The fun of dumplings is not in being delicious, but in being fun.

Making dumplings is an activity full of joy and memories.

Kong Zhendong taught Victoria and Madeleine to make dumplings, and from time to time he was teased by the funny Madeleine with flour.

Making dumplings also reminded Zhendong of his previous life, from the laziness of making dumplings with his mother when he was a child, to the initiative to help his mother when he grew up, so that his mother could rest.

There are teammates in the closed training base, still having fun in the bitterness, making dumplings while having a singing contest with the female team members.

also recalled the happy times spent with his mothers Su Xia, Ye Xiaoya, and Guo Bing during the Spring Festival in the past two years.

Their lively atmosphere of laughter attracted Sir Edward.

He heard Victoria just introduce Linde emotionally, and he added in detail: "Eric Linde's table tennis talent is extremely high, and his left-handed horizontal board fast break combined with arc play is somewhat similar to Ape Allen, but the ball is more agile. It's a shame that he didn't achieve as much as Apearun, because he was a fragile mentality when he was younger. ”

Sir Edward looked at Kong Zhendong and made a helpless expression, Kong Zhendong vaguely understood that this might be related to the Chinese team.

Sir Edward explained: "In fact, the Swedish national team composed of Ape Allen, Linde and Waldner was as strong as Jiang Jialiang and Shesek of the Chinese team in the 80s. But the three World Table Tennis Championships have lost very badly. Why? It is not in absolute strength that we lose, but in the arrangement of troops. Your Chinese team can always use some weird players to play against Linde when you meet the Swedish team. ”

Sir Edward also picked up the dumpling wrapper, and while learning from Kong Zhendong to make dumplings, he said: "Linde was in his early twenties at the time, and his mentality was unstable. The players sent by the Chinese team are often less than the top 30 in the world, but they can always beat him. But in the past few years, Linde's strength has not regressed, and as he matures with age, he has already made up for his psychological shortcomings in the league. When you see him next week, you'll know how different his fast-arc play is from Bengerson and Ape Allen. ”

As soon as he was introduced by Sir Edward, Kong Zhendong felt that his blood was surging.

This is the old enemy who has been entangled with the national table tennis for ten years, from a genius boy to a genius middle-aged, Kong Zhendong is very eager to fight with him.

After Kong Zhendong and Sister Victoria, Sir Edward, had made nearly a hundred dumplings, Mrs. Linde's other dishes were ready.

Then it was the cooking of dumplings, and several people happily ate a hearty Chinese meal.

Mrs. Linde and Victoria were very interested, and Kong Zhendong certainly wouldn't tell them that the more traditional should be a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but dinner.

However, today, many of the Chinese people's Spring Festival dinners have been adjusted to noon, so there is no need to criticize foreigners.

The time in Sweden is seven hours away from the capital time.

Around one o'clock after the meal, it was already ten o'clock in the capital time.

Kong Zhendong remembered that the Spring Festival Gala in 93 was not popular to ring the bell at one o'clock and then the show lasted until one o'clock in the morning.

Therefore, Kong Zhendong did not deliberately wait until the early hours of the morning to greet the New Year at home, but after asking Mrs. Linde for instructions, he directly called the capital's home at their home to greet him.

As soon as the call started, it couldn't stop, but fortunately, Sweden's international calls were much cheaper.

Kong Zhendong first called his mother to greet the New Year, and his father, who had been busy researching at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, finally had a holiday for the New Year. Fathers and sons, who rarely talk to each other, rarely talk to each other.

Hanging up the phone at home, Kong Zhendong then called Ye Xiaoya and Guo Bing's home phone.

Guo Bing's family is in the military compound, and he belongs to the first to install a phone, and Ye Xiaoya's family is not bad.

After congratulating the two of them on the New Year, they also agreed to get together more after returning to China in the second half of the year.

Kong Zhendong finally called Coach Zheng and Zheng Zheng. Among the friends who corresponded with him, Li Jun and Liu Guobang both had a personal fixed word, so Zheng Zheng was Kong Zhendong's last greeting friend.

After congratulating Coach Zheng on a smooth work in the new year and going well, he chatted about the training of the capital team, and when he was about to hang up the phone at the end, Coach Zheng suddenly asked; "Did you call the coach of the national team to greet the New Year?"

Yin Xiao has no family fixed words, and Mi Shuai seems to be a little far away~

Coach Zheng continued: "I heard that the national team is recently preparing the squad for this year's World Table Tennis Championships. The World Table Tennis Championships will start in late April, so within more than half a month, the quota must be determined! ”

'93 World Table Tennis Championships?

Speaking of the highest honor in the field of table tennis, the World Table Tennis Championships is definitely the first to be promoted. The Olympic champion is only because of the attributes of the whole people and the Olympic complex of the Chinese people, so that the Olympic table tennis gold medal is given a special meaning.

But if you purely talk about the intensity of the competition and the outbreak of the players' competitive state, the quality and level of the classic duel and fight in the World Table Tennis Championships are obviously higher.

Kong Zhendong, who has already stepped into the professional table tennis arena, how can he be indifferent to the crown of the World Table Tennis Championships?

