Just from these words, Wang Chao could hear a strong fighting spirit.
Coach Wang Lu and Cai Guodong had an extremely obscure look at each other, and both parties nodded slightly at the same time.
Yes, they guessed it.
When we met to discuss this matter yesterday, Wang Lu said that Wang Chao would choose Bai Feng, Cai Guodong agreed, and Zhu Zeshi remained silent.
Facts have proved that Wang Chao really chose Bai Feng.
This is naturally not because of the difference between closeness and distance.
Qin and Zhu factions has a very good relationship. The five main players of the national team, except for Bai Feng, are all from Qin and Zhu factions. However, Wang Chao's choice of Bai Feng has nothing to do with these things. Instead, after careful analysis, he believes that Bai Feng is the best player.
Soon, the net was set up, the players came on the stage, the coaches lined up on both sides, and other national team players came to watch the fun. The coaches did not chase them away, and allowed everyone to fill up the table with a smile.
It is worth mentioning that not only male players but also female players were watching.
This is actually a test.
Bai Feng and others have played in international competitions for many years, so there is no problem with stage fright, but Wang Chao is still a newbie. Although he performed well in Table Tennis First Division, that was because Table Tennis First Division was too weak and the pressure was too low, which was not enough to squeeze out the panic in his heart.
If it were to be an international competition, such as the upcoming T2 Diamond Series, playing in a foreign country in front of a large number of foreigners, would he still be able to perform normally?
Psychological issues are sometimes more critical than strength issues.
These are all issues that Cai Guodong needs to consider.
Qin Huachang acted as a temporary referee, took a coin, threw it high, dropped it, covered it with his hand, and looked at Bai Feng.
Bai Feng shook his head. "No need to guess, let him serve first."
Qin Huachang Look at Wang Chao.
Wang Chao smiled and nodded, "Thank you."
So the game officially begins.
Wang Chao serves directly Sneak Long Serve.
What he stole was the backhand of Bai Feng.
Bai Feng At this moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes were cold, as if he had expected it.
Because he guessed it.
Yes, he guessed that the first ball of Wang Chao would be directly Sneak Long Serve.
He asked Wang Chao to take the initiative to serve. Although he was embarrassed to guess coins with a junior, it was also because he was waiting for Wang Chao Sneak Long Serve.
It's not a whim or a blessing at this moment, but because he started thinking about this issue at seven o'clock last night, and after one night, he had already thought it through.
"Get ready, you may have to play a game with Wang Chao tomorrow. You are the main force of the national team. It is natural to win, but it will be embarrassing to lose."
This is what Coach Wang Lu said to Bai Feng while having dinner yesterday.
Bai Feng was very surprised and asked carefully about the whole story. When asked, he was very unconvinced. "Why would he choose me? I am not the weakest among the five main players. If he really wants to win, he should choose Lin Li."
The imaginary enemy in Bai Feng's mind has always been Lin Li.
He was born in a straight board, and the straight board is inherently weak in today's table tennis world, so his results in the sports school were not very good when he was a child. When his friends who practiced horizontal board at the same time went out to compete, achieved results, and made a name for themselves, he remained unknown.
Later, a big celebrity came out of his sports school. This person reached First Team, and eventually entered the main force, becoming the disciple of the number one coach in Huaping, and becoming the pride of all the teachers in the sports school.
This person is Lin Li.
Bai Feng is from Western Sichuan Province, and his family is well-off. Because of his football practice, he left Western Sichuan Province when he was very young and went to play at a sports school in the imperial capital, just because the sports school in the imperial capital has stronger teachers and better students.
During his practice, many of his friends who also practiced straight skates chose to give up. Some went home directly, and some chose to switch to straight skates. Even many straight skaters who entered the sports school two or three years after him chose to leave.
He was the only one who persisted.
He persisted until he was seventeen years old, and Bai Feng finally saw a small glimmer of light: he reached the quarterfinals at the U17 World Youth Championship.
