Top 12 Invitational's singles event played its last match at 8:47 in the evening on the fourth day, declaring it all over.
Just looking at this ending time, you can imagine how brutal the game was. It was delayed by more than three hours from the original scheduled end of 5:30 pm.
Summarizing the results of the two rounds, the number one player is still Luo Jiu. He lost two games in the first round, against Bai Feng and Fan Xiaodong. In the second round, he only lost one game against Qi Hao.
In the end, Luo Jiu led the pack with a score of 19 wins and 3 losses, but he did not feel complacent at all. Instead, he looked a little serious.
Ultimately, it was because he lost to the wrong person in the second round.
It would be excusable if he lost to Wang Chao, Fan Xiaodong, Bai Feng, and Lin Li, but his loss to Qi Hao actually illustrates a problem: his adaptability is not that good.
There are flaws in Qi Hao's playing style. His results in the first round were far better than those in the second round, which itself proves that his current position is not a dragon but a troublemaker. In the first round, Wang Chao beat Qi Hao. It took until the seventh game to win miserably, but in the second round Wang Chao chopped Qi Hao straight away at 4:0, which proved that Wang Chao had completely mastered the method of defeating Qi Hao.
Luo Jiu's adaptability naturally cannot be compared with Wang Chao. After all, he does not have such a perverted talent as Wushuang. But the problem is, Bai Feng and Fan Xiaodong face Qi Hao has two consecutive wins. It was difficult to win in the first round and easy to win in the second round. As for Lin Li, he lost to Qi Hao in the first round and narrowly defeated Qi Hao in the second round.
It can be said that if Qi Hao is used as a test stone, everyone will make progress in the second round.
Only Luo Jiu had a very difficult time in both rounds. He narrowly won the first round and lost in the second round. This was very problematic.
The seemingly glamorous results concealed a rather fatal problem. Poor adaptability had little impact during the civil war because everyone knew the basics and was familiar with it. However, if you encounter the non-Chinese associations player who is advancing by leaps and bounds, if you are not careful and fail to adapt, big problems will occur.
Ranked second is Wang Chao, with a record of 17 wins and 5 losses. He lost 3 times in the first round and 2 losses in the second round. Two of these five losses were due to Luo Jiu. In fact, except for the mutual victory and defeat between him and Luo Jiu, their records against others are the same.
Therefore, even though Wang Chao is ranked second, the coaching staff is more relieved about him, because after looking at the complete four days, Wang Chao has shown extremely amazing stability and did not make any mistakes where he should not have made any mistakes. Everyone can clearly see his every failure. There are not so many complicated and bizarre reasons. It is purely due to his physical or mental inability to keep up.
Of course, this also exposed a fatal flaw of Wang Chao: Although he has undergone high-intensity training for a whole year, he still has some slight deficiencies compared to others in terms of competition intensity.
The coaching staff is not too worried about this, because regardless of the schedule of World Table Tennis Championships or Olympic Games, it is actually very loose compared to the through competition. The intensity of Chinese table tennis players in foreign wars is compared to civil wars. At least two levels lower, Wang Chao can now cope with the intensity of the through match, so there will basically be no problems in foreign battles, even if Men's Singles fights in mixed doubles and double lanes, it will be fine.
But there is no need to count on Men's Doubles and Wang Chao. After all, the strength of the third line is not something he can handle at present.
After that, the third to fifth places are Bai Feng, Fan Xiaodong and Lin Li.
Lin Li was twice shut out by Wang Chao in the Open. It can be said that his confidence was greatly damaged and he is now a little depressed. On the contrary, Bai Feng has never had the opportunity to meet Wang Chao and is younger, so he has a better mental outlook. This difference in mentality is reflected in the actual situation. During the battle, the result was that Bai Feng performed better in the past four days and had a stronger will to fight. He rushed to the third position with all kinds of explosive skills and all kinds of hard work, overpowering Lin Li who was ranked above him in the world. He also defeated Lin Li head-on in two consecutive rounds of direct confrontation.
To everyone's surprise and surprise, Fan Xiaodong actually rushed to fourth place.
