Ping Pong Life

Chapter 435 False tit-for-tat and real cross-association team
The sixth match day of the World Table Tennis Championships.

There are very few games this morning, two men's singles semi-finals and two women's singles semi-finals.

There are also few games this afternoon, two mixed doubles semi-finals, and one semi-final each for men's doubles and women's doubles.

In fact, any competition in any field follows such a principle of tightening first and loosening later.

The early competition schedule was intensive because there were too many players and too many colored pens, the competition was boring and not enjoyable, so I hurried to finish the work.

The late schedule is loose, because the more exciting the game is, every game is worth savoring and watching.

But in a sense, this time the World Table Tennis Championships violated this rule.

After a long time, the ITTF retrospectively summarized the World Table Tennis Championships and concluded that only the men's singles 16-to-8 and men's singles finals are the most worth watching.

When 16 entered 8, Wang Chao sharpened his knife with Bayer, and Luo Jiu sharpened his knife with Lin Zijun. These two games were played with ups and downs, which can be called the historical famous game in the World Table Tennis Championships.

And when 8 goes into 4 and 4 goes into 2, all the games are crushed. The scene is not dull, but the audience's emotions really don't have much ups and downs. They understand the victory and defeat from the beginning. Without any reversal, it is like a popcorn blockbuster with an overly simple plot. Even with full special effects, it still makes people feel unsatisfied.

Specifically, it goes like this: Wang Chao 4:0 Hu Ke in the semifinals, Luo Jiu 4:0 Fan Xiaodong.

If the latter game still makes people feel excusable, then the first game really caught the attention of fans all over the world.

Since losing to Luo Jiu in the final of the Portuguese Open half a month ago, Hu Ke has been experiencing a crisis of confidence. His performance in this World Table Tennis Championships is actually quite good. Sweden's first brother Michel, and all the games are crushing. It is also through these two head-to-head encounters that he has rebuilt trust in the hearts of European fans and made everyone admit the fact that Hook has not weakened. To Luo Jiu, just because Luo Jiu has become stronger.

Since Hook hasn't become weaker, in theory, he should have become stronger.

Because he is obviously more stable than before, and even his playing style is different from before, and there is no phenomenon of standing still.

Considering that last year Hu Ke almost pushed Sun Tianlong to a desperate situation, and in February this year, he almost scored a clean sheet against Luo Jiu at the Huaguo Open, so it is easy to draw a conclusion: Hu Ke's strength must be stronger than that of April Wang Chao at the Swedish Open.

why?

Because at that time, Wang Chao had just played two peak duels with Sun Tianlong in the Table Tennis Super League, with one win and one loss. The team suppressed, if it wasn't for the dragon team's physical condition, Wang Chao would have lost.

Hook was playing against the Dragons at the time, and the scene was completely different. He was playing against the Dragons the whole time, and the Dragons were not in any physical condition.

The reason why Hook lost at that time was because he was not stable enough, and in the end he was blown up by the dragon team's iron wall defense.

But now Hook's mentality and state stability problems have been completely resolved, so of course he is stronger than Wang Chao in April. Assuming that the strength of the Dragon team remains constant, then if the Dragon team's state at that time is used as a reference to calculate , Hu Ke should be more than a little stronger than Wang Chao.

As for Hooker’s loss to Fan Xiaodong in the Swedish Open, it cannot be used as a reference, because at that time Hooker was misguided by Rorskoff and turned into a mess. After he left Germany, he gradually found the right one. road.

Ok, since the above analysis is all established, the fans believe that if Hook beats Wang Chao, even if Wang Chao has improved in the past two months, it should at least be a [-]-[-] situation. Wang Chao has a chance to win, but he will definitely win. It's really hard.

But when they really fought, Wang Chao played very strangely.

He confronted Hook impressively.

"To be honest, when I first found out that Wang Chao wanted to fight against me, I actually refused."

