Chapter 072: Advance to the top 64

In the late 80s, after China's traditional fast attack was gradually cracked and beaten by Europe, Lingnan Province in the south took the lead in reforming and implementing the reform of replacing the traditional granular positive rubber fast attack with a straight plate anti-glue fast attack.

In recent years, Liaodong, Heihe, Capital, Jinmen and other provincial teams have begun to follow the European two-sided arc technology as the direction of reform, while Lingnan still insists on the straight board anti-glue fast attack.

In the memory of Kong Zhendong's previous life, Huo Dong's name is not well known. But in a few years, Lingnan Province will give birth to the pinnacle of the straight anti-glue fast attack - Ma Lin.

Marin's brilliant serving skills and near-perfect sense of return did not come out of nowhere. This is the condensation and inheritance of several generations of table tennis people in Lingnan Province.

In this way, this Huo Dong should be regarded as Marin's senior brother.

At the beginning of the game, Kong Zhendong first ate a few serves from Huo Dong.

Huo Dong's serve is really the same chicken thief as Marin in later generations, almost the same hand shape and power, and the ball that comes out is extremely spinning or almost non-spinning.

Kong Zhendong knows Marin's routine, but he doesn't know Marin's routine to prevent Huo Dong's serve, because you can never know whether the next ball will spin or not.

couldn't adapt to Huo Dong's serve, Kong Zhendong could only work harder on his own service round.

Fortunately, although the straight board anti-rubber fast break is unique in offense, the defensive shortcomings of the backhand position still cannot be solved.

In later generations, Marin used the pace of a small motor to make up for the lack of defense in the backhand position, as long as he was excited to play and run away completely, the shortcomings of the backhand could be made up.

Kong Zhendong resolutely and quickly attacked the backhand, Huo Dong did not have the same moving talent as Marin, and the backhand ball was really blown up.

In this way, Kong Zhendong and Huo Dong were each able to keep their own service rounds, and the scores of the two rose alternately until 16:16.

Kong Zhendong knew that it was time for the key ball. Once you hit 18 draws, 19 draws, there will be a lot of variables.

The opponent has a magic ball, or a net-wiping balloon, or a mistake in his own volley, and he may lose this game.

Change has to be made now and this score is the last chance to establish an advantage.

Looks like we're going to have to use that trick!

It's Huo Dong's turn to serve again, well, the half of the billiards that doesn't turn, and the line is also in the middle, making it awkward for you to catch your forehand and backhand.

Kong Zhendong started early, and his forehand was short.

Kong Zhendong did not pay attention to the line and strength of the ball this time, and only controlled one point, that is, the arc was pressed very low, so that the opponent could not get off the ball.

Huo Dong could only be forced to pick up the ball. Because the spin is not strong, Huo Dong can only deliberately exert force, so that this ball at least has a sense of explosiveness!

Kong Zhendong retreated half a step back at this time, and the big movement of his right hand was quite full to lead the lower abdomen.

The ball bounced over the net and hit the table, reaching the highest point, and began to fall slightly out of the table.

At this time, Kong Zhendong's semi-retreat was twisted and pulled, and he swung diagonally upwards from his waist and abdomen!

This has completely surpassed the in-stage twisting and pulling technology of Korbel in this era.

This is the 21st century Wang Yajun's service return skills.

Forehand swing short connection backhand twisting!

For the first time in an official game, Kong Zhendong did not use his backhand twist and pull alone, but integrated it into the tactical system.

This lead shot was sufficient, as if the half-retreating platform with a sword drawn was twisted and pulled, and it was like a guided weapon that hit the distant platform directly.

Huo Dong was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated from the stage, barely catching the table tennis ball, but the ball returned and flew directly.

The terrible thing about this series of play is that the short forehand swing can almost cure all diseases.

Kong Zhendong didn't have any other requirements for this board, just lowered the arc and forced the opponent to return the ball to the line up.

As for whether the opponent returns the ball in the forehand position or the backhand position, it doesn't matter, take a step back directly, adjust the appropriate hitting position with the body, regardless of the forehand or backhand position, use the backhand twist and pull to directly hit the opponent's far platform.

Wang Yajun's later generations used a straight board to use this routine and amazed the world.

Kong Zhendong adopts the traditional horizontal board grip, and the hand shape is not enough to amaze the world, but tactical thinking, this emerging technical routine, the knowledgeable sports reporters who watch the game around can't help but praise it!

What a genius!

Kong Zhendong's technical routine had to be used to save his life when he faced an important opponent in the later stage, so this game was only an occasional appearance.

In the whole game, although Kong Zhendong won 2:0, the small score was 21:19, 21:18, which was very close.

Kong Zhendong was entangled with Huo Dong all the way, and in the last few key balls in each game, he used the forehand and backhand combination routine of the lore.

After defeating Huo Dong, the watchman of Lingnan Zhiban, the report of Kong Zhendong in the print media has undergone a new change.

Kong Zhendong is a magical boy, the identity of the miracle boy is fading, more professionals are involved, and the analysis of Kong Zhendong's playing style can become the future reform direction of national table tennis?

In particular, Kong Zhendong's defeat of Huo Dong, the watchman of Lingnan Straight Board, even triggered the controversy over the uselessness of the anti-glue reform of the straight board, which attracted many retired celebrities to come out and set off a debate.

In the disturbance of the outside world, the news of the fiasco of the Huodong Table Tennis Association Cup was transmitted back to the Lingnan Provincial Team Training Hall.

Unlike the frustration and confusion of other junior team members, an eleven or twelve-year-old flat-headed boy is practicing smashing more firmly.

The boy was twelve-year-old Marin. Don't look at his tall stature, a round face, and a harmless appearance, but his smashing rotation is extremely amazing, and his strength is amazing.

If Liu Guobang is the player who uses his waist strength best in the service link, then Marin is definitely the player who uses his waist strength best in the smash.

Marin's waist power makes his smash more like a whip ball.

The whip ball is the highest and most spinning realm of smashing.

The defeat of the senior brother did not shake Marin's determination to fight straight and glue, and one day, he will make this set of technology amazing to the world!

In the controversy of the outside world about the straight board and the horizontal board, and the tangled sound of the positive and anti-glue, Kong Zhendong, who was promoted, successively completed two games of 256 into 128 and 128 into 64.

In addition to the reporters who watched the two games, more and more coaches and experts began to watch his games.

In these two games, Kong Zhendong defeated Lu Shen in southern Zhejiang and Pan Yue in southern Fujian respectively, both of whom are the absolute main force in the top five of their respective provincial teams.

None of the top 256 players in the country, world champions like Lian Cheng Longcan did not continue to have byes, but participated in the knockout round fairly with all the players.

With the emergence of the top 64 of the Table Tennis Association Cup, reporters from all walks of life began to summarize the preliminary games.

At this time, the reporters were surprised to find that Kong Zhendong's label was no longer as simple as the youngest player in the competition.

At this time, Kong Zhendong is already the first individual nominal participant to score in the top 64 since the establishment of the Table Tennis Association Cup.

Kong Zhendong, who counterattacked all the way from the qualifiers, encountered a strong sniper again in the top 32 game.

played the backhand long glue to the magic of southern Anhui Chenshu, blocking Kong Zhendong's pace of advancing to the top 32!