Chapter 33: The Destined Opponent 3
With four wins in seven games, Su Nian won three games in a row, seeing that victory was about to come, but it also meant that Matsumoto Miki's fight would be more ferocious.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the fourth game, Matsumoto began to use the ball speed of his bounce non-stop, attacking, changing the line, biting the score tightly, and changing the line unguardedly, which made Su Nian purse his lips and puff out.
Su Nian began to change his skills and tactics, and scored two points with two long balls in a row, with a score of 5:5.
Then he tried his best to resist Matsumoto's two bounces to change the line, and Wang Liang on the sidelines reminded Su Nian loudly, "Pay attention to the forehand position." β
Su Nian heard the coach's reminder, and she knew that she had to strike first and couldn't give Matsumoto Miki another chance to fight.
In the next ball, Su Nian took the lead in attacking, returned a backhand straight ball, recovered a point, and then held each other backhand, two consecutive baseline balls, forcing Panasonic to retreat, and the backhand return ball was wrong, and the score was 9:9
The score of the third game between the two sides has been biting very tightly, Su Nian scored a point, and the other party immediately recovered a point, the score went from 10:10 to 11:11, and then to 12:12, 13:13, both of them did not relax, Su Nian hoped to win this game and end the game, Panasonic must win this game, drag the game to the fifth game, and give himself the last chance to fight.
The penultimate ball, Su Nian served, the opponent pulled it to Su Nian's forehand position, Su Nian returned a forehand triangle in the table, Matsumoto resisted, Su Nian changed the line, to Matsumoto's backhand position, Matsumoto resisted again, Su Nian pulled the forehand to the same landing point, Matsumoto defended and had the ability to return to a straight line, the ball almost brushed the white side of the table, Su Nian crossed step, forehand saved, the ball returned to Matsumoto's forehand position, Matsumoto resisted again, and then returned to a Su Nian's backhand position, Su Nian retreated too far from the table, and the ball was hung on the net, The score is 13:14.
Both sides of this ball played very well, Su Nian changed the line twice in a row, Matsumoto resisted, including the small triangle in the forehand position, Matsumoto's line change and edge ball Su Nian saved back, very exciting.
This wonderful offensive and defensive transition made the audience at the scene boil and cheer loudly for the ball.
In the last ball, Su Nian was still in the frustration that he didn't win the last ball, Matsumoto suddenly became a straight line, Su Nian didn't succeed in defense, and Panasonic won the fourth game.
In the fourth game, both sides played very excitingly, and Su Nian also played his best level, and during the game, Wang Liang asked Su Nian not to think about the ball just now, and not to let the result of the previous game affect him.
In the fifth game, Matsumoto served, Su Nian shook it lightly, Panasonic did not judge the movement of Su Nian's hand, and continued to try to change the straight line and failed.
The second ball, Panasonic resisted two consecutive large-angle line changes, and then dragged the ball into his own rhythm, and held the backhand position with Matsumoto, two consecutive baseline balls, so that Matsumoto returned the ball out of bounds, after the ball was played, Su Nian shouted to cheer for herself, this is the momentum ball at the beginning of the fifth game, she must suppress the momentum of Matsumoto's ball just now.
The momentum on the field is one after another, and the two sides must not only fight for victory at the table, but also gain the upper hand in momentum.
Coach Wang Liang on the sidelines also stood up excitedly when he saw the ball, and shouted loudly, "That's it, that's right." β
Su Nian served, Panasonic wanted to change the line again, Su Nian resisted a board in her forehand position, and the next board, Panasonic himself made a mistake.
Another downspin ball, allowing Panasonic to eat a serve directly.
Matsumoto served, Su Nian wanted to pull the ball with her forehand to change the line, but unfortunately the ball went out of bounds, and she jumped angrily.
The second ball, constantly changing the line, Su Nian resisted, and then entered the backhand to hold, the last ball, Su Nian was originally preparing a backhand, but when she saw Panasonic return the ball touching the net, she instantly changed the racket surface, and used her forehand to pull the ball, and she deliberately slowed down the rhythm, so that Panasonic made a mistake in the bounce.
Su Nian served, and it was a side downspin, and Matsumoto couldn't catch Su Nian's ball well throughout the game, and tried various methods, except for a side cut to the stage, almost no hair extension was successful.
In the second ball, Panasonic bounced a straight line again, and Su Nian's return defense was unsuccessful.
Su Nian's big heart made her smile when she saw this ball, laughing that the protection of her forehand position was still not in place, she used to hit other people's forehands, and Matsumoto Miki could always score in her forehand position, which was a bit of kung fu, but Su Nian's confidence in the forehand position would not allow this kind of thing to happen all the time.
In the next ball, Su Nian saw the opportunity, grabbed the forehand and passed the board.
βToryοΌβ Wang Liang, who was on the sidelines, saw the ball and cheered for Su Nian loudly.
Matsumoto's second serve, Su Nian changed the way she received the serve, she couldn't always let the opponent's ball borrow the strength of her own return ball, and then bounce a straight line, she gently rubbed the ball back this time, plus a little spin, and sure enough, the rotation of the ball when the opponent bounced again made the ball fly out. The score was 8:2, and Su Nian was ahead by a big score.
Su Nian served, the opponent fought a forehand, Su Nian had already predicted the opponent's ball path, directly backhanded, and returned to the opponent's middle, so that Matsumoto was defenseless. The score is 9:2.
"Beautiful!" The prediction of this ball made Wang Liang on the sidelines applaud.
Then Su Nian used his rhythm to score two points in a row, won the fifth game, and also won the game.
Su Nian waved his small fist, his face revealing confidence in victory.
[Wow, it seems that Matsumoto won the fourth game made Su Nian a little angry, 11:2, I didn't expect to be able to score this score]
[It's so cool! It's so cool! I'm going to be a fan of this little ball, how can I play so fiercely]
[When you win, you are also very calm, you are really a general! ] γ
In the next game, Su Nian will face Jiang Yungu, and Jing Xing will also face Li Liang, and the civil war of national table tennis will be a difficult war.
After Su Nian entered the first team, he and Jiang Yungu fought many times in international competitions, at first Su Nian's technical system was too advanced, and Jiang Yungu couldn't adapt to it, so it was basically Su Nian's victory, but later Jiang Yungu changed coaches and specialized in studying Su Nian's style of play, plus Su Nian's state was not very good in 18 years, so Su Nian has lost a lot in 18 years so far, and Su Nian knows that this game will be even more difficult than the morning game.
Jiang Yungu's backhand and twisting skills are her characteristics, and her toughness is very strong, she is very familiar with Su Nian's ball path, and she also knows Su Nian's problems, although they are best friends and teammates, or the doubles combination of this World Table Tennis Championships, but standing on the court, they will go all out.