The situation is just as Ji Qingsong expected.
The originally evenly matched situation suddenly took a turn for the worse after 2:2.
Liang Kunpeng serves.
He kept in mind the teachings of his good brothers and never played short, even the backspin was long, landing on the bottom line in the center of the Wang Chao table.
It's not that he discovered Wang Chao's blind spot or anything, he simply didn't know whether it was better to lean left or right. Since he couldn't choose, he might as well just be impartial.
Facing the long ball from the baseline, Wang Chao directly pulled the circle and hit the left-hand baseline of Liang Kunpeng.
Because the landing point is on the bottom line, Liang Kunpeng can only retreat and pull back.
So the situation became the same as the third ball. After a few back and forth, Liang Kunpeng made a mistake first and was beaten to death by Wang Chao.
3:2.
Liang Kunpeng continues to serve.
This time he sent the ball to the Wang Chao left-hand baseline.
But Wang Chao's movement speed is still acceptable. Although it is not as exaggerated as the "extreme speed" talent, but because he is good at predicting, it seems that the ball is already in position before it reaches the player. He directly rushes forward with his forehand and continues to hit the baseline of Liang Kunpeng's backhand position.
Liang Kunpeng had no choice but to retreat and fight back. The situation was the same as before and he was beaten to death again.
4:2.
Wang Chao gets the right to serve.
This time, Wang Chao finally issued a regular short backspin.
But Liang Kunpeng doesn't want to fight, because Bai Feng and Ji Qingsong have the same view on the matter of fighting: you can't fight him.
My good brother says I can't fight, so I definitely can't fight.
As for the parallel import coach, ignore it.
Liang Kunpeng immediately started the fight and was beaten fiercely on the stage.
The challenge failed.
5:2.
Wang Chao sends short backspin again.
Liang Kunpeng dare not pick a fight.
Because it turns out that Wang Chao's serve is quite rigorous. This kind of ball hardly gives a chance, unless you have a certain super skill to hit it, such as Lin Zijun's world-class backhand twist, or Luo Jiu's world-class Forehand Flick.
He doesn't have such delicate skills, all he has is explosive power and crazy spin.
So he dumped the ball directly to the left-hand baseline of Wang Chao.
This is a helpless move, because Liang Kunpeng has always advocated simplicity and directness in playing, and he only knows these few techniques, either swinging short, leaning to the sideline, or attacking.
Now he can neither compete nor attack, so he can only ignore it.
In fact, he knows that it is wrong to skim, because even if the ball is off-spin, the opponent can attack directly.
Sure enough, Wang Chao pulled the arc again and still targeted his backhand.
Liang Kunpeng was annoyed to death. He was eager to make a forehand blast like he did in the beginning and show off his own momentum, but Wang Chao just didn't give him a chance.
In the end, Wang Chao had the last laugh with this ball.
In terms of stability, Wang Chao is far ahead of Liang Kunpeng, so as long as Wang Chao successfully hits the first board, he will basically win in the subsequent stalemate.
6:2.
Liang Kunpeng regained the right to serve again.
He served a long ball with heavy topspin.
This ball is not called Sneak Long Serve, it is served openly. After serving it, he ran directly to the left, waiting for Wang Chao to hit his left-hand baseline. He could then directly hit Wang Chao with a forehand and rely on his invincible single board quality to kill Wang Chao.
He thinks well...
However, Wang Chao missed this time and pulled the ball to his right-hand baseline.
Liang Kunpeng stood on the left side of the table and watched the ball fly away from the right without even trying to save it.
He just couldn't figure out why Wang Chao dared to hit his forehand this time.
If there is no smart move ahead of time, wouldn't it be possible to just rush forward?
Anyway, the score became 7:2.
Liang Kunpeng thought of another way.
He also hit a decent lob, and it didn't spin either.
He doesn't want to deceive Wang Chao in terms of spin, he just wants to make the serve faster and heavier. In this case, maybe Wang Chao will catch the ball higher?
