The Huaping training venue is naturally very lively. As soon as you enter, you can hear the sound of table tennis. Qiu Shang is still a little arrogant when he walks in. After all, he is now ranked 22nd in the world and can be regarded as a celebrity in the table tennis world. When he is in Germany, he is occasionally recognized by people. If he goes to places related to table tennis, he will have a 100% exposure rate.
In Qiu Shang's view, although Huaping is strong, there are only a few who are truly superior in the table tennis world. And there are dozens of players, coaches, and miscellaneous staff in such a large Huaping, which means there are hundreds of people. Among so many people, you can still be considered a star, right?
At least, someone must know him, right?
When he walked in as a big living person, of course many team members would look at the door, but it was just a glance. Then everyone played ball when they should, picked up the ball when they should, and chatted when they should. No one noticed that he was the 22nd ranked table tennis celebrity in the world.
Qiu Shang was a little unhappy and asked his assistant if he could find someone to play two rounds.
The little assistant is a little embarrassed, because it is July in the table tennis world, and the Table Tennis Super League transfer period is coming, and there are actually international competitions in July. The Malaysian Open Championship is just because of the meager prize money and accumulated accumulation. There are not many points, so there are not many applicants. Huaping only sent Luo Jiu to take the lead, plus Wang Qin and other young players, which is a way for the children to try the depth of the world competition.
Therefore, most of the players are busy with other things and are not at Chinese Table Tennis base. The small group that remains at the base basically have special training tasks, or are correcting chronic problems in the tactical system, or are racing against time to make technical changes, or making a final sprint to avoid being demoted in the promotion and relegation assessment a few months later.
In short, the players are very busy and have no time to play recreational ball.
"How about I find some idlers to play with you?" the assistant asked.
Qiu Shang nodded in agreement, but sneered in his heart. He had already vaguely felt that Huaping seemed to want to give him a blow. The Cooks just now were proof. Now, Huaping must be planning to continue to undermine his self-confidence and send a bunch of strange staff to defeat him.
However, how can he be so easy to defeat?
Qiu Shang has a father who was once the coach of the national team, so he naturally knows Chinese table tennis very well, but as the saying goes, seeing is believing, and hearing is false. No matter how Qiu Zexing brags, he still feels that his father's words are Those things in the pot were filled with water. He didn't see it with his own eyes, so he couldn't believe it. At most, he knew that there were probably some old guys with special skills lurking inside Huaping. But to say that just anyone could be a peerless master would be a stretch.
After all, playing basketball requires talent. Who is not a super genius to become a world-class player? He Qiu Shang himself is a super genius, and his father who is a national team coach has provided professional guidance since he was a child. Only in this way can he achieve his current achievements at his current age. He thinks that his strength is already an excellent level that can only be achieved by the combination of many low-probability conditions. And how many people in this world have such unique conditions?
Therefore, even though he was severely hit by Wang Qin a month ago, he did not really let go. He still believed that he was an extraordinary member of the table tennis world.
Huaping is naturally strong, but he also firmly believes that the only ones who are really strong are those people who are familiar to everyone. As for others, such as Gao Mingyuan Liang Kunpeng, haven't they also been to the world competition many times, but they have never been able to reach the semi-finals?
These people represent the normal state of Chinese table tennis players.
We can't say that Huaping is the best at outside, but it is definitely not as deep as the legend. You can find two or three people who are better than me among the staff, but if you want to find ten, eight, or even ten or twenty, then you are bullying my Qiu's IQ.
With such arrogance of not believing in evil, Qiu Shang ushered in a middle-aged man in his forties wearing security uniform.
The middle-aged man used a straight forehand with rubber on both sides. His playing style was retro and traditional. His backhand did not hit horizontally, but only pushed and blocked. He looked like a character pulled out of the historical archives. But five minutes later, he used this backward playing style to beat Qiu Shang 11:9.
Winning is actually not easy, but the process of this game is very similar to the previous third Cook. Qiu Shang did not suffer a loss on the scene, but lost in the fight.
Qiu Shang was not satisfied and asked to come again.
So in the second game, he lost again 15:13.
This round was even more stalemate. The middle-aged security guard was really lagging behind in his playing style, but he had extremely rich experience in handling small balls in the table. He used the natural and delicate characteristics of the straight board and the natural fast-break properties of the straight rubber to hit the 40+ caliber ball with the charm of the small ball era. The most important thing is that every time it was a key ball, this person would perform excellently. Qiu Shang often felt that he was only one step away from victory, but in the end he was still defeated.
After two games, Qiu Shang was actually still dissatisfied, but he did not ask to continue because he still wanted to lose face and there were other people waiting next to him.
