Ping Pong Life

Chapter 377
The men's singles semi-final, which took place at 10:22 am on the third match day of the German Open, Lin Zijun vs. Hooker, is still remembered by fans many years later. The most exciting game, its excitement even surpassed the subsequent mixed doubles final and men's singles final.

Such a view is of course biased, because from an objective level, the final level must be higher than the semi-final level.

But such a view has its rationale.

Because the strength of both sides in the final is clear at a glance, no matter who wins or loses, there are reasons and the results of the game are all within the predictions of some fans.

As for the match between Lin Zijun and Hu Ke, they were overwhelmingly optimistic about Hu Ke before the match. Even Mr. Hua Ping Qin, who had just become a super-popular anchor, went off in person, and Jin Kouyu said that Hu Ke would win.

But it was not Hook who reached the final.

So the drama of this game can be described as full.

Many years later, those fans who are getting old remember the past, and they all remember that there was a long period of darkness in the world table tennis world, ruled by the super big devil from Huaping. A super devil has monopolized the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles, and has kept his opponents clean in the finals of the three events time and time again, which makes people completely unable to resist the idea of ​​resistance.

That period of deepest darkness was called "Dark Night" by them.

The Great Demon King who rules the night is called the Night King by them.

The night king's rule is so hopeless, but there are still very faint lights flickering in the dark night, occasionally making unyielding resistance.

One of the bright spots is Lin Zijun from Wandao.

The reason why player Lin Zijun was able to become one of the few lights in the dark night is precisely because he completed the most important breakthrough in his career in today's game, stepping into the realm of a super player in one day.

So this is actually a historic moment.

……

Standing in front of the table, holding a small ball in his hands, Lin Zijun still doesn't know what will happen in the future. He only knows that his judgment is correct.

"Sure enough, I should use my own understanding to fight Hook."

In the past six months, in order to defeat Hook, he asked many people and referred to many games.

In fact, Hu Ke has lost a lot. Excluding the balls he lost, he has at least lost to Sun Tianlong, Luo Jiu and Fan Xiaodong, so the reference sample is enough, and there are many in the world. Everyone is studying the methods of fighting Hook, and Lin Zijun thinks many of the theories make sense.

At that time, his attitude was to learn with an open mind, but he never thought of blazing a new trail by himself.

It is not because he lacks the ability to think independently, but because he has been used to practicing obediently under the arrangement of his parents and coaches since he was a child. He has been following the rules for too long, and it has become a habit unconsciously, restricting his free-flying mind.

And after he truly comprehended the "Spirit of Freedom", he actually thought of a way to deal with Hook in only 3 minutes.

It's actually really simple...

"My only advantage over Hook is speed."

"Yes, everyone has extreme speed, but I know that I am faster than most people."

"I've watched other people with extreme speed play games, and I thought they weren't fast enough, but I was too obedient at the time, the whole world said they were fast, and I took it for granted that they were as fast as me .”

"With the same nuanced talent, Wang Chao and Luo Jiu can outperform the water bird eagle, so why can't I be faster than others with the same speed talent?"

"So how do I use it to my advantage?"

"Of course it's defense. After all, I'm no match for him in a stalemate."

"So how do I take advantage of my strengths in defense?"

"Of course, try to shorten the distance the ball flies."

"There is one last question: In such a short distance, even if I have time to react, how can I handle his ball to force him to play fast with me?"

"Push and block, only push and block."

In the past, Lin Zijun's first reaction must be to deny his answer, because the whole world is saying that pushing and blocking has long been outdated.

But this time he continued to think.

"I am very lucky, because when my coach Jiang Peirong was a player, he was a well-known pusher in the table tennis world. Blocking technology is not unfamiliar, and even quite familiar."

"Then there's only one last piece of the puzzle: Blocking is a straight technique, and I'm a horizontal technique."

"This is a better solution. Since I already know the correct posture, shot timing and technical essentials of pushing, can I just change it myself?"

"I didn't dare to change it casually before, but now I dare. After all, theory is dead, but people are alive."

"Isn't Wang Chao able to achieve the current results because he dared to use all kinds of strange moves in the game?"

"I used to think that he was beating indiscriminately, but now I know that it's just that my understanding has not kept up with him."

"Now, I'm finally following him."

Lin Zijun was really lucky. When he broke through the limitations of his thinking for the first time, his technical reserves and theoretical reserves were sufficient, which allowed him to directly apply his new ideas to actual combat without any problems. The "think it out of the box" problem.

He stood in front of the table and delivered his second ball.

Still aiming directly at Hook's forehand position to steal the long.

Like the first ball, he did it on purpose.

He just wanted to test where the limit of Hook's offense was.

