Before the players returned home, discussions started within the Huaping coaching staff. After a long analysis, everyone unanimously concluded that the reason why Killing Head Combination can play so well is actually inseparable from Wang Qin's own technical characteristics.
Wang Qin, left-hand horizontal shooting, both forehand and backhand, has fast movement speed and good hand feel.
Shen Sha, forehand horizontal shot, forehand has a super killing board, fast moving speed and good hand feel.
Although there is a big age gap between these two people, they really match each other and can definitely be cultivated as the main force in the future.
Unfortunately, in the final mixed doubles final, Killing Head Combination lost to Taiwan Island Combination, with a miserable score of 0:3.
At this time, Lin Zijun can be regarded as the first person under Wang Chao in the mixed doubles field. It is almost recognized in the industry that without Tang Dynasty Combination, no one can beat Taiwan Island Combination.
Suddenly, another month passed, and China Open started in September. There is no doubt that this is the most valuable Platinum leg this year, and it also ushered in the largest number of contestants.
The winning players of Huaping in this tournament are Luo Jiu and Wang Chao.
In the end, Luo Jiu successfully won the singles championship, and teamed up with Lin Li to win the Men's Doubles championship. He proved with facts that even without Wang Chao, he could still hold up Huaping.
It's no problem to hold on for at least another three years.
Therefore, Wang Chao is truly indispensable to Huaping. For the time being, only mixed doubles is left.
But even this last item, which is indispensable, was broken on China Open.
Wang Qin and Shen Sha competed again and won consecutively. Compared with last month, their cooperation was more perfect. Many details gave people a natural feeling. The match between these two players made the coaching staff of Huaping praise.
In the end, Killing Head Combination once again met Taiwan Island Combination in the finals, but this time Taiwan Island Combination did not win 3:0. Instead, after four fierce battles, they lost 1:3.
In this way, the 13-year-old Wang Qin relied on his doubles ability to become the youngest mixed doubles champion in the history of table tennis. He stood on the podium with Shen Sha and successfully detonated the world.
Even Tang Yuanyuan, who has always been heartless, felt a profound crisis. She called Wang Chao who was calling Table Tennis Super League and asked, "Will we be broken up in the future... Wang Chao, if it really doesn't work, why don't you change your partner? I won't blame you."
Wang Chao asked, "Then why are you going?"
Tang Yuanyuan sighed, "Of course I will practice singles again."
"Come on, I still don't know? Your singles game has been ruined a long time ago. I have led you astray, and you will never be able to practice in your lifetime." Wang Chao said bluntly.
Tang Yuanyuan was very depressed. "What should I do?"
"Nothing can be done." Wang Chao said firmly, "Don't worry, our combination will be indestructible for at least the next ten years. Unless you don't want to fight, no one can replace you."
"Ah?" Tang Yuanyuan was surprised and happy at the same time. "Why?"
"Because Killing Head Combination can't really support our Huaping team." Wang Chao said leisurely, "Just rest assured, wait for another month, um, two months at most, and you will understand."
August passed, and Wang Chao returned to Table Tennis Super League to prepare for Asian Cup and Australian Open in September. He obviously realized that the atmosphere in the team had become a little subtle.
He is still the undoubted number one brother in the Chinese Table Tennis Team. Cai Guodong is still very optimistic about him and will consult with him on various training and technical matters. He has given him enough attention and is completely training him as the future head coach of the Chinese Table Tennis Team. But only about the mixed doubles, Cai Guodong showed the slightest ambiguity.
Australian Open was supposed to be Wang Chao in all three categories, but in the end, he only signed up for two categories: Men's Singles and Men's Doubles. In mixed doubles, Hua Ping Faction Two new partners appeared, one was Killing Head Combination who had just won World Champion, and the other was the newly formed team of Wang Yu and Fan Xiaodong.
Obviously, Cai Guodong wants to make more attempts and strive to give mixed doubles more choices.
