Cai Guodong was quite shocked.
In fact, after Sun Tianlong and Xiao Fei retired together, the default combination of Men's Doubles within the coaching staff was Wang Chao and Luo Jiu, and other possibilities were not considered at all.
"Of course my senior brother and I can match each other, but our styles are too similar and we cannot actually complement each other. Even if we can win, we will win with hard power. If we play like this, we will both be very tired."
Wang Chao paused and said with a smile, "Besides, we originally agreed to stagger each other's participation. If we want to partner up with Men's Doubles, wouldn't we still have to go to the same open tournament every time? Now that we have gone, we only signed up for Men's Doubles and not the singles. Isn't this... uh, taking off your pants and farting?"
Although these words are rough, the logic is not rough.
But this time Cai Guodong did not dare to express his position easily, because this matter was of great importance.
Mixed doubles is the most widely discussed doubles event at present, but everyone in the know knows that Men's Doubles is the true ceiling of table tennis doubles.
If you must choose a single, Cai Guodong would rather keep Men's Doubles than mixed doubles.
As the head coach, he also has KPIs to complete when facing the General Administration of Sports. His standards of consideration are naturally different from those of ordinary coaches and players. What Wang Chao cares about is him and Luo Jiu If is not compatible, even if he wins, it will not be convincing, but Cai Guodong feels that regardless of whether he is compatible or not, winning the gold medal is the best outcome. If he loses the gold for the sake of compatibility, he will be scolded.
So...
"I can give you a chance to prove yourself, but the time will not be too much." Cai Guodong finally relaxed a little. Even the head coach himself did not realize that he had already subconsciously expressed his concern for Wang Chao had some kind of mysterious trust. You know, in the past, he also chatted with Qin Huachang Zhu Zeshi Wang Lu and others about various policies of Huaping. At that time, he never relented.
"But this way Luo Jiu will be free." Cai Guodong pondered, "Who should he be matched with?"
Wang Chao said, "Of course it's Lin Li."
Cai Guodong thought for a moment and smiled, "It is indeed Lin Li."
Lin Li relies on the body to play, and Luo Jiu relies on the brain. The two naturally complement each other. At the same time, although both of them are forehand players, Lin Li is stronger in the quality of the forehand board, while Luo Jiu is stronger in the backhand bounce. Therefore, the combination of the two forehand players can perfectly coordinate the forehand and backhand. The idea of the team formation is extremely clear, and it is clear at a glance that Luo Jiu must be the auxiliary, and Lin Li must be the main attacker. The best thing about Men's Doubles is that there is no auxiliary and main attacker in the strict sense. The two people can switch functions to each other at any time under specific circumstances, and they are both strong enough to complete the function switch.
Not to mention that the front side of the Lin Li racket and the back side of the Luo Jiu racket are two completely different attributes.
The combination of these two people will have great chemistry.
At this time, Cai Guodong is just a theoretical outlook, and I even think that Luo Jiu+Lin Li will be better than Wang Chao+Wu Li Much stronger, because in essence, Wang Chao and Wu Li do not have particularly distinctive personal killing boards, while Men's Doubles emphasizes the importance of killing boards more than mixed doubles.
All in all, everything was agreed upon, and the Chinese table tennis players were full of confidence. A few days later, New Zealand Open started, and Wang Chao signed up for Men's Singles and Men's Doubles. Two items, but did not sign up for mixed doubles, because this time Huaping sent two pairs of Feisha and Pluto, with the joint promotion of Wang Wendong and Cai Guodong, trying to open up a new situation in mixed doubles.
On the women's team, Tang Yuanyuan was also sent to the singles battlefield. She was not given any tasks, but she was just expected to regain her singles form.
This is also the meaning of Wang Wendong.
You must know that Tang Yuanyuan has also achieved results in singles in the past. The most glorious one was in the first half of last year. Not only did she win the championship of Swedish Open Women's Singles, but she also defeated Shen Sha Wang Yu in the subsequent two major cycles of the team and achieved excellent results. Her qualification for mixed doubles was not relying on external forces, but was achieved one by one by herself.
