Zhang Benkuang continued to serve, still running towards Lin Zijun's backhand position with short backspin, and then continued to twist in advance.
The twisting of this ball is actually very average. In terms of actual effect and power, it is not even as good as a high-quality rubbing ball. But the strange thing is that Lin Zijun seems to have lost its mind and directly twists it backwards.
As a result, a high-speed twisting situation was formed in the table, and after four rounds, Lin Zijun screwed the ball and lost points again.
Zhang Benkuang roared to the sky, with fierce momentum and extremely exaggerated movements. Then in the second and third paragraphs, he shouted so loudly that the referees on both sides bared their teeth. One of the referees subconsciously touched his pocket with his hand, as if he wanted to take out a yellow card.
But no matter what, Zhang Benkuang 2:0 leads.
Wang Chao also suddenly discovered Lin Zijun's flaw at this moment.
The whole world knows that Lin Zijun must have a flaw, but so far the whole world has not found a flaw in Lin Zijun. Only at this moment, during the duel with Zhang Benkuang, Lin Zijun revealed a flaw.
His flaw is his mentality.
But his mentality problem is very strange. He is not afraid of stage fright or fighting. This is why it took the whole world more than a month to find any flaw in him.
He is actually easily disturbed by irrelevant factors outside the field.
For example, the roar of Zhang Benkuang really affected him.
He is supposed to be the smartest player. In the battle with Luo Jiu last month, even Luo Jiu's intelligence could not suppress him in terms of game strategy. But in today's game, Lin Zijun made a stupid mistake just after the second ball was hit.
He shouldn't have screwed over Zhang Benkuang's low-quality ball and wasted the opportunity out of thin air.
Although it is a fleeting and subtle opportunity, he is Lin Zijun. He should not be unable to see it. He should directly pick the ball in the table or hit the high-quality change line ball.
His failure to do so meant that his judgment was affected.
It's Lin Zijun's turn to serve.
He directly stole a long ball, which was extremely fast and hit the edge of the table on the forehand side of Zhang Benkuang.
Zhang Benkuang turned sideways like lightning, and without saying a word, he struck Lin Zijun to death.
This ball hit Lin Zijun a little stunned, and he didn't even have time to react.
Wang Chao looked on from the sidelines and just felt weird.
In this ball, Zhang Benkuang showed excellent reaction speed.
The 15-year-old boy may not have enough strength, but his nerve reaction speed is really shocking. Zhang Benkuang's sideways speed and arm swing speed are almost at the limit, and the ball speed is also at the limit.
Zhang Benkuang is very smart. He knows that his absolute strength is insufficient, so when he encounters this kind of opportunity, he doesn't pull the ball at all, he just shoots it hard.
As long as the ball does not spin, and as long as the ball flies out in a straight line instead of an arc, the ball can reach the fastest speed with limited power.
At this moment, Wang Chao had to admit that Zhang Benkuang was indeed a very agile player.
But at the same time, he was also more certain: There was something wrong with Lin Zijun's mentality.
Don't forget, Lin Zijun is also famous for its speed.
He was even recognized by the Huaping coaching staff as having "extreme speed" talent.
Zhang Benkuang Even if the shot were a few minutes faster, how could he not even have a chance to react?
It can only be said that it's not that he didn't react, but that he didn't expect it.
Why didn't you think of that?
Because his serve Sneak Long Serve is really just "stealing".
He wanted to score directly on a sneak attack.
So when the sneak attack was predicted, he was immediately stunned.
This is actually a stupid mistake that a top player should never make.
On the sidelines, Zhuang Huishen, who was watching the match, shook his head and sighed, feeling a little pity.
Yes, mentality is Lin Zijun's problem, but Zhuang Huishen has always felt that this problem may not be exposed, because Lin Zijun's on-the-spot state and initial mentality are no problem. Only when encountering extreme difficulties can mentality problems arise. But how many people in the world can make Lin Zijun encounter difficulties?
In fact, in the discussion before starting from Bay Island, Zhuang Huishen believed that if Lin Zijun met Mizutori Hato, as long as they could win the first game, it would be very likely to go smoothly and win 4:0, bringing Bay Island back a championship trophy that has not been touched in more than ten years.
After all, Mizutori Hato is not a player with a good mentality.
But he never expected that first Mizutori Hato killed himself inexplicably, and then Lin Zijun also lost his chain in an absolutely unexpected place like Zhang Benkuang.
"Prestige? Can this thing really be considered a talent?" Zhuang Huishen whispered softly, with a slightly bitter smile. Of course he had heard the statement from Huaping, but he didn't really believe it, but now he really believed it.
The yelling of a little kid may not be useful to a veteran like him, but it has an extraordinary effect on Lin Zijun.
