Table tennis: Swinging the racket billions of times, achieving a grand slam

Chapter 255 Doubles Multi-Ball Training! Shocked Coaching Staff!
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The others had no reaction, but Chen Jin, Xie Mingyang and Zhang Jiahao looked at each other and couldn't help but frown.

"Team Long and Brother Dong?"

"Another time he withdrew from the competition?"

Thinking back to last night, when Ma Taki was still preparing for the Fukuoka finals with a glimmer of hope in his heart, the three of them could do nothing but smile bitterly.

Although he is a thirty-year-old veteran, with Ma Taki's strength and condition, who among you standing here dares to say with absolute confidence that he can defeat Ma Taki?

Even Chen Jin didn't dare to make such a boast.

However, for the sake of the overall situation, Ma Taki eventually lost to the outside world.

Zhang Jiahao opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself. It seemed as if there was something like magma in his heart, surging and gushing out, almost rushing to his forehead.

But in the end, I still endured it.

This is a decision made by the higher-ups. The three of them have little influence and what can they do to change it?

He sighed secretly, but remained silent.

At this time, Li Suo continued, "Secondly, the candidates for the Mixed Team World Cup and the World Youth Championship have basically been finalized, and the list documents have been issued."

"The only thing that has not been decided yet is the selection of the men's team and men's doubles for the U19 World Championships."

"After research by the coaching staff, a doubles match will be held at 2:30 this afternoon, with Chen Jin and Zhang Jiahao playing against Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo."

Many people know about this matter, but half of them don’t know it.

Before Li Suo finished his words, dozens of eyes at the scene turned to Chen Jin and others at the same time.

Nowadays, Chen Jin's name has become well-known, and even the women's team knows that the men's team has produced a rare straight-blade genius.

"If the Chen-Zhang combination wins, the four players who will compete in the U19 World Championships will be Chen Jin, Xie Mingyang, Zhang Jiahao and Huang Youzheng."

Li Suo continued, "If the Huang-Wen combination wins, it will be Chen Jin, Xie Mingyang, Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo."

Obviously, the selection of the U19 men's team is based on Chen Jin's doubles pairing.

If the national championship champion Zhang Jiahao and Chen Jin team up in doubles and cannot beat Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo, then he will completely lose the qualification to participate.

"This match will be a best-of-seven match. I hope the other teammates can assist the two teams in sparring."

Then, Li Suo said some words of encouragement and then announced the disbandment.

Either preparing for the Fukuoka finals, or training for the WTT feeder tournament.

But I saw Chen Jin, Xie Mingyang and Zhang Jiahao gathered together and talked about something.

Lin Shidong hesitated for a moment and was about to step forward and offer to serve as a sparring partner for the two.

Unexpectedly, before he could take any action.

A tall figure suddenly flashed by and stood in front of him.

Lin Shidong was slightly startled and looked over: "Boss?"

It was Wang Chuqin.

"KK."

Wang Chuqin stretched out his hand and said, "How about we form a team together and serve as sparring partners for Huang Youzheng and the others?"

"what?"

A hint of hesitation flashed across Lin Shidong's face, "This..."

Huang Youzheng, who also came from the Beijing team and also plays the left-handed horizontal racket, has always been a loyal fan of Wang Chuqin.

Not only did he imitate Wang Chuqin's playing style, but even his hairstyle, headband and serve were almost the same.

At this time of competition, it is understandable that Wang Chuqin condescended to serve as Huang Youzheng's sparring partner.

However, Lin Shidong did not expect that Wang Chuqin would take the initiative to find him and ask him to join a team.

Before this, he had never played doubles with Wang Chuqin.

After all, with Wang Chuqin's status in the national table tennis team, the players who can play doubles with him are all main players such as Ma Taki, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha.

As for Lin Shidong, he is not qualified.

According to the original plan of the coaching staff, Lin Shidong has become an absolute main player, so it is imperative for him to cooperate with Wang Chuqin in doubles.

But now, Chen Jin suddenly appeared and intercepted the opportunity halfway.

There is no doubt that the person who will partner with Wang Chuqin in men's doubles in the future will most likely be Chen Jin.

Of course, all this depends on how compatible the two people are.

"It's just the qualifiers for the World Youth Championship, but the boss wants me to practice with Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo..."

Lin Shidong thought to himself and frowned, "Are you starting to compete so soon?"

His current situation, just like his world ranking, is sandwiched between Wang Chuqin and Chen Jin, and he is caught in a dilemma.

Thinking of this, Lin Shidong's brows frowned even deeper.

"If I serve as a sparring partner for Huang Youzheng, I will offend the 'future star' Chen Jin."

"If I serve as a sparring partner for Chen Jin, I will offend Wang Chuqin, who is in his prime."