His next opponent looked to be fifty years old, and he was holding a broom in his hand when he walked in. This person was a backhand chipper, and his technique was extremely retro. He only had a few moves back and forth, from beginning to end, and he didn't even attack much. This is because the chipper game twenty years ago had not yet evolved the concept of "hitting the ball will lead to attack."
Qiu Shang felt that he completely overwhelmed his opponent in terms of technical advancement. The first few balls also successfully penetrated the opponent's defense, but then, when the opponent became familiar with his way, he could not penetrate it.
The harder he couldn't hit, the harder he worked, and the harder he worked, the more impatient he became. In fact, he was not this impatient in the past when playing games, but today, on the one hand, he has lost many goals in a row, and on the other hand, because everyone is watching, he still gets angry from time to time. He always felt that the other person's laughter was secretly laughing at him, and maybe he was whispering bad things about himself, such as "No. 22 in the world is not that good," or "Lao Qiu didn't teach his son well," and so on.
In short, he was in a hurry, but the opponent kept chipping away unhurriedly, so he kept fighting, and the good situation was ruined by him, and he lost the game 11:6.
Qiu Shang didn't ask to continue. He realized that the group of people surrounding the table could really defeat him.
He was a little surprised, because from Cook outside to the current security guard and sweeper, as well as the seven or eight people who had not yet had time to show up, there were more than ten people in total. These more than ten people alone had exceeded his previous estimate of the number of Huaping sweepers.
He still refused to give up and said, "I want to play with the team members."
The assistant smiled and said, "The team members have training tasks, how about I find some sparring partners to play with you?"
Qiu Shang gritted his teeth and agreed.
Then three sparring partners came, all in their thirties, and Qiu Shang fought them one by one. In the end, two were defeated and one was won. At this point, the fight was finally over.
But Qiu Shang is not at all happy in his heart, because until now, he has realized that his past understanding of Huaping was indeed wrong, and his personal theory that "the world's top players are limited" was even more wrong, because it was obvious that everyone he met today was probably not inferior to him in terms of talent alone.
On a sudden impulse, he said to his assistant, "Shall we play a game?"
The assistant readily agreed, "Okay."
Five minutes later, Qiu Shang won the second game of the day, with a score of 11:7. It was not too difficult, but it was not easy either. By the time the game was over, he was already feeling excited.
He could see that the assistant was really just playing casually, and was definitely not a talented young man who deliberately pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger. But could someone like the assistant, who has never been an active member of Huaping, actually reach this level?
"Are there so many talented people in the world?"
"Or... my talent is actually not as high as I think it is?"
"But if that's the case, why can I make a name for myself in Germany?"
Qiu Shang is a very smart person. He used to be just a blinder, but what he experienced during the half-day today made him start to reflect from another angle, and he immediately found the answer.
"Yes, these people I met today are older than me and their playing style is behind me, but they can beat me. This is actually because they have more experience in the game than me, are more technically sophisticated than me, and at the same time, have a better mentality in the game."
"I have more advanced technology and better physical fitness, but there is a huge gap with them in terms of technical polishing."
"As for technical polishing, game experience, and game mentality, these are actually things that have nothing to do with talent, but they greatly affect the final outcome of the game."
"I was able to win so many games in Germany for the same reason."
"It's not that my talent is really better than theirs. For example, my Men's Doubles partner Duda is stronger than me, has a better forehand stalemate than me, and has a fierce backhand smash. But he can never get ahead in singles. Is it because he is not as talented as me? No, his talent and physical fitness are even better than mine. What really makes him inferior to me is his game experience and technical details."
"And my details are better than his, all because of my father's guidance from childhood."
"I have been practicing since I was a child, and I have worked much harder than those local German players. But even if I practice so hard and have better personal guidance than all of them, I am only ranked fourth in the German table tennis world."
"So, what kind of super genius am I? I'm just an ordinary professional player with a little talent."
"There are a lot of people like me in the world table tennis world, so what should I be proud of?"
"As an ordinary professional player like me, if I occasionally lose a few games, even if I am defeated by a 13-year-old kid, why should I not think about it?"
Qiu Shang's knot in his heart was originally entirely due to his arrogance. He always felt that he was the proud man of heaven and had been humiliated. But now, when he realized that he was just an ordinary person, as soon as he lowered his body, everything suddenly became clear, and he also figured out the real reason why he came to Huaping today.
He said sincerely, "Can you let me play with your real main players?"
After saying this, he saw a hidden smile in the little assistant's eyes. He was afraid of being misunderstood, and added, "I'm not unconvinced, I just... want to see how far I am from the real top in the world?"
The smile in the assistant's eyes faded, but he hesitated and asked him seriously, "Are you sure? It might be worse."
Qiu Shang was a little frightened for no reason, but still gritted his teeth and said, "I'm sure."
So Wang Chao came.
