136 Soul Compatibility
◎There is no right or wrong in sports competitions.◎
This is a naked declaration of war.
When Ah Shui heard this, he was so excited that he almost jumped up from the side of the table. He didn't even notice the ball pulled by You You on the opposite side. It hit Ah Shui's head with a "bang".
Ah Shui rubbed his head and leaned towards the men's team. When he stretched his neck to look, Song Linzhou had already stood up to get his golf bag.
"Holy shit! Holy shit! Come and see! The men's team is fighting!"
The girls ignored the balls in their hands and gathered outside the barrier that separated the men's and women's teams, staring with wide eyes at the small rectangular field that was surrounded by a single wall.
"Who is it this time?"
"It seems to be the one from the Hong Kong team and Song Linzhou."
"Weren't they both members of the Chaojing team? They're old acquaintances, right?"
"Interesting, interesting! This game will definitely be interesting!"
The girls were extremely excited and talked a lot.
Zhu Qi was also pulled over by Ah Shui: "It was Reporter Sen's brother who took the initiative to challenge Brother Da Ling. You must come and see it!"
“…” Zhu Qi.
Do I really have to join in the fun?
"Making claws again." Maomao pushed through the crowd and stepped in. "I'll only be gone for the whole morning. What happened?"
The female players were a little worried that the captain would not let them watch this "show" on the pretext of focusing on training, so they all started to act coquettishly.
"Captain, we trained really hard this morning! If you don't believe me, ask Sister Baobao. Let's watch for a while~"
Maomao thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
It's just a training match anyway, best of three, and it will take at most fifteen minutes.
But the coach who was acting as referee next to him got the best-of-seven board.
"Wow, are you going to be so formal?"
"I heard that the Hong Kong team has been beating the men's team almost to pieces lately. The men's team coach might want to get back at them."
"No, no, it was the Hong Kong team who suggested playing seven innings..."
The girls discussed passionately, while the boys were worried.
"Brother Ling, we must get him!" The boys grabbed Song Linzhou's hands with the spirit of "the hero will never come back once he leaves".
"The girls are all here to watch. It won't look good if we lose again." A boy whispered from behind.
Qin Xiaoba turned around and glared at him: "Bah! Are you kidding me?"
A girl over there asked Huang Jiajia: "Jiajia, who do you think will win between the two of them?"
"I don't know. Second Brother's been really strong lately." Huang Jiajia held her chin with her hand, a lollipop still in her mouth. Turning to ask Zhu Qi, she asked, "Bao Bao~ Who do you think will win?"
“…” Zhu Qi.
Do I have to answer this question?
Qin Xiaoba sat in the first row, his heart in his throat as he watched Sen Yunan and Song Linzhou start to tidy up their uniforms and pack up their rackets.
No.
Can’t lose, definitely can’t lose!
Qin Xiaoba himself admitted that he had been a bit slack in training in the past two years.
But Song Linzhou is different. He has always been the most typical "model worker" in the men's team.
Moreover, since He Qianlu joined the Chaojing team, he also took over some of Song Linzhou's holiday training in the Chaojing team and provided some training plans to improve horizontal straight hitting.
Song Linzhou's growth and development is visible to the naked eye. While retaining the flexibility of a straight-blade, many of the shortcomings of the old straight-blade have been almost eliminated.
This game is - very strange.
It is a duel between straight-blade horizontal hitting and straight-blade changed to horizontal hitting.
These two players are both from the Chaojing team, and it seems that there is a similar but non-overlapping part in their destinies.
They have all experienced the process of changing their playing style and made different choices at the intersection of fate.
When the Hong Kong team was struggling to start practicing the horizontal racket from scratch, Mori Yunan also asked himself whether he had regretted switching from a straight racket to a horizontal racket.
If there is no change, is it possible to carve out a path with straight-bar style?
Sen Yunan stood on the south side of the table, looking at Song Linzhou opposite him who was still using the old straight-blade tennis racket. This question appeared in his mind again.
Qin Xiaoba felt inexplicably irritated when he saw Sen Yunan's cold and arrogant expression.