In fact, as soon as the 12-man roster came out, many people had already guessed that Fan Xiaodong would be selected, but almost everyone thought that Fan Xiaodong would be ranked fifth. After all, Fan Xiaodong had never won a civil war in the World Series. He has been defeated by Luo Jiu, Wang Chao, Lin Li, Bai Feng and Xiao Fei without exception. Lin Li even defeated him twice.
But this time his record was quite brilliant. In the first round, he fought Wang Chao and Luo Jiu, and in the second round, he fought Lin Li and Bai Feng. It can be said that all the main players currently playing in the national team have been wiped out by him.
Even with a pervert like Wang Chao weighing down on his head, Fan Xiaodong still shows a vigorous and unstoppable crazy momentum, just like the weeds that stubbornly grow out of the cracks in the rocks in spring, with unparalleled vitality.
At this point, the singles events are all over. The Men's Singles players selected for World Table Tennis Championships are Luo Jiu, Wang Chao, Bai Feng, Fan Xiaodong, and Lin Li.
As for the women's team, the players selected as World Table Tennis Championships are, in order of ranking, Wang Yu, Jin Ling, Shen Sha, Liu Wen, and Yin Di.
Did you find the roster on the women's team a bit strange?
Yes, the women's team was a big upset this time.
Jin Ling Liu Wen Zhu Lingling, the traditional top three, didn't even qualify. Wang Yu and Shen Sha, a pair of young flowers, have risen strongly, Wang Yu rushed directly to the first place, and Shen Sha also rushed to the third place, squeezing out Jin Ling of World number one and Liu Wen of World Ranking Second.
Then the young flower Yin Di, ranked ninth in the world, directly squeezed out the veteran Zhu Lingling, who was ranked third in the world.
This record shocked the world table tennis world, and was followed by deep despair.
In fact, starting from the second half of last year, the Women's Singles project in the world table tennis world has stirred up a pretty good trend. The Sakura Country female table tennis team led by Ichikawa Mima and Yamano Mia has risen strongly. Li's extreme speed style of play created a lot of trouble for Chinese Women's National Table Tennis Team, and then young players in Sakura Country began to emerge like a spurt, such as Hayata Hannah, who later partnered with Zhang Benkuang, was one of them.
At that time, many people in the world table tennis circles exclaimed, believing that the Asian women's table tennis project might form a situation in which China and Sakura Country were competing against each other.
But one year later, Sakura Country, the representative figures of Sakura Country, Ichikawa Mima and Yamano Mia, have been completely knocked off their momentum and have failed to truly rise. On the contrary, Huaping's own little flowers have completed the task of seizing power in the civil war.
Sakura Country Before the female table tennis players could break through the veterans of Huaping, they were already beaten to death on the beach by Huaping's own young players.
How can one not despair?
The fans watched the game for four days, just like they had eaten for four days. They left the stadium satisfied one by one, went home to eat and take a shower, went to bed early, and recharged their energy, not so that they could go to work the next day, but so that they could continue to watch the game the next day.
That's right, the game isn't over.
The first four days were only singles, followed by Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and mixed doubles.
World Table Tennis Championships is the event with the most events among the three major events. It was originally two events for singles and two events for doubles. This year International Table Tennis Federation reformed and mixed doubles was included in the Olympics. World Table Tennis Championships naturally also included mixed doubles.
Therefore, Huaping will participate in this competition with two groups of Men's Doubles, two groups of Women's Doubles and two groups of mixed doubles.
The selection of doubles is different from that of singles, and the coaching staff must assign them.
For example, Men's Doubles, the first singles combination must be Sun Tianlong and Xiao Fei, and the famous Flying Heavenly Combination.
What? You said Sun Tianlong and Xiao Fei don't want to fight?
That won't work, we have to fight. This is a task directly assigned by the coaching staff. In order to ensure that Men's Doubles wins the championship, the two veterans must play unconditionally. Otherwise, they will be labeled as "unpatriotic". Who can bear it?
Who told them that they have been the number one Men's Doubles combination in the world for so many years?
In addition, you have to choose a combination. This combination is relatively free. The players are allowed to form teams freely and sign up for competitions freely. The coaching staff does not impose any compulsion.
