Dragon Team serves again, this time with short backspin.
Wang Chao nodded secretly in his heart.
He thinks Dragon Team's strategy is right.
Luo Jiu has shown strong offensive ability and rhythm change ability. At this time, the first thing Dragon Team has to do is to stabilize his mentality, and the second is not to give Luo Jiu the chance to play unconventional balls.
Then it is naturally the best to compete with each other on short balls in the table.
As the most technically perfect player recognized in the world table tennis world, Dragon Team is naturally proficient in short balls. Although he is not as talented as Luo Jiu in terms of pure touch, he will never suffer a loss in a real short game with his ridiculously solid basic skills and competition experience.
But Luo Jiu came up with an unexpected response.
He refused to fight short because he knew better than anyone else that his short ball couldn't beat Dragon Team.
So he chose to directly hit Dragon Team's serve to the forehand baseline.
This ball is of high quality. Although it is a long ball, it is very particular about spin and height. It should be said that it is not easy to deal with.
But for Dragon Team, as long as it is a long ball from the baseline, no matter how high the quality is, it can still take the initiative to attack.
With Dragon Team's ability, the success rate of sideways grabbing is no less than 90%.
Wang Chao saw that Qin Huachang's body was slightly leaning forward at this moment, and his eyes were almost glued to the TV screen. It was obvious that he attached great importance to handling this ball.
Wang Chao himself also attaches great importance to the response to this ball.
Because he could see that this was actually a test and a provocation from Luo Jiu to Sun Tianlong.
Luo Jiu is talking to Sun Tianlong.
"Would you like to pull it and try it?"
"If you dare to pull me, I will pull you back. Then we will continue to enter the stalemate. Just like the first ball, I will kill you with a backhand bounce."
In a sense, this test of Luo Jiu is very risky, and can even be described as "daring" and "unknowing of the heights of the world".
You must know that the first ball he took advantage of was Dragon Team's weakness in underestimating the lethality of his backhand bounce. It does not mean that Dragon Team really cannot break his backhand.
If a mere raw rubber bouncer is so good at hitting the ball, then why is he still trying to loop the ball with his backhand? Didn't raw rubber particles dominate the world long ago?
To take a step back, even if Dragon Team really can't deal with his backhand bounce, once Dragon Team takes the initiative to attack, do you Luo Jiu really dare to say that you can perfectly guide the ball into a stalemate?
Dragon Team's forehand was vaguely known as "the world's best forehand" many years ago. Is it possible for you to stalemate if you want to?
The greater possibility is that Dragon Team directly starts the game, and each board is heavier than the other. Until Luo Jiu is beaten to death, Luo Jiu will never be able to regain its rhythm.
So this moment is very critical.
In the eyes of outsiders, this is just the second goal in the game, and the two sides haven't even warmed up their hands yet.
But experts like Wang Chao and Qin Huachang know that the outcome of this ball is actually related to the tactical game between the two sides in the next game.
Luo Jiu released the winning hand, Dragon Team, will you take it?
Sun Tianlong's answer is: No answer.
He didn't turn sideways or attack, and with a calm expression, he used the most unpretentious way to twist the long baseline ball back into a short backspin.
It seemed timid, but it brought the situation back to its starting point.
Wang Chao heard Qin Huachang couldn't help but shout "Okay" in front of the TV.
Then Wang Chao also reacted. Yes, this is indeed the best response.
When the game enters a stable confrontation stage, the person who releases the winning hand first is bound to be the one with greater pressure, because he is taking risks and playing with fire.
Luo Jiu is playing with fire, and if Dragon Team is accompanied, it will certainly appear to be tit for tat, but at the same time, Dragon Team is also pulled into the fire, and the outcome becomes a matter of two people walking a tightrope together.
But Dragon Team refused to take risks and redirected the situation back to the starting point.
He himself was not under any psychological pressure, but Luo Jiu's side must have been a false alarm.
What should Luo Jiu do next?
