Chapter 208: There Are No Balloons in the World
With a score of 6:4, he entered Kong Zhendong's service round.
Although it was only a two-point lead, in terms of the situation, he had just broken Appe Allen's serve.
The essence of the tactical play he uses in the face of Ape Allen now is still a rush word.
However, it is completely different from the first game and Ape Allen to seize the initiative, and the second round of receiving serve and directly grabbing the offensive timing.
She grabbed the batting point in the face of the high hanging arc in this game.
In the face of the high-hanging arc circle, Kong Zhendong started from the enlightenment coach, and some people kept telling him to return the ball in advance to hit the ball in advance, and control the forward hitting in the rising period when the table tennis has just hit the table.
In theory, this is indeed a good way to crack the high hanging arc circle.
So the method known to the world's enlightenment coaches, after teaching it to the players, it should be possible for anyone to crack the high hanging arc circle of Ape Allen.
So how did Ape Allen become the eight-time champion who swept Europe and became the totemic figure of an era of Swedish table tennis?
Because no one had time to hit the ball in the ascending stage of the Ape Aaron high hanging arc.
His erratic ball path, when the table tennis ball is about to hit the table, you judge the landing point, and aim at the timing of hitting the ball in the rising period, but if you start to make moves at this time, by the time you hit the ball on the stage, the ball has already begun to fall.
In the first two games, no matter the good times or bad, when he encountered the high hanging arc circle of Ape Allen, he tried to hold on to each other as many times as possible, even if he lost passively. His purpose is to fully comprehend the high hanging arc of Ape Allen and provide prediction for the rest of the game.
After dozens of two-sided high-hanging arc circles took turns to compete, what Kong Zhendong could do was to complete the preliminary judgment of the landing point after the opponent hit the ball and before the table tennis hit the table.
The passive beating of the two games is to predict a moment in advance now.
If it is an ordinary table tennis player, this moment of time is not enough to fully exert force and hit the ball forward during the rising period of the table tennis hitting table, but Kong Zhendong combined his continuous force without restoring his skills, starting from the previous beat, and directly and continuously exerting force for the next beat, so that it is completely timely in timing.
Therefore, in the subsequent alternate service rounds between Kong Zhendong and Ape Allen, Kong Zhendong did not do other scrambles, but made two predictions.
The first is to take the initiative to exert force, send the opponent to the timing of the high hanging arc circle, and predict that his next board is high hanging, so this board can not be restored, and directly prepare for the rapid development of the next board.
The second prediction is that after Ape Allen really hit the high hanging, after hitting the ball, according to the dozens of rounds of the previous two rounds of balls, look for similar power racket types and landing points, and do a good job of landing point prediction.
After completing the two predictions, Kong Zhendong can easily use the tactics of volleying forward to rise to crack the high hanging arc of Ape Allen.
Kong Zhendong called this tactic of grabbing the high hanging arc circle to meet the front volley point, and called it one grab and three hanging.
Suddenly used this tactic, in the ten balls that Kong Zhendong and Ape Allen alternately served, Kong Zhendong had the advantage, and the score became 12:8.
The duel between Kong Zhendong and Ape Allen entered the final half of the game, and the matchup between the Stockholm Wolverines and the Visby Elks also entered the final half of the game.
Before the start of this matchup, even the local reporters in Stockholm, no matter how high they looked at Kong Zhendong and praised Kong Zhendong, did not expect to force the Swedish golden apple and the football king Ape Allen into such a situation.
With each subsequent goal, accompanied by the sound of the camera card door, the cheers of the fans at the scene gradually increased.
After Bengeson's retirement, the Wolverines finally heard a deafening shout again at the Parwagen Arena.
In the past season or two, such glory and treatment have only belonged to Waldner of the Skiers, who share the home field.
In the last half of the game, Ape Allen's best face was stuck in the neck, and he could only be forced to change. As a generational champion, he certainly has other offensive means.
The other offenses were on par with Kong Zhendong's fight, but they couldn't narrow the difference.
After Kong Zhendong and Ape Allen alternated serve games, maybe it was a mockery of fate, or it was really an evenly matched fight of 8:7, plus the previous score, when Kong Zhendong ended the service round, the score came to 20:15.
In the second game, Ape Allen took the lead in serving, and after the last two alternated turns to fight and fight, they entered Kong Zhendong's last serve with a score of 20:15.
In this game, Kong Zhendong served five firsts, and the result was so coincidental, the score came to 20:15 again, and entered the last service round of Ape Allen.
The loyal fans of Appe Allen, the die-hard Elk fans who drove by from Visby to watch the game, they didn't give up, they were praying nervously.
They haven't seen many matches chasing five match points in a row, but it's definitely a lot.
In the world of table tennis, geniuses with super big hearts, absolute strength, and strong wills, in their careers, there are always a few such glorious battles.
Big heart, strength, will, and even luck, these ball kings are not lacking in Ape Allen, and he has the strength to chase five match points in a row.
