Ping Pong Life

Chapter 322
In this Olympic cycle, in the face of the supernovas emerging from the table tennis associations around the world, although Huaping has defended it without any danger until now, there have been no major mistakes, and it has even continued to ruthlessly beat the European table tennis world that is about to take off. Suppress it hard, but there is one thing that many discerning people can see: the newcomers introduced by Huaping seem to be a bit short in talent?
For men's table tennis, the foreign association has a pervert like Hu Ke who combines the three talents of strange power, extreme speed and subtlety.

On the side of women's table tennis, there is also Yi Chuan Mima, a pervert who combines the two talents of nuance and speed in one of the foreign associations.

Huaping launched Wang Chao and Lu Feiyang last year.

Lu Feiyang played well in his debut battle, but after that, his performance was mediocre, and he didn't have any obvious talent.

Wang Chao claims to have a unique and unparalleled talent, but what fans all over the world can see with the naked eye is actually just a subtlety, and the rest belong to the category of IQ, not physical talent.

As for the national second team players Sun Zhongwen, table tennis super player Gao Mingyuan, Liang Kunpeng and the like who were successively launched, they either have no talent or only one talent, which is amazing.

Even the current invincible twin stars of Huaping, Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu, in fact, there is only one subtlety between them.

Although the women's team has an endless stream of talents, there is also no outstanding individual physical talent. The reason why top3 can hold down Yichuan Mima is not because they can keep up with Yichuan's extreme speed, but because Because they have too much competition experience, and too strong basic skills of stalemate ability.

Rather than saying that the strength of Huaguo women's table tennis is due to talent, it is better to say that it benefits from the masculine style of women's table tennis that Huaguo women's table tennis has been advocating and respecting for a long time.

Therefore, during this period of time, some bad remarks have actually been slowly brewing in the depths of the water.

"In such a large country as China, with a population of more than one billion, can't you find a few talented players?"

"Hua people are actually not very good at playing table tennis. They can achieve this result probably because their acquired training system is more advanced."

"Our Hook hasn't had much formal training yet, and he's almost wiped out Huaping by himself. If we let him practice for a few more years, hehe..."

"So Hua Guo has been strong for so many years, probably because we don't pay enough attention to it. When we start to pay attention to it, they will gradually fail."

"After all, the whole country system has been around for so many years, and it's almost the same."

From this point of view, the rise of Fan Xiaodong today can be regarded as a very symbolic milestone event.

Because he finally unlocked the setting of "Huaping players have multiple talents" today.

When he found Wang Chao's flaws in the intra-stage fight twice in a row and made a lore, his performance in terms of touch was praised by all insiders and outsiders on and off the field, and inside and outside the circle. accepted.

"Another micro-level player."

"My God, he actually pinned Wang Chao from the small ball inside the table, I couldn't believe my eyes."

"Is it to release water? Shouldn't it be? Then is Wang Chao underestimating the enemy? Probably not? After all, as far as I know, Wang Chao has never underestimated the enemy or slackened in dozens of battles since his debut. With previous convictions, his technical stability is simply outrageous."

"Then, does it mean that Fan Xiaodong really came from behind and surpassed Wang Chao?"

"In that case, isn't he already one of the five best-feeling people on this planet?"

"Idiot, if he also enters, he will be one of the six people. And he can even suppress Wang Chao, so how can he be only the top six? He should be the top four, or even the top three. He is qualified The only ones standing in front of him are Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong."

"It turns out that this is the real powerful newcomer of Huaping in this Olympic cycle. The previous Lu Feiyang is just a smoke bomb."

When Wang Chao regained the right to serve, the mood of all the audience inside and outside the arena, and even Wang Chao's own mood, were completely different from before.

8:2, this is an extremely disparate score.

But at this moment, the two sides standing on both sides of the table are as solemn as 10:10.

Every next ball counts.

This has nothing to do with the outcome of the first game, but only with the mentality of the two sides in this game.

Those who win the game gain confidence, and as long as they maintain the original tactics, they can continue to score until the end of the game.

