Ping Pong Life

Chapter 297
There is a full ten-hour journey from the imperial capital to Sweden, but because of the six-hour time difference between China and Sweden, it was evening when everyone arrived, and the timing was just right.

It is already April, but Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is still quite cool. It is said that the temperature may even drop below zero in the middle of the night. When everyone gets off the plane, they put on thick clothes, walk out of the airport under the leadership of the organizer, get on the bus, and go straight to the hotel where they are staying .

Wang Chao felt a little uncomfortable.

Because he found that for some reason on the women's team, someone kept looking at him, and when he turned his gaze back, the other party hurriedly avoided it.

It would be fine if it was just one person, but almost every female table tennis player looked at him, which made him a little uncomfortable, as if he had become a giant panda.

But he didn't know that since the men's mixed doubles players were settled, the women's team had really caused quite a stir.

Wang Wendong came back to deliver instructions and made it clear that Huaping’s point of view is that veterans should be matched with veterans, young players should be matched with young players, and young and old should never be matched. Therefore, since Wang Chao is a male player in mixed doubles, female players cannot be selected from the top5. To choose, but to choose one of the more than 20 florets from the first team and the second team.

The situation of the women's team is different from that of the men's team. The strength of the men's team is quite different. Basically, a team can be divided into six or seven grades, but the women's team is full of big devils. It is difficult to distinguish high except for the top3. In addition to the following, Xiaohua is also intricate, and no one has an absolute advantage.

In the final analysis, it is because there is a natural gap between female players and male players in terms of pure physical strength, which makes it more difficult for them to kill with a single blow, so their confrontation is more technical.

Since it is a technique, there must be mutual generation and mutual restraint. After all, the change of forehand, backhand, straight board, horizontal board, tight grip, loose grip, landing point, angle, rotation, and each factor may cause the opponent's discomfort.

Wang Wendong held a half-day meeting with the coaches, but he still couldn't decide on the candidate. In the end, he simply made a final decision: "Let's make a big internal cycle, whoever comes first will be chosen, it's fair and reasonable, and no one else should have any objections. "

Therefore, in order to find a partner for Wang Chao, all the young players in the first team and the second team of the women's table tennis team needed an unprecedented super cycle.

According to calculations, this big cycle can take at least three days to complete. However, the Swedish Open is imminent, so Wang Wendong decided to wait until the Swedish Open is over before starting the big cycle.

And this time the open competition was also included in the assessment scope of the female table tennis florets.

So none of the top 5 women's table tennis players came this time. On the contrary, the thirteen Xiaohua, who were relatively strong, all signed up for the Open.

Wang Wendong said that whoever can take the gold medal back will become a very important consideration in the internal selection.

So the little flowers were all red-eyed, and for this qualification, they fought hard.

After all, not everyone has multiple choices like Wang Chao. For women who are still indestructible in the top5, Xiaohua wants to go to the Olympics. Mixed doubles is the only chance. As for the Olympic women's singles quota, are you thinking of Taozi?
It's no wonder that the little flowers couldn't help taking a peek at Wang Chao, because they knew exactly that it was this boy who would form a partner with one of their group in the future to compete in the Olympic mixed doubles and become the number one player in history. Fight for a mixed doubles gold medal.

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In the evening, the organizer broadcast the lottery ceremony live.

When the latest world ranking was displayed on the big screen at the scene, it caused many people to exclaim.

Compared with last month, the ranking has changed dramatically.

First of all, Brazilian player Hook jumped directly from No.4 to No.2, squeezing out Xiao Fei who did not participate in the Huaguo Open and Lin Li who participated in the Huaguo Open but had a bad record.

With Sun Tianlong dominating the rankings all the year round, No.2 is often equivalent to No.1. It can be said that this position has not been obtained by players from foreign associations for many years. This also proves that today's Hook, even if There are still such and other problems, but he has indeed become Huaping's confidant.

Then there is Luo Jiu, who has continued to explode from the end of last year to this year. With a large number of points from the Huaguo Open champion, this time he jumped from No.6 to No.4.

Huaping has always regarded the top five as one level, and the last five as one level. Luo Jiu hadn't entered this level before. It is well deserved, strength and ranking finally complement each other.

England's Pique, despite his mediocre record in the Huaguo Open, still jumped up with a slight increase in points and squeezed the No. 8 Waterfowl Eagle down.

