Two flowers bloomed, one on each side. While Super League was so popular, the war in other places also continued.
The schedule of Table Tennis First Division highly overlaps with that of Table Tennis Super League. The most noteworthy one for this year's Table Tennis First Division is naturally Imperial Capital New City Club, which was downgraded from Table Tennis Super League last year.
At the beginning of the year, everyone said that Imperial Capital New City was the giant Table Tennis First Division. After all, there were two generals in the team, Liang Kunpeng and Lin Zijun. As a result, because of the frequent international competitions this year, Since these two fierce players are almost all playing in international competitions, Lin Zijun directly returned to the Bay Island Table Tennis Association. For this reason, the Bay Island Table Tennis Association paid a very high amount of compensation to Imperial Capital New City.
Therefore, Imperial Capital New City Club's results in the spring split were not very good either.
Now that the autumn season is coming, Lin Zijun has a very similar schedule to Wang Chao. When Wang Chao returned to Table Tennis Super League, he also returned to Table Tennis First Division.
Taking advantage of the rare two-month gap between World Table Tennis Championships and before Olympic Games, everyone who should have returned returned, and Liang Kunpeng also returned to the club.
So Imperial Capital New City finally fulfilled its promise at the end of last year and began to kill everyone in Table Tennis First Division. The cruelty of its methods was definitely more than last year's Black Spade Q Club.
After more than a month and more than ten rounds of games, Imperial Capital New City not only won all the games, but the score was exactly 3:0. If you look closely at the scores of each game, you will find more 4:0.
Lin Zijun is going crazy!
Probably to exercise his doubles ability, Lin Zijun is now playing steadily in the second single, just to be able to play a doubles. In doubles, when Table Tennis First Division has no one who can control the ball like Wang Chao, Lin Zijun's Super Speed is completely a bug, and he starts to lead unreasonably.
First he led the team's third single to play, then led the team's substitutes to play, and then led the team's second substitute to play. Lin Zijun proved one thing with practical actions: in doubles, as long as Lin Zijun is there, the leash dog can win.
It's such an exaggeration.
So in mid-November, Imperial Capital New City topped the list in total points, and could finally openly and openly say, "Super League, wait for me, we will return next year."
Domestic competitions are so noisy, but international competitions are relatively uncharacteristically deserted.
I don't know whether it's because the influence of table tennis is expanding around the world, or whether there are some KPI indicators within International Table Tennis Federation that need to be completed. In short, International Table Tennis Federation's event schedule this year is extremely intensive, with a total of 15 open games a year, plus three major competitions, making everyone exhausted.
Wang Chao, Luo Jiu, Lin Zijun and others all chose to give up all open competitions after World Table Tennis Championships, shift their focus to China, replace training with league games, and concentrate on preparing for Olympic Games at the end of November.
Veterans like Sun Tianlong, Bayer, and Ochomirov also chose to stay dormant after World Table Tennis Championships. They no longer need to conduct such high-intensity training. They only need to regulate their bodies and adjust their status to ensure that they can perform at a normal level on Olympic Games.
It is necessary to accumulate before the war. Accumulation will lead to weak gains. Too frequent participation will destroy the competitive state. Therefore, after September, basically, as long as the players who have expectations for Olympic Games all calm down involuntarily.
This resulted in the two-month open tournament from the end of September to the end of November being deserted.
In mid-October, the Croatian Open was held.
At the end of October, the Dubai Platinum leg Open was held.
In mid-November, Singapore Open was held.
On November 24th, the Kimchi Country Platinum leg Open was held.
In fact, these four open games should be relatively attractive from an objective perspective. After all, there are two Platinum leg with high points, and the Dubai station has super high bonuses because of the sponsorship of oil giants.
But all the famous figures in the world table tennis world were absent.
Of course, just looking at the number of applicants and the scale of the competition, it is actually not low, because there are more than a hundred table tennis associations around the world, and there are even more registered professional table tennis players. These unknown players are pure cannon fodder on weekdays, but now that the masters have retreated, it is their turn to come out and see the world. If they can make it to the main competition by accident, it may be the peak of their career.
Therefore, quoting the evaluation of the Huaping coaching staff is: they came in a swarm, had a nutritious fight, and ended up leaving a lot of chicken feathers on the ground, not even a game worth analyzing.
The final Men's Singles champion of the Croatia Open is a Kimchi Country veteran.
The champion of Dubai Platinum leg's Men's Singles is Chinese youngster Lu Feiyang.
Yes, Platinum leg's cup of soup is quite nutritious, not to mention it is a competition sponsored by an oil tycoon, so Huaping sent a number of young players, such as Lu Feiyang, Sun Zhongwen, Wang Qin, He Peng and others, while ensuring that all the main players are training well.