It has to be said that Wang Chao's persistence in partnering this year really touched the most sensitive nerve of the Huaping coaching staff, and also greatly affected the dignity that the Huaping coaching staff has always maintained. At that time, Cai Guodong compromised because he had no other choice. He had to choose results between performance and face. But now, with only a little other possibility, he also wants to work hard and change the current situation.
Coaches cannot accept being threatened by a player's performance. This is a huge taboo in any competitive field.
Wang Chao didn't say anything about this, because he himself knew that he had been willful before.
But he didn't panic, because he knew that some good shows were about to take place.
In early September, Wang Chao, Bai Feng, and Qi Hao participated in the Asian Cup competition. In the end, Wang Chao and Bai Feng met in the finals and won without any suspense 4:0, winning the Asian Cup championship.
There isn't much to say about this event, except that Bai Feng inevitably feels a little desperate.
He tried his best to avoid Wang Chao in this year's events, but the only thing he could avoid was the Open. As for the three majors and these Asian regional events, they were all invitational tournaments. He was invited, and Huaping also gave him a place. If he refused to participate, it would be too obvious to express the word "coward".
He held his breath. He wanted to win but couldn't. He wanted to avoid but couldn't. He was extremely depressed.
He looked forward to the future. Asian Championships didn't need to participate this year, but World Cup himself had to participate, and he also had to participate in the year-end finals. So, wouldn't he still have to be beaten twice by Wang Chao?
Or maybe, he couldn't get in front of Wang Chao and was eliminated by others?
No matter how you think about it, it's not a happy thing.
In late September, Australian Open officially started playing. Wang Chao naturally won the championship of Men's Singles, and once again beat Fan Xiaodong, 4:0 as always.
After losing this time, Little Fatty could no longer laugh. The expression on his small face was a bit grim. He realized that he might live in the shadow of Wang Chao in the future and would not be able to stand up.
So after the game, he took the initiative to find his head coach Sun Tianlong and asked for additional training. He also took the initiative to ask Sun Tianlong a very rare question, "How can I beat Brother Chao?"
I still remember this time last year, Qin Huachang tried so hard to get him a chance to win against Wang Chao, but in the end he felt that he couldn't win, and even proposed to fight Wang Chao before the game to let Wang Chao know his strength.
One year later, their attitudes are completely different. It can be seen that he has indeed been bullied miserably by Wang Chao in the past six months.
However, while Sun Tianlong comforted him in various ways on the surface, he secretly said to Wang Chao, "I have to continue beating him, it's not enough."
Fan Xiaodong doesn't know the truth of the matter, otherwise he would probably faint in the toilet from crying.
As for Men's Doubles, Wang Chao and Wu Li still completed their mission to win the championship.
However, there were some twists and turns in the mixed doubles this time. Wang Qin and Shen Sha met Che Songxin and Xian Youwen in the semi-finals and narrowly won 3:2. The score in the final game was 14:12. It can be said that the outcome was only on a thin line. After the game, the coaching staff of China Table Tennis Team all let out a sigh of relief and felt their hearts beating violently.
Xiao Fei, who is responsible for off-field guidance, even complained to Wang Chao after the game, "If I keep playing like this, I will probably have a heart attack."
The coaching staff quickly held a meeting to discuss the game, and finally came to the conclusion: Killing Head Combination had played too few games and had insufficient experience, so he could not cope well with different playing styles.
To put it simply, the dominance is not enough. Although the strength is strong, it is full of risks of overturning.
There is naturally a huge gap between this and Tang Dynasty Combination's unconditional crushing.
Then in the mixed doubles final, Killing Head Combination met Taiwan Island Combination again, and it was another earth-shattering battle. In the end, Killing Head Combination won the last laugh with a thrilling 3:2.
But the Huaping coaching staff couldn't help laughing.
