Chapter 304: European Grand Slam!
It's not the first time that Kong Zhendong has relied on the line and landing point to score, usually pressing the backhand, adjusting the forehand, etc., which has been almost broken by Seifer's running across the table.
Kong Zhendong's trick at this time is still the landing point and line, but the lethality is completely different from the front.
Kong Zhendong's lore is aimed at the last mid lane, and it is the edge area of the middle lane, which is very deep.
Seifer's strong point is that he runs all over the table, but it is difficult to catch the ball in the deep water area of the middle.
Although the area of the crossboard player is large, the hand switching action of the forehand and backhand is large, and basically the power muscle groups of the forehand and the backhand are different.
Therefore, although the straight board player is known as having a weak backhand, the straight boarder's backhand pushes sideways, the grip hand shape is almost the same as the forehand, and the power muscle group is also the same.
Therefore, when it comes to switching between forehand and backhand and guarding the middle, straight boarders tend to be faster.
Although Seifer is the pinnacle of the unreasonable play style of the European horizontal board, the pain point of the weak defense in the middle of the horizontal board is unavoidable.
Kong Zhendong is very resolute in hitting the middle at this time, and it is a very deep middle lane.
Seifer reluctantly retreated, returned the ball in the middle, and Kong Zhendong quickly killed a slash and directly got the game point at 20:18.
Seifer served again, but Kong Zhendong did not give Seifer a chance to think and adjust, and began to attack Seifer in the middle directly from the second board.
Fast and fierce, Seifer defended the second board, but he couldn't withstand Kong Zhendong's fourth board and continued to press the middle, and he was forced to make a mistake and lose the last point.
At 21:18, Kong Zhendong won the second game.
During the break, Bengeren did not arrange overly complicated tactics, but asked Kong Zhendong to play the characteristics of the second game serve more ruthlessly, and the final victory was to fight back and forth in the middle of the ball.
In the third game, Seifer started with five goals.
This time, Seifer was more cautious, he knew that the service wheel of this game could not be easily broken by Kong Zhendong.
Seifer and the coaching staff also made the best response to Kong Zhendong's tactics of suddenly attacking the middle.
After Kong Zhendong received the serve with a backhand, Seifer suddenly turned sideways and jerked a board, with a very strong force.
The table tennis ball crossed the net and hit Kong Zhendong's middle far platform.
That's the tactic that Seifer and the coaching staff came up with at the break.
Weak defense in the middle and inability to switch between forehand and backhand are not Seifer's weaknesses alone.
This is the inherent weakness of the horizontal board grip method.
Kong Zhendong is also a crossboarder.
Since I've been blown up in the middle, why don't I just take the lead and attack his mid?
Kong Zhendong smiled slightly, I have thought of this trick a long time ago!
But I've got one more killer than you.
Kong Zhendong held the racket in his right hand and swung inward, and suddenly swung outward like a knight drawing a sword.
The ball in the middle, I twisted it directly with my backhand!
As a fast-break and powerful play in the eighties and nineties, Seifer was not familiar with the backhand technique, especially the backhand in-table twisting and pulling tactics started by Kerber.
It was because he didn't have the backhand twisting technique that he opened the middle of the door.
Kong Zhendong's backhand twist is a sharp weapon for receiving the ball in the middle.
And after the backhand twists the middle ball, the hand shape is completely opened, and then the waist is forced, and the hand shape is turned over, which is particularly convenient to receive the forehand quick kill.
This ball is typical after Kong Zhendong twisted his backhand and pulled it over the net, Seifer just returned the ball, and Kong Zhendong was already waiting for him with a forehand sideways.
A forehand board is a quick kill, and Kong Zhendong scores this point.
It's not just a point, it's Kong Zhendong can easily crack Seifer's middle ball.
Seifer, who has an experienced game, was a little flustered at this time.
He couldn't catch Kong Zhendong's continuous kills in the middle, but his attack on the middle lane Kong Zhendong was resolved lightly.
How can this be fought?
In order to verify, Seifer's subsequent serve once again tested Kong Zhendong's offensive and defensive ability in the middle.
Kong Zhendong was also not polite, grabbing four points with five serves.
Next, change Kong Zhendong's service round. Originally, Kong Zhendong and Seifer were in a state of exploding each other's service rounds, so all the audience guessed that Seifer could win back this receiving round, and the difference was just how many points he won.
But everyone underestimated Kong Zhendong's tactical integration ability, and also underestimated Coach Ben Gesen, who saw through everything.
What is Coach Bengerson's guidance?
Serve more ferociously! Be more resolute in the mid lane!
This looks like two tactical directives.
But what if it's executed in the same ball?
Then use a ferocious serve to stabilize the offensive initiative, and then use the offensive initiative to continuously hit the middle.
With the integration of such two tactics, the service wheel will no longer be Kong Zhendong's disadvantage.
Kong Zhendong took the initiative to attack in the middle, and Seifer had no choice but to retreat, and finally Kong Zhendong scored 3 points on his own serve.
The 7:3 start was perfect.
Seifer's next service wheel was superb.
He's pretty much a COPY ninja.
His serve also began to serve ferociously, and he took the initiative to attack in the middle.
Same tactics, but different results.
Because Kong Zhendong killed Seifer in the middle, Seifer couldn't kill Kong Zhendong in the middle.
Kong Zhendong won three points again in this round of service round.
Subsequently, Kong Zhendong and Seifer exchanged service wheels, and Seifer never got rid of his own service wheel attack and could not die, and arrived at the passive situation that Kong Zhendong could not save himself in the middle of the service round.
No one could have imagined that just a resolute attack on the middle lane, as well as a backhand twist to pick up the forehand to quickly pump the defensive middle, Kong Zhendong established a stable advantage in the third round.
In the first two games, Kong Zhendong and Seifer each led their opponents by up to three points, and after one game, they won or lost the last two or three points.
Everyone thought that the third game would be just as intense and even more bloodthirsty.
However, Kong Zhendong won a 10:5 advantage at the beginning. Although Seifer worked hard to attack next and applied all his strength to the extreme, he only scored 8 points in the next fifteen goals.
At 17:13, enter Seifer's final tee.
Seifer served a little frantically and ferociously, Kong Zhendong deliberately returned the ball at a slow pace, but Seifer killed at a large angle in the return.
He also saw it, and also liberated himself from the strange circle of killing in the middle lane.
Kong Zhendong, that kid can kill me in the middle lane, so I must kill him in the middle lane? 》
If you can't kill someone, why fight?
Seifer understood a little late, but turned the tide on his own serve and scored three points.
At 16:19, he entered Kong Zhendong's last service round, 3 points, and it was also the closest score since the beginning of the third game.
But this is also the last glimmer of opportunity and fantasy, Kong Zhendong has reached his own service round, how can the offensive of ferocious serve and continuous kills in the middle be reduced?
In the end, Kong Zhendong won the third game 21:17.
When Kong Zhendong quickly drew a slash to score the last point, Sith Pan and Vasley roared into the arena and lifted him high.
It wasn't until his body was vacant that Kong Zhendong realized that he had won the European Champions Cup, which had the heaviest gold content in European clubs!