Jiangcheng University Club naturally will not really leave. On the contrary, they ushered in the strongest moment in the history of the team.
At this time, one-third of the second round of the Table Tennis Super League autumn competition has been completed. With the end of Olympic Games, all domestic and international competitions have restarted, and professional players are all busy.
Don't look at Cai Guodong's promise to non-Chinese associations not to take the initiative to use Wang Chao and Luo Jiu to play in the Open, but he also said that he would send others to train in the world competition. This is not a breach of promise.
Therefore, ordinary players of the national team such as Gao Mingyuan, Liang Kunpeng, and Qi Hao still have no chance to return to the Table Tennis Super League competition. What they care more about is still their foreign results and world rankings.
But this kind of people are the main players of each Table Tennis Super League team, so when they choose to play in the open competition, it means that their team can only continue to compete with incomplete personnel.
In fact, this is also a problem that all Table Tennis Super League teams have had to face over the years. Both club owners and domestic fans have long been accustomed to it and expressed their understanding.
Therefore, a team like Lu Province Weiqiao Club that purely relies on Gao Mingyuan as its first scoring point is completely tragic.
The same tragedy is Liaoning Province Zhonggang. After a Olympic Games fight, the absolute main player Sun Tianlong chose to retire, and the second main player Qi Hao chose to play in the Open., the No. 3 main player Xue Hui was actually stimulated by this, and even tried every means to find a relationship to return to the national team. He wanted to fight again. Although National Second Team could only join National Second Team for the time being, he refused to come back to play in the league.
It is said that the head coach of Chongqing Steel Club Tang Jiuzhou broke seventeen or eight bowls in one month. As a well-known Confucian coach within Table Tennis Super League, it can be seen that he is also extremely depressed.
Of course, no matter how much nonsense other teams have, the two teams of Jiangcheng City are not among them.
Wang Chao and Luo Jiu, with these two teams, once again showed their "lawn mower"-like lethality in the world competition and began to grab points frantically.
On January 7th, Jiangcheng University Team played against Jizhou Province Laobaigan Club in an away game and got zero shutouts. Luo Jiu had one single and Hook had two singles. In the end, Luo Jiu only played one singles match, while Hook played one singles and one doubles match. The doubles partner was the team's No. 1 substitute, national team player Duan Changying.
Even the substitutes are all national team players, which shows how luxurious the current Jiangcheng University Team lineup is.
On January 11, Jiangcheng University Team challenged Jinmen Goubuli Club in an away game and got zero seals. Hook played one order and Luo Jiu had two orders. In the end, In the end, Hook only played one singles match, while Luo Jiu played one singles and one doubles match. The doubles partner was the third player in the team, veteran Wang Bo.
On January 14th, Jiangcheng University Team challenged Xiangnan Province Mango TV Club in an away game and got a clean sheet. This time it was Luo Jiu with one order and Hook with two orders.
On January 18, Jiangcheng University Team faced off against Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club at home, with zero wins, Hook had one single, and Luo Jiu had two.
Jiangcheng University Team After these few games, everyone in the industry can clearly see that the direction this team is chasing is not "to win the Autumn Season", but to "win more individual wins."
In other words, the journey of Table Tennis Super League in the last month has officially become the Shura field for the first and second players in the team. They have already defaulted to winning the championship before the team won the championship, and began to compete for the annual MVP player.
Because of this, there is a strange situation within Jiangcheng University Team. Neither of the two top players wants to be the boss of the team, but both want to be the second one, because the first one can only play one game, but the second one can play two.
The same situation happened to Black Spade Q Club, another team in the same city, but it was a completely different style.
Spade Q's formation has long been locked by the athlete level of the players themselves.
Wang Chao and Geng Shuai can change positions, they are both Special Class Athlete.
But Wu Li, as an ordinary Class A Athlete who has never played in an international competition, can only play three singles anyway.
So Wang Chao directly locked himself into the second single, because he wanted to play doubles with Wu Li.
Initially, this pairing was to ensure a certain winning rate in doubles. After all, Geng Shuai paired with Wu Li was no different from what was given as a gift.
But later, this pairing gradually turned into a trustworthy doubles combination.
Later, this combination became the fixed scoring point of Spade Q.
