The coaches' minds were all excited.
The three major sects are wealthy and possess the innate advantage of the main players. They don't care about the small gains and losses of a city or a place, but ordinary coaches like them do care. Since the big bosses put the overall interests of Huaping first, then they, the little shrimps, will take the opportunity to add more meat to their own bowls.
"Liang Kunpeng signed up for Dubai." Chen Taolue was the first to stand up. "He made great progress last year. I hope he can at least get a good start in the quarterfinals in the first race this year."
"Gao Mingyuan signed up for the New Zealand station." Coach Cheng Aimin quickly followed up. "His progress is not big enough, Platinum leg will not be considered. We focus on participation and experience. We hope to enter the main draw."
"Lu Feiyang signed up for the New Zealand station." Qiu Yinong quickly followed suit. "He has always said that he wants to find an opportunity to learn something from Wang Chao. I think it would be good to go out to compete with Wang Chao this time and live in the same room to facilitate communication."
He looked at Wang Chao, who nodded with a smile. You must know that with Xiao Fei's retirement, Lu Feiyang is now the only one left in the uncle's lineage, and he must take good care of him no matter what.
This kind of love includes not only the dedicated guidance during training, but also the merciless beatings encountered on the field. As the saying goes, thunder, rain and dew are all a gift from God.
Although Xiao Fei is a new employee, he has no stage fright. The last one raised his hand and tried to say, "I want to sign up my disciple Wang Qin for Men's Singles in New Zealand. Is that okay? In addition, Wang Qin's doubles He is actually quite capable. He worked with Kuai Wan from the women's team in the last few months last year. Liu Wen and I personally trained them, and the test results were good. If it's convenient, can we temporarily form a mixed doubles team for them?"
Cai Guodong was quite surprised. "Is there such a thing? I remember that Wang Qin only turned 13 this year, right? Let's go and have a look after the meeting and let them play a friendly match with Flying Sand Combination. If they can play well, let them go to New Zealand to try the water."
Cai Guodong usually tries his best to agree to the application of these juniors to participate, because in essence, the current strength of these people is not enough to change the general trend of an open competition, nor will it affect the overall layout of Huaping. In the context of the national system, Huaping does not care about the travel expenses of a few more people to go abroad to compete. Of course, they will try to give opportunities to those who can.
At this point, someone will ask, since Huaping is not short of these two places, why was it so harsh on Fang Xiaobo, Yan Ping'an and Zou Zhengyu last year?
This is because Fang, Yan and Zou are all veterans who have been famous for many years and have won important world championships. If they lose, it will greatly damage the face of Huaping, while the newcomers will not have this problem no matter how they lose.
After the registration of the juniors was completed, it was the turn of the three main players, Lin Li, Bai Feng, and Fan Xiaodong.
The reason why they are left until the end is because these three people cannot sign up at will. Although they are not qualified to be the ones who take the lead, they have enough ability to affect the progress of the game. Their lower limit is too high. Once they explode, they are very likely to create miracles and eliminate their teammates.
For example, last year China Open, Yan Ping'an and Fang Xiaobo became popular, directly eliminating Lin Li and Xiao Fei. This is a typical situation where friends hate and enemies hate each other. If Luo Jiu had not succeeded in the end, I am afraid that the gold medal would have been lost.
Imagine that if Fan Xiaodong explodes, destroys Luo Jiu, and then loses to Hook, resulting in Hook winning the championship, will this make the coaches of China Table Tennis Team so frustrated that they vomit blood? Will Hook be allowed to sing "Thank You" on the spot?
At this time, Sun Tianlong spoke first, saying, "Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong can participate in the New Zealand station together."
Wang Lu followed. "Then Bai Feng, just sign up for the Dubai station."
Cai Guodong nodded directly in agreement without asking any more questions.
But in fact, of course, this allocation also has deep meaning. It's just that the coaches of Huaping have a delicate heart. There are some very simple reasons that are tacitly understood by everyone and there is no need to say them out.
The reason why Bai Feng went to Dubai is because since last year, he has shown much more hostility to Wang Chao than Lin Li, and after being beaten continuously by Wang Chao After that, he also showed a stronger fighting spirit. He was not depressed and still wanted revenge. However, before his strength improved significantly, he had no confidence that he could defeat Wang Chao, and he did not want to face Wang Chao at all.
Therefore, Wang Lu, a teacher, has long seen that unless Bai Feng super-evolves in the next few years, he must strategically avoid Wang Chao.