Hook said this in an interview after the game: "Because you can't say that Luo Jiu fights against me, you also fight against me, right? You can't say that Luo Jiu can fight to death I, you can attack me to death, right? Although you all use the same tactical system, I can’t just switch to defense. I have to try. Mine, they'll say, that's no good, Hooker, there's no way to play like this..."

Hook wasn't kidding, he was telling the truth.

At first he confronted Wang Chao, and then he was surprised to find that Wang Chao's defensive power had indeed improved, and his three consecutive explosive charges did not kill anyone, but was defended by Wang Chao on the third board. The quick return of the ball, with a smell of Lin Zijun's super-speed defense mode, made Hooker suddenly three points timid, because he thought about it many times afterwards, and he was sure that if he faced head-on, he might really not be able to break through Lin Zijun. .

Because of this three-point timidity, Hu Ke was not so active in attacking. Wang Chao seized the opportunity to attack, and then he discovered that Wang Chao's offensive style was completely different from Luo Jiu's.

Although he lost to Luo Jiu, he was quite familiar with Luo Jiu's style of play. After all, they had practiced against each other for more than a month without any concealment, so he thought he should be familiar with Wang Chao's offensive routines. Thought this would be to my advantage.

But he found that Wang Chao played completely differently from Luo Jiu.

The way Wang Chao played against him was actually the same as when he played Lin Zijun in the final of the German Open in July. The whole process was stuck, and the rhythm and style of the game changed. Hook felt that he was playing against many different people. A ball encounters are all very different styles.

In the old days, Hook was not afraid of this fancy style of play, because he was confident that no matter how you jumped, as long as you dared to give me a chance, you would die if I hit the board. He has unparalleled strength , is taking the path of simplifying complexity by breaking tricks.

But this time was different. Hook was not unable to seize the opportunity, but he tried many times in a row, but he still couldn't kill anyone with that board.

Then Hook was dumbfounded.

In essence, whether it is Hu Ke who lost the chain at the beginning, or Hu Ke who is now the master of the Chinese National Table Tennis Super League, he does not belong to the technical and IQ players. He is different from everyone when he lays the foundation. This part The foundation cannot be rebuilt in any way, at most it can only be repaired to make it look like everyone else on the surface.

However, Wang Chao forced Hook to follow his rhythm to move, defend, think, and rebuild a brand new system to play against him in this strange way. Hook couldn't do it. of.

Whether the technical and tactical systems of other professional players are simple or complex, no matter whether the closed loop is large or small, at least they are generally mature. In any case, a useful part can be extracted from the mature system to form a simplified structure .

But Hu Ke's foundation is incomplete. He just formed a fragile balance with difficulty during the long actual combat process, and then established a slightly stronger balance in the Ping Chao, but in any case, his balance is not From within, but improvised by many different factors, it looks indestructible from the outside, but if you have a way to sneak inside and extract a few vital pieces of wood from the bottom, it will come crashing down.

It sounds abstract, but the truth is this. Wang Chao couldn't do this before because his basic skills were not in place. He needed to spend almost all his energy, physical strength and brain power on guarding against Hook's speed, strength and rotation. , he was exhausted from resisting all the way, and he couldn't spare his hands to do this kind of thing.

But now, the new racket allows him to hit the ball with greater power and catch the ball with more changes. At the same time, his unparalleled talent allows him to imitate anyone's stunts. Not only did he learn the top attack from Xiao Fei He also learned top-level defensive methods from Lin Zijun.

If the former Ma Long was a hexagonal fighter with six sides of the same length, then the former Wang Chao was a strange-shaped fighter with serious shortcomings in strength, speed, and explosive attributes. Now, he has debuted for a full year Two months and two months, he has never given up on making up for his shortcomings in such a long period of time. He finally completed his transformation today, on the stage of the World Table Tennis Championships, becoming a player who can barely see six pieces. Simplified version of the hexagonal warrior.

