Now, the whole world can see that the so-called new four kings of table tennis have a great reputation, but they really have no advantage against Wang Chao in terms of technology, mentality, and strength.
This is really the darkest night in table tennis so far, not even a glimmer of light can be seen.
In the past few years, the scary thing about Great Demon Kings is that they can be invincible after careful preparation.
But now, the terrifying thing about Wang Chao is that he can become invincible casually.
European fans have been touting Lin Zijun over the years, thinking that he is the only ray of light in the night, but Sun Tianlong objectively evaluates it, but feels that the real ray of light is Fan Xiaodong, because Fan Xiaodong has actually reached more finals, but because he is also in Huaping, his light has been completely obscured.
This year, Wang Chao undoubtedly won the year-end finals championship. The only thing worth mentioning is that this time his opponent in the finals was Morad.
The former wrestling boy, with his strength and a little bit of luck, finally reached the finals for the first time. In the previous rounds, Wang Chao had successively eliminated Fan Xiaodong, Hook and Lin Zijun, in the other half, Bai Feng killed Qiu Shang, Michel and Zhu Shixian, but suddenly lost power in the semi-finals and lost to Morad.
Wang Chao defeated Morad with a score-controlling 4:1 and once again won the year-end finals championship. All in all, this is already his fourth year-end finals championship. This is another record, but compared to his series of glittering titles, even this heavyweight title pales in comparison.
For example, the title "Super League MVP Player of the Year" is definitely higher than the year-end finals champion.
Although Luo Jiu retired this year, Spade Q bought the rising Lu Feiyang under the operation of Wang Chao. They still won the final Table Tennis Super League championship, and Wang Chao also undoubtedly won the title of Super League MVP Player of the Year.
He is also the first player in history to win this honor consecutively.
If the rule of Great Demon King in the past was selective, then Wang Chao showed a true "I want it all."
He has not missed any awards, and the fans are a little tired of winning championships. When many fans see table tennis-related words when watching the news, their first reaction is "What championship did Wang Chao win this time?"
Time flies faster
In the blink of an eye, it's the sixth year of Wang Chao's time travel.
In May of this year, Kimchi Country's first brother, Zhu Shixian, announced his retirement. Kimchi Country was filled with mourning, and domestic fans lamented their inability to succeed. At this time, the 25-year-old Sakura Nao player Li Zhengzhi finally broke out. His latest performance at the end of May World Table Tennis Championships completely exploded in the first round, defeating Qiu Shang in 16 rounds, and annihilating Zhang Benkuang in 8 rounds. In the semi-finals, they even fought a tragic war of attrition with Lin Zijun, and finally lost 4:2 due to exhaustion.
Sakura Nao's fighting style was indeed too exhausting, and Lin Zijun's fighting style with Super Speed was too fierce. Li Zhengzhi, who had the "Iron Man" talent, couldn't run in the end.
But Kimchi Country fans are very satisfied, because in their opinion, although Li Zhengzhi has always been known as the "World's No. 1 Sakura Nao" in the past, he is actually a color pen. Now he has finally stood up and lost to Lin Zijun is really not ashamed at all, not to mention that with his running all over the court, he can even catch up with Lin Zijun who has super offensive speed. So when he meets other people in the future, won't he be a weakling who can't be beaten no matter how hard he fights?
Facts have proved that no matter which nation or country, there will always be someone to step forward when a critical moment comes. Li Zhengzhi has wasted many years and has been silent for six years since his stunning debut at the age of 19. Now, Zhu Shixian has chosen to give up. After learning from the pain, he broke out of his cocoon and became a butterfly. He showed extremely good competitive form in all the open tournaments in the second half of the year. In the end, his world ranking reached 11th, which was the highest position in his career. At the same time, he also successfully reached the year-end finals at the end of the year.
From this, the Kimchi Country table tennis world can finally straighten its back when facing its old rival Sakura Country. You have Zhang Benkuang, I have Li Zhengzhi. We are still on the same starting line.
