The third game between Waldner and Geiting was particularly fierce.

Kong Zhendong also achieved a new understanding of control from Waldner's style of play.

He used to be known as the master of ball control because of his skill set for precise control of the ball's path and landing point.

Waldner's style of play is to sublimate this control, from the service stage, he sublimates from controlling the ball to controlling the opponent's return selection.

From controlling the ball to controlling people, Waldner's skills and tactics are at least one level higher in height.

In the past, Kong Zhendong also relied on connection and passive control of the landing point according to the opponent's return, or changed the route and rhythm of the ball by reverse cutting, fast belt, etc.

Overall, his possession skills are integrated into the counter-attacking system.

However, from Waldner's ball, he realized that Waldner's first link from serving or receiving the serve is not necessarily through force, maybe it is just a whimsical move, but the clear and complete tactical intention is from this board, and he is already actively controlling the opponent's return method and line.

This kind of technique and tactics to control the opponent also lies in the delicate feel, thick basic skills and changeable tactical literacy, which Kong Zhendong just has, so in his original defensive counterattack ball control technology, sublimation of the active control of the opponent's style of play, will take a lot less detours than others.

Waldner's control is so good, but his opponent Gaiting is not a puppet willing to be manipulated. His forehand is a powerful and fast-paced arc that is a powerful tool to break through control.

Without the constraints of Elova's cohesion, Geiting's single attack appears more fluid, and he resembles a landscape painter who splashes ink, playing in a freehand, presumptuous, and eclectic style.

If Kong Zhendong sublimated from Waldner to change from ball control skills to control opponents, then from Gaiting, it is the delicate integration of his own active and full-force play in the small ball era.

What's more, Gaiting's forehand continuous arc circle, similar to a fast belt, but stronger than the fast belt, the threat is greater, and it retains the speed and continuity of the fast belt, this set of technology is also a good improvement for Kong Zhendong's best forehand fast belt arc circle play.

Kong Zhendong's original forehand fast arc circle, good continuity, solid foundation, accurate landing point control, but unfortunately too soft, when encountering a forehand burst fierce man, it is easy to be counterpunched by the opponent, but if he masters Gaiting's forehand power arc circle play, with his stronger ball control ability and arc basic skills, he will definitely make the forehand fast arc threat much greater.

In this battle of control and anti-control, in the end, Waldner, who was like a fox and was better at grasping the fighter, scored a few key points and won the third game without danger.

At the end of the third inning, Waldner breathed a sigh of relief, but Gaiting seemed to be deflated.

His continuous power style of play is extremely physically demanding, and the schedule of the Barcelona Olympics is too intensive, and he has been on the verge of collapse in both doubles and singles competitions.

If he is leading after three games, he may be able to grit his teeth and fight for another game, but after three games, he needs to win two games in a row at the peak Waldner, which requires physical fitness, form, tenacity, mentality, and even some luck.

Gaiting really couldn't adjust these to the peak, and he still maintained the time of the two games, so in the fourth game of the game, Gaiting completely let go and did not make fierce resistance.

Waldner won the fourth game in a relaxed atmosphere, defeating Geiting 3-1 and becoming the singles champion of the Barcelona Olympics.

On top of the Olympic champions, European and American media pay more attention to the first Grand Slam winner in the 100-year history of table tennis, and the well-deserved king of table tennis in this era.

After the gold medal ceremony, out of respect for his opponent, Mi Xingbang personally went over to shake hands with Waldner.

Waldner smiled modestly: "Mi Shuai, if you were still on the field today, I might not be able to win this final." ”

Mi Xingbang said with a smile: "Lao Wa, you are our admired opponent and friend, you have competed with three generations of our Chinese athletes from the era of me and Guo Aihua to the era of Cheng Longcan Jiang Jialiang, and now the generation of Wang Tao and Ma Wenhua. ”

Mi Xingbang patted Kong Zhendong on the shoulder next to him and said: "Our generation of athletes can't beat you, but in a few years, our fourth generation of athletes will grow up." He is Kong Zhendong, and I hope he and you will have a wonderful confrontation in the future. ”

Waldner nodded with a smile, and smiled encouragingly at Kong Zhendong, but he didn't really take it seriously in his heart.

In Europe, there are too many teenagers who shout every day that they want to beat themselves and their customers practice. When he played the Open in Germany last year, Roscoff once brought a teenager named Bol to ask him for an autograph.

Waldner remembers the sunny smile of his boy and the look of a little adult when he vowed to defeat himself and become a World Champion.

How many such teenagers are there, and how many can take them seriously?

Waldner exchanged a few words with Mi Xingbang and others, and was forced to drag on the European and American reporters who couldn't wait to interview the first Grand Slam in history.

A British journalist asked: "Waldner, we all know that table tennis is not the first sport in Sweden, what motivates you to become the most accomplished athlete in this sport?" ”

Waldner said modestly: "In the 100-year history of table tennis, there are many table tennis players who are much greater than me, and I just happened to be born in the era when the three major competitions were complete. However, the fact that I was able to achieve such results in table tennis is really related to the experience of my youth. ”

Waldner may have been too excited to win the championship and didn't notice that Mi Xingbang and Kong Zhendong and others had not gone far, and he said eloquently: "That was 12 years ago, when I was 15 years old, and as a hobby as a teenager, I won the Swedish junior championship and then the European junior championship. At that time, I didn't think table tennis was an advanced sport. At that time, our country selected me to send me to China, the strongest country in the world at that time, for exchange and study, although it was only half a month of study, but it gave me a reborn cognition and belief. ”

Kong Zhendong, Mi Xingbang and others, who were about to leave, stopped, this is an inspirational story of a teenager who crossed the ocean to seek stunts.

This is as legendary as Sun Wukong's quest for immortality, trekking through mountains and rivers to find Bodhi Ancestor.

But who taught him in China at that time, so that he laid the foundation of the king of table tennis in the world at the age of fifteen?