Hook's table tennis has a unique atmosphere from beginning to end.
His most common serve is the high throw, which is his signature.
His high throw was higher than anyone else's, and the ball flew straight upward. Hook looked up and saw that it took several seconds for the ball to leave his hand and fall.
His action was very sudden, not like ordinary players who would trigger the racket in advance. Instead, he suddenly released the racket when the ball was almost landing on the table. He touched the ball very quickly and closed it at the first touch. The shaking of his wrist and the rotation of the racket at that moment were extremely obscure, so it was difficult for people to see clearly how the ball he sent was spinning.
But because the ball is thrown too high, the converted gravitational potential energy is too large, so the ball is extremely powerful, spins super fast, and is super fast.
He doesn't play fake moves because he didn't learn these overly delicate and detailed skills since he was a child in Brazil. His entire playing style reveals a rough and wild flavor.
This is an original and savage style of play.
The ball hit Sun Tianlong's backhand baseline. Even if it bounced off the table again, it was still full of surging power.
This ball is of extremely high quality, and even Sun Tianlong cannot completely resolve the force on the ball and make a perfect short swing.
Sun Tianlong's choice is to hit a long ball.
This is the best option.
To deal with this kind of long and fast backspin ball, players who are not strong enough will choose to step back and pull up the loop, because this kind of catch is the least likely to make mistakes, and it does not require you to accurately judge the direction of spin applied to the ball by your opponent.
But once you really pull, your opponent will directly get the opportunity to attack.
Hook plays with a characteristic: every ball is played with all his might, and he chooses the most difficult way to touch the ball from beginning to end, so every ball he hits is of extremely high quality. In his past games, almost all the balls were resolved within three boards. Either he committed suicide, or you made a mistake in catching the ball.
So this ball, Sun Tianlong, actually wanted to twist it into a short backspin, but he couldn't do it, and ended up twisting it into a long backspin.
Hook attacked without hesitation.
In fact, apart from being slightly longer, this ball has almost been rubbed to the extreme by Sun Tianlong. Even if it were a main player from China Table Tennis Team, he would never choose to attack forcefully when seeing this kind of ball, because the possibility of failure is too high.
But no matter Hook, he always plays on a whim.
He pulled a very vicious, hard looping shot.
The trajectory of the ball was extremely steep. The route it flew through the air was like an arch bridge with a huge arc, and it landed on the table in front of Sun Tianlong.
At the same time, Wang Chao softly spit out two words: "Weird power?"
Luo Jiu said "Hmm" and stared at the screen with all his attention.
Yes, this is the magic power of talent.
The trajectory of the ball is too weird, which means that at the moment of friction between the racket and the ball, the force exerted on the ball far exceeds the limit of ordinary people, so it spins too strongly and forms a steep curve like climbing a mountain under the effect of air resistance.
Just the first attack of the first ball in the opening game, the quality of this heavy arc has steadily surpassed the forehand blast of Liang Kunpeng during the day.
Fortunately, the ball's landing point was not awkward, but very positive, so Dragon Team blocked the ball steadily.
He did not choose to fight with Hook, but used his strength to push the ball directly to Hook's backhand baseline at a wide angle.
Sun Tianlong is the best professional player in the world at formulating targeted strategies. He knows that he cannot compete with Hook with brute force, so he wants to win with his placement.
It should be said that judging from the common sense of playing, this ball Hook should lose points, because Hook's first blast was too hard, which is a taboo in playing. At this time, he was mobilized from a large angle, and he should not have time to save the ball.
But at this moment, Hook's body suddenly changed from extremely still to extremely moving. He flew to the left like a leopard, and was already in position in an instant. He stretched out his arms and tore outwards fiercely.
Wang Chao spit out two more words. "Extreme speed?"
Luo Jiu said "hmm" again.
Yes, this is natural speed.
Without extreme speed, Hook would never have been able to save the ball so quickly despite committing a military taboo. He even had time to take a step back after settling into position, creating enough space to fight back with a powerful blow.
But after all, the backhand is no better than the forehand. Although the ball looks fierce, it is actually an opportunity for Sun Tianlong.
Sun Tianlong had no intention of seeking stability from the beginning of this final, because he knew that Hook's condition today was probably not weaker than Luo Jiu, who had achieved great success, so he planned to fight from the beginning.
Now that the opportunity came, he rushed sideways without hesitation.
But it's not a blast with twelve points of strength, but a blast with nine points of strength.
This is the character trait of Sun Tianlong. He will always have some energy left to deal with any possible accidents, and he will never hesitate.
The ball rushed directly to the side of the Hook forehand table.
This is a huge angle in an absolute sense.
