As the dust settled on the mixed doubles final on December 9, the table tennis men's doubles and women's doubles competitions officially ushered in on December 10.
These two events, like the mixed doubles, have extremely strict requirements for the qualifications of participating associations. Still, 16 pairs of partners from 16 table tennis associations will directly enter the main draw.
The Mexican team relied on the advantage of the host country to obtain a qualification in the Men's Doubles and Women's Doubles projects.
In fact, according to Olympic Games's practice, the Mexican team should also get a spot in the mixed doubles competition, but they also know that their own mixed doubles combination is really terrible. Instead of embarrassing themselves in the world arena, it is better to stay at home and be beautiful alone.
As for Men's Doubles and Women's Doubles, after all, they have been in business for many years and have two veteran pairs, so I always felt that maybe there might be a slight chance?
However, reality shattered their unrealistic fantasies.
During the 16-to-8 match that day, the Mexican men's and women's teams were both eliminated and suffered an identical 3-0 sweep.
The match resumed the next morning, with 8 doubles advancing to 4 stages. The content of the game was much better than on the first day. The men's team even played very brutally in some games, winning warm cheers from the audience. When we looked at the match list in the evening, the remaining teams were basically strong teams.
Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the women's team. Although it is the first time for the combination of Liu Wen and Shen Sha, due to their absolute strength advantage, all games are extremely cruel crushing. Although they have just entered the semi-finals, fans have basically recognized that Huaping will win the championship.
As for the men's team, in addition to the invincible pairing of Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong, three good pairs have indeed emerged, namely Germany's Wolf and Qiu Shang, Morad and k. Michel from Sweden, and Zhang Benkuang and Utada Seiya from Sakura Country.
As for Bay Island Table Tennis Association, whose personal strength is extremely outstanding, because Zhuang Huishen retired, they could not find a male player who could barely match Lin Zijun. In the end, they could only hastily choose Bay Island's second brother and Lin Zijun However, the strength gap between the second brother Bay Island and the first brother Bay Island is really too big. Even though Lin Zijun tried his best to carry, in the end the Bay Island Men's Doubles combination was still destroyed by the Swedish combination when 8 entered 4.
Daehan Minguk has a strong pair, Kim Bong and Xian Youwen. They were originally capable of reaching the semi-finals, but unfortunately, they directly ran into Huaping Great Demon King in the first round of 16 to 8, and were killed easily 3:0, making them hate Mexico.
On the afternoon of December 11, the doubles semi-finals started. Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong continued their winning streak, defeating Germany's Orff and Qiu Shang 3:1 in 40 minutes, taking the lead in advancing to the finals.
In fact, this game was slightly more difficult than the Huaping coaching staff expected.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for European players to maintain a sustained high level during a whole year of competition. They spend most of their time in very frequent state fluctuations. This also causes them to calculate the overall winning rate and total points throughout the year. They always give fans an illusion, as if the honors they receive are lower than the strength they show.
So in a sense, we can definitely think that all professional table tennis players in Europe are slightly underestimated.
And when they really get serious and adjust their form perfectly, their upper limit of combat power is usually higher than their current world ranking.
As the teacher of the European table tennis king, Germany is naturally unique in adjusting player status and specific technical and tactical arrangements. The reason why Rohlskov dares to be weird all year round is that he still has the confidence to support it.
Therefore, Wolf and Qiu Shang on Olympic Games can generally be regarded as being in the small universe explosion stage.
According to the internal evaluation made by the Huaping coaching staff after the game, the strength shown by Wolf, ranked 21st in the world, is definitely qualified to be ranked among the top 15 in the world.
The young player Qiu Shang, ranked 22nd in the world, is actually more powerful than Wolf. Some coaches such as Wang Lu and Chen Taolue even believe that he can temporarily be ranked among the top 10 in the world.
So you can roughly replace the current combat power of the combination of Wolf and Qiu Shang into Fan Xiaodong and Lin Li, and you can understand what kind of fierce battle Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong encountered.
The current Sun Tianlong and Wang Chao are known as the most stable players in the world, and Luo Jiu is somewhat reborn after experiencing the disastrous defeat of World Table Tennis Championships. The combination of these two actually defeated the opponent 3:1 instead of directly crushing it 3:0. This also shows how well the European masters played this time.
This is reasonable, because professional players all over Europe are holding fire in their hearts, and they are trying their best to kill Huaping.
Nowadays, the world table tennis world is increasingly hyping up the civil war between the three top Chinese table tennis players, old, middle and young. From the moment World Table Tennis Championships first started, the vast majority of fans in the European Forum began to happily discuss the pinnacle final battle between Wang Chao and Luo Jiu. This scene fell into the eyes of European professional players and coaches. How can they not be angry?