It turns out he was overthinking.
Facing this long ball from the baseline, Wang Chao took a step back, but instead of pulling the ball, he chipped the board and directly chipped the ball back to Liang Kunpeng's side of the table.
It looks like the effect of a short backspin serve.
Liang Kunpeng was very confused. He really didn't know how to deal with it.
Make the swing short, the ball inside the table is not delicate enough.
Let's put aside the bottom line, Wang Chao will directly raise the bar.
If you take the initiative, you will probably commit suicide 90% of the time.
What to do?
Finally Liang Kunpeng came up with a new trick. He used his racket to hold the ball and gently pushed the ball over.
This ball made Ji Qingsong laugh. After laughing, he lowered his head and didn't want to watch it anymore.
It really pollutes the eyes...
Faced with this inexplicable offensive opportunity, Wang Chao was a little shocked, but he showed no mercy. He charged directly, received various combinations of left and right pulls, and penetrated Liang Kunpeng again. 8:2.
The audience was confused.
They were given two surprises by Liang Kunpeng at the beginning, and they thought it was going to be a fight between dragons and tigers. Unexpectedly, Liang Kunpeng immediately plummeted, and by this time it was already a bit of a collapse.
Two minutes later, the first game ended, and the score was fixed at 11:2.
Quite a disparity in the score.
Everyone at Spade Q cheered. Although today's competition didn't seem too difficult, thinking that next year I will be a Table Tennis Super League player still felt as unreal as a dream.
Especially Tian Zhengguang and Gao Ming, both of whom have never made it big in Jiangcheng City Team. They originally wanted to find a partner in the bottom team as a sparring partner, but it was a waste of money. Unexpectedly, inexplicably, they first gained the reputation of being the champion team member of Table Tennis First Division, and now they want to fight Table Tennis Super League.
Lu Jia As a veteran of Table Tennis First Division, he thought more. He began to search frantically in his mind for all the players in Table Tennis Super League's teams, trying to find one he could beat.
In the end, he only found one person that he had a certain probability of beating, and this person was none other than Imperial Capital New City Team.
However, Imperial Capital New City Team will be downgraded next year...
So Lu Jia is very confused. He doesn't know whether to cheer or lament. He estimates that he will be demoted to the bench next year, because after Spade Q is promoted, if he doesn't want to be at the bottom, he has to continue recruiting anyway.
At this time, the audience applauded again, and the second game began.
Five minutes later, the second game ended with the score 11:3.
Ten minutes later, the third game ended, with the score 11:3.
Fifteen minutes later, the fourth game ended, with the score 11:1.
Liang Kunpeng was crushed, his face was red, he was feeling aggrieved and angry. Before the two sides shook hands, he lowered his voice and yelled at Wang Chao, "Do you dare to make a date with me? Don't do evil things, let's fight for the truth!"
Wang Chao Baffled.
Until he walked off the field, he was thinking, could my fight be fake?
He didn't know that Liang Kunpeng couldn't wait to call his good brother Bai Feng after he came off the field.
"Brother Feng, have you watched the game?"
Bai Feng was even more indignant than him over there. "I've watched it, I'm numb after watching it, Wang Chao is so mean, just like when he beat me that day. He doesn't dare to fight you, and keeps avoiding challenges. What kind of hero can he be? His style of play is to catch you before you can achieve your magic, and there is no future. Kunpeng, I think you are an honor even if you lose."
Liang Kunpeng felt warm in his heart and wanted to cry, "Brother, you still understand me. Even though we are defeated, we are still honored."
Bai Feng sighed, "How come you were caught by him? Kunpeng, I think you are still not fierce enough. The quality of your forehand is enough, but your backhand is far from enough. Think about it, if you can't stop him even if you attack him back, will you win today's game?"
