Lying on the big bed in the suite where he stayed, Wang Chao began to study the booklet at hand carefully.
This thing looks just like the travel brochure you get when you travel. Wang Chao didn't care at first and didn't even intend to read it. But now, not only him, Zhu Ding and Lu Feiyang are also reading quietly.
The first half of the booklet talks about the competition rules of T2 Diamond Match. These rules are completely different from the three regular competitions and the International Open. At best, they are unconstrained and full of innovative spirit. At worst, they are just messing around and coming up with ideas.
The reason why a large number of famous players refused to participate cannot be said to have nothing to do with this innovative rule, but it can only be said to be closely related.
Because the rules are indeed very complicated, I won't go into details here for now and will talk about them later during the competition.
Look at the second half, which is all player introductions.
Wang Chao directly scrolled through the female table tennis players and only looked at the male table tennis players.
The Sakura Country Table Tennis Association claims to invite the top 15 players in the world to participate. In addition, Sakura Country himself appoints a player as the host, a total of 16 people will participate.
But in fact, almost all the top 15 players were absent.
For example, none of the seven regular players from China came, only three substitutes including Wang Chao came.
On the European side, headed by Bayer of Germany, someone from Brazil, someone from Belarus, and someone from Sweden all refused to participate. The straight-laced veteran from Hong Kong who had struggled for many years chose to miss the match due to injuries.
So according to the last statistics, among the top fifteen in the world, only three people actually came.
One is ranked 12th Kimchi Country veteran Zhu Shixian, a very respectable 28-year-old chipping veteran, and the only male chipping player among the top 20 players in the international table tennis world who is still persisting.
The second one is the leader of the younger generation that Kimchi Country is currently training, the 19-year-old straight boy Li Zhengzhi. He made his debut last year and has participated in multiple open tournaments for more than a year. Although he only won one bronze medal, through a large number of participations and slowly accumulating points, he still reached the 14th place in the world rankings.
The last one is Mizutori Hato, the first brother of the host country, who is praised by Sakura Country as a "unparalleled genius once in a thousand years".
Mizutori Hato is 29 years old this year and is ranked seventh in the world. After excluding the four Chinese table tennis players in front of him, he is ranked third. Only behind the super-class uncle Bayer in Europe and a certain super genius in Brazil, he is the well-deserved favorite to win this event.
Among the supplementary players ranked beyond 15, there are still some good characters.
For example, Bay Island veteran Zhuang Huishen, although his world ranking has now fallen to outside 30, he was once a top-notch player more than ten years ago. At his peak, he killed Sun Tianlong, who had no great achievements, and Wang Wendong, who was invincible at the time. This person is now a skinny camel, and no one knows when he will turn around and change his destiny.
Lin Zijun, ranked 20th in the world, is a well-deserved favorite to win the championship. Now that T2 has not started, a large number of people in the world table tennis community are already debating who is the champion of this year, Lin Zijun or Mizutori Hato.
You know, Lin Zijun beat up Luo Jiu a while ago.
Mizutori Hato was brutally beaten by Luo Jiu 4:0.
But the problem is that when Luo Jiu was beaten, it was still in the technical transformation stage, but when Mizutori Hato was tortured, it had already entered the invincible state.
So who is stronger, Lin Zijun or Mizutori Hato, becomes a question with no answer at all.
But the Sakura Country Table Tennis Association seems to think that this situation is not lively enough. In order to make the competitions they organize more topical and interesting, they worked overtime yesterday to make a booklet, comment on all the players, and just forced out a favorite to win: Unrivaled Divine Dragon, Huaping new generation Six Little Dragons, Wang Chao.
You see, Sakura Country people like to have names that are full of chubby vibes. Although Wang Chao's name is ordinary, with the addition of this long string of prefixes, it immediately became popular.
Before yesterday, no one in the world knew Wang Chao.
But today, at least all fifteen contestants in the competition knew who Wang Chao was.
In order to highlight the importance of Wang Chao, Sakura Country Table Tennis Association also specially selected the new Six Little Dragons of Chinese Ping Pong.
This introduction of the new six dragons made Wang Chao feel very subtle.
