Chapter 250: The Opening Battle of '93 [Speed Up the Pace and Ask for Subscriptions]
Sweden, Denmark, and Norway – the three Nordic countries – have historically fought each other, but today they travel freely and almost without borders.
In addition to visiting Swedish resorts, the Victorian sisters also took him to Copenhagen in Denmark and Oslo in Norway.
In this novel three-person trip, the hands of time crossed 1992 and came to 1993.
Kong Zhendong and Sister Victoria, in a tent in the snow-capped mountains of Sweden, looked at the stars close above their heads, and looked at the second hand of their watch into 93 years.
Accompanying the two sisters on the New Year's Eve in the Snow Mountain is indeed a particularly novel experience.
When he arrived at the ski resort, Kong Zhendong found that his sister Madeleine's athletic talent was probably still above him.
So Madeleine became the ski instructor for Kong Zhendong and Victoria.
During this trip, Victoria, who put down the burden of identity, was happier than Kong Zhendong, and on the ski slope, he was much more lively and cheerful than before.
Skiing for the first time, it is inevitable to fall.
However, the advantage of having a beautiful coach and a beautiful sparring partner is naturally that you can unconsciously hug the building after falling.
Madeleine was too small after all, and her body was covered with thorns, and Kong Zhendong's unconscious scourge became Victoria.
With the New Year's Eve, Victoria has reached the age of sixteen and has become a slim girl.
Although his biological age is three years older than Kong Zhendong, Kong Zhendong is close to forty years old.
Of course, skiing is just skiing, and falling is just helping each other, although Kong Zhendong has become closer to the Victorian sisters, the thirteen-year-old body has not made any unusual moves in the ice and snow.
On 01/5/93, the Wolverines had their first training session after the winter break, and everyone was inevitably slackened and their form declined.
Coach Bengersen once again highlighted the important schedule for January this year.
The Table Tennis Super League will end the first round of competition in January, that is, it will play 15 rounds.
The remaining two rounds are one weak and one strong, but the strong match is scheduled for the end of the month.
In addition to the Swedish league, the January schedule also includes the second group stage of the Champions League, against the Czech league champions, Prague Juniors.
This group stage will directly determine whether the Wolverines can advance to the Champions League, and the strength of the opponents in the knockout round after the group is promoted.
On January 12, the Wolverines challenged the weak team of the league away, Kong Zhendong's form recovered, and the team won all three points and firmly held the fourth place in the league standings.
On January 18, Kong Zhendong and others packed their bags and took a plane to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, under the leadership of Bengesen.
Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, has also experienced the Prague Spring and is now in a period of transition after the upheavals in Eastern Europe.
Kong Zhendong didn't have the heart to appreciate the cultural customs of the Czech Republic, and more thought was devoted to studying his opponents.
The name of the Czech youth team is young, but because of the economic depression and turbulence in the Czech Republic for more than ten years, the cultivation of young table tennis talents has been delayed.
Although potential masters such as Kerber and Janch were born, they all chose to play in developed European countries in the precarious state of the country.
Coincidentally, the Czech backhand genius, Kerber, who left a nightmare for the Chinese team at the 91 World Table Tennis Championships, is now playing in the league in Sweden, but Kong Zhendong has not been able to play against him.
The youth team of Prague in the Czech Republic is still supported by the famous legendary veteran, who is as famous as Bengersen, the pioneer of the European fast arc style of play, and the founder of the Czech fast arc, Orlovski and Pansky.
Either of these two was the main European opponent of the Chinese team in the early eighties,
Although they retired from the national team a few years ago, they are still invincible in the league and remain in good form.
Coach Zheng of Kong Zhendong in the capital team has been to the Czech Republic to support training for three years, and his friend Zheng Zheng is also the inheritor of pure Czech fast arc technology, so he is no stranger to this style of play.
But after watching the few videos of Orlovsky and Pansky, he was still shocked, the connection that was so fast that it surpassed thinking, and the exquisite coordination of the backhand fast bullet and footsteps was definitely several grades stronger than Coach Zheng's word of mouth.
Kong Zhendong's bigger worry came from Sith Pan.
His Bengersen fast-arc style of play and the Czech style of play are just right together, whoever plays well wins, but Sith Pan's style of play is far from being successful, and he will definitely stop against either Orrowski or Pansky.
Fortunately, although Sith Pan has become famous in the domestic league, under the light of many gods in the Champions League, he is still a weak rookie, even if he is placed in the third singles, no one can question that this is Tian Ji horse racing.
However, the Prague youth team, which has two top players, are depressed, and they will not be able to place either Orlovsky or Pansky in the third singles in any case.
This is not only an insult to them personally, but also a great irony and insult to Czech table tennis and the European table tennis world.
At half past seven in the evening of January 20, the second group stage of the table tennis Champions League kicked off at the Sunshine Stadium in Prague.
Despite the turbulent situation, table tennis still has a strong national base in Eastern Europe, with nearly 2,000 spectators watching the game live.
The Swedes and other three Nordic countries are still quite reluctant to travel to Eastern Europe, so there are only more than 200 Swedish fans who can stick to the scene to watch the game this time.
Kong Zhendong and others have to accept pure away treatment.
At seven o'clock sharp, Bengersen and the coach of the Prague youth team submitted the list of the first three rounds of the Wolverines to the tournament.
The Wolverines sent newcomer Rasitz to play against the youth team Orlovsky in the first round.
In the second game, Kong Zhendong played against the youth team Pansky.
In the third match, Sith Pan took on youth team newcomer Podolias.
After all, the Champions League has gone through a round, and the youth team in Prague, which has a bye, sent a coach to record the match between the Wolverines and Schulbeck and others, and knows a little about several main players of the Wolverine.
Pansky said coldly: "Bengerson arranged for Sith Pan to play the third game to ensure a victory, and then sent a kid who had never played the main force to send two heads to us, and in the end, the bet was to let Kong Zhendong's kid kill the two of us?" What arrogance. ”
Orlovski stared at the Wolverines and said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, we have watched the videos of this kid's Champions League games and several games in the Swedish League, and there is no exact same style of play, so many changing boys we must be full of firepower, don't give him a chance to exploit loopholes, you just need to guard the level in the second game, we can kill them in four games." ”
Pansky nodded, he was quite dissatisfied with the Wolverine's arrangement for Kong Zhendong to win both games, but he was not carried away by reason. He clenched his fists, decades of tempering in the table tennis arena have already made him understand a truth, respect, can only be exchanged for victory!