In addition, there are two more obvious progress in the original top 20, one is Lin Zijun and the other is Sisfield.

Lin Zijun directly won the bronze medal in the Huaguo Open, and Sisfield finally found his own future path. The two jumped from 18th and 20th in the world to 12th and 15th respectively.

Finally, the two most eye-catching teenagers, Chinese table tennis player Wang Chao and Swedish player Morad, have finally reached the top of the rankings due to their outstanding performance in the past six months.

At present, Wang Chao has directly rushed to No. 2 in the world with a T22 championship and a Hong Kong Open championship. He is below Zou Zhengyu. If it is not for the lack of T2 points, he can even enter the top 20.

And Morad has reached the quarter-finals and semi-finals in a row in recent competitions, and has also rushed to No. 32 in the world.

Although this ranking does not seem to be high, considering that a large number of players chose to be absent from the Swedish Open, in fact, both of them can avoid the suffering of the qualifying round and directly enter the main match.

Afterwards, the seed players of the eight divisions of the race were directly shown on the big screen.

1/8: Hook

2/8: Lin Zijun
3/8: Heathfield
4/8: Zhang Benkuang
5/8: Li Zhengzhi
6/8: Wolfe
7/8: K. Michelle

8/8: Waterfowl Hawk
The last seeded player, Zhang Benkuang, happened to be ranked 20th in the world. Behind him was Zou Zhengyu, and behind him was Wang Chao. Zou Zhengyu didn't come, so Wang Chao became the first unseeded player to be drawn to determine the grouping.

At this time, the change of Wang Chao's identity can be seen.

In the past few competitions, when it comes to grouping, everyone pays more attention to those veterans who have been famous for many years, or the newly rising supernovas in the world table tennis world. Although Wang Chao has always had a good record, everyone still habitually ignores young players.

Of course, one of the reasons is that the five main players of Huaping have attracted too much attention.

But it's different now.

When Wang Chao's name was first displayed on the big screen, almost all the audience were amazed and shouted, as if they had ushered in a climax.

The director scanned the faces of the seeded contestants one by one, and found that many people's faces were unnatural. The three young geniuses Lin Zijun, Li Zhengzhi, and Zhang Benkuang all closed their eyes and muttered words, as if they were praying. The content was naturally I hope Wang Chao will not be in a group with me, because they think it is difficult for them to win.

This has nothing to do with fighting spirit and confidence, but an objective consideration that any professional player will have in any competition. If it is a strong opponent, then try to postpone the fight again, because this can guarantee more victories ahead. In the field, you can get more points, and points are the lives of athletes.

Michelle and Wolfe are calm, they are both veterans, and they can't express their emotions.

Hu Ke, the No. [-] seed in this tournament, is opening his mouth at this time, showing his signature exaggerated smile.

Obviously, he has ideas. As for whether he is eager for a fight or hopes to postpone another fight, that is unknown. The only thing that can be confirmed through this smile is that he attaches great importance to Wang Chao.

As for the waterfowl eagle in the eighth district, its face turned black.

No one knew how complicated the water bird eagle was feeling at this time.

He was beaten head-on by Wang Chao at the Hong Kong Open, and then he uttered nonsense and successfully forged a relationship with Wang Chao. After that, he analyzed carefully. Among the three people who have enmity with Huaping, Sun Tianlong is the most kind. Therefore, in order to allow himself to play in the Open, he can only choose to play in the same tournament as Sun Tianlong.

For this Swedish Open, Huaping announced its intention to compete as early as the beginning of the year, and it clearly stated that Sun Tianlong was participating.

Therefore, Waterfowl Eagle chose to sign up.

He was quite happy at that time, because Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu made it clear that the king would not see the king, so he only needed to keep an eye on Sun Tianlong, and he would never be chased and killed by Luo Jiu.

But when he really came, he found out that Sun Tianlong had retired from the competition and replaced him with Wang Chao.

Although Wang Chao's skills are not as good as Luo Jiu's, he is stable, but he is insidious. If he really wants to fight, he may have a more disgusting effect than Luo Jiu.

Water Bird Eagle wanted to leave at that time, but he was not reconciled. After all, he has come here, and he has to pay for his own air tickets and accommodation, which is really not cheap.

