155 Retaining Talent
◎Everyone has his or her own track.◎
Although they knew that the only players participating would be the captain, Maomao, and Ashui, other players who had qualified for the direct tournament also wanted to compete.
Sasa and Youyou, as part of the new generation of young players, have finally secured direct entry, and are now just one step away from the World Games.
Even if I can't get a spot in the singles, it would be nice to be in a team.
Before the list came out, no one in the team spoke about it and dared to speculate on the coaches' arrangements.
Zhu Qi looked at the atmosphere in the team at this moment and felt as if she had returned to the Tokyo cycle, but this time her premonition had changed.
She guessed that Ren Xinhua had not yet announced the list, most likely not because of the mixed doubles issue.
Because after the Yokohama Open, Xu Dong told Zhu Qi to make time to practice mixed doubles. It is likely that Xu Dong arranged Zhu Qi's training time in this way because he listened to Xinhua's advice.
Sometimes Zhu Qi would feel the cruelty of sports competition from the people around him.
A Shui and Qin Xiaoba worked hard for three years, but still failed to qualify because of a loss in a game.
"Actually, they get along pretty well together and are very mature in all aspects." Zhu Qi suddenly blurted out this sentence when he was listening to Xu Dong arranging the training.
In the past, Zhu Qi would not have said this.
Because for Zhu Qi, as long as she is given a competition, she will play.
No one would think the bonus is too much.
Zhu Qi could only say this in front of Xu Dong, because in the ears of others he always felt that he was showing off.
According to Zhu Qi's observations on the current foreign players and mixed doubles combinations, A Shui and Qin Xiaoba would be able to sweep a large area if they were released, but the coaching staff might want to play it safe... or have other considerations, so they allowed himself and Song Linzhou, who have won two consecutive mixed doubles championships, to participate.
When Xu Dong heard Zhu Qi say this, he suddenly sighed, but did not tell Zhu Qi why he sighed. He just continued to talk about some subsequent training arrangements.
During the closed training period for all staff.
Not even a bird could fly out.
Everyone practiced day and night, and Xu Dong also looked very tired because of his reversed day and night routine. Even when he was practicing serving for Zhu Qi, he felt that the power to raise his hand and swing the racket was much weaker.
Sometimes when I feel tired and want to rest, I feel that time is passing too quickly and the children next to me are still practicing and I don’t want to slack off either.
At this time, the players who were not on the coaches' selected list would express envy towards Zhu Qi and other players who were sure to participate in the World Games.
Xu Dong's group is recognized by the whole team.
Not only was Zhu Qi rolling the dice himself, but several members of Xu Dong's group also followed suit.
Especially the new batch of little bells who joined the national team.
Although Xiao Lingdang has always been very quiet and doesn't like to talk much in the team, she is the sparring partner who can best keep up with Zhu Qi's rhythm in the entire national team.
Zhu Qi often adds various difficult balls to practice with. As Zhu Qi's sparring partner, you must first be able to keep up with Zhu Qi's speed and rotation. Otherwise, after pulling the ball twice, the ball will fall, and time will be wasted on picking up the ball.
Xiao Lingdang had heard from her two older sisters, Zuo Zuo and You You, that when Zuo Zuo and You You were still sparring partners, they were afraid of not being able to catch the ball every time they practiced with the senior players.
Otherwise, the senior players will think that their sparring partners are not good enough and ask them to play ball with them.
Many people think that the older team members are taking advantage of their seniority and want to suppress the younger team members.
But in fact, the training tasks in the national team are urgent. It seems that they are training every day, which is more stressful than many college entrance examination candidates.
But in fact, their physical fitness was limited. At that time, some Western health training methods had not been introduced. Instead, they were forced to increase muscle memory with a large amount of repetitive training as soon as they joined the team.
This type of training is very harmful to the human body, so many athletes on the national team are not injured due to fatigue during competitions, but rather these hidden diseases accumulate during normal training.
Over time, many Chinese athletes will begin to decline in all aspects of their physical condition after the age of 25.
In this way, the period from 18 to 25 years old is the most important time node for athletes.
It can almost be said that time is money.
Every second you are likely to be caught up by the people around you.
Except for Zhu Qi, the other players basically joined the second team at around 15 years old.
Then you have to gather with the second team for training for a period of time, and pass the round-robin match between the first and second teams before you can enter the first team.
Many second-team players basically have to train for about two years before they have the opportunity to catch the last train to the first team based on their abilities.
Many players who seemed very talented and could achieve good results in the provincial team found that after joining the national team, they also practiced hard every day in the second team, but found that the most talented and hardworking people in the country were around them, and their own level was nothing compared to these people.
As highly-anticipated reserve players, players like Song Linzhou and Qin Xiaoba also spent a year in the second team and played two round-robin tournaments before joining the first team.
This is already one of the best players among the same batch.