You could do it then, and you can do it now, as long as you are willing. After all, your talent is still there, and hard indicators such as strength, speed, and skill will not disappear - this is the philosophy of Wang Wendong.
However, Wang Wendong didn't realize that some things happened before and could never go back to the beginning. Today's Tang Yuanyuan had long been broken into twists and turns by Wang Chao. This was not an elastic deformation, but a paradigmatic deformation. There really was no going back.
Just like once a woman's body is broken, no matter how exquisite some repairs are done afterwards, she can't be considered truly perfect. Is this the truth?
The final result of New Zealand Open can be described as mixed.
As for Men's Singles, Wang Chao won the championship without any surprises, and the runner-up was Fan Xiaodong. The final was a civil war between Chinese players.
But this does not mean that Wang Chao can not come, because in the semi-finals Wang Chao eliminated Hook, which means that if If Wang Chao is not here, then there is a high probability that Fan Xiaodong will beat Hook in the finals. Based on the overall performance in the past year, Fan Xiaodong's winning rate is only about 30%.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Chinese table tennis coaches, it makes sense for Wang Chao to cover up.
As for Fan Xiaodong, if you lose, just lose. If you lose to Wang Chao, there is no shame in it.
They did not realize that New Zealand Open's final was actually a major historical node, which symbolized the official arrival of Wang Chao's ruthless suppression of Fan Xiaodong.
In other words, this means that after establishing a new dynasty, Wang Chao will launch an indiscriminate, protracted and brutal suppression of everyone.
The most famous dark era in the history of table tennis has officially arrived.
As for Women's Singles, the finals started between Shen Sha and Wang Yu. It was another Chinese table tennis civil war. After the two young players went through seven brutal rounds of fierce battle, Wang Yu had the last laugh.
The competition on the women's team is like raising a poisonous worm. It has reached a fever pitch and is even more ruthless than the men's team. When the men's team divides the cake, there is at least a Kings do not meet kings argument. They are afraid that the real fairy will accidentally be destroyed, so they try to stagger it as much as possible.
But the girls of the women's team are more courageous. Their cake-sharing meeting emphasizes doing their part and not giving in to anyone. So for this stop, not only the two strongest newcomers Shen Sha and Wang Yu signed up together, but also Even the older generation Liu Wen and Zhu Lingling also signed up together. This is a real full lineup. The purpose is to compete for who is the most effective member of the team at the first stop of the new year.
No one is afraid of damage to the Daoist heart, and no one wants to make delicate and fragile porcelain. These girls don't look at the world rankings, but only look at the outcome of each other's battles. It can be said that this fully proves that women really have nothing to do with men when they are ruthless.
The final result proved that the women's team has indeed completed its renewal. Wang Yu and Shen Sha overpowered the veterans and declared that their era has officially arrived by forcefully seizing power. In the future, the women's team will be the twin stars of Shen Sha and Wang Yu.
So the veteran Liu Wen was a little sad. She was only one World Cup away from Grand Slam. This year, there happened to be World Cup. The opportunity was given to her. However, she was not eliminated by the main player of Huaping in this open, but by another sub-main player named Yin Di. This made her have to admit that her strength could no longer keep up.
If you want to get World Cup, I am afraid that the civil war will be very, very difficult. The only thing you can hope for is that you will either directly explode and perform super well, or the opponent will perform abnormally in the competition. As for relying on hard power to win, I am afraid there is no possibility at all. After all, your own strength has been finalized and will only gradually weaken as you grow older, while the opponent is in his prime and will become stronger and stronger.
She didn't want to admit it, but her reason told her that Grand Slam, which seemed to be within easy reach, might just be a mirror image.
Oh, it is worth mentioning that Tang Yuanyuan's result in Women's Singles's participation this time was a first-round finish.
Let's talk about doubles.
After successfully winning all the championships and runner-ups in singles, Huaping's results in doubles were more subtle.
For many years, Huaping has had the tradition of "winning the first tournament of the year", but this tradition is actually only for singles. After all, the table tennis world has always recognized singles as the most valuable event over the years. As for other events, Huaping actually has a relatively tolerant attitude.
Therefore, the three doubles events of New Zealand Open this time are all testing the waters and testing. The coaching staff did not put pressure on the players, and the final answer sheets submitted by the players were also quite interesting.
