Ping Pong Life

Chapter 317 The Clown
In the third round, Fan Xiaodong was completely different.

Hook served again, still running from the baseline, and Fan Xiaodong charged again.

Hook refused to show weakness, and also rushed forward, but this time he landed on Fan Xiaodong's backhand position.

Fan Xiaodong took a steady sideways step, adjusted his body position, and twisted with his backhand.

His movements are very coordinated, but it is different from other people who only swing their arms when twisting the ball. His arms are not as stretched as Sun Tianlong or Wang Chao. Instead, his body has a small deflection synchronously with the pulling movement. It looked as if he used his mountainous figure to drive his arm and whipped the ball hard.

In Huaping, there has been a saying many years ago: it is best for a table tennis player to be slightly heavier than the standard weight.

This statement is unwritten, and no coach has publicly admitted it, but in fact, when selecting seedlings, there are indeed many coaches who have a soft spot for fat people.

After entering the national team, many players were asked to gain weight by their coaches, such as Gao Mingyuan.

If you still don't quite understand why the coaches have such strange ideas, you only need to take a look at Fan Xiaodong's backhand twisting action at the moment to understand everything.

Fan Xiaodong is young, not tall, and his backhand is actually not easy to exert strength, but he can twist out a powerful heavy ball with this special method.

Weight can be converted into strength.

Even Hook was a little afraid of the veneer quality of the ball, so he had to take a half step back and pulled it over with his forehand.

This time he pulled Fan Xiaodong's forehand.

In fact, Hook was a little startled at this time.

He found that Fan Xiaodong's ball seemed to be heavier than the previous two rounds.

This backhand twist had already faintly given him a feeling that he couldn't control it, so he quickly changed back to the forehand position.

Fan Xiaodong wasn't picky either, if he had a forehand, he would make a forehand burst.

Hook also exploded with a forehand.

Fan Xiaodong charged again.

Hook also rushed.

Fan Xiaodong continued to charge.

Hook continued to explode.

Fan Xiaodong charged again.

Hook couldn't keep up.

At this moment, he obviously felt unsustainable, his footsteps were already unstable, and his center of gravity was gradually losing, which made him feel a little panicked.

In the past few years, it's not that he hasn't played such a rigid player. He has also faced off with people like Michelle and Sisfield who have pulled more than a dozen rebounds in COSCO Taiwan. However, all the stalemates in the past, although seemingly It is pulling in the opposite direction, but in fact, there is a transition.

Theoretically speaking, all stalemates between COSCO and Taiwan must have a transition. No player always maintains 100% strength to pull the ball with all his strength. They must have strong strength on one plate and low force on the other. When they are strong, they are for scoring , When the strength is small, it is to adjust the position of the ball and find a new balance by the way.

That's why there are those skilled players who suddenly switch to side cuts or long cuts during the stalemate.

It's not that they don't want to continue, it's just that they can't stop.

Because the harder you work, the more vain your lower body will be. If you continue to explode with all your strength, your lower body will become loose and messy, and you may even fall directly in the end.

But Fan Xiaodong really broke out with every board. He stood on the ground as if he had taken root, and he really didn't move.

Only then did Hook clearly realize that in fact, what is natural supernatural power, what is good in persistence, and what is fast in reaction speed are just appearances. The most terrifying thing about Fan Xiaodong is actually his balance ability.

He is too stable, as stable as Mount Tai.

In such a high-explosive situation, although Fan Xiaodong kept shouting because of the forced exertion, his expression was actually calm, and he was able to return to a stable state instantly after each exertion, which was unbelievable.

Hook himself was extremely unstable.

Essentially, he's less consistent than your average pro, bouncing off the ground nearly all the time he plays.

This is a bad habit he developed from playing wild ball since he was a child, but he didn't know it was a bad habit at the time. On the contrary, because this method can mobilize the state of the game as soon as possible, he won many amateur games.

Only later did he realize that there are too many ways to adjust the status. If you really can’t do it, why don’t you find someone to warm up 10 minutes before the game?

If it is really so slow, then warm up for 10 minutes in two or 10 minutes in three, right?

In any case, it shouldn't come at the expense of balance.

In this way, Hook fought all the way with huge defects, and finally stood at the super high position of No. 3 in the world.

No one found his weakness.

Because no one can attack him for more than three rebounds, not even bullies like Michelle and Thisfield.

They are often defeated by Hooke in the three boards with comprehensive changes in strength, speed, placement and spin.

After all, Hook not only has strength, he also has touch and speed.

Hu Ke almost thought that his weakness had disappeared, because even when he was beating Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu, he had never encountered this kind of situation.

After so many years, even Hook himself didn't realize that his weakness still exists.

until today.

until now.

Fan Xiaodong can keep up with his speed, block his strength, judge his landing point, and have good enough skills to defuse his spin, and then force him to fight head-on.

