Listening to Coach Lu's explanation of the rules of the team selection competition, Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng and others were very confused. Isn't this selection system inherited from the national team? Who's holding that? The rules of the national team are also changed casually?

Coach Lu continued: "There are 40 people who participated in the selection of the junior team this time, and some people in the coaching staff proposed that two rounds of multiple sets of single rounds take a long time, and there are too many consecutive games, which will cause greater harm to your body, coupled with the current reform direction of the ITTF, more and more attention is paid to doubles combinations, and our selection should conform to the reform direction of the ITTF." ”

The ITTF is definitely the most bizarre ball federation in the world, and they are constantly reforming the rules, equipment, and competition system.

The turmoil and discomfort caused by this reform are unimaginable for mature ball federations such as FIFA and ITN.

When some younger table tennis fans watched the team tournament in later generations, the format had stabilized to a best-of-five system, and the third game had to be doubles.

In fact, this kind of competition system has undergone many painful system reforms.

The format before 90 was a best-of-nine system, and since 91, the ITTF has reformed to a best-of-five system, but there is no limit on the combination and number of players on each team.

Such a strange rule has directly created a team that only uses two people to play singles and doubles. The bizarre team competition in which two people played five matches made the reformers of the ITTF sprayed like dogs.

Since 93, the ITTF has continued to use the best-of-five system, but all five matches have been changed to singles, and this system has continued for more than ten years.

The re-entry of doubles into the team event begins with the reform of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games abolished the two gold medals in men's and women's doubles and replaced them with two gold medals in men's and women's teams, and there were detailed regulations on the setting of doubles and personnel combinations in the team competition.

Therefore, even if it is more than ten years from the new century, the rules of the World Table Tennis Championships men's and women's team competitions are based on the best-of-five system, and whether the third game is singles or doubles still changes every few years.

No matter how the rules of the ITTF system change, the direction of reform that requires athletes to have both singles and doubles abilities remains unchanged.

The selection of the capital junior team is to implement the spirit of reform of the International Table Tennis Federation, and in the first round, 40 players will be formed into 20 pairs of doubles combinations.

Twenty pairs of doubles are divided into five groups and play a single round-robin.

The top 10 doubles pairs in the five groups will form the winning group, and the 10 top doubles pairs will be ranked according to the previous singles rules.

A total of 10 doubles pairs from the bottom of the five groups will form a knockout group to determine the bottom three of the eliminations.

This format greatly reduces the number of rounds of single-round robin matches in the first round, and also assesses the singles and doubles abilities of all players.

However, such elimination rules take doubles results as the basis, and no matter how strong a player is, if the partner is weak, he will still fall into the elimination group in the end.

After Coach Lu read out the rules of the knockout round, he let the others train freely, leaving Kong Zhendong and his heart solemn.

Coach Lu comforted Kong Zhendong and said: "Zhendong, you have only been in the team for a month, and you don't have to participate in the knockout round, but because it is a doubles assessment, you must participate." But if you really lose, even if you are in the bottom three in the singles behind you, because you are the head coach's special move, and you have just practiced for more than a month, you are not eliminated. ”

Kong Zhendong never thought that he would be in the bottom few, and his relief to the coach was just a polite smile.

Coach Lu turned to solemnly and said: "Ah Chong, the doubles combination between you and Zhendong has not progressed, this time you must be ready to meet the difficult situation, practice more singles, and don't fall into the bottom three!" ”

Coach Lu's implication is very clear, he is not optimistic about Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng's doubles, and believes that they will become the tail of the crane in the first round and fall to the elimination group.

His solemn expectation is that he will not be eliminated from the team.

After Coach Lu left, he solemnly said to Kong Zhendong embarrassedly: "Zhendong, I've bothered you!" You should start practicing more singles today, although you will not be eliminated in the end, but your results are too poor, and your face is not good-looking! ”

Kong Zhendong stared at solemnly with burning eyes: "Ah Chong, are you willing to believe me?" If you believe me, let's practice doubles quickly, and we will definitely be able to enter the winning group, and whether we can enter the top three in singles at that time depends on your performance! ”

Solemnly looked at Kong Zhendong like a monster, and said worriedly: "Zhendong, are you too stressed and stimulated?" Our doubles can't even beat Zhou An Wang Yi, they are only in the middle of the stream, and the doubles that are stronger than them, our junior team is no less than ten pairs. ”

Kong Zhendong sighed and said: "Ah Chong, in fact, I have always had a way to quickly improve our doubles strength in a short period of time, but this is not beneficial to your long-term development, I have always hoped that you will gradually become stronger in an all-round way, but the progress is too slow!" ”

Zheng Zheng was surprised: "Our sparse doubles with no attack power, do you have a way to get stronger quickly?" ”

Kong Zhendong said: "It's useless to say, let's go to the table to practice!" As long as you practice this trick to the point where you can't even think of it, we can win! ”

After arriving at the table, Kong Zhendong served, solemnly returned to the ball, and after a few rounds, he felt that there was no difference from the previous practice.

Kong Zhendong controlled the ball by dispatching, forcing him to return the ball to Kong Zhendong's backhand position.

At this time, Kong Zhendong quickly flicked his right hand backhand diagonally upward, bouncing the ball back more quickly.

Zheng was caught off guard, and reluctantly returned the ball to Kong Zhendong's middle, the ball bounced high, and Kong Zhendong scored a slash quite comfortably.

Zheng Zhengqi said: "Zhendong, did you just hit a backhand?" It's so fast! ”

Kong Zhendong replied: "In our doubles match, you can use this tactic, I can control the ball, and force the opponent to return the ball can only return to your backhand position, I still have this ability!" During this time, you only need to practice the backhand bounce and fast dial, practice the speed to the speed of the body's instinct, practice until the opponent can't react quickly, and we can win! ”

Kong Zhendong's style of play is actually to weaken the role of Zheng Zhong in doubles, he is a rebounder, and it is a rebounder that accelerates the rotation. Kong Zhendong controlled the ball, solemnly flicked it in the middle, and then Kong Zhendong scored and won, as if he was playing singles.

Solemnly, you only need to practice the rebound and fast dial in the backhand position, and practice the speed and power to the extreme.

After practicing solemnly for a while, he also understood the mystery and said happily: "Zhendong, you are so smart!" The backhand bounce and fast dial were originally the mainstream playing style in Czechoslovakia in the 70s, and the Czech Ollovsky and Sweden's Bengersen were all backhand bounce masters in the 70s! But everyone says that backhand bounces and plucks are becoming obsolete, and you actually use him as the mainstream style of play in doubles matches? You're so godly! ”