Lehigh High School Boys Tennis Club

The rules of the World Cup group draw are as follows.

The eight seeded teams do not participate in the lottery, and are directly assigned to the eight group areas according to the numbers.

There are four teams in each group. After the group battle (one-way), according to the points, the top two teams in each group qualify.If it is grouped according to eight numbers and labeled with letters, it is A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H.

Last year's rule was to redraw after the group stage, but this year's rules have been slightly adjusted again, including this: the redraw for the knockout stage has been cancelled.

Instead, the rule is to directly cross-play according to the ranking of the qualifying group.

The first quarterfinals of the previous year were grouped and sorted in the order of A to H, so they also followed the corresponding rules when cross-playing.

Group A will face off with Group H, Group B will face off with Group G, Group C will face off with Group F, and Group D will face off with Group E. It is guaranteed that the top two teams in the previous year will also be eliminated in the second year. Meet in the final - if they don't get weaker.

On the basis of such a crossover, the ranking crossover within the group will be carried out.

That is, the first in Group A will play against the second in Group H, the second in Group A will play against the first in Group H, and so on.

Wait until the top eight are determined in the top sixteen, and then continue the head-to-tail duel.

In this way, there may be a situation where the two teams in Group A both enter the semi-finals, but it is impossible to have a second duel within the group unless they reach the final.

There is no doubt that the Japanese team is in Group A, and the remaining eight have also become the seeds of other groups in order.

The top eight will not participate in the lottery, but will line up next to each other.

The organizing committee will read out the names of the teams according to last year's names, and draw lots according to the order of ranking.

This also means that No.30 No. [-] actually has no choice.

The lottery was carried out very quickly, and after the lottery was over, the results of the group schedule were also available (as shown below, brackets represent rankings).

Group A: Japan (1), Turkey (25), England (13), South Korea (19).

Group B: United States (2), Greece (24), Australia (17), Belgium (10).

Group C: Germany (3), Czech Republic (23), China (12), Taiwan (29).

Group D: Spain (4), South Africa (11), Netherlands (18) Republic of Summer (32).

Group E: France (5), Denmark (16), Sweden (22), Thailand (28).

Group F: Switzerland (6), Argentina (21), Mexico (15), India (27).

Group G: Canada (7), Italy (20), Portugal (14), Croatia (31).

Group H: Russia (8), Serbia (30), Brazil (26), Ala Menorma (9).

The group matches are played every day, and all the round-robin matches can be played in a total of six days to get the corresponding points.

This is followed by three days of rest and the knockout rounds begin.

The knockout round started from the top [-], a total of four rounds, this time there will be one day between each round, a total of seven days.

In other words, the overall schedule of the World Cup has a total of 16 days, and the No. [-] day will hold an award ceremony on the spot after the final.

The top-ranked teams naturally have preferential treatment. For example, the Japanese team in the group stage arranged matches every other day.

On the first day, Japan played against Turkey, on the second day Turkey played against South Korea, on the third day Japan played against England, on the fourth day England played against South Korea, on the fifth day Japan played against South Korea, and on the sixth day Turkey played against England.

And if you study the groups carefully, you can probably see that the most important game is the game against England on the third day.

"We also played a practice match with the UK." Yukimura said during the meeting. "Of course, neither side did their best, but at least they have a certain understanding of each other's information."

"Have you ever fought with South Korea, too?" Tan Taiyi raised his hand because he was a little cautious after participating in the meeting for the second time.

Yukimura smiled and nodded: "It is true that there is a match against South Korea in the first army practice match, but at that time our opponent was a South Korean commercial team. The overlapping quota with the national team...should there be only one, or two?"

"Two." Liu continued, "Even if it's a commercial team, it's the most famous commercial team I'm looking for."

"That's natural."

After briefly discussing the tactics of the group stage and clarifying that the tactical focus is on the UK, the meeting was adjourned.

The list of players needs to be discussed by the coaching staff, and they can also put forward their own opinions and ideas.In general, there are three games in the group stage, plus 24 substitutes are required (in fact, the roster stipulates that there are 21 substitutes, and the substitutes can be decided on the spot), and the number of appearances cannot be repeated.

If the results of the first two games are good, then the last game can also allow more rookies to play.

Of course, this also depends on the competition of other national teams in the group stage.

The next day is the game against Turkey, so the list of players will be announced in the evening.

Turkey is the lowest-ranked national team in this group, which means that Turkey was also eliminated in the group stage last year, and has a high probability of ranking fourth.The ranking of each year is mainly based on the performance ranking of the previous year.Of course, it is difficult to compare who is stronger and weaker for those who rank third and fourth in the group, so they will comprehensively refer to the results of previous years.

Referring to the results of today's match against Sweden and Sweden's ranking, the coaching staff also came to a certain conclusion, and then decided on the list of players based on the conclusions of the strength assessment and the opinions of Yukimura's feedback meeting.

"Doubles [-], Sanada Genichiro, Tamagawa Yoshio. Doubles [-], Sengoku Kiyomi, Ho Chotaro. Singles [-], Zazen Mitsu, Singles [-], Kite Eishiro, Singles [-], Kuranosuke Shiraishi."

