Ping Pong Life

Chapter 426 Irreversible
The schedule of the World Table Tennis Championships is in full swing, and the attention of fans all over the world continues to increase, and finally reached the first climax on the morning of the fifth day of the competition.

There were four games in a row this morning that fans couldn't help but be excited about.

Hook vs. Baifeng.

Morad vs Fan Xiaodong.

Wang Chao vs Bayer.

Luo Jiu vs. Lin Zijun.

In any of these games, no coach dared to say that he could guess the outcome.

European media interviewed Raulskov, and Raulskov said, "I believe in my players."

European media interviewed Lao Wa, and Lao Wa said that "sometimes the experience of the game is more important than the victory or defeat."

Asian media interviewed He Jingping, He Jingping directly said "I don't know".

Don't use the relationship between the winners and losers in the past six months to define the winners and losers of the World Table Tennis Championships. As Qin Huachang explained in the live broadcast yesterday, the Huaping players in the three major competitions may not be much different from those in the Open. However, players from foreign associations will really be reborn.

In this case, the most vigilant is actually the veterans, not the group of supernovas who have just risen in the new generation.

Because the thickness of the veteran may exceed your imagination.

When they usually play by instinct, you will feel that they are older, slower, weaker, less responsive, and even their skills are outdated.

But when veterans really settle down and are willing to devote all their energy and painstaking efforts to study their opponents, they will come up with many targeted tactics that you can't even think of.

Yes, veterans are indeed inferior to young people in terms of physical strength and energy, but they have too much on-the-spot experience, and they have all kinds of weird thinking about the handling of each ball. Some of their details The degree of delicacy is probably an angle that young players can't even dream of.

Therefore, when Huaping internally ranks players from foreign associations, Bayer's threat level is even higher than that of Hu Ke.

Similarly, when players from foreign associations ranked Huaping players in terms of threat, Bai Feng was no less terrifying than Wang Chao.

That morning, the stadium was full of spectators, and many people even stood in the middle aisle to watch the game. In fact, they couldn’t see the table in the distance at all. They could only look up at the big screen in front of their heads, but even so, they still wanted to come to the scene Feel the fiery atmosphere.

Undoubtedly, local Hungarian fans support European players, and Bayer, a veteran with both virtue and skill, is the idol of most European audiences present.

In the first round of the match in the morning, Hu Ke vs. Bai Feng, at the beginning of the game, Bai Feng took the lead and won the first round with a big score of 11:3, which shocked everyone's attention, because Bai Feng played the ball impressively in this round Fighting strong against strong, attacking against attack, he used his powerful forehand arc and signature straight backhand to forcefully penetrate Hook's defense.

At that moment, fans all over the world even had a strange idea deep in their hearts. They guessed whether Hu Ke was cheated, why after he went to play in the Ping Pong Super League, not only could he not beat Luo Jiu, but he could not even beat Bai Feng. ?
Obviously, Hu Ke could still rub Luo Jiu on the ground during the Huaguo Open in March this year.

Could it be that Hua Ping knew that Hook would become a serious problem in the future, so he simply tried to get rid of Hook?
Soon the fans realized that they were thinking too much.

Hook changed his style of play from the second game, and he became the unreasonable Hook again.

In fact, during the more than a month in the Table Tennis Super League, Hu Ke has indeed changed subtly. In the process of practicing with Luo Jiu, he gradually absorbed many rigorous and delicate playing habits displayed by Luo Jiu, and incorporated them into himself. In the tactical system, he started to play more steadily, more rigorously, and with fewer flaws, so in the Table Tennis Super League, his performance is actually quite good. He played nine rounds in more than a month, and played a total of 15 times , all victories, which means that he has really fundamentally solved the problem of his lack of stability.

What he learned in the Table Tennis Super League is something he could never learn in his lifetime playing in the club league in Germany.

But in the process of gaining income, of course Hook also encountered a bottleneck.

He can't perfectly balance the relationship between "stable" and "fierce".

Especially when he found out that no matter how fierce he was, he couldn't beat Luo Jiu to death, he subconsciously wanted to fight more rigorously. He no longer had the confidence to fight against Luo Jiu, but tried to limit Luo Jiu through more delicate fighting style offensive tempo.