Regarding Men's Doubles, Huaping has registered two pairs. In addition to Wang Chao and Wu Li, there are also Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong. Both pairs are new pairs and need to start from the qualifying round., entered the main match without any surprises, and then the two teams rushed forward together, winning continuously until the semi-finals, when Wang Chao and Wu Li met Sweden's classic Men's Doubles combination: Michel brothers.
k. Michel is currently ranked 10th in the world, and m. Michel is ranked 39th in the world. They don't seem too high, but these two are brothers and have been paired with for more than ten years. Men's Doubles, whose tacit understanding is almost the best in the table tennis world. Their actual combat effectiveness is that one plus one is much greater than two, which also caused huge trouble for Wang Chao Wu Li.
But in the end, Wang Chao and Wu Li still won 3:2. The score in the last game was 15:13, which shows how brutal the battle was.
After this game, the world table tennis community was talking a lot. What they were talking about was not the strong fighting power of Wang Chao and Wu Li. After all, this was expected. They just lamented why the performance of this young pair was so... that, as stable as an old dog.
Judging from the scene, Wang Chao and Wu Li were actually beaten by Michel brothers throughout the game. They were able to win solely because they showed amazing performance while being suppressed. In terms of human stability, this game even reminded many people of the classic game between Sun Tianlong and Hook the year before last. Both games were fought by the offensive side, but they were unable to penetrate the opponent's shaky defense line.
In the final decisive game, Wang Chao and Wu Li even fell behind 3:8. All the audience thought they were defeated. However, at this critical moment when they were so nervous that they were suffocating, it was actually Michel brothers, two experienced veterans, who had psychological fluctuations first. They became worried about gains and losses and did not dare to fight hard, so Wang Chao and Wu Li continued to chase points, struggling to catch up to 10:10. During this period, Michel brothers adjusted its status and became the offensive team again. However, Wang Chao and Wu Li were as stable as two machines, and they really did not reveal any flaws from beginning to end.
The scores increased alternately after 10:10, but what shocked the audience was that the three consecutive scores of Wang Chao and Wu Li all came from pure defensive scores, which meant that they could not seize the initiative at all, but Michel brothers always made mistakes when attacking.
Why the mistake? Naturally, because the game was about to end, Michel brothers's skills were so nervous that they were deformed.
It wasn't until the last two balls that Wang Chao and Wu Li got a chance to breathe. They made two beautiful attacks in a row and successfully scored, completing a super headwind comeback.
The biggest contributor to this game is naturally the leader and strategist Wang Chao, but more attention from the world table tennis world has fallen on Wu Li. It's not because of how well he played, but because, as a pure rookie player participating in an international competition for the first time, his stability is simply unreasonable. He seems to have a better mentality than those veterans in their thirties and forties. Many of the balls in the last game even made the audience stop breathing, but Wu Li was cold-faced throughout the whole process, and there was no technical defect at all.
Even Cai Guodong sitting in the audience was impressed. At this point, he finally understood why Wang Chao would rather give up Luo Jiu and choose Wu Li as his partner.
Wu Li is truly a natural-born contestant with his character.
At this time, there are still many areas for improvement in this pairing, and their strength is still limited, but as long as they have such a foundation, once the purely technical problems are solved, the future of this pairing will be simply unimaginable.
Men's Doubles's other semi-finals were played by Huaping's Fan Xiaodong Lin Li, and Germany's Qiu Shang and Sissifield.
Fan Xiaodong and Lin Li are a temporary team, and there is no fixed combination, because Cai Guodong thinks Lin Li's real partner is Luo Jiu, but even so, Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong can be considered a very powerful combination. The two players with Monstrous Strength Talent are like two respected players, and they are also the main players of Huaping. This pairing can defeat most combinations in the world based on hard power alone.
Qiu Shang and Sissifield are also temporary pairs. Qiu Shang is very accomplished in Men's Doubles. He originally had an old partner named Duda, but his old partner failed to participate for some reason, so Rohlskov followed the mentality of "if you don't participate, you don't participate" and asked Sissifield to temporarily match him.