The fight hasn't even started yet. As the saying goes, the world is still undecided. You and I are both dark horses. Why should we be in the finals? Who allowed you two to enter the finals together?
Because of this mentality, European players are generally very desperate on World Table Tennis Championships. They grit their teeth and fight to the death, making desperate resistance. During this period, there are also some players who made angry speeches on the forum, claiming that they must fight Wang Chao and Luo Jiu was thrown off the horse, but these remarks were instantly covered by a large number of "Wang Chui", "Luo Chui" and "Hua Chui" with dense messages, and then turned into forum quarrels, and then turned into forum betting, from eating the forum, eating the keyboard and eating the mouse to eating shit and drinking urine.
Then after the game was over, Wang Chao and Luo Jiu were marching forward and crushing everything. So the European player who posted the post chose to pretend to be dead, and his supporters fell into silence. Only a bunch of more rampant "Wang Chui", "Luo Chui" and "Hua Chui" left messages asking, "Where is the video of you eating shit? We are waiting to see."
The player who posted the message was incompetent and furious, but he didn't dare to reply. He could only pretend to be dead while venting his anger, hating the Chinese table tennis masters who obviously did nothing wrong.
It can only be said that most of the netizens in various countries are people who are arrogant. If they are arrogant, the person involved will become really angry.
So when Olympic Games is now open again, the most annoying thing for European professional players is to see a bunch of people discussing the strength and weakness of the three top players in Chinese table tennis on forums in their own countries, as if the three of them have already secured the top three spots in the Olympics.
They really want to tug on the ears of this group of people and make them open their eyes and see clearly that there are professional players in your own country, they are also very strong, and they can compete with Huaping.
Why did tmd inexplicably become the Chinese table tennis players to join forces in the Olympic Games singles match finals again?
Is this a rumor spread by some traitorous fan?
We disagree!
Ok, let's get back to the game.
After Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu advanced to the Men's Doubles finals, the Swedish combination Morad and Michel also advanced. They defeated the Sakura Country combination Zhang Benkuang and Utada Seiya.
This game was also very brutal, with the final score 3:2 and the deciding score 13:11. It can be said that the Swedes only narrowly won by half.
It can also be seen that the young players of Sakura Country actually have extremely amazing potential. Zhang Benkuang celebrated his birthday in the middle of this year and is now 17 years old, while his partner Utada Seiya is 19 years old. Both of them are amazingly young. In addition, in Sakura Country and Utada Seiya Also equally matched are the 21-year-old youngster Hoshikawa Mizuki and the 19-year-old youngster Kojima Fusai. As long as time is given, when this group of players Sakura Country matures and reaches the peak level of their careers at the age of 24 or 5, there is a great possibility that they will pose a substantial threat to China Table Tennis Team.
Morad and Michel are ranked 23rd and 10th in the world. Judging from the paper strength, they are stronger than Wolf and Qiu Shang. A large combination, considering the consistent perfect form and explosive performance of European players on Olympic Games, the actual combat power of these two people can really be regarded as a super peak combination between the top 10 and the top 5 in the world.
If we must find a familiar analogy, it is probably equivalent to the usual Xiao Fei and Lin Li, or the usual Hook and Bai Feng. It is a perfect combination of styles while taking into account the strong personal strength. One is fierce, one is smart, one is smart, and the other is arrogant. They all have strong control of the small ball in the table and will never be caught by anyone in the basic strategy and tactics.
Therefore, on the night of the semi-finals on December 11, Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong did not dare to slack off at all. Under the arrangement of Cai Guodong, they directly invited Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong to serve as temporary sparring partners before the finals.
However, even Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong could not stop the terrifying attacks of Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu. After all, the former had never seriously practiced doubles, while the latter had been working together intermittently since World Table Tennis Championships. Today, they have already reached the point of perfect tacit understanding.
The two sides practiced from seven o'clock to eight-thirty after dinner. Wang Chao proactively suggested. "How about hiring a foreign aid?"
Cai Guodong asked, "Can you please get it?"
It is normal for him to ask this question, because Olympic Games is like a life and death battle, and even the best personal relationships have to be temporarily put aside. After all, the players not only represent themselves, but also represent the huge honor of the association and the country behind them. In this situation, any player is absolutely selfish.
Cai Guodong asked himself, if he was asked to find foreign aid, he would probably only be able to hire Weng Chunting, the first brother in Minato. This is because Minato's Chinese table tennis team is of the same origin, and the head coach of Minato is his brother Cai Guodong.
But Wang Chao smiled and nodded, "Okay."
He made a phone call, and the "iron buddy" Lin Zijun came right over.
"It's okay. Anyway, the mixed doubles match is over, Men's Doubles has been eliminated, and Men's Singles is still early." Lin Zijun acted calmly. "What's more, Men's Singles and I, Wang Chao, are in the same half zone. I can't beat him anyway, so I accept my fate."
