Chapter 283: The roar of 'Drogba' in the table tennis world

At 7pm on 19 May, the away Malmo Ravens began to enter the field through the players' tunnel.

As a key game in the final round of the league to determine the ownership of the league championship, the Wolverines once again squeezed out space and added more than 500 seats at home under the original additional seats.

Because of the recent hype in the Korean media, the Ravens team leader Liu Nankui was portrayed as the key figure in deciding the league championship, so many Korean fans were added to the scene to support the Ravens, which made the originally lonely Ravens fans grow a lot.

Many South Korean fans, banging on sticks in their hands, rhythmically shouted "Nankui, come on!" "Nankui, win!" There were also fans hanging banners above the stadium saying that Liu Nankui would win.

The main players of the Chinese national team and the main members of the coaching staff were arranged by Kong Zhendong to be in the center of the south of the court.

The skiers, who are currently in the first place in the points and awaiting the outcome of this match to decide whether to win the championship, as well as the officials of the Swedish Table Tennis Super League, are sitting in the center of the north side of the court.

The league officials also feel that this year's championship award is very convenient, anyway, the two teams share a home stadium, and the awards will be presented directly here according to the results.

Unlike previous years, if the results of several cities in the final round of the league affect the final championship at the same time, then the league officials have to send several groups of people to different cities to wait for the birth of the champion.

At 7:20, the Wolverines and Ravens submitted their rosters for the first three matchups.

As soon as the list was displayed on the central screen, South Korean fans howled as if they had been beaten with blood.

In the first game, the Wolverines against the Ravens Liu Nankui.

South Korean fans are not only laughing in their own circles, but they are also desperately influencing the Wolverines fans around them, telling them what a great player Yoo Nam-kyu is and how badly Sith Pan will be abused.

Although Kong Zhendong also had a heart to extinguish the anger of the South Korean team, he sat on the sidelines and returned to the technical level, and he paid special attention to this game.

Although Liu Nankui is rarely mentioned in the fandom of the 21st century, his identity is particularly special.

He was the first men's singles champion after table tennis entered the Olympic Games in 1988.

This gold content is very, very high.

First of all, not only Chinese, but also the world sports world pays attention to the first person to achieve such and such an achievement. For example, the first person to run 10 meters in 10 meters, such as the first person to climb Mount Everest.

The same achievement, there are people who have achieved it later, and even faster, but people always remember the first one.

On the other hand, the Olympic Games, as the first pointer in the eighties and nineties, influenced all athletes in the world. In the 80s, many top table tennis masters used playing an Olympic Games as a driving force to support their careers.

In 1988, the first Olympic Games, including China's Jiang Jialiang, Sweden's Apealen, Yugoslavia's Schulbeck and other veterans, all fought for the first gold medal of the Olympic Games at the end of their careers.

The 21-year-old Liu Nankui became the ultimate king, and many table tennis heroes who were proud of the world in the 80s began to serve the old age and gradually faded out of the field of vision of international competitions.

Liu Nankui was able to win the Olympic Games in one fell swoop, and the explosion in Taiwan that year was also to subvert the power ball system that was gradually rising in Europe.

Now five years have passed, 26-year-old Liu Nankui is already a straight veteran, but he has not yet reached the end of his career, and he is in the most coordinated and peak state of technology, psychology and physical fitness.

As the second hero of the rise of the Wolverines this year, Sith 1 Pan has ranked in the top 15 in the league in terms of winning rate, and he is also a stable brother in other weak teams.

Such an opponent, in front of Liu Nankui, has almost no room to play.

If it is Sith Pan serve, he can often play a few boards to hold on, and once Liu Nankui serves, almost all of them implode in the third board to directly solve the battle.

At 21:13 and 21:14, the disparity between the strength and weakness of the two sets of blood abuse made Bengesen and Kong Zhendong's desire to see more of Liu Nankui's technical style of play frustrated.

Liu Nankui's style of play itself is a style of play that particularly boosts the morale of the audience, not to mention this kind of abuse and killing of opponents without dead ends throughout the whole process, the wild shouts and shouts of South Korean fans are even more excited, and the momentum of seven or eight hundred Ravens fans actually exceeds more than 3,000 home fans.

Although Liu Nankui's impact on Kong Zhendong was stronger than expected, he still shook his head and tried his best to expel distracting thoughts.

The king of power in Eastern Europe, Poland Gruba, who was nicknamed 'Table Tennis Drogba' by later fans, is not an opponent that can be defeated half-heartedly.

Although Liu Nankui was not on the court, after Kong Zhendong appeared on the court and began to make preparations, South Korean fans immediately booed.

In the audience, Wang Tao said dissatisfiedly: "These South Korean sticks are too much, do you really think this is their home stadium?" Liu Nankui hasn't become the world's No. 1 yet? ”

Mi Xingbang smiled indifferently: "There will be a lot of games held at South Korea's home stadium in the future, and such a scene is also a test for Zhendong, the key is that Gruba's style of play is bloody and violent, which is especially easy to mobilize the emotions of the audience, and it is difficult to say whether Zhendong can cope with it well." ”

At the beginning of the first game, Kong Zhendong served five balls first, and the first ball was a backhand short ball.