Since Wang Chao is going to New Zealand, then of course Bai Feng is going to Dubai.
It is precisely because Bai Feng went to Dubai that Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong chose to go to New Zealand. This is a normal diversion.
As for why Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong are tied up to participate in the competition, it is because they are both disciples of the Qin Sect. If one of them is with Bai Feng, it will become an internal competition between the Qin Sect and Wang Clan. At the moment, if no one wants to engage in this kind of meaningless internal competition, it is better not to meet at all.
As the personnel for the first two stops were confirmed, the meeting process began to speed up and the coaches began to speak freely.
After eliminating the intrigues and watching people's opinions in previous years, everyone found that the atmosphere of this kind of meeting is quite good now, the efficiency has become higher, it doesn't take so much brain work, and there is no need to worry about accidentally stepping into a trap.
They showed half-truth and half-fake humility to each other, trying their best to gain a good impression of "serving the common good" in front of the head coach. They gave in, and even took themselves seriously. Looking at the colleagues who were scheming with each other every day in a trance, it actually felt like meeting close friends in the mountains and rivers, as if at this moment everyone had transformed into the ancient ancestors of the Yao, Shun, and Yu era, living a simple life of universal unity.
After finishing the open competition, next are Asian Cup and Asian Championships.
Asian Cup is held once a year. The winner the year before last was Sun Tianlong. Last year, Luo Jiu defeated Sun Tianlong to win the championship. As for this year, there is no doubt that Wang Chao is responsible for taking the lead.
Asian Championships is held every two years. The year before last, Sun Tianlong won the championship. This time, Wang Chao is still responsible for taking the lead.
It's not that Luo Jiu can't afford this foundation, but because Wang Chao is on the road to setting new records, the entire coaching staff is inclined to let him set more records.
If he Asian Cup wins, he will be the youngest Asian Cup champion in history.
If he Asian Championships wins, he will be the youngest Asian Championships champion in history.
If he can win the men's singles championship in the Asian Games table tennis event next year, he will have another title of "Asian Grand Slam" and can also win the record of "the fastest to complete Asian Grand Slam".
Although this title is far less valuable than the world-class Grand Slam from the three competitions, who would have too many titles?
In fact, on the current women's team, while Liu Wen is chasing Grand Slam, they are also thinking about trying to achieve the record of "Asian Cup Women's Singles Four Crowns".
And if Jin Ling hadn't been bullied so badly by Shen Sha and Wang Yu last year, which caused him to become disheartened, he would have wanted to brush up the record of "Asian Championships's three consecutive championships".
It can only be said that there are too many records, and they can not only be arranged and combined in different categories, but also the same category can be repeated repeatedly. The pursuit of records by competitive sports athletes is endless. This is understandable and worthy of encouragement.
After all the major events were allocated, Cai Guodong talked about another thing, about mixed doubles.
"Mixed doubles is undoubtedly the highlight of this year, but Tang Dynasty Combination's attendance rate this year cannot be too high." Cai Guodong said this and smiled, very proud and helpless. "If If Tang Dynasty Combination continues to win like this, I'm afraid International Table Tennis Federation will cancel the mixed doubles event... Of course we have to win the important championship, but in normal times, it doesn't hurt to give in to other associations."
In fact, although International Table Tennis Federation changes the rules every three days, they still need to have a basic sense of shame. Once you propose a project and implement it, you cannot easily veto it, otherwise you will really slap yourself in the face.
After all, when you proposed it, you claimed to have conducted rigorous scientific demonstrations. So if you want to abolish it now, wouldn't it be equivalent to admitting that what you said was fart?
This is something that will discredit International Table Tennis Federation and destroy its prestige. It shakes the foundation.
In the past, they changed the size and material of the ball and the serving rules. Although it brought a lot of trouble to Hua Ping, once Hua Ping adapted, their modifications became meaningless again. In this case, it is not that no one proposed to restore the original rules, but after protracted and difficult discussions within International Table Tennis Federation, none of the modified rules has been abolished so far.
Because they know very well that under the crazy slap in the face of Huaping, International Table Tennis Federation's prestige itself is on the verge of collapse. If they dare to make a fool of themselves at this time, there may be the possibility that other international sports organizations will take the lead in establishing a new International Table Tennis Federation or the World Table Tennis Federation.
In short, although they are having fun, the possibility of them canceling the mixed doubles is actually very slim.
The reason why they were shouting crazily was because they lost so miserably on this track that they couldn't accept it. They needed Huaping to give them a little sweetness and some benefits so that they could have a drink of soup.