You can't say that Sakura Country is just trying to make a fuss, because obviously, there is some real information in it, which means that Sakura Country has indeed systematically analyzed the younger generation of Chinese table tennis players, and even Wang Chao didn't even know about the relationship between some of them, but Sakura Country got the news and revealed it.
But you can't say that this Six Dragons evaluation is very objective, because obviously, this list focuses more on Table Tennis First Division than Table Tennis Super League. In Table Tennis First Division, the lowest league in Huaping, Sakura Country actually directly selected three people to enter the Six Dragons ranks. On the contrary, Table Tennis Super League only selected two people.
This is a bit putting the cart before the horse.
In any case, let's take a look at the specific situation of the Six Dragons.
The first one, Ma Angxing, Table Tennis First Division, the main player of the King's Division, Poseidon Club, has the talent "Eagle Eye". Because he is still at Table Tennis First Division, he acts in a low-key manner and has not achieved too outstanding results, so he is tentatively named "Qianlong".
But because this person is actually the future disciple that the national team coach Wang Lu has long been optimistic about, he enjoys the halo bonus of the national team coach, enters the ranks of the Six Dragons, and ranks at the bottom.
Second place, Hu Buming, Table Tennis First Division, the main player of the new division Xiang River Club, a strong contender for the Rookie of the Year King, with unknown talent, but in just one season, he defeated the weak team Xiangshui River has brought Table Tennis First Division to the top team position, and is very likely to enter the playoffs. Throughout the season, facing the younger generation of players, except for Wang Chao, he has not lost to anyone else.
And because this person has an arrogant personality and always boasts about Haikou in interviews. He has repeatedly promised to beat up Wang Chao the next time he meets him, so he is tentatively named "Mad Dragon". Ranked fifth among the six dragons.
The third place, Gao Mingyuan, Table Tennis Super League is the main second single of the strong team Lu Province Weiqiao Club. He has a tricky playing style, is good at changes, and has a strong backhand. He is suspected to have the gift of "extreme speed". Because of his super fast hitting and windy shots, he is tentatively named "Wind Dragon", ranking fourth among the six dragons.
Fourth place, Liang Kunpeng, Table Tennis Super League is the main force of the underdog Imperial Capital New City Club. This person has a strong playing style and extremely high batting quality. Although he is only 20 years old, he is already the absolute main force in the team. Although he is in the underdog, but his own record is extremely brilliant, and he still maintains a very high winning rate when fighting against players from other strong teams. Therefore, he has a strong body, thunderous attacks, and magnificent momentum. He is tentatively named "Thunder Dragon", ranking third among the six dragons.
The fifth place, Lu Feiyang, a Huaping National Second Team player, is also a key training target of Huaping in the next ten years. According to internal sources, this person has been ranked first in the Huaping National Second Team test in the past two months. The coaching staff of Huaping is unanimously optimistic. Unfortunately, Huaping has not allowed him to participate in any international competitions, so his playing style is temporarily unknown. However, according to his internal test results, he can be ranked second among the six dragons. And because he has not officially made his debut, he is tentatively named "Crouching Dragon".
The sixth and last one is Wang Chao.
The appearance of the first five dragons all paved the way for Wang Chao.
The official information of Sakura Country is introduced as follows:
"Wang Chao, Table Tennis First Division is the main third player of the veteran team Spade Q, and is also the strongest player born by Table Tennis First Division in the past seventeen years. This person relies on his own strength He brought an underdog team to the top of the league and has not lost a single or double match since the start of the tournament. Even Great Demon King Zhu Ding, who had suppressed Table Tennis First Division for six years, was defeated by him."
"It is worth mentioning that this Great Demon King Zhu Ding is none other than Golden Generation, one of the six old dragons of China Table Tennis Team seven years ago. He is definitely the main player of the Chinese national team."
"Although Wang Chao is still a player of Table Tennis First Division, he has defaulted to enter First Team next year, and has privately become a disciple of the national team coach Mr. He Jingping. At the same time, at two o'clock in the afternoon on October 8th, that is, yesterday, the head coach of Chinese National Table Tennis Team, Mr. Cai Guodong, personally named his talent unparalleled."