In the next game, Lin Zijun really had a big problem.
He Sneak Long Serve failed, but did not learn the lesson. Sneak Long Serve again, but was still successfully predicted by Zhang Benkuang and took the initiative to attack.
This time he blocked it, but Zhang Benkuang continued to attack and finally pulled him through, making the score 4:0.
The ball was played very quickly in the first game, and Zhang Benkuang served without any delay, because he had the advantage and it was time to work hard and decisively.
Lin Zijun served without any delay. His personality is more introverted and shy than Wang Chao imagined. After getting the ball, once the eyes of the audience are focused on him, he will feel awkward and serve in a hurry.
But he still showed the instinct of a high-IQ player. Even in a panic, his serve was still full of variety. In just one game, he tried a variety of serving methods such as short backspin, Sneak Long Serve, Reverse Spin, baseline long ball, left spin, etc.
However, no matter how good the serve is, if the mentality is not good and the follow-up is weak, you will still not get points. After all, if you want to kill Zhang Benkuang by serving alone, you are looking down on others.
So six minutes later, Lin Zijun 5:11 was defeated.
The cheers outside the stadium lasted for a long time.
The fans from Sakura Country were already in despair after Mizutori Hato retired with a back injury. They didn't expect that when the east was not bright and the west was bright, a miracle would happen to Zhang Benkuang, whom everyone was not optimistic about.
You know, just last night, the largest sports forum in Sakura Country had a prediction about today's game of Zhang Benkuang. As a result, only 47% of the people predicted that Zhang Benkuang would win.
Don't think that 47% means that nearly half of the people really support Zhang Benkuang. You must know that fans from any country will unconditionally support their country's players to win. Under this kind of voting, Zhang Benkuang can only get 47%. This actually means that if everyone is not selfish and votes fairly, Zhang Benkuang may not even get 20% of the votes.
The second round begins.
Lin Zijun still failed to regain his form. On the contrary, amidst Zhang Benkuang's increasingly crazier roars and the increasingly enthusiastic cheers outside the stadium, he became more and more panicked, and even his delicate and shy face turned slightly red.
He actually seemed to be frightened by this scene...
This game only lasted five minutes, and Lin Zijun 4 was defeated 11-11.
Wang Chao felt a little weird at this moment.
In fact, according to the grouping, if nothing else happens, the winner of this game will be his opponent in the semi-finals.
Wang Chao spent a lot of effort studying Lin Zijun's video and thinking about countermeasures, but basically didn't pay much attention to Zhang Benkuang.
But now it seems that the one he is going to fight in the end is actually Zhang Benkuang?
Wang Chao is happy to hear about this.
Zhang Benkuang is undoubtedly much easier to fight than Lin Zijun.
Zhang Benkuang's "prestige" talent is effective on Lin Zijun, but has no effect on Wang Chao. After all, Wang Chao is too experienced.
From a purely technical perspective, Zhang Benkuang is far from comparable to Lin Zijun.
There is only one reason: Zhang Benkuang cannot penetrate Wang Chao.
After watching these two games, Wang Chao discovered that Zhang Benkuang and Lin Zijun actually have a similar weakness: lack of strength.
Wang Chao himself is already considered weak in terms of strength, but Lin Zijun's strength is only on par with him.
As for Zhang Benkuang, his body is not long, and his strength is probably only a little stronger than the little kid Jiang Shan, so he rarely pulls the loop ball hard. Once he finds an opportunity, he usually pulls the string quickly, or shoots hard, or moves from both sides.
What he plays is not actually strength, but speed.
The key to speed play is actually the constantly changing landing point.
This style of play is completely ineffective against Wang Chao, because Wang Chao himself is a master of placement.
At this time, the third game had started, but in just two minutes, Lin Zijun fell behind 1:4.
He looked like he was going to collapse.
At this time, he made a pause gesture to the referee.
The timer finally stopped and settled on 11 minutes and 23 seconds.
Zhuang Huishen subconsciously took a step forward. He was waiting for Lin Zijun to come over. He had a lot of things to tell Lin Zijun.
A few days ago, Bay Island Table Tennis Association head coach Jiang Peirong, who had just had a quarrel with him, made a special trip to ask him to bring Lin Zijun to the competition. His main intention was to hope that Zhuang Huishen could take on the role of off-field coach at critical moments.
After all, Lin Zijun is too young, and his personality is different from most players. He is too shy, too introverted, too gentle, and too qualified.
This kind of quality is perfect in any other field, but in the field of sports competition, Jiang Peirong hopes that Lin Zijun can be more rude and wild. Even if he becomes the next Zhuang Huishen and quarrels over disagreements, it will be better than what he is now.
