Chapter 147: Liu Guobang Rises!
Chen Zhibing is no longer young, and he knows that this may be his last time participating in the final of the National Championships as the main player.
With his 2:1 win over Ling Zhi, the Capital Team forced the People's Liberation Army, the first favorite to win the championship, to the edge of the cliff 2:0.
Zhang Xilin was a little disappointed and said: "It's the first time that the People's Liberation Army has been forced to do this, right?" In the past championships, even if you lose the championship year, you have never been bullied 2:0! ”
Mi Xingbang smiled: "Many young players have grown up this year. Only in terms of the lineup of players, the PLA team is not even as good as the Lingnan team with Lin Gangqiang, Ma Lin, Li Jing, and Liu Guokun. They passed all the way, relying more on the stable ability of Wang Tao and Liu Guobang to score points. Today's defeat of Wang Tao is a heavy blow to them. ”
Zhang Xilin was interested: "Liu Guobang? In this year's National Championships, I didn't hear much about the men's team. Among the newcomers, in addition to Kong Zhendong, the most talked about is Liu Guobang. I've heard that a lot of old guys have high hopes for him! ”
Mi Xingbang understood what Zhang Xilin meant, and nodded with a smile.
At this time, Li Xiaodong and Ye Ying were also discussing Liu Guobang.
Because Li Xiaodong described Liu Guobang as a super newcomer who was not inferior to Kong Zhendong in this national championship, Ye Ying was dissatisfied.
Ye Ying said angrily: "Liu Guobang's straight board is fast attacking, isn't it a way to eliminate?" Chen Longcan, He Zhiwen, Kong Zhendong won too much in this way of playing. ”
Li Xiaodong patiently explained: "The straight plate is indeed a bottleneck in the past few years, but this is the secret treasure of China's pressing the bottom of the box for decades. The significance of feelings and inheritance in this is too great. You're too young to understand. I'll just name a few. From Li Fugui, to Xu Shaofa, to Guo Yuehua, to Xi Muen, who had just retired, they all walked through the peak with the straight fast attack. These celebrities have always been looking forward to the inheritors of the rise of national table tennis within the straight board and fast attack. It's a pity that neither Chen Longcan nor Jiang Penglong from Baodao have made a breakthrough in this technology, so they have not attracted the collective efforts of celebrities. If there is a person who can carry the banner of straight and fast attack, he will return to the top of the world with this technology. The amount of fame he could get would be unimaginable. This force, Mi Xingbang can't even look at directly. ”
Thinking of the legendary names that stomped on the domestic table tennis world one by one, Ye Ying said timidly: "Doesn't that have to be a headshot?" Cheng Longcan and Jiang Penglong can't be recognized by the old guys, can Liu Guobang really be recognized? ”
Li Xiaodong smiled mysteriously: "Girl, you only need to watch one game of his ball to understand why he is only sixteen years old, but there are already so many straight board celebrities who have paved the way for him." In terms of bloodline, he is the inheritor of the bloodline style of the Chinese Ping Pong Dynasty. If Kong Zhendong's European arc circle play wants to be on par with him, he must integrate his own new technology and create his own new dynasty bloodline. Can you use a technique that China has never had before to establish a dynastic rule of table tennis? This is clearly an impossible task. ”
Liu Guobang and Kong Zhendong are both Yin Xiao's proud disciples, so in this duel between the capital team and the People's Liberation Army, he is the one with the most complicated mood among the spectators.
Watching his disciple Kong Zhendong challenge Wang Tao, the No. 2 person who has faintly challenged Ma Wenhua in the past two years, Yin Xiao has always been worried and hopes that the capital team will win.
Kong Zhendong had just won, his excitement had not yet passed, and he had to worry about his disciple Liu Guobang challenging Zhang Lei. He changed his position again this time, hoping that Liu Guobang would turn the tide for the People's Liberation Army.
Yin Xiao sighed and said: "The national baseball is no less difficult than Zhendong beating Wang Tao this time!" ”
Zhang Xilin nodded and said: "Although I have been in the women's team, I still know the names of the core of the men's team. The horizontal board is like a knife, Ma Wenhua, Chen Zhibing, Zhang Lei, a few years ago, they were called the three big knives of the national team. Now that Chen Zhibing is old, Wang Tao has grown up and replaced him. But Zhang Lei is still one of the three big knives. ”
Mi Xingbang said: "Although Zhang Lei did not play well in this competition, he is definitely in the top three in the comparison of the hard power of domestic horizontal board players, and he is not inferior to Wang Tao. ”
Liu Guobang faced Zhang Lei and weighed the preparation to serve. He also realizes that this game is very difficult.
But his magical heart was not afraid at all, but even more excited.
The more difficult the game, the more hearty and well-deserved it will be to win.
What's more, after watching many games, Liu Guobang also has the strange feeling that Zhang Lei will be Kong Zhendong ten years later.
Because the style of play is similar. Liu Guobang complained in his heart: If Kong Zhendong can't get ahead in ten years of technology, he probably has this strength!
He always remembered that Kong Zhendong won his half-game at the beginning, and it was a good choice to use Zhang Lei to train before meeting again.
Liu Guobat threw the ball, his body quickly rotated to the right, and with a shout of chua in his mouth, the table tennis ball spun out, the forehand position, and ran to the ball.
Zhang Lei didn't expect the opponent to be so bold, the first ball was sent out to send him to attack, and he was not prepared enough to play the line transfer, push a board quickly with his forehand, and press Liu Guoba's backhand.
Swish! Liu Guobang ran quickly, his body came to the backhand position, and he directly drew a straight line with his forehand, chasing Zhang Lei's awkward forehand long ball area, Zhang Lei reluctantly retreated and pushed flat, and the ball went out of bounds.
Zhang Xilin exclaimed: "What a sharp mind! Is it instinct? Zhang Lei's return strain can be said to be seamless. The horizontal board plays the straight board, of course, it is a mental pressure backhand. He also really succeeded in mobilizing the national baseball to the backhand. But the return of the national baseball is too incredible. Generally, straight board players are transferred to the backhand, in order to redeem the passivity and regain the initiative, they will choose to pull the slash with the forehand and play the backhand. Because he stands on his backhand, he can use his forehand to pull his opponent's backhand, which is the most advantageous style of play. But the national baseball went the other way, quickly drew a straight line, and hit the opponent's forehand, no one thought of this kind of thinking, the key is that it can't react so quickly. Zhang Lei is really unjust. ’
This ball is just a microcosm of the entire first game, Liu Guobang first in the service link, the perfect combination of weird rotation and sideways force, occupy the absolute initiative.
In the final third board attack, he gave up the quick raid or strong smash of ordinary straight fast attackers, and he used more thinking and ball path changes, and used the opponent's unexpected ball path changes to score.
That's right, the "last" third board. In the entire first game, Liu Guobang scored 21 points, and more than 15 points were solved within three boards.
Liu Guobang's quick score just expanded the advantage of the first three boards of the straight board infinitely. When he enters the stalemate, he will be controlled by Zhang Lei and even lose points.
But Liu Guobang's every win in the first game was solved in three or four beats, which brought too much shock to the audience.
Compared with Kong Zhendong's difficult victory over Wang Tao in three games, the audience felt that Liu Guobang was almost beating the national player Zhang Lei.
What if Zhendong encounters such a powerful positive glue fast attack? Ye Ying was frightened. For the first time, the trust in Kong Zhendong was shaken.