Of course, Fan Xiaodong is not counted among the young players. His level is different. He will directly enter the new main lineup of Huaping after Xiao Fei and Sun Tianlong retire next year.
How do you say something?
"You are still playing in the mud with your friends, while I am already working on my career with the adults."
The Men's Singles winner of Singapore Open is Zhang Benkuang.
This can be considered a small accident.
There is no doubt that Zhang Benkuang will participate in Olympic Games, and is very likely to compete in Men's Singles and mixed doubles. However, on this basis, he still chooses to continue to register for the open competition. This is probably because a 15-year-old child is too energetic and he can really endure it.
Finally, the Kimchi Country Platinum leg Open, Men's Singles champion is African top player Arul from Nigeria.
Arul made a great name in this year's Open, especially by knocking out the fourth German brother Qiu Shang in two consecutive events, which has established his status as a first-class player. Now his life is much better than before. He has found a sponsor and has his own personal assistant. He no longer needs to work hard to book flights, hotels and training centers.
But he still maintains a very rational attitude towards the competition. Of course he participates in Olympic Games, but he does not expect to get a ranking in Olympic Games, which is full of talents. He simply wants to feel the atmosphere of the competition, and his main focus of the competition is still on making money.
Since it is about making money, it is definitely the best choice to take advantage of the opportunity that the world's masters cannot lurk and participate in the last Platinum leg before Olympic Games.
No one would run out and play another game a week before the Olympics.
But Arul does.
He successfully won the Men's Singles championship in this station, as well as a large number of points and a large amount of bonuses. Afterwards, he did not go home, but went directly to Mexico without stopping, looking for a place to live there, practicing while waiting for the arrival of Olympic Games.
Yes, the venue for this year's Olympic Games is Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It is like spring all year round. Even in late autumn, the temperature is still between ten and twenty degrees. It can be regarded as a place with a very pleasant climate.
Regarding the Kimchi Country Platinum leg Open on November 24, there is an interesting thing that I have to mention, that is, Tang Yuanyuan ran to participate in the Women's Singles event at this stop.
Huaping has a big business and many players of all ages. Although the main players looked down on the four stops before Olympic Games, Huaping still symbolically sent some young players to see the world. It was during the last selection of players that Tang Yuanyuan took the initiative to request to play.
Her reason is also very valid: I have no other events now except mixed doubles, but my partner Wang Chao has already gone to play Table Tennis Super League, and it is impossible for me to participate in Olympic Games's other events. So now, wouldn't it be good to take advantage of boredom to go out and play an insignificant match?
Probably because of his love for Wujiwu, Cai Guodong was very tolerant of Tang Yuanyuan and agreed without much hesitation.
Before going there, Tang Yuanyuan was very ambitious. After all, he was a mixed doubles player, World Champion. He also beat Wang Yu Shen Sha and others to win Swedish Open Women's Singles champion, Ichikawa Mima, the star of hope of female table tennis who once beat Sakura Country head-on. In this match, non-Chinese associations is all scum, not a single one with a name, so isn't the champion holding the hand?
With the Swedish Open Women's Singles championship points, she entered the main competition directly. In the first round, she met not an outsider, but a 14-year-old junior sister from her team named Kuai Wan is a little flower who was selected during the provincial team assessment a while ago. He belongs to the same batch as Wang Qin, Xu Bin, Yuan Li and others of the men's team.
Tang Yuanyuan plans to educate the younger generations and let them know how hidden dragons and crouching tigers the Chinese Table Tennis Women's Team is. She heard that the veterans of the Chinese Table Tennis Team have a tradition of suppressing the younger generations, so she should also be an excellent whetstone.
Then she was chopped 4:0 by Kuai Wan, and successfully reached the first round as the opener Women's Singles World Champion.
After that, Tang Yuanyuan really faced herself. She realized with extreme despair that she really couldn't go back.
I have really become an absolutely professional player who can only play mixed doubles but not singles.
The teammates who were equally matched in the past, Wang Yu Shen Sha Chen Tong Yin Di and others, have all disappeared from the front.
Even Kuai Wan and others who just joined the team have already come from behind.
She was very sad and called Wang Chao, nagging her for a long time. When she hung up the phone, she felt instantly cheerful.
Because she thinks what Wang Chao said makes sense.
"Why do you envy them? After all their hard work, can they win the championship in the end?"
"You can't win it. There is only one person who can really win the championship. The others are just cannon fodder."
"And what about you? You are already the mixed doubles World Champion. If nothing else happens, we will continue to win the championship in the future and continue to win consecutive championships. If we can't make any achievements in singles, then we will join forces to defeat World Cup, World Table Tennis Championships and Olympic Games all won the mixed doubles championship, and Grand Slam achieved the mixed doubles event and became the first combination in mixed doubles history. Isn't it beautiful?"