From the bottom line on the left side of the table to the forehand side of the table, even if Hook has extreme speed, the possibility of catching the ball is only 50%.
What's more, Dragon Team's ball is of extremely high quality. It changes the line and explodes. It also has a slight left spin on top of the top spin. It is almost a sure-kill ball. Even if Hook catches up, it may not be able to catch it.
Hook did not give up. He stopped suddenly, changed direction, and was incredibly fast. He once again successfully chased the ball as it landed on the table.
But the ball was too powerful. He hurriedly stood still and had no time to adjust his posture and pull back.
So he continued to retreat crazily, taking four steps back in a row, and was already nearly two meters away from the table.
The ball has also flown below the table, and there is only the last thirty centimeters left before it hits the ground.
Hook Squat down, sink the racket, move it from bottom to top, and draw a complete arc with your arm.
This action has a nice name in the table tennis world, called "Searching for the Moon from the Sea."
The ball flew upward from below the table, drew a long curve in the air, successfully climbed to a height above the table, and continued to fly forward, almost grazing the net, until it reached the center baseline in front of Sun Tianlong.
The ball dropped before Sun Tianlong's eyes, landed on the table, and bounced up. The height was no more than twenty centimeters, and it also had a strong side spin.
This goal caused whistles and applause to ring out throughout the stadium. The enthusiasm of the audience was high, and some people kept shouting the pronunciation of the word "hugo", as if this place had become the home court of the Brazilians.
Such an enthusiastic response was not only because the Brazilian hit a truly super ball, but also because the Brazilian's opponent was Chinese table tennis player Sun Tianlong.
Whenever a foreign player enters the finals with a Chinese table tennis player, the audience will support the foreign player without exception, because everyone wants to see the warrior slaying the dragon, not the evil dragon continuing to be invincible.
And when this Chinese table tennis player is Sun Tianlong, the audience's support for foreign players will reach its peak.
After all, the suffering empire in the world has been destroyed for a long time.
Wang Chao's expression finally changed. He no longer looked at the screen, but turned his head and stared directly at Luo Jiu. He gritted his teeth and said, "Insignificant?"
If it weren't for the unparalleled feel, it would have been absolutely impossible to fish out the moon to this extent.
Hook was originally in a bad situation, but Sun Tianlong had been mobilized by both sides. It was only a matter of time before he was mobilized to death, but because of this super ball, he actually completely turned the situation around and returned to the starting point.
Luo Jiu didn't say "hmm" anymore. She turned her head to meet his eyes and nodded seriously. "Yes."
Wang Chao took a gentle breath.
He finally understood why Luo Jiu said "it's just that exaggerated" before the game.
Because it's really exaggerated.
On the first ball, he discovered the three talents of "strange strength", "extreme speed" and "subtlety" from Hook in one go.
This is the first person he has seen in this world after time travel with multiple combined talents.
He himself does not count, because strictly speaking, he only has one talent that is "subtle". As for the others, they are just the dividends brought by time travel. It's just that Cai Guodong and others don't know the truth, so they give him an "unparalleled" talent.
He is a fake genius, but Hook is undoubtedly a real genius.
This makes Wang Chao have to sigh, Samba people is really born with amazing athletic talent. Brazil has produced so many football stars in the past few decades, and now, Samba people has finally begun to invade the table tennis world.
The game continues.
As the most experienced player on the planet, Sun Tianlong did not have any psychological fluctuations when faced with the characteristics that Hook showed one after another. Even if the situation was back to the starting point, he still showed very calmness, took half a step back, and steadily rubbed the super ball back.
Although it is a super ball, it has been flying in the air for too long and its power has been exhausted. Therefore, the Sun Tianlong ball is better controlled than the ball just now, and it perfectly creates a short backspin.
He is not in a hurry, has full confidence, and is not afraid of playing short balls with Hook.
In the Asian Cup finals in September, even Luo Jiu, who had used his subtle talent to the limit, did not dare to compete with Sun Tianlong on the short ball. This shows that Sun Tianlong is actually the strongest player in the world.
Hook certainly doesn't want to, because although his hand is unparalleled, his technique is actually a bit rough. He relies more on instinct and inspiration to play, and has not received systematic and meticulous technical polishing.
He chose to fight on the stage.
This challenge was of hell-level difficulty, so Hook failed in the final challenge, and ended the first ball somewhat anticlimactically.
1:0, Sun Tianlong was victorious.
But among the Huaping people sitting in front of the screen watching the game, no one showed any joy.
Everyone can see that the ball Sun Tianlong is actually a gain without scoring.
Judging from the scene, he was suppressed by Hook.
Two hours ago, Xiao Fei played the same thing with the first ball of the first game against Hook. Xiao Fei was bombarded by Hook, but in the end he firmly held his ground and won the first point.