Then came another two years of silence.
When Bai Feng was nineteen years old, he got an opportunity to enter National Second Team.
It's not because of how well he plays, but because Huaping has had a support policy for straight-line players over the years. According to the Chinese Table Tennis Association's regulations, no matter the city team, provincial team, National Second Team, or First Team, there must be at least one straight-line singles player.
His sports school, Imperial City, was ranked first, and he was ranked first among the few straight skaters in this sports school. The opportunity came because of this, which is a bit like "first come first, first served".
Bai Feng met many, many masters beyond his imagination in the national team. He was once asked to imitate the playing style of a straight skater Kimchi Country and serve as a sparring partner for the main players of the national team.
It was during sparring that he met Lin Li.
At that time, Lin Li was high and high-spirited, having already won gold medals in three world competitions, while Bai Feng was just an unknown little player.
Lin Li is very friendly to him because they come from the same sports school and were even brought out by the same teacher when they started.
But the better Lin Li treats him, the less convinced he becomes.
He feels that his talent is no worse than Lin Li, and even his foot speed, platform area and batting speed are faster than Lin Li. Why is Lin Li the main player and I am just a sparring partner?
Just because I am a straight person, is he a horizontal person?
Why should straight people be looked down upon?
Wasn't Huaping's original reputation built on its fast-break style of play?
Of course, these are all excuses.
The real reason is that Bai Feng's father is also a table tennis player, and he learned the traditional straight-up fast-break style.
His father only climbed to the bench position of the provincial team throughout his life. After retiring, he did not choose to become a coach or work in a related industry. Instead, he left the table tennis world directly and chose to change careers completely and went to a state-owned enterprise. Later, he complained to Bai Feng many times after getting drunk.
"I shouldn't have chosen the straight board. Really, I just knew that the backhand position of the straight board was relatively weak, but I didn't expect it to be so weak..."
My father was obsessed with it. He felt that his wrong choice in holding shots had ruined his table tennis career. He regretted it and wished he could start his life over again.
But the father never expected that his sister-in-law Xianglin's general complaints would not affect his son, but would instead give him the opposite emotion.
In Bai Feng's childhood memory, his father looked so handsome playing ball with a straight stick.
He is handsome in a way that no horizontal skater can match.
It was precisely because he saw his father killing everyone with a straight board in an internal competition of that state-owned enterprise that he came up with the idea of playing basketball.
"Such a handsome, so cool, and such a great straight board cannot be annihilated. Even if it has weaknesses and loopholes, it also has advantages that horizontal boards cannot match!"
"If there is a new generation of straight-up players who can rise, I hope that person is me."
Bai Feng is talented, and with enough hard work and persistence, he finally got his wish and performed well in the team's promotion and relegation competition when he was twenty years old, and entered First Team just on the passing line.
Then he had his own dedicated head coach: Wang Lu.
Although Wang Lu is far less famous than Qin Zhu, he is actually an extremely good coach in the national team. He found that Bai Feng's posture when facing the ball from the backhand position was very strange, completely different from the conventional push and block, and even had an active part, so he couldn't help but ask Bai Feng what kind of posture it was.
Bai Feng told Wang Lu that this was actually something his father tinkered with after he retired. However, he had tried this thing many times but could never take it into shape and could only do it occasionally.
Wang Lu is keenly aware that a great new technology, a new door regarding the evolutionary direction of table tennis straight players, is slowly opening in front of him.
He turned to the entire coaching staff and called Bai Feng. After arduous discussions and analysis, he finally finalized this technology three months later.
This is the backhand technique recognized as the greatest by all straight-board players in the world today: Penhold Backhand Loop.
Although facts in the next few years will prove that Penhold Backhand Loop is not suitable for all straight skateboarders.
It has too high demands on the wrists and too strict requirements on power-generating postures. If you practice it incorrectly, it can easily cause physical damage.
But there is no doubt that this technology does fundamentally solve the problem of weak backhands of some straight-board players.
