118 Florida Table Tennis Championships
◎The first big upset of this National Table Tennis Championships.◎
There is almost no suspense in this National Table Tennis Championships.
After the Moscow competition, everyone seemed to have determined that the Chinese team would continue to win the championship.
Including the South Korean team that is participating in this competition.
Even the coaches seemed to have lost their previous drive.
They stood in the audience, watching the players surrounding the "Miriam" Cup.
Because the top 64 athletes in the world rankings automatically qualify for the National Table Tennis Championships, the level of each country can be particularly reflected at this time, which is to see which country appears more frequently.
There are eight members of the Chinese team participating in this competition. In addition to a few who have already appeared in the World Games, foreign coaches have also begun to pay attention to them, preparing to remember a few unfamiliar faces who are participating in the National Table Tennis Championships for the first time.
The coaches of the South Korean team sat in the corner. This time they drew a bad lot.
The Korean team's table tennis development has been mediocre in the past two years. The only two players who are good enough to participate in the world championships are one from the north and one from China.
None of them are players trained by themselves.
Even so, it did not have any advantage in Moscow.
Jin Lili got a spot in Zone A, which was just right, putting her in the same quarter as her old rival A Shui.
She is quite experienced in beating Ah Shui.
Although she lost to A Shui and Maomao in the women's doubles in Moscow, Jin Lili did not think it was her fault.
When she left the Chinese team and went to South Korea, Maomao was already the captain of the women's team. Moreover, Maomao's level has always been recognized by the team and she can stand shoulder to shoulder with Zhu Qi. Therefore, Jin Lili did not think that losing to Maomao was something unforgivable.
But A Shui is different.
Whether it was when he was still on the national team or when he joined the Korean team, basically when they met in world-class competitions, Ah Shui had never beaten her in singles.
Jin Lili was confident that she could defend Area A.
Zhu Qi happens to be in Zone B, so there is a chance that he and Zhu Qi will meet in the semi-finals.
I heard that Zhu Qi returned to Jianghuai for surgery after the World Games. He might not have recovered to his best condition yet.
What if... The coaches of the South Korean team thought that if by some chance Jin Lili could get lucky and beat Zhu Qi, even if she couldn't win the championship, it would be nice to get a silver medal.
Jin Lili felt that the Korean coaches' idea was too fantastical.
Are you kidding me?
Everyone in the world knows that the most popular table tennis player is Zhu Qi.
At the Moscow World Games, the semi-final match between Zhu Qi and Jamie amazed the world.
He was able to win the game even with a sprained foot and impaired vision in one eye.
This means that Zhu Qi's understanding of the ball, her sense of space, and her talent in touch are far superior to all currently active female athletes.
No, it's not just female athletes.
I'm afraid many male athletes are not as good as her.
Even at the peak of his powers, Han Taiyang was not even sure he could defeat Zhu Qi.
At this moment, Han Taiyang looked at the girl facing him, and time seemed to have gone back to 6 years ago.
He Qianlu brought her to the Macau World Cup.
Han Taiyang felt that he might never be able to get rid of He Qianlu's shadow in his entire life. Even if He Qianlu retired and disappeared from the table tennis circle, he brought out a "monster" who was more terrifying than him.
At the beginning, he also relied on simply imitating He Qianlu's fighting style to gain a foothold in South Korea.
Later, when Zhu Qi emerged in the Chinese team, Han Taiyang also wanted to follow suit and let Jin Lili learn Zhu Qi's playing style completely, just like he did before.
On this point, Jin Lili did not disappoint him.
Jin Lili was indeed able to imitate Zhu Qi to a level of 9.5 points. Whether it was Zhu Qi's first three shots, the close-table stalemate, or the angle of the loop ball, they were almost exactly the same.
But Han Taiyang knew that Jin Lili was not happy.
Does such a victory still belong to you?
Jin Lili didn't know, she only knew that she seemed to be living in the shadow of others forever.
But Han Taiyang always felt that this girl was being stupid.
Who cares about the process of winning the gold medal? Isn't the world only concerned with the final result?
Wouldn't it be enough if I just did what he said and stood happily on the podium in the end?
For the past two months, Jin Lili's rationality and sensibility have been fighting. On the one hand, she wants to break free from the shadow of others, and on the other hand, she wants to replicate the honor of others.
But the cruelty of sports lies in the fact that if a person is good, he is good, and if he is not good, he is not good.
It is impossible to win honor that does not belong to you because of any external factors.
For example, the semi-final against Jamie in Moscow.
When Jin Lili was watching from the side, she seemed to understand for a moment why no matter how she provoked Zhu Qi, he always looked at her as if she was an idiot when talking to her.
Because Zhu Qi never took her seriously.