Because they could see that Taiwan Island Combination played significantly better than last month's final. He Jingping even bluntly said at the meeting, "The reason why Taiwan Island Combination was 1 last month: The reason for losing 3 is because they won 3:0 last month too easily and committed the crime of underestimating the enemy. In fact, the strength of these two combinations is almost the same. If we must make a comparison, I even think Taiwan Island Combination is stronger."
His words were not alarmist, nor were they protecting Wang Chao, but because he could see from the game content that the reason why Taiwan Island Combination lost was because Lin Zijun was not adaptable to some of the strange connection changes in the on-the-spot strategies of Wang Qin and Shen Sha.
This change is the unique advantage of Killing Head Combination. It is the ultimate move that was born after their compatibility. The person who designed these ultimate moves is Xiao Fei, the teacher of Wang Qin, but in fact it is Zhu Zeshi who is hiding behind Xiao Fei.
However, this ultimate move is just an ingenuity, and the difficulty of the technique alone is not high. The reason why Lin Zijun couldn't fully adapt to it after a month was just because his coach Jiang Peirong was not good enough.
But Lin Zijun is, after all, a super talented player with Super Speed. Once he adapts, he will probably completely reverse the situation and beat Killing Head Combination in turn.
"Killing Head Combination is indeed very strong, but to be able to completely suppress Taiwan Island Combination, I'm afraid it will take at least three years." He Jingping finally concluded. "Because after three years, the 16-year-old Wang Qin has barely grown in strength."
Cai Guodong knows that what He Jingping said is right, but he is really unwilling to give in. Again, with Huaping's decades of majesty, he really cannot accept that a player can control the entire coaching staff based on his personal ability.
Even if there is the slightest chance, he is not willing to give up.
He wanted to see it again, at least one more time.
So the time came to October, and the Sakura Country Platinum leg Open started as scheduled.
This time it was Luo Jiu who was in charge of taking the lead. He still completed the championship task of Men's Singles and Men's Doubles very well.
But in the mixed doubles event, something huge went wrong this time.
The reason is that the Bay Island Table Tennis Association and the Jindalai Table Tennis Association actually reached an agreement, reported to International Table Tennis Federation, and formed an international pairing after approval.
This kind of thing naturally does not violate the rules and has happened many times over the years.
Many years ago, Xiao Fei, known as the "No. 1 doubles player in the world" and the "golden right hand", once led a female player Kimchi Country to win the mixed doubles championship.
Last year, Tang Dynasty Combination was also cross-matched with the Beautiful Country mixed doubles player. Although they did not achieve results, they also caused a lot of topics.
Not to mention that in history, Kimchi Country and Daehan Minguk have cooperated and formed teams many times due to their historical origins, and they have achieved success many times.
Now, it is the first time that Jindalai and Bay Island have formed a cross-association team. The two associations have no historical origins, and there is no international significance such as "the small ball turns the big ball". They simply made it clear that they are joining forces and only come to attack Huaping.
But in fact, this matter is not without warning. As early as last year, Che Songxin once made a very dissatisfied public statement after losing a certain game, saying that he was only tired of his partner. After that, Taiwan Head Coach Jiang Peirong was indeed touched and took the initiative to have a dialogue and consultation with the Jindalai Table Tennis Association.
However, due to various reasons, the matter could not be concluded at that time.
Now, with the rise of Killing Head Combination, the world table tennis world has become intolerable. They absolutely cannot tolerate Huaping having a second pair sitting on their heads. Therefore, with the initiative of International Table Tennis Federation, the two table tennis associations finally overcame various difficulties and reached this cooperation.
If the cooperation is effective, they even plan to continue to cooperate, not for anything else but to snipe Huaping.
In short, as soon as the combination of Lin Zijun+Che Songxin was announced, it caused a sensation in the world table tennis world.
These two are recognized by fans around the world as the best male and female doubles players outside of China Table Tennis. In the past, they suffered from their partners not living up to expectations, but now, they have finally joined forces.