"So, you have to treat me. After all, I'm the one taking you flying."
Tang Yuanyuan The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he owed a lot to Wang Chao. After all, he had gotten World Champion without much effort. Looking at Wang Yu Shen Sha and the others, it was really hard.
Wang Chao It's really not easy.
So she started flipping through her phone in the middle of the night, logging into her ICBC account, Agricultural Bank of China account, China Construction Bank account, Huaguo Bank account, Moubao account, WeChat account, Penguin account, and so on. She carefully calculated how much money she had saved over the years, how much bonus she had won from playing competitions, and began to seriously consider where to treat Wang Chao to have a good meal.
If one meal is not enough, you can treat us to a few more. After all, we are all good brothers.
On November 24th, which was the day of the last open tournament before Olympic Games, Spade Q ushered in the last Super League in November.
After today, Super League will be suspended for a long time until Olympic Games is completely over and all players return.
Domestic competitions have given way to international competitions, which has been the norm for many years.
Super League The autumn competition has now entered the second round of the big cycle, so Spade Q encountered an old opponent they had played against more than a month ago: Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club.
Speaking of which, Spade Q and Liaoning Province Zhonggang are very destined.
In the Table Tennis Super League Spring Tournament in March this year, it was the collision of these two teams that gave birth to two peerless battles between Sun Tianlong and Wang Chao. Wang Chao's name as a master of technical flow was recognized around the world because of this game.
In fact, the impact of this game is even more far-reaching, because it was from this game that Sun Tianlong saw the terrifying potential of Wang Chao. After that, Sun Tianlong gave up places and opportunities, and used his reputation and status to guarantee Wang Chao, so that Wang Chao had enough opportunities to perform and successfully gained the trust of Cai Guodong before the Olympics.
In September this year, just after the autumn season started, Spade Q met Liaoning Province Zhonggang again.
At this time, Sun Tianlong was no longer in the team, and the second single, Qi Hao, had completed technical changes and had just returned to the team. Therefore, Liaoning Province Zhonggang was centered on Qi Hao in this game, and finally crushed Spade Q 3:0.
Now in November, the two teams meet again, but the situation is completely different.
Liaoning Province Zhonggang seems to be unable to make it to the playoffs this season due to the long-term absence of the main players. As a team that has been a troublemaker for many years, they have not even completed the task of making trouble this year. The fundamental reason is that Sun Tianlong has been absent too much this year.
As for Spade Q, due to its winning streak in the past month or so, not only is it full of momentum, but its points have also reached the top of the list, and its spot in the playoffs is about to be obtained.
It can be said that with the passage of time, the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides have been reversed.
This is the last game before Olympic Games. In fact, most fans are not able to calm down and watch the game seriously, because everyone's minds have already flown to the distant Mexico City.
But when the two sides announced the lineup two days before the game, everyone was still shocked.
It turns out that over Liaoning Province Zhonggang, Sun Tianlong, who had been dormant for several months, actually returned.
Oh My God!
Sun Tianlong then accepted an interview. He spoke with some guilt and seemed very sincere, "I would like to take this opportunity to say sorry to coach Tang Jiuzhou. I did not fulfill my responsibility as a main player this year. I'm sorry for the coach, I'm sorry for the team, and I'm sorry for me. The boss who pays wages... This is the last game before Olympic Games. I feel that I am in good shape recently. Maybe it would be good to go out for some exercise and receive a practical test. If I can win a victory before the league is temporarily suspended, it should also be encouraging for subsequent games."
The reporter asked him, "Are you confident that you can defeat Spade Q?"
"This..." Sun Tianlong thought about it seriously, shook his head and smiled, "Not really. Wang Chao and I should be on a 50-50 basis. Qi Hao has made great progress recently, and the stability has also improved, but in the end I am not sure whether I can beat Wu Li. I have paid close attention to Wu Li. His progress is too fast. I watched his game four days ago, but after all, it has been another four days. I don't know how much he has improved in these four days."
What Sun Tianlong said was true, but he didn't know that his playing caused a lot of trouble to Wang Chao, because Wang Chao had sworn in front of the Spade Q players as early as March this year that he would never fight Sun Tianlong on the field.
He means it.
Grand Slam is certainly the strongest wish in his life, but if it is Sun Tianlong, he can wait another four years.
World Table Tennis Championships used Luo Jiu to simulate Sun Tianlong's playing style and accompany Wang Chao to practice. To a large extent, Wang Chao cooperated because he did not want to live up to his senior brother's deep friendship.
