Ping Pong Life

Chapter 245 Bright Sword and Sacrificial Flag

The traditional two powerhouses in European table tennis, Germany and Sweden, have experienced very different situations in the past ten years or so.

German masters came out in large numbers, Bayer was close to Ding Haishenzhen, undefeated all year round, and the stability was frighteningly strong. Then Wolff rose. Although not as terrible as Bayer, he also had an extremely brilliant record in Europe, but it was a little quiet in the past two years.

But it doesn't matter, because before Wolff entered the trough, Heathfield rose again.

Sithfield's state is extremely unstable, but he is tall, long-legged, and powerful. When he hits crazy, his terrifying backhand quality is even comparable to Hooker's. Wonderful.

Originally, this was scary enough, but in recent years, Germany has seen a rise of rookies, such as Qiu Shang, a Chinese player who made a small splash in this Hong Kong Open.

In fact, Qiu Shang also has a doubles partner who is equally strong, and both of them are extremely favored by Raulskoff.

The reason why Germany has been prosperous these years is that they have a very complete domestic club league, which has attracted a large number of European players to play. Therefore, Germany has done a good job in terms of overall level and follow-up talent training.

Relatively speaking, Sweden is like a dilapidated nobleman with no successors.

The former Laowa, known as the No.1 in the world table tennis world, has the supreme status today.

This master once suppressed the entire Huaping by himself. Huaping used three to four generations to attack Laowa and study Laowa. In the end, he dare not say that he really defeated Laowa.

What really beats Laowa is time.

At that time, Sweden was not only the king of European table tennis, but also the king of world table tennis.

But since then, Sweden has never had a legendary player.

K. Michel and his brother M. Michel are the only pillars of Sweden these years. They cannot be said to be weak. One ranks more than ten in the world, and the other ranks dozens of worlds. In other countries, that is also A character like Taishan Beidou.

However, in Sweden, their achievements are too insignificant in the face of a senior who has been ranked No. [-] in the world for a long time.

The Swedes look at the Germans like old nobles look at a group of guys with impure blood but stealing high positions. They are sour, but because there is a real gap in strength, they can only close the door to get lemons, lacking the courage to challenge head-on.

But today the opportunity really came.

All the German players have been eliminated so far, but the Swede Michel still has a slim hope.

The attention of this Open can be said to be the peak in the past 10 years. Michelle knows very well that if he can win Wang Chao today, then he will become the pride of Sweden, the pride of Europe, and the world table tennis world. proud.

Even if he was killed by Pique in the final, the fans will still remember his name, and a considerable number of fans will stand up and clamor:
"Pike has never met a Huaping player. This championship has no gold content."

"It was Michelle who eliminated Wang Chao, and Michelle is the uncrowned king of this Open."

"He only lost to Pique because he was overdrawn too much when he was fighting Wang Chao. Pique took advantage of the danger and won by force."

"Sure enough, we still have to rely on Sweden to play Huaping. I think of Lao Wa."

Yes, that's it. European fans have such complicated feelings for Huaping. On the one hand, they pray that players from their own countries will not encounter Huaping, and on the other hand, they pray that all other European players will encounter Huaping.

If the champion of a certain competition is not a player from your own country, then it should be a Huaping player, because Huaping is unattainable, and everyone is not too jealous or competitive, but if the association next door wins the championship , it will affect the ranking of domestic players.

It's so realistic.

Table Tennis Associations all over the world admit this: If you don't meet Huaping players, even if you win a gold medal, it doesn't have gold content.

This is called "Huaping Certification".

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Wang Chao has been unlucky recently, but his luck seems to have changed today, and he finally guessed the coin and won the initial serve.

He chooses to send a short backspin, and the landing point is biased towards the opponent's backhand position.

Player Michel has an astonishing height and an astonishingly long arm. He has achieved this level. In terms of pure skills, he is actually no different from other European professional players. The main reason is that he has three major advantages.

One is that the guard platform area is large enough.

The second is strong enough.

The third is better at changing lines.

So in the eight-for-four fight against Lu Feiyang, he fought against violence with violence.