What? Do you think Zhang Benkuang is better than Li Zhengzhi? What's the point? Anyway, we can't beat Hook, Lin Zijun and Fan Xiaodong, let alone Wang Chao. We are still in the same league, brother, between fifty steps and a hundred steps, why be in a hurry?
Of course, what is really worth explaining this year is not the rise of Li Zhengzhi, but that this year is similar to four years ago, and it is the cycle with the most frequent competitions. There are World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup, Olympic Games, National Games, and Asian Cup.
But this year there is not as many as 15 open tournaments like four years ago.
It is also because of this that Wang Chao can continue to compete frequently.
There were a total of 10 open tournaments. Wang Chao participated in five and won five gold medals. Among them, three finals were against Lin Zijun and two finals were against Hook. Some won 4:1 and some won 4:2.
But the fans no longer made random guesses because of 4:2. Everyone agreed that Wang Chao was controlling points in a bad way again.
The reason why we did not meet Fan Xiaodong in the Open this year is because Fan Xiaodong has officially become the second player in the main force of China Table Tennis. He and Wang Chao jointly shouldered the task of covering the whole situation and reached a new relationship of "Kings do not meet kings".
In the five open tournaments that Wang Chao did not participate in, Fan Xiaodong entered the finals. He met Lin Zijun four times, winning two times and losing twice. He met Hook once and lost.
Also this year, because Fan Xiaodong did not meet Wang Chao in the finals again, Lin Zijun was highlighted even more clearly, and his repeated challenges in the finals and being ruthlessly crushed again and again became even more tragic. He officially became the only light in the dark night in the hearts of fans around the world.
But all this light can do is resist, but there is no way to prevent anything from happening.
In July of the same year, Wang Chao led Fan Xiaodong and Wang Qin to win the World Cup team championship.
In September of the same year, Wang Chao fought Olympic Games again and won two gold medals in Men's Singles and mixed doubles. At this point, he completed the goal that Sun Tianlong failed to complete when he was in competition, and the unprecedented "Double Grand Slam" achievement was unlocked.
In November of the same year, Wang Chao won the men's singles gold medal from National Games, and teamed up with Wu Li, who had become the main player of the national team, to lead Hubei Provincial Team to win the team championship.
At this point, the double circle Grand Slam achievement has been completed.
In January of the following year, which was still considered the sixth year of Wang Chao's time travel according to the lunar calendar, Wang Chao voluntarily abstained from voting for World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. Finally, through a difficult through cycle, Fan Xiaodong, Wu Li, and Bai Feng got their spots.
This is the most intense World Table Tennis Championships in recent years. The reason is that without the suppression of Great Demon King, all the princes from all over the world want to take the opportunity to ascend to power.
Fan Xiaodong, Lin Zijun, Morad, Zhang Benkuang, Qiu Shang, Li Zhengzhi, Hook, Wu Li, these young players have become the main theme of this World Table Tennis Championships. The 30-year-old Bai Feng only struggled a little and was easily crushed by the Brazilian Hook.
This is really a new era. Compared with when Wang Chao first came to this world, all those famous figures have disappeared from the competition. Some have chosen to retire, and some will never make it to the final stage of top events.
For example, Germany's Wolf and Sissifield were once ranked among the top 20 players in the world, but now they are blocked from the top eight.
After the youth storm swept through, Fan Xiaodong had the last laugh.
After being suppressed by Wang Chao for five full years, he finally won the first three major gold medals in his career this year.
The final was between Fan Xiaodong and Hook. The game started at 3:30 in the morning in the Imperial City. Qin Huachang chose to stay up late to live broadcast the whole thing. That night, he put one hand on his chest and talked passionately. From beginning to end, his excitement surprised many fans who watched the live broadcast. They always felt that anchor Qin was a little different today.
When Fan Xiaodong won the championship, there was even something crystal clear in the corner of Qin Huachang's eyes, flickering dimly under the fill light.
No one knows why Qin Huachang is so excited.
Only Sun Tianlong vaguely guessed something.
He remembered the scene where he and Wang Chao went to meet his mentor two years ago. At that time, his mentor said that he would seek a championship for Fan Xiaodong at Wang Chao. Now, Wang Chao chose to withdraw from World Table Tennis Championships for no reason. This was probably the opportunity that his mentor asked for for Fan Xiaodong.
