Ping Pong Life

Chapter 452 Wang Chao Has a Problem

In the afternoon of the same day, the Tang Dynasty team practiced routinely to prepare for tomorrow's final.

Their sparring opponents are Gao Mingyuan and Shen Sha.

There is only one player in the Huaping team with extreme speed talent, so Gao Mingyuan goes out with the team as a training partner, while Shen Sha is the main force of the women's team, used to imitate Zhen Jing, can only be said to be overkill.

After all, when she met Zhen Jing in the international arena, she always beat her up.

But it can also be seen from this that Cai Guodong is indeed very concerned about this mixed doubles gold medal. This is the first table tennis mixed doubles gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games. It was the last mixed doubles gold medal in table tennis history.

For the status of this out-of-print gold medal, tomorrow's final must also be won.

However, Cai Guodong is not satisfied now: "Wang Chao, what are you doing?"

Wang Chao wondered, "I'm practicing..."

"What kind of moving speed are you competing with Gao Mingyuan?" Cai Guodong was a little helpless: "Lin Zijun's speed is much faster than Gao Mingyuan's. You can't even compete with Gao Mingyuan. Is it possible that you want to fight Lin Zijun head-on tomorrow?"

Wang Chao smiled, a little embarrassed: "Don't worry, I know... I just want to try, and besides, didn't I win the fight just now?"

Cai Guodong opened his mouth, but was actually choked by his words.

Yes, Wang Chao really won the fight just now.

Gao Mingyuan and Shensha adopted the classic two-sided mobilization tactic. According to the usual practice, Wang Chao only needs to use his excellent ball-handling skills to control the ball to an angle and landing point that the opponent is not suitable for, and he can easily break the situation. This kind of tactic, but Wang Chao didn't like it, he wanted to follow the opponent's rhythm, galloping all over the field like Gao Mingyuan.

This belongs to: You mobilize me, and I mobilize you.You don't control the ball, and I don't control the ball. Let's see who can outrun the other.

As soon as he and Gao Mingyuan started running, Tang Yuanyuan and Shen Sha were forced to run too, so the game was mindless but physically exhausting.

I don't know whether it was Wang Chao's shit luck or Gao Mingyuan's poor balance ability in moving. In short, after five consecutive rounds, it was really Wang Chao who outrun Gao Mingyuan. They broke through Gao Mingyuan's line of defense.

However, Cai Guodong felt uncomfortable watching it.

In his mind, Wang Chao has always been a very mature and reliable player. Although he is young, he is very down-to-earth, completely comparable to Sun Tianlong's reliability, and even higher than his senior brother Luo Jiu.

However, on the eve of the mixed doubles at the Olympic Games, why did this kid suddenly lose his mind?
Cai Guodong originally wanted to talk about tactics with Wang Chao, but suddenly remembered that Wang Chao probably knew these things better than him, so why was there any need to talk?
So in the end, Lao Cai turned around and left, "I don't care what you want to do, in short, you must win for me tomorrow, or I won't let you go out to play next year!"

It doesn't matter whether the words are true or not, anyway, after Lao Cai finished speaking, he left without a trace, without giving Wang Chao a chance to explain. This behavior is quite scary. At least He Jingping was a little worried. He turned his head to look at Wang Chao, Sighed: "I don't know what you are doing, anyway, you can handle it yourself. Even if you want to play, you should also consider Tangyuanyuan. If you mess up the rhythm of training today, you can adjust it tomorrow, but Tangyuan Yuan is not a genius like you, she can't adjust."

Tang Yuanyuan didn't feel insulted at all, and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, Wang Chao, please stop messing around, let's fight hard."

So in the next training, Wang Chao stopped running around, and started to exert his strength crazily, trying to penetrate the opponent with a single board.

Obviously, this is a thankless task, because strength is his weakness at all.

So this practice was very difficult again, the players on both sides were evenly matched, and it was hard to make a clear winner.

Considering that Gao Mingyuan and Shen Sha have not even cooperated before, and they belong to the most typical temporary team, then this evenly matched team is very frightening...

But after He Jingping watched it for a while, he felt a little confused.

Because Wang Chao really scored a lot of points with his forehand kill, and he didn't know if Gao Mingyuan and Shen Sha's defense was too weak.

He Jingping never interfered with Wang Chao's training. He watched and tried to understand, secretly thinking that if Wang Chao could stare at Zhen Jing and beat Zhen Jing to death tomorrow, as he was doing now, it seemed that there might not be no chance of breaking through. ?
It's just that it always feels a bit stupid to fight like this...

