Ping Pong Life

Chapter 397 The Awakened Giant

"Play hard, don't take it lightly." Before entering the arena, He Jingping told Wang Chao.

This is an old saying that every coach will babble before the start of the game. Because I have heard too much, it is usually useless, but this time He Jingping always felt something was wrong. He paused, and said: "Be sure to calm down." ah."

Wang Chao smiled and pointed to his head: "Don't worry, I have studied Brother Fei's carefully, and there are many things in it."

He Jingping couldn't help laughing, knowing that he cared too much and was a little suspicious.

In fact, although he is open-minded and has sufficient confidence in Wang Chao, after he offered suggestions at the coaching staff meeting a few days ago, he was still a little uneasy. He was always afraid that if Wang Chao lost to Lin Li Or Bai Feng, is he going to take the blame?Do you have to give Wang Chao a knock to be worthy of your conscience?

At this time, Wang Chao entered the arena, smiled at Xiao Fei who was entering the arena from the other side, and shook hands according to the rules.

The atmosphere was very good, because Wang Chao and Xiao Fei had practiced mixed doubles together for several months, and they were already very familiar with each other. In addition, Xiao Fei was a buddhist character who didn't fight or grab, so they had been getting along happily all the time, so that At this time, when they met on the field, they still felt a little dazed. They always felt that the next moment the two of them put the racket on the table, they could sit down and chat and fart.

When the two returned to both sides of the table, the referee tossed a coin and signaled the two to guess. Xiao Fei couldn't help laughing, waved his hands, shook his head, and signaled that he would not guess and let Wang Chao guess.

This is also a joke among acquaintances. After all, Wang Chao claims to guess a hundred times wrong in guessing coins. There are rumors in Huaping that the only way for Wang Chao to guess coins successfully is to invite Sun Tianlong to guess with Wang Chao.

Not even Luo Jiu, because everyone felt that Luo Jiu was not stable enough.

Wang Chao guessed a "word" at random, and waited for the referee to reveal the patterned side of the coin, but the referee let go of his hand, and the three of them took a closer look, and were extremely surprised.

It turned out that there was a "word" this time. Wang Chao succeeded in guessing the coin and got the right to serve.

"Wow, that's interesting." Brother Big Ma laughed in the live broadcast room: "Wang Chao actually won the coin guessing game. Is he going to lose this game?"

"This world is materialistic and objective. You can't betray materialism just because there is a small probability of coincidence, okay?" Ye Hongye skillfully continued: "Let me just say that, if the king If you lose this game, I will eat your monitor on the spot."

"Oh, you said it yourself. The audience heard it. The recording is the proof. You can't go back on your word." Brother Da Ma immediately followed up: "Let's say it first, you can't play word games this time, you can eat it if you want to eat it." , with this monitor in front of us, whoever doesn’t eat is a puppy.”

Ye Hongye has the calmness of a big boss, hehe smiled, lightly shook the feather fan in his hand, and asked why there is a feather fan, it is naturally because summer is here: "Yes, but a monitor is not enough... add this keyboard Bar."

At the same time, almost all the anchors around the world who were broadcasting the game noticed the coin guessing thing, because this meme was really popular, so, in fact, many people were expressing their opinions at this time.

Of course, most people still think that Wang Chao will win, because judging from the past results, the two sides are really far apart, and Xiao Fei's performance in the fight against Morad yesterday was really not good, and he made many low-level mistakes, which shows his state not good.

Considering that he is getting older, everyone is more willing to think that it is not that he is in poor condition, but that his physical condition has problems caused by age, which affects his condition.

In other words, his strength has declined from his peak period.

Only Qin Huachang was slightly different.

He was a little surprised when he saw the result of guessing the coin, and after thinking about it, he suddenly showed a slightly amazed smile, and said mysteriously: "This game, maybe Wang Chao will capsize in the gutter."

Although every time Qin Huachang pretended to be astonishing, he was proved to be right in the end, but this time he was still complained by the audience in the live broadcast room.

"This little anchor, it's fine if he doesn't go to the international arena to make a name for himself, why is he talking nonsense in his live broadcast room?"

"Anchor, if you want to increase your popularity, you should spoil it quickly. It's not enough to just rely on grandstanding."

"Hurry up and talk about it, what is the method of overturning the ship?"

As an anchor who has never been used to his audience, Qin Huachang chose to ignore all the complaints and leaned forward a little, preparing to concentrate on watching the game.

He didn't intend to make a spoiler commentary, because he guessed that the direction of the game would be very strange, and he didn't have the ability to spoil it at the moment.

On the screen, the game has officially started.

Wang Chao's first ball was served with a short backspin.

This meant that his attitude was very rigorous, and he didn't take it lightly just because Xiao Fei didn't compete for the Olympic men's singles spot.

