Hook was still very considerate, and immediately started a round with Wu Li.
Wu Li is still very calm, showing his natural big heart. He takes this game very seriously. However, facing Hook, who can be called the most violent figure in the table tennis world today, Wu Li's defense was knocked to pieces. He was defeated in just five minutes, with a score of 11:2.
You can see the fundamental difference between Hook and Wang Chao from the score. He actually suppressed Hook very miserably, even more miserably than Wang Chao. It was completely It can be said that I beat my son, but in the end Wu Li still scored two points. One point was due to Wu Li finding an opportunity to attack and scoring, and the other point was due to Hook's offensive error.
On the contrary, not long ago Wang Chao beat Wu Li and shaved his head directly.
Therefore, in terms of "stability", player non-Chinese associations can't keep up with Huaping even if he really wants to win.
After a round, Hook asked, "That's it?"
Wang Chao said, "One more round?"
Hook was confused, but still agreed.
This time Wu Li persisted for two more minutes and was defeated at seven minutes. The score was still 11:2. The reason why the length of time was increased was actually because the number of rounds increased. To put it more intuitively, Hook did not achieve a one-hit kill in this game. Wu Li tried his best to catch several kill boards.
By the time the game was over, Wang Chao didn't need to speak anymore. Wu Li said, "Again?"
Hook nodded. "Ok."
The two sides fought again, and the final score was 11:1. Wu Li scored fewer points than the previous two games. However, after this game, Hook took the initiative and said, "Again?"
Wang Chao stopped interfering. He folded his arms and sat on the stool next to him to watch the excitement. He watched seven games of the game, which took exactly an hour.
In the seven games, Wu Li didn't win a game and didn't score more than 4 points in any game. However, Hook's emotions were aroused. He actually hugged Wu Li and praised Wu Li.
Samba people's enthusiasm made Wu Li, who was not used to physical contact, a little embarrassed.
"How is it?" Wang Chao asked while both parties were resting.
"It's very interesting." Hook extended his thumb. "Wang Chao, if you don't want to practice with me, just let him stay here and let him go back when you have a game."
Wang Chao shook his head.
"Wang, you can't be like this. It was you who invited me to Table Tennis Super League, but you didn't fight me yourself, and you didn't let your friends fight me... This kind of practice is obviously more beneficial to him. That's why you brought him here. Don't you think I can't see it?" Hook fought hard.
"That's not what I meant." Wang Chao smiled, "I want to say that he can stay here, but even if Spade Q has a competition, he will not go back. In the next time, before you leave Jiangcheng City to go to Hungary to participate in World Table Tennis Championships, he will stay in the Jiangcheng University base and be your personal training partner. Do you accept it?"
Hook opened his mouth wide again, stared at Wang Chao for a long time, and then said, "I accept it, but will he not compete?"
Wang Chao shook his head. "It's a loss anyway, not less than the few games he missed."
"I have another question." Hook frowned. "My training volume may be a bit heavy..."
So Wang Chao and Wu Li laughed together.
"Please be sure to increase the amount of training." Wu Li said seriously, "At least in terms of actual combat, it is best not to be less than 12 hours a day."
Hook showed a surprised expression after listening to the translation. He didn't believe it and turned to look at Wang Chao.
"What he said is true." Wang Chao said, "He is very patient. Please squeeze him hard and ravage him. Don't let him win a ball or score a point. No matter how you beat him, it doesn't matter."
He patted Hook on the shoulder. "So, please be as violent as you like, vent your anger on my senior brother because you can't beat him."
Wang Chao's arrangement with Wu Li is not over yet.
He knows how much Wu Li craves pressure today. It can be said that in the past many years, Wu Li has not really awakened his "Hundred Refinements" talent at all. It was not until he went to special training at the Jiangcheng City Team base at the beginning of the year that Wu Li's potential was truly activated.
After the potential was activated, Wu Li actually should have gone through a long process of "squeezing - improving - squeezing - improving - squeezing - improving". However, he was only severely squeezed by Wang Chao for a period of time before returning to the most basic low-pressure training state.
This is equivalent to a sword that was clearly burning red and waiting for quenching, but was suddenly put aside to dry.
From February to August this year, Wu Li was in this free-range state.
But people are not swords after all. During this drying process, Wu Li did not turn into salted fish, but became more and more thirsty. If you use a sponge to describe it, it would be this sponge named Wu Li. There are more holes and gaps in the body, and the fibrous tissue can absorb more water.
As the saying goes, serious illness requires strong medicine. In this case, even Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong may not be able to quench Wu Li's thirst. Only Hook, the most violent turtle in the world, can.