Even if it is a temporary match, this pairing still has something to say. Qiu Shang is a straight player and has an inherent advantage of being more delicate than a horizontal player in terms of ball control and small ball handling in the table. Sissifield is the number one heavyweight in the German table tennis world. Their two The cooperation is obviously supported by Qiu Shang, with Sissifield as the main attacker. It also follows the path of a heavy gunner, but it is more of a combination of strength and softness than Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong.
In the end, the game ended in a brutal 3:2, with Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong having the last laugh.
So far, Men's Doubles has joined forces in the finals. This is probably the best news for Cai Guodong, because after Xiao Fei and Sun Tianlong retired, he had been worried about the men's doubles problem for a long time, and Wang Chao refused to play with Luo Jiu After the pairing of E, his sense of worry reached its highest point. Now he is finally relieved. Facts have proved that although the two partners of Huaping this time are far from reaching the level of the original invincible pair of Sun Tianlong Xiao Fei in terms of hard power, they are enough to suppress the table tennis world.
Why? Because there are no tigers in the mountains.
In this era of world table tennis masters blowing out, super talented individuals are emerging one after another, but in doubles, there is obviously a gap.
The combination of Qiu Shang and Sissifield is obviously not as good as the old German combination "Bayer and Wolf".
The combination of Michel brothers has a tacit understanding, but the hard power of m. Michel is indeed a bit lacking. If it can be replaced by Morad, it may be more interesting.
England Although there is Pike over there, there is no one who can fight alongside him.
Similarly, although Bay Island has Lin Zijun, none of them can help Lin Zijun share the pressure.
On the contrary, Men's Doubles over Sakura Country looks pretty good, Utada Seiya is 19 years old, Hoshikawa Mizuki is 21 years old, Komatsu Kouta is 28 years old, Zhang Benkuang is 17 years old, similar to this choice There are still a large number of players, these are all trained by Sakura Country with the help of Generation Succession Training Plan. They are all young and energetic, and are in their prime. Although the team formed is not a big threat for the time being, when their tacit understanding and personal strength grow in the future, they are very likely to become a serious problem.
In the final Men's Doubles final, Fan Xiaodong and Lin Li 3:2 won the championship. Wang Chao and Wu Li did not win the first doubles match of the World Championship.
But the really interesting thing about this Open is not Men's Doubles, but the mixed doubles.
Because Tang Dynasty Combination did not participate in the competition, Flying Sand Combination and Underworld Combination were holding their breath and wanted to prove their strength, and this actually also involved Shen Sha and Wang Yu is competing for the top spot in the women's team, so before the game, the coaches of both sides have already started various infighting. On the men's team, Qiu Yinong and Coach Cheng Aimin each issued a killing order to their disciples, asking them to win the championship even if they work hard.
The coaches of the women's team, Wang Yu and Shen Sha, gave repeated orders to their disciples, emphasizing the importance of this competition over and over again, and even said the extreme slogan "You can give up singles, but you must win the mixed doubles".
The root cause is that these coaches can all see that Tang Dynasty Combination has been placed on "waiting list" by the head coach because of Tang Yuanyuan's partiality and Wang Chao's stubbornness. In the "Inspection" column, as long as a new combination successfully emerges and proves that it can protect the glory of Hua Ping Mixed Doubles, the head coach will most likely let them officially replace Tang Dynasty Combination and become the only new ace combination of Hua Ping.
This is not only a battle for the current world rankings in Mixed Doubles, but also a battle for the players' future careers. If you can take this step ahead of others, you may be able to stay ahead of others in every step in the future.
So in fact, Underworld Combination was the one that Flying Sand Combination studied the most before the game, and the same goes for Underworld Combination.
But no one expected that before the civil war broke out, they both suffered a defeat in the foreign war.
Lu Feiyang and Shen Sha lost to the Sakura Country combination Ichikawa Mima and Niuwa Xiaoxi in the quarter-finals, with a record of 1:3.
Gao Mingyuan and Wang Yu lost to Daehan Minguk combination Che Songxin and Xian Youwen in the semifinals, with a record of 0:3.
In the end, Daehan Minguk had the last laugh.
Thanks to "the black men who fought in the South and the North" for the reward.