Chapter 025: Two Kills
Kong Zhendong's serve round, scored two points in a row, Director Sun's heart rose to his throat, and the next serve was the real test.
The straight-board fast-break style led by China has been able to suppress Europe for more than ten years, relying on the rotation of the straight-board serve.
There is no solution to this service advantage, and in the end, the ITTF can only narrow this gap with a series of equipment and rule reforms.
In 90, the straight board serve, especially the long rubber serve used by Jiang Nanguo, spun and rushed, and the advantage was obvious.
Jiang Nanguo lost two points in a row, tried to stabilize his emotions, and almost sent out a magic ball.
In official competitions, there are often less than ten magic balls a year.
The so-called magic ball is mostly a variety of weird lines, inexplicably rubbing edges. This kind of ball is usually played by amateur players, and it is often encountered. But the first priority of a professional player is to control the opponent and control the line of the ball.
Therefore, professional players are quite cautious and pursue accuracy in their shots. The so-called magic balls are often out of the control of the batsman himself.
Jiang Nanguo's divine ball was that he twisted his wrist to the limit, bent almost 270 degrees inward, and then rotated his wrist outward to serve.
Such an extreme rotational force, coupled with the protruding particles of the long glue, pierces the high-speed friction table tennis ball.
Director Sun was shocked when he heard the sound of the table tennis ball rubbing!
The more fully the table tennis ball rubs against the board, the more the ball will spin.
Jiang Nanguo's ball not only turns, but also floats!
After the table tennis ball spun and hit Kong Zhendong's table, it did not continue to rush forward, but fell horizontally from the horizontal direction to the outside of the table.
And this outward direction is the outside of Kong Zhendong's backhand.
Balls in this weird route tend to score directly and are particularly morale-boosting.
Kong Zhendong jumped up with a lunge with his left hand, and kicked out with his right leg diagonally back.
The whole body came to the stage again, and he stretched his body to the limit, almost in a basketball posture of riding a horse and shooting an arrow to the basket.
It's just that the leap of the layup becomes a forward rush, and the basketball that is lifted upwards also becomes a racket that is swung forward.
The tenths of the shoulder of the racket hit the ball steadily.
Kong Zhendong made a soft lead shot on his wrist, the amplitude was very small, only slightly unloaded the spin of the ball, and then the diagonal force hit the ball to the outside of Jiang Nanguo's backhand.
It's exactly the same divine ball route, but the speed is faster than Jiang Nanguo.
Of course, Jiang Nanguo does not have Kong Zhendong's power skills, nor does he have his natural soft backhand ball sense, which is beyond the reach of this ball.
Everyone looked at Kong Zhendong with the eyes of a monster, and when ordinary people encountered Jiang Nanguo's strange line of the magic ball, they would give up receiving the ball and congratulate the opponent.
Kong Zhendong played the same line on the serve, and the speed was faster, scoring and slapping his face, and he was done in one shot!
Even the teammates of the South Korean junior team can only applaud the good ball with a cold face.
Ye Xiaoya and the sports school students were so happy for this ball, but Kong Zhendong looked calm.
This ball is too ordinary!
Jiang Nanguo's ball is very spinning, but the speed is not fast, and it is a few grades behind Liu Guofat!
I am used to picking up Liu Guopang's high-speed rotation, such a pediatrician, of course, I was sent back to slap my face the same way!
Although the scene was only 3:0, Director Sun had completely put his mind at ease.
This ball, steady!
Ordinary people always have the stereotype that athletes have well-developed limbs and simple minds. But table tennis players are definitely sports that require higher requirements for thinking, reaction, and body movements.
When coaches guide the players on the field, they often don't say what actions should be used to hit the ball, and often emphasize that the opponent should play with his brains and can't be confused! Be clear about tactics.
You will also find that in important games, the coach shouts a timeout for the weak side, and does not teach specific tactics, but lets the opponent find a way!
