No matter how kind a boss is, he still wants to pursue results.
Therefore, the adult world does not have so much tenderness, and in an industry like competitive sports where competition is everywhere, there is no room for even the slightest sympathy.
Table Tennis Super League is halfway through the Spring Split, and Spade Q has already entered the playoffs. Considering that Jiangcheng University Team, the strongest team in terms of hard power, will most likely not make it to the semi-finals, Spade Q is likely to win the Spring Split this year.
However, although the atmosphere within the team is somewhat joyful, the overall tone is subtle, downbeat and sensitive.
Everyone knows that after the spring split, the team will undergo a major overhaul.
Tian Zhengguang and Gao Ming have been with the team for two years and have experienced the whole process from Table Tennis First Division to Table Tennis Super League. Tian Zhengguang has played many times, but Gao Ming has only had one chance to play in Table Tennis First Division from beginning to end. The rest of the time, they all served as substitutes, or to be precise, as sparring partners.
After the team entered Table Tennis Super League, they were no longer even qualified to be a sparring partner. Most of the time they just practiced by themselves. They were more like the mascots and warm-ups in Spade Q training base.
As for Lu Jia, I have been with Spade Q for five years, and now it is time to leave.
He is a die-hard supporter of Spade Q. Even at the most critical moment when Wang Chao had not yet joined the team and Yang Chi and others had left, he remained loyal to the team. From then on, whether he was playing as the main player or as a substitute, he never complained and did his best.
But it is true that his strength cannot keep up, and his talent is limited, so there is no way.
The last one is Geng Shuai.
Geng Shuai is the veteran figure of Spade Q. He has played in the same club for nine years. In fact, he can still stay in the team reluctantly, because with his strength, in Table Tennis Super League can barely be regarded as the lowest-level regular player, and in Spade Q, although he is not as good as Wang Chao and Wu Li, he has actually been playing as the main force until now.
Fan Xiaoxian asked him if he wanted to become a coach, but he refused because he still wanted to play. If Table Tennis Super League couldn't play, then go to Table Tennis First Division.
Two years ago, he was very depressed and thought about retiring after playing at Spade Q until he couldn't play anymore. But then Wang Chao came, and Geng Shuai experienced a huge spiritual shock. He finally overcame his fear of heights, got rid of his degenerate state, and began to actively seek progress.
Now he still can't play too high-intensity games, and he still can't concentrate too much, but he can already complete two to three official games.
He couldn't make it in Table Tennis Super League, but he can become one of the top players in Table Tennis First Division. At least, there is no problem at all in defeating his old rival Niu Linjun.
So he decided to at least be like Dragon Team and retire after the age of 30 to be worthy of his talent.
Time flows slowly like this, and in a flash, it's May again.
Huaping began their third campaign this year, Kimchi Country Open Platinum leg.
This time Wang Chao was at full capacity and participated in the Men's Singles, Men's Doubles and mixed doubles competitions. In the end, he continuously crushed Lin Zijun, Fan Xiaodong and Lin Li in the Men's Singles event. He beat everyone 4:0 and won the championship without any suspense. The world once again exclaimed his power, and finally recalled the fear of being dominated by Sun Tianlong.
An era more terrifying than the Sun Tianlong era has arrived and has been recognized by everyone, triggering many emotions called despair.
Qin Huachang clearly stated in his live broadcast. "It is unlikely that there will be any suspense in the Men's Singles competition for at least the next five years."
In the Men's Doubles project, Wang Chao and Wu Li showed a better level than the previous station. They defeated the new Swedish combination k. relatively easily. Michel and Morad once again met Fan Xiaodong Lin Li in the finals, and then won the game with a score of 4:2.
Qin Huachang made a public comment on this, believing that the current comprehensive strength of the "Chaowu Combination" still has not caught up with the Sun Tianlong Xiao Fei combination at its peak, but in the current table tennis Men's Doubles project, it has become the well-deserved first place.
