Chapter 308: Our Era Begins [Seeking Pursuit]
Kong Zhendong looked at the solemnity beside him, if he chooses a doubles partner in the capital team, solemnity is definitely his most tacit choice.
But there are drawbacks.
Kong Zhendong was still thinking about it, but solemnly pointed out the drawbacks: "Zhendong, you still don't think about me!" What are your goals for participating in the National Games this time? Championship glory, of course, but also to reclaim your place in the national team. β
Kong Zhendong interrupted him and said: "Although we haven't trained together for more than a year, I have trained in detail for more than three months, and our tacit understanding can return to before." β
Solemnly smiled: "I don't doubt our tacit understanding at all, but my absolute strength is too weak, I know in my heart, I haven't even reached the strength of the ordinary main players of the provincial team, and against you, we may not be able to rush out of the group stage." What's the point of such a game, you still can't go back to the national team! β
Kong Zhendong was silent, although he had a lot of hot-blooded chicken soup to persuade Zheng Zheng, but Zheng Zheng said the truth.
In the Chinese doubles pair, there are many world-class famous players, such as Wang Tao Lu Ning, such as Zhang Lei Xiong Ke, such as Ma Wenhua Yu Shenpu, they all have the strength of the world's top eight.
Kong Zhendong asked himself if the group was solemn, no matter how good his personal performance is, it is impossible for him to be in the top eight in China.
Coach Zheng cleared the siege in time and said: "Zhendong, the doubles competition I just talked about is not only a way to select teammates within the team, but also in the National Games, doubles and mixed doubles competitions are allowed to be paired across provinces. Therefore, as long as you can find a suitable teammate and he is willing to pair with you across provinces, you can compete in a combination and get the ranking, which is also shared by the two provinces. The most typical ones are Wang Tao of the People's Liberation Army and Lu Ning of the Zhejiang Provincial Team. Originally, with their strength, with a weaker doubles teammate in their respective teams, they also had a chance to hit the gold medal. However, the top brass of both teams demanded that the gold medal be secured, so they competed in a recreation of last year's Olympic gold medal in a recreation of the classic combination that won the gold medal at last year's Games. β
Inter-provincial group pairs? Then Kong Zhendong has a lot of choice.
And the key is Kong Zhendong's trip to Sweden, which makes his horizontal board technique more comprehensive, both offensive and defensive with both arc circle technology, Gaiting's all-power unreasonable play and Waldner's guerrilla style of play He can also come easily.
Such a comprehensive tactical style of play, combined with different doubles opponents, will produce different effects.
Considering his inter-provincial teammates, Kong Zhendong's first thought was the straight board Liu Guobang.
But now that he has no place in the national team, he plays on both sides of the European horizontal board, and he is also not welcomed by the complacent guys in China.
Why put both of them under the odd comments of other people and the media?
Since Liu Guobang can't be chosen, Kong Zhendong's first thought is that he was the most perfect two senior brothers and doubles partners in the Heihe Provincial Team in his previous life.
In their last lives, Wang Yonggang and Wang Fei of the Heihe Provincial Team both played doubles with Kong Zhendong.
And because Wang Yonggang is the first brother of the Heihe Provincial Team, in the doubles combination with Kong Zhendong, his straight plate is often in the mainstream position, and Kong Zhendong has become the younger brother who checks and fills in the gaps for him.
In this life, Kong Zhendong has too little contact with this former big brother, and the tacit understanding on weekdays is not enough, so it is impossible to play such a strong doubles combination in his previous life.
Kong Zhendong put the first target on Fei Ge ~ Wang Fei.
Wang Fei took good care of her in his last life, and in this life, he and Wang Fei and Liu Guobang have been training together under Coach Yin Xiao for a long time, so the tacit understanding with each other is still super strong.
As soon as he thought of it, Kong Zhendong immediately rushed to the national team training center to discuss the right thing with Wang Fei.
Although the players of the national team are in the fate of disbandment and facing reselection, there is still a human touch to continue training in the training center at this stage.
When Kong Zhendong came to the training center to find Wang Fei, he also saw an unexpected acquaintance.
The fierce training with Wang Fei was in the team competition of the National Championships last year, when he played against the Northern Jiangsu team, the opponent's young genius, Qin Zhijian.
Seeing the table where the two were practicing, Coach Wu Jingping, who was still instructing them on their fast-paced batting, Kong Zhendong finally remembered.
At last year's National Championships, Coach Yin Xiao finally chose him and Liu Guobang, and Coach Wu Jingping chose Qin Zhijian, Wang Fei and finally Ma Lin.
Later, Mi Xingbang entrusted Wu Jingping to assist Li Jing in Lingnan to carry out the experiment of changing the straight board to the horizontal board, and Wu Jingping assigned Wang Fei to Coach Yin Xiao to help bring it.
Now I see Wu Jingping's guidance to Wang Fei and Qin Zhijian, not only the confrontation training of singles, but also some tacit combination requirements.
Coach Wu Jingping whimsically pulled two straight anti-rubber players to combine doubles?
No previous national team coach has ever had such courage.
Kong Zhendong also admires in his heart, Coach Wu Jingping is indeed the god-level coach he has ever seen, for new tactics, new playing methods, new combinations, and the most courageous to try.
It may also have something to do with his life experience.
Table tennis team coaches have always had two largest growth systems, the first is the major world champions, after retiring, gradually from the provincial team coach, foreign coaches and other ways, into the national team, and then grow into the national team head coach.
This is the main growth path of the national table tennis coaching staff. Xi Muen, Xu Shaofa, Li Furong, and now Mi Xingbang, who have retired, are all god-level coaches trained by this model.
Of course, in addition to the world champion who has grown into a champion coach, there are also a very small number of people who have become monks or unknown in their playing days to become super coaches.
The most famous of them are Wu Jingping, the current coach of the men's team, and Li Falcon, the future head coach of the women's team.
When Wu Jingping was a player, he was just an ordinary member of the Sichuan Provincial Team, and later grew up to be an ordinary coach of the Provincial Team. Until Mi Xingbang suddenly joined the national team, no one was available, and people were transferred from southern Sichuan. At that time, the coach who was transferred was unwilling to participate in the national table tennis mess that fell to the bottom, so he gave up this place to Wu Jingping.
Wu Jingping has only ascended from an ordinary player and an ordinary provincial team coach to the sky in one step, and has completed the transformation to a national team coach.
Li Falcon of the future women's team can be regarded as a lifelong enemy of Kong Zhendong in the coaching era. The two have always had a conflict with their coaching philosophy.
But I have to admit that Li Falcon, who was born as a volleyball player and became a table tennis coach halfway, can bring out several female model demons, and he does have his uniqueness.
Wu Jingping and Li Falcon both have the distinctive characteristics of halfway monks, sensitive, no prestige, not playing cards according to common sense, and urgently need disciples to support the faΓ§ade.
In this situation, Wu Jingping dared to try some world champions, and the meritorious coach cherished feathers and was unwilling to experiment with new playing styles and new combinations.
In this way, the pairing of Kong Zhendong and Wang Fei was in vain!