At 3:30 pm on September 29th, one and a half hours after the start of the game, the result of the game far away Western Sichuan Province Tianfu City came out.
Xiang River Club 3:1 easily defeated Duck Head Club. The new king of the team, Hu Buming, played as the third single in this campaign and scored two points, one single and one double, helping Xiangshui River complete its three consecutive victories in the near future.
So far, Xiangshui River has a total record of seven wins and three losses. The three losses were against Poseidon Club, Black Spade Q Club and Jingyuewan Club.
Another hour later, at 4:20 pm, the result of Bingcheng City's game was also announced.
Black Spade Q Club 3: Defeated Bingcheng Pharmaceutical Club by 2, winning 10 consecutive games this season and ranking first in the standings with Poseidon Club.
Bingcheng Pharmaceutical did not give up after losing the doubles, they still put up a tough resistance.
In the fourth game, Ma Hui met Geng Shuai, who was playing for the second time. This was the most difficult and evenly matched game today.
Geng Shuai was determined to break the iron rule that he could only win one game. He tried his best to concentrate and even used various means to force himself, such as pinching his palms, biting the tip of his tongue, shaking his head, pausing, and slapping himself.
Ma Hui was not willing to lose two points in a row on himself. He also fought hard, ran all over the field, and made crazy saves. Facing Geng Shuai's powerful attack, he resisted in an extremely awkward manner, leaping to save many times, falling to the ground many times, and even applied for a five-minute temporary bandage because his knee was punctured.
In the end, Ma Hui was desperate and started to hit high balls.
Like Yang Yingzi, he is shameless and just wants to win.
Geng Shuai tried to crack it by closing his eyes and predicting it, but after all, he had just practiced this trick recently, so the error was too big, and his willpower had been stretched to the limit, so in the end, he still collapsed.
He was once again defeated by his physical fear. Although there was no psychological shadow again, he at least lost the game in front of him.
The game ended up being tied at 3:2. Geng Shuai failed to complete the final redemption. He lost the decisive game 11:9.
Therefore, the final victory or defeat fell on both sides of the fifth game.
Wang Chao vs Yang Yingzi.
It's actually quite a coincidence.
Yang Yingzi is the strongest Bingcheng Pharmaceutical.
As for Wang Chao, although he cannot be a single player due to the athlete classification system, he has long been considered by the outside world to be the real single player in the Spade Q team.
This is a fateful match.
The strongest player Bingcheng Pharmaceutical, Yang Yingzi, is destined to have his fate in the hands of the two strong players Spade Q.
If he can win Wang Chao, he can complete the final redemption, proving that Bingcheng Pharmaceutical is indeed slightly better than Spade Q.
If he loses to Wang Chao, then Bingcheng Pharmaceutical will be completely defeated. There is no need to make excuses, because the strongest player in Bingcheng Pharmaceutical cannot even defeat the second strongest player in the Spade Q team. This is an absolute crushing at the level.
Yang Yingzi really worked hard in this game.
He was fighting from start to finish.
Facing an opponent who was 11 years younger than him, he put himself in the position of junior and challenger, playing Wang Chao as Great Demon King.
However, reality is not a novel after all, and desperate efforts do not mean a real explosion of the small universe.
Yang Yingzi's success rate in fighting is not high, not even more than 50%.
The defensive power displayed by Wang Chao was too strong. He blocked almost all the balls that Yang Yingzi succeeded in fighting.
Can't be beaten to death.
Completely unkillable.
Yang Yingzi felt that he was facing an iron wall, invulnerable and impeccable. He attacked, attacked, and attacked again, fighting as fiercely as a tiger. The final score was 11:2 in the first game, 11:4 in the second game, and 11:1 in the third game.
The disparity in the score is shocking.
Wang Chao basically didn't attack much. He relied on Yang Yingzi's mistakes and his own pure defense to easily win the final game.
In fact, if he played Yang Yingzi normally, he would not lose so miserably. He is fully capable of beating Wang Chao, and the score should be 11:7, 11:8, 11:9.
But he wanted to win, so he lost even more miserably.
It was his choice: to create a miracle or to fail miserably.
The Bingcheng City Olympic Sports Center was completely silent during this game. All the spectators sat in their seats, and no sound was made for a full fifteen minutes.
They watched in silence the hysterical struggle of 29-year-old Yang Yingzi, as if they were watching a hero dying tragically. Some emotional female viewers even covered their mouths with their hands, their eyes red.
When the game ended, after a few seconds of silence, the audience suddenly burst into unprecedented warm applause. Everyone stood up and applauded, but no one cheered or shouted any slogans.
Because the audience didn't know what to shout.
The team they supported lost miserably, and almost even the last fig leaf was torn off by Spade Q.
Yang Yingzi's lob in the first game and Ma Hui's lob in the fourth game should have been reviled by them.
Spade Q should have been scolded by them for taking advantage of others in the third game.
But by the time the fifth game was over, everyone had lost the mood to curse.