In fact, he attaches more importance to Xiao Fei than most of the fans, because he has practiced mixed doubles with Xiao Fei for several months. In the past month, I have glimpsed some of Xiao Fei's outstanding abilities in singles.

He plays the ball in the most rigorous way, with short backspin and does not give the opponent any chance to attack, and then waits to fight against the opponent, looking for opportunities to initiate an active attack.

Xiao Fei's steady swing, without changing his moves, also showed his rigorous attitude towards this game.

He knew that Wang Chao had fine-grained touch, but he still wanted to start the game with a short fight.

This is the first time he and Wang Chao have really met in the international arena, so even if they have practiced together many times before, Wang Chao should be regarded as a brand new opponent now, because the competition and practice are completely different, and the team The internal assessment is completely different from the international competition.

Wang Chao made short moves.

Xiao Fei swayed short.

Wang Chao swayed again.

Xiao Fei swayed again.

Wang Chao put it back steadily.

Everyone thought that this short fight must be Wang Chao who found an opportunity first, because everyone knew that Xiao Fei didn't have a fine touch, and at the same time, in their memory, Xiao Fei never seemed to use small balls in the table as his specialty.

But what no one expected was that after seven consecutive short rounds, it was Xiao Fei who launched the attack one step ahead. The prologue of the battle.

Strictly speaking, Wang Chao didn't think that his short swing in the seventh round revealed any flaws, but when Xiao Fei made a slap shot, Wang Chao had a very clear feeling: Yes.

This challenge is extremely difficult, because the opportunity that Xiao Fei seized was not an opportunity at all, but his challenge was very successful, fast and low, as if flying against the table, lightly hitting the table on Wang Chao's side. Wipe it, and it floated out like a dragonfly on water.

The texture of this challenge seems to be different from the challenge Wang Chao encountered when he played against any other players before.

Wang Chao actually knew the reason.

That's because Xiao Fei is tall and has long legs. When he punches, he presses his body forward more than most other players, so his arms are stretched longer. The racket picked up the ball before sending it out, but Xiao Fei's flicking action was more like using the racket to carry the ball forward and rub it from the beginning to the end.

This is a pick-and-play that is very similar to a fast belt in essence. If the movement is slower, it may even be suspected of "holding the ball". He can play this way because the rubber of his custom-made racket is stickier than most people. .

All the custom-made rubbers are closely related to the players' own characteristics, and this is particularly obvious for the national players. Xiao Fei's challenge is something that others can't learn even if he wants to, and he relies on it the most. The famous forehand boa constrictor turn over and kill the board is the limit of what this racket can do, giving people an extremely magnificent, pleasing but unreasonable aesthetic feeling.

Wang Chao's first reaction was to take a step back and forcefully pull the ball with his forehand, because the ball was only fast and floating, but it was not heavy.

But as soon as he got the ball in his hands, he realized that the spin of the ball was much weaker than he expected, and his pull actually pulled out a seriously high ball.

Without any hesitation, Xiao Fei retreated half a step, opened his posture, and a classic boa constrictor turned over, his arms were completely rounded, and when the ball touched the racket, his whole body turned sideways and pressed down, as if standing still A beautiful Peking Opera-style tumbling, and because of this movement, the ball completely completed the entire friction process on the racket.

But this process is actually very complicated, because the first part of the friction is almost a standard top spin, but as the body rolls over, the second half of the ball begins to have side spin, and when it finally flies out, the ball Not only is it going down crazily in the vertical direction, but it is also turning sideways in the horizontal direction.

Wang Chao took another step back, his eyes fixed on the crazily spinning ball.

Sometimes in the confrontation between players, the outcome depends on one or two tiny points, such as whether I can block your attack, or whether you can keep up with my attacking rhythm.

For anyone who fights against Xiao Fei, the key to breaking Xiao Fei is whether they can stop his big python move, and if they can stop it, how far can they stop it?
Is it barely defending, or is it a perfect defense?

In fact, Wang Chao seldom competes with the opponent in pure strength. When the opponent's strength is too strong, his best choice is often to hit a fast-paced return ball, using his own accurate judgment of the ball speed and spin, and directly pass the ball by pushing and blocking. Press back.

But this time he decided to give it a try.

Because the ball is too spinning, too floating, the friction process is too long, and the friction steps are too complicated, he really doesn't have the confidence to resolve it purely by pushing and blocking.

With a cry, he slammed his forehand forward obliquely, stepped forward with his waist, turned his whole body halfway, and pulled the ball forward with an extremely beautiful forehand.

There was a muffled "poof", like a light fart, Wang Chao pulled the ball aggressively and pulled it sideways.

To be precise, it wasn't that he pulled it crookedly, but that the ball's lateral arc in the horizontal direction was too large, and Wang Chao's prediction was insufficient. As a result, when the ball touched the racket, it was already on the outer edge of the racket.

