Ping Pong Life

Chapter 284 The Unstoppable Hook
That night Wang Chao received another call from Luo Jiu.

"Junior brother, I really want to die, woo woo woo, Hu Ke is crazy, is this still Hu Ke? Could it be that he was taken away by aliens?"

Luo Jiu vented his frustration on the other end of the phone, but Wang Chao was not bothered and listened quietly.

"Have you watched today's game? His state is too stable. He has not collapsed in six rounds against Lin Zijun. He is stable. I dare say that his current state is even scarier than last year's Oman Open." , I, Luo Jiuming, have achieved great feats, why did such a comparison suddenly appear in the world, am I about to capsize in the gutter? If he beats me like Brother Long, I will tell you, little brother, I will bear it [-]% Can't stop."

Luo Jiu still has self-knowledge. His resilience is not strong, and he is even the weakest of the five main players, because before last year, he really lost a lot, and he has already lost a little bit of confidence. If it wasn't for the sudden change With glue as a shot in the arm, he might even retire early.

Now his skill has been achieved, but the enemy started to play with his body instead of his skill, so he is a little unconvinced.

"Why did Brother Long dominate for seven years, and you all played skills with him, and finally it was my turn to dominate, and you actually want to change the game?"

He rambled on for a long time, and finally said: "Little brother, don't just listen to me, you can give me a trick."

He is a chatterbox, and he just said it casually, and he didn't take it seriously. After all, the entire Huaping coaching staff has been meeting every day until midnight these days, just to make a good tactical reserve for himself. The current situation is clear. In a collision of two completely different styles, who wins and who loses depends entirely on the on-the-spot play and God's will. At this time, how can there be any off-the-board tricks available?

But he didn't expect that Wang Chao said at this time: "Actually, there is a way..."

Luo Jiu was stunned for a moment, almost thinking he heard it wrong, he dug his ears, and urged: "You said it, I'm really anxious to death."

On the other end of the phone, Wang Chao had a weird expression on his face. He said, "Brother, let me ask you first, do you think you will lose?"

Luo Jiu was furious immediately: "Who the hell said I was bound to lose? I'll just complain to you, do you really think I'm afraid of that competition? Let me tell you, I have the heart of a king, I am invincible in the world, I have already reached Land fairy realm."

Wang Chao let out an "oh" and hung up the phone.

Luo Jiu was stunned. After she finished her bewilderment, she hurriedly dialed the phone again: "Hey, junior brother, is the signal bad? Why did you hang up? You haven't said that yet."

Wang Chao smiled and said, "You already have the determination to win, so what else do you need?"

Luo Jiu was silent for a while, and after a long time, he said coyly, "Wang Chao, I'm telling you something, Lao He is angry."

Wang Chao wondered, "What happened to him?"

"What else can you do? It's all yours." Luo Jiu couldn't help but giggled and giggled when she said this: "Didn't you make a special call to ask him to help you arrange your troops? He was so happy at that time , He even bragged to me specifically, saying that his strength has been recognized. He didn't have time to watch when you played yesterday. He was formulating tactics. After you finished the fight, he heard that you had won. Let's see how powerful the lineup I designed is, and the result..."

Luo Jiu didn't go on, because he couldn't stop laughing.

He Jingping was probably in a daze yesterday, because he found that the formation of the queen of spades was just opposite to his.

He is indeed a lamp, but not a bright lamp, but a dark lamp.

And then Lao He remembered, tmd it was Wang Chao who called him, which made it clear that he was using himself as a ghost.

Wicked...

The key point is that this scoundrel tmd succeeded, which made Lao He extremely aggrieved, he had no place to reason, he could only sulk.

"Let me tell you, Lao He has a big opinion on you now, you tell me your method quickly, I will listen to him, and give you a few good words in front of him, so that we can meet again later , hello, me, he, everyone is really good, right?"