In fact, when Mori Yunan first joined the national team, Song Linzhou, as an old teammate of the Chaojing team, went to ask if there was anything he could help with. However, Mori Yunan's attitude was lukewarm, and he seemed to be reluctant to interact with the former Chaojing team members.
Song Linzhou thought that Mori Yunan was not happy when he left the Chaojing team, so he did not pay much attention to Mori Yunan's attitude.
On several occasions, Daxiong saw Mori Yunan "listening" to the coach educating the players in his group, and wanted to go over and give him some advice, but Mori Yunan treated Daxiong in the same way. He kept to himself and didn't communicate much with others for two years.
But Qin Xiaoba saw that Sen Yunan was very unhappy with his brothers Da Ling and Da Xiong, and thought that this boy was too arrogant.
He has the double buff of Young Master Jing and Mr. Hong, and he feels like the best of the best.
People in Jianghuai expressed anger.
People's first impression is very important.
Qin Xiaoba didn't like Sen Yunan the first time he saw him, although Huang Jiajia explained for Sen Yunan during dinner: "Oh, my second brother was like this when he first came to the Hong Kong team. He didn't talk to anyone."
But the impression had been formed.
What do you mean by taking notes seriously? Haha, we are sports students, not academic students, what's the point of taking notes! I know how to play just by holding the racket.
What training volume can I keep up with? I'm originally from the Chaojing team. The Chaojing team's training volume is famously large among provincial teams. It's normal to keep up with it.
As for losing to Mori Yunan in the training match...
Qin Xiaoba was not convinced.
The best-of-three system emphasizes a fast pace and key shots.
Qin Xiaoba has always been a slow starter when playing basketball, and usually only starts to exert his strength in the third game.
When playing against Mori Yunan that day, Qin Xiaoba's hands were not even warmed up when the coach announced the end of the game.
Plus his sister gave Mori Yunan some advice...
Seriously, he's suffocating!
The first game just started and the first ball was very powerful.
Mori Yunan serves.
After switching to penhold-grip backhand, Song Linzhou still focused on the forehand. Mori Yunan, a representative player who switched from penhold-grip to backhand, also focused on the forehand system.
The two players launched a forehand bombardment on the first ball, pushing the ball to the extreme.
A Shui didn't know what Mori Yunan's status was in the men's team, but Mori Yunan was quite friendly in front of him and Zhu Qi. It might be that the idol's halo was there, which made Mori Yunan's attitude even more... A Shui suddenly had a vocabulary problem, but felt that Zhu Qi's previous description of Yuan Xiang was very appropriate.
When Mori Yunan faced them, his voice was hoarse, just like when Hara Xiang was giving a public interview.
But now, Sen Yunan has become a completely different person, his attacks are quick, fierce and accurate.
Every time the paddle hits the white ball.
Zhu Qi felt his eardrum vibrate.
The strength of both players' pull was amazing.
The sound was no longer the usual "pop", but "bang!".
It is heavy and long, with great friction.
Four balls passed.
They each scored two points.
When the two players started playing ball, they did not do any warm-up exercises, and started playing as soon as they got on the court.
The first few balls were just testing each other, but the subsequent balls became more powerful than the previous ones.
Not easy to fight.
Zhu Qi thought to himself.
The two people's areas of strength overlap.
They are all forehand systems.
The two players started competing for the short ball inside the table.
Then the ball's route gradually widens to the middle and far table.
Mori Yunan frequently flew up and hit diagonal shots, and Song Linzhou used his forehand to defend in a straight line.
Zhu Qi looked at Mori Yunan's already formed loop ball, which had a much higher hit rate than when he first joined the national team.
This type of player is completely different from Qin Xiaoba, whose state is erratic.
When Qin Xiaoba is in good shape, he can even beat Daxiong, but when he is not in good shape, he has a hard time even playing against the players of the second team.
But Mori Yu-nan is an extremely stable partner.
Every movement, every pull of the ball, every step of running is very stable.
He hardly made any mistakes.
The people on both sides are evenly matched.
Almost every high-quality ball can be returned by the opponent.
Every time Song Linzhou scored a point, the men's team would shout.
On the contrary, the atmosphere on Mori Yunan's side was very quiet, with only Huang Jiajia helping to shout out to take advantage of the situation.