Lu Feiyang's desire to attack forehand and backhand was very strong. He rushed and hit at the beginning, thinking that he could directly stun Michelle, but in the end Michelle stepped back without any scruples, so as to let Lu Feiyang's ball speed Slowed down, and then began to make various in-court forward loop shots, combining front and back, and left and right bows, which forced Lu Feiyang's aura to be completely defeated.

This is because Lu Feiyang is too young and thinks his offensive power is exploding, but he doesn't know that the most taboo thing for Asian players when facing European players is pure fighting power.

Later, Lu Feiyang accepted the advice of the off-court coach Zhu Zeshi and started to play control, but because he didn't practice enough for this style of play, he played bumps and bumps, and the effect was not good. On the contrary, Michelle showed a very good small ball in the table Controlling power, so they fought, it was not Lu Feiyang who controlled Michelle, but Michelle who controlled Lu Feiyang.

So Lu Feiyang didn't have another chance, even though he fought frantically and tried his best to make a comeback, he was still pressed to death by Michel in the top eight.

Looking at the entire game, Lu Feiyang's defeat was firstly due to a wrong opening strategy, secondly due to insufficient preparation for backup tactics, and finally due to a bad mentality, and he was already in chaos halfway through the fight.

He had watched the video and analyzed the match last night. He believed that the reason why Michelle was able to beat Lu Feiyang by controlling the ball was not because of how strong he was with the small ball in the table, but because Lu Feiyang was at the time. The mentality is already unstable, and the real strength will never exceed 70.00%.

In fact, Michelle's small ball in the table can only be said to be slightly better than the general level in Europe, and it is far from being on par with Asian players.

So the strategy for dealing with Michelle is also very clear, at a glance, that is to fight against one's weaknesses.

Michel, who is 1.9 meters long, faces a short ball near the table. No matter how good his hand is, he still has to bend over or bend his legs when catching the ball. In any case, his body bends more than a player of normal height, which makes him very uncomfortable. comfortable.

Facing Wang Chao's serve, Michelle chose to rub the ball directly to the bottom line.

He [-]% refused to fight for shortcomings, and must hit the ball long. He would rather be lifted by others than Zhang Fei's embroidery work.

But he underestimated Wang Chao's serve.

The first ball seems ordinary and short backspin, but in fact this ball does not spin.

With Michelle's rubbing, the ball went straight up and flew far out of the table.

Wang Chao directly scored 1:0 with the serve.

Wang Chao continued to serve, and the initial posture was still a short backspin.

Michelle stared at Wang Chao's wrist movements this time, making up her mind to watch until the last moment.

He doesn't worry about being unable to react, because the short backspin serve itself is not fast, and he has enough reaction time.

But what he didn't expect was that at the last moment when the racket touched the ball, Wang Chao suddenly raised his elbow, and the racket quickly stood up from the horizontal direction, and with a sharp flick forward, he actually flicked an extremely fast Topspin.

In fact, the false action when serving the ball is also a double-edged sword. If you want to deceive people, then you cannot use your full power. You can only change the direction in which the racket rubs against the ball at the last moment, and the friction speed should be as fast as possible. The shorter the better, this in itself reduces the quality of the ball.

And if you do too much fake action, you may even be unable to hold back the momentum at the last moment, resulting in deformation of the serving posture, and it is possible to commit suicide directly.

But Wang Chao's touch is very important at this time. His running ball can be regarded as the best in the first half of the feint, but the last change is still completely in place in terms of arc, strength and angle, so The ball was like a white lightning, piercing the bottom line of the table on Michelle's right hand.

Michelle didn't have time to react, and let the ball fly out from his side.

Although his height of 1 meters has a great advantage in the protection of the platform, but there are bound to be flaws in flexibility. Wang Chao's serve is nothing more than a steal. If it is a small Asian player, it will not help. He could also barely save a board by stepping back, and Lin Zijun, who possesses extreme speed talent, could even attack directly, but Michelle didn't move at all.

2: 0.

Wang Chao scored two points directly with the serve.

