But Wang Chao felt that it was not enough. He believed that since he wanted to imitate Ichikawa Mima, the more imitative it is, the better.
He changed the racket from his left hand to his right hand and tried again. After trying it, the girls were so excited that their faces turned red. It turned out that Wang Chao's right-hand horizontal racket and backhand bounce were also very natural, which was simply amazing.
At this moment, I have to say that the girls admire Wang Chao quite a bit.
Of course they had watched Xiangnan TV's variety show last month. Wang Chao imitated Sun Tianlong with his right hand, and even their head coach Wang Wendong was defeated. Today, Wang Chao imitated Ichikawa Mima, and even performed such a difficult technique as a backhand flick.
At such a young age, what else can she not do?
So for half the morning and the entire afternoon that day, Wang Chao's time was divided up among the girls.
Regarding this, both Wang Chao himself and the men's table tennis coaching staff think it is normal.
After all, in today's day, apart from the qualifying selection, there is only the drawing of lots, and in the group stage starting tomorrow morning, the only opponent Wang Chao needs to pay attention to is Mizutori Hato.
Does Mizutori Hato need to be taken seriously?
Not needed.
Mizutori Hato is 29 years old. He is older, his skills have been established, and his waist is not good. Hong Kong Open has just been defeated head-on by Wang Chao. He is basically destined to be a stepping stone.
So Wang Chao really has plenty of time. He doesn't need to study his opponent until the top eight are decided.
It is worth mentioning that women's table tennis is much more stable than men's table tennis. Of the thirteen little talents who came this time, six of them entered the main draw directly based on their world rankings, while the other seven all made it out of the qualifying rounds without a doubt.
They all ranked first in the qualifying group, and they all won and qualified.
The qualifying matches of women's table tennis were a real bloody storm, and the little girls basically achieved a massacre of every qualifying group.
Of course, this also means that Wang Chao will be more tired, because he has to train with 13 people. After all, these little flowers are of equal strength, no one is obviously outstanding, and everyone is theoretically likely to meet Ichikawa Mima.
In the live lottery ceremony that afternoon, Wang Chao, who was busy with sparring, was naturally absent, but the news still spread quickly. In the end, Liang Kunpeng was assigned to District 2, Fan Xiaodong was assigned to District 3, and Gao Mingyuan was assigned to District 7.
At this point, the top 32 groups for the main draw have been completed.
On the morning of the second day, the first round of the main draw started simultaneously on four tables.
It is recognized by the outside world that there is not much to watch in this round, and it is basically a game with a huge difference in strength. However, it has to be said that today's table tennis has indeed entered an era of turmoil and talents. In a small-scale event like Swedish Open, there was still a moderate upset.
In the second intra-group showdown in Zone 2, Arul, an individual player from Africa, defeated the newly rising German player Qiu Shang with a score of 4:1.
It is not easy for Arul to win. His playing style is very rough. He lacks guidance from famous teachers and lacks a good training environment. He often makes serious wrong judgments and responses during the game. This is a serious lack of technical and tactical system. These fatal problems make it difficult for him to win when facing enemies with comparable strength.
So in order to win, the only thing he can do is practice hard, practice hard until his physical strength is far better than the opponent, and then try his best to save every ball during the game, never give up every opportunity, and treat every game as the last game of his career.
It was with this will and belief that he defeated Qiu Shang.
When Arul won the game, walked to the empty backboard behind him, and picked up a towel, a water glass, and a spare racket that he had put there, almost all the audience at the scene cheered loudly and applauded him warmly.
He has no off-court coaching.
He is from Nigeria, Africa, and is known as African top player, but in fact, Africa is very poor and almost no one learns table tennis. He has been practicing in a very simple environment since he was a child. Most of his learning comes from asking for advice from everywhere, from watching videos, reading technical articles, and from self-study and exploration.
Later, he was spotted by a former retired professional player in Nigeria and got his own coach, but this coach was only able to teach him the basics of playing, and his own abilities were also limited. At the beginning, he was always underestimated in the world arena, so he couldn't help Arul much.
So he still needs to go abroad to compete alone.
While other players are practicing safely in the arena, he needs to determine his itinerary, find hotels, arrange game plans, solicit sponsorships, and so on.
He did all the trivial matters himself. He traveled around the world to participate in competitions with his two rackets, a towel and a water glass, and supported his daily consumption through the meager prize money he won in the competition.
He has been playing for many years, but he has never been able to make a splash. Until this time, he defeated Qiu Shang when no one expected it, showing his unparalleled physical fitness as a black man.
In this game, his forehand was just crazy.
In an era when the diameter of table tennis balls is getting larger and larger and the number of kills is getting smaller and smaller, he told the world that sideways punches can still be fatal with one hit. You can't do it because you are not strong enough.
Wang Chao watched the whole game and clapped his hands many times in the middle, not because of Arul's skills, but because of Arul's abnormal physical fitness and unique forehand punch. He was convinced that another violent turtle in the world table tennis world had taken shape, and he was a typical late bloomer.
A player who is so violent doesn't really need to have very good skills. As long as his skills can entangle his opponent a little bit, he can forcefully score points with his forehand anytime and anywhere. This style of play is actually similar to China Open's newly awakened Sissifield.
The difference is that compared to Arul, Sissifield, which has a rough playing style, is like a master of art.