If Jiang Peirong heard this, he would be furious, but Cai Guodong just felt amazed and gave Wang Chao a thumbs up behind Lin Zijun's back.
My boy has really grown up. Not only can he compete for honors in international competitions, but he can also kidnap other people's babies.
High, really high.
When the training started, Cai Guodong discovered that the cooperation between Wang Chao and Lin Zijun's Men's Doubles was really powerful, because in a sense, the two were really similar.
They are about the same age, have the same talent, and even have the same physical fitness. So when they work together, even if they have not practiced, they will naturally make the same judgment when encountering most situations. They look like a pair of twins, and they actually perform a lot of amazing coordination.
Of course, overall they were still beaten severely by Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu, but they had a lot more room for resistance than when Fan Xiaodong was present.
And Super Speed of Lin Zijun did create a lot of trouble for the Sun Luo combination, allowing the Sun Luo combination to find many subtle loopholes that could not be found during normal practice.
After that, there was no talk all night. On the morning of December 12, Men's Doubles's bronze medal station and finals started one after another.
The first is Zhang Benkuang and Utada Seiya vs Wolf and Qiu Shang. This game was extremely brutal. In the early stage, the German combination relied on the rich game experience of Wolf. The stronger personal strength of the adults, Yuhe, gained the advantage and won two games in a row. Then the German combination's physical strength and concentration began to decline, and the younger Sakura Country combination began to rise. They relied on the desperate momentum of the teenagers to regain two games and tie the score at 2:2.
In the last game, both sides worked hard together, the quality of the game began to decline, and the loopholes began to increase, but from the scene, it was more bloody and tragic. Considering that although Mexico belongs to North America, it emotionally supports Europe more, so the audience at the game tended to be home and away.
In the end, the German combination relied on this little bit of encouragement from their home team to last until the end and win the decisive game.
So far, Men's Doubles won the bronze medal in Germany, which can be regarded as regaining some confidence for the European table tennis world. Even if they lose in the final, the European table tennis world will not be completely wiped out.
However, the complexity of the European table tennis world was reflected at this moment. When Germany won the card, the atmosphere of unity in the European major leagues instantly collapsed. Rohlskov immediately jumped out and once again claimed that Germany was the strongest table tennis country in Europe. However, when Swedish supporters stood up to argue, he did not respond directly. He only said in a strange way, "Ask Old Wa what he said."
Of course Old Wa cannot speak, because anyone with a discerning eye can see that although Sweden has entered the finals, it is almost certain to lose against Huaping.
Then the Men's Doubles finals started. Although Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong were full of momentum, Michel and Morad really didn't give up at all.
This game was not a stalemate, because the final score was a 3:0 victory for Huaping, but if you want to look at each game in detail, it can be regarded as tragic. Michel and Morad really worked hard, almost desperate to save any ball. They were technically defeated by Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong were completely mobilized, so they fought extremely awkwardly, but the more embarrassing they fought, the more enthusiastic the applause from the audience. In the end, almost all the audience were chanting the names of the Swedish team players, making Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong completely become the villains that everyone said.
Of course, the Chinese table tennis players said, we have long been accustomed to it. We are Great Demon King. How can we stop a group of weaklings who are not even brave from being hostile to us?
After 34 minutes, Huaping Men's Doubles won the championship. The national flag that had been raised for the mixed doubles three days ago was once again rising in the Olympic stadium. Standing under the flag, looking up at the red streak above the head, the audience was still noisy and noisy at this moment, but all the Huaping players, both outside and on the court, stood up in unison. They remained quiet and clearly felt a sense of pride and honor that emerged from the bottom of their hearts.
The so-called "bring glory to the country" of table tennis players, although it has been mentioned repeatedly by countless teammates and coaches since the beginning of their careers, seems to have become a slogan that purely reflects the correctness of the game, and even occasionally turns into self-deprecating and mutual jokes during chats. However, when athletes truly reach such a height, standing At the top of such the most grand and glorious sports ceremony, watching the red flag slowly rise because of myself, I can still clearly feel that the original intention when I first said the words "win glory for the country" when I entered the industry, it is still there, and it has always been hidden in the deepest and deepest place in my heart.
Of course, there was actually a flag-raising event two hours ago. It was the moment when Women's Doubles won the championship. I won't mention it anymore. After all, there is no suspense in women's table tennis. Moreover, there is really no such thing as "watching the red flag rising in an international arena". The more, the better.
But the foreign fans are a little distracted at the moment, because their minds have already drifted to tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow, the most valuable and highly anticipated singles project is about to begin.
(This is the first update today. The weather is too hot. I can't calm down. I feel very uncomfortable and irritable. Let me be quiet. I want to be quiet. I really don't want to code. I just want to be quiet. Please bear with me.)
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