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, meaning 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 start the road of reversal after losing in the first two games. In the fifth game, the score of 1 1 opened the gap with Du, a Shanghai player from China. 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 to concentrate more:

In today's table tennis world, the strength of athletes from all countries and regions is constantly improving, the competition intensity is getting bigger and bigger, and the confrontation is getting more and more fierce. 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, in a sense, help them pay more attention to their opponents' hitting actions and incoming balls.