These phone calls made Cai Guodong laugh and cry, but also proud.
Because although Huaping has been dominating these years, he has not encountered anything like this for a long, long time.
Why?
Because in the past, Huaping only dominated, but it was not so dominant that "I want it all."
After all, there is only one Sun Tianlong, and the others are not stable enough. Even if he is covered in iron, he can't hit a few pounds of nails. At most, he can only guarantee the three major competitions.
But now, non-Chinese associations can take the initiative to call him and ask for such a thing, which shows that he is really frightened by Huaping's current strength.
Well, let's explain it from the beginning.
In fact, what non-Chinese associations really cares about is the year-end finals in one and a half months.
This year there are 15 open stations, 7 ordinary stations, and 8 Platinum leg. Players participate in each competition. As long as they can get a ranking, they can get points. The year-end finals will invite players to participate according to the points ranking the players have gained this year.
If Olympic Games is regarded as the big test of the entire professional table tennis, then the International Table Tennis Federation Professional Tour year-end finals is the final test of all open competitions every year. Of course, professional players hope to accumulate enough points for a year, get an invitation, and gain something in the finals.
Because the finals have higher point bonuses and higher bonuses, their world rankings can be greatly improved, and the world rankings are related to their income, sponsorship, advertising invitations, social status, etc.
Originally, the professional players of non-Chinese associations only had to choose the appropriate open competition to participate in according to their own specific circumstances every year, and it was enough to accumulate points that matched their own strength, but this year is an exception.
This year, in order to compete for Olympic Games singles match's qualifications, Wang Chao started racing all the way from the beginning of the year to Hong Kong Open. Wherever he went, there was no grass growing and all the championships were snatched away. He has won four open singles gold medals along the way, and he has defeated the top players non-Chinese associations one after another along the way. Unknowingly, he has robbed many people of the points they should have received.
At the same time, Luo Jiu made technical improvements this year and achieved great success. He also started desperately grabbing points at the end of his career, but there was also no grass in the way. Throughout the Open Open, he and Wang Chao Sun Tianlong were all Kings do not meet kings, each grabbing their own points. By accident, he also grabbed a few gold medals.
Under the crazy harvesting of these two lawn mowers, this year's non-Chinese associations contestants were miserable. Except for someone missing two gold medals in October and November, it can be said that there was no harvest.
There was even a gold medal that was picked up by Chinese young player Lu Feiyang.
So after the Olympics, the players took some time to take stock, and found that many players who participated in the finals every year did not have enough points this year.
To give a simple example, take Hook and Zhang Benkuang. Without Wang Chao or Luo Jiu, the former could have easily entered the semi-finals and the finals, but the latter spent most of their time in the top eight and semi-finals. There should be a gap in points between the two.
But if Hook is unlucky and meets Luo Jiu in the top 16, and Zhang Benkuang does not meet any Chinese table tennis players along the way, then after this open competition, will Zhang Benkuang actually get more points than Hook?
This would not be the case in previous years, because in previous years, Chinese table tennis players other than Sun Tianlong would still miss when they should, and they were not that difficult to deal with.
Let's take Hook and Zhang Benkuang as examples. It's true that Hook meets Lin Li and Bai Feng. He has a great chance of winning, but Zhang Benkuang is dead when it encounters Lin Li Bai Feng. Therefore, Hook can still have a clear points advantage in the competition with Zhang Benkuang.
But if Bai Feng Lin Li is replaced by Wang Chao Luo Jiu, the two will disappear together, and the points gap cannot be widened.
It can only be said that when Wang Chao and Luo Jiu start to slaughter each other indiscriminately, many top non-Chinese associations masters will not be able to widen the points gap with ordinary masters. Who has better results depends not on strength, but on luck or attendance rate.
But they are unwilling to do so.
Therefore, even a jealous person like Rohlskov held his nose and smiled, and took the initiative to call Cai Guodong, carefully asking Huaping to show his favor, because Rohlskov could not accept that several of his generals were not even qualified to participate in the finals.
Participating in the finals is a symbol of a player's identity and status in the table tennis world. The invitation letter to the finals is the ticket to enter the top club in the table tennis world.
Look, look, look, the Peacock Country's brother, his name is Gananaka, what the hell, he can't even win a game when he meets Bayer, but just because he is young and full of physical strength Pei, so he participates in every open tournament, and can make it to the top 16 every time. Although he can only earn meager points at each tournament, the points added together are actually more than Uncle Bai, known as European King.
Uncle Bai is getting older. In previous years, a few Platinum leg were selected to participate. As long as they made sure they could reach the semi-finals or finals every time, they would have enough points, but this time because Huaping went completely crazy., Uncle Bai continuously ran into Wang Chao in the games he selected, and lost everything. To this day, Olympic Games has finished the game, and he still has to drag his old body to continue to score points.
It's just a matter of grabbing points, it depends on Huaping's face. If Huaping wants to send big killers like Wang Chao and Luo Jiu to score points, Rohlskov has decided to start complaining directly on the phone.
"You guys are so full of meat, why can't you leave some soup for me, the Great Deutschland?"