By the end of January, many people in the industry looked back and suddenly realized that Spade Q actually won the doubles in the last month of competition.
It only took a very short time for this pair to go from bumping into each other to being rock solid, and now they have become Table Tennis Super League's well-known golden signature, King's Way Combination.
So many fans feel it is a pity, because the second round match between Spade Q and Jiangcheng University Team has already been played before Olympic Games, and now there is no chance to play again. In fact, currently Table Tennis Super League except Wang Chao Besides Wu Li, the most recognized doubles pairing is the two partners of Jiangcheng University Team: Luo Jiu+Wang Bo, or Hook+Duan Changying.
Two top teams, Men's Doubles, are squeezed into one team. It can only be said that Jiangcheng University is indeed an upstart this season.
In short, at the end of the autumn season at the end of January, both teams Jiangcheng City squeezed into the top four and successfully qualified for the playoffs. The only difference was that Jiangcheng University was ranked first and marched forward, while Spade Q could only be ranked fourth due to multiple losses at the beginning of the season, struggling to squeeze in with a thrilling score of three points higher than fifth place.
As for the other two teams that made it to the playoffs, there are no surprises. They are still the two top teams for many years: Imperial Capital Panlong, and Magic City Fire Phoenix.
Table Tennis Super League The rules of the playoffs are not complicated. The first-ranked team has priority and can choose its opponent from the third and fourth place to become the winner's group, while the other two teams become the loser's group, followed by intra-group confrontation. The games are all the same as the regular season in the large-field bo5 and small-field bo5 format. In the end, the winner of the winner's group competes with the winner of the loser's group for the season championship.
There is also a small advantage for the winning group here, as they have priority to serve in the first game.
Therefore, in fact, the total playoff games are only three games.
In the end, Jiangcheng University Team, ranked first, chose his opponent Shanghai Fire Phoenix Club, ranked third.
So Spade Q's opponent was determined to be Imperial Capital Panlong Club, who ranked second.
In this regard, Shanghai Fire Phoenix Club's main players Bai Feng, Zou Zhengyu and others are quite aggrieved.
You must know that it is already the end of January, the last three open games of this year have been played, and all players have returned to Table Tennis Super League. Therefore, the biggest difference between the regular season and the preseason is that all teams are playing with full strength, and there is absolutely no problem of insufficient personnel.
You Jiangcheng University Team can look down on me Magic City Fire Phoenix in the regular season. After all, our first order attendance rate is not high and we often go to the imperial capital. But now our first order has officially returned. After all, he is the main player of the national team. Why do you still choose us instead of Spade Q?
Do you really think Spade Q is better than us?
What? You said Spade Q has Wang Chao Great Demon King?
But the team competition is different from the individual competition. No matter how strong Wang Chao is, they can only win two games at most. Do you think they can score points in the other three games?
What? Wu Li Great progress?
Well, I must admit that Wu Li has made great progress indeed.
In the last month of the league after Olympic Games, he played eight singles matches and won six. Of the two he lost, one was to a national team sparring player who used a special elastic with reverse raw rubber particles. The hitting method is imitated by Luo Jiu of the Chinese Table Tennis Men's Team and Ichikawa Mima of the Sakura Country Women's Team. Wu Li is too unfamiliar with this style of play, so it is understandable that he lost.
The other game Wu Li lost was against Shanghai Fire Phoenix Club's Bai Feng. At that time, Spade Q and Magic City Fire Phoenix collided in the second round of the big cycle. Wu Li played in the fourth game as the third single, and was caught by the opponent's single Bai Feng, and was beaten violently.
So this scene is actually excusable.
But Magic City Fire Phoenix is still unhappy. They admit that Wu Li has made rapid progress, but they don't think that Wu Li can compete with their second single and third single. After all, these two are First Team players.
In comparison, the Imperial Capital Panlong team is also not happy, although they will face Spade Q, the weakest team on paper.
The reason is also very simple. One of their orders, Xiao Fei, has been retired...
The reason why Imperial Capital Panlong has been a powerful team for many years is precisely because they have Xiao Fei, the unbeatable magic needle. Now that the magic needle has been destroyed, the remaining second single player Zhu Ding is not not weak, but just too smart. This makes The head coach of Dragon Team felt very uncomfortable. As a professional coach of a top team, he knew many years ago that the core figure of a team may not be the strongest, but must be the most stable, because the performance of a team actually depends more on their winning rate against regular opponents rather than the explosion of the universe against top opponents.