In today's game, he subconsciously sought stability in the first round. Although it looked like he was still attacking the whole court to outsiders, in fact, compared with his playing style back then, he was already somewhat gentle.

Just because he wasn't fierce enough, he was murdered by Bai Feng.

But Hu Ke is indeed very smart. He quickly realized that Bai Feng was not Luo Jiu. The reason why he was cautious in fighting Luo Jiu was because he was weak against the attack, but Bai Feng...why did he let me bear it?

Hook started to go crazy from the second round, fully using his strange power and extreme speed, and continued to fight against Bai Feng with strength and attack with attack. Bai Feng found that he seemed to be really fierce.

At 11:3 in the second game, Hook responded to Bai Feng's game with the same big score.

In the third game, Bai Feng began to change his style. Instead of being aggressive, he chose to combine offense and defense, combining hardness and softness. This shows that Bai Feng is also using his brain. He is indeed not the old Bai Feng. When encountering difficulties, he will not be as single-minded as before. Unwilling to accept, he chose to fight in a roundabout way.

However, after 8 minutes, he still lost 7:11.

At this time, Bai Feng was still calm, because he had prepared for all this before the game. Facing a top player like Hu Ke, he had already made the most difficult psychological preparation.

He held on stubbornly, trying to reverse the situation with willpower and stability.

Then in the fourth game, Bai Feng carried it all the way to 9:9. With great luck, he scored the 10th point with a side ball, and then successfully deceived Hook by relying on a serving deception. It's 11:9.

In fact, we can also see the difference between foreign association players and Huaping players from here.

No matter how stable the foreign association players are, they will still have subtle psychological fluctuations at key points. After all, their usual training intensity is not enough, and the number of times they have reached the top in competitions is too small, and they have not yet cultivated the kind of humiliation. mentality.

So even though Hook has been training for more than a month in the Table Tennis Super League, he still can't quickly complete his mental adjustment after being slightly disturbed by the edge ball. Otherwise, how could he be deceived by the fake serve?
But that's it.

Although Hook couldn't adjust his mood during the short interval of a ball, he could already adjust his mentality during the break between rounds. From the fifth round onwards, he didn't give Bai Feng any chance, and went straight to 11: 7, 11:9 won two games in a row, eliminated Bai Feng, and took the lead in reaching the top eight men's singles.

It's not Bai Feng's fault, it's simply that his current comprehensive strength really can't beat Hu Ke.

He wanted to wait until Hook's state disappeared, but now Hook won't lose his state inexplicably, and he has gradually acquired a bit of the charm of a Huaguo player.

The second focus match in the morning came from Morad and Fan Xiaodong.

Almost all European fans are looking forward to Mollard's explosion today, but they don't realize that when Lao Wa said in the interview that "sometimes the experience of the game is more important than the victory or defeat", it has already faintly Foreshadowed the outcome of the game.

Lao Wa has misread some things, but generally speaking, he is quite accurate, especially when he looks at Morad taught by himself, he is very accurate.

In this game, Fan Xiaodong completed the crushing 25:4 within 0 minutes.

This is also the fastest and most one-sided game among the four focus games this morning.

Facts have proved that there is no such thing as a "battle between Asian supernovas and European supernovas", and this match is not at all "determining the direction of the world table tennis world in the next ten years" as boasted by the European media.

This is just a game of abuse.

Morad is indeed very strong, recognized by the world.

But Fan Xiaodong was indeed stronger, unbelievably strong.

Morad's style of play is very flexible, and he is an IQ player. At the same time, because the racket and rubber are different from ordinary people, he has some very special hitting skills. He is known for his strangeness and ingenuity. The method is more suitable for dealing with young teenagers.

After all, the teenager has little experience and is easily confused by the dazzling appearance.

But Fan Xiaodong was too experienced in this game. No matter how Morad jumped, he would simply swing short, rub long, and punch with one hand.

It's that simple.

All of Mora's tricks were thwarted by Fan Xiaodong's simple swing, and as long as he gave him a little chance, Fan Xiaodong would kill him with one blow, and if he couldn't kill him, he would hit him again.