Wang Chao stopped being tricky, and said seriously: "That's it... My method is to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. I don't know if it will work. If you think there is a [-]% chance in tomorrow's game, then take it easy." Go fight, go fight, if you think you really have no chance, then you give it a try."

Luo Jiu listened solemnly, and stopped talking, and said, "Okay, tell me."

……

At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, the much-anticipated final officially kicked off.

Bearing the urgent expectation of breaking Huaping's rule in the world table tennis world, Hu Ke once again walked in front of Huaping players.

In this game, both sides were extremely serious.

Behind Luo Jiu sat He Jingping, and behind He Jingping sat the entire Huaping coaching staff.

Behind Hook sat Rorskoff, behind Rorskoff sat the head coaches of Sweden and England, and behind them were all the European players who had been eliminated but hadn't left.

Even Lin Zijun chose to sit on Hu Ke's side.

It's not about nationality, it's about association.

They want to beat Huaping too much.

As soon as the first game started, Hu Ke gave Luo Jiu a blow.

He got the right to serve, using his unique squatting toad serve method, tossing the ball super high, serving super spin, when Luo Jiu tried to swing the ball short, he rushed up like crazy, directly lobbed and scored.

Then he served again, but it was a high throw and a hook.

Facts have proved that in order to defeat Huaping, any player is willing to change his deep-rooted habits.

For a rough guy like Hook, he learned to serve with a hook to make fake moves.

His ball is thrown too high, and the falling speed is faster. In fact, almost no one in the world table tennis can catch a hook with a high throw. , naturally relying on his superhuman arm and wrist strength, and superhuman starting speed.

With the speed of the ball so fast, he just made a fake left spin and sent a right spin, successfully tricking Luo Jiu.

Luo Jiu was very depressed. He had already fixed his eyes on the details of Hu Ke's movements, but Hu Ke's movements were so fast that he really didn't see them clearly.

So he took a rare right spin, and the ball flew out from the side of the racket, causing boos from the audience.

After all, for a player at his level, it is understandable to occasionally take a backspin, but it is really a low-level mistake to take left and right spins.

Today's game started with these two balls, in fact, Luo Jiu was doomed to play very hard.

He has indeed brought his skills to the extreme, and he is a player who has really touched the ceiling, but Hook is unreasonable.

Luo Jiu made a short downspin, Dou Short found an opportunity, and continued to attack close to the stage, beating Hu Ke all the way until he had to retreat. I thought the initiative was in my hands, but Hu Ke suddenly rushed out of the middle stage with all his strength. The power was more terrifying than the explosive charge close to the stage, forcing Luo Jiu to retreat, and then Hu Ke directly stepped forward to receive the explosive charge, which directly reversed the situation and became himself close to the stage and attacked Luo Jiu in the middle stage.

You said, what can you do when you encounter this kind of thing?
Luo Jiuyi recorded an unbelievably beautiful kick, and it was Hu Ke's backhand with a wide angle. He hoped to hit Hu Ke's backhand until Hu Ke lost his balance, but Hu Ke made a lateral movement like crazy, It was not the traditional crossing pace, but jumped over like a toad. The ugly movement was ugly, but the speed and rhythm of the movement made Luo Jiu completely unpredictable. Then Hu Ke launched a forehand burst, abruptly Turning a backhand attack from a large angle into an active forehand charge.

You said, what can you do when you encounter this kind of thing?
The score in the first game rose exaggeratedly. Luo Jiu was defeated by Hu Ke with the 6th point in just 11 minutes.

On Huaping's side, the atmosphere was tense to the point of dripping water.

Everyone can see that Hook is in surprisingly good condition, and the chain-dropping behavior that has been common in the past few years has not shown any signs during the entire Open this time.

Even in the previous rough rounds, Hook's mind did not relax at all.

At this time, Raulskov, who was sitting in the background, was very proud.

Because in fact, at the beginning of this year, he did have a good talk with Hook.

