On August 10, the five-day group World Cup officially came to an end.
There is no bloody scene where teammates are forcibly "injured" so that the protagonist can show off his skills.
There was no more bloody scene where the foreign teams exploded wildly and the protagonist had to step in to turn the tide.
Xiao Fei is willing to give in, but even if he gives in, it will only be the first substitute Bai Feng's turn. As for the second substitute Wang Chao...
Haha, trivia: In the decades of World Cup team competition history, no second substitute has ever actually played in a game.
So the fact is that Wang Chao played a role in the whole process and was responsible for clapping while sitting on the bench. And because he had to show the spirit of the entire Huaping team in front of the camera, his slaps turned red.
So when they boarded the plane and returned, each of the contestants had an extra World Cup gold medal in their account. They had conquered one of these three major events.
Of course, some people will argue and say, "World Cup is divided into team competition and individual competition. If you just win the gold medal in the team competition, you haven't truly conquered World Cup." Well, you win.
More than ten hours later, everyone returned to Chinese Table Tennis National Team Training Base. They first went to bed to recover from jet lag, and then held a meeting to summarize the game after the game.
This is the card for the three major competitions.
Normally, teams that go to open competitions are ignored when they come back, and everyone just treats them as a normal business trip.
But even if it is World Cup, which has the lowest gold content among the three competitions, and is the team competition with the least suspense among World Cup, it still needs to be reviewed after the game.
This review focuses on the semi-finals against Brazil and the final against Germany.
The final score of the game against Brazil was 3:1. There was no doubt about the victory, but the specific process was very questionable. At that time, Xiao Fei still couldn't excuse himself, so played. Luo Jiu, Lin Li and Bai Feng, but the Brazilian team played a little trick and placed the only ace Hook in the second single position.
Therefore, in the first three games, Luo Jiu and Bai Feng were both beaten, but Lin Li met Hook. The game was very fierce, and they fought hard for seven games. In the end, Lin Li was defeated 3:4.
It stands to reason that this result is not difficult to accept. After all, Hook is higher than Lin Li in both the current world ranking and the record in the past six months. But in fact, Lin Li is very unwilling because he has been training in seclusion recently. He thought he would be able to make a blockbuster success, but the result is still a little bit behind.
What he couldn't accept the most was that a well-known loser like Hook could hold on even to the seventh game without losing his mind. On the contrary, it was himself, a Chinese table tennis player known for his tenacity and tenacity, who couldn't hold on for the last breath.
This will greatly affect his strength evaluation in Cai Guodong's mind.
It will also greatly affect his competition for the Olympic Men's Singles quota.
He is a kind person, but in such a severe situation of fierce competition, he still has some small resentment towards Wang Chao, because in his opinion, Hook's stable state is inseparable from the influence of Wang Chao on Hook.
Especially considering that Wang Chao actually successfully invited Hook to go to Jiangcheng University Team to play Super League, he felt that Hook might have deliberately appeared in the second singles, and the purpose of arresting him was to help Wang Chao compete for the Olympic singles spot.
There are no moral saints in this world. No matter how kind a person is, he will have various associations at this time. If this association just makes sense logically, then it is not surprising that he will be suspicious.
But Lin Li had a good temper after all, and had no intention of doing anything strange. He just held his breath and vowed to train harder. He must personally defeat Wang Chao before Olympic Games arrived and seize the initiative in the competition.
Let's talk about this semi-final.
The fourth game was Luo Jiu playing Hook. This game was also very fierce. In the end, Luo Jiu won 4:2. It was not easy because the specific scores in each game were very close. This shows that now Hook has become really strong and his condition has indeed become very stable. Even though Luo Jiu has now reached the true ceiling of table tennis, as long as his condition is slightly bad or his mentality is slightly relaxed, he will still be killed by Hook.
In this case, it is a little more excusable for Lin Li to lose to Hook. After all, this game is not embarrassing, and the game that he was really embarrassed about this year was when he was killed by Germany's Sissifield with a backhand in China Open.
