66 Minsk All Table Tennis Mixed Team
◎I imitated almost everything I could.◎
The semi-final match was against Sweden. Although the Chinese team once again won with a big score of [3:0] and once again shut out the opponent, they were praised by the domestic media.
But Zhu Qi felt a little sympathetic when he saw the Swedish team waving to the audience and leaving in a dejected manner.
The Swedish team has not been very good since the 1960s, and the last national table tennis mixed team competition was their last glory.
Even so, the Swedish team has always been a leader in table tennis in Europe.
Jamie's first attempt was to snatch the women's singles gold medal from the Swedish team.
So far, it has been very effective in Europe.
"She" has a unique identity, unique experience, unique topicality, and alternative packaging.
In this age of information blockade, no one cares whether "she" is still as strong as a man.
The right to speak lies in the hands of those with the loudest voices.
The other members of the team were all very happy because they advanced to the finals in the mixed team competition.
Zhu Qi was the only one in the crowd, preoccupied. Maomao slowed down, walking alongside her. "Don't worry. We'll deal with any obstacle we encounter. Competitions always present all sorts of unexpected challenges. I think Jamie is just a bit stronger. Table tennis is a comprehensive sport, after all. Brute force alone won't cut it."
"Yeah," Ah Shui chimed in. "While we do regular urine tests, doping is actually useless for table tennis players. Sometimes you hit the ball too hard, and it flies out, making it hard to control. That guy was just brute force. You're smart and adaptable, so there's no problem."
Zhu Qi knew that the two of them wanted to comfort him, so he could only say that it was okay and not to spoil everyone's mood for the mixed team finals tomorrow.
"The South Korean team performed quite well this time and even made it to the finals. We will meet them tomorrow." Maomao looked back at A Shui, then at Zhu Qi, feeling the pressure of being the captain.
Not only do you have to prepare for your own game, but you also have to worry about your teammates' emotions at all times.
Qin Xiaoba was very happy after reaching the finals.
I specially borrowed the hotel's landline and made a cross-ocean call home, wanting to have a good talk with my mother.
"Hey, hey, hey, mom, did you see that? I played men's doubles pretty well, didn't I?" Qin Xiaoba had been working hard these past two days, and for three consecutive days he had won the first match of men's doubles, an important first prize. In almost every match, he defeated his opponent with a score of [3:0].
Even the head coach of the men's team said that his performance was above average this time, and he even made some amazing saves.
After the semifinals, a newspaper in China published a photo of Qin Xiaoba kneeling and cheering after scoring the final point. Song Linzhou, standing nearby, stayed away, fearing he would steal the spotlight from Qin Xiaoba.
His red sportswear was swaying back and forth on the ground.
Zhu Qi later joked: "We Chinese table tennis players have our own 'Chili New Year Greetings'."
My aunt said perfunctorily on the other end of the phone: "Okay, okay, good, good. Where's your sister?"
"Hey, did you see it? My coach praised me! Coach Gao praised me too! He said I can handle things on my own..."
"I looked, where's your sister?"
“…” Qin Xiaoba.
Zhu Qi heard his aunt calling him on the phone and picked up the phone: "Aunt, it's me..."
"Hey, girl, are you tired of playing games?"
"It's okay, not too tired. I didn't play for the past few days..." Zhu Qi touched the phone line and turned around to find that Qin Xiaoba had left without saying a word.
Just when I was about to call him, my aunt asked again on the phone.
"I saw in the newspaper that your team fired two kids because they were dating."
"Well, the team has a rule that athletes are not allowed to date within the team. Even if they want to find a boyfriend or girlfriend outside the team, they must first apply to the team after they turn 24 and get approval from the coaches."
"Huh? So strict... But that's fine. You're in such a critical situation right now, you can't be distracted!"
"I won't."
"And your brother too. If he has any evil intentions, you must tell me immediately."
"He won't do that either. If he dares to mess around, I'll beat him to death."
"That's fine. I heard it's very cold in Russia, even colder than the three northeastern provinces..."
Zhu Qi was at a loss for words and wanted to remind his aunt that he was going to Belarus, not Russia.
But if you think about it carefully, there is no difference. Damao and Sanmao are both orphans of the Soviet Union.
Because the international long-distance signal was not very good, the call was hung up after a few words.
When Zhu Qi was going back, she happened to pass by Qin Xiaoba's room. She saw that the door was not closed. She glanced at the room and saw that only Qin Shang was inside, so she walked in.
Qin Xiaoba lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
Zhu Qi stood at the door and called out, "Why did you leave just now? You hadn't even finished your call with Auntie yet."
Qin Xiaoba turned over and said, "She doesn't care about me, why don't you just talk to her?"
Zhu Qi sensed the boy's feelings; he was getting older and more thoughtful. She thought for a moment and said, "Auntie said you should change your shoes. The heels have worn flat from all your competitions. When we get back to Chaojing, apply for permission to go out, and I'll take you out to buy a few pairs."
"No need, it's enough to wear." Qin Xiaoba pulled the quilt over his face.
Zhu Qi knew that this kid was careless and would be fine the next day after a good night's sleep, so he turned around and closed the door.