Yes, Wang Chao is at Chinese Table Tennis base at this time.
Although the transfer period is very important to Spade Q, it has nothing to do with him. In fact, he brought Wu Li to the base a few days ago because Wu Li needs high-intensity training.
Of course, Wang Chao himself can train with Wu Li, but the problem is that Wu Li needs too many training hours every day, and he can't sustain it alone. Spade Q lacks other high-quality sparring partners, so it is better to come to the base to find opponents.
First Team players are very happy to practice with Wu Li. The reason is that if you are better than Wu Li, you can beat him unscrupulously. It is very pleasurable and you don't have to worry about affecting Wu Li's mentality. In this way, it is very beneficial to practice attack power.
And if you are weaker than Wu Li, you can definitely discuss it with him and ask him not to attack.
Wu Li does not reject all-round defense at all. He just needs a high enough intensity. As for high-intensity offense or high-intensity defense, he doesn't care. Anyway, he can practice whatever he can. He is not picky about food.
At this time, Qiu Shang faced off against Wang Chao. It would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous. Since his debut, he still doesn't know if it's good luck or bad luck. Although he has been sniped one after another in the international arena, he has never followed up. The strongest troika in Huaping had met. Before today, he would have probably tried to defeat Wang Chao with some luck, but now, he has calmed down and completely adopted a humble attitude of learning.
Then he was directly beaten 11:1 by Wang Chao.
The last ball was a clear giveaway, a serve that committed suicide.
Qiu Shang was stunned. He knew the gap would be huge, but he didn't expect it to be so big. Facing Wang Chao, he felt a sense of despair that he couldn't handle at all, because the opponent was crushing him in terms of speed, skills, experience, tricks, details, etc., making it difficult for him to even find the slightest theoretical possibility of counterattack.
After a round, Qiu Shang closed his eyes, adjusted his mentality for a long time, and said, "Come again."
In the second game, he was beaten 11:0.
The one point in the first game was to give face, but since the opponent wanted to see the real difference, Wang Chao didn't mind letting him truly experience the differences in the world in the second game.
Qiu Shang gritted his teeth and said, "Come again."
The third game was still 11:0.
The outcome was actually certain, but at this point in the fight, Qiu Shang was blushing and feeling aggrieved.
He does have a learning attitude, but he is still a young man after all. His current mentality is to rely on his own strength to score a point, even if it is just a lucky ball. He only needs to score one point to give himself an explanation and end today's game.
But the problem is, after three games, we really didn't get a single point.
He refused to give up and said, "Come again."
The fourth game was still 11:0.
Wang Chao is already a little surprised at this point. Although he is good at calculating people's hearts, he does it in formal competitions. He uses "both sides want to win" as the basic premise to calculate, which can be considered targeted. But now this kind of informal comparison He had no idea where Qiu Shang's emotions were, and naturally he couldn't tell what Qiu Shang was insisting on. He could only continue to fight with Qiu Shang dutifully.
So in the fifth game it was 11:0 again.
Wang Chao himself didn't feel it, but at this time the onlookers at the table were all amazed, not because of Wang Chao's power, but because of Wang Chao's stability.
This is too stable.
You really don't give me even the slightest chance.
Qiu Shang ultimately failed to score a point, and he collapsed again after the fifth inning.
This collapse is not the same as last month's defeat by Wang Qin. The knot I had last month, looking back today, is actually "overestimating myself" and "not knowing how high the sky is". This knot will be resolved immediately once you recognize yourself clearly.
But now he is completely beaten out of depression. People in the world say "break and then stand up", but today he is "set up and then break". After this break, I am afraid that it will take less than ten and a half days for him to recover.
By this time, Qiu Shang finally understood why the assistant had solemnly asked him to "sure" before.
He was indeed mentally prepared to take a beating.
But he didn't expect the beating to be so painful...
It's so heartbreaking!
Wang Chao was a little worried because Boss Fan called him yesterday. He knew that Qiu Shang would be his future Table Tennis Super League teammate, so he stepped forward and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
Qiu Shang Seeing him approaching, it was as if he saw the devil coming in person. He was so frightened that he took three steps back. Only then did he realize that he had lost his composure and said with a forced smile, "It's okay."
"Well, just be normal. Winning and losing are normal." Wang Chao comforted him, "We will fight side by side next month. There will be many opportunities to practice by then. You will get used to it as time goes by."
Qiu Shang gasped when he heard this, and it suddenly occurred to him that he had promised his father yesterday that he would join Black Spade Q Club, so wouldn't he have to train with this person for a long time in the Spade Q base in the future?
When he faced Wang Chao, he was a little scared. He forced a smile and nodded in agreement, appearing very obedient, but he couldn't help but secretly thought, "Before the contract is officially signed, can you discuss with dad about changing to a different team?"