Chapter 280: Gothenburg Doesn't Believe in Tears
Waldner's ball, the strongest is the change of rhythm and the movement of the line.
This kind of whimsical often makes Chinese players who are good at change and surprise also suffer.
However, Waldner is not invincible, and in Waldner's past record, two have a better record against him.
They are Persson and the French Geting.
Victoria asked Kong Zhendong: "Zhendong, when the front lineup came out, I was very happy to see the national table tennis coaching staff, are they so confident in Zhang Lei's victory over Waldner?" ”
Kong Zhendong said: "Waldner has lost more in the past than Persson and Gaiting, so I guess the national team coach has come to the conclusion that there are two ways to beat Waldner. To deal with his changes and whimsy, the first way is to use Gaiting's forehand to continuously unreasonable afterburner fast belt, not to talk about tactics, not to follow the routine of indiscriminate bombardment, to destroy his line and rhythm control. ”
Victoria and Madeleine both nodded knowingly.
Kong Zhendong pointed to Persson, who was in the preparation seat of the Swedish team; "The second way is that Persson can beat Waldner as well. This is not to say that you can win by imitating Persson's powerball play. Instead, it relies on the understanding of Waldner, with Lao Wa's style of play, his changes and small movements, and even his serving habits, and the choice of line for handling the ball, it is difficult for unfamiliar opponents to adapt, but the most afraid of these changes is the most familiar teammates. Once your teammates get used to your small movements and line habits, it's impossible to match the power ball players with a variation. ”
Persson relied on seeing through the changes in Lao Wa to be able to win many times. This law has also been verified in Kong Zhendong's many victories over Liu Guobang in the future.
From the beginning of the recruitment of Zhang Lei into the national team, Mi Xingbang aimed at him and Waldner for more than half a year.
Once familiar enough, the ball can be cracked against Waldner's variation.
At the start of the game, Waldner started with five goals.
Whether Zhang Lei can catch these five balls well and retreat from Waldner's five unpredictable serves is the best test of the tactics of the national table tennis coaching staff.
In the first three serves, Zhang Lei scored two points, and after more than half a year of getting along, Zhang Lei's understanding of Waldner has been improved to a level.
Seeing this result, the national table tennis coaching staff breathed a sigh of relief and continued to play like this, there is a play!
It's a pity that the national table tennis coaching staff obviously underestimated Waldner's strength.
In the next two serves, although Zhang Lei still did not fall behind in the receiving stage, the subsequent change of strong pull on the third board and the sudden change of line in the holding were still nowhere to be found, and Zhang Lei lost two points in a row.
In Zhang Lei's next five serves, Waldner was very regular in the first three boards, and his main focus was on the sudden change of line in the stalemate at the beginning of the fourth board.
Changing lines in the middle of the match is a very high-end skill in table tennis, but everyone will use it in the world's first-class master circle.
However, most of the players' changes to each other are very awkward, and even have to be above seven emotions.
Therefore, among the table tennis masters, Waldner's line change is the most weighty, and the circle is as good as expected.
Ten goals later, Waldner led 6-4.
The subsequent matches proved that it was not possible to beat Waldner after half a year's play.
Persson was able to beat him on the premise of ten years of joint practice, and in addition to the familiarity with the ball, the style of play itself is also an important reason.
On the contrary, Zhang Lei and Waldner have only been teammates at the club for half a year. In this relationship, the two are familiar with each other, but they are not deep.
Therefore, in this game, not only Zhang Lei scored because he was familiar with Waldner, but Waldner in turn took advantage of Zhang Lei's habits and weaknesses to score balls.
The small number of points that the two get to each other because they know each other almost cancels it out.
The rest is the confrontation between Waldner and Zhang Lei with hard power.
It's a pity that Zhang Lei has improved a lot in Sweden for most of the year, but he will still be unable to fight the world's No. 1 person in a tough matchup.
With the passage of the game, Zhang Lei's chances of winning the game are getting smaller and smaller, and the flame of hope in the hearts of the national table tennis coaching staff and players has gradually been extinguished.
Ma Wenhua shook his head unwillingly, he couldn't even get the chance to play in the fifth game.
Liu Guobang, who watched the game on the sidelines, was also very painful, as a substitute, watching the team slide into the abyss of failure, but he couldn't do anything, this frustration and powerlessness was much more uncomfortable than Kong Zhendong in the stands.
In the end, the battle between the two familiar strangers did not produce the expected sparks of mutual explosion.
After a small amount of restraint balls from the two were offset, what the audience finally saw was the confrontation between Waldner and Zhang Lei's hard power.
In the end, Zhang Lei lost to Waldner 0:2, and the Chinese team only won the runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships in Gothenburg 1:3.
The Swedish Five Tigers will win the men's team championship in 1989, 1991 and 1993, making this period known as the Swedish dynasty no longer controversial.
Kong Zhendong in the stands, although he had already expected to lose when he analyzed the comparison between the strengths and weaknesses of China and Sweden in his heart, but when the Chinese team was trampled under his feet like this in the final, he suddenly felt that the corners of his eyes were astringent, and he had the urge to cry.
