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Wei Cheng qualified for the singles of the World Table Tennis Championships in the third round of the through match.At that time, there was only one spot left for the singles qualification. The national team has always been fair about the quota for the competition. This is Weicheng's last chance. If she can't get it this time, then she will miss Suzhou, and it will even affect the Rio Olympic squad. decision situation.

Ke Zhiyan sat on the spectator seats to help her record every round, paying attention to every movement, every swing, and slowly wrote several pages of details to pay attention to in the notebook spread on her lap.After the game, if Wei Cheng needs it, he will help Wei Cheng to replay.

But most of them were Wei Cheng sitting and drinking water and eating, and Ke Zhiyan went on stage to help her demonstrate.The details of a serve can be repeated more than ten times. She doesn't even bother to practice her own serve, but stands in front of the table at night and repeats the same action over and over again.

Until Wei Cheng, who was deeply trapped in the game, understood how to take the next board.

The last place lived up to expectations and was taken away by Weicheng. In fact, the coaching staff was also worried about what to do if it was not Weicheng but other young players who did not have much experience in major competitions. In such a big scene, if you play smoothly in front of your own people and win the championship, you may not be able to avoid stage fright at the World Table Tennis Championships. At this time, experienced veterans will know how to adapt to the scene and mobilize themselves, and how to use their opponents to be affected by the scene Then he suddenly let go and won the game.

Fortunately, Wei Cheng still got it.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Ke Zhiyan couldn't wait to jump up and give Wei Cheng a big hug after a symbolic award ceremony: "Sister Cheng is amazing!"

Wei Cheng hadn't gotten out of the game yet, when she heard this, she gave Ke Zhiyan a smile, but with some provocation: "Next time, we'll see you in the finals."

Ke Zhiyan was not afraid, squinted at her, and smiled, "I won't be soft."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Wei Cheng patted Ke Zhiyan's head: "Then give it a try."

Ke Zhiyan's eyes crooked with a smile, "Okay."

In the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, Ke Zhiyan directly advanced to the group knockout round as the number one seed in singles.

In the third round of the women's singles, Ke Zhiyan played against a Romanian player. The opponent's name, Ke Zhiyan, had never even been heard.As soon as the lottery list came out, Director Zhong held a pre-match mobilization meeting with a few singles players, and then took time to raise points one by one. Ke Zhiyan, Wei Cheng, Wang Ying, and Sun Yuqing were all favorites to win the championship. The worst is the worst, and the four of them have to guarantee to meet in the quarter-finals.

It has always been the fine tradition of the national table tennis team to fight against foreign countries first and then compete for the championship.It was the first time for the four of them to nod in unison. Wei Cheng, who had just been promoted from the vice-team to the captain of the women's team, was jointly pushed out by the two vice-teams, Wang Ying and Sun Yuqing: "Captain, hurry up and issue a military order!"

The sudden close contact with Director Zhong stunned Wei Cheng for a moment, and then she immediately turned her head to stare at the two culprits.Ke Zhiyan was watching the show outside the circle with a smile, and even booed in a good mood: "I'm definitely looking forward to Sister Cheng's will."

Wang Ying felt that this tsundere little lion was becoming more and more like a dog.

After the meeting, Director Zhong slipped Ke Zhiyan to the side for a small meeting. He was afraid that the young players would lose their mentality in the face of an unknown player and send their opponents to advance. Ke Zhiyan hurriedly promised that he would never underestimate the enemy.

Director Zhong asked: "Do you want to win the championship?"

Of course I want to.Ke Zhiyan smiled at him: "Come on step by step, now Sister Ying and Sister Cheng are here, anyone can take me home."

After hearing this, Director Zhong wanted to cut her down: "Can't you have some ambition? Wang Yingwei, how many times have you lost to both of them? The important thing is not to be stage fright, do you understand?"

"Understood, I understand. But Director Zhong, even if I don't have stage fright, I will meet them after the semi-finals. It's really early to meet them. I said I'm going step by step, right? "Ke Zhiyan whispered: "After all, you were the one who said at the meeting that we should keep a low profile when interviewing reporters, and not directly point at the champion..."

"you……"

Ke Zhiyan shrank his neck, smiled and rubbed the soles of his feet with oil: "Remember, remember, I was the one who was humble just now, I will definitely do my best to reassure you."

Before the start of the third round of the women's singles, Ke Zhiyan ran into Wei Cheng who pushed the door in while preparing for the players' lounge.

She was a little surprised: "Your game is not after me, why are you here so early?"

Wei Cheng was busy taking the equipment and racket out of the bag and brushing the rubber, and found a sofa to sit down on her own, and said flatly, "I came to see you at the scene."

Ke Zhiyan folded his arms and leaned against the sofa, "You came to see if I'm ready?"

"It's just the third round of women's singles, and we haven't even reached the quarter-finals." Wei Cheng still held the glue in her hand, and looked up at Ke Zhiyan strangely: "What am I worried about you?"

