Wang Chuqin humorously responded to the damage to the racket: he chose a fixed pit position when going to the toilet, and learned from the experience of the Paris Olympics

In the trailer of the exclusive interview program "Face to Face to Face: Wang Chuqin's Road to Transformation" which will be broadcast on June 8, the main player of the Chinese table tennis team, Wang Chuqin, publicly talked about the damage to the racket in the Doha World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, and responded to the psychological challenges behind the two racket storms in humorously: "I have to choose a fixed pit even when going to the toilet." This habit once made it difficult for Wang Chuqin to accept sudden changes, but the lesson of "rack being cut off" in the Paris Olympics taught him to prepare in advance, and then benefited from the Doha World Table Tennis Championships.

Faced with the host's question about "forced to change the main battle racket", Wang Chuqin admitted that he had a strong preference for order: "Actually, it's just to overcome it, because maybe I am a person who follows the rules and is more accustomed to what I believe, so I don't want to change it. For example, if I go to the toilet, I will choose a fixed pit, which is this. During the game, including the table I trained, I will try my best to find it. The platform I practiced yesterday. "

This dependence suffered a heavy blow in the Paris Olympics. After winning the mixed doubles table tennis championship at the Paris Olympics, he placed his main shot on the sidelines and took a photo with the national flag. Unexpectedly, among the reporters who rushed forward, a photographer stepped on the racket. The video on the scene showed that coach Xiao Zhan picked up the broken racket and questioned angrily. Wang Chuqin collapsed: "I was helpless at that moment, and I repeatedly thought about why it was me?" Although he played Later, it was emphasized that "you can play with the secondary board", but the impact has already appeared. In the men's singles top 32, he lost to Swedish player Moregod. Technical analysis pointed out that the main shot rubber needs to be hit thousands of times before it can achieve the ideal friction state, and even if the performance difference of the backup shot performance is only 1%, it is enough to influence the performance of the top players

On May 19 this year, similar plots were staged again. Before the second round of the mixed doubles of the Doha World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Chuqin found a crease on the top of the racket rubber. The sponge cracked, and coach Xiao Zhan protested to the referee on the spot: "Someone deliberately broke the rubber!" But the referee refused to hold him accountable on the grounds of "the inspection process compliant". In the end, Wang Chuqin changed the backup shot and went on the court. Although he defeated the Brazilian group Hugo/Takahashi 3-0, he still couldn't hide his anger after the game: "The racket was intact before the inspection, but it broke when it entered the court. Why was it me again?" This incident pushed the loophole in the management of the ITT League to the forefront. Former national player Guo Yan analyzed that the referee might scratch when using a red paper bag to encapsulate the racket. Rubber; there are many parties questioning the standardization of the referee's operation. Before the men's singles final of the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Hao's racket was torn open by the inspectors, causing him to lose after being hastily bonded.

Wang Chuqin's metaphor of "toilet pit" in the interview seems to be ridiculous, but it actually reveals the psychological characteristics of top athletes and the ultimate pursuit of stability. He transformed the setbacks of the Paris Olympics into a strategy of "actively training backup shots", which further demonstrates the sublimation of professional qualities. , in the past, I thought the motherboard was the most convenient, and Wang Chuqin almost never touched the secondary board. Now he understood that strangeness is the biggest enemy. When Doha changed the camera, he became very calm. It turned out that after Paris, he tried to train with the secondary board every day. This change echoed the theory of "preventive adaptation" in sports psychology: when athletes preset the worst scene and practiced repeatedly, the sudden crisis was no longer fatal, just as he laughed and said that "you may have to prepare five rackets", the two "rack disasters" did not overwhelm him, but instead Forging a more tenacious competitive personality

From the anger collapse in Paris to the calm response of Doha, Wang Chuqin's "rack growth history" reflects the maturity of the new generation of Chinese athletes. He used humor to relieve pressure and fought against accidents with pragmatism. Whether the ITTF can respond with an equal professional attitude will determine the future credibility of table tennis. When this "fixed big boy" learns to adapt to the situation, the manager of this sport should keep up with the pace