Chapter 260: Rush to the Champion!
Kong Zhendong's instant return rush disrupted Linde's position, although relying on basic skills, he barely brought the ball back, but Kong Zhendong then two boards were gradually strengthened backhand fast rebound, and directly won the most critical return point.
At 21:20, it was Kong Zhendong's serve, and Linde was forced to the edge of the cliff.
Kong Zhendong was short, and then he put it violently, and the table tennis ball ran out quickly, running the ball in the middle.
Linde hesitated slightly, and in this point of life and death, he still chose to push the ball back with a steady detention.
Kong Zhendong quickly came to power, smashed, and entered a rapid continuous attack.
Bengerson didn't expect it, Victoria and Madeleine didn't expect it, and Linde didn't expect it either.
Kong Zhendong holds the game point, which is also the match point, and at the same time grasps the initiative of serving and attacking, and the decent attack will also have an advantage, in this case, who would have thought that he would still be crazy to rush?
Linde couldn't think of it, and he was doomed.
After Kong Zhendong drew a slash with his forehand, Linde reluctantly returned the ball, and Kong Zhendong violently pulled a straight line.
Lind ran to get the backhand ball back, but it was off the table.
At 22:20, Kong Zhendong scored two life-and-death goals in a row and defeated Linde 2:0.
The Wolverines also got their wish and took the victory from the home of the Holes Elves with a score of 3:2.
Although Linde lost, his hometown parents still stood up and applauded him collectively, giving him the most respect and blessings.
Looking at the more than 1,000 hometown fans, looking at the same love and innocence from seven-year-old children to seventy-year-old seniors, Linde suddenly felt that the haze in his heart was dispelled by these loves, and with these lovely fans who have been guarding, the difficulties of the elf team will definitely pass.
Kong Zhendong, who won the game, hugged Linde, and at the same time whispered thanks to Mrs. Linde for her hospitality, and praised the loveliness of Quarinde's children.
Linde smiled and invited Kong Zhendong to spend some time in his farm estate in Korf to experience the beautiful scenery of the mountains of northern Sweden.
After nodding in agreement, Kong Zhendong turned around and waved to the area where the Wolverines fans were located, along with Sith Pan and other teammates, who rushed from bustling Stockholm to this inaccessible mountain town to support Kong Zhendong and fight to the end, Kong Zhendong is deeply grateful to these true fans.
In the fan lineup of the Wolverine, I don't know who took the lead, and the fans began to shout: "Wolverine, champion!" Wolverine, champions! ”
At first, it was just the shouts of a few fans, and the voices were uneven.
But gradually, the voices continued to grow louder and neater, and even Victoria and Madeleine followed the Wolverine fans around them to shout: "Wolverine, champion!" Wolverine, champions! ”
This shout first became a chorus of slogans from all the away fans of the Wolverine, and this majestic momentum quickly attracted the attention of the Elves home fans.
After figuring out the situation, more than 1,000 home fans of the Golf Elf, young and old, also joined in the chorus.
The Wolverines are really above them in this game, and if it is only a loss to the league champions, then this defeat becomes acceptable.
Linde and Kerber watched the crowd cheer on the Wolverines for this year's league title.
At first, Linde and Kerber felt that it was nothing more than the ardent desire and kind encouragement of the fans.
The Elves are only five or six in the league, and beating them doesn't mean winning the championship.
To win the championship, it has to be Waldner's skiers, Persson's Gothenburg Tibetan Mastiffs, or the teams of the Ape Allen or Karlsson brothers, not to mention the fact that this year's South Korean star Liu Namkui joined the Malmo Crows, making this traditional underdog team eligible to compete for the league title.
Thinking of this, Linde and Kerber were shocked.
Just now, these championship favorites, except for the Malmo Ravens, who easily defeated the Wolverines in the first four rounds of the time when Kong Zhendong had not joined the Wolverine, all the other favorite championship teams were defeated in the first round of the meeting after Kong Zhendong joined the Wolverine.
Despite the two-legged league format, a win or defeat doesn't mean anything. But after Kong Zhendong joined the Wolverine team, the Wolverine team maintained a complete victory, and this momentum and hitting the championship are really not empty words.
Seeing that the fans of the Elf Elf team are cheering for themselves to compete for the championship, Kong Zhendong and Sith Pan both feel that this love is both an expectation and a responsibility.
And for these team members who carry responsibilities, it means putting in more effort and sweat.
After the clash with the Korf Elves, the Wolverines ended all 15 matches in the first leg of the Table Tennis Super League.
At the end of January, the Wolverines ushered in a rare holiday, and this year, the media that paid special attention to the Table Tennis Super League began to summarize the league halfway.
In the halfway summary, many media left the position of the strong ink to the Stockholm Wolverine.
The Wolverines only scored four points in the first four rounds of the league, and in the eleventh rounds after Kong Zhendong joined, they won all of them, including six rounds, and all three points.