The two games started exactly the same.
But Xiao Fei ended up losing miserably 0:4.
Therefore, the victory of this first goal actually made some fans who believe in metaphysics get excited, always feeling that Sun Tianlong has an uncertain start.
Hook serves again.
It's still a high-throw ball with super-fast backspin, and it goes straight into the right-hand baseline of Sun Tianlong.
Anyone who knows Hook knows that his serve has nothing to do with tactical strategy.
He simply likes to throw high, and he simply prefers all kinds of super-high-quality balls.
So he doesn't make fake moves, nor does he deliberately fail to turn. He just wants to be fast enough, turn enough, and be long enough.
In fact, his serve is extremely powerful and he has relied on it to score many points in international competitions.
Even Xiao Fei had three of his serves in the semifinals.
For the first ball, Hook served the backhand baseline, but lost, so this time, he will try the right-hand baseline.
Hook is actually very smart and has a very high IQ, but he doesn't like to systematically analyze the ins and outs of his game. He relies more on intuition. For example, this time, he only knew that the first serve was lost in the end, so he had to change the landing point of the second serve. As for how the first ball was lost, and whether it was directly related to the serve, he didn't care.
This is probably some kind of racial trait of Samba people.
The unique passion factor in their characters, if understood from another angle, is actually called "whatever comes to mind is what comes out."
But for Sun Tianlong, the backhand baseline can only be rubbed, while the forehand baseline can be attacked directly.
Sun Tianlong step back, turn sideways, turn your waist, tighten your abdomen, and charge forward with a forehand!
As the only recognized hexagonal warrior in the world, Sun Tianlong actually has no talent.
He has no special strength, so he rarely launches fatal attacks from the backhand position, because he knows that the power of the backhand attack cannot kill his opponent.
He doesn't have extreme speed, so he catches the ball in the backhand position with his backhand and the ball in the forehand position with his forehand. He never considers forcing himself to run to the other side of the ball like Lin Zijun did.
He doesn't have Eagle Eye, but he has fought too many opponents and practiced too many techniques. In the end, before others' moves are made, he has already judged what the opponent is going to do by relying on the small signs before the moves are made, so he has never been deceived or taken spins.
He is neither fast enough nor heavy enough, nor can he turn enough, so he rarely kills people with one blow, but always kills people with combination punches.
But his coach Qin Huachang told him, "Even if you are proficient in all the techniques in the world, you must have one move to kill the opponent, otherwise you will not be able to become a top-notch player."
So Dragon Team has mastered one move to kill the enemy.
That's his forehand blast.
He always plans before making a move, so he often waits for the opponent to make a move and then catches the opponent's flaw. Even if he occasionally needs to charge with a forehand, he will save his strength because he feels that the opponent can guess that he is going to charge, and then the opponent has the possibility of turning back.
But when he really decides to kill him with a single blow, it's usually when he determines that his opponent has no follow-up moves.
Therefore, we rarely see Sun Tianlong take the initiative to charge with twelve points of strength, but once he does, 90% of the time he will kill the opponent.
Such as this moment.
After Hook served the ball, I felt that 70% of Sun Tianlong might hit the baseline, 20% of it might hit a wide angle, and the last 10% might hit a lob.
So he didn't have any mental preparation to speed up.
This situation, of course, cannot be regarded as being distracted in the professional arena. At best, it is called insufficient estimation of difficulty.
He really never expected that Dragon Team, who had always had a steady style, would suddenly make a life-or-death charge.
He was beaten to death without even moving.
When the ball flew past him, he rolled his eyes belatedly, grinned, and trotted to pick up the ball.
2:0.
Sun Tianlong gets the right to serve.
Hook shows another difference in him.
He spread his legs, squatted down, and then squatted down very deeply. His head had sunk below the table, with only a pair of eyes exposed. It looked like a big toad, and his movements were quite weird.
The audience burst into low laughter.
This is actually Hook's signature move in the international arena, but every time it happens, the audience still finds it funny.
What's more, Hook also habitually blinks hard, turns his shoulders, tips his feet, grins, and puffs his cheeks...
He makes a lot of small movements, as if he can't help it, and his whole person is in a state of constant motion. It feels like he has ADHD and can never calm down.
But Wang Chao and Luo Jiu didn't smile. Instead, they looked serious.
Because they both know very well that the lower they squat, the more stable their center of gravity will be, and the faster they will move and the less likely they will lose their balance.
Keeping your eyes level with the tabletop can actually help Hook best judge the precise height and rotation of the opponent's ball.
That horizontal line is actually the best observation point on the table.
