On February 4th, the members of Jiangcheng City Team began to return one after another, and the special training of Wang Chao and He Jingping was also forced to terminate.
When leaving the base, Wu Li was quite reluctant to leave because he had gained more in these three days than in the past three years.
Wang Chao and Wu Li agreed to meet at Spade Q in the future, and then followed He Jingping directly to the imperial capital.
The national team's training day was still before the Table Tennis Super League spring game. When Wang Chao returned to the national team training base, he found that there were a lot of people inside. All the tables were occupied, and there were many people standing by the table watching the game. At a glance, they were all strangers, and few of them knew each other.
Then he was told that tomorrow is the big day for National Second Team newcomer selection.
This is also a traditional event for Huaping over the years.
"Now there are a total of 127 players gathered here, from 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, as well as several Table Tennis Super League and Table Tennis First Division teams. Each of them is a well-deserved ace in their own team, and what we have to do is to select from these people."
He Jingping Obviously, he has been in constant contact with the Imperial City these days, and now he talks clearly. "This year's selection quota is tentatively set at fourteen, seven of which will be directly admitted to the team, and the other seven need to compete in a small lift competition with the kids who are currently at the bottom of the second team. The winners will be admitted to the team, and the losers will be sent back."
Wang Chao nodded to express understanding.
This rule is similar to his experience in the national team in his previous life, and it still clearly reflects the national team's "people rule" mentality from all aspects.
The seven places that directly join the team are not necessarily the seven with the best scores in the assessment, but because they are directly favored by the coaching staff.
The other seven places in the promotion and relegation rounds are even more cruel, because it is really the turning point of fate. If you win, you may have the opportunity to enter the first team after entering the second team. If you work harder and go one step further, international competitions will be beckoning to you.
And if you lose promotion and relegation, then maybe you won't be selected next year, because you are one year older, which means your potential has dropped again.
China Table Tennis There are too many geniuses. If you take a step slowly, you may miss your life.
Whether to become a domestic league player whose name will never be heard by the world table tennis world, or to become a big shot known to fans all over the world, often depends on the outcome of this casual game.
But even so, this year is still a year that the provincial team players are looking forward to, because according to the rules, National Second Team will enter fourteen people this year, but only seven will come out. This means that the second team has actually expanded its recruitment.
The reason for expanding the recruitment is because the coaching staff has deeply realized that our talents are really in danger of running out of time.
In the next three days, Wang Chao followed He Jingping to watch the entire selection process.
There was another team member watching the whole process with him, it was Sun Tianlong of World number one.
This is a great honor that even the other four of the five main players of the national team have never received.
Sun Tianlong has been watching the selection process for three consecutive years since the year before last.
The reason why I let him watch is because he is already thirty-one years old, which is considered an advanced age in Huaping. He is about to retire, and a player with a brain like his will 100% become a coach after retirement, either inheriting the mantle of the Qin sect, or creating a new Sun sect in the future.
He is trying to look at these young players in the trials with a coach's thinking and prepare for his future transformation.
And Wang Chao won this honor, it can only be said that it really depends on his personal strength...
His current combat ability is not valued too much by the big guys, but in terms of layout and planning, he has been highly recognized by the big guys of the national team. Qin Huachang even thinks that he is more sinister than most coaches, so the big guys let him accompany them to watch, in fact, they hope to use his vision to discover some things that they have missed.
Wang Chao was therefore fortunate to get a list of contestants.
He found many acquaintances from the list. For example, Imperial Capital New City Team, the first order of Liang Kunpeng, and Lu Province Weiqiao Club, the second order of Gao Mingyuan, who are in the same row as the six dragons, are here.
This actually confirms a point: the national team bosses did not really look down on these two dragons two years ago, but deliberately let them go to Table Tennis Super League for two years to polish off some edges and understand some things. In this way, it will be easier to teach them when they join the national team again.
The principle is probably similar to that of boiling an eagle.
Then Wang Chao saw the names of Hu Buming and Ma Angxing among the players selected by the Table Tennis First Division team.
Hu Buming was selected because he played really well last year. As a rookie, his performance was only lower than Wang Chao.
Ma Angxing's performance last year was worse than Hu Buming, but he couldn't help but already had a relationship with Coach Wang Lu, so there is no doubt that he is an appointed member and is among the seven places that are bound to join the team.
