Kong Zhendong knew what he really meant when he said that his backhand shot was outdated.

With the advent of the era of curve balls and topspin balls, the backhand technique of the horizontal board is more and more in pursuit of rotation and change.

The reason why Cui Jin's backhand arc circle is so admired as a genius is because such a backhand development technique is an advanced direction.

In the 21st century, the backhand technology has developed a straight board horizontal play, Zico's overlord twisting and fast tearing, and the all-round play style of the champion dragon has comprehensively upgraded the technical ability of Kong Zhendong's small ball era, almost forming a large integration of backhand offensive and defensive techniques similar to the front glove road.

The development of backhand technology is going in a more complex and more rotational direction.

But at this time, Kong Zhendong actually went against the trend of the times and let Zheng Zheng practice his backhand bounce and fast dial to the extreme.

This is a relatively crude technique that emphasizes speed and power in the 70s, completely abandoning rotation and change.

Kong Zhendong said: "There are several prerequisites for this technique, first of all, your partner must be strong enough to control the ball to ensure that your opponent returns the ball in your comfortable backhand position, and secondly, what you have been practicing is the Czech fast arc play, and the backhand bounce and fast dial are your auxiliary means, I just ask for this piece to be infinitely enlarged." The third point is that after you hit your backhand quickly, your next partner must have a stable grasp of the score! ”

This set of tactics is indeed a tailor-made choice for Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zhong at this stage.

Zheng Zheng was puzzled: "Zhendong, you have such a good tactical play, why didn't you let me practice at the beginning?" ”

Kong Zhendong said seriously: "Ah Chong, you have to think clearly about whether you use this set of tactics, this set of tactics is formulated for the two of us, and it also restricts the growth and play of your personal strength." ”

Kong Zhendong's meaning is very clear, this set of tactics is actually realized because of Kong Zhendong, if he solemnly changes to other doubles partners in the future, his partner does not have Kong Zhendong's strong ball control ability, and his backhand bounce is useless at all.

Nodding solemnly, he asked, "This style of play should be more than doubles, if we make it to the upper group, this unexpected backhand should be able to get me a good result!" ”

Kong Zhendong said: "Ah Chong, there is no free lunch in the world. I didn't instruct you to use this set of tactics before is to hope that you will improve step by step, once your backhand technique is positioned as a bounce and fast dial, for a time in the capital youth team is leading, but it limits your future ceiling, if your backhand does not have a more systematic and advanced style of play, in the future, even the main position of the capital team can not be reached, I am afraid that it will be a regular visitor to the provincial game and even the municipal competition! ”

Amateur fans often face off against each other with the feeling that one killer move is better than passing all aspects of technology.

However, if you want to survive in the professional table tennis world, you must cultivate a more lethal killer after you have excellent skills in all aspects.

At this time, Zheng Zheng's technical ability in all aspects is very mediocre, if he specializes in backhand bounce and fast dial to the limit, it will be a sudden killer, and there are more wins and fewer losses among his peers. However, once Zheng Zheng wants to strive for higher goals in the future, he will find that his backhand skills are too thin to go long on the road of professional football.

Although Zheng Zheng was a somewhat shy teenager, he was quite open-minded in his heart, he hammered Kong Zhendong's chest with his fist, and said with a smile: "What do you want?" I'm not going to be the main player of the national team to win the world championship! Without this technology, I would probably be eliminated in more than half a month and say goodbye to table tennis forever. Compared with being eliminated immediately, even if I am only a provincial and municipal athlete in the future, I am willing to give it a go! ”

After the two discussed properly, in the next ten days, Zhou An, Wang Yi and others met a pair of wonderful training combinations.

Wang Yi asked Zhou An curiously: "Anzi, aren't Ah Chong and Zhendong so self-defeating?" It's been a few days, how can I keep watching them practice backhand bounces and pushes, even if they have to practice basic skills diligently, they can score points! It's time to practice some coordination tactics! ”

On another table at this time, Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng were still repeating the contact for more than ten days. Kong Zhendong gave up his control skills and specialized in using fast pushes to feed the solemn backhand position with a variety of power and spin.

All you have to do is to bounce the ball back at a faster speed with a powerful bounce and a quick dial.

There is no need to pay attention to the threat and spin, Kong Zhendong's only requirement is to be fast, faster than instinct, faster than the opponent's reaction.

As long as the opponent does not react in time and returns the ball in a hurry, Kong Zhendong is sure to make the final decision.

In the last week of training before the knockout tournament every year, in order to show fairness, the coaching staff does not coach the athletes individually, but adjusts the intensity and method of training on their own.

On January 27, the list of 40 junior members of the Capital Team was announced.

The first round of the selection tournament is divided into five groups, each with four doubles pairs, for a single round-robin match.

Before the announcement of the group list, Song Kun had already looked at Zheng Zheng and Kong Zhendong with a sneer, the list was announced, and Kong Zhendong also understood the crude oil he sneered at.

Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zhong are in the second group, and Song Kun and his partner He Guang are the strongest pair in the second group.

The combination of Sun Huan and Zhang Yi in the same group, Hu Donglin and Liao Gang are also two pairs of players in the middle of the stream, and their strength is stronger than the Zhou An and Wang Yi combination of Kong Zhendong and the two practicing together.

It is only an intra-team selection match, of course, it is impossible to conduct a complex draw, and the coaching staff also ensures that each group has a pair of strong players, two pairs of mid-stream, and one pair of poor players according to the performance of the players on weekdays, so as to make the distribution of players in each group more fair.

Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng are obviously the second group of bottom existences in the eyes of the coaching staff.

At eight o'clock in the morning on January 29, the first round of the knockout round of the men's junior team of the capital team officially started.

The selection of young seedlings is the top priority of Chinese table tennis, so the head coach of the official team, Li Muhua, led all the members of the coaching staff, all the official players and the women's team members to watch the game.

The training hall of the junior team today folded up the extra table tennis tables, dividing the gymnasium into ten areas, each area connected to each other, so that the coaches of the official team could watch the games back and forth.

Five groups, ten games started at the same time.

In the first round of the second group, Kong Zhendong solemnly faced Sun Huan and Zhang Yi's combination, and Song Kun and He Guang's combination played against Hu Donglin and Liao Gang's combination.

The game adopts a 21-point system for one game and a best-of-three system.

Kong Zhendong was about to serve on the first board, and he whispered to Zheng Zheng: "How is it?" Nervous? ”

Said solemnly: "After practicing for more than 20 days, I don't know if I will forget it all during the competition." ”

Kong Zhendong said: "Don't worry, let's play according to the regular rhythm and slowly bring out the rhythm of the bullet!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Kong Zhendong threw the ball with his left hand, and spun his right hand backhand, sending out a fast short ball.