But it's not enough.
Because the talent of "Hundred Refinements" itself cannot be used to draw inferences from one instance to another. It is purely "where you get beaten, you get up from there."
It cannot "climb out of this pit and stop falling into other pits."
So Wu Li practiced with Hook, and in the end what he developed was only his abnormal defensive ability in the face of extreme speed and strength.
But if athletes want to become real masters, they need more other aspects.
So after Wang Chao returned to Spade Q's base, he directly found Fan Xiaofan and gave him a suggestion.
"Just pay Hou Xijia to be Wu Li's sparring partner?" Fan Xiaofan's eyes widened. At first he thought this idea was too unbelievable, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't help but exclaimed "Oh": "It seems to work..."
Hou Xijia is a very old traditional chipper, but he is amazing. He came back after retiring for many years, and he can actually play tricks on the basis of traditional chipping. He uses ancient rubber and outdated playing methods, combined with the most popular current trends, and he actually realized a technical and tactical system that combines attacking and chipping. This system is not advanced, but it is complete and can theoretically deal with most of the current technical and tactical routines.
It was precisely with this set of tools that he managed to win the Men's Singles championship in the National Table Tennis Championships a few years ago, killing First Team and countless young players from the second team along the way.
Of course, the biggest reason why he won the championship was that the five main players did not participate that time, but even so, Hou Xijia was glorious enough.
Just last year, he was ranked third in the Table Tennis Super League Most Valuable Athlete of the Year selection.
If it were an ordinary athlete, as the ace player in the mid-range team of Table Tennis Super League, it would never be possible for him to be a sparring partner for other club players, because his status is here and he cannot afford to lose face.
But Hou Xijia is indeed an exception.
He is over forty and has seen through many things. He has many friends in the table tennis world and believes that connections are more important than anything else. He is both a professional player at Table Tennis Super League and a professional anchor at the Silver Ball Dance website. As long as he is given money, everything will be easy. After all, he is still the father of two children and has to earn money to buy milk powder.
Just because he doesn't participate in any international competitions and focuses on playing Table Tennis Super League, no club owner will care about him for making extra money.
Is Wang Chao awesome?
More powerful than Hou Xijia.
Wang Chao Is your personal value high?
Higher than Hou Xijia.
But compared to his contribution and practicality in Table Tennis Super League, he is really not as good as Hou Xijia, because his eyes are on international competitions, while Hou Xijia specializes in Table Tennis Super League.
The most important thing is that the headquarters of Silver Ball Dance website is in Jiangcheng City, so Hou Xijia's professional live broadcast room is also in Jiangcheng City. He is a person who is always ready to fly Jiangcheng City. He just needs to be a sparring partner and make money.
A complete win-win.
"What else is there?" Fan Xiaofan does not question any of Wang Chao's decisions. As a wise boss, the most important thing is to trust professionals on professional issues and not to force your own brains.
"Nothing else is needed." Wang Chao smiled, "Actually, it's not enough to deal with violent attacks and chipping. He also needs to learn how to deal with all kinds of skilled players. But this problem cannot be solved with Jiangcheng City. After Olympic Games passes, I will take him to the national team to find Brother Long."
Fan Xiaofan nodded in agreement, but in addition to joy, he felt a little sad.
The rise of Wu Li is inevitable, because Wang Chao even invited a super sparring partner like Hook, and will never allow failure.
But Wu Li will go to the national team next year...
Going to the national team means playing in the World Series and missing Super League...
If the results in the World Series are good, then Super League will continue to be absent...
"I am in so many troubles Spade Q." Fan Xiaofan sighed in his heart.
At the end of August, Wang Chao returned to Chinese Table Tennis base. In the following days, the atmosphere in the base gradually became tense.
The biennial "Top 12 Invitational" kicked off.
This competition with a rather strange name is actually World Table Tennis Championships's selection competition for the quota within the Chinese table tennis team.
Many years ago, the selection of World Table Tennis Championships's quota was not open to the public, and was basically the decision of the coaching staff. But then, the outside world's calls for "fairness, fairness and openness" became louder and louder. Huaping also kept pace with the times and decided to launch a special domestic event to select World Table Tennis Championships's quota.
After careful discussion, the coaching staff decided to first select 12 regular players from the national team, and then the 12 regular players will go through a general cycle within the team. Based on the final points of the general cycle, the top five will participate.
There are three points here that need special explanation.
The first is why there are five spots.
