In the following days, Wang Chao began to practice hard at the national team training base.
Then he discovered that Qin Huachang had planned on him and put a layer of mixed doubles shackles on him in advance, which made sense after all.
Although Cai Guodong never said that mixed doubles players cannot compete for singles spots, the importance of the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal has been raised to a too high level by the coaching staff. Basically, it cannot be lost and must be won. All it takes is to write a military order.
This also caused a problem: since he returned to the Imperial Capital, he has been forced to practice mixed doubles with all his strength.
You won't be able to avoid practicing this thing just because of how good his skills are. After all, if you do well, your partner must also do well. And if your partner does well, you must practice with him so that you can cooperate.
So even if there is nothing wrong with Wang Chao, he still has to accompany different Xiaohua to constantly try various combinations and tactics, and he has no time to train his singles.
Of course, he can also practice more by himself in his free time after dinner, but the problem is that he is not an iron man after all. If he continues to practice like that, he will die.
So He Jingping started to look sorry and ashamed after seeing Wang Chao these days. He still felt that he had fallen into Old Qin's trick and messed up Wang Chao's career plan.
But in fact, facing this expected situation, Wang Chao's real thought in his heart is: who cares?
He really doesn't care about singles practice.
There is a saying in China that "the punches never leave the hands, the tunes never leave the mouth." In the eyes of others, if Wang Chao doesn't practice singles in three days, his hands will be bad, if he doesn't practice singles in a week, he will regress, and if he doesn't practice singles in a month, he won't even be able to beat the second team players.
But here at Wang Chao, this saying is not explained this way.
Although he is practicing mixed doubles, he is still practicing ball in essence, and it's not like he has stopped touching the ball. How could his hand be injured?
As for the different emphasis and technical points of mixed doubles and singles, yes, this is a fact, but this level of difference is only effective for ordinary players. For players like him who naturally have perfect level skills and perfect level stability, it is not a problem at all.
Don't forget, in the third game of Swedish Open's final against Fan Xiaodong, his style of chasing the ball without moving his feet at all represented that he had reached the "no move" level at the technical level.
He has long since passed the stage of "practicing a posture counts as a posture" and "practicing an action counts as an action." He has already reached the point where he can do whatever he wants in terms of technical focus and posture adjustment, and everything makes sense. In other words, there is not much difference between practicing mixed doubles and practicing singles. In the final analysis, it is just about maintaining touch and muscle memory.
So he was very calm.
It's just that he's a little confused about how to play Mixed Doubles.
Because he hasn't been able to determine who his partner is yet, he can't use his experience in his previous life to enter an effective training mode with his partner.
Therefore, he just cooperated in a routine every day, trying to form a team with many little flowers, and the technical indicators and height parameters of the little flowers were different, so Wang Chao was very tired to accompany him. In addition to maintaining the feel, it can be said that training in this chaotic mode does not have much practical significance in his opinion.
He should be practicing physical strength and strength.
But the coaching staff of China Table Tennis Team found it very meaningful. They got together and watched the training effect of Wang Chao every day, and then intensely discussed the strategies and tactics of mixed doubles. They wanted to verify various conjectures through a large number of training examples, and finally find a correct and feasible path.
Wang Chao became the test subject of that verification example in a dumbfounding way. The little flowers could still rotate, but he was a single seedling. He was really a tough little flower.
But even though his balls hurt, he could understand it in his heart.
After all, the mixed doubles thing is really troublesome, and the coaching staff really does not have a mature and complete plan. From this point of view, International Table Tennis Federation has really hit the seven-inch mark of Huaping in mixed doubles this year, because only in this matter, Huaping and non-Chinese associations are basically on the same starting line, which also gives non-Chinese associations the real possibility of surpassing Huaping.
So, what exactly is the complexity of mixed doubles?
Simply put, the biggest difference between doubles and singles is that coordination is far more important than individual skills.
The most important aspect of cooperation is tacit understanding.
This is also the reason why many singles Great Demon King have never achieved good results in doubles over the years.
In the past twenty years, there have been very few mixed doubles events in the open or the three major competitions, and no country pays attention to them. However, Men's Doubles and Women's Doubles are still very common, so there are also a group of doubles-specialized players in the national team. These players were completely beaten by the five main players of the national team in singles, but after they formed a partnership, they were able to defeat the temporary team of World number one and World Ranking Second head-on.
So don't think that doubles is simple. It just doesn't advocate individual heroism, so it will be underestimated subconsciously by the audience. But in fact, it is very technical. Even because there are more players on the field, there are more parameters that affect the outcome. Its tactics and strategy are much greater than singles, and the number of details in it is simply outrageous.
The technical content of mixed doubles is much higher than that of Men's Doubles and Women's Doubles.
Because there is a natural and irreparable gap in strength and speed between male and female athletes.
There is a public opinion within Huaping: World number one's Women's Singles players are theoretically only as good as, or even slightly inferior to, ordinary players on the first men's table tennis team.
Yes, it's that outrageous.
Therefore, the essence of mixed doubles is that a pair of partners with a very large gap in strength play against a pair of partners with a very large gap in strength.
It's like carrying a tow bottle on one side, which is really weird.
In essence, the duel between Men's Doubles and Women's Doubles is still equally matched. Regardless of coordination or switching between offense and defense, they are on the same level. They can understand each other when talking about tactics, so it is very simple to form a tacit understanding.