In short, there was nothing to say all night, and when they returned to the game the next morning, the mixed doubles bronze medal match started first. The two sides of the match were the German team and the French team. This is a typical European civil war.

In the end, Sissfeld and Solga still defended their title of "Europe's No. 3 Mixed Doubles Team" and won the final victory 1:[-]. So far, they won the Olympic mixed doubles bronze medal. The two hugged and celebrated, and they were in a great mood , even Raulskov, who was sitting in the back, smiled like a dried and wrinkled daisy.

It can be seen that although Raulskov screamed fiercely, the real goal of this Olympic Games is probably a bronze medal, and he probably didn't think about the final at all.

In fact, even this bronze medal was obtained entirely by lottery.

At 09:30 a.m. local time, the mixed doubles final began.

The Tang Dynasty combination vs the Bay Island combination.

Wang Chao glutinous rice balls vs. Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing.

Originally, this should be a one-sided match. After all, the World Table Tennis Championships two months ago, the two sides scored a 4:1 in the final, and that was because Tang Yuanyuan did not perform well.

After returning from the World Table Tennis Championships, Tang Yuanyuan conducted a deep self-reflection. Considering that she could no longer play singles, and now only doubles was left as a life-saving straw, she chose to calm down and practice hard for two full games. moon.

In the past two months, Wang Chao has been all-powerful in the Ping Ping Super League, but she has not slacked off at the Huaping Base.

Now that she is partnering with Wang Chao again, she thinks she is definitely not the one who lost the chain.

However, Wang Chao lost the chain.

No matter whether it is eight to four or the semi-finals, Wang Chao played very strangely. Now that it is the final, outside fans' speculation about this game is no longer one-sided. On the contrary, most people choose to support the Bay Island combination.

After all, Lin Zijun played perfectly in the past two days.

Both sides guess the coin, Tangyuanyuan guesses correctly, and choose to let the opponent serve first.

In the end, Lin Zijun served and Wang Chao received the ball.

This is reasonable, because in doubles events, the serving side is at a disadvantage. The receiving side can adjust the rotation order of receiving and serving by using a late-serving method, so that their male players face the opponent's female players.

For example, now, if Lin Zijun serves and Wang Chao catches the ball, then the person who catches Wang Chao's ball is the opposite female player Zhen Jing.

As long as Wang Chao can find an opportunity to attack, he has a great chance of killing Zhen Jing.

These two combinations are old rivals, so Zhen Jing is more aware of the fact that it is not only the male contestant Wang Chao on the opposite side who wants to kill me, but also the female contestant Tang Yuanyuan on the opposite side. Much bigger.

She was a little worried, turned her head and glanced at her side, and saw Lin Zijun nodding to her and smiling slightly, which meant "everything is up to me".

Zhen Jing immediately calmed down.

She is 27 years old this year, 9 years older than Lin Zijun. She is a typical match between young and old, but as the two of them cooperate more and more tacitly, she also feels more and more the reassuring and strong atmosphere of Lin Zijun. She doesn't look like an older sister, but rather a younger sister. When she is being beaten crazily by her opponent, she needs a little boy to stand up and use his strong arms to help her withstand the wind and rain.

When the referee blew the whistle to serve, all the fans thought that this game would be an offensive and defensive battle against Zhen Jing, just like the few times these two groups of partners played against each other in the past.

But from the very beginning, the situation has changed wonderfully.

Lin Zijun served with short backspin.

Wang Chao swung back, impeccable.

Zhen Jing swung back, a little too high.

There were no problems in the first three rounds. Although Zhen Jing's backswing was not perfect, she was not worried, because Lin Zijun is now the only player in the world with super speed. He is the Flash in table tennis. What you are not afraid of is that the opponent will charge directly and attack with a strong forehand.

All the power of the explosive charge will become the nourishment for Lin Zijun to push back. He is not afraid of the opponent's strength, but he is afraid of being powerless.

So now Zhen Jing plays very relaxed. She used to have to take on the heavy responsibility of ball control, and she was very afraid of not being rigorous in returning the ball. Now she can even deliberately give the opponent an opening occasionally and wait for the opponent to attack.