So it quickly entered today's third focus match, Wang Chao vs Bayer.

This is a ball that the outside world considers to be completely unpredictable.

It's not because a veteran like Bayer is bound to explode in the World Table Tennis Championships, but because even the people inside Huaping don't know what level Wang Chao is now.

Everyone can see that Wang Chao is getting better and better. He won 4-0 in the mixed doubles match between Jin Feng and Jin Zhong yesterday, which shows that when he is holding the superconductor racket, there are not many obvious loopholes that can be attacked. up.

But this is not enough, because the opponent is Bayer.

The veterans in the World Table Tennis Championships have a great bonus in combat effectiveness.

A situation like Morad's, which is directly defeated after being restrained, never exists in Bayer.

If other players are looking for changes in every game when they are passive, then a veteran player like Bayer will seek changes in the next ball after each ball falls into a passive position.

Their ball will be much more complicated than that of young people, full of various changes, not only because they have recorded a variety of tactics in their minds, but also because they have practiced various techniques.

The game between Wang Chao and Bayer was very good, but the scene looked a little weird, because Wang Chao was almost defending the whole game.

At the beginning of the first game, Bayer actually didn't want to attack, because a veteran like him has learned to use the most scientific way to conserve energy and avoid injuries in his professional career for many years, so he wanted to play a defensive counterattack at the beginning of.

However, Wang Chao did not attack.

Even when the opportunity looks good, he doesn't attack.

Bayer is not Hooker, let alone Lin Zijun. He dare not directly feed Wang Chao a billiard ball in the forehand position. After all, he is old, and his speed and reflexes are not at their peak. If he feeds the ball too comfortably, Wang Chao will be completely mobilized , He was afraid that if he couldn't defend himself, he would not be defensive and counterattack, but would directly seek death.

In this situation, Bayer played very nervously. He was always waiting for Wang Chao to lift the board, and was always afraid that Wang Chao would lift the board too hard, but Wang Chao had an excellent hand feeling. Accidentally ate the spin.

So under the traction of this subtle aura, in the end Bayer was forced to take the initiative to attack.

He attacked, and Wang Chao defended.

This reminded many fans of the scene where Wang Chao played Heathfield in the last round.

Wang Chao also defended the entire game against Sisfeld, but Sisfeld and Bayer's offensive style is completely different. The former is extremely powerful, fast, and extremely strong. Most of the offense comes from backhand pulls. , although the landing point is strange, but the hitting point is relatively fixed.

Even though the landing points are scattered, but because the hitting points are relatively uniform, at least Wang Chao is relatively simple in judging Heathfield's offensive line, which allows him to move ahead of time in many cases, greatly reducing the difficulty of catching the ball.

But Bayer is known as Little Sun Tianlong. Once he starts to attack, he will use all kinds of tricks, such as forehand pull, backhand pull, forehand pick, backhand twist, forehand shot, pull up the header, pull down the ball, and pull away. Click on the big angle, zoom in on the big angle, fast with the forehand, fast tear with the backhand, topspin on the left, topspin on the right, topspin, pull left, pull right...

It can be said that he can hit any offensive ball from any angle, any rotation, and any length.

At this time, it is really too difficult to move ahead of time. In many cases, you have to wait for him to hit the ball before you can react, and then adapt to the situation.

So Wang Chao struggled to defend himself, he was in a panic. He moved sideways, front and back, made various emergency stops, and changed directions. The squeaking sound, even so, still missed a lot of balls like a colander.

After the first game, there were fine beads of sweat on the foreheads of both sides. Bayer was tired because he was tired from attacking. Each ball had to be played for more than a dozen rounds. The opponent was like an unbeatable cockroach. He hangs his breath and refuses to die for a long time, which makes him have to constantly increase his speed, constantly improve his rhythm, and constantly change his landing point.

Wang Chao was tired because he ran too much. After a game, it was like running 5000 meters, and his calves were sore.

In this war of attrition, Wang Chao lost the first game 7:11.

The second round was still the same. Bayer really hoped that Wang Chao could also attack, but Wang Chao refused to attack. He tried to fight Wang Chao for a few short rounds before giving up, and was forced to take the initiative to attack again.

