Chapter 295: The Key Ball of the Decisive Battle [Seeking to Follow]
Exchanging serves, Waldner began to show his ability to serve as a guru.
Waldner turned sideways slightly, threw the table tennis ball high with his left hand, looked up at the rising table tennis ball, and the rhinoceros looked at the moon and reappeared in the rivers and lakes.
Kong Zhendong knew that Waldner's toss was hiding a feint, but his eyes still unconsciously followed the trajectory.
Because Waldner's serve, the movements are too smooth, revealing a textbook freehand and artistic sense.
But with the sharp fall of the ping pong ball, he held the racket in his right hand and handed it forward violently under the cover of his left arm.
The ping-pong ball rushed out from under his armpit, and Kong Zhendong had no way to react to this spin.
Waldner's serve is not something you can solve with experience after a lot of fights.
Kong Zhendong retreated slightly, and could only use a dark click to increase the time for judgment.
Kong Zhendong is not a power player, after retiring from the stage, the killing will naturally weaken, and Waldner can use his strength very comfortably.
Waldner is the best master of table tennis.
What's more, in the face of Kong Zhendong, who has no advantage in strength, it can calmly accelerate and accelerate.
In the face of Waldner's continuous and rapid attack, Kong Zhendong passively lost this point.
In the next four balls, Waldner showed his service skills in turn.
Sideways covering, armpit covering, hanging arms covering......
Waldner's alternate service changes allowed him to score four points on serve.
With a score of 4:6, Kong Zhendong entered his service round again.
With five serves this time, Kong Zhendong changed the strategy of attacking the middle in the previous round and transformed it into a five-ball continuous attack backhand.
Kong Zhendong's tactical strategy of playing all the way worked again, no matter how ever-changing Waldner was, Kong Zhendong crushed his backhand with every board, and once again scored three points on the serve.
Members of the Swedish royal family and aristocratic friends in the stands had only seen Kong Zhendong's reports in newspapers before.
I used to think that those reports praising Kong Zhendong were exaggerated, but today I found out that this amazing teenager was able to play 7:8 with Waldner at the beginning, which is definitely a close performance.
Waldner's next five serves still focused on the change of line, but Kong Zhendong's return and counter-grab initiative was better shown, although it did not reverse Waldner's service round, but still stubbornly grabbed 2 points.
After half a game, Kong Zhendong fell behind by two points 9:11, but he smiled slightly, and the rhythm was within his expectations.
The next ten balls exchanged serves, and only a few spectators felt the silent change in Ruiwu.
Kong Zhendong still played a strong continuous attack and single drop point play in his own service round to ensure that he won three points.
Then Waldner's service round, Kong Zhendong insisted on not retreating, although he conceded two goals, but he grabbed three points against Waldner's attack.
Most people don't realize that this is the first time Kong has led Waldner in the return round, albeit by just one point.
Victoria woke up like a dream and shouted: "It's actually divided, these ten goals Zhendong scored six points, and 15 draws." When it was opened, Washen's service advantage was so obvious, did you think that this ball would be lost? ”
Victoria's exclamation was the real feeling of many people in the audience at this time.
How did Waldner go from the obvious advantage at the beginning to the encouragement of the teenager and Waldner to be evenly matched, and now completely tie the score?
Tying is by no means the end, because next is Kong Zhendong's service round.
Kong Zhendong really did not tighten his serve wheel, and continued to slam his forehand wildly and grabbed three points.
With a one-point advantage of 18:17, it entered Waldner's final service round.
All the spectators leaned forward and stared intently at Waldner's next serve.
Everyone knows that this is a more important goal than the final point.
A goal near the end of the game can make the difference between widening the gap and tying the score.
Waldner was also very cautious about the ball, flicking it twice on the table, picking it up and blowing a few breaths, and then flicking it twice again, and then bringing it to his eyes, looking at it for a while, Cai spun it violently.
The rhythm goes from absolute stillness to sudden eruption, controlled to the pinnacle of seconds.
Kong Zhendong did not flinch, but rushed forward to the stage.
Aldner smiled at this point.
He added a weird spin to this ball, betting on Kong Zhendong's characteristics of fighting on the stage the more he gets to the key ball.
This kind of serve with a strange change of line in the second rebound, coming to the stage in advance, is bound to make a mistake in judgment.
When everyone thought that Kong Zhendong was going to pay the price for his rashness, his waist slammed up, stopped the momentum of rushing forward with his strong body flexibility, and his right arm circled, and he quickly slapped as his waist strength was restored. Actually turned defense into offense with an unreasonable earlier hitting point.
Waldner didn't expect Kong Zhendong to return the ball so quickly, and his waist strength was erect, and the ball was returned so fiercely.
Caught off guard, Waldner barely returned the ball over the net, but it was clearly on the top.
Kong Zhendong quickly drew a big slash and directly won this key point.
Sir Edward in the stands laughed and said: "Hehe, young people have good waists, and in this regard, Waldner also has to serve the old." ”
Kong Zhendong expanded the difference to 2 points.
These two points should not be underestimated, and at the end of the game, holding on to a two-point advantage is enough to win.
Kong Zhendong had a maturity far beyond his years in the key ball, and Waldner was unable to reverse the deficit despite the subsequent two close scores.
At 21:19, Kong Zhendong won the first game.
The game was so tight and the two of them changed their playing styles so much that during the break, the coaches of both sides did not teach tactics, but let the two get enough relaxation and relief.
In the second game, Waldner started with five goals.
From the first serve, Waldner was clearly more aggressive than in the first game.
While paying attention to the change of the line, the forward force was strengthened, and it was even more difficult for Kong Zhendong to fight back.
Waldner secured three points on his own serve.
After entering Kong Zhendong's service round, Kong Zhendong also made adjustments to his serving tactics in the first game, adding line changes and feints.
Waldner didn't play against Kong Zhendong many times, and among his previous opponents, there were very few who could force Kong Zhendong to the service wheel and use feints continuously.
Because the feints are used rarely enough, they are suddenly used continuously in a round, and they have strong concealment and surprise characteristics.
Kong Zhendong's change of serve also ensured his service wheel advantage.
Subsequently, Waldner and Kong Zhendong exchanged serve rounds many times, but the two were always able to ensure the advantage of their respective service rounds, and the scores of the two were always tight and entangled to rise.
Victoria and Madeleine could see that their hands were clenched into fists, and their palms were sweaty. Kong Zhendong and Waldner bit the ball too tightly in this game, and neither of them led by more than two points.
Fighting all the way, the score of the two came to 20:20, and it was the key ball to decide the outcome again!