"I thought you would be like Zhong Dao and the others, thinking that I was too young to be calm, and suddenly I was hit by a black horse or something."

"It's not the first time you've played in the World Table Tennis Championships. You haven't been like this every time. Why did you make such a low-level mistake at the age of 20?"

"Maybe it's because Shi Shi was a teenager, and at the age of 20, he considered himself very high because of his seniority? Isn't this kind of example everywhere..." Ke Zhiyan shrugged, and suddenly felt that his question was really stupid, but when he said it, She couldn't take it back if she opened her mouth, she could only hope that Wei Cheng would understand what she meant.

Wei Cheng just looked up at her and continued to brush glue on the board, her tone was faint as if she was describing a simple matter: "Are you them?"

Ke Zhiyan let out a pleasant smile from his chest: "No."

Wei Cheng turned her head towards the door: "You should play." Outside the door stood the staff who had just knocked on the door and came in to urge Ke Zhiyan.

"Then, I'll be waiting for you at the top sixteen." Ke Zhiyan was in a good mood, and waved to Wei Cheng when he was about to leave the door, "Looking forward to meeting you."

At this time, the attendance rate was not high, and there were not a lot of spotlights focused on the same table in the stadium, and even the several playing fields surrounded by baffles in the entire stadium would affect each other.

This kind of chaos, ping pong balls flying all over the field, and various referee voices appearing at different times will last for a few more games, at least until the quarter-finals, this will not be the perfect venue that all players unanimously dream of .

However, these messy environments do not affect top athletes. Generally speaking, the two knockout matches before the quarter-finals are an excellent opportunity for them to warm up.

Although Ke Zhiyan carefully studied all the few information she could find on this unknown player before the match, she still overestimated the strength gap between herself and her opponent.At 11:1 in the first game, the only point she lost was after she deliberately put water on her opponent's bald head. Ke Zhiyan thought, she acted like she was going to the European Open at the end of the year to participate in the finals of the Table Tennis Federation. Shameless Like grabbing points.

After winning the second game easily, Ke Zhiyan took a sip of her lip moisturiser during the intermission, and asked her off-court coach: "Director Zhong, do I want to practice the first three rebounds of serving and receiving?"

Zhong Zheming waved his hand, with a look of "you are free", "Be careful of your own proportions."

Ke Zhiyan put down the water, took the towel and walked into the arena.While thinking: the opponent in this game is really weak in Director Zhong's mind.

In the third round of the women's singles, Ke Zhiyan played a total of four rounds. The first two rounds were resolved quickly, and the last two rounds were mainly a small warm-up for the next game. Director Zhong was afraid that she would lose too much energy and ordered her not to play in each round. Conceding more than five goals, Ke Zhiyan ended the game with a score of 11:1,11, 2,11:3,11, 4:[-], and [-]:[-] in each game.

Director Zhong looked at her with complicated eyes, Ke Zhiyan smiled and went back to the lounge with the suitcase.

On the way, he ran into Wei Cheng who was carrying a suitcase to the stadium in the athlete's aisle. Ke Zhiyan reached out to give him a high-five, but Wei Cheng rubbed his head: "You're dead."

The quarter-finals of the women's singles began in the afternoon of the same day. Ke Zhiyan's draw was okay. It was at [-] pm, with a six-hour break in between, and the opponent was not too strong.

She didn't go back to the hotel, she ate the national team's special lunch in the lounge and squatted on the sofa for a while with her coat on, and waited for Wei Cheng to come and call her after lunch, and the two of them went to the side hall to warm up together.

The opponent in the quarter-finals was a Japanese player, Shirakawa Yicang's junior sister, and a cute girl who was fed by the Chinese table tennis team's wolf raising plan.

The overall strength of the Japanese team in recent years has been good, and together with Singapore, they have been listed as the number one thorn in the eyes of the Chinese team.Ke Zhiyan watched the video when preparing for the match, and knew that the opponent was a fast-breaker type. Although he was a little short in stature, he was quite fast.

"However, her experience in major competitions may still be a bit poor. When I led 2:1 in the fourth game, she was obviously weak. She was hesitant to handle many balls, so timing, speed, etc. It is no longer an advantage. I think this may be the reason why she lost." Ke Zhiyan said in an interview after the game.

The reporter interviewed was a familiar CCTV reporter, and it was relatively easy to communicate with the athletes, "Then what do you think is your advantage?"

"Uh, maybe he played a few years longer than her." Ke Zhiyan joked, and she and the reporters all laughed for a moment—everyone knew that Ke Zhiyan was the youngest among the main players in various countries.

After the interview, he followed the coach back to the hotel to rest. On the way, Ke Zhiyan sent a message to Wei Cheng on his spare mobile phone: "I feel pretty good." she.

She thought for a while, and then sent another sentence: "You also have to work hard."