International Table Tennis Federation The basic rule for World Table Tennis Championships's quotas for each association is 3+1+1, that is, each association has three basic quotas for singles events. In addition, if there is a player in the association ranked among the top 100 in the world, one quota will be added. Then, if there is a player ranked among the top 20 in the world, one more quota will be added.
There are a lot of top 20 players in the world in Huaping, so there are only five places available for each competition.
The second is why it is called the strongest on the surface.
In fact, it is very simple, because Huaping claims to be invincible in the world. So, the 12 regular players we selected through scientific methods are of course the strongest team in the world, called the strongest on the surface, and there is nothing wrong with it at all.
In fact, after this competition came out, no one in the foreign table tennis circles said anything strange, and everyone acquiesced.
The third thing is, what are the specific rules of this competition.
In fact, it's not complicated. The top six players on the 12-man roster are determined directly based on the players' world rankings. The top six players are exempt from auditions and directly enter the main draw list, similar to the seed players in the Open.
The remaining six people will be open to all players of First Team's second team for open selection. As long as you are interested, you can sign up. There is no limit to the number of places. After everyone has signed up, the coaching staff will flexibly formulate elimination rules based on the number of signups. It will take a few days to complete the game and finally select six people to enter the main competition.
Finally, there is another point that must be mentioned, that is, in principle, the coaching staff still has the power to directly assign quotas.
In fact, in World Table Tennis Championships over the years, the five contestants have never been selected purely through the round-robin competition. Instead, the coaching staff first designated one or two players who must participate in World Table Tennis Championships, and the remaining places were selected through a direct competition.
For example, for World Table Tennis Championships two years ago, the coaching staff directly assigned Sun Tianlong to participate, and the remaining four spots were selected through competition.
For World Table Tennis Championships eight years ago, the coaching staff directly assigned Wang Wendong and Sun Tianlong, and the remaining three spots were selected through competition.
Of course, the assignments made by the coaching staff are not really made in a single statement. There are still traces to follow. Usually the players assigned are the ones that everyone recognizes as the strongest without any suspense, and they are basically World number one's Great Demon King.
This kind of player does not participate in the through competition. This is actually to protect other players and prevent them from losing confidence.
This year, theoretically speaking, the person eligible to be assigned is still Sun Tianlong.
Xiao Fei can be assigned or not assigned, but he didn't sign up at all and was not prepared to fight at all.
Luo Jiu Although his strength is achieved, his performance is not. If he is assigned, others will not accept it.
However, Sun Tianlong told Cai Guodong early on that he would not participate and would leave his spot to other team members.
So this year's "Top 12 Invitational" is very special, because this is the first time in history that all five players are selected by the big round.
When the news was released, even the foreign table tennis circles paid close attention to it. Rohlskov and others even praised it sourly, "This is the most fair direct competition of Chinese table tennis.".
The implication is that Huaping has never been truly fair in the past.
On September 2, Cai Guodong directly announced the names of the top six players who would directly enter the Top 12 Main Tournament roster in the direct competition, namely: Luo Jiu, Lin Li, Bai Feng, Wang Chao, Zou Zhengyu, and Fan Xiaodong.
As soon as this list came out, many people were filled with emotion.
Because there is a very intriguing name in it: Zou Zhengyu.
As we all know, Zou Zhengyu, Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo have been tacitly recognized by the coaching staff as retiring. Cai Guodong has expressed similar intentions many times in public, explicitly or covertly, and has privately sought the opinions of the three of them, asking them whether they want to become a sparring partner, a coach, be transferred to a local provincial or municipal team, or go to school, but the three have never made a decision.
Now that the three of them have made their intentions known through this list.
Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo chose to give up, but Zou Zhengyu wanted to give it one last try.
This is also understandable.
After all, Zou Zhengyu had the worst luck last year. At the beginning of the year, he met Wang Chao in the qualifying round of Hong Kong Open and was directly eliminated. Since then, he has never played in an international competition. He is resentful and dissatisfied. He wants to prove himself again, which is completely justified.
However, Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo continued to explode in the subsequent open competitions, defeating Lin Li and Xiao Fei successively. They were considered to have successfully shined their last glory. They were satisfied and at the same time lost the spirit of fighting again. This is very reasonable.
So you see, sometimes, the sheer difference in the draw determines the future destiny of an athlete.
The world of competitive sports, behind the passion and blood, also has its extremely cold and cruel side.
In the next two days, the national team was bustling with activity. Players from the first and second teams rushed to sign up, no matter whether they had confidence or not, as if they were attending a carnival. At the last count, the total number of signups reached an astonishing 32 people, which was almost the same as the total number of people from the two teams combined.
