Chapter 97: The Battle of the New and Old Gods Champions
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Prior to this final, the ITTF made a considerable adjustment to the World Player Rankings, and the reason for the adjustment came from three players from the Republic.
The genius Li Ning, the old king Wang Junwen, and the famous young emperor Gu Yang.
Because of their wonderful performance at the Japan Open, all three of them made it to the hell list and came out on top.
Among them, the most prominent is the young emperor Gu Yang, and now Gu Yang's ranking in the player list is the 15th in the hell list!
Behind this ranking, there is a deeper meaning, which is derived from an unwritten rule in world football.
In the world of football, there is no eternal top fifteen, only the eternal fifteen main gods!
This sentence means that in the world of football, the strength of the top fifteen players has surpassed mortals and reached the realm of gods, so they are respected as the fifteen main gods.
The candidates for these fifteen gods change every few years, but the title of the main god has always existed.
To say that the difference in strength between these fifteen main gods is actually not big, the reason why there is a distinction between the first and fifteenth places, in the final analysis, is a matter of the age of the players.
As a simple example, Pol is now the second main god, but it may not take a year for him to fall to the tenth main god, or even lower.
Could it be that Bol's strength is not strong, it is obviously not the case, more because Bol is old and will inevitably gradually withdraw from the football world, and he will naturally fall to the position of the main god.
Of course, there are always exceptions to everything, yes, the exception in the football world comes from the great demon king of the Republic - Wu Lao.
Wu Lao is recognized as the only player in the football world who has reached the super god realm, and his total points are higher than all the points of the other fourteen main gods, so much so that he ...... In Wu Lao's time, the saying of the fifteen main gods did not exist.
At that time, it was said that the supergod and the fourteen main gods.
Of course, these are old things, and the past is like smoke, long gone with the wind.
What we're going to talk about now is Gu Yang, who has just been promoted to the god position.
It stands to reason that Gu Yang, who has only played a few international matches, will not be able to reach such a level, but strength determines everything, and the opponents Gu Yang has encountered are too violent, and they are all in the top dozens of hell lists.
But Gu Yang is even more fierce, he almost crushed to defeat these top players in the hell list, and in one game, Gu Yang's strength and potential are so amazing that the International Table Tennis Federation made this bold ranking after heated discussions.
Gu Yang's achievement of the fifteenth main god position marks that the ITTF has recognized Gu Yang's strength, and it also marks that Gu Yang has officially entered the list of the world's top players.
And the final between Gu Yang and Ba Shen has evolved into a battle between the new and old gods to win the championship, and the smell of gunpowder in it is not the slightest lower than the battle between Chen Jing and Bol for the Grand Prix championship.
It can be said that this is the most exciting battle in world football before the World Championships.
"Come on!" Outside the court, Li Ning, Lao Wang and Gu Yang shook hands tightly.
Zhang Rong stepped forward and said solemnly: "Xiaoyang, don't be pressured, just do your best in this game!" “
Gu Yang grinned brightly: "Zhangjiao, I don't have pressure, don't forget who I am?" ”
Zhang Rong's palms were slightly sweaty, and he smiled: "That's what I said, but I'm nervous." Let's be happy, young emperor! ”
The last word "Young Emperor", Zhang Rong said it very solemnly, without the slightest meaning of joking.
"Got it!" Gu Yang replied seriously, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, Lao Zhang, you are still nervous, this psychological quality is not good.
"Come on!" "Come on!" Li Ning and Lao Wang shouted at the same time, Gu Yang nodded, and went on the field unhurriedly.
On the right side of the table, Ba Shen is wiping his racket with his palm, he exhales lightly in his mouth, and then rubs the racket with his palm, after wiping like this, he quickly waves his arm and swings the racket against the air, doing warm-up exercises.
Seeing Gu Yang on the field, Ba Shen stepped forward and shook hands with Gu Yang cordially, Gu Yang looked at Ba Shen with a smile, and said in his heart that Gu Yang still has a high reverence for this copy of Wang Dashen.
The referee signaled the two sides to exchange positions, played a warm-up match, and after both sides said that there was no problem, Ba Shen held the table tennis ball in his hand and stood up in a serving position.
"Ba God, Wang Dashen, huh, I didn't expect me to be able to face off against the top ten gods in the world, it's too dreamy!" Gu Yang's shoulders were trembling slightly, and his excitement was really difficult to suppress.
Table tennis!
Ba Shen swung the racket to hit the ball, it was a decent topspin, Gu Yang moved in small steps, came to the position of the incoming ball, his arm was induced, the racket leaned forward, and rubbed the top of the incoming ball and hit it.
Gu Yang's ball was played without reservation, and he wanted to win this point in the shortest possible time.
Players who have a certain understanding of table tennis know that Wang Liqin is a slow-heating player, and in many major competitions, Wang Dashen often can't play his full strength in the first game.
After Gu Yang watched the video of Ba Shen's game, he was surprised to find that Ba Shen was also a slow-burning player, no different from Wang Dashen's habits.
So, at the beginning of the game, Gu Yang staged a very aggressive attack, he wanted to win the first game in the shortest possible time, and Gu Yang did not mean to despise Ba Shen at all.