"Fuck, this is so hard for me!"

Lin Shidong almost broke apart.

Just as he was racking his brains to figure out whether he could have the best of both worlds without offending anyone.

Wang Chuqin saw the inner struggle at a glance, frowned immediately, and said in a somewhat cold voice: "Xiao Shitou, do you want to help Chen Jin?"

The displeasure was evident in his words.

With a thump in his heart, Lin Shidong said hurriedly, "No, I..."

If, because of this incident, word spread that there was a discord between him and Wang Chuqin, wouldn't he be attacked by TZM online and offline?

"That's okay."

Without further ado, Wang Chuqin dragged Lin Shidong towards Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo.

Lin Shidong had no choice but to compromise: "I hope this won't offend Chen Jin."

At this time, Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo gathered together to discuss who to find for practice.

Wang Chuqin came like a timely rain, pulling Lin Shidong and taking the initiative to go to the door.

They were overjoyed.

"Wow fun!"

Wen Ruibo was very excited. "With the world's No. 1 and No. 2 as our sparring partners, we will be invincible and unstoppable."

Besides Zhang Jiahao, the person who has the greatest impact on the outcome of this doubles trial is Wen Ruibo.

Originally, Wen Ruibo had been selected as a substitute for the men's team at the World Youth Championships.

But now, at Chen Jin's suggestion, Zhang Jiahao suddenly intervened.

If the opponent wins, not only will Huang Youzheng become a substitute in the men's doubles and men's team third singles, but Wen Ruibo himself will also be completely out of the World Youth Championship.

Therefore, for both of them, this game can only be won and not lost.

The two were worried at first that with Chen Jin and Zhang Jiahao's singles ability, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and their winning rate is extremely low.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chuqin took the initiative to practice with them, which immediately boosted their confidence.

As we all know, Wang Chuqin has extremely rich experience in doubles.

The Executioner group, needless to say.

Wang Chuqin once partnered with Ma Taki to win the men's doubles championship at the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships.

At the 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships, he also won the championship with Fan Zhendong.

In the Paris Olympics, in the men's team doubles, Wang Chuqin defeated Ma Taki again and won the gold medal, which was a great contribution.

Although Wang Chuqin's singles results in the three major competitions have so far been zero, his doubles record is indeed impressive.

If it were anyone else, who wouldn't be excited and confident to have someone of the caliber of the Olympic doubles champion as a sparring partner?
However, although Huang Youzheng was excited, he was still a little worried: "Chen Jin is very strong, and Zhang Jiahao is not weak either. Can we really beat him?"

Five championships in two months, invincible.

Chen Jin's strength is obvious to all and has long shocked the world table tennis community.

At such a young age, he has become an absolute main force of the national table tennis team, which is unprecedented and unique.

However, Zhang Jiahao's fame is far less than that of Chen Jin.

However, the last match left Huang Youzheng, who was originally planned to win the National Championships, with lingering fears.

Now, the combination of these two people can be said to be a powerful combination.

They come with great force and are determined to win. Anyone who sees them will be frightened.

Huang Youzheng's worries are by no means unnecessary.

"Are you worrying too much?" Wen Ruibo was full of confidence. "Doubles and singles are completely different. No matter how strong you are in singles, if you can't coordinate well, doubles will be useless."

There is some truth in what he said.

When playing singles, even if you are not strong enough, you may be able to show your courage for a while and defeat the opponent.

But doubles is completely different, it requires tacit cooperation.

Sometimes, you even have to sacrifice yourself just to create output conditions for your teammates.

An individual hero may be able to win a few balls in doubles, but it is difficult for him to win the entire game.

Unless the strength between them is too different.

For example, Ma Taki and Zhang Jike back then, their singles ability was unquestionable.

But when the two of them played doubles together, it couldn't be said to be terrible, but there was no coordination at all.

Except for the two of them who feel good about themselves, the whole world is not optimistic.

Wang Chuqin also said: "Don't worry, Xiao Shitou and I will be your sparring partners, you won't lose."

"Not bad."

Wen Ruibo looked flattering and full of energy, "We have the world's No. 1 doubles player as our sparring partner and instructor. We should be afraid of him!"

With the comfort and encouragement from Wang Chuqin and Wen Ruibo, Huang Youzheng gritted his teeth and fought with high morale.

not far away.

But seeing Wang Chuqin pulling Lin Shidong to find Huang Youzheng and the other man, his intention was obvious.

Zhang Jiahao raised his eyebrows and whispered, "Fuck, Huang Youzheng and the others have Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong as sparring partners."

"how?"

Chen Jin glanced at him and smiled calmly, "Are you scared?"

"I'm not afraid of him!"