The loser loses the opportunity and must find a way to change his style of play and seek to break the game, otherwise he will be defeated.

At such a critical moment of much-anticipated attention, Wang Chao made a short backspin.

There were low exclamations in the arena.

The audience thought that Wang Chao would change his serve.

After all, he just failed two consecutive short fights.

Of course, this does not completely mean that Fan Xiaodong's hand feeling is better, because after all, the player's on-the-spot performance is also very important, but it at least means that today, at this moment, Fan Xiaodong's hand feeling is better.

Shouldn't the most important thing for athletes during competitions be to seek changes in tactics based on the actual situation at the time, to make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and to avoid the most important and take the lightest?
Why did Wang Chao really get into a fight with Fan Xiaodong?

Almost all foreign association coaches who were also watching the game on the spot shook their heads slightly at this moment, thinking that the 18-year-old Wang Chao should be unconvinced after losing, so he chose to prove himself single-mindedly.

After all, no matter how mature Wang Chao's performance is, he is still young, and it is normal for him to still have such irrational blood and courage in his body.

With the fierce internal competition of Huaping over the years, it is completely understandable for Wang Chao to behave impulsively when facing his teammates. This is a battle for the next generation of leaders in Huaping.

In competitions, the most fearful thing is blind self-confidence and obsession. The most important thing is to reflect on yourself anytime, anywhere, figure out the details of your personal state at the time and place, and then formulate tactics according to the situation.

Not to mention Wang Chao, even Sun Tianlong, who is known as the number one fighter in the world, has taken the initiative to avoid small balls in the table many times in the past seven years, just because he felt that he was not flexible enough at the time and could not fight for the time being. other side.

Faced with this impeccable short backspin, Fan Xiaodong naturally chose to swing short.

The ball landed near the center of the table on Wang Chao's side.

It's an unspoken signal.

If you fall in the backhand position, you can twist it with the backhand, and if you fall in the forehand position, you can hit it with the forehand. No matter how difficult the attack is, it is possible after all.

Only when it falls in the center can it be impossible to lift the board.

So what Fan Xiaodong meant was: Come on, let's continue to play short.

Wang Chao swung back, and the ball also landed near the center of the table on Fan Xiaodong's side.

The two sides once again fell into a situation of fighting each other.

In a blink of an eye, six rounds have passed, both sides are as stable as Mount Tai, without any mistakes, and the rotation on the ball changes back and forth. Let alone the height and landing point, they are almost exactly the same, and they are all in just the right posture Goes over the net, lands in almost exactly the same spot, and doesn't give the opponent the slightest chance to get a shot first.

This is definitely an extremely high-quality intra-stage contest.

This kind of ball is actually not good-looking, because it is not intense at all, and there is no change. It is like a movie being replayed continuously. However, the careful posture of the players on both sides, as well as the subtle control and fine-tuning of the power at the moment the racket touches the ball, are actually all kung fu. Where the eyes can't see, what the audience can see is only the repeated small movements of the two people.

But at this moment, the arena was surprisingly quiet. The audience stared at the little silver ball with wide eyes, not daring to take a breath.

They couldn't understand the details, but this didn't prevent them from understanding how delicate the situation was, and it didn't prevent them from wanting to see who made the mistake first.

When you have your heart set on it, even the most ugly scene can become a close-up moment.

In the blink of an eye, another six rounds passed, and the two sides still did not reveal their flaws.

So far, this ball has been the shortest ball that Wang Chaodao has played the most rounds so far.

In last year's T2, he once educated Kimchi player Zhu Shixian with pure fighting skills. After that game, Zhu Shixian was almost vomited, and vowed that he would definitely dump Wang Chao when he met Wang Chao again. Open your arms and do it directly, and never play this kind of delicate work of Zhang Fei's embroidery again. After all, one is that you can't play it, the other is that you are aggrieved, and the third is that you always fall into the trap. Since you are losing anyway, why not lose? How about more vigorous?

After the game last year, many people in the world table tennis circles actually speculated whether Wang Chao would play such a wonderful game in the future. The final conclusion was that he would not, because everyone could see that the reason why Wang Chao played so Zhu Shixian himself took the route of attacking the heart, one is to hide his strength, and the other is to save energy.