In the World Table Tennis Championships two months ago, although she and Lin Zijun lost to the Tang Dynasty team, she could still see that neither Wang Chao nor Tang Yuanyuan dared to exert their full strength when facing Lin Zijun. Most of them use drag tactics, relying on good enough small ball technology and connection control ability in the table to stabilize the ball and wait until Zhen Jing catches the ball before exerting force.

In fact, all the groups in the world now have the same idea when facing the Bay Island group: stabilize Lin Zijun and kill Zhen Jing.

So at this moment, Zhen Jing felt a little proud in her heart, for she had such a fearsome and excellent partner.

She thought Tang Yuanyuan would slice the ball carefully and wait for the next round.

But Tang Yuanyuan didn't say anything else, and immediately rushed forward, smashing the ball hard with a "snap".

She was impressively exerting all her strength in front of Lin Zijun who possessed super speed.

Lin Zijun started in an instant and responded super fast. At this moment, the ball was so fast that only afterimages remained.

Even Cai Guodong, who was on the sidelines, shook his head slightly, feeling that Tang Yuanyuan was not calm.

But the next moment, the audience seemed to hear not one but two sounds in their ears.

The ball didn't just bounce once on the racket, but twice, just because it was too fast to see the position, and then the ball bounced high from a certain racket, and everyone saw that the ball was still there. In the table area where Lin Zijun is located.

On the other side, Wang Chao was slowly taking back the superconducting racket in his hand that had been pushed to the front of the net at some point.

The referee blew the whistle and the Tang Dynasty team scored, 1:0.

The audience was in an uproar.

The slow-motion playback started directly on the big screen. It turned out that at the same moment when Lin Zijun hit the ball, Wang Chao also hit the racket, so the ball almost didn’t hit the ground. It hit Lin Zijun’s racket first, and quickly rebounded. The last one was wiped like a superficial touch, and it hit Wang Chao's racket again, and rebounded again. This time, Lin Zijun didn't react, and was directly killed.

"Oh my God!"

The audience was going crazy at this moment and began to applaud enthusiastically.

The scene of the final of the World Table Tennis Championships two months ago emerged in their minds.

At that time, Luo Jiu also counted Wang Chao's two consecutive goals in this way.

How did Qin Huachang explain it back then?

He said that this kind of ball is impossible to rely on nerve response, and can only be predicted by analyzing and understanding the opponent before the game, and then bet on what the opponent will do when encountering the ball on the spot, and then close the ball in advance. The eyes react, and if you guess right, you score, and if you miss, it looks like you're stupidly doing some inexplicable feint in the air.

"Wang Chao must have systematically analyzed Lin Zijun."

"This is very reasonable. With such a long preparation time, with the strength of Huaping's coaching staff, Lin Zijun's playing habits and daily movements can be completely broken down."

"But it's amazing that Wang Chao can do it."

"Did you forget, this is Wushuang."

"There is no bottleneck, no limit, and unconditional imitation of any technology that others have used. This is the true meaning of Wushuang."

"So, although it looks shocking, it makes sense when you think about it."

However, is it really reasonable?
He Jingping, who was also sitting in the auditorium, shook his head.

Of course it is different.

Because when Luo Jiu plotted against Wang Chao, he could clearly see Wang Chao's movements.

But when Wang Chao plotted against Lin Zijun, Lin Zijun had already entered the super speed mode.

Therefore, if Wang Chao wants to predict the landing point, position, angle, and direction of Lin Zijun's ball, he needs to see clearly what specific actions Lin Zijun made at least at that moment.

That is to say, regardless of the speed of his nerve reaction, his eyes actually caught Lin Zijun's movements at that moment.

"How did this happen?" He Jingping began to think hard.

"What's going on here?" Cai Guodong frowned slightly as he sat on the stand farther away than He Jingping.

He recalled Wang Chao's crazy speed competition with Gao Mingyuan yesterday.

He faintly felt that some kind of magical change seemed to have quietly taken place in Wang Chao, and he had unlocked some kind of ability that he didn't know yet.

But the head coach didn't think too much, and soon let go of his heart and continued to look down.

This is exactly the difference between Cai Guodong and Qin Huachang and He Jingping.

He pays more attention to the overall situation, and his first reaction after encountering any problem is not to deal with it directly, but to jump out of the box first, and judge from a macro perspective whether this is a problem that needs to be solved by himself.

If yes, fix it.

If not, save every effort you can make.

For example, although the ball in front of him is weird, it is obvious that Wang Chao has his own calculations, so how can he get him to rack his brains in vain?

(End of this chapter)