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In the final, we met our old rival, the South Korean team.
This time, Kim Lili also represented the South Korean team in the mixed team competition.
She secured the third spot in the women's singles between the semi-finals and the quarter-finals, played quite well, and defeated Japan's Arihara Kaori.
The match list for the final match is very important.
Ren Xinhua thought about it and decided on the list.
Men's doubles: Qin Xiaoba and Song Linzhou
Women's doubles: Maomao and Zhu Qi
Men's Singles: Big Bear
Women's singles: Zhu Qi
Mixed doubles: A Shui and Da Xiong
What a coincidence.
Zhu Qi hasn't played women's doubles with Maomao in this mixed team match. Since they played together once in the mixed team at the Tokyo World Games, there has been no such opportunity since then.
Ren Xinhua made this arrangement because he guessed what the Korean team was thinking.
When the final list of the South Korean team was announced, Ren Xinhua knew that he had guessed correctly.
The South Korean team's women's doubles players are Kim Lili and Ahn Ji-hye. In the fourth match, the women's singles player was Ahn Ji-hye, and Kim Lili was not allowed to play in the women's singles.
Before the competition began, Ren Xinhua told the children preparing for the competition, "The Korean team is worried that Jin Lili won't be able to beat Bao Bao and Maomao, so they won't let Jin Lili compete in the women's singles. An Zhihui was the third place winner in the singles event last year, so letting An Zhihui win the women's singles will give her a better chance."
In fact, there is another sentence that Ren Xinhua did not say clearly.
Since losing to Jin Lili last time, Ah Shui has been working hard to improve his tennis skills even after returning home.
But judging from Jin Lili's performance in the National Table Tennis Mixed Team Tournament this time, she is no longer the same as before.
Presumably, the South Korean team must have invested a lot of effort in training Jin Lili. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Ren Xinhua does not want A Shui and Jin Lili to meet again for the time being.
Even if there is only a one percent chance of failure, A Shui cannot fail again before he has fully adjusted his condition.
So it is safer to let Ah Shui play in the fifth mixed doubles match.
The final begins.
For some reason, the breath Qin Xiaoba had held on for four whole days suddenly disappeared.
In the first men's doubles match against the South Korean team, the team was completely different from the previous few days.
He was a little soft when catching the ball, and his running pace also slowed down.
Every time he lost the ball, Qin Xiaoba felt a little frustrated, looking down at the rubber in his hand, confused. He was also trying hard to catch the opponent's ball, but he just couldn't catch it.
Qin Xiaoba is a player who relies on his touch. As long as he can gain an advantage, he can quickly expand the score gap based on the advantage.
But once the score fell behind, he started to show his weakness again.
in short.
Qin Xiaoba is completely different from his sister and is not a player who can withstand pressure.
You can only play in a favorable situation.
The entire men's doubles team relied on Song Linzhou to win the second and fourth games, but finally lost to the South Korean team with a score of [2:3].
Zhu Qi probably knew the reason and didn't think of blaming Qin Xiaoba.
Anyway, that's how it is.
Just fight hard later.
But Qin Xiaoba seemed to blame himself very much. After losing the first game, he stayed in the locker room for a long time. When he came out, his eyes were red as if he had just cried.
In the second women's doubles match, Zhu Qi and Maomao VS Jin Lili and An Zhihui.
An Zhihui is a left-handed horizontal racket player.
This wave of Korean women's doubles also used a left-handed combination, and was better than Zhu Qi and Maomao in terms of agility.
At the beginning of the first game, four people stood at the four corners of the table and pulled the ball back and forth.
Zhu Qi stood diagonally opposite Jin Lili. From her perspective, Jin Lili half-bent her knees, thrust her hips, relaxed her shoulders, and swung her arms.
The entire set of movements was surprisingly completely different from when she was on the national team. It seemed that some other systems had been added, which changed Jin Lili's previous weakness of always using her arms to generate power when playing.
The ball circulated four times.
The ball is pulled.
Maomao also noticed the difference in Jin Lili. When both sides picked up the ball and prepared for the first game, Maomao said something in Zhu Qi's ear.
"Jin Lili is also practicing looping shots."
Zhu Qi thought it was normal.
Loop ball is the most advanced technique nowadays and it is rightly popular.
But when the competition really started, Zhu Qi felt that he had thought it was too simple.
When Jin Lili started to serve the "spin or not spin" serve, she also began to stomp her feet, using the sound of her stomping on the ground to cover up the sound of the racket hitting the ball.
This stomping method has been used by many table tennis veterans for a long time, and even many old men and women playing in the park do this.
It was just that Zhu Qi brought it to the competition venue during the Tokyo World Games.
But every move of Jin Lili, such as swinging the racket, hitting the ball, receiving the serve, the first three shots, and quick attacks near the table, was exactly like that of a human being!
[First game, Zhu Qi/Zu Tianjiao 4:5 Jin Lili/An Zhihui]
Ah Shui was the first to notice it and slapped his thigh: "Why does Jin Lili's fighting style look so much like Bao Bao?!"
No.
wrong.
Not just like.