So as soon as Wang Chao exerted force, it flew out from the side.

1:0, Xiao Fei scored one point first.

Wang Chao regained the right to serve.

He sent another short backspin.

Just now, Xiao Fei's rushing attack was regarded as fighting in his opinion, and he didn't care about it, because no one has ever been able to complete the game by fighting the ball.

In Wang Chao's view, as long as he keeps his guard firmly and makes no mistakes, so that the opponents who fight in advance cannot increase the points, then if the fight continues, the momentum will ebb and flow, and victory will be in the bag.

But after another seven rounds, Xiao Fei once again took the initiative to fight in the ring and succeeded again.

Wang Chao still retreated and defended.

But what followed was Xiao Fei's forehand attack, and the signature boa constrictor turned over.

Wang Chao still chose to forcefully pull back. This time he corrected the problem of the previous ball prediction and successfully pulled the ball over.

But the ball was indeed heavy enough and floaty. Although he pulled it back successfully, he was still a little too high, and the pull was not rigorous.

So Xiao Fei made another forehand burst with a slightly smaller range of motion.

Although the range is small, the quality is still extremely high, even surpassing the full-strength burst of ordinary professional players.

This is also reasonable, after all, Xiao Fei has been hailed as the best male doubles player for many years, precisely because his forehand shot is strong enough, and his shot method is different from most brute force players.

This time Wang Chao chose to push the block and successfully hit a super fast return ball.

Xiao Fei was on guard, and pulled forehand again.

Wang Chao again.

The ball was still in Xiao Fei's forehand position, but it was only slightly closer to the center. Xiao Fei went up to meet it, and suddenly leaned his body to the right. The strong spin ball on the line, straight down Wang Chao's backhand to the bottom line at a large angle.

Looking at the ball alone, the quality is not that high, but he has a fast pace and presses every step of the way. Every pull of the ball puts great pressure on Wang Chao. At this moment, the change of the ball has become crushing. The last straw for the camel flew away from Wang Chao's side.

2: 0.

At this moment, countless audiences both inside and outside the venue let out a "huh".

This is the first time they have seen Wang Chao encounter such a situation in the world arena.

It was obviously his own serve, but he lost two points in a row?

How is this going?

"What's going on here?" At the same time, Wang Chao was also asking himself.

He realized something was wrong.

There is no problem with my in-table balls, the quality of my short swings is also fine, and it is even more impossible for my subtle touch to be inferior to Xiao Fei's. However, for two consecutive balls, Xiao Fei was the first to attack. The root cause of the score, as for Xiao Fei's continuous attack or the quality of the veneer, it's just a logical follow-up, so don't worry about it.

Then, why did Xiao Fei succeed in attacking twice in a row?

Wang Chao initially judged that Xiao Fei was fighting, so he didn't panic.

But fighting must have a success rate that matches the fighting, it should never exceed 50%, and now Xiao Fei's two rush attacks have all succeeded.

Of course, this may also be luck, after all, only two balls were played.

But the thing is, if it's not luck, it's trouble.

Everyone knows how important the opportunity to attack is in a sufficiently rigorous high-quality duel, and it almost determines the outcome of more than 70.00% of the ball.

"So...is there something wrong with my pendulum that I didn't realize?" Wang Chao thought silently.

Wang Chao didn't know that someone sitting in the stands at this time, his uncle, Zhu Zeshi, was carefully watching the expression on his face.

Seeing the astonishment that flashed across Wang Chao's face, Zhu Zeshi smiled, a little embarrassed, but also a little proud, with a bit of evil humor.

Yes, Zhu Zeshi knew the inside story.

Cai Guodong said that Xiao Fei's fighting spirit was slack, his preparations were slack, and he made many mistakes when fighting Morad. In fact, it was because he didn't know what Xiao Fei was doing these days.

The truth is, these days, with the help of Zhu Zeshi, Xiao Fei is secretly, intensively, and wholeheartedly studying Wang Chao, thinking of ways to defeat Wang Chao.

Because he invested too much energy, his mind was not on Morad at all.

Although Morad is a future supernova in the eyes of European fans, he is still too young for Xiao Fei, a veteran of the same era as Sun Tianlong. won.

Xiao Fei wants to beat Wang Chao in this Brazilian Open.

This was not a whim, nor was it a whim, nor was it Zhu Zeshi's order, but his own idea.

……

"Do you really understand Xiao Fei?"

"Do you really know what he wants and what he thinks?"

At this moment, Qin Huachang in the live broadcast room finally began to reveal the secret after seeing the results of the first two balls.

"Everyone says that Xiao Fei is Buddhist, but have you ever thought that a table tennis player from Huaguo fought all the way from a place full of masters, reached the main team of the national team, and sat in the second place in the world? After so long, does he really have no desire to win? Can a person who has no desires, demands, fights, or grabs really rush to such a high place?"

