"Why can't I come?" The smile on Wang Chao's face became vivid at this moment, "Gao Ming, didn't we agree last time? Notify me when you play the game, and I will come to the scene to cheer you... But you never called me once."
He looked at the other burly man who was silent and said hello proactively, "Hello Tian Zhengguang, we meet again. From today on, we are teammates."
Fan Xiaoxian was stunned in place.
This situation was unexpected by her, but when she thought about it carefully, it was reasonable.
They are all from the city team, aren't they just former teammates?
But why did Tian Zhengguang's expression look so strange after seeing Wang Chao?
Have you had any festivals before?
Wang Chao was more proactive than Fan Xiaoxian expected. He walked towards another player who was resting on a chair next to the table, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, my name is Wang Chao. I am a new player."
The man stood up quickly, glanced at Fan Xiaoxian first, and then replied seriously, "My name is Lu Jia. I have been here for three years. Old player, Wang Chao. Thank you for your willingness to come to Spade Q to play at this time. Let's work hard together in the new season."
Wang Chao understood immediately.
This guy should be considered a hardcore member of the club.
His mood became very good, because currently, it seemed that the atmosphere in the team should be good, at least there was harmony between the four people on the court at this time.
So, what about the one who didn't come?
Wang Chao looked at Fan Xiaoxian.
"The one who didn't come is called Geng Shuai. He is older than you all. He is already twenty-seven years old. He has been in the team for five years and is absolutely reliable."
Fan Xiaoxian was also in a good mood, because she could see that Wang Chao was working hard to integrate into the group, so she decided to give Wang Chao a little more confidence. "Geng Shuai is the national Special Class Athlete, and First Team has played in the World Series before."
The title "Special Class Athlete" did make Wang Chao a little surprised.
Special Class Athlete in table tennis is not that easy to get. Huaping has clear regulations. Players must enter the national team selection and win medals in international competitions. At the very least, they must win a bronze medal at a certain stop in the world tour.
And if you are qualified to be sent by Huaping to participate in one of the three major events of World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup or Olympic Games, you only need to be selected to get the title.
After Wang Chao traveled through time, he roughly looked up the relevant information of the three major competitions, but never saw the name Geng Shuai. In other words, this Geng Shuai player must have won a medal in the World Tour.
This is a real "national player".
Theoretically speaking, the national players should be able to kill in Table Tennis First Division, just like a crocodile breaking into the fish pond.
Even in Table Tennis Super League, the national player is definitely the trump card of every club.
Why do people like this stay at Table Tennis First Division? And why do you always stay with Spade Q, which is about to be disbanded?
With such people around, why are Spade Q's grades so bad?
Wang Chao was successfully aroused.
Questions about Geng Shuai were not immediately answered.
Fan Xiaoxian kept it secret, and Lu Jia refused to tell, and told Wang Chao not to ask Geng Shuai face to face, because Geng Shuai would lose his temper.
So Wang Chao suppressed his doubts and followed Fan Xiaoxian to see the dormitory. Gao Ming took the initiative to accompany him, leaving Tian Zhengguang and Lu Jia to practice together.
Table Tennis First Division As a commercial league, the living conditions of the players are indeed much better than those at the city team base. They have two bedrooms and one living room, and all household appliances. There are even natural gas and induction cookers, so you can cook your own meals.
You can choose to live alone in the room, or you can share it with two people. Considering that the team members need to be familiar with each other and cooperate with each other, the club advocates sharing.
So Gao Ming abandoned Tian Zhengguang without hesitation and came to Wang Chao, which made Wang Chao quite embarrassed, always feeling that he had stolen Tian Zhengguang's old love.
As for Lu Jia, he and Geng Shuai have been living together for a year. Now that Geng Shuai has not returned to the team, he lives alone for the time being.
After settling in, Fan Xiaoxian first took Wang Chao to her office to fill out various forms. After half an hour, after completing the forms, she took out a tightly sealed rectangular box from the drawer and handed it to Wang Chao.
