Coach Zhang Xilin said: "Most of us participated in the national championship just now. This is the eleventh consecutive victory in the men's team competition, and Kong Zhendong won the best newcomer. I can honestly say that the best player was not awarded to him in the end, and Wang Tao, who had a lower winning rate, was given because he was afraid of his pride. ”

Zhang Xilin held him so high, Kong Zhendong scratched the back of his head with some embarrassment.

Zhang Xilin continued: "I transferred him from the men's team, mainly to simulate the two-sided arc circle play, and the practice of full-force play. Starting tomorrow, Kong Zhendong's sparring schedule time is six hours, Qiao Yunping, Gao Jun, Chen Yuhe, Liu Wei, you have one hour a day, Deng Yalin, Qiao Hong, you have half an hour a day, and another hour, I will arrange for him to train the potential players of the selected provincial teams. ”

After arranging the sparring task, Coach Zhang Xilin dismissed the female players and left Kong Zhendong alone.

Zhang Xilin asked Kong Zhendong to accompany him for a casual walk in the training base, and he said with a smile as he walked: "Zhendong, before Yu Lao retired from the national women's team and entered the Table Tennis Association, he had been with me for a long time. ”

Kong Zhendong also wondered how he could be favored by the head coach of the women's team? It turns out that the roots are here.

Yu Lao is the first person who wants to introduce himself into the capital team, and he can be regarded as his own Bole.

Coach Zhang Xilin said: "I once communicated with Yu Lao about the difficulties encountered by the national table tennis women's team. He suggested that I go and see your game, and after watching it, I was even more satisfied than I had envisioned, can you guess why? ”

Kong Zhendong said: "As far as I know, women's table tennis is represented by Sister Yalin, and they all use robbery as the mainstream style of play. Sister Yalin has a forehand backhand and a long backhand, upholding the playing style of fast forehand and backhand monster, but in terms of arc circle skills, she lacks the ability to retreat from the stage. Although Sister Qiao Hong is a combination of arc circles and fast attack play, the arc line is good, but the impact is not good. ”

Coach Zhang Xilin said noncommittally: "But the weakness of this style of play has always existed, why do you need it now?" ”

Kong Zhendong said: "In the past, the opponents of the Chinese women's team were Li Fengji and Xuan Jinghe. Li Fengji is a typical fierce and robbing style of play. Although Xuan Jinghe has comprehensive skills, we used to have Chen Jing and He Lili, and we have human tactics to play against North and South Korean opponents. But the Olympics is different from the World Championships, we can only send three people to participate in singles, and Chen Jing, He Lili, and now Xiaoshan Lili have become opponents. We need to pay more attention to the all-round play on both sides of the horizontal board. ”

Hearing Xiaoshan Lili's name, a trace of regret and anger obviously flashed in Zhang Xilin's eyes. He Lili and Dai Lili were known as women's table tennis Shuangli a few years ago, and they are both future leaders cultivated by Zhang Xilin.

But now one of the two has retired, and the other has joined Dongying, which naturally makes him a little unwilling and lonely.

Throwing away the negative emotions caused by Xiaoshan Lili, Zhang Xilin continued: "Your mind is really as sharp as your ball sense. So tell me, what is the purpose of my sparring arrangement today? ”

Kong Zhendong smiled confidently: "Sister Yalin, Sister Qiao Hong and I have half an hour of sparring time, I feel that Chief Coach Zhang should confirm that the two of them will participate in the Olympic Games." As for the other two places, they should be between Qiao Yunping, Chen Yuhe, Gao Jun, and Liu Wei. ”

As he spoke, Kong Zhendong was shocked, how could he feel that he had become the key to the selection.

Coach Zhang Xilin said: "How is it? How does it feel to have the other two Olympic quotas selected by you? ”

Kong Zhendong smiled: "How do you feel like child's play?" ”

Coach Zhang Xilin said seriously: "It's not a child's play. In the next month or so of training, whoever can improve the most on you and beat you the easiest will be selected for the remaining Olympic singles quota, as for the remaining doubles quota, choose the one who is more tacit with her. ”

In the men's and women's table tennis competitions of the Olympic Games, three singles spots and two doubles quotas are allocated to the Chinese team, but the final total number cannot exceed four.

Kong Zhendong knew that although it was only a selection of three or four places, the deliberations and changes were quite difficult to consider.

If it is in other countries where table tennis is weak, then choose two singles and a pair of doubles, and even the quota will not be used up.

However, for China to aspire to win the championship and must increase the probability of winning the championship infinitely, it is necessary to use up the singles and doubles places sufficiently, and to cross, in order to achieve multiple insurance.

This is also the reason why Chinese Olympians must have both singles and doubles ability.

Take the women's team as an example, the double core Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong will occupy two singles places, and at the same time, because they have a tacit understanding for a long time, they occupy a pair of doubles combinations.

The remaining four, Qiao Yunping and Liu Wei are a couple, Chen Yuhe and Gao Jun are a couple.

There will be a doubles pair and a singles spot among them.

There are two methods of selection.

The first is to prioritize the strength of doubles, which is to compare the results and status of the two pairs, decide one of the pairs to be the Olympic doubles, and then choose one of the two of them to get the third singles quota.

The second selection method is to select a singles spot among the four, and then let her take her partner to doubles.

Now through the words of Coach Zhang Xilin, he understands that Coach Zhang should have a greater grasp of doubles. The singles opponent is stronger, so the singles quota is selected through Kong Zhendong first, and then let her take her partner to play Olympic doubles.

Coach Zhang Xilin said: "In the next month and a half, your main tasks are three, first, to show the best condition, fight Qiao Yunping and the four of them, and help me choose the remaining Olympic quotas, and the second task is to imitate Chen Jing and He Lili, so that Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong can accumulate experience in you." As for the third task, I selected more than a dozen thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls from the provincial teams across the country, you see if there is anyone suitable for the women's double-sided all-round play, we have to lay out the future and take precautions. ”

The first of these three tasks is related to who will get the opportunity to represent the country in the Olympics.

In China, the fate of Olympians and ordinary athletes in the sports circle, with the Olympics as the first guideline, can be said to be very different.

The second task is related to whether the core of women's table tennis can win the championship in Barcelona. Similarly, whether it is Deng Yalin or Qiao Hong, the difference between a world champion and an Olympic champion is also heaven and earth.

As for the third task, although the importance of it cannot be seen in a short period of time, Kong Zhendong knows that with the outflow of Chinese players from Suizhong, the playing style of women's table tennis will develop more and more towards the technical all-rounder, and when it comes to the 21st century, the playing style that only relies on the fierce robbery in the stage will come to an end.

Therefore, it seems that the knowledge training of a few little girls is a major event related to laying the cornerstone of the future technical development of women's table tennis.