Ba Shen felt the domineering meaning in Gu Yang's return ball, and almost reflexively swung the ball back, but perhaps because he had not yet entered the state, the speed and strength of Ba Shen's return ball were not very strong.
This created good conditions for Gu Yang's smash, at the moment when the ball crossed the net, Gu Yang stepped out in a single step and came to the position where the center line on the right side of the table was, and it was a lore against the ball!
scored, Gu Yang took the lead and won Ba Shen's serve.
Speaking of which, the return of the serve in these rounds only happened in a dozen or twenty seconds, but in this short period of time, Gu Yang's whole body has been improved to an excellent state, and the whole person is full of fighting spirit.
Although Gu Yang had been promoted to the fifteenth main god position, he understood that there was still a big gap between himself and Ba Shen.
To win this game, he has to take into account the value of each ball and not have the slightest surprise.
"Hehe, I didn't expect me to be nervous too." Gu Yang laughed at himself, "The name of the god of Ba, there is still no way to ignore it at all." ”
Ba Shen didn't seem to have the slightest surprise at Gu Yang winning his serve, maybe it was his usual habit, he wasn't worried about the gains and losses of the first few balls.
Ping, Ba Shen hit the second ball, this ball seemed to be unremarkable, but the moment Gu Yang made contact with the incoming ball, he realized the mystery of this ball.
"Is this the strength of Ba Shen? It's really not covered. Gu Yang muttered in his heart, and at the same time twisted his wrist, counteracting the extra external rotation strength of Ba Shenlai's ball.
Yes, it is external rotation, at the moment when Gu Yang swung the racket to hit the ball, Gu Yang clearly felt that Ba Shen's ball not only rotated, but also seemed to slide outward while spinning, so that Gu Yang had a slippery racket.
"The ingenious means are just a serve, but the strength of Ba Shen has been vividly reflected." Gu Yang sighed.
At this time, Gu Yang's strong psychological quality was reflected, and in an instant, Gu Yang suppressed the panic that rose in his heart, quickly twisted his wrist, and leaned forward with the racket, and at the moment when the ball was hit, he successfully eliminated Ba Shen's external rotation strength.
"No wonder you can be promoted to the fifteenth main god, with this powerful quality of the arena, I, Bartholomai, will be the first to serve you." Ba Shen watched Gu Yang hit his serve back in a blink of an eye, and sighed in his heart.
Ping Pong!
After just four or five rounds, the battle between the two sides was decided, and Gu Yang was slightly inferior after all, and the score was tied by Ba Shen.
1:1, it's Gu Yang's turn to serve.
"Hehe, I'd like to try it and see if I can hit a serve with the same speed as the burst arc?" Gu Yang muttered to himself, and at the same time slowly threw the table tennis ball in his hand.
As we all know, Gu Yang's burst arc ball is quite beautiful, and now, what Gu Yang wants to try is to hit a serve that can be close to the burst arc ball.
If anyone knew about Gu Yang's bold idea, they would definitely laugh at it.
You must know that the reason why the speed of the blast arc ball is very fast is because the blast arc ball is directly over the net, hitting the opponent's table, from swinging the racket to landing on the opponent's table, except for the negligible resistance of air friction, there is no obstacle in between.
Table tennis stipulates that when the player serves, the ball must first fall to the table of his own side and then cross the net to the opponent's table, which buffers part of the serving force, and the purpose is also to make the speed of the serve through the net not exceed the limit of human reaction.
The various restrictions in the table tennis rules, the table size of the table tennis table, the height of the net and the formulation of the serving rules are to use all factors to comprehensively restrict the speed of the serve, so that the speed of the player's serve is impossible to be faster than the speed of directly deducting the ball over the net.
That's the theory of the ball!
And now, Gu Yang actually wants to hit a serve with a similar speed to the explosive arc ball, and the difficulty is as great as you can imagine.
"Ba God, I'm going to surprise you!" The corners of Gu Yang's mouth raised a slight arc, and the ball in his hand was slowly thrown.
Table tennis!
A huge hitting sound sounded, Gu Yang's arm hurt violently because of the excessive force for a moment, Gu Yang bared his teeth and smiled bitterly, but his eyes were fixed on the ball that was sent.
Swish!
It's too fast, Gu Yang's serve is so fast that the arc of the table tennis ball has completely disappeared before it is fully presented in Gu Yang's eyes.
At the moment when the ball bounced off his table, Ba Shen's pupils suddenly shrank, what was that? A bolt of lightning?
"Wow!" In the audience, there were bursts of exclamations, and everyone's eyes were full of flowers, as if they were stunned by the lightning-like ball just now.
"Success?" Gu Yang felt the pain in his shoulder blade and grinned.
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"The young emperor is really hard enough!" Lao Wang said coldly.
"Well, he's always been like that." Li Ning echoed.
Wang Junwen thought thoughtfully: "Maybe I know why no one can compare to Gu Yang's willpower." ”
"Oh, why?" Zhang Rong said curiously.
"Because...... Others are just playing, but Gu Yang is playing with his life! ”