Just like when high school students take the college entrance examination, the most important thing is to get all the regular questions right, not the last thought question.
It's a pity that Zhu Ding's personal attributes are exactly opposite to the core character's requirements.
So what Imperial Capital Panlong is no longer worried about is the performance in the playoffs. After all, the worst is fourth place, what else can he do?
What they are really worried about is that if they can't find a strong player to join next year, will they fall directly from the heights of a wealthy team and become an mediocre team, or even, like their city team Imperial Capital New City, go directly to Table Tennis First Division to dominate?
I'd rather have a chicken head than a phoenix tail... what the hell!
Everyone in Imperial Capital Panlong firmly believes that even if I am at the bottom, I will still rely on Table Tennis Super League and will never go to Table Tennis First Division to become Great Demon King. This is the last dignity of a wealthy team.
Ok, as Table Tennis Super League ends and the playoffs come to an end, let's talk about the international situation.
There are three open games in January, namely Peacock Country Open at the beginning of the month, England Open Platinum leg at the middle of the month, and Sakura Country Open Platinum leg at the end of the month. At this point, all 15 competitions in the year are over.
These three open tournaments are the last chance for non-Chinese associations's strong players to grab points. Therefore, although Huaping is quiet and pays little attention to the open tournament, in fact, in every non-Chinese associations country, there is extremely high enthusiasm for these three open tournaments.
Where does this enthusiasm show up? You only need to give an example to understand.
When the Open schedule conflicts with China's domestic Super League, even if Qin Huachang chooses to commentate on Super League, a large number of fans still choose to give up listening to Qin Huachang's talk and watch the live broadcast of the Open.
After all, they still care about their domestic players and hope that their domestic players can score enough points and get invitations to the year-end finals.
This situation is particularly obvious in Germany, England, Sweden and other places.
Although Brazilian fans are also crazy this year, because Hook accumulated enough points early, they have no intention of playing in the Open, so they are bystanders in January.
In short, the whole month of January non-Chinese associations is like the Chinese New Year. After the two lawn mowers of Huaping, everyone has a mentality of "there are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys dominate". All the players are ambitious and gearing up, feeling that they are destined to win gold medals.
It is worth mentioning that some people from non-Chinese associations did not participate in this year-end carnival. For example, Lin Zijun and Zhang Benkuang stayed quietly at home. The root cause is because their attendance rate in the past year was high enough and their results at every stop were just okay. Therefore, all the points added up have already accumulated enough for the year-end finals, and there is no need to compete for points anymore.
There are two types of people who are really anxious to grab points. One is players who are very strong but too old. They do not have the energy to participate in all open competitions and cannot take the path of "accumulating a little to make a lot". Moreover, they have been beaten by Wang Chao this year. and Luo Jiu ruined the score-grabbing plan, and had to grab another wave at the end, such as Bayer, Wolf, and Ochomirov, are all included in this list.
The other kind of people are really not strong enough. Even if they participate in all the open competitions, the meager points they have accumulated are still not enough, or may not be enough. They need to grab a little more, rush a little, or be steady, and then leave it to fate. Whether they will receive an invitation is still undecided.
For example, the Peacock Country's first brother Gananaka, or Denmark's first brother Gross are both listed here.
Finally, there is a special group of people, such as Morad, who has both strength and energy, but has played less games due to suspension. Another example is Qiu Shang, who has both strength and energy, but has only emerged in the second half of the year and has also played less games. They must also compete.
In fact, each association knows clearly who needs to compete for points. By studying the match list and analyzing the strength and status of the players, they already have a rough idea of who will reach which position in which game and how many points they will get.
In a sense, this can be regarded as dividing the cake. Everyone knows who eats which piece and who gets which share.
But everyone never expected that Cai Guodong, this bitch, was playing dirty tricks.
He sent a bunch of people to train in the international arena, including Lu Feiyang, Gao Mingyuan, Liang Kunpeng, Sun Zhongwen, Hu Buming, Fan Xiaodong and many other people, and among these people, the 16-year-old Fan Xiaodong became the ultimate spoiler, turning the originally clear and good situation into a mess.
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