——Anyway, Flying Heavenly Combination has the bottom line. In addition, this group of rights is for the lottery. If you get the top, you will be lucky, but if you don't, you will die.
Everyone is very enthusiastic about signing up. Just like Men's Singles, almost the whole team signed up. For Men's Doubles, anyone who thinks they can play doubles doesn't want to miss it. They don't insist on being selected, but they have to give it a try anyway and go up and fight. Men and athletes, who would refuse to fight? Who would refuse to challenge the strong?
Only Luo Jiu's thoughts are different from others.
He really wants to kill Sun Tianlong and Xiao Fei.
Because he wants Grand Slam this year. The more honors he gets, the louder his voice will be when he goes to Lao Fan's house to propose marriage, and the straighter his waist will be. Then, a World Table Tennis Championships Men's Doubles gold medal will naturally be accepted.
Of course he went to Wang Chao.
Luo Jiu is very confident. He feels that he and fellow apprentice Wang Chao can join forces to form a "Stir-fried Escargot Combination". You see, he has even thought of the name of the group.
"Stir-fried Escargot Combination can definitely fight Flying Heavenly Combination. We don't have to distinguish who is attacking and who is defending. We can completely attack and defend, because we practice the same system. Together, we will create a brand new system that no one else in the world can play." Luo Jiu stretched out his hand to Wang Chao with confidence. "Do you want to do it or not?"
Wang Chao shook his head. "No."
Luo Jiu sneered, "You coward."
"Brother, the provocation method can't be used at all times. Please use your brain." Wang Chao sighed, "World Table Tennis Championships I have already obtained a quota for singles, and I was directly assigned by the coaching staff for mixed doubles. In this case, do you think Old Cai will agree to me playing three games?"
Luo Jiu suddenly realized it, then turned around and ran away.
He had to hurry up and find someone else. After all, this was a free team, and everyone had already started to move. Before he came to Wang Chao, Qiu Yinong had just taken the initiative to find him. He wanted to give his disciple Lu Feiyang to Luo Jiu to form "Tilapia Combination", but Luo Jiu rejected it.
Luo Jiu's second choice is Zhu Ding, because he has been practicing with Zhu Ding for nearly half a year, and he knows very well how strong his sparring partner is now. It can be said that his team-up with Wang Chao is like an indestructible heavy sword that can break through mountains and rocks, so his team-up with Zhu Ding is definitely an elusive and invisible demon sword that kills people.
Nowadays, Zhu Ding is good at various styles and routines. He has also practiced many strange tricks in private. Even Luo Jiu suffers when he occasionally uses them. It can be said that Zhu Ding is now the player with the most imagination and the most fancy playing styles in the Chinese table tennis.
Of course, he is also the player with the least stability.
But Luo Jiu doesn't care, because he can tell the truth. By cooperating with Wang Chao, he can attack and defend fully, and by cooperating with Zhu Ding, he can also provide full assistance. After all, Zhu Ding is more powerful than Monstrous Strength Talent. He is responsible for the lower limit, and Zhu Ding is responsible for the upper limit. As long as he really charges, he will be a wild horse.
In order to show his sincerity, he once again thought of the group name in advance: A Word is Worth Nine Tripods Combination.
However, he was rejected by Zhu Ding again.
"You're late, I already have a partner."
Zhu Ding's partner is Ma Angxing. The reason is that Wang Lu personally brought Ma Angxing to the door and he couldn't refuse.
After all, when he fell into a low point in his life, it was Wang Lu who asked his younger brother Wang Shou to go to Bincheng and be his coach for five years, which was equivalent to taking care of him for five years.
This kindness Zhu Ding must be repaid.
What's more, Ma Angxing has the talent of Eagle Eye, which is a natural assistant. It just allows Zhu Ding to perfectly realize his weird ideas. The combination of the two is not inconsistent, but it is very likely that 1 plus 1 is greater than 2.
Luo Jiu was very confused. He thought carefully about who else he could find.
Don't count on Bai Feng and Lin Li. These two have too unique playing styles and are not suitable for doubles at all. Although they have occasionally tried doubles in the past few years, they have never achieved results. They are obviously not good partners.