Then Qin Huachang asserted that given time, the super martial arts combination will definitely surpass the Sun Tianlong Xiao Fei combination, because Wu Li is still making rapid progress visible to the naked eye.
It is worth mentioning that Wu Li also participated in the men's singles of this site's Open and successfully entered the main draw. Then he met Fan Xiaodong when 16 advanced to 8 and was defeated 4:1.
Although the score is 4:1, Fan Xiaodong has actually made great progress, so it is actually quite difficult to win a game from Fan Xiaodong. Most people in the world table tennis world admit that Wu Li already has it vaguely. The level of Chinese National Table Tennis First Team's secondary main force has since been tied with Qi Hao, Liang Kunpeng and others, and has even been ranked above Lu Feiyang, Gao Mingyuan, Sun Zhongwen and others.
Finally, it was mixed doubles. Tang Dynasty Combination won the championship without any suspense, beating everyone throughout the whole process. Whether it was Taiwan Island Combination who stole the show in the previous station, or the Daehan Minguk combination that finally won the previous station, they all became dutiful sons under the stick. They were beaten 4:0 and half After the Sakura Country combination lost in the final, Ichikawa Mima burst into tears on the spot. The Buddhist boy Niuwa Xiaoxi stood beside her with an indifferent expression and said nothing, which became a new gossip in the table tennis world, causing a large number of fans to speculate whether there was an internal conflict between the two.
Of course there is no conflict between the two of them, it's just that Yichuan's sister loves to cry too much after losing, while Niwa's brother is expressionless, which is normal behavior.
It is worth mentioning that throughout the whole process of winning the Mixed Doubles title, Tang Yuanyuan clearly strengthened her offensive power. She played extremely proactively and worked very hard throughout the whole process. Even in the serving process, she gave up the snake oil method of backing off the table and pulling up the lob in the past. Instead, she sought more targeted methods and even made many serve attacks. It can be said that her contribution rate exceeded any previous Mixed Doubles match.
The foreign players didn't know what was going on, they just exclaimed that Tang Dynasty Combination was still making progress, and there was simply no way for them to survive.
Only the coaches of Huaping knew what was going on.
Obviously, the seemingly heartless Tang Yuanyuan also wanted to fight for her reputation. She knew that she was almost replaced, so she didn't say anything, but she actually held her breath and worked hard, just to prove that she was indeed an irreplaceable member of the mixed doubles event.
This time after returning from Kimchi Country, there was no mention of mixed doubles within Huaping. They just made a regular summary. Then Wang Chao left the imperial capital and returned to Jiangcheng City, returning to Table Tennis Super League to complete the finishing work in the last month of the spring competition.
The Spring Split ended the regular season in mid-June, and the four teams that finally entered the playoffs were: Spade Q, Magic City Fire Phoenix, Jiangcheng University Club, and Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club.
Jiangcheng University relied on the return of Luo Jiu in the second half, and finally caught up with the score and completed a desperate reversal. In the end, it barely missed the line and entered the playoffs in fourth place, only 3 points more than the fifth place Imperial Capital Panlong.
After losing Xiao Fei, Imperial Capital Panlong finally missed the playoffs for the first time in many years. Facts have proved that the stability of the new general Zhu Ding is still a bit poor.
The most surprising thing is actually Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club. This club originally stayed in the middle of the league for a long time because of Sun Tianlong. This year Sun Tianlong retired. Everyone speculated that they would fall to the bottom. But no one expected that the second single player in the team, Qi Hao, successfully improved this year's technology and changed from the nerve knife of the past to what it is now. The absolute main force of the team, after one season, only lost five games in total, and the three singles in the team, the straight player Xue Hui, a guy who is more neurotic than a nerve knife, originally entered the national team and was eliminated, but now he has also worked hard. Not only did he have outstanding singles results this year, he also returned to the national team, and once again entered the eyes of head coach Cai Guodong.