But after World Table Tennis Championships, even though Spade Q and Jiangcheng University Team visited each other every day, Wang Chao never took the initiative to ask Luo Jiu to be a sparring partner.
He didn't want to practice the backhand style of play at all, because he didn't regard Sun Tianlong as an imaginary enemy at all.
"When I meet Brother Long on the field from now on, I will surrender unconditionally."
"The only thing I don't want to do is compete against Brother Long."
The vows made back then were still in my ears, but Sun Tianlong took the initiative to come to him again.
Wang Chao and Spade Q have been studying for a long time, trying to guess whether Sun Tianlong will appear first, but in the end they still cannot come to a definite conclusion.
After all, Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club's head coach Tang Jiuzhou is also a recognized smart person.
What's more, Sun Tianlong himself is a master of formation.
So Wang Chao simply called him directly, "Brother Long, are you the first order or the second order?"
"What, have you started playing psychological warfare?" Sun Tianlong found it interesting. "Should I answer truthfully, or should I scheming with you? You have to tell me how to play it first, otherwise I won't know which of your words is true and which is false."
"I didn't want to play tricks, I was serious." Wang Chao was helpless. "I just want to tell you that I want to avoid you."
Sun Tianlong was surprised.
He didn't know the oath Wang Chao had sworn. In fact, in a sense, he really wanted to touch Wang Chao in front of Olympic Games to see the effect.
After all, his imaginary enemies are also Wang Chao and Luo Jiu. Considering that Wang Chao defeated Luo Jiu on World Table Tennis Championships, if you must choose one person to try, Wang Chao is obviously more suitable than Luo Jiu.
But after thinking for a while, he still chose to tell the truth, "I originally wanted to go out as a second player to catch you."
He paused. "I have also practiced doubles specifically, and I want to have a try with you and Wu Li."
Wang Chao smiled bitterly, "Then I place an order and you don't have to change it, okay?"
Sun Tianlong said, "Okay."
On the day of the game, Sun Tianlong indeed played the second single as promised, while Wang Chao did not engage in any "I predicted your prediction" and honestly chose to play the single, and both parties successfully avoided it.
In the end, Wang Chao won the first game, and Sun Tianlong won the second and third games. Then, Wang Chao ran into the opponent's third single, Xue Hui, in the fourth game, and won easily, so the game entered the decisive game. It was still the key player Wu Li who faced Qi Hao after completing technical changes.
This time Wu Li did not have the last laugh.
He plays very hard, and the quality of the games is also very high, but now Qi Hao has truly become the main force of the national team. When Qi Hao plays normally, he is still a head higher than Wu Li.
In the end, Qi Hao defeated Wu Li 4:1, and Liaoning Province Zhonggang also defeated Spade Q with a total score of 3:2.
This battle can be described as anticlimactic. It was highly anticipated before the game, but in the end it was a calm fight. The two ace players were perfectly staggered, leaving the audience with a lot of excitement.
Both sides of the battle were happy. Liaoning Province Zhonggang had this victory, and its performance was stable in the middle and lower reaches. Although it was not good, at least it was out of the relegation zone.
And Spade Q doesn't care about this defeat. As long as Wang Chao and Wu Li don't let up, they can still enter the playoffs steadily.
So Table Tennis First Division Table Tennis Super League was completely closed, and the domestic competitions came to an end. On the non-Chinese associations side, Sakura Country's T2 league, the German club league, As well as all major and small events such as the European Cup, European Championships, International Table Tennis Federation City Challenge, U15, U18 Youth Championships, etc., have also been stopped. The world table tennis world shows an extremely rare calm at this moment.
Everyone knows that the storm is coming and the wind is blowing all over the building. After the calm, there will be the greatest excitement.
November 30th is the opening ceremony of the quadrennial Olympic Games, which will kick off this global sports carnival.
As for the China Table Tennis team, as one of the most successful projects in the Chinese Sports project, the participating team members will also form an Olympic formation alone and follow the mighty army to Mexico City to accept the final test.
The huge Chinese Table Tennis base is rarely clean. Autumn is deep, the wind is blowing, and many yellow leaves are falling on the square outside the base gate.
"They've all left..."
The old man with white hair and white beard and a fairy-like spirit was sweeping the floor in the square wearing a thin moon-white Tang suit. He seemed completely unafraid of the cold autumn. He raised his head and looked in the direction of Mexico City, muttering to himself, " I've finished my perfect attendance, and I'm almost done with my gold medal. It's time for me, San Jiang Ge, to leave, Wang Chao, you must achieve Grand Slam..."
A sigh was blown away by the autumn wind, and it actually contained some reluctant nostalgia.
When I looked again, the square was empty, but no one was around.