If the coach evaluates a player, the game is not brainless! This is definitely a hundred times more serious than not playing seriously, not attacking actively, not defending well, and so on.
Director Sun judged that Kong Zhendong's steady win was not from the analysis of ball skills and playing style, but from Kong Zhendong's tactics. Kong Zhendong obviously played with his brains, accurately predicting the opponent's ball path with each ball, and eating the opponent to death.
The next few balls seemed to be a reciprocating cycle of the first three balls, and every time Jiang Nanguo returned the ball, he was slapped in the face by a more subtle return.
Of course, Kong Zhendong's body is only ten years old after all, and his height is not enough, so he still lost a few when he encountered a ball from a distance.
In the end, Kong Zhendong 21:5, bloodbathed Jiang Nanguo.
As Jiang Nanguo left the game with a gloomy face, the big score became 4:1.
It stands to reason that both sides should send newcomers to face off. However, the South Korean side cautiously ranked the No. 2 man, Seo Won-ho.
This is Xu Yuanhao's second game, so Kong Zhendong has nothing to say about the second Korean side.
Coach Wu of Shichahai Sports School proposed to let Kong Zhendong rest for a while, and the Korean coaching staff immediately proposed: Since you want to rest, then send a new person!
The communication was fruitless, and Kong Zhendong could only continue to play the second game without resting.
Kong Zhendong won the first game too beautifully, as a horizontal board player, every ball was actually won in the first five boards of the straight board long rubber player.
What's even more terrifying is that the number of rounds per ball is too small, and the Korean coaching staff has not seen any flaws in Kong Zhendong.
In the second game against Xu Yuanhao, Kong Zhendong was in trouble.
Xu Yuanhao is actually a chipper with a very deep foundation!
Chipping used to be the long-term mainstream and dominant style of play since the birth of table tennis, until the rise of curveball and China's fast attack.
However, with the continuous improvement of arc circle technology and fast attack technology, chipping has become an increasingly marginal style of play technology.
However, in the era of collective table tennis, where the team competition is greater than everything else, in order to ensure the diversity of the team's playing style and the formation of troops to defeat the enemy, each country will focus on cultivating a chipper among the team members in each period.
For example, Lu Yuansheng in China's early years, and Jin Song, who will bring China's chipping legs to the top in the future. On the Korean Peninsula, there is Lee Geun-sang of the Northern Dynasty and Zhu Xianhe of South Korea.
Even in the era of the complete decline of chipping in the 21st century, the Chinese women's team still cultivated a peak chipping female player like Wu Yang.
Seo Won-ho is obviously the chipper that the South Korean junior team focuses on cultivating.
In the 21st century, there is a most suitable metaphor for the chipping style of play: the undead Xiaoqiang!
Xu Yuanhao was not ready to win Kong Zhendong from the beginning of the game. His chipping defense is stronger than a turtle shell, and Kong Zhendong has to win every ball, at least a dozen boards.
In the table tennis duel, pumping the ball is definitely the most wasteful physical strength, while chipping the ball is the most physical energy.
In his previous life, Kong Zhendong had never had physical problems with the duel chipping, but today, he is just a ten-year-old child.
The score is leading, but every point is getting more and more difficult.
Coach Li of the South Korean team suddenly had a bright eye, and asked Park Ji-won, the first brother of the South Korean junior team next to him, with a smile: "Ji-won, what do you think is the most convenient way to deal with chipping?" ”
Park Ji-won said: "The best way is to combine punching and hanging, but the quality of the return ball is extremely high. The most convenient way is, of course, to retreat and jerk! ”
Coach Li smiled: "Do you think the teenager opposite Yuanhao will not know?" ”
Park Ji-won also smiled: "Yes, he didn't retreat, it turns out that he was afraid that he would withdraw from the stage and expose his weaknesses!" ”
When Park Ji-won discovered the weakness, Kong Zhendong won the game with difficulty 21:13.