For athletes, the further into the game, the purer their minds become and the more monotonous their lives become.
If Wang Chao had time to occasionally quarrel with Tang Yuanyuan, chat with He Jingping, or even mind his own business to pay attention to the competition of famous players from other countries when the Open started, then by now, he only has two things left in his mind.
First, how to play Men's Singles in the next game?
Second, how will you play the next mixed doubles match?
All his brainpower and energy were used only to think about these two things, and all his physical strength was only used to practice for these two games.
In addition, eating, sleeping, going to the toilet, etc. are all human instincts, and all trivial matters are arranged by He Jingping, so he does not need to worry at all.
In fact, taking care of the players' daily life and handling all game-related matters should be the job scope of the coaches themselves.
Even the follower Tang Yuanyuan was temporarily taken away by Ge Miao. She will join Wang Chao after Wang Chao finishes the match where Men's Singles 8 advanced to 4 to study how to win the next mixed doubles match.
In fact, there were two games that morning that were closely related to China Table Tennis. One was Wolf in the top half playing Weng Chun Teng, and the other was Pike playing Fan Xiaodong in the bottom half.
Fan Xiaodong is a future star that Huaping focuses on cultivating, while Weng Chunting is a young man from the port area who is in the same spirit as Huaping.
If it were in the past, either Fan Xiaodong's temporary coach Sun Tianlong or Weng Chunting's coach Cai Guoqiang would pretend to casually come over to chat with Wang Chao and ask for his advice. This is normal, after all, in the previous few public meetings At the beginning of the competition, even Cai Guodong, the chief helmsman of China Table Tennis Team, had done this kind of thing, and Luo Jiu even took the initiative to call Wang Chao for help on the eve of the China Open final, and successfully received advice, and defeated Hook who was at his peak.
In a sense, Wang Chao has been considered an internally recognized member of the Chinese table tennis coaching staff most of the time.
Only when his career as a player is facing a decisive moment like this, will everyone rarely quarrel with him.
Of course, the Huaping coaches are not just for nothing. Even without the help of Wang Chao, Fan Xiaodong still won the victory without any danger that morning. He used his violent backhand to kill Pike, who had unique backhand loop skills, showing more skillful skills and more stable on-site performance than the last time he participated.
But the most eye-catching thing about this game is not Fan Xiaodong who performed amazingly, but Sun Tianlong who has been sitting quietly on the fence behind him.
Sun Tianlong didn't call a timeout or make any extra moves throughout the game, and he didn't even tell Fan Xiaodong much about the ball during the halftime break. However, as long as he sat there, he was the most handsome guy in the entire game, and he naturally attracted a lot of attention.
"Sun Tianlong is suspected of being a transformation coach, and the suspense over the candidate of Huaping Olympic Games is again rising." This news was directly on the top of the hot search.
At 1:30 that afternoon, the Men's Singles 8-to-4 game started on two tables at the same time, with the first half of the game taking place first.
Hook and Bayer belong to the succession battle between the old and new kings of Europe. In this game, Uncle Bayer went against the norm and gave up his old way of playing health ball. He played very actively, dragging his 34-year-old body across the court and trying to catch every ball that had a chance to be saved. However, after forty-five long minutes, he still lost to Hook 2:4.
The reason why this game lasted so long is because Bayer has rich game experience. When the situation becomes passive, he will not let the score collapse. Instead, he will try every means to delay and change the rhythm just right. Calling a timeout, all his efforts were just to disrupt Hook's rhythm and ruin Hook's feel. Later, he even imitated Luo Jiu in March and tried to serve consecutive tennis balls.
It can be said that Uncle Bai really tried his best because he did not want to admit that he was old, let alone admit that the focus of European table tennis had shifted elsewhere from Germany.
He is the spiritual leader of the Germany table tennis world. After Wolf, Sissifield and Qiu Shang were eliminated one after another, he still wanted to hold up the banner of German table tennis.
The most important thing is that he heard that Hook is going to China to fight Table Tennis Super League in August.
If Hook always plays in the club league in Germany, then even if it is a bit reluctant, German head coach Rohlskov can still shamelessly say that Hook is a German player who can represent the European table tennis world and the glory of the German table tennis world.
But when Hook went to China, the situation became very embarrassing. Bayer had to stand up and personally defend the glory of German table tennis.
At least, it is necessary to consolidate the core position of German table tennis in Europe.
Considering that Morad is suspended and Michel is in seclusion, as long as Bayer can kill Hook in this open competition and become the only European player in the top four, it will be considered as completing the task.
So he fought against the odds and fought against the odds.
However, he still lost in the end, because the situation at this time Hook was obviously different from that at Swedish Open in April.
In April, in Sweden, Hook accepted the technical analysis and future suggestions from He Jingping and Wang Chao, and no longer followed Rohlskov's requirements to pursue stability, nor did he recite the fixed methods of handling the ball that Rohlskov taught him.
When practicing, he returned to the state of thinking while adapting to the situation. This caused his stability to begin to decline, but the quality of the balls he hit began to improve. His whole body was like a seesaw. When one head goes up, the other end must come down at the same time, and he can never reach balance.
But compared with a year ago, he has finally achieved a little bit of balance. Now his chain drops are not as serious as in the past, and the balls he hits are still difficult for anyone to catch.
Therefore, Bayer was purely defeated by Hook's high-quality single board, and Hook's game state was indeed affected by Bayer's various delays. However, in the process of such mutual harm, it was the younger and more physically energetic Hook who struggled to the end.
As for Lin Zijun and Weng Chunting, who were dueling on another table at the same time, there was a little anecdote before the game. The two called Wang Chao at the same time, wanting to ask for advice on the best way to beat each other.