The Table Tennis Super League playoffs started in late June. At the same time, the fourth international tournament this year, German Open Platinum leg started simultaneously. Wang Chao chose Table Tennis Super League this time.. In the end, Spade Q first defeated Jiangcheng University Team, who was absent from Hook, and then defeated the traditional strong team Shanghai Fire Phoenix Club, winning the Table Tennis Super League spring championship trophy for the first time.
Unfortunately, there is no individual MVP selection in the spring split. Everything will depend on the autumn split in the second half of the year.
In terms of international competitions, this station's German Open is also the first time that China Table Tennis has not sent out Wang Chao nor Luo Jiu, but only sent out Fan Xiaodong, Lu Feiyang, Sun Zhongwen, and There are five young players Gao Mingyuan and Liang Kunpeng, and seven young players Wang Qin, Yuan Li, He Peng, Lin Dong, Xu Bin, Jiang Shan, and Liu Shuo.
This is a gap left by Huaping for non-Chinese associations, and it is also a gap for the new coaches in the coaching staff.
Externally, Huaping was not strong enough in previous years, and no one except Sun Tianlong dared to claim that they would win the championship. At that time, Huaping had to compete at every stop, but because Sun Tianlong was too busy, about one-third of the open gold medals were lost every year.
But now Huaping is too strong, so it needs to temper its edge a little. After all, if you are too strong, you will be easily broken. If you are too high, you will regret it. Head coach Cai Guodong still knows the golden mean. If you do everything too much, fate will inevitably end early. When you are not strong enough, you can use "I want it all" to boost morale. But when you are too strong, you actually need to give up something.
Internally, Qin and Zhu factions is too strong, which is not conducive to the development of other coaches, so all the veterans of this station are resting. It also gives some opportunities to old coaches such as Coach Cheng Aimin, Chen Taolue, and new coaches such as Xiao Fei, Qiu Yinong, so that their disciples can have a chance to stand out.
In the end, only four of the seven young players made it to the main draw, and the other three failed in the qualifying round. This also shows that Huaping really cannot underestimate the world's heroes. In fact, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the qualifying round.
Of the five young players on the main roster, only Liang Kunpeng, Fan Xiaodong and Lu Feiyang made it to the top 16. Together with Wang Qin who entered from the qualifying round, a total of four people made it to the top 16. After another round, only Fan Xiaodong, Lu Feiyang and Wang Qin were left in the top eight.
In the semi-finals, only Fan Xiaodong and Wang Qin were left.
At this point in the competition, what is really amazing is not that the Chinese table tennis players won two seats in the semi-finals, but that the 13-year-old Wang Qin, in the second Men's Singles event of his career, directly achieved a rocket-like breakthrough and entered the semi-finals directly.
This is so rare.
Wang Qin signed up for New Zealand Open's first match in March. Not only did she participate in the Men's Singles event, but she also participated in the mixed doubles event with the underage girl Kuai Wan of the women's team. However, in the end, neither Men's Singles nor the mixed doubles could win. When he came out of the qualifying round, he was still very young. He performed poorly during the game due to nervousness. His strength was severely suppressed by European players, and his advantage in speed was not used. He gave people the impression that he was quite average. At that time, some foreign fans once evaluated this young player, and finally concluded that "he is purely here to see the world, so don't pay attention to him for the time being."
Now three months later, Wang Qin is really impressed by the fact that it has achieved results comparable to last year's non-Chinese associations supernovas Lin Zijun and Morad.
Of course, Wang Qin was very lucky to reach this point. He basically didn't meet any famous players along the way. He only had a fierce battle with German player Qiu Shang when he was 16 into 8, and finally won 4:3.
It can only be said that Qiu Shang has a hard life. He was quite amazing when he debuted last year, but then he suffered a series of defeats, as if he was on bad luck. First he met African top player one after another and was suppressed, and then he met Fan Xiaodong one after another and was beaten violently. His strength was obviously close to the top eight of the Open, but he was always hovering around the top 16.