The expansion of the "six circles" brings about an all-round improvement. When he can easily deal with Hu Ke's ordinary attacks, his overall technical lead over Hu Ke is perfectly reflected.

So it's not that Hu Ke is not strong, nor is it that Wang Chao is really that much better than Hu Ke, but that a player like Wang Chao, against a player like Hu Ke, is Tian Ke himself, provided that the difference in basic indicators between the two sides is not too big. .

What's more, Wang Chao didn't need Hu Ke to train his troops, because he had already finished training when he defeated Bayer the day before yesterday.

So when he played against Alur yesterday and Hooker today, he played concisely and clearly, using the most targeted tactics and playing the most labor-saving games.

But what he didn't expect was that his big victory over Hu Ke was directly interpreted by the outside world as "this is Wang Chao's blow to Luo Jiu before the decisive battle."

why?

Because Luo Jiu beat Hook 4:0 in the Portuguese Open, it took 23 minutes.

It took only 4 minutes for Wang Chao to beat Hooker 0:21 today.

What a typical tit for tat.

"If the scores are the same, then use the time to decide the winner." In the eyes of the fans who were full of souls in the second, this was already a naked frontal provocation, which pushed the gunpowder smell of the final to a new climax. It made many fans feel ups and downs. They didn't even sleep well that night, and their minds were full of thoughts about what tomorrow's final will be like.

At noon that day, Wang Chao, Luo Jiu, and He Jingping ate together in the restaurant, and the reporter took photos of the scene, triggering a new round of discussions.

The core of their discussion was: Why did Luo Jiu pick up the beef from her plate into He Jingping's bowl?Why did He Jingping put the meat on Wang Chao's plate again?Why did Wang Chao not eat coriander, but put the coriander on Luo Jiu's plate without courtesy?
This is obviously a problem!

"Dark War".

"A Stories Between Three Men"

"Your Coriander, My Meat"

"What's mine is yours, what's yours is his, but what's his isn't mine"

"Do you value the elder brother more, or the younger brother more"

"I obviously didn't have dinner together a few days ago, but I suddenly met today, this can't be a coincidence"

In short, in the eyes of the fans, this meal can be called a grand banquet. Two peerless disciples and a teacher who is known as the No. 1 handsome teacher in the world. How many undercurrents should there be after a meal? Maybe every movement, every posture, even every cough, every breath, and every pore are filled with the ubiquitous confrontation before the decisive battle.

But in fact, they really just had a simple meal together...

Many times, when you go closer to see the truth of those vigorous and epic stories in history, you will find that they are just a few flesh-and-blood mortals doing some simple things that can be done in daily life, but you have added a halo to them and made up The background exaggerates the emotions, and with a bgm, it has a sense of inexplicable.

In fact, at noon that day, Wang Chao was still complaining to Luo Jiu with a sad face: "Brother, the Wandao team is really difficult to fight. I'm really afraid that after fighting with you, I will lose my vitality and I won't have the strength to deal with them again."

Luo Jiu scolded with a smile: "Pretend, keep pretending, even I know how to fight the Wandao combination, don't you know? I see, you are not worried about the Wandao combination, but me, right? You are here to paralyze me No, I'm going to protest, it's obvious that all the mixed doubles finals this year are played before the men's singles finals, so why put it later this time? It's not fair!"

It's a simple joke.

But by this time, every move of the two of them will be magnified and interpreted by others, so soon the fans began to discuss: "Why is Wang Chao's expression so ugly? Is he trying to show Luo Jiu?"

"He Jingping was sitting next to him, and he didn't care about it. I heard that He Jingping prefers younger disciples. It seems to be true."

"Poor Luo Jiu, still forcing a smile on his face."

"He's so gentle, I really, cried to death."

"Hand down, there is discord within the Zhu family, and He Jingping's brothers have completely turned against each other. There may be chaos in Huaping next year."

"Hand down, there is a disagreement within the Zhumen. He Jingping suspects that he wants to stand on his own. He has completely turned against Zhu Zeshi. Next year, one of the two sides will definitely withdraw from the coaching staff."