It's just that squatting to this point places too much load on the body and requires too much physical fitness, so no one has ever really done it.
Hook was able to do this, of course, not because of anyone who told him, but because he tried it out by his own intuition.
This man is a true all-around sports genius, not just a table tennis genius.
Sun Tianlong is of course short and underspin, because he is the number one short player in the world.
Hook didn't have a clear concept of technical restraint in his mind, and he couldn't clearly express his view of "never compete with Sun Tianlong", but his intuition was extremely sharp. When he saw this short backspin, he realized that he couldn't go short.
So he beat him on stage.
On the first ball, he made a mistake and lost a point, but this time he still had to play like this.
This time he succeeded.
Once this method of forcibly raising the difficulty factor is successful, the opponent will be extremely uncomfortable, because once the challenge is successful in this situation, the quality of the attack must be extremely high.
Sun Tianlong went to save the ball with a forehand and caught the ball high.
Hook directly hit the forehand.
The landing point is very positive, still at the bottom line of Sun Tianlong forehand position.
This ball was too powerful, and Sun Tianlong had no choice but to step back and draw the circle again.
So this ball formed a stalemate in the middle.
Hook continues to rush.
Sun Tianlong did not retreat, stood firmly on the spot, and also made a forehand blast.
In these two rounds, neither side focused on pulling the ball, but focused more on shooting forward, hoping to increase the speed and power of the ball and directly end the game.
Hook took a step forward at this time and pulled the ball close to the table.
Sun Tianlong's pupils shrank slightly. He made a trade-off within a tenth of a second and finally chose to still stand in the center.
He understands the meaning of Hook.
Hook took a step forward to stalemate with him in the middle stage. Because the ball speed and rhythm in the middle stage stalemate were too slow, Hook thought that no one could be beaten to death, so he wanted to play more extreme.
If Sun Tianlong also takes a step forward, it will become the most popular style of play among the new generation of players, not retreating from the stage, not turning sideways, competing for rhythm, speed, stage rate, and backhand twisting.
But Sun Tianlong rejected Hook's silent invitation.
Because he is already thirty-one years old and has waist injuries, leg injuries, and shoulder injuries. Most importantly, his nerve reaction speed and visual dynamic picture capturing ability have declined. If the speed is too fast, he will really be unable to keep up.
Therefore, when Hook forced himself close to the table, he could only continue to maintain a distance of about 40 centimeters from the table to form a buffer area and reduce the power of Hook's attack.
But in this way, he directly fell into a disadvantageous situation.
If you retreat, you can't retreat. Once the one who doesn't retreat changes the line and moves to both sides, the one who retreats will be tired of running.
Sure enough, Hook made a line change in the next second.
Sun Tianlong took two steps across and successfully saved the ball.
Hook moves his body to the right and directly twists the ball.
The speed is amazingly fast and the power is amazingly strong. It is a standard Overlord Twist.
Sun Tianlong did not save the ball again, because he knew that his saving was in vain. It was better to give up strategically and save energy.
The score became 2:1, Hook recovered one point.
At this point, the eyes of the non-Chinese associations audience are getting brighter and brighter, while the hearts of the Chinese audience are getting tighter and tighter.
Everyone can see that although Sun Tianlong is leading the score, it is always unable to score.
But momentum will eventually turn into scores. When Hook plays more and more smoothly, the balance of victory will eventually tilt over.
"What should I do?" Wang Chao asked Luo Jiu.
"You ask me, who am I asking?" Luo Jiu spread his hands and said, "This is much more stable than today. After three balls, basically zero mistakes. This is completely different from his previous style. How did he do this? Did he secretly find a Chinese coach to train his psychological quality?"
Wang Chao asked, "If it were you, how would you fight?"
Luo Jiu frowned and thought for a long time before saying, "Maybe it's the same as Brother Long, hold on first, try to hold on to the score, don't force yourself to win, just wear it off slowly, maybe Hook will start to fall off his game."
Seeing Wang Chao's surprised expression, he muttered innocently, "What are you looking at? Do you think I want to do this? The problem is, we have always beaten him like this in the past two years, and he is indeed capable of losing his temper."
Wang Chao frowned and his face turned ugly. "Don't you dare compete with him on the quality of the veneer?"
Luo Jiu shook his head honestly. "I can't fight, really, this competition is really too strong, the movements are really too fast, it's scary."
He paused and sighed, "I can only outwit you, but I can't defeat you with strength."
Wang Chao Only now did he realize that his victory in T2 had misled him and made him underestimate the hidden dangers of Huaping.
It's really not that Huaping itself has fallen behind, but that in the world table tennis world, there are really a large number of newcomers from all races and skin colors, starting to emerge one after another from all corners of the earth.