He thought that his luck might not be that bad. If he and Wang Chao were in different halfs, they would only meet in the finals, but could he make it to the finals?Eighty percent of them can't get in.

That being the case, there is nothing to be afraid of.

At this moment, Wang Chao's ownership is about to be determined, and Shuiniaoying's heart is beating fast, but it is not the taste of love.

However, Murphy's Law soon came into play, and Wang Chao was drawn into the 8th district and became the No. 8 player in the [-]th district.

Waterfowl Eagle wants to scold her a bit...

The draw is still going on, and it will be postponed according to the order of the world rankings. Morad also directly entered the main match and was drawn to the 6th district.

Then came the German teenager Qiu Shang, who entered the 2nd district.

The draw for the 16 main contestants was quickly completed, and the next step was the draw for the qualifying round, but at this time, not many people watched it, because most of the qualifying contestants were not well-known and their strength was relatively low, and their competitions were not formally organized. Live broadcasts and commentary are often those die-hard fans who find interesting games to watch on their own from multiple sources given by the official.

However, this qualifying match still attracted some attention, because there were three Huaping players among them.

In the two open matches in February and March this year, Huaping's qualifying players were almost avalanche. This is one of the reasons why the outside world continues to look down on Huaping. The two were former defeated generals, namely Liang Kunpeng and Gao Mingyuan, but besides that, there was another 15-year-old young player named Fan Xiaodong. No one in the world table tennis world had ever heard of this name, but they discovered However, Fan Xiaodong's head coach turned out to be Qin Huachang.

The shadow of a person's name tree, just as Qin Huachang stops there, the whole world knows that this Fan Xiaodong must be extraordinary.

They couldn't help but think of the 2-year-old Lu Feiyang sent by Huaping on T15 last year.

Although Lu Feiyang's record this year is not good, there is no doubt that his debut match last year was amazing. The match where he killed Lao Zhuang head-on is still talked about by people, and there are even extreme fans on the Bay Island. They clamored for Lin Zijun to avenge Lao Zhuang.

But don't forget, when Lu Feiyang made his debut, his teacher Zhu Zeshi was not there.

But today, when Fan Xiaodong made his debut, Qin Huachang, who was considered bigger than Zhu Zeshi by the outside world, came to the scene in person.

This is terrifying to think about.

All of a sudden, the world table tennis world had a lot of eyes on the qualifying rounds.

Of course, the real start of the qualifying round will be tomorrow morning.

And tonight, with the end of the lottery, many media from various countries who came with the team also became active.

Wang Chao, who was usually ignored by no one, was directly stopped by a reporter from the German media today.

This is a young lady with blond hair and blue eyes. She wanted to do an exclusive interview with Wang Chao, and she brought a Chinese translator with her. It was obviously premeditated, and she came directly to Wang Chao.

However, before Wang Chao nodded and agreed, someone came to intercept him.

The visitor was a reporter from England, the same blond lady with the same charming and bright smile, she smiled coquettishly, she blinked, she licked her lips, she casually brushed her hair, she invited Wang Chao to the bar next door for a drink, just asking for a first First-hand interview.

At this moment, the two ladies are facing each other, two heroes confronting each other, please don’t think that I used the wrong word, it is indeed two heroes confronting each other, because really, they all have broad minds.

However, it was useless, because someone else messed in again.

This time it is a middle-aged uncle, but he is not an ordinary person. He is Tavares, a well-known sports reporter in Brazil.

Tavares became popular in the European forums by following the practice video of Wang Chao and Wuli. Now he has become a little famous. When he came up, he enthusiastically held Wang Chao's hand and shook it vigorously, speaking half-baked Chinese. Said: "Your...practice...video...Derby...haha, I filmed it."

He was also accompanied by a Chinese interpreter, who was obviously here for Wang Chao.

At this moment, Wang Chao was quite emotional.

Before I knew it, my identity was really different.

Now, in the eyes of various foreign table tennis associations and media people, I seem to be a giant without knowing it, and media from various countries are already vying to find me for an exclusive interview.

Of course, it is impossible for even a giant to accept three exclusive interviews at the same time, so in the end, through comparison, Wang Chao chose... a young lady from Germany.

It has nothing to do with majestic mountains, broad minds, or the Mariana Trench. It is simply that Wang Chao thinks that things should be done on a first-come, first-served basis.

(End of this chapter)