Although Jin Lili was very unconvinced, she had to admit at that moment that Zhu Qi was indeed more powerful than she had imagined.
She...may really have no way of catching up with Zhu Qi.
The athletes' entrance is over, and everyone leaves in order according to the entrance channel.
As Jin Lili left the stage, she saw athletes in Chinese national team uniforms gathered together, chatting and laughing as they left. Among them were many young, new faces, likely new recruits to the national team.
Jin Lili was in a trance for a moment, remembering that when she first joined the national team, she also followed Chang Hongxia and prepared for the competition everywhere.
Ever since the dispute with Han Taiyang at the end of the Moscow competition, Han Taiyang seemed to be deliberately trying to intimidate her in the past two months. When she returned to training, he also deliberately let her train slack, as if he wanted to let Jin Lili fend for herself.
Jin Lili still had some Chinese pride and was unwilling to take the initiative to make peace with the man. The two of them were in a cold war for two months until the start of the National Table Tennis Championships.
Jin Lili knew that if the South Korean team had not suffered another Waterloo in the World Cup and the two new players they recommended had not been eliminated in the first round of the World Cup, she would probably have been abandoned by the South Korean team immediately.
Jin Lili didn't think she was lucky. She knew that if she couldn't achieve good results, she would be abandoned sooner or later.
"Look at you, you're so listless," Han Taiyang said sarcastically, watching Jin Lili walk towards the South Korean team. "The game hasn't even started yet, and you're already acting so scared?"
Jin Lili didn't really want to pay attention to him.
The two had a common goal and briefly united. Jin Lili wanted to trust him and completely followed his instructions for training. But in the end, she found herself just a guinea pig in Han Taiyang's eyes, with many experimental subjects in his hands.
Seeing Jin Lili rudely preparing to pack her racket without even looking up, Han Taiyang flew into a rage, his tone becoming even more sarcastic: "Look at you, you look like a defeated general, with bad luck written all over your face. So this is why you were sent back to the provincial team by the Chinese team, right?"
Was sent back to the provincial team.
This is the most untouchable reverse scale in Jin Lili's mind.
She almost roared out loud: "Yes, but didn't you still eagerly ask for me, a player who was sent back to the provincial team by the Chinese team?"
The South Korean players and coach had an argument.
This news is so explosive.
Especially when he knew that it was Jin Lili who had quarreled with Han Taiyang, Ah Shui swept away the depressed mood he had felt a few days ago because of the positive urine test, and leaned his head to look at the noisiest place.
"What's going on? Jin Lili is already so grown up, why does it seem like her temper has gotten worse instead of better?"
Maomao has been enjoying this kind of gossip lately, so she chimed in: "I heard their relationship has been really cold since they returned from Moscow. A few days ago at the training ground, I saw Han Taiyang practicing free throws with the players next to him, while Jin Lili was huddled in a corner practicing by herself. Han Taiyang ignored her all day, and this dynamic between the two has been going on for two months now."
"How strange! Why? Jin Lili didn't even play in last month's World Cup. She said it was some post-match adjustment. It's probably because of a fight with Han Taiyang," Ah Shui lamented as he wiped his bag. "Now that they're arguing like this again, how can we even play this game?"
Ah Shui was obviously worrying too much.
Jin Lili is not only good at fighting, but also has full firepower.
The Korean team had a bad draw this time. An Zhihui met Zhu Qi in the first round and was swept by Zhu Qi [4:0].
Zhu Qi finished get off work incredibly quickly. To use the words of the outsourced contractor, he was like standing next to the pool table with a machete, cutting An Zhihui like fruit, leaving him confused.
In fact, An Zhihui's tactical system is not backward. On the contrary, she has been practicing looping balls in the past two years. The disadvantage she suffered at that time was that her footwork was not well practiced.
In my previous life, when I was studying with the old coach in a technical school.
The first thing the old coach said to her was that as long as she practiced her footwork well, her ball skills would be good.
Don’t be fooled by the small size of the ping-pong table and the small court. They are not as big as a tennis ball.
But in fact, it is because the range of movement is small that the pace becomes the most important.
The movement of each toe may affect every bone in the body, from the ankles to the knees to the hips to the lumbar spine to the shoulders to the arm swings, all of which will undergo subtle changes due to a slight change in the pace.
So after arriving at the provincial team, Zhu Qi took a liking to He Qianlu's small steps at first sight.
An Zhihui practiced the most common crab step among table tennis players. This step basically involves moving both feet together, and the ability to move left and right while running is particularly strong, making it particularly suitable for handling long balls outside the table.
Xi Ling'en also uses this kind of step. Combined with Xi Ling'en's anti-arc rubber, it can actually restrain Japanese loop balls.
However, when An Zhihui was practicing, she clearly felt that she was using her knee joints to exert force, which resulted in a particularly large racket-leading movement when swinging the racket.
