Chapter 215: Kong Zhendong VS Zhang Lei
There was no suspense, 21:12, 21:13, Waldner easily won the fourth matchup.
The Wolverines and Skiers drew 2-2 in the first four games.
All the audience was attentive and focused on the fifth battle of life and death.
Through the stable performance of Kong Zhendong and Zhang Lei in their respective teams in the previous rounds, both of them have a high status among the fans of their respective teams.
Kong Zhendong is the absolute first brother of the Wolverine team, and Zhang Lei is the existence of the Skiers team second only to Waldner.
The fans in the stadium even argued over the players of their respective teams.
Victoria asked Sir Edward, "Uncle, do you know that Zhang Lei of the Chinese team?" ”
Sir Edward nodded: "Although there has been more news about the Wolverines in the past few weeks, there are also a lot of reports about the Skiers, and the focus of the last few rounds of reporting has been on China's Zhang Lei. This player has not achieved outstanding results in the international competitions of the Chinese team in the past, but in the last few rounds of the league, his unique Chinese fast attack combined with the European arc style of play, the results are very good, and the opponents in the league are not adapted. Kong Zhendong's advantage in recent games is that there are many changes, each game has a new trick to win, Zhang Lei's advantage is stability, the arc circle system and the combination of China's fast attack system are becoming more and more perfect, the outcome of this game is really unpredictable. ”
After Kong Zhendong and Zhang Lei simply adapted to the new ball, Zhang Lei took the lead in serving five balls.
When the national team's Olympic training quota was not determined, Zhang Lei, as a competitor competing for the third singles spot with Lu Ning, had many confrontations with Kong Zhendong as a sparring partner.
But in the official game, being a key figure in the fate of both teams is a new experience.
Zhang Lei's first serve was a forehand short ball, mostly for the purpose of change and temptation.
The change is because he came to Sweden with a mission, and Coach Mi Xingbang sent him, a retired player, to Sweden in order to learn the pure Swedish arc circle combined with fast attack play, bring the fire back to China, and become a coach who inherits this technique.
Therefore, even though his technical style of play has long been finalized, he still has infinite perseverance, and in more than a month, he has worked hard to integrate Sweden's arc circle technology and transform and change his playing system.
At this time, Zhang Lei is no longer the Zhang Lei of the Chinese arc circle of the previous capital team.
As for the temptation, it is because Zhang Lei knows that when he comes to Sweden, he is definitely not the only one who has changed and broken through his playing style, and he wants to test what realm Kong Zhendong has grown to.
Zhang Lei understands Kong Zhendong's forehand grabbing technique, so there are no small tricks such as pressing the backhand or sending the middle lane.
Don't you like to use your forehand? Directly give you the forehand and see what you can do?
Kong Zhendong's forehand swings in a straight line and attacks Zhang Lei's backhand.
Zhang Lei dialed horizontally with his backhand, and while quickly hitting the ball to Kong Zhendong's backhand, his body leaned forward and went to the stage.
Sith Pan on the sidelines was happy: "Hehe, this ball is in such a hurry, Zhendong can push the straight long ball with his backhand, if Zhang Lei is forced to retreat from the stage, he will definitely be in a hurry." Huh~ Why is it still a slash hook short ball?"
Kong Zhendong's backhand did not quickly push the straight bottom line, but continued to patiently hook Zhang Lei's backhand with a diagonal line.
Ben Gesen sighed: "Zhang Lei has the biggest advantage of traditional Chinese golfers, that is, the basic skills in the stage are too solid, although no Chinese player has said how they practice the basic skills of small ball in the stage in China." But their billiards skills are at least a few levels higher than ours. Moreover, our European players, since the age of fifteen or sixteen, the skills are basically fixed, while the Chinese players' billiards skills at the age of 15 are much rougher than those at the age of 20, which proves that their training system, after the players are adults and the technology is basically finalized, can still greatly improve the delicacy of the skills in the table. ”
Ben Gesen pointed to Zheng Lei's forward leaning body and said: "Zhang Lei's forward forward pressure is invisibly brought into the rhythm of the ball, even if it is a short ball in the table, it still has a strong sinking pressure, like a long ball to push flat, it will inevitably go to the net, Kong Zhendong chooses a slash short ball with a change in the ball path, which is the best choice." His pure short ball skills are definitely worse than Zhang Lei's basic skills, and with the change of the ball path, he can fight. ”
Kong Zhendong's slash really made Zhang Lei's backhand very awkward, so he took the lead in choosing a backhand to play a straight line and press Kong Zhendong's bottom line first.
Kong Zhendong has never been on the stage with this ball, just waiting for Zhang Lei to attack the bottom line first, and now that he has arrived, Zhang Lei's backhand bounces straight and attacks his forehand.
Kong Zhendong dozed off and sent a pillow-like forehand to quickly pull the big slash, and bombarded Zhang Lei's forehand at the bottom corner of the far platform
Zhang Lei's whole body changed from the backhand on the billiards to the forehand to the forehand to withdraw from the table to pull on, this kind of rapid reaction and movement speed, the world's No. 1 mobile Kim Zhezhu or the straight board running type of Marin may be able to do it, Zhang Lei's running skills can only be regarded as medium to high, naturally unable to keep up with this ball, lose a point first.
There were enough rounds and enough variations in this point to draw thunderous applause from the audience.
In the next few serves, Kong Zhendong and Zhang Lei both scored each other. Bengersen and Waldner and others also gradually saw the difference between Kong Zhendong's game and the previous games.
Ben Gesen praised: "In this game, Kong Zhendong's biggest change is his position. He is usually very active in training, or in the previous games, and fighting on stage. But in the face of the senior brother who has better basic skills in the stage, he always stands in the middle of the platform. The ball in the table does not lose points, once the opponent is forced to attack the bottom line first, because he is not on the stage, the adjustment and counterattack are very fast, and this fast time difference is the opportunity to score. ”
Kong Zhendong entered his own service round with a score of 3:2.
If Kong Zhendong's style of play is more conservative than in the previous face of European players in the receiving round, then in the service round, he takes the initiative, but the way of taking the initiative is also very different.
Kong Zhendong is in the service round, in addition to the serving technique is a technical system formed by training in China in the previous life and this life, starting from the third board, he has completely used the Bengesen fast arc style of play inherited during this time.
Kong Zhendong used the arc circle combined with fast attack play in his last life, and after he started playing in this life, although he integrated the technical play style of Fan Zhendong in the later generations, the general technical system of arc circle combined with fast attack has not changed.
When Yu Lao first proposed to him to introduce him into the capital team and change to fast attack combined with arc circle technology, Kong Zhendong clearly refused at that time.
Fast attack combined with arc circle, arc circle combined with fast attack, belong to two general schools of table tennis technology.
Athletes in these two major systems, in weekday competitions, arc circle and fast attack techniques are applied, and even in the same category of technical systems, the unique playing styles of different players are very different.