Jiang Peirong even taught Lin Zijun how to say dirty words, but Lin Zijun didn't learn it...
And after arriving at Sakura Country, Lin Zijun was indeed inseparable from Zhuang Huishen, just like a child following his trusted elder.
He even asked for Zhuang Huishen's company when he went shopping.
Yesterday in the cafeteria, Lin Zijun wanted to chat with Wang Chao, but was too embarrassed to go there, so he came back to see Zhuang Huishen for company. Unfortunately, when he successfully persuaded Zhuang Huishen, he found that Wang Chao had already finished his meal and left...
Lin Zijun relies heavily on Zhuang Huishen, although Zhuang Huishen's strength is far inferior to him.
But only this time, Lin Zijun did not turn to Zhuang Huishen for help.
He never left the table.
He stood beside the table where everyone was watching, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath, just like Zhu Shixian who was beaten by Wang Chao yesterday.
Although Zhu Shixian lost yesterday, they did regain their mentality through the 15-second pause.
Lin Zijun is imitating him.
But Lin Zijun feels that just imitating is not enough.
Because his psychological quality is far less calm than Zhu Shixian, and he has not experienced so many world competitions.
So he decided to be tougher on himself.
He raised his hand and slapped himself hard.
There was a clear and loud "pop" sound, which suddenly silenced the noisy arena. Many spectators looked at the young man beside the table with a trace of confusion in their eyes, wondering if they had seen it wrong.
But soon, there was another "snap" sound, and Lin Zijun slapped her hard again.
He was not blaming himself, nor was he putting on a show. He was using this method to force himself to calm down.
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
One after another, it was clear and loud, which made many spectators feel frightened, and even the cheers stopped.
At this moment, the T2 arena was eerily quiet. Everyone stared blankly at Lin Zijun slapping themselves. The atmosphere was strange.
Lin Zijun's delicate and harmless face was visibly swollen and looked very embarrassed.
In the rooms far away in the imperial capital, several big bosses were also stunned.
Qin Huachang was holding the teacup, Wang Lu opened his mouth slightly, Cai Guodong had a solemn expression, Zhu Zeshi forgot to make tea, everyone looked at the screen together, until just 15 seconds passed, the referee blew the whistle, Lin Zijun opened his eyes, and the big guys let out a long breath together, the scene seemed to be revived from a state where time had stopped.
"This child..." Qin Huachang shook his head. "It's so scary."
Wang Lu agreed, "It's scarier than we thought."
Zhu Zeshi also nodded. "He is indeed too introverted, and it does affect his game mentality, but this kid has resilience in his bones. If he successfully passes today's level, I am afraid he will transform."
Cai Guodong picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp, and said with a smile, "So, it is really gratifying and congratulatory for our Huaping team to have another great enemy in the future."
Everyone laughed, but their expressions were complicated.
The head coach naturally didn't want to weaken his momentum when he said this, but if Huaping really adds another powerful enemy in the future, would it really be a gratifying thing?
Don't forget, that kid is only eighteen years old.
Within a year or two, the 31-year-old Sun Tianlong can still hold him down.
In four or five years, the 27-year-old Luo Jiu can still suppress him.
But what about beyond?
Who can you rely on?
Several big guys want to cue a certain coach named He at this moment, because currently, it seems that only his disciple Wang Chao has the best chance. The problem is that Coach He is not there and is sitting on the flight back to the imperial capital from Sakura Country.
So everyone looked at Qin Huachang again.
"Don't look at me." Qin Huachang is such a shrewd person, how could he take the initiative to shoulder the burden? He waved his hands repeatedly. "My Little Fatty is too young, only 15 years old. Let's not skip the level, okay? I'll try my best to make Little Fatty Just watch Zhang Benkuang. As for Lin Zijun, let's leave it to Wang Chao. That kid is as cunning as a ghost, and he can't bully a good boy like Xiao Lin."
Everyone looks at Zhu Zeshi again.
"Don't come to me about this matter." Zhu Zeshi sneered, "Lu Feiyang, I don't even want that naughty kid."
Everyone still wanted to see Wang Lu, but gave up after thinking about it.
After all, Wang Lu's future disciple Ma Angxing is obviously a little far behind, so let's not force others to make things difficult...
On the field, Lin Zijun opened his eyes again.
I finally caught up, my perfect attendance was in jeopardy, but I finally got it, haha.
It will be updated at 5pm tomorrow and it will be back to normal the day after tomorrow. I would like to inform you that I am sorry.
Some friends have reported that there have been too many supporting roles recently. I agree with this. The bad news is that "Zhu Ding vs Lu Feiyang" needs to be roughly explained in a chapter anyway. The good news is that other than that, it is all the protagonist's roles.