Chapter 071: Pass the Level!
Kong Zhendong does not look down on Xu Bo because he is an athlete from the city sports school. Athletes like Xu Bo have good talent and can often win without systematic training.
Because his ball path is not as routine as systematic training, or in the words of the commentator, not so reasonable.
It is precisely because of the irrational handling of the ball that it will be surprisingly successful.
Xu Bo, like Kong Zhendong, is a right-handed horizontal boarder, but he is actually a fighting style in Taiwan.
Kong Zhendong played very passively in the opening few balls.
Gong Xiaobo of the small communiqué smiled: "Have you seen it, no!" In the face of the city-level team members, it can be seen that his strength is also the level of bullying amateur players. ”
There has been a joke in the table tennis world, which says that Ma Wenhua, the first person in the national team, once went to Tianjin to promote table tennis, but was easily defeated by an amateur player in Tianjin.
Most Chinese people talk about this joke with relish, thinking that it shows that the national football masters are among the people, and many masters hide the dragon and crouching tiger, and they can beat the national team when they go out of the mountain casually.
Actually, this is a misconception.
The reason why Ma Wenhua lost is because the world's top five masters always lose to the top hundreds of players inexplicably. It's just that I'm not familiar with the strange and weird way of playing.
The more grassroots athletes who have not been trained by the coaching system and rely on their own thinking, the more strange the style of the ball is.
After adapting to the half-game, Kong Zhendong fell behind 6:11, and he knew he had to change his style of play.
Against such an opponent, it is useless to play possession. The essence of possession is that your own arc and landing point force the opponent to return the ball only how to return. But amateurs can ignore the rules, don't go back that way, how can you control it?
Kong Zhendong finally chose to play fast with his opponent.
By deliberately speeding up the pace of the duel, Xu Bo should feel like an amateur drag racing master participating in F1.
Ordinary mature athletes, in the face of low-level athletes who beat their masters to death with indiscriminate punches, often seek stability, afraid that the opponent will play momentum, and deliberately slow down the rhythm.
It's like giving an amateur drag racer some rules that force him to run only 80 kilometers per hour. This restriction works most of the time, but once the amateur player goes crazy and breaks through the limit, you have to drink the bitter fruit of an upset loss.
Kong Zhendong did the opposite, because he believed that a drag racer likes to race at 200 kilometers per hour, but humans have an innate speed adaptation limit. People who have not been trained can't adapt to F1 at 300 kilometers per hour, and talented drag racers are also in vain.
Kong Zhendong's tactics are the same, in a three-second round of confrontation, you can have no rules to upset. What if I speed up to two seconds a round? What about speeding up to three seconds and two rounds?
Kong Zhendong's table tennis awareness, coupled with the duel experience in his previous life, coupled with the basic training in this life, has doubled the pace of the duel, and compared with the previous World Championships, there is still a slight gap.
It's a pity that for Xu Bo, he just can't adapt to all kinds of ball return mistakes.
Kong Zhendong won the first game 21:13.
In the second game, Gong Xiaobo and others felt as uncomfortable as eating flies.
Because Xu Bo, who was slamming and rushing in the first game, couldn't help it, he became a person who wanted to return to the routine and slow down the rhythm.
It's a pity that except for the world's top masters, no one dares to play rhythm control with Kong Zhendong, Xu Bo's basic skills are limited, and he lost the second game without temper.
Xu Bo still lost after all, losing in the arena where he was eager to change his fate.
However, he was also fortunate that more media reporters paid attention to this game, including reporters from Henan Provincial Daily. The manuscripts they sent back also made a big mention to the contestants in this province. The door to the provincial team has been opened for him.
What's more, Kong Zhendong's fast duel rhythm also made him see his future, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
There is no time to care about Xu Bo's fate, because Kong Zhendong finally entered the top 1,000 main competition.
In any other sport, the top 1,000 in the country are very low.
In table tennis, this is already a place on the world stage.
Although the Chinese men's team is now collectively absent on the world's highest stage, the thickness of Chinese table tennis determines that these thousand masters, at least the top 2,000 in the world.
The average score is a small country, and it is also in the top 10.
Among the top 1,000 athletes, except for more than 20 people who have won the top eight places in national competitions such as Cheng Longcan, everyone, including the main teams of the provincial teams, has to start from the first round of the main competition.
Kong Zhendong, as the youngest player to enter the main game, although there is no TV interview, the attention of the print media is still increasing.
The first opponent Kong Zhendong encountered in the main match was Wen Jinlai, the main player of Northern Jiangsu Province.
Wen is a relatively rare surname, and Wen Jinlai's technical style of play is also unique in Northern Jiangsu Province, with a left-handed straight board and two-sided attacking style.
The most mainstream of China's straight board fast attack is the right-handed straight board, the left push and the right attack style of play, the newly retired national team head coach Xi Muen, and the strongest Cheng Longcan in this competition are the inheritors of this style of play.
The left hand will be weird, and there are many right-handed players who are restrained by attacking and pushing right on the left, but Wen Jinlai extends the backhand push to attack with force.
Gong Xiaobo and Wang Xiaolei, who have been slapped in the face twice, are getting high again. Gong Xiaobo said with a smile: "This little broken child must have very little experience in duels. This kind of strange play, even if he has seen it once or twice, he must not have studied a targeted play, and this time he must have been beaten! ”
Does Kong Zhendong lack the experience to play against such a strange style of play?
There is no shortage of nature. What do two-sided players do best at restraining their opponents? It is to change the passive defense of the backhand to the offense.
Wen Jinlai is also ready to use his backhand attack to kill Kong Zhendong, who has become famous in the past few days.
It's a pity that Kong Zhendong has only lost to violent forehand athletes, and he fights with me for backhand attack? Thank you for your success!
For other famous players, he would have a headache with his left hand to attack the opponent on both sides, and he was still abused by Kong Zhendong's 2:0 effort.
There are also sports reporters from the 'Central Eight Congresses' who came to watch the game today, they originally wanted to send some articles to encourage teenagers and spread positive energy, but they witnessed Kong Zhendong's full suppression of Wen Jinlai!
The entire paper media circle has completely exploded!
Although the 'Central Eight Societies' only gave an article about Kong Zhendong's promotion, the Chinese people who believe in miracles and desire miracles have paid unprecedented attention to the Table Tennis Association Cup, and they want to witness how far this magical boy can go.
This kind of attention was not expected by the Organizing Committee of the Table Tennis Association Cup, and they were happy to see the more and more local newspaper reporters pouring in.
Kong Zhendong ushered in the second main match in the eyes of the public, facing off against Huo Dong, a Lingnan straight board.
Lingnan straight board? Kong Zhendong's eyes froze, after the reform of European playing style has been gradually implemented in the north, Lingnan has become a promoter of the traditional straight board, this ball is not easy to play!