This is a typical mutual fear. After all, Lin Zijun has yet to compete with Penhold Backhand Loop since his debut. He lacks experience and therefore lacks confidence.
Weng Chunting, after looking at the current world rankings, judged that his strength should be lower than that of his opponent.
Lin Zijun has always had sympathy for Wang Chao. After all, this is a rare super genius of the same age. In addition, he had asked Wang Chao for help before playing Hook, so he was familiar with it this time.
Weng Chunting feels that Huaping and Hong Kong Table Tennis are on the same page, and obviously we are our own people.
Unfortunately, both of their calls went to He Jingping.
In order to ensure that he is in the best condition and will not be disturbed, Wang Chao has already handed over the phone to He Jingping.
So in the end, Lin Zijun and Weng Chunting were very nervous when they came on the stage. After all, the coaches behind them, Jiang Peirong and Cai Guoqiang, had only average professional abilities, which was not enough to give their disciples sufficient confidence.
But after the fight actually started, the situation was actually very clear.
In fact, this was a crushing game. In just 20 minutes, Lin Zijun blocked Weng Chunting 4-0, making it the shortest game so far in the main stage of this Open.
After the game, Lin Zijun suddenly realized: It turns out that I am already so strong.
The world table tennis world was in an uproar, not because Lin Zijun won, but because Lin Zijun won too easily. The European head coaches headed by Rohlskov all jumped out to criticize. After a wave of presence, they declared with confidence: Lin Zijun has been upgraded. He is no longer the Lin Zijun he was when he competed last month. He is now a seed player qualified to challenge the dominance of Chinese table tennis.
Then Roerskov @Huaping official website, meaning he came to argue if he was not convinced. Huaping official website was quiet and no one paid attention to him.
At 2:30 that afternoon, Men's Singles 8's two games in the lower half of the 4th zone started at the same time. One side was Fan Xiaodong vs Mizutori Hato, and the other side was Wang Chao vs Lin Li.
When Wang Chao walked into the arena, far away in Guangdong Province, China, Qin Huachang turned off the computer with unfinished business, was forced by his son Qin Zhenyu to take medicine and go to bed.
At this time, China time is 8:30 pm.
Although Qin Huachang did not continue the live broadcast tonight, he still insisted on watching the first two games. The reason is that these two games are all foreign wars. He has no worries or inclinations. Of course, it will not induce heart disease.
But the last two games were really unwatchable, because the players on both tables were all Qinmen disciples.
It's actually okay for Fan Xiaodong to fight Mizutori Hato. Although Qin Huachang is very concerned about Fan Xiaodong, he is sure that Fan Xiaodong has at least an 80% chance of winning.
But in another game, Wang Chao beat Lin Li, which would be really fatal, because Old Qin knew very well that Lin Li had little chance of winning.
So he covered himself with a quilt, lying in a dark room, staring at the ceiling above his head with wide eyes. His heart was scratching his head, but he didn't dare to turn on the phone. He wanted to sleep, but he couldn't sleep at all. He fell into endless contradictions and distress.
He was really curious. "A Long is coaching Lin Li as a coach for the first time, and facing Wang Chao again, what method will he come up with?"
"How do Lin Li plan to fight?" In the audience, He Jingping also asked Sun Tianlong with curiosity.
There is no off-field guidance in this civil war. When the players enter the field, they lose contact with the coach, so He Jingping's open and generous question does not count as eavesdropping on secrets.
Sun Tianlong acted very humble and answered seriously, "I thought about it for a long time yesterday, but I didn't actually think of any good solution. But after watching the game this morning, I felt that Bai Feng's playing style was actually very good, so I told my junior brother, don't think too much in the first game, play by feeling, you can play a little more recklessly, a little more chaotic, and forget all the experiences of past games."
From these words alone, we can see that Sun Tianlong is discerning.
In fact, in the match between Wang Chao and Bai Feng in the morning, no one in the world table tennis community has come forward to conduct professional analysis, because most of non-Chinese associations's national-level coaches have not yet figured out the context. They need to spend time watching it a few more times and thinking about it for a few more days before they can figure it out.
Sun Tianlong is far away in Germany and does not know that Qin Huachang is broadcasting live. Naturally, he has not listened to Qin Huachang talking about football. He said this to He Jingping at this moment, which means that he has understood it.
With this alone, he has surpassed more than half of the coaching staff of China Table Tennis Team.
And he suggested that Lin Li learn Bai Feng's playing style, which represents a kind of mind and pattern.
He is not as competitive as Qin Huachang, nor does he insist on dominating others everywhere. He thinks Bai Feng's playing style is good, so he just uses it without any psychological burden.
But he did not let Lin Li play like this all the time, but said that he could play like this in the first game, which meant that he even saw clearly the mistakes Bai Feng made later. He was not following the script, he wanted to make adjustments.
So He Jingping couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that this one is also very difficult..."
Sun Tianlong asked, "Wang Chao, how do you plan to fight this time?"
He Jingping spread his hands. "I don't know."
He didn't wait for Sun Tianlong to continue asking, and directly confessed. "In fact, we only discussed how to fight Bai Feng last night, and we didn't discuss how to fight Lin Li at all. We originally wanted to discuss it after we finished fighting Bai Feng this morning, but after we actually finished fighting, he told me that he had his own ideas and didn't need my help."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Sun Tianlong's confused face and smiled. It was obvious that he was not a coach of any help, but his expression actually seemed to be "not ashamed but proud", and he said proudly, "It's okay, you will get used to this kind of thing in the future."
(Please wait a moment for the second update. I'm still writing, but I can't make it to the 8 o'clock deadline)
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