The national table tennis tradition, in order to promote the competition between the players, the national table tennis will carry out a large round robin competition in the group every year, the top 3 of the second team can directly enter the first team, the unsatisfactory results return to the provincial team, the first team of the big cycle results are not good and retreat to the second team, this way is very cruel, but in order to make the national table tennis in an undefeated position in the table tennis world, the coaching staff can only use this method.

In November 2016, Su Nian began to participate in the first round-robin competition in the group, which was her first opportunity after entering the national team.

"Don't be afraid, just play your own level", Coach Wang Qing told Su Nian, she is the coach of Su Nian after she came to the national team, and she is still very confident in Su Nian's level.

Wang Qing is the former coach of Province A, because she is good at cultivating women's table tennis, she was dug into the national team, and she has a daughter who is not much younger than Su Nian, not only coaching Su Nian in training, but also taking care of Su Nian's life, it is because of her that little Su Nian can have a comfort when she is homesick in BJ.

In the current women's table tennis, most of them are still good at backhanding, especially after changing the big ball, speed and strength have become the key to victory, for Su Nian, strength and speed are her most prominent skills, in the first round of elimination, Su Nian won no suspense, entering the second round of the round-robin, Su Nian needs to face the two opponents, the strength is very strong.

In the first game, Tanya, the chipper, is characterized by strong spin, and the direction of rotation is difficult to determine.

This is the first time Su Nian has met a chipper, and Coach Wang Qing encouraged her before going on the court: "Your ability to judge spin is very strong, and your forehand can basically be regarded as the nemesis of chipping, you look at Team Zhang, his forehand is the nemesis of all chippers, so don't be afraid, just play your own level", Su Nian nodded, and walked on the court with a towel.

But what she didn't expect was that the forehand could indeed restrain the chip, but the coach didn't tell herself that a ball had to hit so many boards, she used her forehand to pick almost every ball, no matter what angle, the opponent could turn the ball back, although the ball speed was slow, she could determine the direction of rotation, but her smash often required more than a dozen boards to score a point, slowly, Su Nian began to be anxious, and the whole person changed from a small meat bag to a soup bag.

Wang Qing saw Su Nian's anxiety, and she called a timeout.

"What are you anxious about? Don't care about the other party, you can just hit the ball she played, Tanya is not a top chipper now, a top chipper can have dozens of boards with a ball, you are in a hurry now, what if you meet a stronger chipper in the future? Coach Wang Qing frowned tightly, looking very serious, she felt that Su Nian should not make such a mistake.

Su Nian knew that she was in a hurry again, and she always wanted to pass it, but the most important thing in chipping was patience, she pursed her lips, snorted the sweat on her head with a towel, and walked on the field with a determined expression.

Another ball with a strong spin, left, smash!

It's back, smash again!

Board after board, Su Nian felt that her clothes were all soaked, and sweat swept across her eyes, but she didn't dare to blink, she needed to judge the rotation and landing point of the ball the moment it came.

"Huh~Huh~", finally, the last ball landed, Su Nian had no strength to celebrate, she felt that the strength of her whole body was exhausted, but she still walked over and shook Tanya's hand, panting and saying to the other party: "It's really hard to cut the ball."

Tanya also smiled, she looked at the little dumpling in front of her who looked like a soup dumpling that had just come out of the pot, pinched Su Nian's fleshy cheek affectionately, and said, "You are great."

Everyone in the national table tennis team is like this, everyone does their best on the court, but they are always a family off the court.

The schedule of this day is finally over, Su Nian is glad, fortunately the chipping is the last game, otherwise I really don't know if I still have the strength to play the next game. It was also because of this ball that Su Nian realized that her physical strength was still very lacking, she lay on the bed and secretly thought, if she successfully entered the first team, the future schedule would only become more and more intensive, it seemed that physical training still had to be strengthened, and after three seconds, she began to snore quietly.

