Li Fengji and Yu Shunfu of the Northern Dynasty had outstanding performances in the team competition and singles last year, and this time the combined doubles is also to launch a strong challenge to the two pairs of doubles in China.

Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong, they have been unanimously favored by the domestic coaching staff in recent years, believing that they have the strength to win the top of the world, but there is no Olympic gold medal, which always gives people the feeling that their names are not justified.

Gao Jun and Chen Zihe are equally ambitious. Gao Jun only qualified for doubles, and Chen Zihe's singles qualification was also far away from the championship, so for the two, the Olympic doubles championship is the only achievement they can pursue, and it is worth risking everything to fight.

A total of 16 pairs from around the world have qualified for the women's doubles competition.

According to the competition system, the sixteen pairs are divided into four groups, and the top two teams in each group will form the final eight finals for the knockout round.

The two Chinese pairs, as well as Xuan Jinghe and Li Fengji, are all far ahead in the women's doubles international rankings, so the four pairs avoided an early rush in the group stage.

The European women's table tennis has a high degree of professionalism, and all female players are fighting alone, and only the doubles players of the same club have the opportunity to train together.

Originally, the national system of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries cultivated a group of women's doubles players, which had a great impact on Chinese and North Korean players, but in the past two years, Eastern Europe has undergone great changes, and the women's doubles combinations of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have either completely dismantled their partners, and those who have not broken up have not carried out systematic training, which poses little threat to the Chinese pairs.

"The coaching staff judged that there was no problem for our two pairs to qualify, so they arranged for you to watch Xuan Jinghe's group stage, Xuan Jinghe won the doubles championship with Liang Yingzhi four years ago, and she only had a few international matches with Hong Ciyu, and the analysis data was not enough." At this time, accompanying Kong Zhendong to watch the group stage of the Xuan Jinghe combination was Zhang Chuan, the coach of the women's team who was very familiar with the Zhengding base.

Because Kong Zhendong needs to take care of both the men's doubles and the women's singles sparring at the same time, it can be said that he has been rotating in Barcelona in the pre-match training in the past few days.

He felt like he was about to become a transformed Superman.

One second it was the 88 women's Olympic champion Chen Jing, the next second it was the European all-round technical flow master Primorac, and the next second it became the European unreasonable offensive madman Gaiting.

Table tennis at the Barcelona Olympics did not have a concentrated schedule as in later generations, with men's and women's singles and doubles interspersed with each other. This year's women's event is even more advanced, with four events continuing throughout the middle and late stages of the Games.

The women's doubles was the first to face off, so Kong Zhendong was borrowed by coach Zhang Xilin to study the combination of his opponents Xuan Jinghe and Hong Ciyu.

Hyun Jing-hak won the Olympic doubles championship in Hancheng in 88 with another singles fierce man Liang Yingzhi.

Kong Zhendong feels that table tennis is really the most unpredictable and unreliable sport. Two straight-shot fast-break athletes will only take turns to jerk, the backhand connection is equal to zero, the backhand attack is also equal to zero, but the backhand has a lot of loopholes.

No matter how you look at it, it will be beaten into a sieve combination, but it can beat China's Jiao Zhimin and Chen Jing, no matter how you look at it, it is a straight and horizontal balanced play.

Kong Zhendong sighed: "This job is not easy! When Xuan Jinghe still had loopholes in the double straight board, we lost. Now that she has changed to a straight and horizontal combination, Hong Ciyu has filled their backhand loopholes, and we are going to find their weaknesses. ”

At the beginning of the game, because the strong opponents of China and South Korea and North Korea were staggered, Hyun Jinghe and Hong Ciyu faced off against the former Soviet Union Prilenko and Musova combination.

In the Olympic women's doubles competition, three games later will enter the knockout round, and three more matches will be able to win the championship.

Therefore, the group stage of other major competitions can be used to adjust the state and practice tactics, but the Olympics require the first game to be full fire.

Xuan Jinghe did it.

Kong Zhendong looked at this gentle woman with short ear-length hair, and once she stepped on the court, she immediately ran like a fly.

Xuan Jinghe and Deng Yalin were born in the same era, which is a blessing for fans.

The two can be said to be the two fiercest players in the 90s.

But there is a clear difference between the fierceness of the two.

Deng Yalin is small in stature, and she plays almost quickly in the beat, which Mr. Samaranch describes as a jumping elk.

Deng Yalin's ferocity is revealed in every beat, every fight.

Xuan Jinghe, on the contrary, ran actively, but she didn't seem to have a particularly fierce expression. Occasional shouts, sharp but not ruthless.

But her ball, the moment she leaves the racket, has a ferocious external spin.

Jiang Chuan frowned and said, "Xuan Jinghe is simply growing in reverse!" Straight boarders can quickly decline as they get older, and the peak period of women's straight skating is especially short. Li Fengji's state and threat this year are not as good as in previous years. But Xuan Jinghe's ball is obviously stronger than last year's Chiba World Table Tennis Championships. There is no slowing down in the running speed. ”

Kong Zhendong nodded and said, "Yes, it's too incomprehensible, I have given up a long time ago." ”

The leader arranged for you to look at the weaknesses, and you gave up?

Zhang Chuan stared at Kong Zhendong with a confused expression.

Kong Zhendong spread his hands and said: "Xuan Jinghe is not without loopholes, but there are only three days before the competition with her, and we don't have time to find it." Even if you find it, it's too late to crack it. So my focus was on Hong Ciyu from the beginning. ”

Zhang Chuan was puzzled: "Isn't Hong Ciyu a more rigorous and loopless two-sided arc circle play on the horizontal board?" It's harder to find loopholes, isn't it?"

Kong Zhendong's eyes were like eagles staring at Xuan Jinghe and Hong Ciyu's bodies staggered, and said confidently: "I can't find a loophole in her playing style for the time being, but there is a problem with their connection, I can think of a way." ”

Kong Zhendong has been paired with Liu Guobang and Wang Yajun, two top straight board athletes, in doubles for more than ten years.

Xuan Jinghe and Hong Ciyu seem to be a stronger combination, and he has already found a loophole. All that's left is to race against time and train well before the Chinese pair meets them.

At the end of this game, Kong Zhendong did not continue to watch the second game of the group stage of the Xuan Jinghe combination according to the arrangement of the women's team coaching staff, because he didn't need it!

Rushing back to the training venue of the Chinese team non-stop, Kong Zhendong found Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong, who had just finished the group stage, and asked to start targeted training.

According to the signing table of the Olympic women's doubles competition, if the two Chinese pairs and the Korean and North Korean pairs can successfully advance to the semifinals, then the matchup against the Xuan Jinghe combination will be Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong.

After crossing this hurdle, the doubles gold medal is almost secure.

After more than a month of closed training, Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong have special trust in Kong Zhendong, regardless of the fatigue after the game, they will find a table and start working!