Most of the players who are very successful in the provincial team cannot even make it into the first team. After staying in the second team for three or four years, they are replaced by the new players in the national second team and sent back to the provincial team.
However, unlike the Chinese team, many European and American players only enter their golden period after the age of 25, because their training model emphasizes a combination of work and rest.
Huang Jiajia of the Hong Kong team once said during training in Beijing that the Hong Kong team also adopted many Western training methods.
We will invite some health therapists and rehabilitation therapists to formulate training plans based on the standards of daily physical tests, so as not to overdraw the athletes' bodies in advance.
In addition, after the age of 25, European and American athletes also participated in many competitions.
It happens to be the time when you have the most competition experience, are in the best physical condition, and have the clearest mind.
So many fans wonder why domestic athletes retire at the age of 30 at most, but many foreign athletes can play until they are nearly 40 years old, and some can even play until retirement.
Based on the world rankings, Xu Dong ranked several possible opponents for Zhu Qi.
Zhu Qi discovered that except for Zai Yuanxiang who was not participating in the Japanese team this time, 70% of them were old opponents he had often met before.
I originally thought that the US team would find a way to get Shackleides Jamie in, but since Jamie was knocked out by Xi Lingen in the World Cup four years ago, we haven't seen Jamie in the world competitions again.
I don’t know if it’s because the surgery wasn’t done cleanly, but when we were competing in Yokohama some time ago, I heard Japanese media reports saying that Jamie had been hospitalized frequently due to fever.
Zhu Qi also loves gossip, so he flipped through a few foreign media newspapers to check on Shackleides Jamie's movements.
Judging by recent photos of Jamie in the newspaper, she's practically lost all her muscle mass, dropping out of the top 80 in the world rankings. The oversized USA team uniform makes her look like a sack. When she greets the camera, her smile wrinkles her face, making her look like she's been inhaling something she shouldn't have. She's so skinny she looks like a little old man... oh, that description doesn't quite fit, after all, that guy's gone.
Most likely, the American team feels that there is no need to train Jamie anymore.
After all, table tennis is not a sport that can be won by brute force.
As long as you can find out where Jamie's problem lies, it will be easy to score points through various combos.
But Jamie didn't want to start from scratch...so he could only show off his skills in the European region.
After Xu Dong and Zhu Qi discussed the training plan, they took their notebooks and went to the head coach's office to prepare for the meeting.
When Xu Dong arrived at the place, he found that Chang Hongxia had arrived earlier than him.
Today was almost the deadline, and the competition roster was supposed to be announced tomorrow. But before the announcement, Ren Xinhua called Chang Hongxia over and chatted with her for half an hour.
The content of the chat was very simple, just asking about A Shui's training situation during this period.
Chang Hongxia has always been very realistic and analyzes everything, both good and bad.
"As a left-handed player, Ah Shui has always played doubles on the team, but since he started practicing right-handed, his offensive ability in singles has increased significantly. This Table Tennis Challenge League showed that, while his right hand, as a second practice hand, isn't as good as his left hand in all aspects, it can help him make up for the deficit at crucial moments, increasing Ah Shui's ability to defend the table."
The weak point is...
"...Actually, Ah Shui's personal style is more inclined towards doubles. Her early performance was easily affected. If there is someone to guide her, she can get into the game faster. When playing singles, it depends more on her own performance. Um...plus, there was something going on at home recently..."
When Chang Hongxia was the captain of the women's team, she treated the players in the team impartially and equally.
I will not turn a blind eye to someone's minor violations just because I have a good relationship with them.
Now that I am a coach, I will make a compromise analysis of the many strengths and weaknesses of the players, and everything is based on the Chinese team winning the championship.
Chang Hongxia's analysis hit the nail on the head for Ren Xinhua. In fact, after the incident at A Shui's home, A Shui became even more demanding than before.
Normal training basically involves adding more points and increasing the amount.
But keeping up with the training volume does not mean that the mentality can keep up. It can be seen from every time Ah Shui practices that the ball he hits out is a bit floating.
Originally, Ren Xinhua planned to observe the cat for a while longer because the cat's recent physical condition was also worrying.
After the Yokohama Open trials, Ah Shui and Qin Xiaoba lost to the Qilin team. On the plane back, Ren Xinhua pretended to chat and asked Ah Shui, "I want you and Daxiong to play mixed doubles. What do you think?"
When Ah Shui heard about this arrangement, his face did not show the joy of being able to participate in one more World Games competition, but instead showed his lack of confidence in the mixed doubles pair of himself and Daxiong.
Finally, he stuttered and asked Ren Xinhua: "I, I haven't fought much with Brother Big Bear..."
After hearing what A Shui said, Ren Xinhua felt relieved.
Over the years, Ren Xinhua has gained experience in tackling premature love in the team.