It allows the straight-board style of play, which is inherently deficient and about to be submerged by the torrent of history, to regain the confidence to compete with the horizontal board.
Bai Feng rose up like lightning, from being a player initially supported by policies to becoming a real main player of the national team. In the intra-team competition half a year later, with the hard power of forehand and backhand, he defeated Luo Jiu, who also played the forehand and backhand loop ball.
It was this battle that made He Jingping so disheartened that he voluntarily resigned and left Jiangcheng City.
In the next three years, Bai Feng began to participate in international competitions of all sizes, and his goal was always Lin Li.
Because Dragon Team's level is too high and cannot be touched no matter what, and Xiao Fei is old and may retire in the next one or two years.
As for Luo Jiu, it was just his own defeat.
Therefore, Bai Feng hopes to completely defeat Lin Li. In this case, after Dragon Team and Xiao Fei retire, he will be the leader of the new generation of Chinese table tennis.
He will represent the new style of straight bar, stand on top of the world, and create a bright future that his father could not even dream of.
But how difficult is it to defeat Lin Li?
He has played against Lin Li seven times in major domestic and international competitions in three years, with three wins and four losses, and the overall record is slightly behind.
But this does not mean that he is weaker than Lin Li, because the mutual performance between players is largely affected by various factors.
For example, when facing Xiao Fei, Lin Li's record in the past three years was two wins and seven losses. He was severely restrained by Xiao Fei.
But Bai Feng had six wins and three losses against Xiao Fei. His style was vaguely restrained by Xiao Fei.
During the war abroad, both of them lost the chain on World Table Tennis Championships in July, and no one was better than the other.
So in the cafeteria that afternoon, when Bai Feng heard that Wang Chao was going to select someone tomorrow, his first reaction was: Why should you choose me?
He is 24 years old this year, Lin Li and Luo Jiu are 27 years old, Xiao Fei is 29 years old, and Dragon Team is 31 years old. He feels that he is the youngest, has the most physical strength, and the most flexible mind. In any case, he should not be Wang Chao's first choice.
But Coach Wang Lu, whom he trusted the most, told him with certainty, "Wang Chao has at least a 70% chance of choosing you, so you should be well prepared."
Bai Feng agreed.
He did not despise Wang Chao at all, because he had seen the game where Wang Chao played against Zhu Ding.
At night, he lay in his dormitory and watched all the videos of Wang Chao playing at Table Tennis First Division, analyzing Wang Chao's playing style and mentality before the battle, trying to find a breakthrough, and finally he found it.
Wang Chao is good at psychological warfare and likes changes, but the changes in table tennis are not layer by layer. Many times it is just a simple game of "yes" and "no".
For example, when it comes to serving, no matter how deep your calculations are, it's just a few ways to serve.
For example, yesterday's amazing battle between the Peacock Country Dragon Team and Luo Jiu. How did these two people who stand at the pinnacle of ball counting in the world choose to serve?
Dragon Team sent two Sneak Long Serves in succession, and was beaten to death by Luo Jiu.
Why did Dragon Team send two Sneak Long Serve in a row? Because Dragon Team feels that he has an advantage in arithmetic, Dragon Team believes that he Sneak Long Serve will definitely succeed. The simpler and more crude it is, the less likely the opponent will expect it.
So in the same way, what about Wang Chao fighting himself?
Obviously, Wang Chao will also think that he has the advantage in ball counting.
Because Bai Feng himself is not a player who likes to calculate. He is the one with the fastest footsteps and body movements among the five main players of the national team. With the blessing of Penhold Backhand Loop, he always flies around the court when playing and is not very afraid of the opponent's various small moves on the serve.
Bai Feng is not good at psychological speculation, but he can make inferences by analogy, comparing Wang Chao to Sun Tianlong.
Even Dragon Team can Sneak Long Serve, how can Wang Chao not Sneak Long Serve?
Thanks to "Meow's Schrödingerjin" and "Quilt ii" for the reward.