So...Fan Xiaodong?
Luo Jiu quickly gave up this option because after all, he still thinks like a player and does not stand at the level of Sun Tianlong, He Jingping and Qin Huachang.
Even Wang Lu finally understood the new gameplay of the new era of Huaping coaching staff a few days ago. Luo Jiu, an athlete who only wants to play well, has no idea that the water flow above has changed direction. He still feels that as a disciple of the Zhu family, he should not find a partner with a disciple of the Qin family.
So in the end he could only hold his nose and find Qiu Yinong...
At first Qiu Yinong took the initiative to find him as a partner, but he rejected him. Now it has come full circle and it is his turn to take advantage of the situation.
However, he still didn't eat this sweet mouthful of grass...
"Ah? Why are you like this? You said you didn't want to partner with Lu Feiyang, so I went to find someone else. Now he is paired with Fan Xiaodong." - Qiu Yinong's original words.
At this moment, Luo Jiu is like a thunderbolt. Being late is not a problem, and being embarrassed is not a problem. The question is why can Lu Feiyang match Fan Xiaodong? If Zhumen can form a team with Qinmen, why didn't I just go to Fan Xiaodong directly?
He came out of Qiu Yinong in a daze and found that he had only one last choice left: Qi Hao.
Qi Hao is now the disciple of the great uncle, and can be considered one of our own no matter what, well, it's just him.
By this time, Luo Jiu was actually feeling very sad.
He initially wanted to form Men's Doubles in order to kill Sun Tianlong and Xiao Fei. This goal was not unreasonable. It was precisely because the goal was too high that he went to find Wang Chao. But then he went around in circles and his goal became lower and lower. There was only a slim theoretical possibility of defeating Flying Heavenly Combination.
But now, when he decided to find Qi Hao, it meant that he had given up even this theoretical possibility.
Yes, if he teamed up with Qi Hao, he would be 100% unable to defeat Sun Tianlong Xiao Fei.
In doubles, when everyone's level is not too high, one move can be used all over the world, just like Xiao Fei's Opening Three Axe Slashes.
But once it reaches the level of peak duel, there must be no obvious loopholes among the four players. The game will definitely start with mutual defense. Everyone looks for each other's loopholes, then seizes the initiative, and then uses the initiative to snowball, and finally penetrates the opponent.
It must be such a rigorous and complicated process.
There is no situation where I just hit you with a knife, and you didn't pay attention, and you were directly hacked to death.
Sneak attacks are useless.
But for this player Qi Hao, his playing style is just to come up and hit him in the face with a knife first, and then he can't play with that impeccable mature style for the time being.
"So why should I go find him? I wanted to form a team to defeat Flying Heavenly Combination. Since I can't defeat Flying Heavenly Combination now, I might as well give up."
Luo Jiu walked slower and slower. Finally he figured it out and turned back, giving up Men's Doubles's dream of gold medal.
What he doesn't know is that Qi Hao has actually already formed a group with someone. If he goes there, he will only be rejected again.
But it's not over yet.
Something even more embarrassing happened.
Xiao Fei brought his new disciple Wang Qin to visit Luo Jiu.
"I heard that you couldn't find anyone to form a team?"
"What do you think of my disciple?"
Xiao Fei spoke with a smile on his face, but Luo Jiu wanted to press his face to the floor.
He felt deeply humiliated.
I was still trying to defeat you just now. Now you are bringing your disciples over to form a team with me?
Fortunately, Xiao Fei quickly explained his purpose.
"Anyway, you haven't found anyone to form a team. You have nothing to do these days anyway. Instead of watching the game, why not go up and play by yourself? Just think of it as showing my little apprentice the world."
Luo Jiu was magically convinced.
Things in the world are so strange. When he wanted to win the championship, he felt depressed no matter how much he thought about it. But after he gave up completely, he changed his perspective and thought it would be good to go up and have fun.
Besides, Xiao Fei is, after all, a senior fellow from a wealthy family. He has come to ask for help, and he has also promised himself a month's worth of meals, so he can reluctantly agree.
At this point, Luo Jiu and Wang Qin have formed a team, and they also have a very cool group name: Heavenly Net Combination.