If it is Liu Chengmin's new century daily straight play, 11-year-old Kong Zhendong has no chance of winning.

But Lu Ning, his style of play still bears the clear imprint of the Japanese straight style of the 90s.

On August 24th, Kong Zhendong faced off against Lu Ning, and the Sino-Japanese playoff began!

This is Kong Zhendong's anti-Japanese battle, but unfortunately this is also Kong Zhendong's first off-court support in the disadvantaged game.

Before this game, Kong Zhendong had always been a miracle boy in the eyes of people, and with counterattacks one after another, there were more and more supporters and cheers.

Kong Zhendong can enjoy the treatment of sitting at home against foreigners in every game.

Unfortunately, this game was very different. Lu Ning is a veteran national player with many die-hard fans, and Chinese fans are used to supporting veteran players who have achieved great things.

When the audience often watches the civil war in national table tennis, they also have such a tendency.

If the two sides of the duel, one is a newcomer with impact but no achievements, and the other is a famous person who has fought for the country for many years, often wins the runner-up, and is in urgent need of a gold medal consummation, whether it is the audience or the commentary, they will tend to the old players.

For every point scored by the veteran players, the audience cheered, and the commentators sang praises. Every time a point is lost, the audience regrets it, and the commentary tries hard to find an objective reason.

If it is a young player, the commentary is not so tolerant, a small mistake, a little psychological fluctuation, will be on the line.

Kong Zhendong was at such a disadvantage in this game. Passers-by who hope that he will achieve something will feel that the top four are enough for him to be proud of.

Lu Ning has always been portrayed as a figure who gave up singles and used doubles to achieve honor for the country, and now this warrior who fought for the country finally rose to prominence in the singles competition, and the people naturally supported it strongly.

The voices of the people in the capital cheering for Lu Ning completely drowned out the few voices of the capital team cheering for Kong Zhendong.

In this kind of group encouragement, Lu Ning was very excited and entered the state very quickly.

Once you get excited, it's really scary!

In 04, Liu Chengmin, who was not optimistic before the game, became an Olympic champion by virtue of his quick entry into the role, and as soon as he was excited, he counterattacked.

The Japanese snowboard is very heavy, and the burden on the wrist is large, and once the athlete is excited, such as the arm makes the fingers, the discomfort of the wrist will be forgotten for a short time.

At the beginning of the game, Lu Ning, who was excited, scored three points in a row. Solemnly, Ye Ying and the others also saw the terrifying power of the forehand of the real Rizhi master.

The capital team as a whole is still stronger on the horizontal board, and Coach Hong, who is a traditional straight board, and his son Hong Lang, have not reached Lu Ning's terrifying and explosive forehand.

With Kong Zhendong's nimble footsteps, he was actually hit by Lu Ning several forehand chasing balls, which shows the horror of ball speed.

Kong Zhendong and Lu Ning, the sound of hitting the racket is completely different. The Hinao monocypress has a bonus effect that increases the ball speed of the forehand violent arc.

Kong Zhendong's forehand backhand and reverse belt in the last game, this ball is completely useless. This is all a dexterous ball, and it is impossible to prevent Lu Ning's violent arc.

After conceding a few goals in a row, Kong Zhendong began to counterattack!

How? Unswervingly rush to the stage and press the backhand.

The wonder of the table tennis world is that there is no free lunch in the world. The super elasticity of the Hinao cypress strengthens the explosive feeling of the forehand, but the elasticity is too strong, and the backhand push block cannot hold the ball at all.

Before the straight board horizontal hitting technique did not reach the top of the world, the mainstream backhand play of the straight board was only pushing. The basic skill of pushing and blocking determines the achievements of straight board players in the small-ball era.

Lu Ning has been practicing since he was a child and has been training in the national team for ten years, so it cannot be said that his basic skills are not solid. But he couldn't escape the limitations of equipment and play.

Hinao Hinoki is too explosive, no matter how good his basic skills are, the ball that pushes is forced to rise to the top and send the opponent to attack.

Therefore, in this game, Kong Zhendong's technology fully mobilized his backhand, and he had a prominent forehand fight against Lu Ning.

The national table tennis coaches who watched the game were completely dumbfounded, they had brought players for ten years, and they could only play according to their specialties, and the eleven-year-old boy opposite was actually playing all-round technology and scheduling control!

In this way, the two seemed to be evenly matched, and the score staggered up, and finally Lu Ning won the first game 21:17 by virtue of the advantage established in the opening stage.

Kong Zhendong lost the first game, but he was not discouraged, because in the second half of the first game, he had already begun to dominate.

He would like to thank the schedule of the Table Tennis Association Cup.

Because the Table Tennis Association Cup is a national competition, the schedule is not as dense as the regular competition, at most one match a day, and there are even days between them, Kong Zhendong has enough time to recover his physical fitness.

In the second game, playing the ball, Kong Zhendong and Lu Ning actually entered the competition of footsteps.

It is recognized in the world that in the international table tennis scene after the 90s, South Korea's Kim Chool-joo ranks first in agility.

His running made up for the loophole in the backhand position of the Japanese straight play.

Among Chinese players, the top masters are recognized as Kong Zhendong in the small ball era, and Ma Lin is the most perfect footwork in the big ball era.

11-year-old Kong Zhendong's footwork is not as dreamlike as it was at his peak, but now he has mastered the prototype of reasonable force.

In today's semi-finals, five or six coaches from the coaching staff of the national table tennis team came to watch the game, and two of them were discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the footwork of the two on the court.

These two people are the two names of national table tennis that will shine in the world in the future, Yin Xiao and Wu Jingping.

No matter how successful the two are in the future, they are now newcomers who are ignored.

With the collapse of the World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, the national table tennis coaching staff carried out a large-scale blood change.

Mi Xingbang had no one available, so he could only transfer Wu Jingping from the southern Sichuan provincial team to Beijing.

Wu Jingping only entered Beijing on August 1, and the first task assigned was to focus on the training of national player Lu Ning.

Before the two trained out of the system, Lu Ning began to participate in the Table Tennis Association Cup, and Wu Jingping inexplicably became the instructor.

Wu Jingping, who has been in Beijing for half a month, has a black eye, and Yin Xiao is not much better than him.

After Mi Xingbang became the master of national table tennis, he vigorously promoted the young players of the national youth. Yin Xiao, as the head coach of Liu Guobang, is an apprentice, and he was actually promoted together and became a member of the national team coaching staff.

However, as the coach of the national junior team who has just been promoted, Yin Xiao is not good at pointing fingers at other players, so he lives a hard life with only one apprentice Liu Guobang every day.

This time in the Table Tennis Association Cup, Mi Xingbang took the initiative to arrange Yin Xiao to watch the quarterfinals, and gave him a promise before the game, that is, let him pick an apprentice!

Yin Xiao and Wu Jingping, the new members of the coaching staff of the two national table tennis teams, naturally sat together. Wu Jingping used to be a straight board coach in the provincial team, so he had already selected Wang Fei, who was a straight board anti-glue, yesterday, and today is not only to pay attention to the battle situation of his disciple Lu Ning, but also to help Yin Xiao choose materials.

Not to mention, Yin Xiao's eyes lit up when he saw Kong Zhendong, fulfilling the common passages of martial arts novels, he felt that this kid was really talented, and his bones were strange!