Then Wang Chao discovered Fan Xiaodong's name quite unexpectedly.
Fan Xiaodong was actually specially recruited to China Table Tennis Team by the national team. In order to accept this apprentice, Qin Huachang suffered a lot and paid a heavy price. Wang Chao originally thought that Fan Xiaodong entered First Team directly by default, but when I suddenly saw this name, I immediately understood that Fan Xiaodong's strength must have achieved some success, and it was considered to have entered a new level.
So Fan Xiaodong is not here for assessment, he is here to fight to become famous. As expected, he will beat most of the people present, and it is not unusual even if he ends up ranking first.
Moreover, after entering National Second Team, he will beat up a lot of people, and finally enter First Team in a dignified manner.
In this case, if he becomes Qin Huachang's disciple again, Qin Huachang will not have to bear the stigma of "going through the back door".
Wang Chao turned the list to the "Hubei Provincial Team Selection List" column to see which players there were in his hometown.
Northern Hubei Province selected three people this time, one is fifteen years old, one is seventeen years old, and one is eighteen years old. I don't recognize any of them by name, and Wu Li's name is not among them.
But this does not mean that Jiang Tiansheng has a problem. On the contrary, it shows that Jiang Tiansheng is discerning. Like Wang Chao, he can see that Wu Li's style is a late bloomer, so he did not even rush to recruit Wu Li to the provincial team, but let Wu Li slowly polish it in the city team.
However, what Jiang Tiansheng didn't expect was that Wu Li was picked off the peach by Wang Chao and went to Spade Q.
When Wu Li succeeds in the future, his selection unit will not be Hubei Provincial Team, but Black Spade Q Club. Once he is successfully selected for the national team, the one who will be commended will be Spade Q's boss Fan Xiaofan.
So the trials officially began.
Because there were so many games, the game was played on all the tables at the same time. There was a dedicated person responsible for recording all the games for the coaches to analyze afterwards. During the game, the coaches could choose the games they were interested in to watch at will, and were allowed to communicate with the players at will after the game.
This is actually a two-way selection process. When a coach sees a player he really likes, he can decide first. The seven spots that directly join the team are a clear privilege for the coaches.
At the same time, the coaches' watching the game is also creating pressure on the players. Whether they can withstand the pressure is also one of the important indicators for the national team's assessment.
Wang Chao After all, he only wanted to watch the excitement, and he didn't have much purpose. He simply chose games of his acquaintances to watch.
For example Fan Xiaodong.
This is the first time Wang Chao has seen Fan Xiaodong after practicing hard in seclusion since Liancheng City competed.
Fan Xiaodong's playing style is actually a bit similar to that of Lin Li and Liang Kunpeng. Although he is only 15 years old, his physical condition is extremely good and the quality of his board is extremely high. However, if you look closely, he is different from Lin Liang and Lin Liang because he does not deliberately pursue the quality of his board. He just has good physical condition and a very standard way of exerting force, so every ball he hits casually is of high quality.
Looking at this alone, his foundation is already higher than that of most professional players.
He also has the characteristics of a new generation player. He has an extremely powerful backhand twist. The ball he twists is heavy and spinning, which is difficult to deal with, but he is not that fast.
Many times one has to choose between rotation and speed. At this point, Fan Xiaodong made a different choice from Lin Zijun.
But after Wang Chao watched several games in a row, he also discovered some problems with Fan Xiaodong.
He still played too easily.
Although compared with when Liancheng City first met, Fan Xiaodong now has the prototype of a complete tactical system, but the system itself is still crude in Wang Chao's opinion.
Wang Chao had some vague guesses.
Probably because of lack of time, Qin Huachang could only imitate Lin Li's methods, and temporarily taught Fan Xiaodong a similar system for him to use first, because it seems that there are many similarities between the two people.
But in the future, with Qin Huachang's ability, he will definitely find the differences between the two disciples, modify Fan Xiaodong's playing style bit by bit, and finally tailor the most reasonable tactical system for Fan Xiaodong based on his personal characteristics.
At that time, it will be the time for Fan Xiaodong to really spread its wings Gao Fei.