They could only clap their hands desperately, but they didn't know why they were clapping.
Are you paying tribute to Yang Yingzi who never gave up until the end?
Or are you paying tribute to Wang Chao who showed his absolute strength?
Or is it a tribute to the athletes' spirit of risking everything to win?
Or maybe... just because I watched a wonderful game today that was definitely worth the price of admission?
On the day Spade Q left Bingcheng City, the team members of Bingcheng Pharmaceutical spontaneously came to see him off.
"You must beat Poseidon." Bingcheng Pharmaceutical's coach held Fan Xiaoxian's hand and shook it vigorously. He refused to let go for a long time, as if he wanted to eat tofu, which made Spade Q's boys look at him with unkind eyes.
Brother Geng is ready to curse.
Tian Zhengguang clenched his fists.
Gao Ming quietly took half a step back to make room for everyone.
But the coach then said the truth, "You beat us 3:2, and you beat Jingyue Bay 3:0. Therefore, I hope you can beat Poseidon, and it is best not to play in the decisive game. In that case, it can at least indirectly prove that we are still very strong. If you win the championship this year, we can say that we were eliminated by the championship."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh.
After he stopped laughing, Yang Yingzi warned Wang Chao very seriously, "Be careful with Zhu Ding. I have played against him for six years, and I know him very well. He is even stronger than what you saw in the game video, much stronger!"
Wang Chao nodded and asked, "Won't you explain Brother Geng?"
"What's the use of telling him?" Yang Yingzi snorted, "I have fought with him for six years, and I am as familiar with him as Zhu Ding... Don't look at how high-spirited he is now, but when he meets Zhu Ding, he will still be beaten into a dog."
Geng Shuai smiled and looked very magnanimous, just letting the loser vent his grievances.
Wang Chao was still thinking about whether to apologize to Liu Qiwen or something. After all, Liu Qiwen was badly injured yesterday and was wearing a bandage today.
But Liu Qiwen didn't accept this. He took two steps back, pointed at Wang Chao's nose and cursed, "Bah, don't be hypocritical with me. If you lose, you lose, I admit... But just wait for me. Next month, next round, when we meet again, Ma Hui and I will beat the shit out of you!"
Everyone burst into laughter, and the waiting hall was filled with cheerful air.
A few hours later, everyone arrived at Bin City, Liao Province.
Bin City is a very special city among the three provinces in Northeast China. It is located in the warm temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. It has a rare semi-humid continental monsoon climate in the Northeast. It has the characteristics of an oceanic climate. There is no severe cold in winter and no scorching heat in summer. Rainfall is concentrated, the monsoon is obvious, the sunshine rate is high, and the humidity is also high.
In layman's terms, it has the advantages of both the southern climate and the northern climate. It is a very comfortable city to live in, and it is also a famous tourist city.
October has arrived, and pedestrians on the street are wearing single clothes or coats. Everyone has left the high-speed rail station and just felt a hint of coolness. The bus from Poseidon Club has already stopped in front of them.
Poseidon Club has done an excellent job in reception, and the accommodation environment provided is all star-rated. Just go out to the next floor, and you will find an extremely advanced table tennis training venue with temperature control, free food and drinks, and even spare rackets, and there are many types.
"Poseidon Club has always been like this, don't be surprised."
Fan Xiaoxian explained, "They have good results, so the club is running very well and has considerable economic income. The most important thing is... they are confident enough to win any opponent openly on the field, so they will never give their opponents any chance to gossip in terms of entertainment."
I have to say that the pattern of Poseidon Club is indeed unusual.
After everyone settled down, they went out for a walk together, and felt that they could always feel the traces left by Poseidon Club, the master of kings.
There will be a large poster in the elevator room, showing Zhu Ding's unruly and flamboyant appearance.
Many stores downstairs sell various props for table tennis matches. In the bookstore, you can also see various biographical works related to Poseidon Club.
There are even one-to-one imitations of Table Tennis First Division's various medals. The backs of the medals have the signatures of Poseidon Club's main players. I don't know if they are real or fake.
This made Wang Chao quite emotional, even eye-opening.
He had come to Bin City many times in his previous life, but Bin City in his previous life was mainly famous for football. There was a Chinese Super League football club that was known as the number one in Asia for a certain period of time, and Bin City also produced many football celebrities.
In this life again, although this is still the capital of football, table tennis has quietly occupied a place.
At least within the sphere of influence surrounding the Poseidon Club headquarters, there are already a dazzling array of elements belonging to table tennis, far beyond what Spade Q's operations at Jiangcheng City can match.
"So, the more this happens, the more we have to defeat them."
Fan Xiaoxian has obviously been affected by his mentality, and because of Spade Q's current good results, he has fallen into some kind of fanatical yearning. "As long as we can kill them and win the autumn championship, it is best to win the promotion and relegation matches and enter Table Tennis Super League... By then, our Spade Q's operating momentum will never be lower than theirs."