Topspin from the forehand position is definitely the best serve for Hook. If Hook didn't have time to use his full strength on the first ball just because he underestimated the opponent, then this time, please shoot with all your strength.

Hook's choice was indeed to go all out.

Hook and Lin Zijun are considered old rivals, and his historical record has a great advantage, so when he found out that Lin Zijun dared to steal his forehand long ball just now, his reaction was a very standard seven-point attack.

According to his past experience, this kind of strength is enough, either directly punching Lin Zijun through, or hitting Lin Zijun into absolute passiveness, and he can kill him with one more blow.

But in the end he was counterattacked beautifully by Lin Zijun in an absolutely unexpected way.

So Hook also changed his tactics.

He is Ye Luzi, although he has no tricks, but he also has no shackles. Since seven points of strength is not enough, let's try to be very strong.

As soon as Hook took the ball, Lin Zijun quickly entered the extremely fast defense mode, and once again stuck to the table to forcefully block.

Facts have proved that even if Hook explodes with all his strength, he is still able to stop it.

At this moment, the audience exclaimed in unison: "Wow."

It's not because they really understand the mystery of the ball, but because the visual effects of this scene are really exciting.

No one knows how violent Hook's shot is.

When facing Hook, all the players would retreat immediately when they saw that Hook was about to attack, without exception.

Lin Zijun dared to put up the first ball, and it can also be said that he took advantage of his opponent's ignorance.

But the second ball Hook obviously already has psychological expectations.

Lin Zijun still stuck to the table and pushed up hard.

This action is not beautiful, but because the straight block push technique is forced to use the horizontal plate, the twist of the wrist and arm is rather awkward, and it looks like a weird octopus.

Hook at the other end of the table has a piece of tendon all over his arm, which is holding up the fabric of the jersey.

Lin Zijun on the other side of the table was slender and slender, and his appearance was not bad, but he looked a little thin on the sports field.

But he fought back with a weak body, and this kind of aura of strong attack made the audience feel the involuntary surge of blood in his body.

With a "bang", the ball hit the racket, and the sound was like a hammer.

But the ball was headed by him in the end, and it was another super fast return ball.

Pushing back this backward technology is showing unparalleled brilliance at this moment, because it has an extremely unique advantage, which is not available in the most advanced double-sided arc ball full-table offensive technology in today's table tennis world: you As hard as the ball hits, I push the ball back as fast as possible.

The typical way of using the other is to give it to the other.

Of course, Hooker couldn't be pushed to death directly, but he was indeed forced to speed up. He caught the second board, then the third board, and then tried to receive the fourth board, but he received an empty ball. Leaked the past.

2:0, Lin Zijun scored another point.

By this time, Hook knew something was wrong.

His continuous explosive power and physical strength are enough to support him to fully exert his strength for multiple boards in a row. The reason why he missed the fourth board just now is not because his strength can't keep up, but because his speed can't keep up.

Lin Zijun hit the ball too fast, and almost pushed the racket near the center line of the table on his side, which caused the ball to come back faster and faster. Even if Hook had the talent for extreme speed, he still had to move the racket. It takes time to move, but he has no time to do the action of pulling the racket and pulling the ball.

After all, Lin Zijun only needs to erect the racket to push it forward, but his side is a complete pulling action, and the length of the running path of the two rackets is completely different.

Hook tried his best to think about how to deal with it. In order to buy time, he deliberately ran around the half court after getting the right to serve, and then waited for a few seconds before officially serving.

From this detail, it can be seen that Raulskov's guidance to him is still meaningful, at least in terms of common sense of the game, to help Hooker solve the bad problems of being too impatient in the past.

However, Hook didn't think of any good solution.

Because in the past, he played by intuition, and all his judgments on the court were based on the situations he had encountered in actual combat in the past. There is a saying: people can never imagine things beyond their own experience.

Hu Ke has never encountered such a situation before, because he has a talent for extreme speed. In the past, when others met him, they would try their best to defuse his speed and strength. This is the first time he has encountered someone who forced him to speed up. people.

Without thinking, he made a short backspin of panacea.

Lin Zijun directly flipped his forehand to the bottom line. The ball was thrown very casually, without much spin.

This is blatantly asking Hook to attack.

In the past, Lin Zijun would not play this kind of ball anyway, because this is a typical impreciseness. In theory, even if you are not afraid of Hook's attack, you should take precautions carefully, even if he can find the attack in the end. If there is an opportunity to attack, it should be obtained by him with effort, not given to him by you.

But now Lin Zijun thinks it doesn't matter. His current state is very strange. He wants to win, but he is not afraid of losing. Come out, as for whether this is a loss or a gain, he doesn't care about whether the Fu is in line with the basic idea of ​​the official game.