"It is true." Liang Kunpeng suddenly said, "So in the final analysis, I am still not strong enough. The quality of my backhand board is not high enough. I have to continue to practice hard. In order to prove that power play is the way to go, I need to work harder."
"Yeah! Come on!" Bai Feng encouraged him. "I have to work hard too. After all, I can't beat Sun Tianlong now. I made an appointment with Luo Jiu for a team competition the day before yesterday and lost. In order to prove that straight is the way to go, I still have a long way to go."
Liang Kunpeng is full of fighting spirit. "It's okay, I'm only 20 years old, I'm still young. When I succeed, the national team will definitely call me."
Bai Feng is also very motivated. "It's okay. I'm only 24 years old. I'm still young. When I succeed in my magic, Grand Slam will be mine."
"Come on!"
"Come on!"
Liang Kunpeng hung up the phone and turned around to see where his coach Ji Qingsong had gone. So he shook his head, with a hint of contempt in his eyes, and murmured, "Parallel imports..."
He doesn't know that the parallel import coach he thinks of actually has a lot of background, because Ji Qingsong is the younger brother of Cai Guodong, the head coach of China Table Tennis...
At this moment, the junior brother was too disappointed and no longer wanted to watch the game. He went out to call his senior brother to complain.
"Brother, did you watch the game?"
Cai Guodong's gentle voice came from the other end. "Of course, I saw that Liang Kunpeng lost miserably, but losing to Wang Chao is normal, you don't need to mind it."
Ji Qingsong sighed quietly, "I took it for granted. I thought at first that Liang Kunpeng just didn't understand. I just need to teach him slowly, slowly help him get rid of his bad habits, and teach him how to think about playing. As time goes by, he will naturally understand and be qualified to join the national team. But today I discovered that he is really a fool..."
Cai Guodong remained silent.
Ji Qingsong couldn't help shouting, "Senior brother, senior brother, are you still here?"
Cai Guodong finally spoke up and said softly, "Junior brother, thank you for your hard work."
For some reason, Ji Qingsong's nose felt a little sore after hearing this.
He was really aggrieved.
Two years ago, Huaping National Second Team expanded its recruitment and recruited seven young players from major provincial teams. Several of them were little-known players and had no honors at all. However, two people who were highly popular at the time, one Gao Mingyuan and the other Liang Kunpeng, were not selected by Cai Guodong.
Gao Mingyuan owns Extreme Speed Talent, and Liang Kunpeng owns Monstrous Strength Talent. Both of them were unanimously optimistic prospects in their respective provincial teams.
Let's not talk about Gao Mingyuan for the moment, let's talk about Liang Kunpeng. His failure to be selected aroused strong doubts from the Jizhou Province table tennis team, and the one who questioned the most was the coach Ji Qingsong who was coaching the Jizhou Province team at the time.
So Ji Qingsong called Cai Guodong directly, aggressively and emotionally, questioning that Cai Guodong was engaging in behind-the-scenes operations. He must have already decided on the candidate, and gave a lengthy refutation of the "rule of man is greater than the rule of law" situation of the Chinese table tennis coaching staff.
Finally, he asserted that Liang Kunpeng has a bright future and his future achievements are definitely higher than Lin Li. The reason is that Liang Kunpeng has all the physical advantages that Lin Li has. At the same time, he can also learn more advanced technical and tactical concepts and become a smarter and enhanced version of Lin Li.
Cai Guodong didn't say much during the whole process. He waited until the younger junior brother had finished all his anger before he said, "How about we make a bet?"
Ji Qingsong asked, "What are you betting on?"
Cai Guodong said, "Liang Kunpeng is over eighteen years old. Based on his strength, he will definitely join Table Tennis Super League. When he chooses a team, I will tell you in advance that you can apply for the head coach of that team... I want to see if, under your personal coaching, Liang Kunpeng can reach the height you envisioned."