Ape Allen calmly sent out the first ball, and Kong Zhendong fought three short balls in the table, suddenly bounced the bottom line, Kong Zhendong retreated from the table to return the ball, Ape Allen was determined, in the backward penalty kick dared to pull sideways, pulled two boards in a row, and recovered a point, 16:20.
Whoa!
This wonderful Jedi counterattack made the fans of Ape Allen and Visby Elks can't help but stand up and cheer passionately and applaud desperately.
Ape Allen is obviously still four match points behind, but the ball and atmosphere of the whole game are actually falling in his favor, which is probably the strength of the king.
Sith Pan frowned and asked Coach Bengerson: "Coach, should Zhendong still release the ball to Ape Allen in these last few balls, let him hang high in the arc and then shoot to death?" ”
Bengesen shook his head and said: "It's useless, Bengesen has realized that the high hanging arc has been cracked, unless he goes back and goes through hard training and changes the way of the ball." If Kong Zhendong sends him to the ball again, he would rather pull the forward arc circle, although his forward arc circle is only considered the second rate in Europe, but the continuous and stable attack is still very strong. Kong Zhendong's best response is to take the initiative to attack like the last ball of the second game of Ape Allen, anyway, he has four match points in his hand and grabs one or two mistakes, but as long as he wins one point. ”
Appe Allen serves again.
Sith Pan frowned and said: "Zhendong didn't rob it, he was still passively defending~ I'm dying!" ”
Kong Zhendong is indeed defending, and he is still working hard to guide the line.
However, Kong Zhendong's ball control line is not very difficult for Ape Allen's basic skills.
Ape Allen's forehand quickly pulled a straight line, and Kong Zhendong swiped his forehand and quickly pulled back to the middle of Ape Allen.
Seeing that Kong Zhendong was still standing in the middle of the forehand, Ape Allen immediately drew a big slash with his forehand, and the ball was very extreme, hoping that after hitting the table, the ball flew out from the side of the platform, and Kong Zhendong could not run from the middle to the side of the backhand to receive the ball laterally.
But this board went straight out of bounds from the side of the table!
At 21:16, Kong Zhendong won the game.
Balloons?
Sith Pan muttered: "Such a classic fight, Kong Zhendong actually won this game with a balloon in the end?" ”
Ben Gesen frowned and thought about the trend of the whole game, looking at the frustrated Ape Allen on the field and Kong Zhendong who clenched his fists and shouted, Ben Gesen suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Bengersen was surprised: "It's not a balloon. In the last game, Kong Zhendong's broken service round. Kong Zhendong took the initiative to hold only one point, and Ape Allen also had a forehand quick pump, which was out of bounds from this side platform, and we all thought it was a balloon at the time. At that time, Zhendong also showed a rare expression of joy. ”
Sith Pan nodded, "Yes, I remember this ball, the last few cricket balls of this ball just now had almost the same path as that ball. ”
Ben Gesen sighed: "It was in that ball that Kong Zhendong found out that it was not a balloon, but that when Ape Allen's forehand smashed the opponent's backhand side table in the middle, it would go out of bounds." He wrote down the flaw at the time, but he never used it. So in the last ball, Kong Zhendong did not defend completely passively, nor did he risk rushing to score. Rather, it is to send Ape Allen exactly the same way. Before today, Ape Allen himself didn't know that his left hand would go out of bounds if he kicked the opponent's backhand side on the forehand. He also thought that he had been unlucky. Now that there is a large-angle opportunity, he will definitely kill the board without hesitation. The result is out of bounds! ”
Sith. Pan was surprised: "In Zhendong's cognition, there is no balloon at all, and if Ape Allen's ball misses, there must be his technical loopholes and weaknesses in it." ”
With a dramatic out-of-bounds ball, Kong Zhendong won the game. Judging from his dominance in the first and third games, even Visby's die-hard fans and reporters can't say that Kong Zhendong relied on the final dribble to score.
The next day, Kong Zhendong was at the breakfast table at Sir Edward's house, and was almost slapped in the face by Sir Edward.
Sir Edward was shocked: "You defeated the Swedish golden boy yesterday, the eternal golden apple Apearen?"
Kong Zhendong nodded and said, "This is indeed the hardest game I have won in my life. ”
Sir Edward wondered: "Is it really like what the newspaper said, without any raids and Ape Allen's contempt, and the game won in three games and two wins?" ”
When Mrs. Edward saw her husband's helpless appearance of scratching his ears and cheeks, he smiled and said, "You were fine last night, why don't you go to watch this game?" Is it just for Bengerson's ridiculous oath? ”
Sir Edward looked at the newspaper preview of the follow-up race and said, "You're going to be a derby with the Skiers in two weeks." I'll take Victoria to watch this game, and if you win, our family will be Wolverines fans, home and away, and I'll drive to support them. ”
Kong Zhendong said with a smile: "I'm also looking forward to this showdown!" ”
Sir Edward looked at the newspaper and said: "By the way, the newspaper said that your Chinese companion Zhang Lei also performed well in the skiers team and stabilized the position of the main singles, then your opponent at that time will not only be Waldner." ”