To put it bluntly.
The basic skills are still not in place.
It's not just An Zhihui.
The South Korean team has a total of four players participating in this competition, and the other two were eliminated in other areas.
Three members of the entire Korean team left in the first round, leaving only Kim Lili.
In fact, the Chinese team is quite happy to see this phenomenon.
Look, South Korea is no good either. The only one who can advance is the talent who left China.
Han Taiyang and Jin Lili have been in a cold war for so long, and neither of them is willing to give in.
The South Korean team's coaching staff had no choice but to ask the South Korean team's head coach to act as off-field coach for Kim Lili in order to keep the only hope of advancing.
No matter how much you dislike Kim Lili, since Kim Lili came to Korea, her performance and results in competitions in Korea have been impeccable.
Although he has never won a singles gold medal in the three major competitions, he is already much better than those native Korean athletes.
So the Korean head coach could only show weakness and said to Kim Lili, "Lili, I know you're angry. Your coach is under a lot of pressure, too. He returned to the national team amidst widespread controversy, risking his entire future. So sometimes he says some really harsh things, but it's definitely not to target you or your background."
Since coming to Korea, Jin Lili has heard similar words too many times.
It seems like everyone is telling themselves to cater to others, adapt to others, and compromise.
Jin Lili knew better than anyone that others were not her partners at all.
They just wanted to use me. If a player with a strength level similar to mine appeared in the Korean team... no, even a player who was slightly inferior to me, they would immediately throw me away.
She has no partner on this competitive road.
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The second day's competition also ended quickly.
All members of the Chinese team successfully advanced to the third round.
When Zhu Qi was in the 32-to-16 round, he met a 16-year-old newcomer from the Japanese team, Kasugano Hikaru. She was very childish, with narrow eyes, and when she smiled, her eye bags made her look very sweet.
Her voice is also soft, which fits Zhu Qi's stereotype of Japanese women very well. Although her temperament is similar to that of Hara Xiang, both of them are sweet girls, but this Japanese newcomer feels more neat.
The whole world is paying attention to the new players of the Chinese team, and the coaches of the Chinese team will naturally not let go of the new players from foreign associations.
When Zhu Qi was playing against the newcomer from the Japanese team, Ren Xinhua watched for a while and made an evaluation.
“This is an upgraded version of the original fragrance.”
The loop ball hit by the 16-year-old Japanese rookie is very beautiful. The beauty here refers to the very high arc speed and rotation quality of the ball.
The whole ball gives people a crisp and neat feeling when it falls on the table and bounces up.
However, because he was too young and lacked strength and experience, he was eventually treated as a humanoid and abused by Zhu Qi.
Zhu Qi's two consecutive days of [4:0] gave the coaching staff a reassurance.
Although after the surgery, when I returned to the national team for physical fitness test, I found that the standards in all aspects were far worse than before.
But the skills were not lost.
After the game, the 16-year-old Sakura ran to Zhu Qi, bowed and said "Aligato".
Zhu Qi was still wondering.
Why does she keep saying thank you to herself?
I originally thought that it might be because I am five years older than him and have more competition experience, so his words were just politeness.
But then I watched an interview with this new Japanese player and heard her say on screen, smiling, "Contestant Zhu Qi is truly a formidable senior. Playing against her taught me a lot. I knew from the start I had no chance of winning, so I approached the match with a learning attitude."
This kind of interview mentality is very Buddhist.
But Zhu Qi would never be fooled by such high-sounding words. This Japanese newcomer had a solid foundation of basic skills and had at least ten years of practice.
Zhu Qi has always thought that he is very good at judging people. Even if Xiao Yinghua practices for another two years, Yuan Xiang probably won't be her match.
Zhu Qi, known as the team's best at playing against the Japanese, proved his worth with his performance. As soon as the match was over, many reporters from outside the team came over, wanting to interview Zhu Qi post-match.
They were particularly curious about Zhu Qi's recovery from surgery after returning to Jianghuai. Some of them might have been curious about their work needs, but some of them looked at Zhu Qi with seemingly complicated emotions.
It's like particularly hoping to see cracks appear on a giant star, and then expecting the giant star to slowly fall from the sky like broken glass.
Xu Dong turned them all down.
"Please tell us a few words. Fans around the world are very concerned about your recovery..."
Those blond-haired and blue-eyed external reporters followed again.
Seeing their perseverance, Zhu Qi could only simply reply, "My recovery can be seen from the results of my matches."
This sentence also means that Zhu Qi is determined to win the championship this time.
After the World Games, Zhu Qi's global fame suddenly soared. He had been staying in China before and didn't think much of it, but when he went to Florida this time, he found that there were many Europeans sitting in the audience.