So Cai Guodong followed suit and planned to let Tang Dynasty Combination rest first in the new year. Anyway, we still have two sets of spare tires, Flying Sand Combination and Underworld Combination, and they will also go to the international competition to train.
The meeting on the men's team was enough to stop here, but the meeting held simultaneously on the women's team was much more heated than the meeting on the men's team.
This is because the internal competition on the women's team is already more intense. Everyone has similar strengths. No one has an overwhelming advantage, so no one is convinced.
What's more, there is a unique and weird person on the women's team: Tang Yuanyuan.
Tang Yuanyuan will not participate in Women's Singles and Women's Doubles. She will only participate in mixed doubles and will only be paired with Wang Chao.
Therefore, throughout this year, under the guidelines of "reducing Tang Dynasty Combination's attendance rate" proposed by Cai Guodong, her task seemed too easy, which undoubtedly made many coaches feel dissatisfied.
Everyone has tried their best to stay in the national team, why do you just stay here casually?
In fact, even Tang Yuanyuan's teacher Ge Miao herself felt a little embarrassed. She suggested that Tang Yuanyuan try to pick Women's Singles up again.
Tang Yuanyuan is very obedient and tried hard to regain Women's Singles, but after some attempts, it still didn't work because her style of play has extremely obvious traces of mixed doubles.
It would have been fine if it was a regular mixed doubles style, but she has been following a special style of play from the beginning. The way she cooperates with Wang Chao is different from any other mixed doubles partner in the world, and the various details she formed during the mixed doubles practice and the various handling methods that seem inconsistent with the rules of the game are actually completely used to adapt to Wang Chao's playing style.
In a sense, Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan can be regarded as two non-standardized precision accessories. They can fit perfectly with each other, but taken separately, this mixed doubles play style cannot be matched with anyone else.
The reason why Wang Chao can play both Men's Doubles and Men's Singles is because he has Unrivaled talent. He does not need any fixed muscle memory. He can freely switch between various playing modes and detailed habits.
But Tang Yuanyuan can't do it. She is just an ordinary genius Monstrous Strength Girl, not a cheating girl. In order to cooperate with Wang Chao, she worked very hard to transform herself into a special look. Now she can't reverse it. If she wants to forcefully reverse it, it is very likely that when she regains Women's Singles, she will lose the tacit understanding of cooperation with Wang Chao.
So Wang Wendong has to weigh the interests: Is Tang Yuanyuan, a Women's Singles player, valuable, or is Tang Yuanyuan, a mixed doubles player who can perfectly cooperate with Wang Chao, valuable?
There is no doubt that mixed doubles is more promising.
Because before Tang Yuanyuan was paired with Wang Chao, her overall strength on Women's Singles could not compete with Shen Sha and Wang Yu. Although she relied on herself last year Her ability won the Women's Singles gold medal from Swedish Open, but that was due to her big heart, on-the-spot state and a little bit of luck. It does not mean that her potential really exceeds Shen Sha and Wang Yu.
So Wang Wendong fell into a very difficult decision situation.
He doesn't object to letting Tang Yuanyuan stay in the women's team easily and feed her well. After all, the national team is not short of a spot.
What he is really worried about is that in terms of the competition rules of the three major competitions, last year's Olympic Games has taken the lead in making changes, requiring players participating in mixed doubles to register for singles, and this rule has indeed had a certain impact on Huaping.
Last year's Olympic candidates for Women's Singles were supposed to be Jin Ling, Liu Wen, and Shen Sha as the main candidates, with Wang Yu as the substitute. Because of this damn rule, in the end Wang Yu missed out on Olympic Games, and Tang Yuanyuan occupied the substitute spot.
This caused substantial harm to Wang Yu.
As for the future World Cup and World Table Tennis Championships, if International Table Tennis Federation continues to change the rules in this way, the situation of Tang Yuanyuan will become even more embarrassing.
Olympic Games is at least in 3+1 mode, and Tang Yuanyuan can also be used as a substitute. World Table Tennis Championships is in the invitational tournament mode. Tang Yuanyuan will not only occupy the quota of Women's Singles, but will actually play. If she misses the first round, it will not only disgrace Huaping, but also waste a precious quota in the three major competitions.
What to do?
Wang Wendong remained calm at the meeting. After the meeting ended, he found the coaches of Wang Yu and Shen Sha and asked them to talk to He Jingping. The focus of the discussion was only one: Can they find a way to persuade Wang Chao to change partners?