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A fierce battle was going on on a table at Chinese Table Tennis base. As another ball was knocked to death, the team that lost the ball sat down on the spot, gasping for air, and said with a smile, "You two can do it. I haven't practiced for a month, and my level has not dropped at all. This tacit understanding has almost caught up with the two of us."
The speaker is Xiao Fei.
This is the morning after the expedition Brazil Open's large force returned to Chinese Table Tennis base.
Just yesterday afternoon, as soon as Chinese Table Tennis base returned, Cai Guodong announced on the spot: Wang Chao's Olympic men's singles quota has been determined.
This moment came earlier than expected, but not many people expressed surprise, because what Wang Chao showed in the two games against Xiao Fei and Lin Li was too shocking. Shockingly, even the chief helmsman, Cai Guodong, was forced to worry a little about the gains and losses. He knew that there was no such thing as job-hopping in table tennis, but he still subconsciously felt that it would be better to reassure such a perverted player as soon as possible.
He Wang Chao feels at ease, and I Cai Guodong feel at ease too.
Other coaches think: Oh, it's quite normal. I'm convinced. There's nothing to argue about.
Well, that's probably what it means.
The consequences of this incident were that Bai Feng was deeply affected. He practiced at the base until 11:30 that night, with coach Wang Lu accompanying him throughout the whole process.
Bai Feng has not given up. He still hopes to have the opportunity to fight Wang Chao and defeat Wang Chao on the spot when World Table Tennis Championships is. But before that, he needs to get World Table Tennis Championships's competition spot.
At the same time, he also needs to confirm that Wang Chao will participate in World Table Tennis Championships, because according to the current situation, Wang Chao can actually give up all subsequent competitions and prepare for the Olympics wholeheartedly. After all, his test scores in two consecutive major exams were so good that he can be exempted from the exam for the next two months.
Wang Chao slept soundly that night, but in fact Chinese Table Tennis base many people did not sleep well, because everyone discovered that the change of dynasties in Huaping may come earlier than expected, which requires all the main and sub-main players who are still playing to make new plans for their future.
Are they going to continue to compete for the remaining main positions? Or choose to become a sparring partner? Or leave the national team and settle down in the provincial team?
For example, Lin Li chose to fly directly to Jizhou Province the next day to report to the Laobaigan club where he belongs. In the next two months, he will give up the World Championship and focus on Super League.
Ma Angxing is still working hard at the base, hoping to polish an ordinary stone into a dazzling diamond like Sun Tianlong.
He has resilience and mentality. He can endure and wait, just for a chance to soar into the sky.
Liang Kunpeng is trying his best to become familiar with a technical and tactical system that is much more complicated than his previous playing style. It is said that his teacher Chen Taolue made a special trip to Guangdong Province to visit Qin Huachang and asked for all the details of Lin Li's technical and tactical system. He then used this system as a framework, made adjustments, and finally constructed this new technical and tactical system.
It can be seen that Chen Taolue is actually very self-aware. He knew that he was not as good as Qin Huachang in this aspect, so he put aside his dignity and asked for help. Finally, he used the system created by Qin Huachang as the framework, which not only saves time and effort, but also ensures the upper limit and stability of the system.
Gao Mingyuan is still trying to correct the wrong batting posture he has developed since he was a child.
Everyone is working hard to do whatever they can before the final big test of the Olympic year.
Let's talk about this moment.
Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan returned after a month-long cross-teaming. Tang Dynasty Combination and Scarlet Gossip Combination had their first internal training in August. Xiao Fei and Liu Wen fully thought they could take advantage of the situation and torture the newly reorganized pair, but they miscalculated.
Throughout the morning, Tang Dynasty Combination was beating Scarlet Gossip Combination almost until Xiao Fei and Liu Wen completely lost their temper.
Xiao Fei is not afraid of losing because he has become accustomed to it in the past few months, but he feels that this is unscientific. "Wang Chao, you have Unrivaled talent and can adapt quickly. I understand this, but Tang Yuanyuan, what's the matter with you?"
Tang Yuanyuan snorted, very arrogantly, but did not explain.
How do you want her to explain?
Can she say that she didn't have any brains at all when she was training with Kazik last month?
Even when she was on the court with Kazik, she was still simulating all the details of playing with Wang Chao in her mind, perfectly explaining what it meant to be "in the Cao camp but in the Han heart".
Other players have to go through a readjustment process after changing partners, so they will be a little uncomfortable no matter what when they switch back.
But she has never adapted to Kazik at all, and still strives to maintain all the "good" detail habits she had when working with Wang Chao. In order to avoid forgetting these details, she closes her eyes and recalls them all before going to bed every night to deepen the impression.