The coaching staff's review of this match focuses on the two matches between Luo Jiu and Lin Li. They need to re-evaluate Hook's strength, estimate specific technical indicators, and then ask professional sparring partners to find ways to imitate his playing style and help the main players become familiar with the feeling of playing against Hook.
At the same time, the coaches will also summarize the specific details of Luo Jiu's win and Lin Li's loss to see if there is any way to optimize their strengths or make up for their weaknesses.
As for the match against Germany in the final, there is not much to say, because Germany's troika are all veterans, and their skills are basically finalized. Although Sissifield's style of play now returns to violence, which is completely different from before, his routine is really simple. To deal with him, the strategy is clear. What players have to do is not to think, but to practice hard to adapt to his super strong backhand.
So what the coaching staff really discussed was the semi-final between Germany and Sweden, or to be more precise, the current situation of k. Michel and Morad.
Before this semi-final of the European Civil War, fans all over the world thought it would be a very good match, but in the end Germany won 3:0. Bayer defeated k. Michel, Wolf defeated Morad, and Sissifield defeated m. Michel. Among these three games, except for the third game, which was quite expected, the first two games were all minor upsets.
Everyone thinks that Bayer is old and Wolf has exhausted its potential. However, in major events such as the three major competitions, the veterans still showed their richer experience and deeper technical depth.
In fact, this is the reason why Huaping has always used veterans in the three major competitions over the years, because you have to admit that veterans are more reliable at critical moments. Even if they are usually shown off by young people and beaten to death on the beach, when it comes to important moments, he can still come up with something to let you know that you are still your uncle.
"Michel How to use the forehand glue after the technical modification?"
"What did Morad realize after being banned for a few months?"
The biggest headache for the Huaping coaching staff now is these two problems, because when the Swedish team played the German team, both Michel and Morad had the problem of being completely restrained strategically. They did not give full play to their technical advantages and were defeated without restraint. Morad, in particular, still had mentality problems, was nervous and impatient, and used up to 60% of its strength.
This actually means that the Swedish team coach Persson was completely defeated in the head-to-head confrontation with the German coach Rohlskov.
The coaching staff held a meeting for a long time, but there was no conclusion. Finally, He Jingping stood up and said, "If you really want to find out the details of the two of them, why don't we send all the main players to participate in the next Open?"
After saying this, the entire conference room fell silent for a moment, and even Cai Guodong was quite surprised.
This method is actually very simple. Everyone can imagine it. As long as Huaping sends enough masters to compete, there is a great possibility of encountering Michel and Morad. As long as you play with them, won't you know the details?
Watching the videos of two non-Chinese associations players, you are not familiar with the technical indicators and parameters of these two players, at least not to such a detailed level. Therefore, even if you understand the relationship between victory and defeat and restraint on the scene, it is difficult to thoroughly analyze the technical indicators of both players in the game. You can only half analyze and half guess.
But it's different if Chinese Table Tennis players are playing against foreign players. The coaching staff knows enough about China Table Tennis' own players, including the specific power of the players to hit the ball with all their strength, the strongest spin they can produce, and even the specific parameters of the rackets used. In this way, through the game process and referring to the personal data of our players, we can accurately analyze the opponent's specific data.
But before He Jingping spoke, no one took the initiative to propose this method.
This is because they want to maintain unspoken fairness.
Wang Chao took German Open's big exam last month. This exam was very strict. Cai Guodong almost didn't give Wang Chao anything else. option, the only way to pass is to win the championship in both lanes. It can be said that objectively speaking, Cai Guodong's requirements for Wang Chao are too strict, even to the point of being unreasonable and unreasonable.
But Old Cai had no choice but to do so, because before Wang Chao, in the decades of Chinese table tennis history, no player who had just entered the national team had ever dared to covet the Olympic Games Men's Singles spot.