This time, he actually had good luck in the draw. As soon as the lineup came out, he felt that he was in the top eight, but he never expected that he would be suppressed by a 13-year-old Huaping player whom he had never heard of.
After this game, Qiu Shang's mentality really collapsed. After returning to China, he developed a deep fear of table tennis and had deep doubts about himself. He felt that he might not be the material to play table tennis. He asked his father and coach, "Is it too late for me to change my career now?"
Because of this incident, his father Qiu Zexing was forced to contact Huaping and ask Cai Guodong for help.
Qiu Zexing is also an old man from Huaping. He was a teammate and friend of Cai Guodong back then. Later, he chose to teach abroad because of the implementation of Wolf Raising Plan. Now, when he called, Cai Guodong naturally wanted to help.
Of course, this is a story for later, let's not mention it for now.
Let's talk about Men's Singles's semi-final in this Open. Wang Qin's opponent was Lin Zijun. Wang Qin tried his best, but was eventually swept by Lin Zijun.
On the other side, Fan Xiaodong also swept Morad.
So the final started between 16-year-old Fan Xiaodong and 19-year-old Lin Zijun.
This game actually has some hidden meaning unknown to the world.
If Wang Chao had not traveled through time, then in the original trajectory of this parallel world, there would have been no technological rebirth of Luo Jiu, and then Fan Xiaodong would be the direct successor of Sun Tianlong The successor, and Lin Zijun, as the successor of Zhuang Huishen, will be one of the most important non-Chinese associations opponents in Fan Xiaodong's career. The two parties have been entangled for many years until they grow old together.
They were originally supposed to be a couple. Although they were slightly different in age, they were still of the same generation.
Just because there is an extra Wang Chao, Fan Xiaodong became the next generation out of thin air.
Therefore, Lin Zijun's mentality when facing Fan Xiaodong was not the kind of mentality where the outcome was unpredictable, but "I must win."
Why?
Because Lin Zijun's destined opponent has become Wang Chao. Although he can't beat him, at least he still feels that he and Wang Chao are of the same generation.
So facing this junior Fan Xiaodong, I must win.
With this mentality, Lin Zijun played a little anxiously.
He has not been idle in the past few months. After realizing that his "Super Speed Defense Mode" was far from enough, he and Jiang Peirong studied hard and figured out some new killing moves. So when facing Fan Xiaodong, he tried his best to attack, and Fan Xiaodong, as the first person of the young generation in the contemporary violent style of play, will certainly not be timid. If you dare to attack, I will counterattack. Who is afraid of whom?
Therefore, this game was played very crazy, it could be said that sparks hit the earth, the appreciation was completely full, and it was very beautiful to watch.
But an expert like Qin Huachang asked in confusion during the live broadcast, "Is there something wrong with Lin Zijun's brain?"
Yes, it is wrong for Lin Zijun to fight like this, because the killing move he developed is not powerful enough, and it is far from comparable to his defensive power.
Fan Xiaodong's current attack power lies entirely in power and continuous board killing, but in terms of skill changes and rhythm changes, it can't keep up with Luo Jiu and Wang Chao, Lin Zijun When E beats Fan Xiaodong, you only need to defend and counterattack, and you can win steadily. Fan Xiaodong has no way to crack the original "Super Speed Defense Mode".
But Lin Zijun wants to fight against each other.
Haha...
In the end, Fan Xiaodong won 4:2 and won the Men's Singles championship of German Open.
After the dust settled, Lin Zijun walked out of the arena and his mind gradually cleared up, and he realized that he seemed to have made a mistake.
What's funny is that the off-field coach Jiang Peirong didn't realize what the problem was at this time. He patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay. Let's go back and study the offensive methods. We will definitely be able to penetrate him next time."
This shows how important a good teacher is.
Thanks to "Ben Xing" for the 1500 coin reward.