During this break, the coaching staff and players of the People's Liberation Army were relatively silent, and no one could grasp what kind of routine Kong Zhendong used to grab the last two balls.

Wang Tao frowned and asked Liu Guobang: "Do you think his last two balls were controlled by luck?" Or does he really have the ability to control the ball in this way? ”

Liu Guobang thought for a while and said: "This kind of connection is often encountered when we usually practice multi-ball rush training, but we have all tried, and nine out of ten boards will be out of bounds." To say that Zhendong has mastered such strong ball control skills, I don't believe it. But I've been training with him for a year, so I know a lot about his personality, and he's not a character who doesn't catch the ball when he plays two in a row at key points. Judging by his personality, I think he can control this articulation. ”

Wang Tao was a little helpless. His backhand raw rubber fast play has been limited by the opponent, and the forehand pulling downspin ball is originally his only advantage, but the opponent has this kind of magic connection of downspin and topspin, and his disadvantage in the topspin confrontation will make his forehand advantage lost.

The forehand and backhand are suppressed, how can this ball be played?

In the third game, Wang Tao started with five goals.

The first thing he had to do was to verify whether Kong Zhendong had the ability to fully control the connection of rotation and topspin.

That's what all the celebrities and coaches on the sidelines want to know.

Well, here we go! Wang Taofa half-billiards with a forehand.

Kong Zhendong got started directly and pressed a long ball when the billiards pressed a long ball.

Wang Tao made the first effort and pulled a board to spin the ball.

Li Muhua and Coach Zheng were looking at Kong Zhendong.

Mi Xingbang and Zhang Xilin were looking at Kong Zhendong.

Li Xiaodong and Ye Ying were also looking at Kong Zhendong.

Kong Zhendong lowered his center of gravity and lifted the downspin ball.

Wang Tao chose to rub the long ball.

Kong Zhendong jumped half a step with his left and right feet, changed the longitudinal force to a horizontal spin waist, and rushed forward with a forehand to spin the ball.

The arc that could hardly be suppressed, but it successfully hit the far platform.

Wang Tao was prepared and chased the ball, but the arc of the return ball was too high and went directly out of bounds.

Hit it again?

It certainly can't be a bet on luck to control the landing point.

But how?

Mi Xingbang and Zhang Xilin were frowning and thinking.

Li Xiaodong, the master of power, tried to recall the entire process of Kong Zhendong's power just now in his mind, and said with a flash of inspiration: "I understand!" ”

"We were all lied to, he didn't control the landing point by the shooting type. He relied on pace. We neglected our usual multi-ball pull ball training. Downspin is connected to topspin, in addition to the change of upper body power, more important is the continuous small jump of his left and right feet. People ignore his fantastic footsteps and only study the shape of his shots, and they will never be able to study his control methods. ”

While Li Xiaodong explained, Mi Xingbang and Zhang Xilin also noticed that Kong Zhendong's left and right feet jumped back half a step before the topspin was the key to controlling the landing point.

Zhang Xilin sighed: "This kid is really not simple, when I see this ball, I feel like I am going to be swept into the pile of old papers." Xingbang, remember when you and Guo Yuehua played, we just understood the mystery of curveball from the Japanese. Chinese table tennis players are generally short in height, low in center of gravity, and lack of strength. In comparison, it requires absolute power and a topspin ball that opens and closes. We have changed weirdly, with small power movements and low center of gravity, and the downspin ball has beaten the Europeans for more than ten years. ”

Mi Xingbang said: "Director Zhang is talking about my young days! The advantage of us Chinese is the spinning ball with changeable spin. However, the speed of the downspin ball is slow, the arc is flat, and the lethality is insufficient. Over the years, the Europeans' topspin confrontation has become stronger and stronger, and the topspin ball, from the physical definition of spin, has determined that it is definitely faster, more arched, and more pressing offensive play. With the development of table tennis technology, table tennis may become a holding sport in the future in which the ball is directly twisted up, and then the two sides pull the topspin ball together. ”

Yin Xiao frowned and said: "But the advantage of our Chinese athletes is the downspin ball, and we have strengthened the training of the topspin ball in recent years." But I'm afraid that the real topspin master has to start with the doll! ”

Mi Xingbang nodded and said, "That's true!" This just proves the value of Kong Zhendong's style of play. I'm afraid it will take about seven or eight years for our upspin generation to grow up, what should we do at this stage? What about so many of our underspin masters? The ability to spin down and spin up is key. If you do this connection and change well, you will be able to preemptively change when you have an advantage in the underspin, and you will be caught off guard by the European players! ”

At the beginning of the third game, Wang Tao was at a disadvantage.

His versatility is not nonsense. Although the downspin ball is not as aggressive as the topspin ball, it is characterized by a changeable arc, a fluctuating landing point, and not easy to take off.

Kong Zhendong used roundabout tactics to crack it. I don't get the ball, I still pull back the spin. When you rub it up, I'll suddenly spin it up.

Since Wang Tao's backhand raw rubber was restricted, Kong Zhendong has the advantage of hitting Wang Tao's forehand on both sides.

Because of Wang Tao's fast-attacking style of play, he can't retreat from the stage with a long ball. Kong Zhendong took a combination of long and short to play Wang Tao, who could only play short balls.

Now in the third ball, Kong Zhendong even used the connection of downspin and topspin to hit Wang Tao's single downspin ball.

To say that today's Kong Zhendong's overall strength is better than that of the national player Wang Tao? I'm afraid no one agrees.

But in this game, he suppressed Wang Tao from the line to the spin, so he won the third game perfectly at 21:15 and made a good start for the capital team.

Because it was only the first victory in the best-of-five system, Kong Zhendong and the coaching staff couldn't celebrate.

However, defeating Wang Tao, who has risen very strongly in the national team, and suppressing him with novel techniques and playing styles in both the forehand and backhand, the gold content of this victory is too high, and it also greatly improves Kong Zhendong's positioning in the minds of Mi Xingbang and Zhang Xilin.

After a short break, the second game between the capital team and the People's Liberation Army began, and the arrangements of both sides seemed to be surprising.

The four members of the capital team, except for Kong Zhendong, who won all the way and sat firmly in the first singles, Zhang Lei 4-5, Chen Zhibing 2-4, Xiong Ke 1-3, and their performance was not outstanding.

Considering that it was the most important final after all, Li Muhua finally sent Chen Zhibing and Zhang Lei, who had the most experience in the competition. Let Chen Zhibing play the second singles.

Of the four members of the People's Liberation Army, Wang Tao and Liu Guobang were the absolute main forces in the past, and the other two players took turns to play the third singles.

In addition, Wang Tao and Liu Guobang have a high winning rate in the past, and the other two players do not have many opportunities to play, and Ling Zhi has a higher winning rate relatively speaking.

It may be that Liu Guobang lost to Ma Wenhua in the semifinals, or the People's Liberation Army deliberately stood out, they chose to let Ling Zhi play the second singles, and Liu Guobang beat Zhang Lei in the third singles.