At eight o'clock in the morning, Bengerson entered the Wolverines training hall on time.

Although the Wolverine team is a traditional strong team in the Swedish Table Tennis Super League, there are only five real regular players, plus Kong Zhendong, there are only six players, and the remaining dozen or so junior players belong to the youth training system, and they will enter the weaker teams in the league in the future, or play in lower-level competitions, or be active in amateur and commercial arenas.

At this time, the youth players were all under the leadership of the youth team coach to warm up in a small circle around the stadium. The five main players are doing preparatory exercises such as leg pressing, stretching, and skipping rope, and only Kong Zhendong is doing multi-ball forehand continuous pulling training.

Bengerson called coach Garcia over and asked, "What's going on?" Doesn't this Chinese kid even know the most basic pre-game warm-up? Straight to such a high-intensity pull training early in the morning? ”

Garcia explained: "I drove to work in the morning, and when I saw Kong Zhendong running all the way to the club, my whole body had already moved. And I heard that he also trained for long-distance running in the morning. ”

Ben Gesen was surprised: "Running from Edward's house? It's nearly 10 kilometers, and you have a long-distance run in the morning? Does this Chinese kid have such a strong physical reserve? The Norwegian kid on the team is about the same age, and the tall and strong Norwegian kid can't do it, right? ”

Garcia admired: "I heard that the basic training of the Chinese team is very large, so although their skills are outdated, but the basic skills of the athletes are quite solid. ”

Ben Gesen nodded and said: "China is a country with a professional athlete system, and she is raised by an organization called the Sports Brigade, and then wins gold medals for the organization and fights for honor." Usually 100 days of training, just for the instant outbreak of the game. This is a very different training system from our professional athletes. He's been consistent in training, but will he be able to play like that in the game and keep it up all season? I'm skeptical. ”

On the first day, Kong Zhendong was mainly trained by Garcia, Ben Gesen only came to observe a few individual events, and did not evaluate, but he saw that Kong Zhendong was talented, but he trained harder than other athletes, and his prejudice against him was much reduced.

After three consecutive days of such training, Bengesen gathered the main players, including Kong Zhendong.

Bengersen said: "We have only scored three points in four rounds of the table tennis league this season, and we have not faced a top six team in four rounds, which is not ideal. ”

The competition system of the Swedish Table Tennis Super League is the mainstream competition system in Europe, and the 92 National Championships in which Kong Zhendong participated this year draws on the competition system of the European Table Tennis Super League.

The two sides will play a best-of-five format, but more attention has been paid to the details.

First of all, the team can participate in two lineups, in addition to the two games against the main players, each team can choose three players to play five games and four players to play five games according to the reserve and strength of their own team, which is beneficial to the team with strong bench depth and can cultivate young talented players.

The second rule is that if the loser of the best-of-five system gets two wins, then the corresponding one point will also be awarded.

In other words, if you win 3:0 or 3:1, the winner gets three points, and if you win 3:2, the winner gets two points and the loser gets one point.

Such a points rule motivates the weak team not to give up the game when facing the strong team, but to work hard to get points.

The Wolverines won three in the first four rounds, one of which was 3:2, so they got three points and finished tenth in the standings.

Bengersen continued: "This weekend we will host the Kiruna Bruins, their main player will be Peter Karlsson, the current national mainstay of the Swedish team, the multi-year world team champion, this game is very crucial, I haven't decided on the final line-up yet, it will probably be a four-man system, everyone has a chance, the final line-up depends on the state of everyone's training. Now let's disband each training. ”

After the disbandment, Bengersen finally called Kong Zhendong to his side to speak, which was the first time after Kong Zhendong entered the Wolverine team.

Bengersen asked straight to the point: "Son, to be honest, I am not satisfied with you joining our team, but I am very satisfied with your performance in the past few days, and your training condition is very good. But do you know the difference between a professional athlete and a professional athlete? ”

Although Kong Zhendong has never played in a professional league in his life, he has played in the German league and the Chinese table tennis league in his last life, and he has long had his own opinions about the professional league.

He said without humility or arrogance: "Mr. Bengerson, I have never played in a professional league, but my coaches and brothers have taught me a lot of experience, and I have my own understanding of the league. I think that professional athletes are trained for many years, and finally adjust their competitive condition to the best in a specific competition cycle every year. Professional athletes are more like a daily job, training is normalized, competitions are also normalized, athletes do not have national glory and collective honor as a driving force, some are professional respect and respect for the audience. The league requires athletes to always stay close to their peak for a long period of time for most of the year. It is not required that athletes are better than international competitions in every competition, but also that athletes are required to be at the top of their game for a long time. ”

Bengerson was amazed, this kid came from the professional league ghost and did not have China, but he had such a deep insight into the professional league and professional athletes, he felt that his risk might be worth it.

Bengerson smiled: "Good boy, you have this understanding, I will give you a game to test whether your training form can be carried over to the league, and if you perform well, you can enter the main rotation of the Wolverine." ”

Kong Zhendong smiled and nodded, he knew that the poor performance of the Wolverine team in the first four rounds made Coach Bengersen think about adjusting the lineup, and in the end, whether he could seize this opportunity and gain a firm foothold in the Wolverine team depended on the performance of the field.

At seven o'clock in the evening on September 22, the Wolverines ushered in the fifth round of the Swedish Table Tennis Super League, and Kong Zhendong also ushered in his first professional league.

On the morning of the 22nd, Bengersen read out the lineup for this competition.

Sure enough, according to his promise a few days ago, he arranged a four-player competition system, with two old and two new.

Persson arranged for the Wolverine's original two main players to play as the first singles and second singles, Kong Zhendong played as the third singles, and another former substitute young player Sith Pan got the fourth chance to play.

Before the start of the game, Bengersen dropped a bombshell again: "The fifth game is undecided, the best players in the first four games will become the main players in the fifth game, boys, use their own performance to win a future!" ”