So he had no choice, and was forced to enter a real stalemate with Fan Xiaodong. This time, the fight was not about various techniques and changes, but pure stability.

He was blown away.

With two consecutive balls, he could only burst to the third board, and once he entered the fourth board, he lost control.

This is not to say that Hook can only play three consecutive attacks, but that he can only play three consecutive attacks under the pressure of Fan Xiaodong's ultra-high-intensity counterattack.

If he meets other people, he can still hit a dozen terrifying combos as usual.

In fact, the quality of his veneer is still higher than that of Fan Xiaodong. After all, Fan Xiaodong is only 15 years old, and the strength of this body has not really matured. It's against each other.

Yes, the quality of my veneer is higher than yours, but I can't kill you.

Your veneer quality is lower than mine, but I still have to give it my all.

It's a delicate balance.

Hook's fourth burst completely lost control, his technique was deformed, and the ball flew directly into the sky.

2:0, Fan Xiaodong continued to score.

Next, Fan Xiaodong served the ball, the same baseline run, the same lead-in stalemate. In just one and a half minutes, Fan Xiaodong scored two more points, and the score became 4:0.

These two balls made Hook a bit helpless, because Hook's usual style of play was to attack and attack again, but today's attack was ineffective, and in a hurry, he couldn't find any other means to use.

The hustle and bustle in the stands disappeared unconsciously, and there was a trace of anxiety in the eyes of many spectators.

Raulskov was keenly aware that something was wrong, he called a timeout without hesitation, taught Hook face-to-face, and said a lot of things.

Hook, who returned to the game, changed his serving method. He no longer served the bottom line and changed to short backspin in the table.

He doesn't like to fight short, because it doesn't conform to his open and close style and playing philosophy.

But when his open and close style of play is restrained, he can also fight against his weaknesses. After all, he has nuances.

Facing this serve, Fan Xiaodong directly challenged with a forehand, but failed, and the score became 4:1.

Hook sent a short backspin again, Fan Xiaodong still hit with a forehand, this time it succeeded, but after the ball passed, Hook directly twisted it back with a backhand.

This ball route is extremely tricky.

In fact, Hooker is such a player. When you give him a regular ball, he will also play a regular ball, but when you want to kill him, he is cornered at that moment, and he often plays people. Incomprehensible quality strikes come.

This ball is a typical return shot, but when faced with a kill board, most players simply push back and use their strength to hit the return shot. Hook is not like this, he is forced to take the initiative to exert force.

This ball almost killed Fan Xiaodong.

Fan Xiaodong tried his best to step back to save the ball, and finally pulled a very rough high lob back.

Hook took a step forward, didn't even bother to pull the arc, and directly patted hard.

In this situation, generally speaking, the overall situation has been decided, and the attacker must win.

But today, the players on both sides couldn't use common sense.

90.00% of the [-] people in this world face such a fierce head-on hard shot, they will choose to pick the ball hard, and then wait for the opponent to hit the high ball continuously, expecting the opponent to make a mistake in the high ball.

But after Fan Xiaodong took two steps back, he suddenly let out a loud roar, and forcibly exerted force with his forehand, squatting his legs into a horse stance, and forcibly pulled forward with his forehand from a super long distance for a looping ball.

When he was posing for a strong pull, there were already many spectators shouting.

And after he actually pulled the ball out, there were a lot of screams in the stands.

He is at least [-] meters away from the table.

The total length of the table is 1.3 meters, and the length of the half table is [-] meters.

That is to say, his ultra-long-distance pulling the ball must at least pull this light and fluffy ball that can be blown by the wind to a place four meters away.

If there are still people who don't understand, then you can roughly imagine that you are on the basketball court, from under the basket on your side, forcing a super long-range shot into the opposite basket.

Or a football player who kicks directly from the center line of the pitch and wants to go straight through the opponent's goal.

This includes not only unparalleled power, but also requires extremely meticulous control. After all, the farther the distance, the greater the error.

The ball bounced violently from the racket. The first half of the trajectory was extremely blunt, almost forcibly displaced, and the second half became smooth. Like a perfect topspin serve, it hit the bottom line of the table in front of Hook.

The quality of this ball cannot be said to be high, because Hook can still charge sideways.

But at least, Fan Xiaodong's extreme passivity just now was resolved by his astonishing sternness.

Hook really exploded.

Fan Xiaodong has already rushed to the edge of the table quickly from a distance, and then made an emergency stop.He stood still one step at a time, and suddenly he seemed to take root again, and he couldn't see the slightest inertia to charge forward.

He swung his racket, swung his arms, and pulled back hard.

The ball did not exceed three boards.

Because after two rebounds, Hook lost his balance again and slapped the ball away.

5: 1.