If he played regularly, he wouldn't need to play for so long.

So this is a slant of the sword, but one can never be repeated.

At the same time, they also believed that after seeing Wang Chao's game, other players would meet Wang Chao again. Even if Wang Chao wanted to replicate such a game, the opponent probably wouldn't give it a chance, right?
Sure enough, Wang Chao later encountered the water bird eagle twice. The water bird eagle tried to fight against Wang Chao, but after finding out that he couldn't fight, he quickly changed his tactics and prevented Wang Chao from playing such a super long round.

The fans never expected that today they saw an enhanced and upgraded version of last year's short fight.

Fan Xiaodong's stability and rigor in swinging short are far above Zhu Shixian.

After all, he is young, with enough concentration and tenacious willpower. He is calm and patient, and he is not afraid of playing short with Wang Chao until he grows old.

He just wanted to prove that he could indeed press Wang Chao head-on from the touch, which is very important for today's game.

The fans at the scene have already started counting.

“13、14、15、16、17、18……”

All are excited.

Putting aside the love-hate attitude towards Huaping, the audience obviously expected Fan Xiaodong to win. After all, coming from behind and a dark horse counterattack are the correct way to start all legends, and Fan Xiaodong's defeat of Hook before also made these European fans feel It is inevitable that there is a trace of self-deception: if Fan Xiaodong defeats Wang Chao, it means that Hu Ke is not bad, but Fan Xiaodong is too strong. In this case, our Hu Ke can still save some face.

What the audience didn't know was that when everyone was waiting for Fan Xiaodong to create a miracle and expressed their high opinion of him, only Qin Huachang, who was far away in a hospital in the imperial capital, was a little confused at this moment.

"That's not right."

"How did you really fight?"

"That's not what I taught him before."

"This child..."

Qin Huachang was very depressed.

He is the person who knows Fan Xiaodong best in the world, because he witnessed and participated in the planning of Fan Xiaodong's entire transformation process.

So he is also very clear about Fan Xiaodong's subtle talent and fighting ability.

He asked Fan Xiaodong to hide his touch, and Fan Xiaodong did well enough.

In the game against Hooker, Fan Xiaodong first tried to defend, and then tried to use violence to control violence. After that game, everyone felt that Fan Xiaodong's defense probably couldn't defend against Hooker. After all, it seemed He was beaten badly.

Only Qin Huachang knew that Fan Xiaodong was hiding his clumsiness at that time.

If a careful reader re-reads all the descriptions of the first two rounds of the game, he will be very surprised to find that all the parts related to the short backspin serve and the short swing in the table in the first two rounds are all covered by Fan Xiaodong. Take the initiative to skim the ball to Hooker's baseline, or return the ball high after up to three possessions, giving Hooker a chance to routinely attack.

At that time, he was already consciously refusing to fight against others.

At that time, everyone only knew that Hu Ke had a subtle touch, so subconsciously felt that Fan Xiaodong was no match for Hu Ke, and it was normal to have such a performance.

But they forgot that although Hook feels good enough, his technique is rough. Even if he has a subtlety, in fact, when he is facing the main-level opponents of the Chinese Table Tennis National Team, he should theoretically account for the short ball in the table. Less than any cheap ones.

And in the third game after Fan Xiaodong switched to the mode of controlling violence with violence, when the score was 5:1, he forgot to hide his clumsiness because of his excitement, and once forced Hu Ke to show his weakness in the internal fighting, and then stormed Score.

It's just that all the audience was attracted by his crazy violence at that time, and they didn't realize what this scene actually represented.

So, Fan Xiaodong is actually very smart. Although he doesn't have much experience in the game, he can fine-tune his strategy during the game. He chose to hide his clumsiness without discussing it with anyone.

(I saw an old friend in the book review area saying that Fan Xiaodong’s hidden feeling of playing Hook was unreasonable. In fact, I left a foreshadowing when I wrote it. Let me explain it here. I hope you can be satisfied.)

(End of this chapter)