After halfway point, the Wolverines grabbed the third place in the league with 32 points. The Malmo Crows, who have South Korean king Liu Nankui and Eastern European giant Gruba, were squeezed into fourth place with 31 points.
Ahead of the Wolverines is Waldner's Skiers, who have been fighting for the league title for the past three years, with 35 points and top the table. The Gothenburg Tibetan Mastiffs, where Persson is sitting, are in second place with 34 points.
A number of media predicted that according to the law of previous years, in the first round of fifteen rounds, teams with more than 30 points will eventually have a chance to compete for the league championship.
Among them, the Wolverine team was played in the absence of Kong Zhendong in the first four rounds, and the points will increase a lot in the corresponding four games in the second half, so the media generally believes that the Wolverine team has a greater impact on the top two.
Of course, there are also a small number of media outlets that contradict the mainstream media.
This is mainly focused on a few Korean-American media outlets.
Because South Koreans settled in Sweden and immigrated no less than Chinese, some of them also had the flexibility to run their own media that Koreans loved.
South Korean football king Liu Nankui, staring at the Olympic champion, Asian Games champion and other halos airborne in the Swedish League, last year's momentum was much greater than this year's Kong Zhendong and Zhang Lei.
Before Kong Zhendong's strong rise this year, Liu Nankui was indeed one of the best Asian players in Europe.
Although Liu Nankui also has a high winning rate in the Crows team this year, and the Crows team is also ranked in the top four, compared to Kong Zhendong, who won all the way and defeated everyone except Waldner among the five Swedish tigers.
This momentum directly overshadowed the South Korean king Liu Nankui. Naturally, the South Korean media refused to let it go.
They described Kong's performance as similar to what the basketball rookie wall had before it. Table tennis does have some players with characteristic playing styles, who suddenly rose in a world series and were invincible.
But once the style of play is familiar to everyone, gradually get used to it, and target. This sudden rise to prominence will also fall into the clouds, and everyone will not be able to see it.
The Korean media attributed Kong Zhendong's winning streak to a new young player, and the famous player was not suitable for the opponent. In the second round, these experienced Swedish champions will definitely teach Kong Zhendong a hard lesson.
Therefore, the Wolverine team will not only not have greater potential in the second half of the season, but will also have a serious decline in performance because Kong Zhendong was thoroughly studied and targeted.
In the midst of media disturbances, the time has entered February, and the table tennis Super League has entered the second leg of the competition, and the competition density has increased.
In February, the Wolverines played four league games and played the second leg of two Champions League group stage matches.
In the four league meetings, the only team that can be considered a threat is Pete Karlsson's strong team. This showdown is also recognized by the outside world as a key game to test whether Kong Zhendong's strong rise or a flash in the pan is a key game.
In this round of the game, Kong Zhendong not only easily defeated the Karlsson brothers again, but also brought Sith Pan and the third singles Vasri to improve a lot.
The Wolverines not only won all four rounds of the league with 11 points, but also had a thrill in the Champions League group stage.
In the first leg, the Wolverines have already won 3-2 at home against Lokomotiv London.
This time, it moved to London, England for the second round of the fight. Kalinic, who successfully renewed his contract with Lokomotiv, put in a heroic performance to defeat Sith Pan.
Although Kong Zhendong still won Schulbeck and Kalinitz steadily, the Wolverines were able to win narrowly thanks to the third singles Vasri after sending multiple rounds of heads, and began to grow, winning the third game away this time, giving Kong Zhendong the chance to lock the victory in the final tiebreaker.
The clash with the youth team of Prague, Czech Republic, the other opponent in the group, will be played at home in Stockholm. The Czech duo Pansky and Orlovsky have played well, but Kong Zhendong has been training in the past few months, and his immunity to the Czech fast arc has been greatly improved, and there is no danger in winning the two games.
In the end, the Wolverines won all four games and entered the round of 16 of the Champions League as the group leader, and the opponents will be announced in early March.
Double-line operations, six rounds of competitions a month, and Kong Zhendong has also played two games many times, which is completely different from domestic training based on practice, focusing on one or two foreign battles a year in a domestic table tennis championship.
For Kong Zhendong, on the contrary, he feels that his physical fitness is enough to practice basic skills and basic qualities such as strength and speed, and training by competition is the best way to make his body highly integrated with table tennis awareness, competition experience, and tactical combinations.
At the end of February, Kong Zhendong had two short meetings with Coach Zheng at Coach Bengeson.
The purpose of Coach Bengerson's short meeting was to emphasise the need for the team to maintain the winning streak in February, which will lead to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in March, with four league meetings including a city-to-town derby against the Stockholm Skiers.
Because Sith Pan has now become a well-known newcomer in the league, Bengersen can no longer use the strategy of Tian Ji horse racing, which also means that Kong Zhendong will have to harden Waldner and Zhang Lei.
Coach Zheng's phone call told him that there will be a group of special spectators coming to watch this city derby!