However, if the opportunity is given, whether it can be seized is another matter, so Qin Huachang is actually very nervous. Seeing the turmoil in the international competition and the emergence of many masters, he is naturally worried that Fan Xiaodong will miss the opportunity.
If you miss this time, you don't know how many years will it be next time.
Fortunately, Fan Xiaodong seized the opportunity and had the last laugh.
In February of this year, when the year-end finals started, Qin Huachang suddenly fell ill while explaining the game. The broadcast was temporarily shut down and he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. There has been no news since.
After the year-end finals were over, Sun Tianlong stopped Wang Chao, who had just won the championship, and said with a serious expression, "Come with me to Yangcheng again."
Wang Chao felt a thump in his heart at that time. Regardless of the fatigue all over his body and the sweat on his face, he blurted out. "Okay."
He and Sun Tianlong met Qin Huachang for the last time.
A rough calculation shows that six years have passed since Qin Huachang was diagnosed with cancer and retired.
He had heart problems many years ago due to excessive thinking and various bad habits in life. Later, as he continued to serve as an off-field coach and continued to experience the ups and downs on the field, the heart problems became more and more serious. However, in the end, the cause of his death was not a heart disease, but a recurrence of lung cancer after surgery.
Qin Huachang still insisted on this before he left. He smiled and said, "My occupational disease as a coach is heart disease. As for lung cancer, it is purely caused by my love of smoking. But I became addicted to smoking before I became a coach., So, I don't regret being a coach at all, I just blame myself a little. Why didn't I quit smoking earlier? It was obvious that Cai Guodong was the one who learned to smoke with me, but he quit as soon as he said he would."
At the end of this year, it was originally a festive day for every family to celebrate the Spring Festival, but the news of Qin Huachang's death caused many people to choke in their homes.
Many people can't understand the feelings of these ordinary fans towards Qin Huachang. That's because they don't know how far-reaching impact Qin Huachang's live broadcast has on the promotion and literacy of table tennis. It is no exaggeration to say that in recent years, at least 30% of the credit for the expansion of table tennis's influence around the world lies with Qin Huachang.
As an event with extremely high threshold and extremely difficult to watch, the difference between understanding and not understanding table tennis is probably the difference between 1 and 100.
People who understand can feel unparalleled excitement, physical collisions, mental excitement, changing situations, and deep-seated calculations, while people who can't understand can only see a small ball flying around, and even the ball can't be seen clearly.
What Qin Huachang does is amplify the viewing experience of many fans a hundred times.
Only the top coaches of the Chinese national team in the world are qualified and capable to do this.
For decades, only Qin Huachang chose to really do this and persisted until the last moment of his life.
He left countless classic commentary scenes, even more famous scenes played by players on the field, and his classic spoiler-style commentary has become a legend in the table tennis world, and no one will be able to successfully replicate it in the future.
To call him a master in the world is not an exaggeration at all.
Old Qin is a person with a good reputation. Even if he dies, he must leave some traces. In fact, he is a relatively dark and dirty person at heart. But after his death, Qin Zhenyu dug out the suicide note he had written long ago from the drawer of his live broadcast. In it, he carried out a very majestic and upright analysis and flaunting of himself. When this suicide note was announced to the world, it once again earned him a wave of eyeballs and tears.
He said in his suicide note, "I have been planning for most of my life. I have been obsessed with petty profits without realizing it. It was not until I was forced to retire due to a terminal illness that I became more open-minded. Then I tried to spread the essence of table tennis to the world through live broadcast. Today In the world table tennis world, although it seems that Wang Chao is suppressing the current generation alone, in fact, the world's top players have risen together, and the overall level of the world has improved significantly compared to when I was a coach ten years ago. I should be a part of this enlightenment."
"In the future, Huaping may not have the same dominance as before, but the table tennis world in the future should also be more prosperous. I think that what I do may not contribute to Huaping, but it will definitely contribute to the world table tennis. In this case, this life is enough."