A few members of the women's team were soft-hearted and felt that the Hong Kong team was outnumbered and pitiful.
In addition, Huang Jiajia is very popular in the women's team, so several people who have a good relationship with Huang Jiajia joined in the shouting, and then led the women's team to inexplicably become Mori Yunan's cheering group.
Song Linzhou scored.
Men’s team: “Oh——”
Mori Yunan scored.
Women’s team: “Oh—”
Several people in the men's team showed angry expressions again, thinking that the women's team was siding with outsiders.
Now the situation becomes very strange.
Zhu Qi's position was exactly between the men's team and the women's team, consistent with the coach who was sitting perpendicular to the horizontal line of the table and acting as the referee.
The different voices from the left and right sides trapped Zhu Qi in the middle.
The women's team thought it was just a simple competition, but as they watched, they felt that the two players seemed to be a little excited and their expressions were extremely serious.
They can still distinguish between training exchange matches and formal competitions.
The ball is moving fast.
Leaping back and forth.
Mori Yunan also belongs to the rotation flow. The further the ball goes back, the greater the rotation force is, making it difficult for Song Linzhou to catch it.
For someone who plays a fast break system like Song Linzhou, the best thing is to end the battle and score in the first three boards.
The two people were wearing two sets of sportswear, one black and one white, and when they ran, they looked like the yin and yang sides of Tai Chi.
Song Linzhou's body was wrapped in black sportswear, and his solid and powerful muscle lines were clearly outlined through the thin T-shirt.
When you bend over, tighten your thigh muscles.
When running, the knee stretches, which causes every tendon to stretch.
The soles of the shoes stepped on the floor rubber, making a "squeaking" sound with every sliding movement.
Every step was taken very firmly.
The sound was very similar to two boxers wearing gloves, hitting each other's chest over and over again.
Each one explodes.
Qin Xiaoba glanced sideways at his elder sister and found that Zhu Qi had a calm expression, as if saying, "I'm just watching the game." He didn't participate in any cheering and secretly tried to figure out what Zhu Qi was thinking.
The elder sister shouldn't have given any more advice to Mori Yunan, right?
The answer is of course no.
Zhu Qi had no idea how these two people started practicing.
If she were a coach, she would not arrange these two people to play against each other.
As two iconic forehand players.
Within the forehand framework, unless an individual can hit some brilliant shots, the competition is about who has more solid basic skills.
There is no point in sparring.
It does not serve any educational or training purpose.
After the twelfth ball, Song Linzhou had a slight advantage and was leading by two balls.
In the middle of wiping sweat, because there was no towel bucket like in the official competition, the two people just wiped the sweat on their foreheads with the clothes on their shoulders.
The fight lasted less than ten minutes.
Both of them were sweating.
You can shout as much as you want, but you still have to be a little partial to the players on your own men's team.
The female team member in the back row pulled Ah Shui's arm and whispered, "This Hong Kong team player is right-handed, and Da Ling is left-handed. It's hard to hit a left-handed player against a right-handed player, right?"
Ah Shui nodded: "Yes."
As a representative of the left hand, A Shui has a lot of say.
The ball hit by the left forehand is right in the opponent's forehand area, but the ball hit by the opponent's forehand is in the left backhand area.
Therefore, generally many left-handed players are good at the backhand area, but Song Linzhou happens to use a straight racket. In recent years, through many targeted training sessions, he has gradually begun to use his forehand as a backhand, making dual use of one hand.
Although it seems that Song Linzhou [8:6] is leading, in fact the initiative is in the hands of Sen Yunan.
The players of the men's team did not take it lightly either, and kept cheering Song Linzhou on.
Sen Yunan didn't shout after scoring, but stared at Song Linzhou's grip.
Every time he saw Song Linzhou practicing in the past two years, Mori Yunan could recall the days when he and Song Linzhou were both in the Chaojing team.
Although their relationship was not very good at that time, they occasionally discussed the straight-board system together.
Mori Yunan wanted to change to a horizontal racket, but Song Linzhou insisted on practicing a straight racket.