"What is this?" Wang Chao was a little confused.
"This is a gift from Coach He to you."
Fan Xiaoxian explained, "I asked him why he didn't give it to you in person, but he said he didn't want to disturb your vacation, and told me that I must hand it over to you on the first day you join the team."
Wang Chao took the box apart and inside was a very beautiful standard paddle racket with the rubber already attached and plastic seals on both sides. It had obviously not been opened for a long time. On the handle of the racket, there were three very delicate deep red engraved small characters: Super Luo.
Fan Xiaoxian obviously didn't know what He Jingping was sending beforehand. When he saw this racket, he subconsciously let out a soft "ah" sound.
"Sister Xian, what is this?"
"If I guess correctly, this should be the world's first officially mass-produced Super Luo racket."
Fan Xiaoxian was obviously a little shocked. "When Luo Jiu first joined the national team, there was a period when his performance was extremely bright and his commercial value soared. So when Coach He helped him After all the specifications of the special racket were determined, Hongshuangli came to the door and proposed to mass-produce a 1:1 copy of the racket and sell it to the outside world. The name of this racket was Super Luo."
This is also the common practice for table tennis equipment manufacturers. They will cooperate with popular national players to launch special models named after the players. However, usually, the rackets sold externally will have slight adjustments in various data indicators to make them more suitable for the general public. As for the "Super Luo" model, if it is a complete 1:1 imitation as Fan Xiaoxian said, that would be quite interesting.
"At that time, the first batch of products was released. Hongshuangli specially sent the first racket produced back to the national team. Coach He and Luo Jiu were asked to appraise the quality. After playing it, Luo Jiu felt it was quite good, but because he already had a racket on hand, he gave the racket to Coach He. From then on, the racket became out of print and was collected by Coach He and never shown to anyone else."
Fan Xiaoxian looked back with some memories. "In the next seven years, many people wanted this racket, but Coach He refused. Once, a wealthy businessman who liked playing table tennis offered Coach He two million for this racket, but he was scolded by Coach He."
Wang Chao took the racket in his hand and looked at it carefully, and found that there were two names signed in very small fonts on the adhesive-free area between the racket handle and the racket surface, which were "He Jingping" and "Luo Jiu".
"That's right, these two people with the names Hongshuangli asked them to sign on the spot. They should have taken photos and souvenirs. If you search online, you might also be able to find news from that year."
Fan Xiaoxian couldn't help but look at Wang Chao a few more times, wondering what kind of magic power this kid in front of him had. "Wang Chao, Coach He is not generally optimistic about you..."
Wang Chao reached out and picked up a square piece of paper folded at the bottom of the box. These were the words He Jingping left for him.
Fan Xiaoxian Although curious, he consciously refused to peek and turned around to organize the files on his desk.
The paper was densely filled with sentences, which showed that He Jingping was not in a calm mood when he wrote the letter.
"Wang Chao, I have officially submitted an application to Mr. Cai Guodong, the head coach of the Chinese National Table Tennis Team, at 12 o'clock in the morning on August 1st, to apply to return to the national team coaching staff and take over the training of national team player Luo Jiu. If nothing goes wrong, I will leave Jiangcheng and return to the Imperial Capital within a week."
"So when you read this letter, I should no longer be in Jiangcheng. I may not be able to watch your first Table Tennis First Division game in person, but I will try my best to come back. Even if I can't come back, I will watch the whole thing online - although this has no practical significance to you."
"I once sank. Thank you very much for giving me confidence in a game at a critical moment and giving me a piece of advice to pull me back from my wrong thoughts. I really want to be your teacher, but I know that I am not worthy yet."
"I will first do what I haven't done to make up for my debt to Xiaojiu. Of course, a very important step is to help him defeat Sun Tianlong."
