but I punch hard in domestic battles, right?"

"In the wonderful replay of the game just now, her eyes were so fierce, and her desire to win was so strong that it exploded. I couldn't bear to watch Jiang Yuan being ruthlessly destroyed next..."

"I still hope that Jiang Yuan can create a miracle. I hope it will be this scenario - Jiang Yuan has a bad start, Jiang Yuan makes many stupid moves, Jiang Yuan is in a tough battle, Jiang Yuan is struggling to death, and Jiang Yuan releases a victory speech!"

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Wang Daqiang, who was watching in front of the TV, frowned as the game progressed. Although he didn't watch much table tennis and didn't understand the techniques and tactics of the game, he could see that in the final, Wang Yidi's side was visibly more powerful!
Wang Yidi would clench his fist and shout after winning almost every ball to boost his momentum, but Jiang Yuan played too passively. Even if he scored, it was basically because the opponent took the initiative and made mistakes.

In the first two games, Wang Yidi, in high spirits, took a 11-8 lead with scores of 14-12 and 2-0. Fortunately, the final was a best-of-seven format, otherwise Jiang Yuan would have been on the edge of the cliff.

But even so, there was no anxiety on Jiang Yuan's face, and she still looked quite calm.

In the official live broadcast room of the event, during the interval between two rounds of the game, "Big Devil" Zhang Yining commented under the host's message: "Xiao Jiang can't keep playing like this. Although her performance in the second round has adapted to the high-quality and powerful returns to Da Di in the first round, and the quality of her sliced ​​returns has improved significantly, she is still too conservative and passive. It can be seen that she still wants to wait for the opponent to tire out through defensive counterattacks, but the problem is that Da Di's physical reserves are unique. Her previous 'one trick to conquer everything' style of play is likely to hit a wall."

Zhang Yining is worthy of being called the "Big Devil". Her comments are very accurate. She personally admires Jiang Yuan's style of play. She also played a defensive counterattack style back then, but no one could beat her...

Guo Yue, the former talented girl, showed her low emotional intelligence again: "I feel that watching Xiao Jiang play is a bit too frustrating, it's like he plays like a turtle. This kind of play against Da Di will only make Da Di more and more excited and more and more relaxed. I didn't do my homework in the last semi-final. Later, many fans sent me private messages saying that Xiao Jiang's left hand is the dominant hand, and his style is like mine back then. Haha, this is hard for me to imagine. When I played back then, I was definitely not a turtle!"

There was an inexplicable hint of schadenfreude in Guo Yue's words, and at the same time, it was clear in her heart that she was more inclined towards Wang Yidi. After all, she was still proud in her bones. Although her historical status was not high, her amazing talent when she was young was indeed unique. Now that a talented girl has appeared, the other party's fans want to touch her, so of course she is unhappy.

When Zhang Yining heard Guo Yue say this, she glared at him speechlessly, but she was also used to his style. After all, he was so arrogant that he didn't even give Wang Nan face. In the final analysis, character determines destiny. So what if he is talented? In the end, he didn't fully realize his talent.

Jiang Yuan still did not unblock her left-handed form, but she took the initiative to strengthen her offense in the third game. Her original style of play was a combination of attack and defense. This change in style caught Wang Yidi off guard, and she won the game with a score of 11 to 9.

In the fourth game, Wang Yidi, who was still full of energy, still hadn't adapted to Jiang Yuan's more offensive style of chopping the ball, but luck was on her side. They fought to a 11-all tie, but Wang Yidi won the crucial game with a net and an edge shot with a score of 12 to 10, leading the overall score 3 to 1.

Although Wang Yidi won this game in a thrilling way, winning is winning, and sometimes luck is also part of strength.

Just like that, Jiang Yuan was completely standing on the edge of the cliff. Wang Yidi only needed to win one more game to win the championship, but if Jiang Yuan wanted to win the championship, he had to win three games in a row!

Before the start of the fifth game, Jiang Yuan finally took off the wrist guard on his left hand and directly activated the left-hand demon armed form!
Her playing style has also completely changed...

Guo Yue, a guest in the live broadcast room of the event, was stunned when she saw Jiang Yuan’s style had changed drastically, and her eyes were full of nostalgia.

Guo Yue, who is already 36 years old and has retired for ten years, looks at Jiang Yuan at this moment and his eyes are full of his 16-year-old self.

No, this is actually not rigorous enough, because Jiang Yuan is now younger than when she first shone in the world of professional table tennis.

Inexplicably, Guo Yue was completely touched. Tears welled up in his eyes for some reason, and his "pain value" was produced like crazy!

(End of this chapter)