At the beginning, the coaches of the Chaojing team all believed that Mori Yunan had more room for development if he switched to a horizontal board, and the people in the team were also more optimistic about Mori Yunan.
However, after U15 Li Sen Yunan lost to Song Linzhou, the status of the two of them in the Chaojing team also changed drastically.
Good resources began to flow towards Song Linzhou.
And Mori Yunan was on the verge of considering giving up his career as an athlete at the age of fifteen.
After being lectured by Zhu Qi, who was only 13 years old at the time, Mori Yunan went to learn more about this girl from the Jianghuai Provincial Team and learned about her glorious resume of defeating monsters above her level since she was eight years old.
——Such a talented player will definitely be able to enter the national team.
This is what Mori Yunan thought at the time.
If he retired so early, he might never have any contact with this girl in his life.
With this idea in mind, Mori Yunan did not want to give up table tennis so quickly, so he resolutely went to the Hong Kong team for a trial.
Although he was successfully selected for the Hong Kong team, Mori Yunan still closely follows various personnel changes in the national team.
Zhu Qi won the U15 women's singles championship at the age of 13, first place in the Asian Youth Championship at the age of 14, and first place in the World Youth Championship at the age of 15.
He has won first place in all the under-18 categories but has yet to make the national team.
Mori Yunan didn't know why, but he was very dissatisfied with the national team, believing that the national team at that time did not know how to attract talents. He even suggested to his head coach that Zhu Qi come to the Hong Kong team for a trial.
If Zhu Qi comes to the Hong Kong team, he may not even need a trial to become a regular member.
Mori Yunan believes that she can do it.
Zhu Qi didn't know about these things, and Mori Yunan didn't tell anyone.
But when the Hong Kong team was still retrieving Zhu Qi's information, Zhu Qi became famous in the Macau Palace World Cup.
The Hong Kong team has lost a lot of talent.
Mori Yunan was very unwilling.
I feel unworthy of the national team.
If the national team had recruited Zhu Qi earlier, Zhu Qi might have been able to create her own miracle earlier.
As for Zhu Qi's younger brother...
After spending a long time in the Hong Kong team and with some foreigners, Mori Yunan no longer has that kind of brother-in-law mentality, but is more inclined to the Western idea that Zhu Qi is Zhu Qi and Qin Xiaoba is Qin Xiaoba.
He didn't care whether Qin Xiaoba liked him or not, not to mention that Sen Yunan also disliked Qin Xiaoba.
There was a 21-year-old sister who was an extremely talented Grand Slam player. She was training with him, but he still performed so badly.
Waste of resources.
In fact, the opportunity to train with the national team was originally given to another person from the Hong Kong team.
But Mori Yunan didn't care about any opportunity to strengthen his position, because he had Zhu Qi.
After arriving, Mori Yunan became more certain of his judgment of the national team.
Only the women's team can play.
The men's team is struggling.
In the 1990s, Zhuhai and Hong Kong were a super economic zone, with a per capita GDP three times that of China today.
Maybe the coaching configuration is average, but all other resources are absolutely top-notch.
The national team's rubber is distributed in limited quantities every month, while the Hong Kong team has an unlimited supply.
The national team's jerseys are made of cotton and linen, which stick to the skin when you sweat, making them very stuffy and uncomfortable. But the Hong Kong team's jerseys are made of the most advanced polyester material, which absorbs sweat and dries quickly, making them feel like they're not wearing anything at all.
The athletes' salaries and bonuses are also much higher than those of the national team players.
Mori Yunan was even somewhat glad that he had joined the Hong Kong team instead of the national team.
If… He thought, if there was a one in ten thousand chance that Zhu Qi wanted to earn more bonuses or benefits and go to the Hong Kong team to develop…
Snap——
Mori Yunan raised his hand and threw a high ball.
Song Linzhou turned sideways and hit back to defend against the forehand attack.
The ball didn't make it onto the table.
The score is tied.
【9:9】
"Brother Ling, stay calm!" Qin Xiaoba shouted anxiously.
Because it was an internal team training match, there was no coach to give instructions, and the players had to rely entirely on their own performance.