After a night's rest, the next day was the last game for Su Nian to enter the first team, and it was also the one she was most unsure of.

The opponent is Ren Jun, with strong strength and high quality of the return ball, it is easy to force the opponent to retreat and cause mistakes, but Su Nian is good at near billiards.

In the first game, sure enough, no matter how Su Nian returned the ball, the opponent's strength was too strong, standing near the platform to hit the ball would come out, and then being rushed by the opponent, Su Nian could only withdraw from the stage to play with the opponent to hold the ball, and retreating from the stage means that the strength must be strengthened, but for Su Nian, who is less than 16 years old, strength is her weakest point, two games, Su Nian has not been able to find a way to break the game, and soon the big score is 0:2 behind.

During the break in the second game, Coach Wang Qing reminded Su Nian, "Don't think about playing with the opponent, you are weak, but your table ball is better controlled, try playing the table ball with the opponent", Su Nian gulped water, lowered his eyes and thought about the coach's words, then nodded and turned to play.

"Su Nian, don't let yourself regret it", Coach Zhang Qian suddenly said behind him.

Su Nian paused, didn't look back, she knew what she wanted.

At the beginning of the third game, Su Nian served, she rolled her eyes, and quickly calculated the scoring points of the first two games in her heart, and suddenly sent a short ball in the middle, Ren Jun didn't expect it, she thought that Su Nian would continue the tactics of the first two games to open a long ball, and she had already stood a little back, in the face of the sudden short ball, she didn't react, she could only choose to swing short first, but the strength in her hand was not well controlled, the ball was high, Su Nian seized the opportunity, a burst of picks, and scored.

"That's right, that's it", Coach Zhang Qian cheered for the ball on the sidelines.

Ren Jun noticed that Su Nian had changed her skills and tactics, but she didn't know if this ball was a coincidence, so she decided to continue the tactics of the first two games, and directly drove the long ball to form a stalemate, Ren Jun had a great grasp of her own strength.

But I didn't expect that Su Nian retreated, Su Nian began to play her forehand, unlike the first and second games that have been using the backhand, the power of the forehand is different from the backhand, the forehand can use the strength of the waist and abdomen, which makes Su Nian not afraid of retreating, but retreating has become Su Nian's advantage, coupled with her basic skills of training from a small pace, although she is small, the area of the platform does not look large, but the flexibility of running allows her to fight back at any angle of the ball, and the situation quickly stood on Su Nian's side.

The score came to 7:4, another long ball, Ren Jun hit the ball very high, everyone thought that Su Nian couldn't hit this ball, after all, Su Nian was only 1.55 meters tall at this time, but at that moment, Su Nian thought of a sneak watch Jing Xing practice, the same high ball, he retreated one after another, and then buckled down at the highest point of the ball, she imitated Jing Xing's movements at that time, jumped up, and then burst the buckle, and the ball came to the stage.

There was a burst of applause outside the court, and everyone was amazed that Su Nian could hit such a ball.

I don't know when Jing Xing came to the side of the game, Zhao Yuan turned his head and asked Jing Xing: "You teach this little girl in private, isn't this ball often played by you?" ”

Jing Xing also felt strange, watching the ball road, it was indeed his own skill, but he hadn't taught this little girl, he thought that there were basically two of them left in the stadium every night, although they didn't communicate, but maybe the little girl remembered this trick when she saw herself playing.

When you see it, you will imitate and play it, this talent is really not ordinarily strong, Jing Xing thought silently.

After the smash, Su Nian seemed to open himself at once, whether it was the opponent's long ball, the holding ball, or his own tabletop ball, Su Nian felt that he was beginning to be at ease, and soon won three games in a row and reversed the game, which also meant that Su Nian got the qualification to enter the first team.

After the last ball landed, Su Nian raised his fist high, turned around with a shout, looked at the coach behind him, put down the racket, trotted over and hugged her, and a trace of tears flashed in his eyes.