He is the head coach of the German country, and Hooker plays in the club league in the German country. In a sense, he is a bit like Hooker's superior, and Hooker can still listen to what he says.

He only expressed one point of view: "You don't need to spend a lot of effort to hone your skills. You only need to do one thing from now on, that is, keep calm no matter who you face, and try to play with the most rigorous attitude. ?"

Hook said it was difficult.

But Rorskoff then said another sentence: "What if this can make you beat Huaping?"

Hook didn’t immediately agree, but seemed confused. He said, “Sir, I’m a Brazilian. I’ve known since childhood that football requires calmness, passion, rigor, and imagination. I think, All the sports in the world should have something in common, so how do I trust that this won't kill me?"

In fact, it can be seen from this sentence that Hook does not have the idea that he must defeat Huaping.

In fact, the vast majority of foreign professional players regard playing as a means of earning a living. They do not insist on winning the championship, because they have no concept of winning glory for the country. They only need to maintain the ranking, guarantee points, and clubs willing to sign contracts with them. It is enough that advertisers are willing to find them to shoot advertisements.

So Hu Ke is very satisfied with what he has now, and he is afraid that if he changes, he will have nothing.

Although Rawlskov has always been unfriendly to Huaping, he is indeed a top coach with courage and vision. In order to win the trust of Hu Ke, he used all his contacts to persuade Hu Ke's club to cooperate with Mr. Hu Ke. Signed a five-year special contract. This contract stipulates that even if Hu Ke's performance is poor, he can still get a sufficient amount of guaranteed salary within these five years. .

In any case, within five years, the guaranteed contract will be effective, ensuring that he will never lose everything.

Do you feel familiar?

Is it very similar to the guarantee plus share contract model of a Chinese original website?

All in all, Rawlskov finally succeeded in persuading Hook to give it a try. At first, Hook was uncomfortable in various ways, and in the Hong Kong Open a month ago, he even beat him back to the third place.

But this time Hook held back. He always played according to Raulskov's instructions, trying to keep himself calm, sober, and rigorous, and tried not to give the opponent a chance easily. Where he needed to take the initiative to attack and counterattack strongly, he would It still maintains the unique enthusiasm, vitality and fighting desire of the Samba nation.

He became the kind of player that Huaping feared most: a barbarian with brains but no reason.

Luo Jiu tried a variety of tactics in the second game, from playing control to playing rhythm, from grabbing the initiative to deceptive moves, he achieved certain results, but in the end he still failed to stop Hu Ke's outrageous attack. Lost the second game.

By this time, the audience at the scene fell silent.

They had a premonition that they might see a rare defeat in their own country.

In this open competition, from the qualifying round to the main race, to the current finals, the only single seedling is about to fall.

Luo Jiu cheered up, gritted his teeth and continued to fight hard. He had a strong desire to win because he knew that now was a golden opportunity. After all, Sun Tianlong had just taken a medical leave, which meant he had given up all the opportunities for the first half of the year.

Therefore, in theory, as long as he does not lose the chain, he will grab the richest and sweetest fruit since he entered the professional table tennis world.

He has been late for seven years due to technical upgrades, and he doesn't have many opportunities to waste.

He tried hard to recall how Sun Tianlong held back against Hu Ke last year, and then tried to learn, to pull back point by point. He did a good job, and finally bit the score in the third game. Tap and go up alternately until 10:10.

But at this time Hook exploded.

The Brazilian had endured for a long, long time because of his promise to Raulskov, and he had already been holding back very hard. At this time, he probably felt that the advantage was great, and he suddenly started to go crazy.

It is definitely not right to go crazy like this in normal times, because the style of play will definitely become rough, revealing a lot of flaws, and it may even directly kill the fiery feeling.

But at this extreme moment, Hook's explosion has produced excellent results.

He spins short and spins down, Luo Jiu swings short, this short swing is impeccable and seamless.