The coaching staff then gave out the selection criteria: draw lots, face off in pairs, first have two knockout rounds, select the top eight, then draw lots, and still compete in pairs, the four winners will directly enter the main game, the losers will be redrawn, and there will be two knockout rounds. The winner will advance and the loser will be eliminated.
The rules are simple and clear, and there are not many games. However, because of the full knockout, the cruelty and contingency are also directly filled up. This competition system will obviously cause the players to be too nervous and affect their performance. However, from the perspective of the coaching staff, the state of the competition and the psychology of the competition itself are the focus of the assessment. If even the internal assessment of the team is tense, then why go to the international competition?
So after another two days of excitement, the remaining six players also successfully surfaced, five of whom are familiar, namely Lu Feiyang, Liang Kunpeng, Ma Angxing, Zhu Ding, and Qi Hao.
It was a surprise that Gao Mingyuan, a disciple of Coach Cheng Aimin, was not selected, because Gao Mingyuan has made great progress in recent months. His batting posture problem has been greatly improved, and his usual practice is also well received. However, in such a tense game, his mentality is unbalanced...
Another person worth noting is Ma Angxing. This character who was once rated as the last of new generation Six Dragons by Sakura Country has been so low-key in the past six months that he has almost disappeared. However, the child who came out of the mountains in the northwest is still tenacious and practical enough. His improvement is so fast that it is unexpected. Some people did not expect that he fought his way up through hard power, defeating Sun Zhongwen, who was highly rated by National Second Team, and then lost to Lu Feiyang in the quarterfinals. Then in the final round of PK, he defeated Gao Mingyuan, who was the most popular.
The selection of Ma Angxing has made Coach Wang Lu, who has a relatively calm personality, talk with a smile these days.
As for the other person among the six dragons, Hu Buming, although he has a tough mouth, he is very self-aware and did not sign up this time.
Zhu Ding, on the other hand, entered the main competition directly with a complete victory record. The creator of Happy Ping Pong has been Luo Jiu's official sparring partner in recent months because he can satisfy Luo Jiu alone. 's needs can be used to know the extent of his current strength. In fact, the coaching staff was on another internal strength evaluation list and did not put him on the list of subsequent six people at all. Instead, they directly put him on the list of the main force of Huaping.
Finally, the person I want to highlight is Qi Hao
Qi Hao, Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club, are on the same team as Sun Tianlong. Their familiarity is top-notch, but their killing is purely amateur. Anyone dares to win in civil wars, and anyone dares to lose in foreign wars. He is a strange player. He is 25 years old this year and his condition is extremely unstable.
You may still remember that after China Open, Cai Guodong made a special trip to Jiangcheng City Spade Q 0 for the technical transformation of Qi Hao At the base, I asked Wang Chao privately for his opinion. Wang Chao said at the time that Qi Hao needed technical modifications and suggested apprenticeship with Qin Huachang.
However, Cai Guodong had just recalled Qi Hao to the national team. Before the matter could be officially restarted, Old Qin was diagnosed with cancer and quit the team directly.
Cai Guodong is riding a tiger, so we can't just send Qi Hao back, right? He went to He Jingping and wanted He Jingping to take Qi Hao over, but He Jingping was full of thoughts about the two disciples The battle between World Table Tennis Championships, Olympic Games, and Grand Slam has long been a mess. Where can you find the energy to help Qi Hao with such a strenuous thing as technical transformation? He refused outright.
In the end, Cai Guodong could only put Qi Hao under the sect of Zhu Zeshi, who was relatively free for the time being.
The entire coaching staff knew about Qi Hao's situation, and Old Zhu also felt that it was too troublesome and overwhelming, and because Qi Hao was old and seemed to have an uncertain future, Old Zhu wanted to refuse, but he really didn't have anyone at his disposal for the time being, so he couldn't shirk it and could only hold his nose and accept it.
Now that he has accepted it, Old Zhu will naturally start to show his true nature. His temperament is already majestic, and he is even more serious in treating Qi Hao. Qi Hao has suffered a lot these days. Fortunately, he himself also knows that now is a turning point in his career, no matter what He endured no matter how harsh Old Zhu was, and obediently cooperated with Old Zhu in various physical index tests and technical ability tests, trying to break up the original technical and tactical system and rebuild a new technical and tactical system. Finally, after a long few months, he was finally put back together bit by bit from the fragmented state.
He was born again.
This time, like Zhu Ding, he also had a perfect record of victory and entered the 12-man main roster. It was a good start. Facing the upcoming "Top 12 Invitational" main match, he was full of ambition and fighting spirit. He silently vowed to grab a spot from the main players of the Chinese table tennis team who are now seriously involved.