What did Guo Ping shout when he won the game?

The audience often hears table tennis players shout an English word "TROY" after hitting the ball. Table tennis originated in England. In the Encyclopedia of English, "TROY" is a slang word, which means to continue and make persistent efforts. Now it has become a kind of words to boost morale and hit opponents.

In the women's singles 1/4 final that ended this morning, the top seed Chen Meng said "Troy" in the third game, which helped her to start the road of reversal after losing in the first two games. Among them, in the fifth game, the score of 1 1 opened the gap with China and Hongkong player Du. In the end, Chen Meng won four games in a row and continued to attack the women's singles gold medal.

Shouting on the court is actually encouraging yourself and making your energy more focused:

In today's table tennis world, the strength of athletes from various countries and regions is constantly improving, the competition intensity is getting bigger and bigger, and the confrontation is getting fiercer and fiercer. According to the American Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, when visual stimuli and auditory stimuli come from the same object, it can often help individuals pay more attention to visual stimuli.

In other words, the shouts of table tennis players after hitting the ball can help them pay more attention to their opponents' hitting actions and incoming balls in a certain sense.