Physical fitness training in the early morning, basic training and special training in the morning, cultural classes in the afternoon, and solemn doubles training in the evening.

Every weekend when the capital team is on vacation, Kong Zhendong will also go to the table tennis and badminton activity center of the capital TV station to conduct actual combat training with Li Jun.

From the early cold of the night to the heavy snowfall. Before you know it, the time has crossed to 1991.

After more than a month of systematic training, Kong Zhendong feels that his table tennis awareness and muscle response are better integrated. With the increase of physical strength and strength, he can also semi-retire from the stage to fight with Li Jun, who is vigorously smashing.

In the past month, the slowest progress has been made by Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng's doubles.

The two table tennis players with a horizontal forehand arc are paired in doubles, and there is no problem with connecting the ball and defending, but the timing of turning defense into attack is always unclear.

There is no offense, no matter how good the defense is, it is just a passive extension of the losing time.

Although Kong Zhendong also consciously strengthens his offensive initiative, the doubles rules of table tennis limit Kong Zhendong's play.

The doubles rules of table tennis are arguably the most bizarre and fair of all ball sports.

The most widely used doubles matches are beach volleyball, tennis, badminton and table tennis.

The other three types of doubles play are similar, with power players attacking vigorously in the back row and nimble runners tackling volleys in front of the net.

This tactic dictates that most of the offensive and defensive transitions tend to be one side's back-row attacking player attacking the opponent's defender in front of the net.

This led to the doubles match, where two players fought to the death, and the other two players watched from the side.

Therefore, this kind of competition mode is often a top 10 tennis player in the world, with a very average partner, can win the doubles competition.

However, this kind of pattern of strong and weak to achieve good results is impossible to appear in table tennis.

Because in all doubles games, only table tennis clearly stipulates that two players on both sides must take turns to receive the ball, and once one of the players hits the ball continuously, the points will be directly lost.

The meaning of this rule is that Wang Yi serves, if Kong Zhendong receives the serve, Wang Yi must quickly withdraw from the table, let Zhou An receive Kong Zhendong's ball, and after Zhou Anqiu takes it, Kong Zhendong must also immediately withdraw from the table and let Zheng Zheng receive the ball.

If Zhou An hits the ball and Kong Zhendong catches it again, he will directly lose this point.

This rule of rotation and catching limits the fact that it is impossible for one of the world's top players to attack continuously and watch the game next to his partner.

The clever part of this rule is that if a player can score a kill, it must be the opportunity created for him by his partner's last goal.

Fans always feel that when Kong Zhendong is paired with Liu Guobang or mixed doubles with Deng Yalin, Liu Guobang and Deng Yalin can easily score the ball. Fans are impressed by their attacking power, but they often ignore Kong Zhendong's control of the ball in the previous board to force the opponent to return the ball with low quality and create opportunities for his partner.

The problem that Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng are currently facing is that Kong Zhendong wants to attack, but the lethality of Zheng Zheng's return ball on the board is not enough, and the opponent can calmly control the ball path and landing point, not giving Kong Zhendong a chance to attack at all.

Once Kong Zhendong controls the ball, the opponent's return is not of high quality, creating opportunities for Zheng Chong, and Zheng Zheng lacks the lethality of the final word.

Just when Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng were still grinding in on how to enhance their attacking power, the new rules for the knockout round in the capital team in January were announced.

When Coach Lu read out the new rules, his face was ugly, obviously he did not agree with the new elimination rules, but in the team seminar, he was alone and his opposition was invalid.

Coach Lu announced loudly: "At the end of January this year, there are some changes to the rules of the team training tournament and previous years, in previous years, all athletes were divided into several groups, and more than a dozen athletes in each group conducted a single round-robin competition, and the top two and the last two with the best results in each group were formed into the winning group and the elimination group respectively, and finally determined the order of the top ten in the winner's group, the ranking order of the elimination group, and the top three in the winner's group can be qualified to share training resources with the official team members and train and communicate with the official team members. The last three finishers in the elimination group will no longer receive training resources and can apply to leave the team on their own. ”

This set of double round-robin team knockout mode is familiar to other players, and Coach Lu should mainly explain it to Kong Zhendong.

Kong Zhendong is familiar with this system, the national team junior team is promoted to the national second team, and the national second team is promoted to the first team.

In Kong Zhendong's previous life, after fierce competitions and intense training, he would also keep pace with the times and read some online novels to relax his emotions.

Among the many fantasy novels I read in my previous life, there was a big competition between sects with all the same routines at the beginning.

A group of young disciples fought with their lives, and those who won immediately ascended to immortality, were valued by the sect, and won the favor of their senior sisters and sisters; The defeated scrap wood was immediately swept out of the house and fell into the dust.

All the readers scolded this kind of routine, what sect is so lacking in heart, not treating young disciples as human beings, and so casually compromised?

Is there really such a cruel tryout?

Kong Zhendong can only say that life is often more unbelievable than drama.

Such a big competition, from the provincial team to the national team, has always been the most perfect and fair elimination mechanism for the table tennis team with excess talent!

Why is there a surplus of table tennis talents?

Just look at Coach Lu. He was the national runner-up in the team competition. Such people in other sports are definitely an important recruitment object for the operation management center and the project association.

But in the field of table tennis, he is just a coach of the capital team's junior team. There are more than 30 provincial teams in the country, which provincial team has few retired national players, and the national champion is in charge? If you don't have a title, you can only train the junior team!

In the national team where there are many masters, every second-team member and even a sparring partner have their own unique skills, so who is on and who is down? Who's the main force? Who is on the bench? Who is a sparring partner?

The fairest procedure for deciding these is not a coaching staff review, but an intra-team tryout.

How to avoid nepotism, black-box operations, and personal contacts?

Hit it straight and speak with your results!

When Kong Zhendong was in the national team before, there were two promotion places for each one-to-two team promotion match every six months.

In order to compete for these places, the fierce competition in the national team is far more enthusiastic than the World Series, and it is completely different from the Chinese Super League, A A and the like, which are relegated and relegated every year.

The well-known champion dragon in later generations, a god-like player like Zico, when he was selected for the national team, he had the experience of falling to the second team when he was a teenager, and then returning to the first team with his strength and hard work.

The tradition of the national team has continued to the provincial teams layer by layer, and then extended to the selection and training of young seedlings.

Kong Zhendong, who once stood at the pinnacle of the world table tennis arena, now has to face the selection of the team that is either life or death!