But Qin Xiaoba couldn't help himself and spouted, "He just wants to hold you back. You just need to defend against his explosive attacks. His serve is average. He's only good for the first three shots..."
Song Linzhou said nothing, but lowered his head and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Song Linzhou had never practiced looping shots because he felt that looping shots with a straight racket were too difficult and hard to develop.
But he is very good at receiving loop balls.
When Zhu Qi started practicing loop balls, Song Linzhou was just a marginal figure in the main force. After completing his own training, he would run to the women's team to practice with Zhu Qi.
As the strongest representative of loop balls, Zhu Qi's ball skills improved from being unskilled at the beginning to having a very high hit rate later on.
Song Linzhou accompanied him through it all.
If you want to hit a loop ball with a straight racket, you need to add a lot of slice feel to the loop ball.
This means that every time Song Linzhou pulls the ball, he leans back, opens his arms wide, accumulates strength backwards, and then swings it.
The whole set of movements is open and close, but it also means that some speed will be lost.
Watching Song Linzhou swing the straight racket every time, Zhu Qi remembered the time when he first met Song Linzhou.
At that time, Song Linzhou was on the edge of the main force of the men's team, and Zhu Qi was also on his way to the Aogong competition.
The future of both is uncertain.
Song Linzhou never expected that the little girl sitting next to him would become the youngest Grand Slam winner in table tennis history; Zhu Qi also never expected that this person would become his partner in winning his first gold medal at the World Games.
The most wonderful thing about sports competition is that all unknowns can be won through hard work.
On that foggy and drizzling night, everyone in the training hall had left.
Song Linzhou told her that it was because the candy bar is the pride of China.
He wants the whole world to know that no matter how they target us, there will always be people in China who are good at playing with a straight-blade.
At that time, Zhu Qi felt that this sentence resonated with some of his own thoughts, so he recommended He Qianlu to teach him how to hit with a straight blade.
Looking at Song Linzhou's journey, he endured twice as much hardship as those who practiced horizontal board, but no one in the team questioned Song Linzhou's dedication to table tennis.
And now, Zhu Qi also saw it from the confrontation between the two people.
Sen Yunan was still a little unconvinced and wanted to prove by defeating Song Linzhou that it was not wrong for him to change from a straight-blade to a horizontal-blade.
In fact, Zhu Qi felt that these boys were too stubborn in many aspects of their thinking.
There is no right or wrong in sports competitions.
This game was meaningless.
Zhu Qi didn't want to watch it anymore because he found it boring.
But his legs remained straight and stood there, with no intention of moving.
Zhu Qi felt that Qin Xiaoba's tactical arrangement was correct. Sen Yunan was better at pulling out multiple rebounds to maintain a stalemate, while Song Linzhou's strengths had always been fastballs and the first three rebounds. He should establish an advantage in the first three rebounds and not give Sen Yunan the opportunity to pull the ball up.
But Song Linzhou did not do so and continued to play with Sen Yunan.
It seems like I'm not afraid of you no matter how much you want to play against me.
It means to beat you in the field you are good at.
Qin Xiaoba scratched his ears and pounded his thighs.
His big antelope brother, the silent and stubborn one.
As the game became more intense, the two players gradually started shouting.
Song Linzhou's voice was clear and powerful, and he secretly encouraged him as he clenched his fist. Every time he turned around to pick up the ball, he could see a red figure standing between the men's and women's teams.
Like a flame swaying slightly.
The lights were pouring down, and the black clothes on him wrapped around his mature male body. He gathered strength and pulled the racket to make the ball spin again.
Ah Shui suddenly muttered something without any context: "You know what, Da Ling is different now. He's quite energetic."
In the past, Song Linzhou was very shy, and would blush every time the girls coaxed him when he practiced basketball with Zhu Qi.
Now that his youthfulness has faded, he has become more humble and elegant.
Zhu Qi suddenly remembered what He Qianlu said to her when she asked him to help Song Linzhou practice his straight-grip backhand stroke.
"In fact, there is no such thing as who is stronger or weaker in technology. What matters is who can bring the technology to its full potential."
Being able to reach the top of the world with a recognized straight-blade that will be eliminated by the times.
It has left many people far behind.
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