At 1:45, Kong Zhendong, who was still in the players' lounge, had already heard the sound of the audience outside gradually entering the room.

There was still more than half an hour left for the game to start, but the crowd was already far louder than any of the previous ones.

At 10:00 o'clock, some staff stayed in the lounge, and Kong Zhendong and other three players entered under the leadership of Coach Li Muhua, Coach Hong, and Coach Zheng.

Kong Zhendong obviously felt that entering the knockout stage, all aspects of the competition were much more rigorous. The admission process and the number of instructors are clearly stipulated, and the rest of the staff can only sit from the aisle to the audience later.

Coach Hong personally accompanied Zhang Lei for the first pre-game practice, and Kong Zhendong sat in the players' seat, staring at the rest area of the Zhejiang provincial team opposite.

When Kong Zhendong met He Zhiwen in his last life, He Zhiwen was already a bold uncle, and he won the championship of the famous Table Tennis World Cup with a playful mentality.

It was a game life version of the World Cup in which a retired middle-aged player participated.

He has not experienced He Zhiwen's straight board peak era, and his cognition comes from the word of mouth of his predecessors.

Unlike Zhang Lei, who was in full swing with Coach Hong's side table, He Zhiwen was just doing ordinary warm-up movements step by step.

Finally, take out his racket and practice the no-ball swing action.

Kong Zhendong stared at He Zhiwen's racket, a little confused.

After all, Kong Zhendong experienced a shortage of materials in the eighties and nineties, and the requirements for table tennis equipment were far less than the degree to which fans debated the performance difference between Hurricane 2 and Hurricane 3 in the 21st century.

Although there has always been a saying in the table tennis world that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Everyone is emphasizing the importance of a good set of equipment, but Kong Zhendong still persistently believes that the relatively simple table tennis equipment in the 90s can still play table tennis well.

However, the relative simplicity is by no means such a shabby, even shabby pellet racket as He Zhiwen.

Through He Zhiwen's swing racket practice, Kong Zhendong could see the bare wooden board on the back of He Zhiwen's racket.

He Zhiwen's simple racket is not glued to the back?

Of course, the Japanese straight single cypress is also not attached to the rubber on the reverse side. However, Ho Chi-man's simple racket can never be cherished cypress, it is definitely the most ordinary multi-layer wood.

Because the International Table Tennis Federation prohibits hitting the ball with a racket plank, not sticking glue on the back side is equivalent to giving up the back of the racket completely.

In the era of straight-sided play, players often painted the back of the racket with a simple anti-glue, even if it was just symbolic, or skimmed the board when the backhand couldn't reach the ball, or took a board.

But He Zhiwen actually gave up completely. This kind of player is confident in his straight-board one-sided play to the point of stubbornness.

Kong Zhendong couldn't help but doubt: In today's gradual rise of the two-sided arc, such a broken racket and such an outdated style of play can win?

Since he is a guy who is crazy and confident in his forehand, then the forehand rubber must be unique, right?

Kong Zhendong stared at He Zhiwen's forehand for a while, and found that the black glue particles did not have a trace of glue reflection.

Is it because you sit too far away to see clearly?

Kong Zhendong asked Chen Zhibing: "Brother Bing, the positive glue used by He Zhiwen is very special, right?" I couldn't see a single reflection. ”

"Hehe, our generation knows that He Zhiwen, the king of glue, never brushes glue with his particles." Chen Zhibing teased and explained.

What the? Is the glue not brushed, the backhand light board? Any community court veteran wouldn't use such a rudimentary racket, would he?

Chen Zhibin explained: "Pay attention to the ball, in He Shen's words, he uses the purest original ecological style of play, returning to the origin of table tennis straight board. ”

Raw play?

Zhang Lei took the lead in serving, and Kong Zhendong carefully stared at He Zhiwen's posture.

The stance of receiving the serve is very ordinary, and there is no obvious posture of preparing to exert force, do you want to rely on such a simple racket to hold on?

What the? Moved? So fast!

Kong Zhendong didn't react, He Zhiwen started to receive the serve and attack at the moment when Zhang Lei served, with a reaction time far beyond his age.

There is no preparatory posture to predict, it is the ultimate static to sudden movement, such a terrifying explosive power.

Chen Zhibing sighed: "Ordinary players are all serving players to create feints for the opponent to create a sense of surprise. But He Zhiwen can do an instant raid on the serve, you can't imagine his way of receiving the serve and grabbing the attack, and he will lose points immediately. ”

Kong Zhendong has touched the edge of the so-called straight plate origin.

The origin of the straight board is the ultimate fast, the ultimate ruthlessness, the ultimate trickiness and change.

In the next few balls, He Zhiwen showed the fast, ruthless and change of the first three boards of the straight board in an all-round way!

Zhang Lei is at a significant disadvantage.

Kong Zhendong sighed: "It's time for Brother Lei to adjust, if you play a straight one-sided player, you should slam his backhand, and the dispatch will be right!" ”

Chen Zhibing was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "Suppress He Zhiwen's backhand? Maybe you can give it a try, I hope He Zhiwen's backhand has regressed a little in recent years. ”

Kong Zhendong is inexplicable: the straight board is played on one side, and the backhand is only left to push. What kind of regression is there to talk about, is there anything else He Zhiwen can't do with his backhand before?

No, it's still just pushing.

Zhang Lei had no chance with his forehand and couldn't enter the stalemate, so he also started to change and began to suppress He Zhiwen's backhand.

He Zhiwen did not flinch, and pushed vigorously with a straight backhand.

The power is really great.

Kong Zhendong could hear the crisp pop of the racket.

How can there be such a strong push?

It's not an arc, but it's even more explosive than a forward arc!

Chen Zhibin said: "What you saw last year was not Cheng Longcan at his peak at all. Cheng Longcan is invincible with a forehand and a backhand push, but he is still weaker than He Zhiwen. Therefore, He Zhiwen always firmly believes that if the backhand push block is practiced to the extreme, any horizontal plate arc circle suppression is a paper tiger. ”

Kong Zhendong's eyes became solemn. In the world of table tennis, there are many rules and iron laws.

Every player who deviates the iron law is a legendary superstar in the history of table tennis.

Straight backhand granular glue can't cope with the arc circle, which is the iron law of this era.

But this iron law, in front of He Zhiwen, was smashed and shattered!

Backhand push, monotonous landing point, single arc? It doesn't matter, I'm strong and the ball is explosive!

Backhand push, can't create active spin? It doesn't matter, I'm strong and the ball is explosive!

Backhand push, few variations, easy to catch opponents? It doesn't matter, I'm strong and the ball is explosive!

Zhang Lei used Europe's leading two-sided arc circle play to face off in the seventies, the most traditional straight board and fast attack, and the most traditional left push and right attack single play, actually completely fell behind.

Chen Zhibing sighed: "This ball, it's not easy for me to play if I change it." He Zhiwen's backhand push, a typical one-force drop of ten. Zhang Lei and I are known as a comprehensive style of play. But we are proficient in everything, and in front of international top players like He Zhiwen, we have become sparse. At this time, Zhang Lei's comprehensive two-sided arc circle play was not as strong as a backhand that was eaten all over the world. ”

In this way, Zhang Lei was completely suppressed by He Zhiwen's fierce forehand and backhand push, and lost the first game with a score of 0:2.

With the subversive cognition and shock of the straight backhand, Kong Zhendong clenched the racket and faced the national player Lu Ning, who had not been seen for a year.

In the second game, Kong Zhendong VS Rizhi Lu Ning, ready to go!