Chapter 76: The Old Man Meets
Listening to Gu Yang's words, Xu Chen didn't say any more words of gratitude, but the flickering light in his eyes was enough to explain everything. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the next few days, since the Gu Yang and Xu Chen combination had directly advanced to the finals, they were a little idle.
Gu Yang would come to the villa a few times from time to time, and symbolically show his face in response to Sunde's business call.
And these days, Xu Chen has been staying in the hospital, accompanying his grandfather's bedside, and the atmosphere of the grandfather and grandson is also warm.
It wasn't until seven or eight days had passed that Xu Chen finally received the news of the opening of the final of the bonus tournament, and he and Gu Yang were ready to go to Sunde's villa to start the final battle of doubles.
Coming to Sunde's villa on time, Gu Yang and Xu Chen got out of the car, looked at each other and smiled, and walked in calmly.
This time the final was not small, and Sunder invited more than 30 businessmen with whom he had business dealings, who would be spectators for the doubles final. Of course, these businessmen are all table tennis enthusiasts without exception.
Before the game started, Gu Yang carefully wiped his racket, and Xu Chen moved his arm muscles appropriately on the side.
When Gu Yang saw their doubles opponent, he subconsciously shouted: "Why are you?" ”
This sentence, Gu Yang said in English, Xu Chen didn't understand, and he was also surprised by his opponent in the final this time. However, his accident with Gu Yang was slightly different.
"Hey, Young Emperor, we met again, or in this way, it's really fate." The other party spoke fluent English, and the corners of his mouth were sly.
"Ruffian Zhan, why did you come to the Republic?" The corners of Gu Yang's mouth twitched, he really couldn't figure out how James came to the Republic, and he was also his opponent in the doubles final this time.
James laughed: "Why can't I come, after the Open, I'm retiring." I'm free now! ”
James's teammates also stepped forward, shook hands with Gu Yang Xu Chen, and took the initiative to speak: "Hello, my name is Geert, I have been in the Republic for six years, and I am a good friend of James." ”
Gu Yang listened to Geert's fluent Chinese, and couldn't help but say: "I'm curious, why do so many foreign friends come to play in the Republic, it stands to reason that the table tennis in the Republic is in the stage of falling, there is nothing to attract you." ”
Geert shook his head seriously: "No, no, no!" It is true that the republic is in decline in the world of football, but I have no doubt that it will not be long before the republic rises again. After all, Wu Lao and other older generations of table tennis myths are still in the Republic. ”
Geert said these words in Chinese, and he said them extremely seriously and earnestly.
Gu Yang frowned slightly, and groaned secretly: "The older generation is still in the Republic?" What does this phrase mean? ”
He subconsciously looked at Xu Chen, Xu Chen shook his head lightly, and attached it to Gu Yang's ear: "It involved the incident more than twenty years ago, when the football world of the Republic was at the time of the replacement of the old and the new...... As a result, something unexpected happened! ”
As the former No. 1 seed of the national team, Xu Chen naturally knows the inside story of what happened more than 20 years ago. But judging from his words, the incident that happened in the table tennis arena of the Republic more than 20 years ago was not very glorious.
Gu Yang nodded and said to Geert: "Thank you very much for your trust in table tennis in the Republic, I am very happy to play this final with you." ”
After speaking, he looked at James again and pouted, "You can also play doubles?" How's the fight? ”
James rolled his eyes: "I still have some reputation in the football world, you ask me if I can play doubles?" When I played doubles, you weren't even born. ”
Gu Yang was more energetic: "Yohe, you are also a teenager who became famous, after so many years, you haven't even gotten a place in the first team of the American team, you can too." ”
Next to them, Geert and Xu Chen looked helpless, these two goods haven't been pinched enough in the Open, so they came here to "continue the frontier".
"Let's get started!" The referee finally couldn't stand it anymore, everyone is a person with a head and a face in the football world, but this ruffian Zhan, and the young emperor, these two people met together, hey...... It's a joke.
Gu Yang and James stepped forward to draw lots, Gu Yang proudly showed James his lot, James turned his head over, and rubbed his hands.
In the audience, these table tennis enthusiasts naturally know about the young emperor and the ruffian Zhan, and at the US Open, the relationship between these two people is well known.
Unexpectedly, in this doubles final, the two would compete again in such a way, and the discussion atmosphere in the audience was quite enthusiastic for a while, and several businessmen asked what means Sunder used to bring these two together.
Sunder naturally wouldn't say the real reason, when the ruffian Zhan knew that Gu Yang would participate in the doubles final this time, he immediately flew from the United States to the Republic, and then contacted his long-time friend Geert and decided to fight Gu Yang again.
didn't mention it, but said that Gu Yang and Ruffian Zhan stood in their positions on the field, and after playing a few warm-up balls, the official game began.
Gu Yang took a long breath, gently threw the table tennis ball in his palm, and made a gesture to lead the racket, the moment the racket and the ball separated, Gu Yang moved quite neatly, and came to the middle of the table slightly to the right.
At this time, Xu Chen also cooperated with Gu Yang's position, came to the left side of the table, slapped his backhand, and was ready to defend.
On the other side, James looked solemn, gently flicked the racket in his hand, picked up the ball, and pulled the table tennis ball out of a short arc on the table, but the ball height was weirdly high and terrifying.
Seeing this, Gu Yang leaned forward, stood on tiptoe, pushed his big arm forward with his small arm, and stood up high with his racket, buckling the incoming ball.
James went up to the front of the table at lightning speed, and when Gu Yang's return ball fell off the table, he made a gesture to cut the racket flat and pick the ball so lightly.
James's return ball bounced to the left table where Xu Chen was, Xu Chen had already been unable to press it, he was a straight shot grip, James was also a straight shot grip, the duel between the two straight shot players was really quite interesting.
Due to the many advantages of horizontal racing, the trend of today's world football is undoubtedly moving towards horizontal racing. In this era of horizontal shooting, the players who hold the straight racket have belonged to a rather niche group of people, and the masters among them are even more pitiful.
Now, James and Xu Chen, two direct shooting masters, meet in the doubles match, and it is naturally indispensable to have a competition.
However, it was said that Xu Chen went directly to the stage and rubbed the ball back, attacking the ball quite sharply, which can be described as fast and slow.
James didn't ink, slice the ball hard, spun it hard, and hit it back with strong topspin.
Gu Yang stepped up in time, shot fast and fast, and Geert moved to fill James' gap and intercept the ball.
For a while, the two groups of players were in a stalemate, and the game situation became unclear......