"Handed down, Huaping internal discord, all the coaches have set up their own, Huaping may fall apart next year."

"Pass it on, Huaping will not implement a national system next year, and the spring of all associations is here, Oye."

……

When the mixed doubles kicked off that afternoon, Yichuan Mima uttered harsh words: "We will never fall twice in the same place. Even if the whole world is not optimistic about us, we must work hard towards our goal."

So the reporter asked her partner Niwa Xiaoxi again: "What is your goal for this World Table Tennis Championship?"

Niwa Xiaoxi lazily replied: "Take the card."

At 01:30 local time in the afternoon, the game started.

Three and 10 minutes later, the Tang Dynasty team crushed the Sakura Country team 4:0.

During the post-match interview, the reporter asked Yichuan Mima again: "How do you feel about this competition?"

Yichuan Mima gritted his teeth and said with a calm face: "I only played 30.00% of my strength... I am very dissatisfied with my performance, but I believe that I will win the championship next time."

The reporter asked Niwa Xiaoxi again.

Nikubo Xiaoxi lazily replied: "I have won the bronze medal, and the goal has been accomplished."

What followed was the Bay Islands vs. Jindalee Country. In the end, the Bay Islands really lived up to the expectations of fans all over the world. They defeated their opponents 4:2 and had the last laugh.

But during the post-match interview, the speeches of the winner and loser were surprisingly consistent.

Lin Zijun said: "I think we haven't done enough. If we enter the finals in this state and face the Tang Dynasty team, it may be very difficult for us to win."

Che Songxin, a female player from Jindal Country, said bluntly: "We also hope that the Bay Island team can win, but their female players are too weak... If my partner Xian Youwen's small ball skills in the table A little bit better, we can win today."

Due to the special historical background of Jindal Country, the number of competitions is not many, and the contestants do not have much experience in speaking publicly in the world, so they have not learned those slick speech skills. As the soul of this group, Che Songxin is recognized by the world today. The number one chipper in women's table tennis, after all, is only an 18-year-old young and vigorous girl. After thinking about it, she finally couldn't hold back, and said something quite controversial: "If I were paired with Lin Zijun, maybe it would still be good. It can have the power to fight against the Tang Dynasty combination."

These remarks can be said to be very offensive, and they have also aroused heated discussions in the table tennis world. However, everyone was discussing and discussing, and it turned out to be wrong. Someone asked a sentence on the most famous table tennis forum in Europe: "Why not Try what she said?"

It was obviously just a random question, but countless people replied to the thread below, all copying and pasting: "Why don't you try what she said?"

The reason for this is actually because the world has been suffering for a long time.

On the new track of mixed doubles, Huaping didn't give others face too much. Before everyone had time to overtake on the curve, Huaping sent two people to run to the finish line and sit down.

How can you play like this?

In terms of traditional sports, Huaping is strong, and it always gives others a glimmer of hope, but mixed doubles is obviously a new track, but after half a year, everyone sees, oh, this tmd is actually Huaping's biggest advantage.

It is unacceptable to anyone.

In addition, in the past ten years, ITTF has not allowed other associations to form teams across associations, such as Kimchi Country and Jindal Country. They have formed cross-association combinations many times, and they even won a world championship in women's doubles decades ago.

It can be said that there are lessons learned from the past.

Since Kimchi Nation and Jindalai Nation can team up across associations.

Since Huaguo and Meiliguo also engaged in cross-teaming a while ago.

So why can't Jindal Country and Bay Island also try it?
So a few days later, Jiang Peirong, who has a lot of fame and fortune, quietly sent a private email to the Jindal International Table Tennis Association, actively inviting the Jindale International Table Tennis Association to form a team.

It fits his character very well.

After all, his greatest achievement as a player was teaming up with a female Huaping player and winning a mixed doubles world championship.

(There is one more, wait a minute)

(End of this chapter)