Chapter 375: The King Rises Again
Speaking of words like table tennis dynasty and table tennis country, the first thing that young domestic fans think of is the Chinese team.
Slightly older fans will admit that the Swedish Five Tigers in the late eighties and early nineties would establish a short-lived Swedish dynasty.
Looking at the history of table tennis in the world, the first to establish a table tennis dynasty was unexpectedly the Hungarian team, a small European country.
Since the first World Table Tennis Championships began in 1926, Hungarian male and female players have won almost 80% of the gold medals in each World Table Tennis Championships.
This phenomenon lasted for almost twenty-five years, and in the fifties, the Japanese who invented the curved circle technology took the highest honor in the world table tennis from Hungary.
Subsequently, the Japanese team also dominated the international table tennis arena for more than ten years.
After the Japanese team dominated the entire 50s, the Chinese team was marked by Rong Guosheng winning the men's singles crown at the 59 World Table Tennis Championships, and in the entire 60s, the era of Sino-Japanese hegemony in the world table tennis was opened.
In the 60s, China and Japan competed for hegemony, and at the beginning, the Japanese team won six championships in men's team, women's team, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles, while the Chinese team only had one men's singles crown.
But by the mid-to-late sixties, the Chinese team had already gained an advantage in the Sino-Japanese hegemony and was about to create a ping-pong dynasty belonging to the Chinese.
Unfortunately, the country entered a special decade, and the table tennis team suspended international participation.
It was in the late 60s and early 70s that the European fast arc style created by Jonier, Ben Gesen, and Orlovsky began to shine in the table tennis world, regaining the highest glory in the table tennis world from the hands of Asia.
Chinese table tennis is recognized as the world's first dominant-level dynasty in the history of table tennis, and it has to wait until the end of the special decade to recuperate for a few years and enter the eighties, which is the era of Chinese table tennis.
Today's 93 years are the era when China tried to rise again after the fall of the Ping Pong Dynasty in the 80s.
But it was also the third time that the Hungarian team had made a comeback after a previous dynastic reign and a resurgence in the seventies.
Joniel, the king of Europe's fast arc as Bengerson, Orlovsky's contemporary, is no longer in his forties.
But he hopes that through this match, through the confrontation with the Chinese kid with the most crested crested this year, he will return to his time at the peak of the world in the 70s.
After entering the home stadium of the Wolverine, feeling the fanatical table tennis enthusiasm of the fans, Yonier also seemed to be much younger, and the shouts of the fans were his nutrients, making him seem to be much more sensitive when warming up before the game.
The Hungarian Rangers, as the name suggests, rely on athletic warfare, the fast-arc essence of guerrilla warfare, and the tenacious fighting of soldiers.
At 7:20 p.m., the Wolverines and Rangers submitted their rosters for the first three matchups at the same time.
In the first game, Kong Zhendong faced off against Yonier.
Ben Gesen nodded secretly, this platoon is still right.
Yonier is the oldest member of the two teams.
Considering that there is a good chance that he will not win three games, then with two games to play, Joniel will need more rest, so Bengersen bet on Joniel to play the first round.
Compared to the younger world champion Rankopal, who is still in peak form in the past two years of the European Championships, Bengersen obviously hopes that Kong Zhendong will win one game against the weaker Jonier.
It's a pity that as soon as the game started, Bengersen regretted it.
As a veteran of the same era, Bengersen felt that Yonier should also enter the state very slowly, but he didn't expect Yonier to give Kong Zhendong a dismount on the opening serve today.
Joniel's serve is one of the best among the three kings of Europe's fast arc. This is mainly due to the more than ten years of confrontation between him and Li Fugui, an outstanding member of the Chinese straight board.
It is the so-called long-term illness to become a doctor. He has been playing against Chinese players for a long time, and he is at the youngest age when it is easiest to absorb advanced playing styles, so Jonier's serve is outstanding among European players.
Yonier's serve made Kong Zhendong very uncomfortable. It is a non-power early serve, and the ball is more focused on spin and arc control.
Yonier's serve, simply looking at the ball path, looking at the spin, looking at the landing point, Kong Zhendong feels very ordinary.
However, after hitting the table, the ball path and spin are combined, and the line becomes erratic.
After the second hit, the ball path, spin, and landing point produced a perfect chemical reaction, and Kong Zhendong's forehand grab completely missed the best time to hit the ball.
Kong Zhendong served several times in a row and returned the ball to the past, but because he missed the best time to hit the ball, he struggled to cope with the continuous fast attack that began on the third board of Jonier.
Yonier's five serves ended, and Kong Zhendong fell behind 1:4.
Entering Kong Zhendong's service round, the first thing he chose was the first three boards to attack and play.
But Kong Zhendong soon discovered that Yonier, like him, was an authentic defender of the forehand attack style of the return serve.
His return is not at all like a veteran in his forties, but more like a newborn tiger who attacked the first championship of his career.
