Chapter 160: Kong Zhendong + Liu Guobang [Ask for the first order in the morning]
Mi Xingbang stared at everyone and said: "There is still a month to go in this Olympic training camp, and determining the quota is only the first step." The next step is to conduct actual combat simulation training for their main singles and doubles competitors, especially doubles. There are a lot of singles sparring in our men's team's sparring resources, but there are too few doubles sparring partners who can simulate the playing style of South Korea and Europe, and every time it is improvised. Everyone should seize this time to cultivate a few doubles pairs from the young players in their hands to match Europe and North Korea. Speaking of this, he glanced at Yin Xiao meaningfully.
Yin Xiao nodded understandingly. Mi Xingbang took the opportunity of the doubles combination to work hard to cultivate young players, but this task still fell on himself and Wu Jingping.
After the meeting was disbanded, Mi Xingbang once again left Yin Xiao and Wu Jingping behind.
Mi Xingbang asked: "According to your analysis, what are our main doubles competitors?" ”
Yin Xiao said: "First of all, the two pairs of South Korea, Liu Nankui's straight board skills are too invincible, he used to be matched with Jin Qize and Jin Huan, and the threat was great." In recent years, Kim Zhezhu has grown into a frequent visitor to the international top four, and if Liu Nankui + Kim Zhezhu, the threat of double straight boards will be greater. Their other doubles pair should be Lee Seung-chul with a newcomer, and with the speed of the birth of South Korea's talented teenagers, this new pair should not be underestimated. ”
Wu Jingping added: "Europe's top Persson and Seifer have not teamed up in doubles, and Waldner and Ape Allen are very strong in singles, and the tacit understanding in doubles is not enough. However, France's Geting + Elois will be a strong enemy. The original doubles combination of Roskov, Primorac and Schulbeck has disintegrated, and it stands to reason that the threat will be reduced, but the possibility of a new combination with better chemistry or a strong combination cannot be ruled out. ”
Mi Xingbang nodded and said: "Very good, young players form a doubles combination, and they will simulate in these three directions." First of all, Liu Nankui and Kim Zhezhu are the strongest pair, a left-handed straight board with a right-handed straight board, and there is no successful precedent in my country. Simulating another pair of South Korean pairs, choose a horizontal board two-sided arc play with a straight board forward and fast attack play. European players rarely use straight boards, and doubles pairs choose two horizontal shots. The main thing is that the style of play must be similar, at least to reach Primorac and Gaiting. What do you recommend for the younger players? ”
Yin Xiao preemptively said: "I applied to you when I was in the National Championships, and Zhendong has been a sparring partner for the women's team for more than a month. Kong Zhendong + Liu Guobang is the best South Korean doubles template. Kong Zhendong's two-sided arc circle has a skill that far surpasses his peers, although his strength cannot be compared with Li Chengzhe, but it is no problem to imitate seven or eight percent. Liu Guobang's straight forward rush fast attack is faster and more ruthless than Kim Cheol-joo, and he also loses due to lack of strength. This sparring is just the best test of the doubles combination of Kong Zhendong + Liu Guobang. ”
Mi Xingbang was about to nod in agreement, but Wu Jingping said: "It's really a coincidence, when you talk about young players who imitate European style of play, the first thing I think of is to borrow Kong Zhendong." He far surpasses his peers in the cross-board forehand and backhand connection, like Primorac, as for that set of full-force play, it is really very similar to the unreasonable and forceful play style of the European madman Gaiting, but it is more advanced. I'm also going to get him back to familiarize himself with the game footage and take turns imitating Geiting and Primorac! ”
Mi Xingbang smiled: "Are you so optimistic about Kong Zhendong? Let him simulate South Korea's Lee Seung-chul, as well as Primorac and Gaiting's three completely different styles of play? Then bring him back and try it. Liu Guobang also added a single burden, on the one hand, he formed a combination of straight board + horizontal board with Kong Zhendong, and then equipped with a left-handed straight board player, so that they could simulate Liu Nankui + Jin Zhezhu. ”
After the meeting, Yin Xiao contacted the national table tennis women's team in Zhengding training according to Mi Xingbang's instructions, hoping to transfer Kong Zhendong back to the men's team.
At this time, Kong Zhendong was also conducting the last and most important simulation competition.
This afternoon, Chen Yuhe and Gao Jun will play a game against him, and the third Olympic quota place in women's table tennis will depend on who can beat his simulated Chen Jing more comprehensively.
After more than a month of practice, Chen Yuhe has obviously improved even more. Her ferocious and variant style of play was originally a representative of restraining Chen Jing's two-sided arc circle play, but in the past, she was deficient in her sense of fierce robbery, and she did not maximize her own advantages and characteristics, and was often defeated by more fierce opponents.
This month, Kong Zhendong's biggest gain for her is not to master any killer features or techniques and tactics, but to bring her more full strength, more active scramble and more changes in the connection, with the improvement of these soft powers, her overall hard power will be improved.
Although Gao Jun's women's world ranking is higher than Chen Yuhe's, Gao Jun's style of play is still too modest and lacks impact in terms of two-sided arc play.
Zhang Xilin's selection criteria are very clear. Qiao Hong and Deng Yalin went to seek stability and impact the champion. He doesn't need a steady-type third spot.
He needs an impact-type singles player to act as a minesweeper, fight out strong competitors like Chen Jing and Xiaoshan Lili, and reduce obstacles for Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong to compete for the championship.
After two rounds of singles matches, Zhang Xilin confirmed Chen Zihe as the third member of the Olympic women's table tennis singles team.
So on the same day, the national table tennis men's team and the national table tennis women's team reported the Olympic quota to the Sports Federation.
Men: Ma Wenhua, Wang Tao, Lu Ning, Yu Prodigy.
Women: Deng Yalin, Qiao Hong, Gao Jun, Chen Yuhe.
Coincidentally, unlike the veteran players of other events who lead the team to act as the anchor of the sea, the eight men and women sent by the national table tennis are all participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, reflecting the great courage and determination of the national table tennis to break and stand up.
The day after submitting the Olympic quota, Kong Zhendong and the girl team members who tried out left the Zhengding base. Because the national table tennis women's team will then have a month of more intense and isolated closed training, there is no longer any focus on young female players.
Kong Zhendong believes that the performance of Wang Lan, Ye Ying, Zhang Yining and Aries in the trial has impressed Zhang Xilin. It's just that during the preparation for the Olympics, it is impossible to recruit new members of the national team.
In next year's national team rookie selection, you should be able to see the four of them.
Back at the Capital Table Tennis Training Center, Kong Zhendong was greeted by Liu Guobang and Wang Fei.
Liu Guobang punched him in the chest and said, "What, haven't you been happy with the women's team for more than a month?" If it weren't for Coach Yin's call-up, you probably wouldn't be able to come back, right? ”
Wang Fei circled around Kong Zhendong and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity." ”
Kong Zhendong was puzzled: "I don't have a lame arm, what is a pity?" ”
Wang Fei said with a smile: "It's a pity that the Olympics didn't offer a mixed doubles event in table tennis." Otherwise, you can be directly matched over there and win glory for the country. You don't have to come back and pair with us. ”
Ignoring Wang Fei's jokes, Kong Zhendong was puzzled: "Do you want to match doubles?" Who am I paired with? ”