In the office, Cai Guodong was in a good mood, smiling constantly, and seemed very talkative. "In the next three open games, we will only make training plans, not championship arrangements. As long as you don't take the initiative to provoke, we promise to never take the initiative to use Wang Chao and Luo Jiu."
The non-Chinese associations officials all hung up the phone with satisfaction and went to comfort their players without saying anything.
And Cai Guodong is so easy to talk to, of course, not because he is an unprincipled good guy, but because Wang Chao and Luo Jiu took the initiative to find him as soon as Olympic Games came out and applied to return to Table Tennis Super League.
Wang Chao wants to fight Table Tennis Super League because he made a promise to Fan Xiaofan as early as the beginning of the year. He not only wants to avoid relegation this year, but also wants to help Spade Q make another run to see if he can get to a better position.
As for Luo Jiu, he is aiming for the Table Tennis Super League championship this year. At the same time, he and Hook have an unspoken internal competition. They both want to win Super League MVP Player of the Year.
Even though Hook cannot beat Luo Jiu, it can hit others accurately every time. Therefore, under the rules of Table Tennis Super League, Hook is no less competitive than Luo Jiu. So far, both of them have maintained a record of winning all games.
Naturally, Cai Guodong will not reject the applications of Luo Jiu and Wang Chao.
Anyway, these two people have grabbed enough points, and participating in the finals is a sure thing. What's more, now that Huaping is so strong, there is no need to care about who non-Chinese associations will get the invitation, and there is no need to carefully calculate the points or snipe anyone.
If a bunch of crooks really come to this year's finals, the game will be unsatisfactory. It would be better to let all the real masters come and gather together so that they can have a good time.
Of course, it is not a good thing for Cai Guodong to be the head coach of a place like China Table Tennis Team. After he hung up the phone, he immediately came to Fan Xiaodong and gave instructions. "Get ready, you will participate in the next three open games, and try to get a card back."
The 16-year-old Fan Xiaodong was full of fighting spirit and ambitious. He agreed and started crazy special training under the guidance of temporary coach He Jingping. He was simple-minded and didn't have many ideas, but he was an obedient and good boy. The head coach asked him to get one card back, but what he wanted was to try to get three cards back.
If you have a choice, it's best to go gold.
He is not afraid of difficulties, and he is not afraid of those big names like non-Chinese associations who have been famous for more than ten years, because he really feels that he is very strong. As the saying goes, heroes are just like ordinary people. He has practiced with Wang Chao, Luo Jiu, Sun Tianlong and other masters, and he has long felt that non-Chinese associations is a bunch of chickens and dogs.
Well, as for why it was interim coach He Jingping who guided him, that's because, on the afternoon of his return, Sun Tianlong asked for leave from Cai Guodong and went to Yangcheng City, Guangdong Province, to visit his mentor Qin Huachang.
Qin Huachang was very lucky. During the Olympics, he suffered from illness caused by continuous excitement, but he was still rescued completely. The most amazing thing is that he was originally weak due to cancer and surgery, and what he was most afraid of were complications. As a result, the heart attack did not cause any subsequent adverse reactions. After giving him a comprehensive diagnosis, the doctor told his family: Your old man is in good health, much better than the last time he checked. Apart from paying attention to emotional stability, there are no other problems.
Why? Because he is in a good mood.
Doing live broadcasts is like opening a new window for him, which not only satisfies Qin Huachang's spiritual needs of being in the limelight, seeking fame and fortune, but also allows him to always immerse himself in his favorite career. At the same time, as a retired old man, he communicates with people on the Internet every day, and he is neither worried about autism nor brain rust. It can be said that he has rediscovered the meaning of life in another field.
If he likes to be a teacher, then he will be a teacher in the world.
Although he is not short of money, his monthly income from rewards and signings is really much richer than he imagined.
The arrival of Sun Tianlong made Qin Huachang even more happy.
When master and apprentice met, they didn't talk much about the competition.
Qin Huachang took the initiative to start a conversation, but was stopped by Sun Tianlong, who smiled bitterly and said, "Teacher, let's not talk about Wang Chao. That guy can't speculate based on common sense, and the conversation is in vain."
Qin Huachang laughed dumbly and said no more. He turned around and suggested that Sun Tianlong accompany him on the live broadcast and be his guest. Sun Tianlong readily agreed.
So two days later, Super League restarted. During the second round match between Pengcheng University Club and Magic City Oriental Pearl Club, fans around the world were extremely excited to find that Qin Huachang had an additional guest.
This guest is not a talker like Ye Hongye, but the most important guest in all table tennis live broadcast rooms so far.
Qin Huachang+Sun Tianlong, this is no longer a strong alliance, this is Mars crashing into the earth. In the afternoon match, the master and apprentice teamed up and went crazy. They just put Table Tennis Super League in a mid-to-lower-level fish belly competition and made it a hot spot around the world.
Also on this day, Wang Chao and Luo Jiu rushed back to Jiangcheng City, and went to Spade Q training base together.
Wang Chao returned to the team normally, as it should be.
Luo Jiu went to find his future wife to exchange feelings.
Jiangcheng University Club: Shall I go?
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