It is also worth mentioning the match between Lin Zijun and Liang Kunpeng. In this game, Liang Kunpeng was uncharacteristically no longer stubbornly pursuing the quality of the board, but started a tactical fight with Lin Zijun.
Not to mention, when a player like Liang Kunpeng suddenly starts playing tricks, it's like Zhang Fei suddenly learned to embroider. It really brings a lot of trouble to Lin Zijun, but the two are really familiar with each other. After all, Table Tennis First Division had always been teammates fighting side by side, so after fighting, the two went back to their old ways. As Lin Zijun gradually adapted, Liang Kunpeng couldn't hold on any longer.
This game made coach Chen Taolue sitting on the sidelines a little regretful.
In order to defeat Lin Zijun, he carefully designed a set of targeted playing methods for Liang Kunpeng. However, according to the container theory, Liang Kunpeng's closed loop is not large enough and the tactical system it can accommodate is limited, so his targeted strategies are also limited. This limited strategy was eventually adapted to Lin Zijun in seven games.
When both sides become accustomed to each other, the gap in hard power will emerge.
In the end, Lin Zijun defeated Liang Kunpeng 4:3. The game was very exciting, and the scene was very beautiful. Although Liang Kunpeng lost, Chen Taolue's expression was quite gratifying, because in his opinion, the fact that Liang Kunpeng was able to reach the decisive game with a player like Lin Zijun in his second open competition was enough to prove that he had a good vision in choosing his disciples.
In other games in the first round, Hook, Zhang Benkuang, Li Zhengzhi, Wolf, Sissifield, Fan Xiaodong, Morad, k. Michel, Gao Mingyuan, Mizutori Hato, and Wang Chao all successfully qualified.
This time, there are still a large number of viewers in Europe paying attention to Fan Xiaodong, wanting to know the details of Fan Xiaodong.
Fan Xiaodong's opponent in this round is really not that strong. He is a young player named the Peacock Country. This player is ranked 107th in the world. Because of his good luck, he was assigned to a good group in the qualifying round and was able to enter the main competition as the second place in the group.
But facing this fat player, Fan Xiaodong lost one game first, then won four games in a row, and finally completed the reversal. The game was not enjoyable at all.
After the game, there were more posts on the European forum, and more people began to badmouth Fan Xiaodong, and suggested that everyone should stop paying attention to this kind of parallel import, and should focus on Wang Chao, Hook, Lin Zijun, Morad and others. After all, they are the newly rising supernovas and the favorites to win the Open of this site.
After the morning battle, the top 16 were born, and it was the second round that really excited the audience.
Because this time, there will be many anticipated games.
Zone 2, Lin Zijun vs Arul.
Zone 3: Sissifield vs Fan Xiaodong.
Zone 6: Wolf vs Morad.
Zone 7: k. Michel vs Gao Mingyuan.
Zone 8: Mizutori Hato vs Wang Chao.
In the afternoon, Stockholm at 1:30 local time, the 16-to-8 game started on two tables at the same time.
In District 1, Hook advanced smoothly without any surprises.
In Zone 2, Lin Zijun suffered a crazy fight from Arul, using all kinds of unreasonable forehand thrusts and violent backhand pulls. Although the success rate was not high, it still made him break into a cold sweat every time.
Lin Zijun won the game with a big score of 4:1, but he only felt a headache after the game.
This is also normal.
He fought Liang Kunpeng and then Arul in two consecutive rounds. Both were violent men and wanted to slap someone to death with their forehand, so he was forced to concentrate at least 12%. Once he saw that his opponent was about to exert force, he retreated crazily. As a result, the opponent's success rate was not high and he repeatedly made mistakes in attacks. Therefore, Lin Zijun's actions were like false alarms one after another. Too many times, it would become a bit boring.
This feeling is just like hearing the story "The boy who cried wolf" when I was a kid.
The wolves kept coming, but every time they came, they were already dead, but I felt like I was facing a powerful enemy and had a false alarm.
Occasionally, the wolf is not dead and does come, but I am well prepared but still unable to stop it.
Then why do I need to act like I'm facing a formidable enemy? Anyway, I can't stop it, so I might as well just lie down.
Lin Zijun silently prayed at this moment. "I hope I won't encounter violent turtles in the next round. I want to play technical ball."
After praying, he looked at the match list and his heart dropped.
If nothing else goes wrong, he should compete with Hook in the next round - yes, this mantra passed through Liang Kunpeng's mouth and has been passed from the national team to Table Tennis Super League, and then to Table Tennis First Division. Even an innocent young man like Lin Zijun, who never uses foul language, has been led astray.
The game between Lin Zijun and Arul won warm applause from the audience because the audience felt that the game was violent and passionate enough.
They think Arul is probably the biggest violent turtle in this tournament besides Hook.
But then, when Sissifield and Fan Xiaodong started fighting, they realized how naive they were.
In this game, fans from all over the world are optimistic about Sissifield on a large scale.
After all, Sissifield's performance over China Open a month ago was so impressive that even Lin Li was violently beaten to death by him. Although he lost to Luo Jiu in the end, Luo Jiu is as famous as Sun Tianlong after all. Anyone who loses to him can be forgiven.
However, Fan Xiaodong played very unsatisfactorily in yesterday and today's games. He even lost the first game against the Peacock Country. This was simply shocking and made people wonder whether this was the true level of Chinese table tennis players.
Such Fan Xiaodong will probably be beaten to tears by Sissifield, right?
That's what European audiences thought at first, anyway.