Table Tennis: Super Grand Slam

Chapter 5: Defeat Liang Long and enter the first team, and obtain the entry "God rewards hard work"

"Aaron, I hope you will give your all in your match against Li Ying tomorrow. You must win this match!"

At the beginning, Qin Yucheng said something shocking.

Liang Long was a little puzzled and said with a smile: "Coach, tomorrow is just an ordinary round-robin match within the team. I will definitely give it my all, but we must win. Is it so important?"

Qin Yucheng smiled and said, "Aaron, you are only 20 years old now, so you don't know much yet. But as your head coach, I want to ask you, don't you have any idea of ​​hitting the Grand Slam?"

Liang Long blurted out: "How is that possible? Coach Dong, the head coach of the men's team, failed to make the breakthrough, and Hou Bingguang, the coach of the women's team who is known as the twin stars with him, did not win the Grand Slam. And the three core players of Qianlima are tied to each other, and none of them has won the Grand Slam. On the contrary, in the current global table tennis world, only foreign countries have won the Grand Slam. It's not like the women's team, which has already produced three Grand Slams!"

Because at present, the Xia country national table tennis team has not yet produced a Grand Slam player who has won the three singles titles of the 'Olympic Games, World Championships, and World Table Tennis Championships', so every table tennis player wants to become the first Grand Slam table tennis player of Xia country.

"Since you want to become a Grand Slam winner, to be honest, I think your biggest competitor in the future will not be Kong Fengge, but Li Ying!" After Qin Yucheng said this, Liang Long was stunned.

Liang Long never thought that his head coach Qin Yucheng would think so highly of Li Ying.

"Coach, is Li Ying really that strong? He is only 16 years old, and he just joined the national second team this year. He hasn't been in the second team for long." Liang Long felt that Li Ying was qualified to be a member of the national first team.

But Liang Long has never thought about surpassing Kong Fengge and becoming his strongest competitor in the Grand Slam.

"Li Ying has played fourteen games now and has not lost a single one. In fact, he won every game in three straight sets. His impact is very strong. Originally, the coaching staff decided that 'Dragon, Phoenix and Turtle' would replace Qianlima and become the new generation of core players of the national table tennis team. However, Li Ying's sudden rise has at least given head coach Dong Yaobang a headache." Qin Yucheng said with his heart.

"Of course, the head coach has always adhered to a philosophy, survival of the fittest. The capable ones will be promoted, and the mediocre ones will be demoted. You also know that even though he is Kong Fengge's head coach, Kong Fengge was once demoted to the provincial team by him. Of course, Kong Fengge went from the provincial team to the current national team. It is because of this that I concluded that Li Ying is your competitor for the Grand Slam. Although you haven't officially played against each other for the first time, I think this match is related to many things!"

Liang Long seemed to understand, but he knew that the head coach would not harm him.

"Coach, I understand. I will try my best to win tomorrow's game!" Liang Long said in a deep voice.

"Of course, you will all be teammates of the national team in the future. First of all, you must remember that you are members of the Xia National Table Tennis Team. At any time, you must first think about winning glory for the country, and then do your best to achieve your own results!" Qin Yucheng said in a deep voice.

Liang Long nodded in agreement!

……

Li Ying serves first.

Li Ying is confident!

Because in the past two days, I have played thousands of games with Liang Long in the fantasy space.

It can be said that Li Ying understands Liang Long's skills and tactics better than Liang Long himself.

then!

The situation on the ping-pong table is one-sided!
Liang Long performed at his strongest peak level, but was still suppressed by Li Ying.

Liang Long's ball path was completely seen through.

Liang Long's forehand is very strong, but Li Ying is stronger.

At present, Liang Long's backhand is still a little weak.

This point was not obvious when facing Kong Fengge and Xu Guinian. He could use his powerful forehand to cover up his backhand which had not yet been fully practiced.

but.

Now facing Li Ying, the backhand has become a fatal flaw.

Li Ying won three straight sets and defeated Liang Long!
Liang Long felt bitter.

But on the surface, he still smiled.

"Aying, congratulations!"

In this way, the Grand Cycle Tournament came to an end. Li Ying, with an impressive record of 21 wins, entered the national first team with his head held high.

at the same time.

The career panel immediately gave feedback.

[Successfully enter the national first team and be rewarded with the entry 'God rewards hard work'! ]

[God rewards hard work: one point of effort, one point of gain. As long as there is practice, there will be progress! ]

Li Ying was very happy.

The final game points are counted.

Among the seven members of the national table tennis team's second team, only Li Ying made it to the national table tennis team's first team.

Before disbanding, the men's team head coach Dong Yaobang gave a speech.

"Let us first congratulate Li Ying for making it to the national first team!"

There was warm applause at the scene.

"After discussion with the coaching staff, Meng Li and Liang Long will participate in the men's singles event at this year's Table Tennis World Cup. Daqian is not qualified, and Ma Qing will need to adapt to the change in inorganic glue as soon as possible."

After these words were spoken, warm applause broke out again, and Li Ying also clapped hard.

"The next main task of the national table tennis team is for Meng Li and Liang Long to prepare for the World Cup. The other main players will prepare for the national table tennis championships to be held in the provincial port city of Jiangning this year. Then, it will be the major open tournaments of the ITTF Professional Tour. If you want to participate in the open tournaments, you can actively sign up with the coaching staff. After discussion with the coaching staff, the list will be announced."

The training ended and the team disbanded.

Li Ying needs to move dormitory from the second team dormitory to the first team dormitory.

"Aying, do you have too much luggage?" Although he had just lost to Li Ying, Liang Long adjusted himself quickly and put it down immediately. After all, this was just an ordinary round-robin match within the team.

Thank you, Brother Long. No thanks. I don’t have much luggage, just some clothes and books.” Li Ying said with a smile.

"Aying, come and share a room with me!" At this moment, Chen Daqian said with a smile.

"Ah!" Li Ying was shocked.

Although he had joined the national team not long ago, he still knew that in the national table tennis team, the coaches all had single rooms, and the three main players of the team all had single rooms. Everyone else lived in multi-person rooms, including double rooms, triple rooms, and quadruple rooms.

Li Ying used to be in the second team and lived in a four-person room.

"What? Are you afraid of me?" Chen Daqian pretended to be angry.

"That's not because I'm afraid!" Li Ying said with a smile.

"That's true. You can beat me, so why would you be afraid of me?" Chen Daqian joked.

Li Ying: “…”

Li Ying moved in and lived with Chen Daqian. Although it was a single room, there were actually two beds. However, Chen Daqian was the only one living there before.

This is the treatment for the core players, and it was deliberately created by head coach Dong Yaobang in order to stimulate the younger generation to speed up the seizure of power so that the national table tennis team can have a normal inheritance and handover.

Li Ying didn't have much stuff, so he packed it up quickly.

"Aying, let's go to the training hall to practice!" Chen Daqian, who was extremely self-disciplined, pulled Li Ying and went to the training hall.

(End of this chapter)