Continue to ignore the bottom line and let the winner go?
Luo Jiu is also afraid. This is a very bold move in itself. Just because he dares to do it the first time does not mean he dares to do it the second time, because once the winning hand is released, he himself does not know whether he will win or lose. It is like a person who commits suicide by jumping off a building. Once he is rescued, he loses the courage to jump again.
But what about returning to short ball?
Then Luo Jiu lost his spirit out of thin air, because he let go of the winner once, but now he dare not let go again. He chose to retreat, which proved that he had self-denied his previous judgment.
After thinking about this section, Wang Chao couldn't help but shout, "Wonderful."
Keeping the same in the face of ever-changing situations is indeed the best way to deal with it.
Maybe I can win after responding to your provocation, but as long as I am not 100% sure, I will not respond, so that I will naturally gain a psychological advantage.
At this moment Wang Chao had a vague realization.
He realized there was a difference between top coaches and top players.
The coach's strength lies in objective analysis from the perspective of a bystander and his ability to summarize after the game.
The top players, on the field, can rely on intuition to make the most correct choice in a rare, one-ten-thousandth moment.
Luo Jiu chooses to play the winning hand based on instinct, because he knows that the odds are stacked against him and the odds are against him.
Sun Tianlong chose not to respond also based on instinct, because thousands of battles in his career made him vaguely feel that this was the right thing to do.
The coach can give 10,000 reasons for the choice after the fact, but the players can only use the word "intuition" on the court.
Both sides returned to the short game and showed enough patience. After seven full rounds, Sun Tianlong challenged, Luo Jiu responded hastily, caught the ball high, and Sun Tianlong once again charged with a forehand. This ball was so powerful that everyone felt that it was there.
But Luo Jiu caught it at the last moment.
This catch was a bit of a coincidence.
Because Sun Tianlong's explosive charge directly hit the net. Although the ball changed direction, its rotation and speed were slowed down. Luo Jiu desperately chased after it and pulled hard.
Sun Tianlong can only retreat and enter into a stalemate somewhat passively.
Luo Jiu did not convert into the previous backhand bounce. At this moment, he showed the forehand loop attack that he has become famous for over the years. One board after another, he firmly suppressed Dragon Team's rhythm. He ran left and right on the table, always maintaining the forehand position to hit the ball, one heavy arc after another, and finally penetrated Dragon Team's defense without any tricks.
At this moment, Qin Huachang said "Eh", and the audience around the Ahmedabad stadium stood up and applauded.
This ball is so exciting!
More than ten long rounds, continuous transitions between offense and defense, continuous stalemates in the middle, plus constant line changes and maneuvers by both sides, it can be said that from this ball alone, it is enough to analyze more than a dozen of the most advanced table tennis hitting techniques.
"No, why is Luo Jiu's forehand so powerful all of a sudden?" Qin Huachang muttered quite dissatisfied, "In the past, Attacking from all sides couldn't even kill Sun Tianlong. Why did he kill Sun Tianlong in a one-sided attack today?"
Wang Chao reminded with a smile from behind, "Perhaps it is because he has turned into a one-sided attack, so it is more powerful? Otherwise, why would he need to make technical changes?"
"Huh? It seems to make some sense." Qin Huachang was stunned, stopped talking, and stared at the screen, as if lost in thought.
In the first game, starting from 2:0, the situation gradually became clear.
To the surprise of the whole world, Luo Jiu actually had the upper hand.
Today, Luo Jiu showed a strong aggressiveness. He tried every means to take the initiative to hit the ball. With high-intensity footwork, he constantly switched the front and back sides of the racket to hit the ball. His forehand heavy arc and backhand bounce had completely different rhythms, both in speed, intensity and trajectory. Even a peerless figure like Dragon Team was a little confused by him, and even misjudged several balls in a row.
Seven minutes later, Luo Jiu 11:7 took the lead in winning the game.
Wang Chao noticed that when he walked off the table, Dragon Team lowered his head slightly and frowned slightly, as if he was thinking hard.