Of course she doesn't have the perverted adaptability of Wang Chao, but she has never given up, so how can she talk about being unfamiliar?
You want to ask her why a female man would do this?
Perhaps it was Wang Chao's disgusting explanation in front of Lilith that day that really moved her.
But she would definitely not tell Xiao Fei about this kind of thing, otherwise how could she maintain her own personality?
In short, when the four of them were exhausted and started to rest, the conversation started naturally.
"You really won't fight again?" Wang Chao asked Xiao Fei.
Xiao Fei nodded and hummed. Seeing Wang Chao's complex expression, he smiled and patted his shoulder, "Don't be pretentious with me. I didn't want to fight for a long time and it has nothing to do with you."
Wang Chao nodded.
As for Xiao Fei's mentality, he actually didn't know it before the Brazil Open Men's Singles semifinals, but by the time Xiao Fei started to go crazy in the first game, Wang Chao had already figured out Xiao Fei's mentality.
Xiao Fei is a flower that has never fully bloomed. He has been suppressed by Sun Tianlong all his life, which means "how can you be bright when you are born with beauty"? But fortunately, he is an open-minded person, and he let go after always asking for things but not getting them. Well, as for the semi-finals a few days ago, it was probably Xiao Fei's last attempt to fully bloom, but after all, he is no longer the age of seventeen or eighteen years old. At the age of 29, even if he blooms, it will only be short-lived and can only appear for a short time.
In a sense, his last struggle was suppressed by Wang Chao, which is a very sad thing.
But from another perspective, although he lost, he made the whole world understand how powerful he was, and he was not ashamed to lose.
What's more, Wang Chao directly performed his unique Great Python Turn in the finals, which made his scalp numb the moment he saw it, and he even felt tears filling his eyes. He had to take a deep breath, tilt his head slightly, and press his eyelids with his fingers to restrain this embarrassing emotional impulse.
At that moment Xiao Fei was not shocked by Wang Chao's terrifying talent. Instead, two words jumped out of his mind for no reason: inheritance.
Yes, this is inheritance.
There have been many super strong players in the history of Chinese table tennis, and they each had their own unique skills. However, these unique skills were too difficult and the requirements for the players themselves were too high, so that they could not be learned at all, let alone popularized. In the end, all the unique skills were submerged in the torrent of history.
Of course, strong men will emerge from generation to generation, and new secrets will continue to be created, whether it is Hook's full-court Unreasonable Shot play, or Lin Zijun's Super Speed defensive flow, or Xiao Fei's Great Python Turn, are new things in this era. Theoretically, they will disappear in the table tennis world as the players die.
However, both Lin Zijun and Hook are still young, so in this era, the first player to die with them should have been Great Python Turn.
Xiao Fei is very sorry about this, because he thinks that Great Python Turn is the greatest secret skill of this era, not even one of them.
Because it is definitely not under the "Pike-style backhand" or the "Ochomirov-style Taiwan-wide defense".
It's a pity that his own status is not enough and he did not become Grand Slam, so Great Python Turn did not reach the height it should have in the end.
He thought this would be a regret he could never make up for.
Until Wang Chao performed the unperfected Great Python Turn in full public view.
He didn't turn like a big python, just like a dead snake. His movements were really clumsy, but Xiao Fei still saw his familiar charm in it.
At that time, he knew that his career was complete and he had no regrets.
If Wang Chao becomes the new Grand Slam in the future, then this move Great Python Turn will also shine because of Wang Chao, leaving a mark in history that is far more colorful than Xiao Fei itself.
This will be Wang Chao's strongest killer in the future.
Xiao Fei is convinced of this.
Why?
Because the only flaw of Wang Chao is strength, Wang Chao can imitate the skills of anyone in the world, but cannot learn pure violence like Lin Li, Fan Xiaodong, and Sissifield. After all, that kind of violence has no skills at all and relies entirely on brute force.
But this move of Great Python Turn does not require the "strange power" talent, because the creator of Xiao Fei himself does not have Monstrous Strength Talent.
Because he did not have enough brute force and wanted to hit enough kills, Xiao Fei, with the help of his master Zhu Zeshi, spent a long time and racked his brains to continuously improve it, and finally created this move. Its basic principle is to use a larger range of motion, a longer contact time, and more complex friction multi-stage changes to forcibly divide his not-so-powerful power into multiple layers and superimpose it on the same small ball.
You can use numbers to make an intuitive metaphor: assuming that the power of an ordinary player is 1 and the power of Monstrous Strength Talent player is 2, then the true meaning of Great Python Turn is to allow players to use the power of 1 to produce the effect of 2.
This move perfectly meets Wang Chao's current needs.
"Have you talked to your uncle?" Wang Chao asked.