Michel got the right to serve.

He stood in front of the stage, baring his teeth, with a depressed expression on his face.

Of course he knew that Wang Chao's basic strategy in beating him was to fight against his opponents, and he also knew that the game was at a disadvantage, so he actually planned to fight hard.

The so-called desperation means that when you can't find the opponent's weakness, you just don't care about it and fight with your eyes closed.

You serve a short backspin on the forehand, and I hit it desperately.

You send a short backspin in the backhand position, and I twist and pull desperately.

This way of fighting, although a little rough, but the victory is full of momentum, you can use crazily, sweat crazily, shout crazily, fight out the spirit, and fully fill the national dignity and national integrity, even if you lose, you will lose like a A hero, even if he loses 4:0, he will never be blamed by the Swedish fans after returning home.

But he didn't expect that even a mere short backspin would be stuffed into so many psychological games by Wang Chao, making it impossible for him to be tragic at all, would it be too much?

At this moment, he wanted to ask: Aren't you very upright when you hit Bayer?

tmd Bayer is so insidious, but you are honest with him.

I'm so upright, you want to fight against me?

But he didn't know that Wang Chao at this time was already at another level compared to the previous game.

The matter of cultivating the heart of a king, in a sense, is contradictory in itself.

A player who obviously has an unparalleled court strategy, but now you are not allowed to use it, and you are forced to play head-on. This is actually unreasonable in a real international game. It can only be said that it is completely a player. Weight training that you impose on yourself under certain special circumstances.

The meaning of weight-bearing is to cultivate the feeling, and when you find the feeling, you can naturally unload the heavy objects.

Last year, Wang Chao played too cunningly, so when he met his opponent, he habitually wanted to take a slanted sword. This is of course wrong, because it is too extreme.

He Jingping reminded Wang Chao during the winter vacation that he just hoped that he would not think too much about slanting his sword, but he didn't want Wang Chao to suddenly become a reckless man who can only fight head-on.

So Wang Chao's previous few games were actually self-pressurized, just to help him get rid of the "calculation first" mindset as soon as possible.

Playing Bayer is the most difficult challenge after Wang Chao's self-pressurization. Before the game, even the Huaping coaching staff was not optimistic about it. Smart man, how could he not see how weird the atmosphere of the Huaping coaching staff was that afternoon?
In fact, it's okay if He Jingping doesn't block, but if he blocks, Wang Chao's pressure will be even greater, because he knows that if he messes up, Old He will probably be tortured by Cai Guodong, so he bears not only his own The future, and the future of Lao He.

Under such great pressure, Wang Chao still did not take off the burden, and entered the official competition with a heavy load.

After losing the first game, the pressure was already overwhelming, but he still carried it.

After losing the second game, Wang Chao finally found something different.

He began to evolve under Bayer's high pressure, began to sharpen his own knife, and began to clear up all the flaws. At this time, Wang Chao clearly realized that his mentality was completely different.

When he completed the big reversal under the hellish spiritual pressure, he officially possessed the heart of a king.

Even if he faces Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu in the future, he will never have such disappointing thoughts like "I will definitely not be able to beat him, I must make an outside move".

So, he unloaded the burden.

Then, a very strange point came naturally: from now on, he can do calculations at will.

A strong man, no matter how he calculates, he is still strong.

A weak person, even if he bites the bullet and fights head-on, he is still weak.

What is strong is the heart, not the strength. When you are already strong, you can do whatever you want without breaking the rules.

These principles are not mysterious, but they are the same in any sports.

For example, at this moment, Wang Chao is convinced that he is [-]% sure of beating Michelle head-on, but why should I foolishly fight head-on?

I add a little bit of calculation, add a little change, and turn the [-]% certainty into the [-]% certainty, isn't it good?

It can only be said that Michelle was unlucky. He came to fight desperately, but Wang Chao came to show his sword.

The brightest is the king's knife that has just been sharpened by Bayer.

In the first battle of Baodao, Michel, ranked 11th in the world, sacrificed the flag, which is not wronged.

(End of this chapter)