Now Fan Xiaodong just needs to rely on this temporary system to win the trials.
As for his true strength...
Wang Chao was finding it difficult to judge when he saw Liang Kunpeng standing opposite Fan Xiaodong.
Wang Chao smiled.
This game is interesting.
Liang Kunpeng and Lin Li are also of the same type, and they are perfect touchstones.
He stood on the sidelines and watched for forty minutes, and finally Fan Xiaodong defeated Liang Kunpeng 4:2.
This is a game that makes Wang Chao quite unexpected.
At the beginning, Liang Kunpeng had the advantage because his board was of super high quality, which even Wang Chao had a hard time dealing with. Naturally, Fan Xiaodong couldn't handle it either. He and Liang Kunpeng fought forehands continuously and were penetrated continuously, falling behind 0:4 from the beginning.
But at this time, Fan Xiaodong began to change his tactics.
He chose the same tactics as Wang Chao, and began to focus on Liang Kunpeng's backhand baseline angle, forcing Liang Kunpeng to either pull back, retreat, or rub the ball, but did not give Liang Kunpeng a chance to explode.
At this time, the difference between the two was obvious. The 15-year-old Fan Xiaodong actually felt much better than Liang Kunpeng. He controlled the ball steadily. Liang Kunpeng tried several times to find a chance to rush, but couldn't find it.
So in the first game, Fan Xiaodong finally pulled the ball back and turned defeat into victory.
When the second game started, Liang Kunpeng also made adjustments. He began to try to run forcefully, changing the ball from the backhand position to the forehand position, and then forced a charge.
However, Liang Kunpeng is not a speed player after all. This tactic was too heavy for him. In the end, he only managed two, but because he emphasized running too much, he was widely mobilized by Fan Xiaodong, which made it more and more full of flaws.
So Liang Kunpeng was killed again in the second game.
Then Fan Xiaodong fell off the chain.
This is also a common problem for new players. They may still have the courage to fight when they are at a disadvantage, but once they gain an advantage, they start to worry about gains and losses. Their mentality inevitably fluctuates, and they become more stable and afraid to play. In the end, they become timid and their hot hand gradually cools down.
After all, Liang Kunpeng is a veteran who has played Table Tennis Super League for two years, and is far ahead in terms of mentality and experience. He began to chase points steadily, and the more he played, the more aggressive he became. He cheered after winning, which made Fan Xiaodong even more flustered. So he chased two games in one go, and the total score became 2:2.
At this time, Wang Chao actually felt that Fan Xiaodong was going to lose, because 90% of new players cannot stabilize their mentality when they are at a disadvantage. They will be better first and then worse, and then they will most likely collapse directly.
But Fan Xiaodong miraculously held on.
After the end of the fourth game, he ate two bites of a banana and sat in a chair for a while, as if he was taking a rest. After returning to the field, he started fighting frantically.
It is not strange to fight at this time. After all, rabbits bite when they are anxious. But the problem is that Fan Xiaodong has a high success rate in fighting. This shows that he is not jumping over the wall in a hurry, but has really stabilized his mentality and made his tactics clear. He chose to fight in a very calm manner.
This has to amaze Wang Chao, because according to his experience as a coach in his previous life, if a new player can adjust his mentality to this degree on his own, then he already has the potential to be a world-class player.
Over the years, none of Huaping's Grand Slam and Great Demon King had a bad mentality.
When skills are practiced to the extreme, mentality is often more important than strength.
In contrast, the veteran Liang Kunpeng was not stable. He was flustered by Fan Xiaodong's consecutive fights and wanted to fight back. However, his counter-fight was full of loopholes and he committed suicide in various ways. As a result, the fight got worse and he lost the last two games in a row.
Seeing this, Wang Chao has determined that Fan Xiaodong will inevitably become his enemy in the future.
As for Liang Kunpeng, because he was eliminated on the first day, he seemed a little depressed at this time. He probably felt that his luck was too bad. He didn't know that in the eyes of the big guys, he had already been pre-determined and was one of the seven places that was certain to join the team.
But the bosses didn't tell him this, they just wanted him to slowly regret and think about it, so that he could get rid of his stubborn temper and make it easier for him to reform in the future.
But which coach took a fancy to him? Wang Chao still has no answer to this question.