This suicide note was translated into many languages and spread all over the world. Many fans who fell in love with table tennis because of Qin Huachang cried bitterly. Later, many professionals were inspired by Qin Huachang's confession, or because of interests or beliefs, chose to become professional table tennis commentators, trying to continue Qin Huachang's style.
However, facts have proven that Old Qin is indeed not something that others can learn. Whether it is his vision, knowledge, ability, or his unique pride, sinisterness, willfulness during live broadcasts, or even his dark, thin and ugly face, no one can replace it for countless fans.
The Silver Ball Dance website lost anchor Qin, and the total website traffic dropped by half. Guo Yukun cried and fainted in the toilet.
When Wang Chao saw this suicide note, he could imagine Old Qin's triumphant look when writing the suicide note. This old guy, even if he was about to die, would use his own death to make a name for himself, and use the brilliance of words to cover up his dark heart.
Wang Chao Thinking like this, I originally wanted to sneer, but in the end I smiled and burst into tears.
The relationship between him and Qin Huachang was full of calculations. Qin Huachang's only help to him was to help him win an opportunity to participate in Sakura Country T2 at the beginning of his career. He always won through various schemes and frame-ups. It was not until Qin Huachang asked him to show mercy to Fan Xiaodong two years ago that this secret war came to an end, ending with Old Qin admitting defeat.
But it was just thinking of Old Qin's surrender that Wang Chao felt uncomfortable, because it represented Old Qin's deep love for his disciple Fan Xiaodong from the beginning to the end. Looking at this matter in a magnified sense, it actually also represented Old Qin's deep love for his coaching career and even Huaping's talent cultivation.
He is not a good person, but he is definitely an unquestionably good coach and deserves to be the world's top coach.
He is the pride of Huaping.
At Qin Huachang's funeral, all the coaches and players of Huaping, as well as many retired coaches and former national team players, were present. In the following days, fans from all over the country and even the world came one after another. It can be said that they made a lot of face and exaggerated the glory after death to the extreme. This matter naturally made it to the Yangcheng City level, Guangdong provincial level, and China Television national TV station's heavyweight sports news.
International Table Tennis Federation even suspended an ongoing open competition for one day as a memorial.
He is the first and most likely the last to receive such a posthumous honor as a retired coach and personal anchor.
This is a watershed, representing the complete fading out of the older generation of Huaping. New talents are emerging from the wildfire one after another. They have withstood suppression, are determined, and are tenaciously walking on the road to seize the class and seize power.
In the seventh year of Wang Chao's time travel, Bai Feng chose to retire and stayed on the team to become the new coach of the Wang Clan's series.
This year, German veteran Wolf met the 18-year-old Chinese table tennis player Wang Qin in the first round of the Denmark Open, the first stop of the year. He was beaten 4:0 and announced his retirement on the spot after the game.
This is another non-Chinese associations player who was beaten to despair because of his age. His retirement journey is exactly the same as that of Bayer.
On the same day, veteran Belarus Ochomirov, who was in the first round of the main draw, also met a young player LeBron from France. This young player wears glasses and has a straight forehand, no matter whether he is attacking or serving. The ball is extremely sharp, and he still uses the traditional Chinese penhold style, which almost no one in Europe practices. He used a fierce playing style that Ochomirov was extremely uncomfortable with, and directly eliminated an old senior who was more than twice his age 4:0.
After this game, Ochomirov, who had already reached fifth place, may have been stimulated by Orff. He was a little sad that the rabbit died and the fox chose to retire on the spot. He publicly said this, "I originally had great ambitions and wanted to follow the example of Ni Liliyan and continue to play, but the competition in the table tennis world has become more and more fierce in the past few years. I have played in too many competitions. I feel obviously inadequate at work. I envy senior Ni Liliyan who can reach the semi-finals and semi-finals of various competitions in three days at the age of 50 and 60, but I can't do it because the competition in men's table tennis is too fierce, which is far beyond the level of women's table tennis. Rather than being pushed down step by step to the qualifying stage at my current age, I might as well save the last bit of dignity for myself."
The implication is that he does not want to retreat, he is forced to retreat.