Zhang Jiahao spat, "Don't say that Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong are just sparring partners. Even if they come, I still won't be afraid."

"well said."

Xie Mingyang said, "It's much better than your singing."

"..."

Zhang Jiahao raised his chin, "Don't believe it? Mr. Xie, just wait, I will prove it to you then!"

"it is good."

Xie Mingyang didn't care at all, and paused before saying, "Don't you want to find someone to practice with?"

"no need."

Chen Jin shook his head, "Just play more balls."

Last night, with Ma Long's guidance and sparring, we were able to work out the tactics and develop a tacit understanding.

When you train now, just warm up more and express your gratitude with your hands.

After that, the three of them returned to the table.

At this moment.

Wang Hao was standing not far away, seemingly chatting animatedly with Li Suo, Liu Zhiqiang, Li Qian and others, but out of the corner of his eyes he was always paying attention to the movements of Chen Jin and the other two.

Seeing them walk straight towards the table, they didn't seem to have any intention of looking for someone to practice with.

"what happened?"

Wang Hao frowned slightly, "Don't you want to find a sparring partner?"

Before he could change his mind, he heard Li Suo laugh and say, "Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong actually took the initiative to find Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo. Do they want to be their sparring partners?"

Hearing this, Wang Hao turned his head and frowned even more tightly.

"With Wang Chuqin as their sparring partner and mentor, even if Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo are not as strong as Chen Jin, they should not be underestimated."

Li Su nodded.

Not only that, Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo had played doubles together before and had a certain tacit understanding.

As for Chen Jin and Zhang Jiahao, no one has ever seen their doubles level.

During the Lima regular season, Chen Jin teamed up with Li Linghan in mixed doubles and won the championship.

But the opponent is different, and almost relies on Chen Jin's personal strength.

It is not quite clear what Chen Jin's doubles ability is.

And this World Youth Championship is a good opportunity to verify this.

The coaching staff had this in mind when they asked Chen Jin to take charge of four events.

This also gave Chen Jin the opportunity to choose his own doubles partner.

"what?"

Liu Zhiqiang suddenly asked, "Chen Jin wants to use multiple balls to practice doubles?"

Multi-ball training is a common method and there is nothing special about it.

But then, Xie Mingyang's speed in delivering the ball to random points across the table left everyone stunned.

"Fuck!"

Li Qian's eyes widened. "Use the ball delivery speed from single-player speed training to train doubles?"

You know, in many cases, a single person's speed training may not be able to keep up with the speed and rhythm of the ball.

Besides, there is one more person around during doubles training.

The requirements for pace and coordination have undoubtedly increased the difficulty level by several levels.

Not only Li Qian, but also Li Suo and Wang Hao, found this scene equally unbelievable.

"Doubles training, using multiple balls to swing speed... it's fucking genius!"

Liu Zhiqiang smiled bitterly and said, "With this kind of training method, you will either not be able to keep up with the speed, or you will get bruised and battered."

however.

After looking for a while, the bitter smile on his face gradually disappeared.

It was replaced by disbelief.

But Chen Jin and Zhang Jiahao were not able to adapt to Xie Mingyang's machine-gun-like ball distribution all over the country at first. They were in a panic and lost sight of the big picture.

Even so, the two of them coordinated their steps, moved around and filled in positions in an orderly manner, and advanced and retreated in moderation, and did not collide with each other as imagined.

Soon, the two of them got into a good relationship.

No matter how fast Xie Mingyang passed the ball, he could always handle it calmly with one ball per person.

This scene stunned Wang Hao and others.

Liu Zhiqiang was dumbfounded: "Is this even possible?!"

With such training method, even if Longmang and Shatou were to come, they probably wouldn't be able to do it.

"genius!"

Wang Hao was so excited that he muttered to himself, "Double genius!"

Unexpectedly, not only is Chen Jin's personal strength terrifyingly strong, but his doubles cooperation with Zhang Jiahao is also so terrifying.

This is the real Purple Star sent from the sky!
"With this kind of cooperation, do we still need to play the game?"

Liu Zhiqiang smiled bitterly again, "Why not just announce it directly? There's no need to waste everyone's time."

"No."

Li Suo took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Training is training, and competition is competition."

The competition tests more than just cooperation.

Tactics, communication, mentality, trust, judgment and reading of the situation... none of them can be missing.

Only through real competition can the doubles ability of the two be verified.

What's more, if Huang Youzheng and Wen Ruibo are not defeated head-on, they will definitely not admit defeat.

"Yes, I agree."

Wang Hao nodded and said, "But besides that, I would like to play an extra game at that time."

"It seems that Coach Wang and I have the same idea."

Li Suo smiled slightly.

(End of this chapter)