Ji Qingsong agreed without saying a word, and applied for a temporary position in the provincial team the next day. He applied for Imperial Capital New City Team and successfully passed the test with his excellent qualifications.
Over the next two years, he began to carefully train Liang Kunpeng.
In his view, Liang Kunpeng's foundation is extremely solid.
In terms of physical condition, Liang Kunpeng is even better than Lin Li, the main player of the national team.
As for the quality of the single board, it is not inferior to Lin Li.
What he lacks is just a little bit of game experience, technical routines, and the ability to read the game and the opponent.
In Ji Qingsong's view, these things are just minutiae. With his own presence, even cramming education can teach Liang Kunpeng.
Then he suffered setbacks for two long years.
Liang Kunpeng is very... stubborn.
Liang Kunpeng has almost paranoid confidence in the quality of his own boards, and is resolutely unwilling to use other methods to defeat his opponents. The most common thing he says is, "I win with real skills and don't engage in crooked ways. It's embarrassing!"
For this reason, Ji Qingsong and Liang Kunpeng had many debates. The debate turned into a quarrel in the end. After the quarrel, they reconciled, and then they quarreled again. Later, Ji Qingsong clearly felt that Liang Kunpeng no longer trusted him.
Although he is a coach in name, he cannot instill any ideas into his players.
He hoped to create a complete tactical system for Liang Kunpeng that could flexibly deal with different types of players, but Liang Kunpeng rejected this system. He felt that Ji Qingsong's concept was too complicated, not simple and direct enough, and was not suitable for him.
He likes to use strength to defeat cleverness, One force overcomes ten skills.
The most important thing is that Liang Kunpeng really won a lot of games with his simple and rough playing style, which made Ji Qingsong even less confident when he spoke.
At the same time, Imperial Capital New City's performance has gone from bad to worse in the past two years, and finally reached the point of promotion and relegation.
Ji Qingsong thinks he is conscientious and diligent enough, but with such results, he must admit that he has failed.
He neither trained Liang Kunpeng nor the other two players. His head coach did a terrible job.
But even so, the boss behind Imperial Capital New City Team never mentioned changing the head coach.
Ji Qingsong knew in his heart that it must be Cai Guodong who secretly used his strength behind his back to speak nice words for himself.
He held his last breath, hoping to make a good comeback in the promotion and relegation games. In this case, he would have the nerve to call Cai Guodong to express his gratitude.
But after seeing the content of Liang Kunpeng's game today, he was really disappointed.
When Liang Kunpeng was defeated by Wang Chao, his mentality as a head coach also collapsed.
"So, was it really my fault?" Ji Qingsong said with difficulty, "Brother, did you see Liang Kunpeng's problem at that time?"
Cai Guodong fell silent again.
After a long time, he said, "Yes, and no."
Ji Qingsong said nothing, quietly waiting for his senior brother to clear his doubts.
"Liang Kunpeng does have a problem, but it's not as serious as you see." Cai Guodong seemed to be hesitant, but in the end he tried to be gentle and said what he really wanted to say, "Qingsong, have you never thought... that the Xincheng team has become like this? In fact, there is something wrong with your coaching ideas from beginning to end?"
Ji Qingsong trembled all over.
This was a thought that he had had in his heart for a long time, but he didn't dare to think about it because it would be a complete denial of the first half of his life. But now, Cai Guodong has spoken out, and he can no longer avoid it. "When I was in the provincial team..."
"There has been a problem since then, so you see, although Jizhou Province has produced several good seedlings over the years, you have none."
Cai Guodong said softly, "Your concept is quite good. What you want to cultivate is an all-rounder who can both count balls and play quality balls, but have you ever considered a problem? From ancient times to the present, when teachers teach their disciples, they have to pay attention to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude."
When the words "Teach students in accordance with their aptitude" came out, Ji Qingsong felt that his whole body was weak, and the strength that supported him in standing had completely dissipated.
He sat on the cold steps, silent.