He feels very cool, because he is unrestrained and no one can limit him.

Hook once again exploded with a forehand.

He knew that Lin Zijun was waiting for him to attack, but if he didn't attack this kind of ball, then he didn't know how to play it.

But he has also changed, this time it is a burst of seven-point force and a change of line.

He believes that changing the line may be an opportunity to break the game.

However, Lin Zijun had already expected this, and still moved into place as soon as possible, and continued to push forward.

It's just that this time it didn't succeed, because the angle of the racket's depression was not enough, and the strongly spinning ball rushed out diagonally from the bottom of the racket.

2: 1.

Until this time, a certain super popular anchor who had been keeping his eyes wide open and not saying a word, relaxed his upper body leaning forward again, let out a light breath, and hummed: "It's not too bad."

At this time, the barrage in the live broadcast room was going crazy, and everyone was waiting for him to talk about the ball with their heads full of question marks, but he was finally willing to speak until now.

Now that he was relaxed, Qin Huachang didn't hold back: "Okay, let me explain briefly."

"This situation is really weird, so I had to concentrate on seeing all the details just now, so that I can figure out what happened."

Speaking of this, Qin Huachang clicked his tongue twice, a little upset: "Watching the live broadcast is not as good as watching the scene. You watch these directors, and none of them are professional. They don't look at what should be watched. The camera knows how to chase the ball. The problem is, You haven't caught up yet, so why don't you just look at the details of the players' movements or facial expressions?"

This is actually purely venting emotional complaints. After all, the source of the live broadcast is for ordinary audiences. What ordinary audiences watch is excitement and scenes. If the camera does not follow the ball, what else can it follow?
As for an expert like Qin Huachang, of course, he hopes to guess the player's specific thinking when handling the ball through the details of the player's body before and after hitting the ball. He can even analyze the player from the micro-expression shown when the player hits the ball. mentality at the moment.

What?You said that some players are good at hiding their emotions?

In fact, it is impossible to hide emotions completely, especially in an extremely intense high-end match. When both sides are fully committed to the game, how can they be distracted to hide their emotions?When they try their best to hit the ball, they will definitely release their emotions. It may be very short, but it will never be stagnant.

In fact, Wang Chao remembers that someone in his previous life specially collected the grinning and ferocious faces of the national team players when they hit the ball with all their strength. The emotions in the eyes of the players at that moment are the true portrayal of their mentality, which cannot be deceived.

For example, if he regards the opponent as a strong enemy and wants to kill him with a single blow, then he will have a murderous look in his eyes.

Or maybe he is at a disadvantage and is just doing his best to resist and push back, then his eyes will have a look of worry, or his expression will be particularly dignified.

In short, after complaining, Qin Huachang began to dump dry goods: "Although I don't know why, it is obvious that Lin Zijun has super-evolved. I don't know the direction of his super-evolution. At present, there are only two guesses. Either he I have figured out some things in terms of actual combat concepts, either his speed talent has evolved again, and his current speed is probably at least one notch faster than other players with speed talent, maybe more than that."

"If it's the former, it's an improvement in golf quotient. If it's the latter, it's an improvement in hard power. In short, they are both scary, but the greater possibility is that the two have been improved together. In this case, he will be our Huaping in the future. It's a strong enemy."

"Besides, his tactic against Hooker is really amazing. I seriously doubt that Jiang Peirong can't come up with such an excellent strategy. After all, I know him quite well. Hehe, I played against him when I was a player. .”

"His strategy is quite good. The first two balls stunned me. I thought, it's understandable that his speed has improved, but why can he successfully push Hook's ball back every time? ? This is unreasonable, what needs to be improved is the improvement of touch and judgment, but he is not nuanced, Hooker's ball is so explosive, how can he push it all back?"

"So I didn't dare to speak, because I think it's too fake. If he can continue to be so fake, it can only prove that I haven't understood it yet, and I have to continue watching."

"I kept seeing the third ball, and he failed to block, and I felt that this ball has finally returned to my cognitive range. It turned out that it wasn't that I really couldn't understand it, but that his first two balls better luck."

"Okay, now that I understand, I'm going to start commenting. Lin Zijun's current style of play still has hidden dangers. He can keep up with Hooker's ball, but he may not be able to block Hooker's ball. Hook was unprepared for a few balls, but once Lin Zijun failed to block more times, Hook would quickly realize the problem, and then, Hook would work hard on the details of the attack, so that Lin Zijun could block more. Sometimes more judgments go wrong.”

"So, the outcome has not yet been decided, and it will be a very difficult tug-of-war."

　Thanks to "Meow's Schrödinger jin" for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)