Little Snow had imitated Zhu Qi’s fighting style before.
But it only imitates the general structure of some serves and techniques and tactics.
Jin Lili copied almost every move and every swing of the racket, how to receive topspin, how to receive backspin, what kind of ball to feed to the opponent during a fast attack close to the table... Even Zhu Qi's small habit of taking a small step on the spot every time he scored was copied by Jin Lili.
There is no other way to move away children's skills except jumping pole steps.
Jin Lili imitated almost everything she could.
Maomao got the serve and chose to serve long from the baseline.
An Zhihui would wait at the far end to grab a handful, Zhu Qi would follow up with a short shot, and Jin Lili would also go over and do a short shot...
Zhu Qi cut a board, and Jin Lili followed suit.
Zhu Qi made an episiotomy, and Jin Lili followed with an episiotomy...
[First game, Zhu Qi/Zu Tianjiao 8:8 Jin Lili/An Zhihui]
“…” Zhu Qi.
“…”Cat.
Zhu Qi and Maomao looked at each other, exchanged glances, and both understood the meaning in each other's eyes.
Our mother tongue is speechless.
The other people in the audience were also confused by what they saw.
Many of the spectators were Slavs, and they didn't understand Chinese, so they thought the two girls on both sides of the pool table looked like they were looking in the mirror.
Whatever they do, they do exactly the same as the other person.
An Zhihui also took advantage of his left hand to defend in the left half of the court, preventing Zhu Qi from attacking the backhand area.
Ah Shui also felt his head buzzing. He looked at Jin Lili and subconsciously retched. He couldn't understand what Jin Lili was trying to do.
Doesn't she think that if she can imitate everything Baobao does, she can replicate Baobao's achievements?
In fact, table tennis is a sport with many fixed hitting movements.
Including the loop ball that Zhu Qi has been practicing, how to pull out a smooth arc, there is a very standard ball-pulling posture.
For example, Zhu Qi is good at serving at high speed beyond the baseline. There is actually a fixed template for how to throw the ball, at what angle to hit the ball when it falls, and how to hold the racket when hitting the ball.
Through lots of practice.
They can all be imitated pretty well.
In table tennis matches 20 years later, many teams will still copy their opponents' game videos and study them frame by frame.
It is so detailed that you can observe every angle of the opponent's muscle expansion to achieve a 1:1 restoration.
The reason why the players' levels are uneven is that some are high and some are low.
This is also because the players have different strengths, different touch talents, and different understandings of the ball.
Therefore, many players with average qualifications can beat other teams after training in the city team for two or three years, because they have a systematic training foundation.
For many players who were promoted from the second national team to the first team, the first thing they did was to imitate the playing style of the foreign players and train with the absolute main players of the first team.
But this kind of imitation generally only refers to imitating the overall structure of outsourcing.
The big structure refers to the backhand system and the forehand system. This is the lowest end of the system pyramid and the foundation of all techniques.
The most famous forehand system now is the loop system, and the loop can be divided into many types, such as high loop, forward loop... This belongs to the second level of the pyramid.
If you meet another player with good touch and strong talent.
The lob can be further refined, with even more variations depending on the wrist, elbow, racket angle, force applied, impact strength, and the friction of the ball on the rubber. This is the top level of the pyramid, the details that only you and your coach can clearly understand.
Under normal circumstances, imitation at the second level has reached its limit, and the fine movements at the first level can only be figured out by oneself.
But Jin Lili can reach level 2.5.
It was like Zhu Qi standing opposite in the Korean team uniform.
Someone helped Jin Lili make up the 0.5.
Chang Hongxia sat in the stands and muttered softly, "I almost forgot that Lily has this ability."
Ah Shui pricked up his ears: "Huh?"
When Jin Lili was promoted from the second national team to the first national team, she always followed behind Chang Hongxia, imitating the main players of the foreign association at that time and serving as a sparring partner for Chang Hongxia.
Because Jin Lili was an excellent sparring partner, Chang Hongxia was happy to give her some pointers, and later played several women's doubles matches with her.
Later, after Jin Lili followed Coach Da Mi and developed her own tactical system, he never asked her to imitate any other outsourced tactics again.
Why did Jin Lili start imitating other people's playing styles again?
Was this a deliberate arrangement by the South Korean team?
[First game, Zhu Qi/Zu Tianjiao 12:12 Jin Lili/An Zhihui]
The score was tied again.
Ren Xinhua was coaching in the finals, with Master Fo sitting next to him.
The latter frowned as he watched, while the former said nothing.
It is indeed a bit difficult for two right-handed players to face off against left-handed players. The most important thing is that the opponent has strong ball-saving ability.
It’s time to wipe the sweat off every six minutes.
Zhu Qi and Maomao stood face to face, and he wiped his face briefly with a towel.
The two people didn't speak, but exchanged glances, then looked at each other and nodded slightly.
Information exchange is smooth.
【Author’s words】
The Americans are notorious for their devious practices. Whether the so-called first manned lunar landing was real or not is hard to say. The lunar soil they brought back was completely different in composition from what we collected. Their two astronauts are still in space and cannot be brought back. [Cai Gou]
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