Each of them held a small flag with "Zhupernova" written on it and a picture of the vast deep space of the universe as the background.
This is the nickname given to Zhu Qi by foreign fans.
Zhu Qi never thought that one day he would have a group of foreign fans. When he left the field, he waved slightly to the stands, and as a result, he received a lot of cheers from across the ocean.
Even though this is America.
But Zhu Qi felt at home.
After Qin Xiaoba finished his own match, he came over to watch and asked with a playful smile, "Haruhi, Ye Guang? Why does this name sound so strange?"
Zhu Qi was laughed at by his silly brother and said, "My last name is Kasugano, and my given name is Guang."
"This Japanese girl is quite good at talking. She keeps praising you. Could she be your fan too? I saw her holding a Zhupernova flag when she left." After Qin Xiaoba finished speaking, he took out two outsiders from somewhere, each holding a Zhu Qi cheering flag.
"Where did you get this?"
"My mom called me and said this flag was pretty good and asked me to bring her two. I didn't know where to buy it, so I asked two foreigners for them."
Zhu Qi found it quite novel and touched the flag's material, only to discover it was made of ordinary material. However, while playing, he looked up and saw many people around him holding their own belongings. This feeling was a spiritual fulfillment for a player.
There is a joy in having one's achievements recognized by others.
But Zhu Qi has a certain mental age after all, so he won't be affected by such things and become arrogant.
Qin Xiaoba felt that his sister was really cruel to him: "If I win the Grand Slam, I won't play anymore. I will go back and enjoy life, get married and have children..."
Zhu Qi glanced at him and said, "As my younger brother, you can't be so unambitious. What China lacks the least is children. We don't need you to continue the human gene, but the national team needs athletes. Can you open your horizons a little? Take a good look at the outside world!"
Qin Xiaoba muttered softly: "I am here to win glory for my country, not to become a monk."
"What did you say?" Zhu Qi didn't hear clearly and leaned over. "Say it again."
"I say serving the people is our unshirkable duty!"...
Qin Xiaoba won a few games and started showing off again, but after just two days, his coach discovered that he had dyed his hair.
Before the round of 16, I took Qin Xiaoba to get a haircut.
Gao Xiaofeng held up the scissors and asked Qin Xiaoba, "Do you plan to shave off all the dyed areas, or shave your entire head?"
The part where Qin Xiaoba dyed his hair was inside the first layer of hair. If he only shaved the dyed part, there would be a blank space at the back of his head, which would look like a Mediterranean.
After much thought, Qin Xiaoba could only wipe his tears and say, "Let's shave them all."
The next day, Monk Qin showed up at the arena with a bald head, displaying the courage to face death. He vented all his frustration at being bald on his opponent, beating him until he rolled over on the ground, screaming and groaning.
Zhu Qi was delighted when he found out. He hadn't expected a haircut to have this effect. The afternoon match went smoothly, and Zhu Qi left work early for three days in a row. He then went to watch the other female players who hadn't finished their matches yet.
Lulu from Pakistan and Maomao are both in area C.
There weren't many top players in Zone C this time, mostly second- and third-rate players ranked between 30 and 50 in the world. Maomao could definitely hold onto his own quarter, but it would be more difficult in Zone D, where Xi Ling'en and Jamie from the North Korean team were.
Lulu's touch is really good. The racket she uses looks a little yellow, which means it has been used a lot.
When Zhu Qiguang heard Lulu hit the ball, the racket made a heavy, dull and not transparent sound, so he knew that this racket had been used for at least five years.
If we calculate based on the training level of the national team, such a racket is basically unusable because the wood core and carbonized material inside have separated.
But Lulu's point control ability is very good.
As long as she can catch the ball, it can all be put on the table.
A Shui also finished the game early. After successfully advancing and changing clothes, he saw Zhu Qi when he came out. He stood next to her and watched the game together.
"Wow, she feels so good."
Zhu Qi nodded: "Yes, if she can get systematic training, her skills will definitely improve by another three degrees."
"She will definitely be able to do it when she joins the national team." Just as Ah Shui finished speaking, Lulu's last ball was also scored.
Accompanied by applause from the audience, Lulu defeated a female player from India and successfully advanced to the second round.
Pakistan and India are also sworn enemies.
The reason why China and Pakistan were able to successfully establish diplomatic relations was because India often provoked Pakistan.
As soon as Lulu won, the Pakistani coach ran around the field, cheering and shouting. He even ran to the Indian coaching area, raised his arms and asked for applause from the audience, which drew laughter from the stands.
National Table Tennis Championships.
There are many experts.
It can be called a battle for supremacy in the martial arts world, with heroes rising up everywhere.
Such a game where top players are mixed together is particularly prone to upsets.
Jamie created the first big upset of this National Table Tennis Championships when he was in the round of 16.
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