Kong Zhendong adjusted the impact serve of multiple ball paths, and with the support of Jonier's experience, accurately judged the ball path, and then counterattacked, the two took turns to fight for the offensive initiative, and Kong Zhendong finally won the three points in the service round.
With a score of 3:7, Kong Zhendong didn't lag behind much, but in the subsequent encounters, he found a bigger problem.
is also the king of the European fast arc, Kong Zhendong found that Yonier compared Bengesen and Czech Orlovsky, on the basis of fast, has higher requirements for stability.
Yonier's shot, although the ball speed is fast, but it is not erratic, relying on the piercing-like sharpness to fight Kong Zhendong.
Once he seeks stability, Kong Zhendong's fight will be difficult to break through in Yonier's tight net.
The scores of the two sides have been entangled and rising, but Jonier held on to the four-point advantage, and until the final crucial point of the first game, Kong Zhendong was unable to close the point difference.
At 17:21, Kong Zhendong lost the first game.
lost the first game, and the audience still applauded, giving Kong Zhendong the greatest encouragement. He has now gained many die-hard fans in the Wolverine, and he does not blame Kong Zhendong for the success or failure of a certain game or game.
During the break, Ben Gesen also felt that Kong Zhendong had no problem playing in the first game, and he felt that Kong Zhendong beat Yonier, which seemed to be separated by a layer of window paper, and it would be broken when he poked it, but it was a pity that the judgment of this paper in the first game was far from enough.
In the second game, Kong Zhendong started with five goals. Kong Zhendong's choice to break through the window paper was very simple, still on the ten serves that were initially exchanged in the service round.
He was extremely serious, and every serve he used to plan and hit with all his strength, and finally grabbed four points.
Then in the receiving round, Kong Zhendong used the tactic of fast grabbing with his forehand to the extreme, and grabbed three points in the receiving round.
The first 10 goals took a 7-3 lead, as if it was a reversal of the situation in the first game.
The ensuing battle was almost reversed. In this game, Kong Zhendong struggled to find a stable output in a quick attack.
At the beginning, Yonier was also calm and calm to fight with Kong Zhendong for rhythm and fighting, and the two were evenly matched.
The score rose alternately like the first game, until Kong Zhendong kept the four-point advantage until the final key ball, and Jonier changed his style of play and played a quick attack, although in the last five goals, Jonier's sudden attack made Kong Zhendong very uncomfortable, 2;3 behind.
Fortunately, the opening advantage accumulated by Kong Zhendong in front of him was maintained, and finally won 21; 19 won the second game.
The first two games were tied 1:1, and Kong Zhendong and Ben Gesen both showed relaxed smiles.
Although the game score was a draw, the rhythm and state of the game in the second game were in Kong Zhendong's most comfortable tactical rhythm.
After taking a quick lead at the beginning, he played the ball with Jonier, played the ball control, and played stalemate, not only to win the second game, but also to consume Yonier's physical strength.
Although Joniel is old, he can stick to the Champions League, fight on two fronts in the league, and reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to get Jonier out of fitness with a best-of-three match.
However, the multi-round stalemate for a large period of time in the first two games did affect Yonier's physical fitness and the overall rhythm of the state.
In the third game, if Joniel wants to win, he has to change the opening passivity and hold on to the long multi-shot in the middle and late stages.
Yonier began to rush at the beginning of the third game to fight for the first ten points.
Then he also avoided the stalemate, trying to maintain the offensive initiative until the end of the game.
However, this kind of continuous strong charge, and then continuous attack, to maintain the offensive initiative of the play, is more physically energy-consuming than the first two games.
What's more, this style of play was forcibly switched after Yonier adapted to the rhythm of the second game.
As a veteran, Jonier is experienced in the change of arc and landing point, but as a veteran player, the change of rhythm is indeed the most difficult to adapt.
Yonier rushed to the end, and in the first ten goals, and even in the first half of the game, he achieved a certain advantage, ending the first half of the game with 11:9.
But in the second half of the tiebreaker, Jonier's fitness finally went wrong.
Of course, there was no serious physical collapse, but under Kong Zhendong's deliberately accelerated pace of the duel, it became more and more powerless.
In the end, Kong Zhendong played stronger and stronger in the second half of the third game, and won the decisive game at 21:19.
Jonier tried his best, but still lost this game, and he was a little disheartened, he shook hands with Kong Zhendong first, and said: "Hungarian table tennis technology, it seems that it is far from the time to rise again, you are still so young, we don't know how long we will have to wait." ”
Of course, Kong Zhendong was embarrassed to say that Hungary has no chance of turning over for decades, but he persuaded him kindly: "Today is not the Chinese team defeating the Hungarian team, but just a contest between me who gritted my teeth and fought for the best state and you in general state. ”
Yonier nodded, Kong Zhendong's words also fit his desire to be a coach, after all, he can't play for long, and the future of Hungarian table tennis still has to cultivate young people.