When the ball hit this point, Raulskov, who was sitting behind the baffle, could no longer laugh. He looked over to He Jingping again, only to find that He Jingping was still sitting calmly, without any signs of panic, nor could he see anything. Not the slightest joy.

Raulskov was a little depressed at this moment.

In fact, he was also a super player in Europe back then, otherwise he would not have become the head coach of Germany after retiring, and he has been doing it for so many years.

He has coached Bayer, Wolff, Sissfeld, and Qiu Shang. He knows the situation of every club in Germany and the ace players in it, and he has worked hard to study the world table tennis. Pretty much every genre style along with pros and cons.

He thinks he has made great contributions to the European table tennis world, and he also thinks that no one else can train so many top players like him.

So he started to feel unfair later on.

He felt that Huaping only relied on its strong family background to explode from generation to generation.

It's like it's extremely easy for rich people to make money, and it's easy for them to make money, but it's extremely difficult for poor people to make money because they don't have the first pot of gold.

In the world of table tennis, all foreign associations are the poor, and only Huaping is the rich.

That being the case, why is the No.1 handsome man in the world over the years always the Huaping coach?
Is it because Huaping has the best results?

Is it really just achievement theory?
In the early years, Rorskov respected Huaping, especially when he was a player, he had played against the main players of Huaping many times, and he also praised the main players of Huaping in interviews.

But then jealousy overwhelmed him, and he began to occasionally pick lemons in public, giving Hua Ping a sour connotation.

It's just that after many years, no one paid attention to him.

So over the years, he has more and more connotations of Huaping. Whenever Huaping loses, he can always see Raulskoff come out for interviews and say something like "Huaping is dying".

He thought that was it.

But he didn't expect that when he smugly took Hu Ke's achievements on his own head, Hua Ping actually responded positively.

What He Jingping said in the restaurant made his face burn hot.

Because he really didn't understand Hu Ke's problems, and he really didn't expect Hua Ping to suddenly jump out and talk to him alone.

With regard to Hook, it is a matter of real vision.

This made his years of self-deception somewhat unjustifiable.

He guided Hook to play this game, thinking that when Hook wins, he will at least have some excuses to say.

But for the sake of the game now, he has seen time and time again that he is not so respectful.

He didn't even understand the game in front of him, and he was so happy because of the victories in the first two rounds, but he didn't expect that all the reversals were in He Jingping's expectation.

The conversation in the restaurant yesterday was probably the perfect prediction for today's game, right?
Rorskov glanced at He Jingping in the distance again, sighed softly in his heart, and realized that it was time to wake up from his dream.

It turned out that they were not lucky.

It turns out that they are really better than me.

……

The game continues.

Fan Xiaodong got the right to serve.

He still ran the ball from the baseline, looking for a counterattack, but Hook didn't want to counterattack this time. He followed Raolskov's instructions during the timeout, and directly rubbed the ball back into a short backspin.

Seeing this scene, many professional players were a little emotional.

In the past few years, only Hook played against his opponent, and even if he lost, he would commit suicide while attacking. How could Hook take the initiative to adopt a defensive posture when he was beaten by others?
Did Hook change his gender, or was he really scared of being beaten by the kid opposite?

However, Hook's change didn't work. After five consecutive short swings in the court, it was still Hook who showed his flaws first and returned the ball high.

This has nothing to do with the feel of the hand, but because Hooker's technique is too rough, and he lacks changes and coping methods in the billiards.

What's more, Fan Xiaodong's hand feeling is quite good, but it's just not clear how good it is yet.

When Hook showed his flaws, Fan Xiaodong attacked directly, Hook backed the table and counterattacked, Fan Xiaodong counterattacked strongly against the table, the ball did not hit the fourth board, because Fan Xiaodong directly made a backhand twist on the third board The big angle of the forehand position on the bottom line directly mobilized the retreating Hook to death.

By this time, there was silence inside and outside the stadium.

All the audience could see clearly that Hu Ke was really broken by Fan Xiaodong from the front.

This large-angle mobilization, Hu Ke can be saved if he works hard, but he gave up. This can only show that Hu Ke has been beaten so much that he has no confidence.

The timeout just now, and Raulskov's endless tactical guidance, seemed useless.

They didn't understand the subtle principles of tactical restraint. They just saw Hook being pierced by Fan Xiaodong's defense in frontal confrontations time and time again, and then defeated by small balls in the court. Their hearts were going to be cold.

The European table tennis world has put down its face and invited foreign aid from South America, but Hook, who they have placed high hopes on, will be defeated head-on in the end by the newcomer player just released by Huaping?
This is really a devastating blow.

The mentality of European fans collapsed at this moment.

They recalled He Jingping's always calm expression, Rorskoff's wide-eyed smile, and the director's frequent close-up shots of He Jingping. of jumping.

(End of this chapter)