Chapter 6 Table Tennis Competition
It has been more than a month since I repeated my first year of high school, and a notice was suddenly posted on the notice board of the school, which was about the table tennis competition that I had been looking forward to for a long time, and the notice required each class to send representatives of the four table tennis events of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles to participate in the competition.
The chance to perform is finally here! When I was in my first year of high school, I won the third place in the men's singles in the first-year group, but when I played the men's doubles, I was kicked out of the knockout round because my teammates were really not good.
I think I should be able to win the men's singles championship this year! That will get a lot of attention, and maybe there will be Long Tong among these people, and I get excited when I think of it. And I'm already secretly telling myself that I must win the championship, even if it is for her to take a look.
There is no difficulty for me to compete with the players in the class, because I usually like to play table tennis when I am in physical education class, and no one in the class is my opponent.
Everyone in the class agreed that I would be represented, and I was one of the men's doubles players, and the other partner was chosen by me, but when I was choosing my partner, something strange happened.
Wang Feihong, a scumbag at the table, actually pestered me, saying that he liked to play table tennis very much, and begged me to choose him as a partner. It was a bit of a surprise to me, but I could sense that he had a purpose.
This is a big deal for the honor of the class, of course, and I want to show Long Tong the championship, I will definitely not waste such an important opportunity on such an average table tennis skill, character problems, and maybe I will poke out something Lou Zilai in the middle, I resolutely rejected Wang Feihong's request and chose a boy named Ding Peng.
After a girl named Lin Wu in the class said that she was going to participate in the competition, no girl went to sign up for the old class of the bird's nest, she was the same as me, she was the women's doubles partner hand-picked by herself.
Since I knew that Tan Yingming was also a member of the first and second classes of high school, I always deliberately bragged for him, because he usually likes to talk, and when he brags, he will more or less bring some scattered news from their class, and there will definitely be Long Tong among them, because Long Tong himself is the key person in their class.
I wanted to know more about Long Tong from him, but I heard a lot, but I only caught one useful one, that is, Long Tong is a day student, and their home is not very far from the school. The school's table tennis table is next to the school fence, and outside the fence is the road to the school, where day students pass every day.
Knowing this news, I would invite all the table tennis players in my class to practice at noon almost every day, and I would deliberately go to the players in Long Tong's class to compete together.
Just to be able to see her twice more when she comes to school, and I hope that she will also pay attention to me as well as the contestants in their class.
But there is one thing that makes me very puzzled, that is, the matter of Wang Feihong at the same table, I have refused to partner with him to play table tennis men's doubles matches, but he insists on following us to practice every day, when practicing is very hard, and often asks us for advice, the attitude is not generally good, everyone who makes us practice is a little uncomfortable, I feel that this person has changed too much, it is rare.
But when he practiced with us, his favorite thing was to go to Lin Wu as a sparring partner and be a caddie for her, which made me start to realize why Wang Feihong wanted to play table tennis men's doubles with me.
And every time I see Long Tong passing by the school fence, the style of play will become strong in an instant, using my most powerful tricks, I hope she can take a look.
Sometimes I would deliberately kick the ball out of the fence when she passed by and let it roll in front of her, hoping that she would pick up my ball so that I could have a chance to talk to her.
But every time it backfired, she saw it, but it was as if she didn't see it, and sometimes she deliberately kicked my table tennis ball farther away with inadvertent movements.
Ignoring her, I had no choice but to climb out of the fence and run farther away to pick up my balls.
After a period of training, the table tennis competition officially came, and the men's singles opponents I encountered at the beginning were very weak, and I passed the first few rounds of the knockout rounds with ease.
I thought I was going to win this time, but in the semi-finals, I had a big opponent. The game is a best-of-five system, due to the opponent's restrictions, I played very normally in the first game, but I still went down first, but I couldn't win the opponent for a while, I was a little anxious, and I accidentally lost two games in a row.
All of a sudden, the score was 1-2, and the situation on the scene was very unfavorable to me, and I began to realize that I overestimated my strength, and if I didn't make it, I might not even be able to enter the top three.
I was very disappointed in myself for a while, and I wanted to perform well at first, trying to make the goddess Long Tong pay attention to herself, but unfortunately my skills were not as good as others.
Just when I was in trouble, something unexpected happened, because the score was behind, every time I won a goal, I would look at the scoreboard, and I saw a scene that I couldn't believe, Long Tong actually came, and she stood next to the scorekeeper.
The scorekeeper is a girl from the sports department of the student union, and she and Long Tong still talk to each other, and from the way they talk, they seem to be very familiar. But whatever the reason, at least Long Tong came.
The goddess was present, and I struggled out of my depression at once, and I was instantly full of passion and extreme excitement. In such a situation, you have to perform well, and you have to win even if you fight to the death.
I tried my best, topspin, downspin, and reversed the ball, and I really couldn't do it with the bullet board that Liu Guoliang pioneered.
But despite this, in the fourth game, the opponent and I were still between the two sides, and the score was tight, alternating leads. The opponent's strength is indeed too strong, and it is a very tricky opponent, and I can't suppress it at all.
His advantage is that his tricks are too ruthless, and whenever he gets the chance, I am always caught off guard and embarrassed. But the good thing is that I have the advantage of being solid and don't make many mistakes, while the opponent is the opposite, and I can always take advantage of the opponent's mistakes to score.
The battle was stalemate, and my opponent and I fought until the fifteenth draw.
The other party couldn't take me for a while, so he asked for a timeout. When I was playing, I would occasionally glance at Long Tong with the rest of my vision and find that she kept shouting "Come on!" But I'm not sure she's cheering on that side.
It's just that I've made up my mind, I must win, otherwise I won't have a chance to perform in front of the goddess, I have to stand up, no matter who she is applauding and shouting for, I will treat her as if she is doing it for me alone.