The last time we caught Fat Tiger and Tang Tang, although Fat Tiger and Tang Tang were sent back to the provincial team, there were still some players who secretly had some ulterior motives.
The Buddha had discussed this matter with Ren Xinhua before.
Not to mention the boys and girls of this generation, even those in the sixties and seventies could not completely control the growth of such feelings.
Especially since these children live under the same roof every day and are in their twenties.
Mr. Fo believes that aside from the strict management of the national team's main players, the absolute main force, who are to be taken to world competitions, the coaches can turn a blind eye to other players as long as they do not affect training and are not hyped up by the national team.
But Ren Xinhua has always insisted that athletes should be managed uniformly, and should be treated equally whether they are the absolute main force or sparring partners.
She admired Zhu Qi because Zhu Qi had the spirit of "as long as you dare to use me, I will try my best to win."
An athlete who devotes himself to competition should be like Zhu Qi.
Only after all the coaches had gathered did Ren Xinhua begin to announce his roster plan.
There are almost certain adjustments compared to the last time I participated in Moscow.
The women's singles are still Zhu Qi and Maomao, and the women's doubles are A Shui and You You.
There was no change in the men's singles, but the men's doubles was changed to Qin Xiaoba and Daxiong.
Shi Ge had some objections to the men's doubles arrangement and asked, "Xiao Ba and Da Ling are a better match, and their men's doubles win rate is relatively high. Da Xiong's physical condition has been poor in the past two years. He recently suffered a patellar dislocation and stopped playing for a month. Besides, Da Ling and Xiao Ba are right-handed pairings, so they are more suitable..."
Ren Xinhua shook his head: "Daxiong has recovered well in the past few days. I asked the doctor a few days ago, and he has no problem participating in the competition. As for the left-handed pairing, Daxiong and Qin Shang are both offensive players, and Qin Shang has recently been practicing backhand loops with Bao Bao, and has seen initial results. When arranging the lineup, we should not fall into a fixed mindset. Not all games have a fixed left-handed pairing. We should flexibly consider the lineup configuration based on the players on both sides. Qin Shang was paired with Mori Yunan of the Hong Kong team before. Both of them are right-handed, and they played well, didn't they?"
Shi Ge thought it made sense and had no objection.
Ren Xinhua felt a headache when he saw these coaches had to make all the decisions on big and small matters by himself.
If Zhu Qi was sitting among the coaches in front of him at this moment... Ren Xinhua couldn't help but start to think, and he didn't know how much worry he could save.
But when Ren Xinhua proposed this to Zhu Qi last time, Zhu Qi said he wanted to spend more time with his family after retirement. Zhu Qi had also asked his uncle and aunt over the phone, and they both felt they had been at JAC for so long and didn't want to go through the hassle of moving elsewhere.
The older generation has a mentality of "returning to one's roots".
In fact, it was not difficult to bring Zhu Qi's family to the capital.
After all, Zhu Qi was a "meritorious person" for the country. In addition, Zhu Qi also had a house in Chaojing, so it was very easy to transfer the household registration for his family.
Ren Xinhua was very optimistic about Zhu Qi and decided to retain the talent for the national team. At worst, he would go to Jianghuai to talk to Zhu Qi's uncle and aunt about his thoughts...
After the list is finalized.
Everyone's mind was made up.
As the first player in the new batch to participate in the World Games, Youyou is extremely excited.
This kind of excitement was like staying up all night for three years. When the results were announced, I found that I had just barely passed the entrance exam to my favorite university.
But when someone is happy, someone else is sad.
Compared to Youyou's excitement and excitement, Zuo Zuo, who has always been more talkative and cheerful in the team, seemed a little depressed.
Maomao keenly sensed that Zuo Zuo was in a bad mood after "failing the exam", so she picked a time to go over and comfort him, saying, "You are still young, and there will be opportunities in the future."
Zuo Zuo knew what the captain meant, but still felt a little unwilling. He whispered, "I know, but... if I had trained with my right hand, would I be the one going to the World Games this time?"
As Zuo Zuo, who entered the city team at the same time as Youyou, entered the provincial team for a period of time, and was even in the same batch as the national team, he often compares himself with Youyou.
The two of them are like shadows, always together no matter what they do.
But now one of them can participate in the World Games, while the other can't even enter the World Games arena.
Zozo also knew that the gap between the players was widened by one game.
Maomao also started out as a young player. She had imagined countless "ifs": if she hadn't gone to the gym for extra training in the youth training camp, if she hadn't been hit by the dumbbells, if she had received treatment immediately after her injury...whether her career would have been longer.
But the truth is…
"We can't always fantasize about what ifs, because time passes day by day, and there's no way to go back to the past. For you, and for everyone, the most important thing is to take every step forward in the future."
Maomao patted her shoulder and said...what might be the last words the captain would say to the players.
“Everyone has his or her own track. If you can sprint to the finish line, you are already a winner.”
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