"Why is it called Wushuang? Why use a new term that has never appeared in the world table tennis world? What is so special about this Wang Chao player? According to rumors, this person has a super handle that is comparable to Luo Jiu. He also has a strong game reading ability that is comparable to Sun Tianlong. He is good at both forehand straight and backhand horizontal loops. At the same time, it is said that he invented the new table tennis technology that came out of China a few months ago."
"In view of this, although we have never seen Wang Chao's performance in the international arena, we still chose to rank him first among the six dragons, tentatively named Shenlong, and we have every reason to believe that he will be one of the most powerful contenders for the championship medal of T2 Diamond Match Sakura Country this time."
"After all, Huaping has a tradition of not sending anyone to compete in competitions over the years. Once it sends someone to compete, it aims to win the championship. This time Huaping dares to send a new lineup headed by Wang Chao, supplemented by Zhu Ding and Lu Feiyang, which proves that Mr. Cai Guodong believes that Wang Chao is strong enough to win the championship."
So.
Qianlong Ma Angxing.
Mad Dragon Hu Buming.
Wind Dragon Gao Mingyuan.
Thunder Dragon Liang Kunpeng.
Crouching Dragon Lu Feiyang.
Shenlong Wang Chao.
This is new generation Six Little Dragons.
After reading the information, Wang Chao let out a long breath, feeling a little funny.
Sakura Country The meaning of "Gonghuo" is really obvious, but the international table tennis world is very fond of this, so at this moment, other players staying in the same hotel should be full of desire to challenge themselves, right?
Chinese table tennis players have always been the most hated in world competitions. No matter which country's players, once they meet Chinese table tennis players, they will burst out with 200% combat effectiveness as if they were on steroids. This is because they know that even if they play like shit all year long, as long as they can beat Chinese players in one game, they can become national heroes.
Wang Chao itself is unknown and not enough to make opponents take hormones, but once this information is released, opponents will definitely be excited.
It must be so exciting to defeat the leader of Six Little Dragons in China.
Didn't you think that if you go to have a meal, someone will come over to provoke you?
At this moment, of course Wang Chao already knew who he met while eating.
The enthusiastic handsome blond boy is Swedish star Morad. He was not invited. His place was given to him by Swedish veteran k. Michel, ranked 11th in the world.
This person probably came to see the world, so he didn't have much hostility. It was more like he was looking for Wang Chao to make friends, and by the way, he could show off his new racket.
The other short-cut boy is named Li Zhengzhi. He is 19 years old this year. Kimchi Country is a super newcomer and is currently ranked 14th in the world. He does not need his seniors to give up his place here. He has made it himself.
Because it was him who got the spot, Li Zhengzhi was extremely proud. Seeing Sakura Country so highly respecting an unknown person, he was naturally unconvinced. He approached Wang Chao as a real provocation, wanting to become famous by stepping on Wang Chao.
It is worth mentioning that this time T2 also has a long-known character Wang Chao: Christian. Hart.
This Denmark veteran who defeated Brother Geng's inner demons this year took advantage of Luo Jiu's technical improvements to destroy Luo Jiu once. This can be regarded as a complete life. He is already 39 years old this year., is older than Zhuang Huishen, and doesn't run much on the court anymore. He plays health ball and enjoys life. The main reason for coming to the competition this time is to experience the winter hot springs and cute cherry blossom girls that Sakura Country has promoted so hard.
As for the competition, just go through the motions.
It is worth mentioning that Sakura Country has a special quota for the host country in this competition. In the end, the player selected by Sakura Country is not a domestic super genius, but a player who once played in Table Tennis First Division and is also an old acquaintance of Wang Chao: Yoshikawa Hiroshi.
Yoshikawa Hiroshi's strength is of course far from enough to be considered in this kind of competition. He just comes to see the world and earn some US dollars by the way.
In this way, the basic disk of the entire T2 Diamond Match is almost complete.
Mizutori Hato, Lin Zijun, these are the world-recognized favorites to win the championship.
Wang Chao, this is the favorite that Sakura Country deliberately promoted.
Zhang Benkuang, this is Sakura Country's own recommendation to win the championship.
Zhuang Huishen, Li Zhengzhi, Zhu Shixian, Lu Feiyang, Zhu Ding, although these people have different strengths, they generally belong to the second echelon.