However, he is only 14 years old, and he has never represented the national team in a foreign war before, with such age and qualifications, in a country like China, where table tennis talents are crowded with single-plank bridges, the chances of winning a place in the World Championships are very small.

However, Coach Zheng finally provided the home landline number of the men's table tennis head coach Mi Xingbang, and asked Kong Zhendong to explore the wind in the name of New Year's greetings.

hung up the phone, knowing that this quota was infinitely far away from him, but he still inevitably had inner fluctuations.

Absent-mindedly playing games with the Victorian sisters, Mrs. Linde's children, and struggled inwardly whether to make the phone call with Mi Shuai.

In the end, Kong Zhendong still decided to make this call, even if it was an ordinary New Year's greeting.

Receiving Kong Zhendong's transoceanic New Year's call, Mi Xingbang was particularly happy.

The relationship between him and Kong Zhendong and Liu Guobang, the two young disciples, not to mention outsiders, is also in the fog inside the national table tennis, and he can't figure out the context.

To say that he loves Liu Guobang the most, but he gave Kong Zhendong the rare European experience quota for young players.

can say that he loves Kong Zhendong the most, but he left him in Europe and ignored him, and pushed Liu Guobang, who was straight in China, to the position of the main force of the first team of the national team.

For Kong Zhendong's love and inner expectations, Mi Xingbang hides it very deeply. He also discovered Kong Zhendong's ingenious heart, he must understand.

Mi Xingbang paid attention to Kong Zhendong's life and training in Sweden, and only passed by the competition results, and paid more attention to his life, diet, and social circle in Sweden.

In the end, Mi Xingbang took the initiative to say: "Zhendong, this year's World Table Tennis Championships is held in Gothenburg, Sweden, I will come here in advance to investigate, and when the time comes, I will come to see what you have grown up in the past six months!" ”

Kong Zhendong happily agreed. Both of them cleverly bypassed the topic of World Table Tennis Championships quotas, but they are full of their own expectations for the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve, Kong Zhen will certainly not take seven days of annual leave in Sweden, and he will return to the Wolverine training base the next day to prepare for the match against the Holes Elves.

"Although the Golf Elves are located in the mountains of northern Sweden, and there are no more than 100,000 people in the whole city, the natural scenery is very beautiful, and their table tennis style is full of spirituality. The origin of the name of the elf team is also the meaning of the elves of the mountains. ”

Seeing that everyone had attracted attention, Coach Bengerson said with satisfaction: "The elf team relied on the support of Eric Linde alone in previous years, and has been in the middle of the league for a long time, and has never entered the top five in the league. However, last year the Czech Republic's Kerber joined the Elf, who overtook us last year to finish fourth in the league. ”

The king of the Czech backhand, Kerber, who was the first to use the twist and pull in the table as the main means of scoring, was actually in the Elf team of Conlf"

Linde + Kerber, it's not surprising that they finished fourth in the league with such strength.

Such a double-insurance lineup is extremely difficult for the Wolverines to play.

However, for Kong Zhendong, his fighting spirit is even higher.

Originally, Kong Zhendong just wanted to see the true strength of Linde, who was on a par with Ape Allen and Waldner.

Now the opponent has actually added Kerber?

Kong Zhendong was most impressed by the Czech team led by Kerber in 91 to defeat the Chinese team and give the Chinese team the seventh humiliating record in history.

Kerber was the key figure in defeating China's No. 1 brother Ma Wenhua in singles and winning a strong point in doubles.

Now, I finally have the opportunity to compete with him on the same stage and compete by one point.

In the next few days, Kong Zhendong consciously increased the intensity of training, especially strengthening the training of forehand and backhand arcs.

He also took the opportunity to watch more videos of Linde and Kerber.

Linde's Swedish new generation of fast attack combined with arc play is indeed fundamentally different from Bengerson's fast arc.

Because Waldner is a typical representative of the European arc combined with fast break, Persson is the first person in Europe to have a two-sided arc power ball.

Therefore, it is Linde that really carries the inheritance and development of Sweden's new generation of fast arc technology.

Arc scoring means with Bengerson built on the European fast break system.

Linde upgraded this style of play to a continuous fast curve ball with forehand and backhand.

He didn't play arc on the basis of fast breaks. His arc loop tactics are a quick word in their own right.

In short, his style of play is a quick arc ball with a forehand and backhand.

This is completely different from Bengerson's system of playing with a powerful arc and one hit after a continuous fast-break flick.

After studying Linde, Kong Zhendong hurried to study Kerber.

Kerber's playing system is still based on the Czech fast arc play. However, his fast arc skills, not to mention the whole of Europe, even in the Czech Republic, are not as good as the younger generation of Yanchi and others.

So what is his ability to stand out from the crowd?

It is a backhand twist and pull in the table. In fact, Kerber's backhand technique, twisting and pulling action is weird, which is completely different from the backhand monsters of the big ball era, and many experts do not agree to define Kerber's backhand hitting hand type as a twist and pull.

Kong Zhendong is reluctant to dwell on words, he only studies the essence of tactics.

The essence of Kerber's tactics is consistent with that of the later era of big balls, that is, the backhand is pulled up directly and enters the topspin ball for continuous confrontation!