In fact, the roster with the British team was first determined, and after the exclusion of personnel, it was watched to arrange the match with Turkey and South Korea.

This also takes into account the guiding relationship between seniors and seniors.

Of course, most of the high school students present were freshmen, so the so-called mentoring relationship of the seniors was somewhat nostalgic.

In the game against Turkey the next day, nothing unexpected happened.

The cooperation between Sanada and Tamagawa is not too tacit, but Sanada also recognizes Tamagawa's strength—otherwise he would not agree to Tamagawa's candidate status as a minister at the very beginning.

In comparison, Sanada is the one who cares most about the ranking of strength, otherwise he would not have been wanting to talk to Nioh about the vice minister after losing to Nioh.

Later, after Kirihara experienced the World Cup, his strength had undergone a qualitative change, and Li Hai's ministers were naturally out of position again.

Compared to Yukimura and Yanagi who both had the idea of ​​"what are these things", Sanada is very calm about such changes.

Tamagawa also knows Sanada well.

A year has passed, and Vice Minister Sanada is still the same.

It is entirely possible to have such an idea.

And he is good at working with people.

This game somewhat made Sanada take Tamagawa with him.

Yuchuan can feel the intention of the coaching staff, so he will actively cooperate.

Correspondingly, the match between Qianshi and Feng mainly considered the compatibility of the two people.

Qianshi is good at stamina, and Feng is good at cooperating with stamina attacking players.

Of course, the playing styles of Qianshi and Shido are very different, but in the case of temporary cooperation, such a combination is already the result of considering the degree of tacit understanding and adaptability.

The performance of the Turkish national team is not much different from previous years.

Therefore, the Japanese team won the first two doubles games quite easily.

This is of course also due to the confidence and psychological confidence that holding a champion brings to the players.

Caiqian's singles three encountered a hard fight.

From the perspective of personal strength, Caiqian is regarded as the best among the new generation of players.

He, Kirihara and Hiyoshi are among the top three players in this school year.

Based on the current relationship between victory and defeat, Kirihara is stronger than him and Hiyoshi, and he and Hiyoshi are evenly matched.

But Turkey obviously also understands that they will be in a tough fight against Japan, so they arranged the main player in the singles three.

Türkiye's No.1 is really not that easy to deal with.

In the third game, Caiqian lost the game because of lack of physical strength.

The junior high school league is still a game system, so even if the junior high school students go through the U17 training, they still have a certain weakness in physical fitness.

After waiting for the second singles, Mu Shou, who finally played, showed his demeanor as a killer.

He was too aggrieved, or rather, he was aggrieved for too long.

There are not many violent tennis players in the national team this year, at least not as many as last year.

The teaching assistants were a little bit lost on this point for a while—or specifically referring to Tono in the teaching assistants.

For Tanejima and Irie, the research is that the new national team has finally changed the situation where the west is strong and the east is weak, and more Kanto players support the national team.As for Tohno, what he is studying is the new batch of national teams. It seems that apart from Kirihara, there is no one who can "inherit the mantle"?

Then he waited for Mu Shou's request for special training.

Although Mushou and Kimijima (and Marui) were put together in the First Army Challenge last year, but for Tohno, since he has reconciled with Kimishima, he will naturally not care about his juniors.

After more than half a month of special training with Tono in the training camp, Mu Shou has also changed a lot.

And this appearance in the World Cup is the best stage for him to show his changes.

Just right, it's still match point.

Thinking of this, the wooden hand pushed the glasses, and murderous aura overflowed from the eyes behind the lenses.

In the game that ended 2-0, he didn't keep his hands. It was a rare bloody scene in today's game.

The Turkish player even tried to rush over with resentment, but was stopped by the referee.

After a warning, the opponent cursed and returned to his original position.

Then the referee also issued a warning to Wooden.

"Don't do this next time." Yukimura and Kite said when they returned to the sidelines.

"Why? Have you softened your heart?" Mu Shou snorted coldly.

Yukimura smiled and shook his head: "No, it's just that the referee may not make a judgment in favor of us. If you are convicted of violating the rules, we will suffer the loss."

Such a statement made Mu Shou's frown involuntarily loosen.

And he also vented the unhappiness accumulated in his heart, so he nodded readily: "I will pay more attention next time."

Anyway, next time it will be a knockout match.

It is impossible for him to play again in the group stage.

And when it comes to the knockout round, there will naturally be a knockout round—who knows what will happen then?

The author has something to say:

I wrote that the US team was second, but I didn’t expect XF to update and update Spain to win... But this article is still written according to the US team’s second (last year).

And the ranking in the list of the group stage was changed according to the ranking of the manga this year, but it was basically rearranged according to the top [-], and I just filled in the ranking after the [-]th (refer to the ranking written by XF myself) .

This way of grouping, one is to play against the British team once (and let Atobe play some games), and the other is to play against South Korea (but in this article, it is considered a melee between Japan and South Korea, hhh, and because the Korean team cannot be formed I won’t go into details), and then I want China to win ORZ in Taiwan, China

You can look at the battle table and calculate who will face you in the next few rounds hhh