"Impossible!"

"Xiao Fei's Buddhism is not so much innate, but rather forced out by the current situation."

"When he was young, he also wanted to win a grand slam. When he first debuted, he was more favored by the coaching staff than Sun Tianlong, but Aaron came from behind, quickly surpassed him, and beat him many times in a row in head-to-head competition. Then, Sun Tianlong began to bloom in full bloom, entering the invincible mode of the seven-year dominance."

"As for Xiao Fei, because of this, he has never surpassed again. He has lived in the shadow of Aaron for seven years. During these seven years, he has also won countless honors. He has played against Aaron in many finals of international competitions. He also lost without exception."

"If it weren't for Sun Tianlong, he would have already won the Grand Slam."

"People in the world say that Bayer, the king of Europe, is Sun Tianlong's queen cash machine, but in fact, Xiao Fei, who was in the same era as Sun Tianlong, is not? You know, other people in their era have long been left behind, and he has always been the only one who is struggling Although he did not catch up, he never fell behind, and this alone shows his tenacity and desire to win, how could he be a person who truly has no desires?"

"It's just that he still couldn't beat Sun Tianlong, so he gradually lost his fighting spirit to win the grand slam. He was desperate and resigned to his fate. At this time, Lin Li, Baifeng and Luo Jiu, three people who were two years younger than him, chased him up, and let him He felt the cruelty of the competition more and more."

"At the top is Sun Tianlong, who will never be surpassed, and below is the young player who is following closely. He thought about it, but he never thought that he would have any possibility of achieving a Grand Slam. When Sun Tianlong was still playing, he couldn't beat it. , when Sun Tianlong retires, he will not be able to beat him anymore, at least he won't be able to beat the younger main players."

"It was under such circumstances that he became the current Buddha."

"But his blood is still not cold, he still wants to prove himself."

"Since I have given up competing for Olympic places, and I can't beat Sun Tianlong, the only way to prove myself is to beat Wang Chao."

"Yes, you're right, he can also defeat Bai Feng and Lin Li, but the fact is that he has done this many times before, and it doesn't make much sense in the end, and everyone still thinks that he and Bai Feng and Lin Li They are of the same grade. The reason is that Sun Tianlong is always blocking them. People have an illusion that only the first is different, while the second, third and fourth are similar. They can't tell the No. How far is 2 from the third No.4?"

"Anyway, everyone didn't care, so Xiao Fei didn't want to continue to prove it. So he started to give up the ball in the game, and started to give way to other players when they needed honor. He became a Buddhist player."

"At this time, Wang Chao, who was born out of nowhere, gave Xiao Fei a rare opportunity. You must know that Wang Chao not only maintained a complete victory record against Bai Feng and Lin Li, but also defeated Sun Tianlong just once this year. At the same time, he He also won all the foreign games, and also created the strongest record in the history of winning the championship without losing a game in the German Open in July."

"Beating such a person should prove my strength——Xiao Fei should think so."

"From an objective point of view, this matter actually has another great benefit, which is to help Wang Chao get rid of the current possible danger."

"Don't forget, if Wang Chao wins against Xiao Fei this time, he will fight Lin Li again, and if Wang Chao loses to Lin Li, then the Olympic competition will have another turmoil."

"But Wang Chao won't have any problem losing to Xiao Fei, because Xiao Fei doesn't participate in the competition at all."

"Wang Chao is Lao He's disciple, Xiao Fei is Lao Zhu's disciple, and they are brothers from the same school. If Lao Zhu hadn't acquiesced and actively promoted this matter, how could Xiao Fei suddenly show his claws today?"

Qin Huachang paused at this point, and sneered: "Of course, there is another impetus, which comes from Lao Wa."

Lao Wa is a great enough player, Qin Huachang admits this.

But whether Lao Wa is a real god, Qin Huachang thinks not.

Xiao Fei's strength is obvious to the Huaping coaching staff. Lao Wa, who is thousands of miles away in Sweden, dared to come to the conclusion that "Morad can win" after watching Xiao Fei casually. angry.

Even an outsider like him is angry, let alone Xiao Fei himself?

"You look down on me so much? Do you think I can't even beat a mere Morad?"

"Do you really think that the top three in the world is a joke?"

"My lord, times have changed. This is not the table tennis world it was 20 years ago."

Just aiming at hitting Lao Wa in the face, Xiao Fei will definitely show his best level in this game, playing a famous game that shocked the world table tennis world.

From Qin Huachang's point of view, in this ball, every super ball Xiao Fei hit was Zhu Zeshi's slap on Lao Wa's face.

Just like when Fan Xiaodong beat Hu Ke back then, every ball he killed Hu Ke was slapped by Qin Huachang on Raulskoff's face.

So in a sense, this game is also a game between the top coaches of Asia and Europe.

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