He and Xiao Fei are both disciples of the Zhu family, and the master he refers to is Zhu Zeshi.
Xiao Fei nodded. "We talked about it. In fact, we talked about it as early as June Malaysia Open. Didn't I win the singles championship that time? I think it's good to win the championship as the last battle before retirement, but the teacher disagreed. He asked me to wait... At that time, I didn't know what he asked me to wait for, but now I know, he has probably been planning for me to fight you."
Wang Chao nodded and said with a smile, "Master, it's not easy either."
Xiao Fei also laughed, "Yes, it's hard for him."
When the two men talked to this point, even if it was over, the personality differences between people could be seen at this time. Although Tang Yuanyuan didn't understand what medicine the two men were selling, they were too lazy to ask and just played with their mobile phones. Liu Wen couldn't help but said, "What are you two talking about? Can you explain it? What did Coach Zhu do?"
Speaking of his mentor, Xiao Fei's tone became more serious and said, "As you know, Teacher, he cares about face the most. He always pays attention to propriety in doing things in his life. He is afraid that others will accuse him of being short-sighted and not seeing the overall situation. But this time, he made a small exception for me."
Liu Wen still didn't understand. Wang Chao said from the side, "To put it simply, Fei Ge feels that retiring in June is quite satisfactory, but my uncle feels that it is not enough. He feels that Fei Ge's career is a bit lacking. He was suppressed too hard by Brother Long and was underestimated by fans all over the world. So he wants Fei Ge to feel good for the last time, and how to feel good? The method is very simple..."
Wang Chao pointed to his nose. "Fight with me."
Liu Wen opened her mouth slightly, wanting to refute, but Xiao Fei didn't give her a chance and answered back, "The teacher's judgment at the time was that Wang Chao would lose the first time we played against each other. At the same time, because I had already expressed my intention to retire and made it clear that I would not participate in Olympic Games, so me winning Wang Chao once will not have any impact on Wang Chao's future. The only impact is that it will undermine the head coach's inspection of Wang Chao, which is what the teacher was most taboo about before... destroying the overall situation."
"For Brother Fei, my uncle went against the head coach for the first time in more than 20 years. The head coach had just criticized Brother Fei in a meeting the day before, saying that Brother Fei's performance in Morad was too bad. But the next day, Brother Fei went crazy and shocked the world. If he beat me, it would really make the head coach's face swollen. And the head coach's grievances will all be gathered to the uncle in the end. After all, everyone can guess that it was the uncle who instigated this kind of thing."
When Wang Chao said this, he showed a bit of embarrassment and sighed deliberately, "It's a pity that Master still underestimated me. He obviously hoped that Fei Ge would retire after playing a famous game. As a result, the famous game was played, but the protagonist was me, and Fei Ge became the background."
Xiao Fei smiled and said, "I'm not at a loss either. What's the saying? If you can't be famous forever, then it's better to be infamy than to be unknown."
Liu Wen was speechless for a long time, and finally sighed, "This is too complicated... It seems that I will never want to become a coach in the future. This job is really not something ordinary people do."
Generally speaking, athletes are relatively pure. They can be full of tricks during competitions, but their thoughts in life are relatively simple, so it is not surprising that Liu Wen cannot understand the situation. As for Xiao Fei, he is actually not a meandering person. It is purely because things are closely related to him that he can understand Zhu Zeshi's thoughts.
As for Wang Chao, it is really broken, there is nothing to say.
He didn't notice that Tang Yuanyuan glanced at him at this time, with a bit of pride in his eyes.
It was impossible for him to guess what Tang Yuanyuan was so proud of, because girls' brain circuits are usually weird.
For example, what Tang Yuanyuan is actually thinking at this time is, "Wang Chao is so shady, who can compare to him? Fortunately, he and I are on the same team, so if I have something to do in the future, I can just go to him directly. Why bother to think about it on my own? What can I do with this time?"
So Tang Yuanyuan was proud. After all, Wang Chao, a person as cunning as a fox, in the end became his free coolie and his royal brain?
Maybe I can write a memoir after I retire, "How I became World Champion in the national team without using my brain."
This afternoon, Wang Chao rarely left the base and accompanied Xiao Fei to a certain gymnasium.
Now that the year is over halfway, it is August. The autumn competition between Table Tennis First Division and Table Tennis Super League has officially started in the middle of this month. On Table Tennis Super League's side, last year's champion Magic City Fire Phoenix suffered an upset loss in the first match. The one who defeated it was Jiangcheng University Club, who had just introduced Brazilian foreign aid Hook during the transfer period in July this year.
The lever that Wang Chao pulled in April this year has finally brewed a huge change, and even directly changed the overall pattern of Table Tennis Super League.