In particular, Wang Chao still wants to grab the Men's Singles spot after getting the mixed doubles spot of Olympic Games first. This is eating from the bowl and looking at the pot. This is too greedy.
If you want to do something unprecedented, you have to accept an unprecedented test. This is fair. Even if the coaches have various thoughts in their hearts, they are silent. Even Zhu Zeshi, the leader of the Zhu Clan, did not say a word to fight against Wang Chao, because Wang Chao himself was willing to take this test.
Then Wang Chao really did the impossible and completed this super difficult hell test. He even did better than the coaches imagined. He didn't even lose a game in the whole process, which shocked the entire Huaping coaching staff.
Then the problem arises.
"You gave me a super difficult problem, and I completed it 120%, so should you fulfill your promise now? Even if it is a tacit and unspoken promise."
Of course this must be fulfilled, because these are the unspoken rules of Huaping, which are sometimes more important than the explicit rules. Everyone must abide by them, otherwise, the delicate atmosphere of unity that Huaping has worked so hard to maintain under the intrigue will collapse.
So at this time, everyone on the Huaping coaching staff has actually acquiesced: as long as Wang Chao makes no mistakes during the period before Olympic Games arrives, then in the end, the coaching staff will definitely choose him between him and Lin Li Bai Feng.
If Wang Chao didn't have enough time to prove himself before the arrival of July, then now, Lin Li and Bai Feng don't have enough time to prove themselves.
Even though they have the strength to defeat Wang Chao now, they no longer have so many opportunities to compete.
German Open, the two of them were completely defeated by Wang Chao, with no seals. Even if this is a civil war, Brazil Open and Cai Guodong will never let them compete again in August. Otherwise, what if they meet Wang Chao? What if Wang Chao is defeated? This is unfair to Wang Chao, unless you two also take the hell exam.
So even though Lin Li is holding his breath and wants to seize the initiative in the competition, what he is thinking about in his heart is World Table Tennis Championships at the end of September, not Brazil Open in August or Portugal Open in September.
Theoretically speaking, after Wang Chao completed the hell-level difficulty test in July, he received special privileges. From then on, in any open competition he participated in, Lin Li and Bai Feng would never participate at the same time.
At this time, no one dares to treat Wang Chao unfairly. After all, Wang Chao is not alone. Behind him stands the behemoth of Zhumen.
And this is the real reason why all coaches dare not stand up and propose like He Jingping.
At this point in the meeting, although everyone is still unclear about the specific situation of Michel and Morad, the coaches are actually not too worried because Huaping currently has Sun Tianlong and The troika of Luo Jiu and Wang Chao is followed by the promising Fan Xiaodong. The coaches know that even if they can't figure out the specific strength of their opponents, when it comes to the field, those two Swedes will probably not be able to beat our Chinese table tennis players.
Therefore, their struggle is actually just to pay attention to their opponents tactically, but at the strategic level, they have enough confidence to despise their opponents.
Under such a premise, everyone planned to break up the meeting after a while, but no one expected that He Jingping would stand up at this time and take the initiative to make such a suggestion.
The conference room was unusually quiet for a few seconds. Many coaches began to laugh, trying to liven up the stiff atmosphere first, but Cai Guodong didn't have so many scruples and asked directly, "Old He, what do you think?"
He didn't believe that He Jingping couldn't understand the situation. After all, although Old He was a rookie, there were two think tanks, Zhu Zeshi and Wang Chao, behind him. Although the former was a fake think tank, he could still understand the situation. As for the latter, he might have seen the depths that he didn't even see clearly.
"I think you are thinking too much." He Jingping said directly, "Olympic Games singles match, you must choose the strongest person, because only in this way can you ensure the championship. Under this premise, other things are not important, right?"
He paused and continued, "I know my own disciples... Even Wang Chao himself shouldn't be afraid of meeting Bai Feng and Lin Li again. If we really do encounter them, let's see who is stronger. Just let the stronger people compete in the Olympics Men's Singles."