But Hook couldn't bear it at this time, and directly violently picked the ball with relatively strong backspin.

This kind of ball is really not something that ordinary people can pick up, because it is really very standard.

But Hu Ke is destined not to be a reasonable person. His talent of strange power was activated, and he exerted force for a short time between square inches.

But this ball is still theoretically impossible to pick. It hit the net, barely climbed over the net due to the spin, and landed limply on Luo Jiu's table.

Luo Jiu was stunned.

Is that okay?

He got the right to serve in a bit of a daze, thought for a long time, and sent a backhand to the bottom line to run the ball at a wide angle.

Yes, this is a sneak attack.

Against a player who is good at judgment, a sneak attack is a bad idea, but against a rough guy, a sneak attack is an excellent method, not to mention that Luo Jiu deliberately buried a hole, his eyes kept aiming to the right on purpose, but he didn't look directly to the right .

This is also a kind of psychological game. If you look directly to the right, it is too obvious. Things like looking right and sending left are accurate in the amateur world, but in the professional arena, everyone knows that it will be tricky.

But if you pretend to glance at the landing point inadvertently, it belongs to high-end design.

Luo Jiu's design was successful. When the ball flew to Hu Ke's backhand position, Hu Ke's body was habitually shifting to the right.

It stands to reason that this ball should be there.

But Hook's physical fitness is almost the best in the world table tennis world. He stopped suddenly and ran backwards. Seeing that he still couldn't catch up, he retreated at the same time, taking four steps in one breath, and finally caught up with the one who was about to hit the ground. The ball came directly to a large sea fishing.

With this fishing, a beautiful super ball was fished out. The small ball drew a huge arc in an extremely long distance, and with a very strong lateral drift, it turned and landed on the bottom line on the right side of the Luojiu table. Still turning outside.

Luo Jiu was not easy to catch the ball, but he also showed his confidence as a top-notch player at this time. He stepped back directly, with shoulders and arms pressed down, and instead of pulling the ball, he returned Hook with a super long-range side cut.

All of these cut out a super ball, which also crosses an extremely long space, but this time the arc is not a parabola, but a horizontal line. Change direction and fall to the side of the table.

This is considered a dead ball, and basically no one will save it.

But don't forget, Hooker is also a strange flower that has never appeared in the world table tennis world.

He is the best physical player ever, bar none.

He rushed over, obviously the ball changed direction after hitting the net, but he was still able to keep up with the change of direction of the ball, which shows how fast his nerves reacted. He stretched out his racket and directly slammed it in from the side of the table.

Strictly speaking, this is a mutant challenge.

This time Luo Jiu really couldn't take it anymore.

After all, Luo Jiu is reasonable, but this ball is completely unreasonable.

This ball beat Luo Jiu to death. At the same time that Luo Jiu lost the third game 10:12, player Hu Ke himself ran too fast and couldn't stop suddenly, so he slammed into the table hard. The table was knocked a few inches away.

Even though most of the audience present were local audiences in Tianfu City, there was still warm applause.

This ball is really amazing, a super ball against a super ball, this is a scene that has never been seen before.

The game score was 3:0, Hook held three match points and was far ahead.

European fans originally didn’t want to drink champagne at halftime, because they really hurt their faces in the past, but this time they really couldn’t help it, and a lot of posts started pouring out, almost just saying “Hook New The emperor ascended the throne" clearly said.

He Jingping comforted Luo Jiu in a low voice, telling him to play hard, don't collapse, and even if he loses, he must play Huaping's spirit of never giving up.

He didn't expect Luo Jiu to win, because a crazy Hook couldn't hold back at all. Back then, the Dragon team only took advantage of a narrow victory instead of fundamentally solving the problem of how to beat him. In reason.

But Luo Jiu didn't give up yet, because he remembered what his junior brother told him yesterday, if he really got to the point of losing, he might as well give it a try...

(End of this chapter)