The World Champion Pretended to Be a Passerby and Was Stunned by the Sixteen-year-old Me

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distant Europe.

Italy.

"Sakata-kun, the reporter who interviewed us yesterday wrote a report that seems to have spread all over the world..." The thin teenager said a little uneasy in his heart.

"Isn't this better? Let the world see the power of the Great Cherry Blossom Empire!" Sakata Takahiro laughed lightly.

"But……"

"Ono-kun! You have to remember your identity! We are the invincible Yamato nation!!" Sakata Takaki said solemnly.

"..." The skinny general was helpless and could only lower his head and say, "Hi!"

Squeak!

The bedroom door on the right by the window opens.

Kenta Matsudaira, who looked like a student, came out.

"Sakata-kun, are you going to the stadium to watch the game today?"

"The group stage is all weak, what's there to see."

Sakata Takahiro smiled and shook his head.

The competition system of the World Youth Championship is similar to that of the National Championships.

There will also be two stages of competition for singles.

The top 16 seeded players will directly advance to the second-stage knockout round.

The rest of the players need to participate in the first stage of the group stage.

The player who wins the top spot in the group will qualify.

All singles matches are best of 7 games.

Sakura Country swept the men's singles championship and the team championship of the last World Youth Championship.

In addition, several teenagers in the team are ranked very high.

Therefore, the four men's team players are all the top [-] seeds and directly advance to the second stage knockout.

For the women's team, two players participated in today's group stage.

The Dragon Country team next door.

For the men's team, Su Zhe, Fan Dong, Xiang Peng, and Xu Bin were among the four who participated in the singles competition.

Only the top seed Su Zhe directly advanced to the second round of the knockout.

The remaining 3 players need to start from the group stage.

As for the women's team, the results are much better.

The four of them all got tickets to the knockout rounds before the game.

The World Youth Championship, the full name of the ITTF World Youth Championship.

The race lasts seven days in total.

It opens on November [-]th and ends on the [-]th.

The first day is the group stage.

After the first place was decided, the next day began to draw lots for the knockout rounds.

The first four days were all singles matches.

Fifth and sixth day doubles.

Seventh day team competition.

Although it is a world class event.

But the players were actually not as many as they thought.

A total of 16 national teams have qualified for the competition, with a maximum of 4 players from each team registering.

Among the 16 teams, the host team Tai Li is automatically shortlisted.

12 teams qualified from the Intercontinental Junior Championships.

Among them, there are 3 in Asia, Europe, and Pan America, 2 in Africa, and 1 in Oceania.

The remaining 3 places will be determined according to the world ranking.

So in the men's singles project.

Except for the sixteen seeds.

Only forty-eight of the rest participated in the group stage.

Divide into four groups with twelve players in each group.

Only the first place in the group can advance to the second round.

Then, the twenty players in the second round continued to draw lots and were divided into four groups.

Each group of five people, two or two catch and fight, and the loser is eliminated.

One bye and two winners continue to draw lots to determine the winner (the number of byes is limited to one).

The two winners from each group are crossed against each other. (first pair second, second pair first)

The four who continue to win are the top four players.

Draw lots for the semi-finals until the final.

The group stage competition on the first day was still very fierce.

Twelve players in each group compete for a place to appear.

There are not many sports powerhouses in Europe.

However, small ball has never been their strong suit.

After a whole day of brutal duel, the players who advanced from the four groups were all Asian teenagers.

Long Guo, Fan Dong and Xiang Peng made the cut.

There are two others, two teenagers from the Southern Dynasty and the Marais.

Although Longguo's results in the World Youth Championships in the past two years were not ideal.

But still at the top level in the world.

It is normal to play two people in the group stage.

November [-], Rome time, nine in the morning.

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According to the schedule, the second round of singles knockout has officially started!

Twenty athletes should draw lots in order.

Among the three players of the Dragon Country team.

Fan Dong drew the first group.

Among the other four teenagers in the same group as him, only one is an athlete from the Southern Dynasty, and the other three are European players, and their strength is not strong.

Therefore, it can be said that it is very lucky, and it is drawn to the top lottery.

According to Fan Dong's strength, the top two will definitely be able to advance to the quarterfinals.

Another teenager Xiang Peng's lottery is not too bad.

in the third group.

In the same group, there is only one young player from Sakura Country who is a threat, and there is another Matthew player who came up in the group stage.

If you play well, qualifying is not difficult.

As for the much-anticipated Su Zhe.

Much less luck.

Even with Sakura Country's Sakata Takaki, the last World Youth Championship champion was assigned to the fourth group.

Also in the same group are the British players, the Sam players, and the host Italian players.

Another popular champion, Kenta Matsudaira, was assigned to the second group.

In fact, after the grouping is completed, the qualifying situation has become more clear.

Everyone who will qualify for each group will basically know who the players will be.

However, whether the first qualifying or the second qualifying still depends on the individual performances of the players on the field.

The playing field is huge.

The men's and women's arenas are separate.

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A total of eight groups of players will compete in round-robin competitions at the same time.

Fight for a long time.

finally.

Group [-]: Fan Dong, a player from Longguo, qualified first, and Li Chengzai, a teenager from the Southern Dynasties, came in second.

The second group: Sakura Country's Matsudaira Kentai easily won the first place, and the British teenager Bill had a difficult second qualifying.

Group [-]: Sakura Junior Junior Ono Xianzhang qualified first, Xiang Peng played a little bit and ranked second.Matthew, who advanced to the group stage, unfortunately lost.

The fourth group: As expected by most people, Su Zhe is the first, and Sakata Takaki is the second.

Su Zhe's strength was once again shown in front of everyone.

Before the game, the arrogant Sakata Takaki met two Su Zhes in the round robin, and both of them had their heads shaved.

Before the battle in the morning, Su Zhe also saw the report, so he didn't show mercy.