In the past, Jiangcheng University Club could only be ranked in the middle of the pack compared to Table Tennis Super League. The reason was that the status of one player, Luo Jiu, had been ups and downs over the years and was always not good. He was also vaguely at the bottom among the five main players.
However, Luo Jiu has made great achievements after last year's technical reform and staged a counterattack. Jiangcheng University Team has been on the rise, and now it has Hook. It can be said that it is a tiger with two wings. This season, from the coach to the players, everyone is ambitious, and their eyes are already set on the final championship position.
Facts have proved that they are not wishful thinking, because in the first battle, Jiangcheng University directly showed the style of a king.
However, Jiangcheng City Team was on the same team, and Black Spade Q Club still maintained the sluggish state of the spring split at the beginning. In the first game, they faced the not-so-strong Jizhou Province Laobaigan Club. In the absence of the opponent's single Lin Li, they still lost 1:3.
Of course, Wang Chao accompanied Xiao Fei this time, not because of the league, but because the first batch of young players selected for the provincial team this year have arrived. They are about to conduct actual combat assessments with the young players of Huaping National Second Team, and start the first shot of this year's national team promotion and relegation trials.
Xiao Fei followed Sun Tianlong and became a future national team coach who has not yet been officially announced. This time it was Zhu Zeshi that gave him the opportunity to do an on-site inspection to see how the young players compete and play. If he can find good prospects, he can even contact him in advance and make a decision first.
Does this scene seem familiar?
Yes, at the beginning of this year, Wang Chao and Sun Tianlong watched the entire promotion and relegation assessment. It was through that selection that Liang Kunpeng Gao Mingyuan and others entered the national team.
It's just that Sun Tianlong didn't fancy anyone at that time, and then Qin Huachang was diagnosed with cancer and was forced to quit the team midway. As a result, Sun Tianlong directly took over Qin Huachang's class and took over the coaching work of Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong. There was no need to select new players.
Xiao Fei is not the case. He needs to pick people by himself. As the new coach of Huaping, once he picks a young player, then according to Huaping's practice, this young player will be admitted to the national team without taking the test by default.
Is this a privilege?
Of course it counts.
Can a contestant's parents give gifts and go through the back door to recruit disciples?
Of course not.
Because the table tennis project is different from any other project in China. As a coach, the players you select must ultimately rely on their strength to get ahead. Only when the players get ahead can the coach get ahead. This is a relationship where both prosper and lose. Under such circumstances, no Coach He will consider worldliness and immediate interests when selecting disciples.
Why can Cai Guodong become the helmsman of contemporary Chinese table tennis? Because he single-handedly brought out Wang Wendong.
Qin Huachang Why was he once the number one coach in Chinese table tennis? Because he single-handedly brought out Sun Tianlong.
He Jingping Why is he now known as the number one coach in the world? Because he has Luo Jiu and Wang Chao under his command.
Why is Qin Huachang not worried about Sun Tianlong's future at all? Because he left Fan Xiaodong to Sun Tianlong.
This can also explain why Coach Cheng Aimin and Chen Taolue had to observe for three years before accepting Liang Kunpeng and Gao Mingyuan, because their confidence in these two disciples was not sufficient.
The reason why Coach Wang Lu repeatedly emphasized that he should let Ma Angxing enter the national team by himself instead of directly recruiting apprentices is because he does not have that full confidence in Ma Angxing.
So, what happens when a coach has enough confidence in his disciples?
Just like Qin Huachang treats Fan Xiaodong, who traveled thousands of miles to Liancheng City, would rather be bitten by a dog and pretend to be abducted, even in the face of Sister Fan, an ordinary farm woman, was always scared, but when Fan Xiaodong was willing to play professionally, he directly pulled Fan Xiaodong into the national team without any obstacles. The whole process was given the green light and no assessment was required at all.
The same goes for Wang Chao. The obstacle between him and He Jingping is entirely that He Jingping is worried that he is not worthy of being Wang Chao's teacher. When Wang Chao offered to fulfill the agreement at the cafeteria door, He Jingping was so excited that he burst into tears.
Huaping is a typical example of a master-based apprenticeship.
Why is Ge Miao becoming more and more friendly to Wang Chao recently?
It's not because she has a good relationship with Zhu Zeshi, but because Wang Chao and her disciples can get World Champion.
Therefore, the new coaches of the Huaping coaching staff in the past generations have the same mentality when selecting disciples: they must find a seedling of Grand Slam.
Xiao Fei asked himself that his vision is not bad, but no matter how good it is, can it be better than Wang Chao?
Taking advantage of the gap period where Brazil Open has just ended and the World Table Tennis Championships quota selection competition at the end of September has not yet started, it is absolutely reasonable to bring Wang Chao out to help him.