Wang Chao is a little proud.
In fact, the technical modification of this backhand raw rubber was his idea for Luo Jiu, but in fact, even he himself did not expect that this move would be so effective.
At the beginning, he only wanted to solve the problem of the connection between Luo Jiu's forehand and backhand, and at the same time avoid the weakness of Luo Jiu's backhand strength. Although he was vaguely aware that the rhythm changes of the two pieces of rubber would be weird, he did not expect that when this style of play actually appeared in front of him, the effect would be so outstanding.
Some balls are obviously very powerful, but they are not very fast.
Some balls obviously don't have much power, but they are surprisingly fast.
This will give people a subconscious misjudgment, because humans will form common sense in daily life and subconsciously feel that strength and speed complement each other.
The more force you give something, the faster it will move.
This kind of misjudgment is not fatal within the time difference calculated in minutes or hours, because humans have a strong self-correction ability and can constantly remind themselves not to misjudge.
But in table tennis, where the time difference is measured in seconds or milliseconds, it becomes extremely fatal.
Your brain doesn't even have time to make adjustments, so it naturally makes wrong judgments one after another, guiding your body and muscle memory to make wrong responses.
What's more, Luo Jiu also adds changes such as left spin, right spin, side spin, or no spin, as well as a large number of fake movements, creating an even more bizarre and unpredictable pattern.
Dragon Team is really a bit confused.
Qin Huachang is also a bit confused.
He had just boasted, and in the blink of an eye, his face was slapped so hard that he was too embarrassed to look back. He could only stare at the screen and pray in his heart that Dragon Team would be brave enough to help him get his face back.
The second game started quickly.
Luo Jiu continued to take the initiative to attack, while Dragon Team continued to resist calmly.
But this time Dragon Team showed an adaptability that amazed the whole world.
Luo Jiu Today's game was like magic. In the first game just now, although the score was only 11:7, in fact, in just over ten minutes, the faces of countless professional players watching the live broadcast in front of the screen changed.
They put themselves into Sun Tianlong, tried to understand Luo Jiu's ball, and then found that they couldn't understand it at all.
If they faced Luo Jiu on the court, they would be stunned every minute. If they didn't finish the game, their mentality would probably be shattered.
Therefore, many professional players who are watching the game feel their scalps go numb at this moment, because their intuition tells them that they may not be able to adapt to Luo Jiu's style of play even if they spend several months doing special training.
The forehand is too explosive, the backhand is too fast, and the transition between forward and reverse is too unreasonable.
The whole thing is against humanity, against common sense, and against the rules.
Some top players are still thinking hard about how to carry out targeted training in the days to come and how to fundamentally crack Luo Jiu's ball path, while the vast majority of ordinary players have given up and started watching the next second game with a purely spectator mentality.
There are some who are gloating among them, thinking, "Sun Tianlong Aren't you a genius? I want to see how you hit this kind of ball. In the game just now, weren't you just like me, you were beaten so dizzy and confused?"
But Dragon Team let them down.
Dragon Team is Dragon Team after all.
Hexagon Warrior, Imperial Destroyer Dragon, the best table tennis man on the planet, the first person in history, these titles are not for nothing after all.
In the second game, from the scene, Dragon Team is gradually adapting. He has made an extremely accurate judgment on Luo Jiu's ball. Even though Luo Jiu is still very capable of changing things, he even He took the initiative to release a few winning hands, but Dragon Team played steadily, and the provocation of Luo Jiu seemed to disappear. It gradually improved during the transition between offense and defense. So after another ten minutes, the two sides actually tied at 9:9.
Judging from the scene, it was still Luo Jiu who was attacking crazily. Dragon Team was as thrilling as a small boat in the stormy sea. It was in danger of capsizing at all times, but in the end, the score was not lost at all.
It can even be said that Dragon Team belongs to Xiaoyou.
Because it was Dragon Team's turn to serve next.
The server obviously has a natural advantage.
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