Chapter 18: Championship Challenge
The person who came to greet Wang Yuxuan, named Su Mubai, is a third-year student at Normal University and the first singles player in the badminton club of Normal University.
Wang Yuxuan was slightly stunned, then shook hands with Su Mubai, and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, you came with your classmates?" ”
He glanced behind Su Mubai, and saw a few young and beautiful girls, who were standing not far away talking and laughing, and looking this way from time to time, they must be Su Mubai's friends.
I saw Su Mubai nodded: "Yes, you too, right?" ”
Then he glanced at Han Cang and found that it was a raw face.
Wang Yuxuan introduced: "By the way, this is the new coach we have joined, called Han Cang. ”
"Coach?" A hint of surprise flashed in Su Mubai's eyes, obviously the matter of recruiting coaches in the university club was very new in any school, not to mention that Han Cang looked the same age as them, where did he look like a coach specializing in coaching?
Wang Yuxuan smiled and nodded: "At this summer's Universiade, our Wuhan University badminton club will participate in the competition with the most complete lineup, and you will see it then." ”
Su Mubai came back to his senses and smiled slightly: "Really?" Then I'm looking forward to competing with you. ”
So the two said goodbye to each other, and then Wang Yuxuan took Han Cang away, and on the way back to the private room, Wang Yuxuan took the initiative to say:
"National University Games, do you understand?"
Han Cang: "What? ”
Wang Yuxuan smiled self-deprecatingly, feeling that it was indeed a bit self-deprecating to talk about the competition at the college level with the former provincial team master, but he still had to explain:
"The National University Games, referred to as the Universiade, like the National Games, is held every four years and will be held in Guangzhou this summer, but there has never been a badminton competition in this event in previous years, do you know why?"
Han Cang shook his head.
Wang Yuxuan said with a smile: "Because in the previous 15-point system and 11-point system, the time spent on a single game was too long, and the field and time investment in badminton alone was too large, and the organizer could not afford it at all, so there were no badminton players in previous competitions." But this year's situation is different, the new 21-point system has been popularized internationally, and the game time has been greatly shortened, so from this University Games, badminton has also been included in one of the competitions, but it is in the form of a team competition, two singles for men, two singles for women, and then men's doubles and women's doubles and mixed doubles, with a team as a unit, four wins in seven games. ”
Han Cang nodded, he had also participated in the team competition before, but if you want to talk about the team competition in the badminton world, the most famous and the most valuable should be the international Sudirman Cup.
Han Cang: "So the badminton club plans to come up with a lineup to participate in the team competition, is that so?" ”
Wang Yuxuan nodded: "At present, I basically have eyebrows for the singles and mixed doubles, the first singles in the men's is Liu Hainan, the second is your friend Ai Ze, the first singles in the women's is Wen Xiaoya, and the second singles is the girl who played the semifinals with her yesterday, not to mention the mixed doubles... Oh yes, you probably don't know yet, right? I and Vice President Zhu Qing are the mixed doubles pair, and we were the champions in the East China Badminton Tournament last year. ”
Han Cang was slightly stunned, Ai Ze was selected as the second singles in the men? If he knew about this, he would definitely not be able to sleep at night when he was excited, right?
Wang Yuxuan: "Of course, our level of events is definitely not comparable to your originality, but if you can introduce the training mode of the provincial team into our club, I believe it will be very helpful for our players to improve their technical and tactical level, because this year is the first time to appear on the stage of the Universiade, so we cherish this opportunity, and this is also the last chance for our group of old people." ”
Last chance? Han Cang didn't quite understand what it meant.
I saw Wang Yuxuan smile self-deprecatingly and said, "I'm a junior in college, and I'm going to graduate next year, so I'll never have the opportunity to participate in such a competition in the future." ”
Han Cang's heart sank, and from Wang Yuxuan's body, he suddenly felt the same loneliness and loneliness as when he left the team.
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The next day is still the match day, the stadium is full of matches, the morning is the final of two doubles, the afternoon is the semi-finals of the men's group, the two players who advanced to the finals are Ai Ze and Liu Hainan, they will decide the men's singles champion of the cherry blossom festival campus badminton competition, although Ai Ze has made rapid progress in the past week or so, and has become a dark horse to fight out of the encirclement, but Liu Hainan has a relatively large grasp of the win, and the club is also very optimistic about Liu Hainan, a veteran player, but at the same time, the evaluation of Ai Ze is not low, And Ai Ze's master is Han Cang, Wang Yuxuan took a fancy to this - he can train a layman who has no concept of badminton in a short period of time to be enough to play three games with experienced old club members, in addition to Ai Ze's own talent, Han Cang's tuning and training is definitely indispensable - so when Han Cang said that he joined the club as a coach, Wang Yuxuan was even happier, which was even better than he expected.
The men's singles final was scheduled for the evening, and all members of the club were required to attend, which was a surprise to everyone, because it was logical to give players at least a day to recuperate after the semi-finals, but why did the final be held that night?
After everyone left, Wang Yuxuan left Liu Hainan, Ai Ze, and Han Cang, about Han Cang's former professional identity, Wang Yuxuan didn't tell anyone, but he knew that many people had doubts about Han Cang as a coach, so he wanted to give Han Cang a chance to prove himself, so he made adjustments to the final:
"Tonight's final will be changed to a challenge match, and Liu Hainan and Ai Ze will take turns to play and challenge Han Cang."
As soon as this rule change came out, Liu Hainan and Ai Ze were dumbfounded, and without waiting for them to ask questions, Wang Yuxuan took the initiative to explain, and also asked Han Cang's opinion: "You have no problem, right?" I hope that through such a special fight, everyone can see your strength, so that no one will question it. ”
Han Cang fell silent, although his original intention was not to play again, but what Wang Yuxuan said was very reasonable, from the perspective of a coach, if he really wanted to be responsible for the technical training of the members of the club, first of all, he had to be able to convince the public.
So Han Cang nodded, Wang Yuxuan was relieved when he saw it, he was afraid that Han Cang would not agree.
Then Wang Yuxuan looked at the other two: "You should have no opinion, right?" I know you're all tired from today's game, so I'll let you take turns tonight and divide your game time and rest time wisely. ”
Ai Ze and Liu Hai looked at each other, and then Ai Ze asked: "How to decide whether you win or lose?" ”
Wang Yuxuan raised his hand and gestured: "It's still two wins in three games, as long as you each win one game, it means that Han Cang has lost." Oh yes, tonight's challenge is a new format with 21 points. ”
Ai Ze and Liu Hainan looked at each other, and after a while, the two of them said in unison: "Deal." ”