Compared with the astringency of the corners of his eyes, Liu Guobang, who was preparing for the game, covered his face with his palms, this kind of pain and shame of not playing but having to meet defeat, Liu Guobang didn't know when he would be able to wash it off.
Seven crowns at the World Table Tennis Championships. Because of today's table tennis, most of the strong teams still adhere to the national system, so the most important gold content at this stage is the highest, and the overall strength of table tennis in various countries is the men's and women's team champions.
The Chinese women's team is back at the top after two years. The Chinese men's team, although the runner-up has made earth-shaking progress compared to the previous session, table tennis does not need to be a runner-up!
After the men's and women's team competitions, the five individual events were in full swing.
The players of the Chinese men's team are hoping to regain their glory in the individual competition and regain the lost crown.
The women's team, led by Deng Yalin, marched towards the world championship.
It's a pity that for Liu Guobang, who has few opportunities to play in the team competition and has some raw hands, Gothenburg cannot become a blessed land.
Liu Guobang, who was pinned on by the coaching staff of the Chinese team and the retired celebrities, was actually eliminated in the second round of the knockout round.
Liu Guobang is only seventeen years old, and now he has not achieved strength, and in Gothenburg, he has no choice but to become a lost background board.
Liu Guobang, the future star of the straight board, was eliminated so early, which is also a negative case of the cultivation of newcomers to the Chinese team and the selection of Mi Xingbang's young echelon.
After Liu Guobang was eliminated, Kong Zhendong took the initiative to find him, and the two began to watch the games of other teammates in the stands.
Kong Zhendong comforted and encouraged his brother, Liu Guobang is still an optimist at heart, he is in the growth period, and when he meets the peak of the world's powerhouses, there is no way to do it.
In contrast to the fierce competition of the men's team, because only one or two female players in Europe have the strength of the quarterfinals, the real opponents of the Chinese team are still players from Asian national teams such as North Korea, South Korea, and Singapore.
Because the pressure of competition is not great, the Chinese players have had a smooth journey.
Until the quarterfinals, the Chinese girl suffered the first tough battle, and the beauty Chen Yuhe lost to South Korea's Xuan Jinghe 1:2.
For a long time in the past, the Chinese women's team has taken Li Fengji of the Northern Dynasty as the main opponent.
In fact, they didn't find that the impact of the straight Hyun Jinghe in South Korea is getting stronger and stronger, and even has the posture to transform into dominance.
South Korea's Hyun Jinghe, as the only South Korean player to advance to the semifinals, still has not received the attention of the Chinese women's team.
Because the three Chinese advanced to the semifinals, an encirclement and suppression of her has been formed, which also includes the two cores of women's table tennis, Deng Yalin and Qiao Hong.
Just after Deng Yalin defeated Qiao Yunping in the national table tennis civil war to enter the finals, the second bomb of Xuan Jinghe's South Korean shock wave finally detonated.
Another 2:1, Xuan Jinghe won the second person in women's table tennis Qiao Hong, and single-handedly killed in front of the Chinese main player Deng Yalin.
The women's table tennis coaching staff was a little panicked at this time, and Kong Zhendong was also shocked in these games.
At the 91 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, after the women's team lost to the North and South Korean United team, Hyun Jing-ho was dealt with as the main opponent.
During the selection of the Olympic quota last year, Kong Zhendong also deliberately conducted training for Xuan Jinghe in the women's team.
But it is precisely because of the restraining of Xuan Jinghe in the Olympic Games last year, and the average results of Xuan Jinghe's International Open for most of the year, that the attention of Chinese women's table tennis to her has decreased.
The finalists became South Korean players, and the women's table tennis coaching staff carried out intense tactical plans and special training for Deng Yalin.
But because in the women's team final the day before yesterday, Deng Yalin also defeated Xuan Jinghe, so everyone still has reservations about her threat.
Since the Chinese women's team participated in international table tennis events, there has never been any opponent in Europe and Asia who can defeat three main national table tennis players one after another and finally win the championship.
Not once!
It's a pity that fate is so fond of playing tricks, or God doesn't want to see the national table tennis women's team so strong that there is no sense of tension, so there is a lack of respect for the opponent and the development of table tennis technology.
Xuan Jinghe is older than Deng Yalin, but it cannot be denied that her straight board skills are still improving in the middle and late stages of her career.
Originally, Deng Yalin's murder was the biggest advantage, but unfortunately the integration with the North Korean women's team in the past two years seems to be an excellent tempering of South Korea's Xuan Jinghe's will.
The more critical the ball, the more Xuan Jinghe dared to impact and dare to exert force.
Coupled with Xuan Jinghe's physical fitness, his strength and speed are actually stronger than Deng Yalin, there was no Deng Yalin who was desperate before, and Deng Yalin was not fierce, so he lost.
After this ball made up for this shortcoming, Xuan Jinghe once again went through three rounds of hard fighting, won Deng Yalin 2:1, and won the women's singles crown of the World Table Tennis Championships.
As a result, at the Women's Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships, Xuan Jinghe became the Grand Slam queen of women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, and women's team before Deng Yalin.