Next, there are some cats and dogs who come to see the world, such as the handsome Swedish boy Morad and the health-preserving old man Hart.
Of course, since they are all unknowns, it is not ruled out that a super dark horse will suddenly pop up among them.
Wang Chao closed the book and heard a knock on the door. When he opened the door, it was Zhu Ding.
"Have you read it?" Zhu Ding shook the pamphlet in his hand. "What do you think about Six Little Dragons?"
Wang Chao smiled and said nothing.
Of course he has an opinion, but speaking out will offend people.
In fact, Qianlong Ma Angxing, Mad Dragon Hu Buming, including Table Tennis Super League's Gao Mingyuan and Liang Kunpeng, are not very interesting in Wang Chao's view.
They are all worms, not a dragon.
At least it is completely incomparable to the real Golden Generation Huaping Six Dragons seven years ago.
Why?
Ma Angxing's talent is too low. Just one Eagle Eye can only help him judge, but not enough to help him win.
His body is too thin. In terms of physical fitness, he is not even as good as Wang Chao. Moreover, because he pursues too much control, there are faint signs of overcorrection. In addition, he also extremely lacks the moves that can kill with one strike.
He was just barely qualified to be Wang Lu's disciple, but he didn't really satisfy Wang Lu. Otherwise, how could Wang Lu put him in that small place in Wushan to train on his own, instead of taking him directly to the Imperial Capital to teach him step by step?
Didn't you watch Qin Huachang accepts a disciple? It's almost human trafficking? This is the proper attitude towards a talented disciple.
The problem with Hu Buming is that he can't let go. This is a fatal character flaw.
On the surface, it seems to be just a problem with Mouth King, but in reality it is because he is so upset after losing to Wang Chao that he cannot resolve it. This kind of "can't let go" will certainly become something he practices hard. Motivation, but from another perspective, it also made his vision narrow. He could only see Wang Chao and no other people. But when playing table tennis in a place like China, if you want to stand at the top, you have to look at the whole world.
If the pattern is not enough, it is destined to be difficult to achieve success.
As for Gao Mingyuan and Liang Kunpeng, Wang Chao doesn't know much about them, but these two players in their early twenties are still hanging out at Table Tennis Super League and haven't even made it to First Team. What else can they do? I will only hit Table Tennis Super League in this life.
Only Lu Feiyang and Wang Chao are still unsure because he really doesn't understand them at all.
In fact, in Wang Chao's opinion, among all the people he has met so far, there are only two people who may become his strong enemies in the future.
The first one is Wu Li.
Even though Wu Li is still trapped in Jiangcheng City Team and cannot make any progress, this person is gifted with "strange power", which is his innate advantage. In addition, Wu Li's tenacity and stability make Wang Chao ashamed. Especially when faced with difficulties in the game, Wu Li is really like a competition machine.
For a person like him, as long as he continues to practice unremittingly and polishes his skills, he will be almost undefeated when playing with others of equal strength.
Wu Li is destined to be a late bloomer. He has followed the path of Dragon Team who has spent ten years sharpening his sword. He will not be able to master it for at least three years, but when he truly masters it, no one can stop his edge.
The other person is Fan Xiaodong.
Wang Chao doesn't know much about Fan Xiaodong, but just by watching the game he played with Fan Xiaodong, he knew how perverted Fan Xiaodong was.
A 15-year-old kid directly pulled out the real Overlord Twist. How strong is his physical fitness?
An amateur player who has never received a day of formal training can hone his skills to that level by watching the scenes in the arena and playing casually. How much talent does this have to have?
Not to mention, Fan Xiaodong is the disciple of Qin Huachang who is willing to be bitten by a dog and refuses to give up even if he shouts and plays tricks.
Qin Huachang How could that cunning guy make a mistake?
So if Zhu Ding must force Wang Chao to come to a conclusion at this moment, Wang Chao might say something.
"The only heroes in the world are Wu Li, Little Fatty and Chao'er."
This is the modern version of "Green Plum Boiling Wine and Discussing Heroes" in a parallel world.
It's a pity that there was no thunder today. It's a pity.
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