"I wonder if the agreement we made at the cafeteria door will still count at that time?"
"This racket is specially designed for double-sided looping attacks across Taiwan. It should be suitable for you. You can use it for the time being."
"But it certainly doesn't completely match your technical specifications, so I hope we can meet again in the national team next year, and I hope we can work together to complete your customized racket by then."
Wang Chao folded the paper again, put it into his pocket, and let out a breath, feeling a little complicated.
He Jingping People of this era are relatively reserved. If he were asked to say these words face to face, he would definitely not be able to say them out loud, but using words as a medium, he could finally express them.
He is very grateful to Wang Chao.
Wang Chao felt a little unbearable.
Because Wang Chao felt that he didn't do anything deliberately, everything was just done casually.
Then, as you wish, senior, when I finish this season, we will meet again in the Imperial Capital next year.
Wang Chao said goodbye to Fan Xiaoxian and returned to the dormitory. Gao Ming seemed very excited and took the initiative to explain, "The reason why I didn't call you after I left the city team last time is because it was the end of last season when I joined Spade Q and I was not eligible to play. I didn't want you to come and see me on the bench."
Wang Chao asked, "What about this season?"
Gao Ming sighed, "The main candidates for this season will definitely be Geng Shuai, Lu Jia and you. Even if someone is absent for some reason, I will still compete with Tian Zhengguang for the position... Let's put it this way, if it weren't for Spade Q who couldn't recruit anyone, he wouldn't have signed me. Now, I should be your full-time training partner."
Wang Chao felt a little sorry for a moment.
But Gao Ming didn't care, and quickly moved to another topic. "I heard that you had a shocking bo7 fight with Wu Li?"
Wang Chao was stunned for a moment, still wondering, this game is obviously confidential, how come the whole world knows about it?
But Gao Ming immediately said, "Don't be discouraged. Although you lost 4:0, it was because you were exhausted! I watched your game with Boss Fan and others. They all thought you were very good. Boss Fan said at that time that he wanted to sign you!"
Wang Chao suddenly realized.
Therefore, the outside world's current evaluation of him is that he is a player who is Wu Li 4:0?
Although the 4:0 win was remarkable and showed outstanding technical and psychological talents, in the eyes of experts, at best, it was just a "promising future" evaluation.
So Boss Fan didn't really come to sign him at that time, he probably just said it on a whim while watching the video.
But Gao Ming obviously misunderstood, and this was the source of his excitement. "I thought he was just talking, but he actually signed you without saying a word. Lao Luo is really biased. When Boss Fan went to sign Wu Li, he said that the professional league is a big dyeing vat that will affect Wu Li's future. But when Boss Fan signed you, he sold you without saying a word."
He suddenly slapped Wang Chao on the shoulder, laughed and said, "Wow, you kid, you fought so hard with me at first, I thought you were really incompetent. After the fight, I sincerely reminded you, who knew you were just hiding your strength."
Wang Chao thought about it and felt that it would be better for teammates to be honest with each other. After all, we will get along day and night in the future, and we can't hide anything.
He said, "Actually, Boss Fan signed me not because of the game you watched, but because I played another game with Wu Li later. I beat him 4:1 with a left-hand crossboard, but that game was strictly kept secret by Lao Luo and was not spread."
Gao Ming was stunned. "Then how did Boss Fan see it?"
Wang Chao said, "Because coach He Jingping passed the video to Luo Jiu, and Luo Jiu passed the video to Boss Fan, so Boss Fan went to the city team base overnight and asked coach He Jingping to help get me signed."
Gao Ming stared at him blankly for a long time and said with emotion, "Wang Chao, I have a hunch that I should have a very happy first season of my career."
Wang Chao is puzzled. "Why?"
Gao Ming finally couldn't stand it anymore and laughed, "Wang Chao, why didn't I see that you were so funny before? Look at you, you are so serious, you are still pretending, hahahaha, I can't stop laughing!"
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