He understood the subtext of Cai Guodong.
He thinks that Liang Kunpeng is a rotten wood that cannot be carved, but in fact Liang Kunpeng is not a rotten wood and can be carved, but it cannot be carved according to his method.
The clown turned out to be myself.
Cai Guodong hasn't finished yet. "Two years ago, you said that Liang Kunpeng's achievements must exceed Lin Li's. The reason is that Lin Li's playing style is too simple and crude, and Liang Kunpeng has not yet been finalized. It can be trained to be smarter and better at reading the game than the current Lin Li. But have you ever thought about why Lin Li's playing style is so simple and crude?"
"Have you forgotten that Lin Li's teacher is Qin Huachang? The fact that Qin Huachang can train Sun Tianlong proves that he is top-notch in reading games, analyzing games, analyzing opponents, and psychological speculation. Why would a teacher like him train Lin Li into what he is now?"
"Because Lin Li can only be like this..."
"Each player is a container with a different capacity. The capacity of Lin Li is only enough for him to form a closed loop under that simple and crude system, but Sun Tianlong can form a larger closed loop under a tactical system that is ten times more complex. The size of this closed loop is the upper limit of the players. When Huaping selects talents, it is not the player's current strength and fame at the time, but the future development potential, which is the capacity of his container."
"How can a coach only have one tactical philosophy? Even a technical genius like He Jingping wasted seven years because he was too attached to his own philosophy, let alone you?"
"Junior brother, two years of coaching experience are enough for you to understand many things. Think carefully about the path you want to take in the future and do something truly meaningful."
Cai Guodong was kind and gentle throughout the whole process, but the criticism in his words was actually very serious.
He could have said these words two years ago, but he knew Ji Qingsong wouldn't understand them after he said them, so he made a bet. After waiting for two years, he could not only exchange for the growth of his junior brother, but also temper Liang Kunpeng's temperament through his junior junior brother, and plant a seed of technological reform in Liang Kunpeng's heart. He suggested that this piece of raw jade that had grown too wildly should be polished for two years.
In this case, when Liang Kunpeng is recruited into the national team next year, he will be able to save a lot of energy.
You see, this is the pattern of the head coach of the national team. He kills three birds with one stone and leaves no stone unturned. Regardless of the friendship between teachers and students, talent training, or self-burden reduction, he has done everything properly, and no one has anything to say.
The phone was hung up, but Ji Qingsong didn't want to go back to the venue.
He heard bursts of cheers and cheers coming from inside, and guessed that the game must be very lively. At this moment, perhaps Spade Q's second single Geng Shuai was beating his own team's second single.
After a while, the audience began to burst into laughter. Ji Qingsong could guess that a doubles match was going on, because Spade Q's doubles partners were Geng Shuai and Lu Jia. In the past half month, every time these two played doubles, they would be too chaotic, causing all kinds of laughter from the audience.
Then, the scene became quiet because the fourth game started. As expected, Spade Q sent out their ace Wang Chao.
So this was a brutal killing game, and it was a very low-tech killing game, so that the audience felt that the game was uninteresting and had no suspense.
Still later, the game was over.
Outside the venue, the voices inside could be vaguely heard. The host was congratulating Spade Q on his successful promotion in an exaggerated tone.
Imperial Capital New City eventually fell into Table Tennis First Division in the hands of Ji Qingsong.
Ji Qingsong knows that his own era has come to an end.
He plans to resign as the coach of Imperial Capital New City Team and return to the Jizhou Province team.
But this time he will not coach his disciples. He will start as an assistant coach, step by step, learn by doing, and strive to become a person who is truly meaningful to China Table Tennis in a few years.
He took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Liang Kunpeng: Thank you for your hard work in the past two years.
After thinking for a while, he continued: Sorry, goodbye.
Today's two updates are equivalent to three updates, but they are not divided into chapters.
So, in fact, I have been living for four days, I am really durable.