After Gruba returned the ball, Kong Zhendong still resolutely swung short.

Coach Yin Xiao in the audience smiled: "This ball is handled very smartly, this is the tactic used when playing against the first giant of table tennis, Kalinic, to fight the short ball in the table with the opponent." ”

Li Xiaodong, the special coach of the national team who knows more about Western play, frowned and said: "I'm afraid I will suffer." Gruba is a Polish player on the border between East and West Europe. His style of play also adheres to the characteristics of Eastern European delicate and Western European power. In fact, Gruba's basic skills are second only to Yugoslavia's Primorac in European players, and as the inheritor of Eastern Europe's delicate technology, he is really not afraid of short balls in the table. ”

Coach Li Xiaodong's words did not fall, and Gruba really began to fight back in the stage.

Gruba is tall, originally tall is not an absolute advantage for table tennis, but because the pace is not flexible, the reaction arc is too slow and becomes a weakness, but Gruba has the pace of training from a young age in the Eastern European national system, with a tall height, but has the defensive ability to deal with the attack of the whole Taiwan.

Kong Zhendong's attack couldn't be won, but Gruba's attack could be stabbed like fencing, and after five serves, Kong Zhendong fell behind by one point.

Finding that the ball in the table could not take advantage, Kong Zhendong immediately adjusted in the next five serves, and played a forehand to rush with full force.

Although Gruba was strong in the hold, his serve was as soft as most of the players in Europe.

Kong Zhendong's forehand consciously rushed across Taiwan, earlier than Gaiting's non-powerful fast arc ball, and the rhythm was even faster, killing Gruba by surprise.

In the five serves, Gruba has been using the delicate technology of Eastern Europe to wrestle with Kong Zhendong, but it is a pity that Kong Zhendong's fast pull, rushing and continuous attacking style, obviously avoiding the basic skills, each ball will simplify the change of the ball path, and only use impact and reaction speed to score.

Kong Zhendong used his forehand to receive the serve to attack, and also grabbed three points in Gruba's service game, and the two sides returned to the same running line.

Entering Kong Zhendong's serve again, Kong Zhendong changed the delicate changes of the first serve, injected more forward momentum into the serve, and applied the impact play of the receiving round to this round of serve, and won three points again on five serves.

Gruba's delicate balls and power balls took turns to be powerful, and in the next rotation of serves, although there were more impacts, there was no obvious disadvantage.

After several rounds of service rotation, Kong Zhendong entered his last chance to serve five balls with a score of 16:14.

The Wolverine's Bengersen and Sith Pan both leaned forward, keeping an eye on every change in the field.

Liu Nankui of the Crow Team had a little disdain on his face, but the towel in his right hand was tightened and loosened, showing that his heart was far from being as light as it appeared on the surface.

The coaches and main players of the Chinese team also stopped communicating at this time and stared at the changes in the scene.

On the other side of the skiers' seats, Waldner was no longer light, but his left hand was across his chest, supporting his right hand, and his right hand was supported on his chin to follow the game.

All the famous players on the scene understand that Kong Zhendong's lead of 2 points is not an advantage, on the contrary, whether these five goals can prevail will basically determine the trend of this game.

Kong Zhendong served diagonally again, sent a long forehand ball to Gruba, and prepared to end the battle with a quick pull and continuous attack after the opponent took the ball.

Roar~ Gruba on the opposite side of the table broke out with a wild roar, his body moved sideways, and his forehand directly received the serve and pulled it strongly.

This ferocious change in receiving the ball caught Kong Zhendong a little off guard, this momentum was transformed into a vigorous force, although Kong Zhendong received the ball, but he couldn't suppress the arc, and the ball went out of bounds.

From this ball, Gruba's style of play changed radically.

Gruba has two types of playing specialties: Eastern European delicate school and Western European power school, switching back and forth, playing very methodically, and his tactics are extremely artistic.

However, Liang Hong's completely different technical system, forcibly switched, the aesthetic sense is very strong, but the continuity and personal attack power are weakened to a certain extent.

From this return, Gruba realized that he could no longer switch back and forth between the two styles of play, which was both the unpredictability of the two combinations, and the uncertainty of the technical style.

For Kong Zhendong's fast pull and continuous attack, Gruba chose a pure power bombardment and suppression style.

Gruba chose the power to storm a road and rushed to the black, although the return of the ball became much simpler, but the impact and explosiveness were doubled, Kong Zhendong held the ball and continued to go out of bounds or under the net.

Blessed by Gruba's roar, his power-based punch was used in this return round, stealing four points from the five most important balls.

In this service round, Kong Zhendong not only did not expand his advantage, but entered Gruba's last service round with a disadvantage of 17:18.