Cai Guodong once pinned his hopes that the two people had been together for a short time and had no tacit understanding, but it turned out that the two people were extremely compatible. They won consecutively, just like chopping melons and vegetables, and met Wang Yu and Fan Xiaodong along the way. The new combination of was beaten 3:0. Then, Sakura Country's Ichikawa Mima and Niuwa Xiaoxi were also beaten 3:0, and Ichikawa Mima was beaten to tears again.
As seed players, Wang Qin and Shen Sha naturally met this group of international partners in the finals.
Cai Guodong no longer expects to win at this time. He only hopes to perform at a high level and show his style. As long as he can show strong enough resistance, he can practice hard again after coming back.
But in the end, Killing Head Combination was beaten 3:0. The content of the game was so brutal that it was no different from the Sakura Country combination or the Wang Yu Fan Xiaodong combination that were beaten so hard before.
This is a pretty scary thing.
Because this means that under the hands of Lin Zijun and Che Songxin, any other combination is actually the same.
In fact, Killing Head Combination is clearly superior to other combinations.
The only reason you can ignore this gap is that the other party has much higher strength than you.
Just like when an elephant tramples an ant to death, it will never take more effort because which ant is stronger.
It was after this game that Cai Guodong no longer cared about maintaining the subtle atmosphere between him and Wang Chao about the mixed doubles. Instead, he directly called Wang Chao, who was still competing with Table Tennis Super League, and couldn't wait to say, "Stop playing Table Tennis Super League. Come to the Imperial Capital as soon as possible to prepare for the game in November!"
Old Cai is really scared.
He had given Tang Dynasty Combination the cold shoulder in the past few months, and Wang Chao had ignored him. In fact, he was somewhat happy in his heart, thinking that Wang Chao was helpless and that he would finally regain his dignity as a coach.
Back then, Qin Huachang never defeated Wang Chao, but now Cai Guodong has a chance to win, which is a gratifying thing.
However, when he saw the gap between Killing Head Combination and non-Chinese associations, he suddenly felt a huge sense of crisis.
"In order to suppress Tang Dynasty Combination, I ignored them for several months. They also neglected to practice. Now Killing Head Combination can't handle it. If Tang Dynasty Combination also loses because of neglecting to practice, then I will really become the laughing stock of the world."
This is Cai Guodong's truest thought at this time.
"I already have the best mixed doubles combination in the world."
"But I exiled them myself, letting them go to waste and turning around to cultivate others."
"Now, if Huaping loses its dominant position in mixed doubles because of my favoritism, I will be Huaping's sinner."
"Now, as long as I can keep the mixed doubles gold medal, I can accept it no matter what."
Therefore, people are such strange animals. When they have something, they hope to have more. When they have achievements, they hope to retain their majesty. But when they find that there is a possibility of losing something, they don't care about anything. They only want to keep the most critical one and don't care about anything else.
After Wang Chao hung up the phone, he turned around and called Lin Zijun and said, "Thanks, brother."
Lin Zijun was confused and asked, "What?"
The ancients had a saying of "nurturing bandits to respect themselves", and at this time Lin Zijun actually has the same meaning for Wang Chao. The harder Little Lin is tossing outside, the more stable Tang Dynasty Combination's status becomes.
Wang Chao advised Tang Yuanyuan to be calm two months ago precisely because he had enough confidence in Lin Zijun.
After all, he is his destined opponent. How can he do it without two brushes?
So he added another sentence into the microphone, "You must play well in the next game, and you must not slack off."
Lin Zijun was confused, and before asking again, Wang Chao had already hung up the phone, turned around and called Tang Yuanyuan, and said only a few words: "Imperial Capital, come back quickly and get ready to work."
Tang Yuanyuan's response was also very brief. "Okay!"
Look, this is the reaction that a qualified partner should have. Even if he doesn't know anything, he will obey orders first.
How could Wang Chao be willing to change such a partner?
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