In fact, it can be seen from this that Wang Chao's control over superconductors is already very subtle. He faced Bayer who was one of the five best players in the world, but he was still able to force Bayer to give up fighting.

However, it is still difficult for him to cope with Bayer's pervasive offensive rhythm full of veteran wisdom and various anti-human details.

In this game, Wang Chao still lost 6:11.

During the break between rounds, he was panting heavily while sitting on a chair, nibbling on a banana and wiping his hot sweat. He Jingping tried to propose behind him: "Why don't we win a round first and be steady, Come back to practice again?"

Wang Chao shook his head.

He Jingping didn't mention it anymore.

He used to think he knew enough about Wang Chao, but this World Table Tennis Championships made him realize that his understanding of Wang Chao is far from enough.

My own disciple, when he was in the table tennis field, turned to Geng Shuai for help because he couldn't release his emotions. It can be seen that his mentality was not very good at that time.

But now his nerves are as hard as diamonds.

When did he develop this mentality?
In fact, He Jingping really wanted to ask, "Aren't you afraid of being eliminated early?", but he held back and didn't ask.

Playing again after some recuperation, Wang Chao got his wish and lost the third game with a score of 5:11 in the worrisome defense.

Looking at the score alone, he was playing worse and worse, and he was becoming more and more unable to defend against Bayer's attack.

This is because Bayer has gradually developed his feeling and confidence. Accompanied by the shouts and cheers of European audiences from all directions, Bayer, a veteran player in his 30s, vaguely remembered his surging enthusiasm and enthusiasm on the field more than ten years ago. With blood pumping, he began to become younger, and the long-lost passion rose, giving him a little more strength out of thin air.

He hasn't played so indulgently for many years, but today, he once again climbed to the peak of his career, playing the most gorgeous, complicated and entertaining full-range offensive game.

He was sure that if Wang Chao continued to defend like this, he would be completely penetrated by himself.

He also believed that even if Wang Chao changed his style of play in the fourth game, it might be too late.

Because he has firmly grasped the timing, location, and harmony of people, and now the general trend is beyond human power.

There is something called "potential" in the arena of competitive sports. Maybe Wang Chao still has his cards hidden, maybe Wang Chao's hard power is indeed higher than his own, but because of Wang Chao's slack in the first three rounds, resulting in Now that the "potential" has been formed, if Wang Chao wants to reverse it at this time, he is going against the trend, and the difficulty may be much greater than Wang Chao expected.

At this moment, in order to ensure the stability of the game state, Bayer, who had always maintained a calm mood, finally dared to let the little emotions hidden in his heart leak out a little.

He raised his head to the sky and roared fiercely, with the intention of venting, and then his eyes were full of murderous intent.

Yes, he has emotions.

Of course he should have emotions.

It is actually a humiliation for an 18-year-old player to use himself as a sharpening stone while familiarizing himself with rackets and practicing new techniques at the World Table Tennis Championships.

If he is a rookie, then there is nothing to say about this kind of humiliation.

But he is the king of Europe, the seven consecutive champions of the European Championships, and the highest superpower who once rushed to No. 2 in the world.

How dare you treat me like this?

You can attack clearly, but you still want to let me attack, where on earth do you have the courage?
You obviously can't guard me, but you still insist on guarding against me, again and again, endlessly, endlessly, until you lose three games in a row.

Now that the overall situation has been decided and the momentum has been established, do you really think that you can prevent any miracles from happening?

Bayer has faced too many matches, and he has long understood a truth: In the field of competitive sports, there are actually no miracles in the true sense.

Those so-called comeback miracles that people in the world are familiar with and talk about in detail are just that laymen don't understand the ball.

In the eyes of insiders, the outcome of many balls is already reasonable, but outsiders find it unexpected.

And this game, in the eyes of an absolute expert like him, there is no possibility of reversal.

"Defense, after all, can't win."

"Only offense is the eternal theme of table tennis."

"Wang Chao, no matter how many unfulfilled dreams you have, please get out of this World Table Tennis Championships first!"

(End of this chapter)