But male players and female players are not on the same level at all, so what is the right thing to do? When you actually get on the field, who should you listen to?
Over the years, there have been two views within Huaping.
First, backward compatibility allows male players to reduce batting quality and batting speed, focus on stability, and achieve a relative balance with female players.
Second, upward compatibility allows female players to serve as assistants throughout the game, taking all the dirty work and leaving all offense to the male players.
Both styles of play are obviously unbalanced, but the amazing thing is that over the years, they have occasionally formed a temporary mixed doubles, and they have won almost all the gold medals.
The reason why this can be achieved is that the Chinese Table Tennis Women's Team is so damn powerful.
Female players of the top 3 level have a higher winning rate even in 1v1 with non-Chinese associations's main male players. Therefore, when Huaping chooses a backward compatible style of play, it is actually purely relying on the personal strength of the female players to hold back the opposing male players, while our male players can beat the opponent's female players. In this way, of course, they can directly penetrate.
And when Huaping chooses upward compatibility, our female players have extremely comprehensive and powerful skills. She can really handle the dirty work to the point of being watertight, allowing the male players to attack without any scruples.
To put it bluntly, Huaping's mixed doubles has always been purely technical. When no one has figured out how to play mixed doubles, this set is enough.
But now that mixed doubles has entered the Olympics, it is no longer just an empty honor and a worthless gold-plated medal, but officially has economic value. In the past, non-Chinese associations players did not study mixed doubles because it was not profitable to study this thing and it was difficult to find individual sponsors.
But now, with such huge interests, there will inevitably be a group of truly professional mixed doubles players, and there will also be large foreign corporate sponsors entering this track, trying to overtake Huaping.
Then of course Huaping is forced to become professional.
"You know, someone asked me to bring you a message." On this day, Qiu Yinong was chatting with Wang Chao while leading his disciples for training.
Ever since Wang Chao guessed his pig-raising strategy last time, he has been very interested in Wang Chao. Today, he still only said half of his words. He wanted to see if Wang Chao's reaction was so amazing.
Facts have proved that it is really amazing.
"You didn't agree?" Wang Chao asked.
Qiu Yinong nodded.
"So, who among the three Wang Yu, Shen Sha, and Chen Tong is the teacher?" Wang Chao asked again.
Qiu Yinong was really shocked. "Do you know what it is?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Wang Chao said casually while wiping his sweat, "Now the only confirmed candidate for mixed doubles is me, so whoever works best with me in the women's team can play, but there is no one that Lao Wang is optimistic about. After winning the Swedish Open championship, he couldn't make a legitimate selection. Now the coaches under him are arguing every day, and no one is willing to give up. He is probably going crazy, just waiting for our men's table tennis team to assist him."
Qiu Yinong had no choice but to be convinced and nodded. "Actually, not only was Swedish Open's result unexpected, but the results of the women's team's internal round-robin assessment in the past two days were also outrageous. It was a huge upset. Of the three people that Lao Wang is most optimistic about, one is temporarily ranked third, one is temporarily ranked fifth, and one has fallen directly behind the tenth place. In this case, Lao Wang wants to force the assignment, I'm afraid it won't work."
This is also a special tradition of Huaping. The head coach has a high position and can be assigned occasionally, but at least it can be justified on the surface. If you completely cover up, the coaches under you will still make trouble.
After all, everyone wants to save face. It's OK to fight without breaking up, but it's not OK to be completely partial. Once this delicate balance is broken, the various undercurrents within Huaping cannot be suppressed.
The two of them talked about this with a sense of gloating. After all, Wang Wendong was known as Great Demon King at the time, and he also suppressed a group of people. Although Qiu Yinong was kicked out of the national team before he could stand out, he was also beaten to tears by Wang Wendong during team training. At this moment, thinking that Lao Wang was in a state of distress, the only feeling was that it was refreshing.
"If I directly call my name now, will it be accepted?" Wang Chao asked.
"Of course." Qiu Yinong nodded with a smile, "Wang Chao, you underestimate your current influence. You can transfer me from Western Sichuan to the Imperial Capital with just one sentence, and assign me a small mixed doubles female partner. It's not just a joke. You only need to say something, and Lao Wang guarantees that you will find an excuse immediately, and they will be sent to your doorstep."
As he spoke, his expression became lewd and he chuckled, leaving Wang Chao quite speechless.
Of course Qiu Yinong is not a pervert. He showed this expression because everyone in China Table Tennis Team has been spreading rumors recently: The women's team is choosing a concubine for Wang Chao with great fanfare.
It is unclear who originally said this, but the first person to spread it was undoubtedly Luo Jiu, the loudest mouth in Huaping. After he spread it once, this statement began to spread like a plague. Later, even Even such a serious person as Zhu Zeshi was led astray. When he met Wang Chao in the cafeteria yesterday, he casually said hello and asked, "Wang Chao, haven't you settled on the matter of choosing a concubine?"
Wang Chao was very confused at the time.
And Zhu Zeshi immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, coughed quickly, and asked again seriously, "Have you not decided on your partner yet?"
Zhu Zeshi What he asked was not important. What was important was that he said the wrong thing when he opened his mouth in a relaxed state. It can be seen that how many people must have mentioned the word "choosing a concubine" in his ears in the past few days, and how many times he said it in private before he got used to it and started talking about it.
It's really scary to think about it...
Thanks to "Meow's Schrödingerjin" and "Tian Qing Deng Yan Yu" for the reward.