Wang Chao's good luck only lasted for one game. This time, he failed to guess the coin again.
He didn't know that all the European players watching the game and the European fans in front of the screen breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.
Because the whole of Europe has recognized the power of Wang Chao's serve, it's best not to let him serve if you can.
Pike gets the right to serve.
He served a quick backhand baseline backspin.
Although his touch was pretty good, he refused to fight against Wang Chao.
Wang Chao Turn it directly with your backhand.
Relatively speaking, Wang Chao's backhand twist is faster than Forehand Flick's. As a world-class player, after two super evolutions, he has reached the point where every move he makes is a killer move. When faced with a casual twist when playing billiards, its power is actually no less than that of many ordinary players who use all their strength to pull it out.
He did not forcefully change the line, because he was holding the shot with his left hand and Pike was holding the shot with his right hand. He only needed to twist the shot diagonally and it was right on the forehand position of Pike.
Facing other players, it is naturally better to twist the backhand position, but Pike's backhand is obviously stronger than the forehand, so Wang Chao made up his mind from the beginning. This game does not require him to make so many changes in the quality of the ball.
It is better to keep the same line than to change the line.
But this time the biggest difference between the new generation of players and the veterans is reflected.
When the veterans are training, the coaches have warned them countless times that they must practice to balance the left and right hands. In the actual game, the ball must be received with the forehand and the ball with the backhand. Only in this way can the balance of the body be sufficient and not afraid of being directly moved by the opponent at a large angle.
But the new generation of players plays more freely and casually.
This is not because the new generation of players are disobedient to discipline, but because with the continuous development of technology, today's top players can attack from all corners of Taiwan. Therefore, many common rules in the past games have undergone earth-shaking changes with technological innovation.
Pike didn't hesitate at all. When he saw that Wang Chao had the intention to twist the ball, he started moving directly to the right.
He was actually betting that Wang Chao would twist his forehand position.
Of course, this bet is not blind, but because three European coaches have said before when analyzing the characteristics of Wang Chao's playing style that Wang Chao will choose an extremely targeted style of play when facing any opponent.
In the last game Wang Chao played against Michel, he focused on Michel's forehand, preventing Michel's more lethal backhand from being used at all. His pertinence was fully demonstrated.
Pike's technical characteristics are more distinct than Michel. He has a stronger backhand, so although Pike is betting, he is at least 80% sure that Wang Chao will definitely focus on his forehand when he twists the ball for the first time.
He forcibly moved to the right just to force the ball to the left side of his body. Then he pushed his elbow upward, leaned forward, and gave Wang Chao a backhand twist.
It is worth mentioning that the twist of Pike changes the line, and the ball lands at a wide angle on the forehand of Wang Chao.
The power of this twist is visible to the naked eye to be greater than Wang Chao.
This is also the first time Wang Chao has truly seen Pike's backhand ability.
The ball turned into silver lightning and roared from the opposite table. Wang Chao's eyes were more focused than ever at this moment. His eyes had super dynamic capture ability, coupled with his unparalleled ball sense and understanding, he completely understood the mystery of the ball at this moment.
Strictly speaking, the reason why Pike's backhand twist is strong is because his entire technical movement is different from the most mainstream backhand movements in the world.
For example, Lin Zijun, when he twists with his backhand, he moves his body forward, draws in his abdomen, and lowers his head at the same time. The position of the ball when it touches the ball is actually a little bit forward under his chest, so when twisting, in addition to using the elbow as the axis, when turning the wrist, the entire forearm is actually thrown upward. The reason why he tightens his abdomen is essentially to leave room for the arm to move, so that he can exert force.
This is the most standard backhand twisting movement in the world. It is also the most beautiful, stretching and pleasing ball twisting movement. The feeling of stretching your limbs within a square inch and bursting out all your power in an instant perfectly conforms to human body mechanics.
So since Lin Zijun came out, countless professional players have been learning from his movements. Even the backhand of Wang Chao has some shadow of Lin Zijun.
But the hitting point of Pike is further forward than others.
When his racket touches the ball, the ball is in front of his body instead of below him. At the same time, his arm swing is extremely small. This action is extremely weird. He can be said to be the player with the smallest backhand twist in the world.
Because the movement is small, the ball touches the ball quickly, and because the hitting point is forward, the ball is closer to the opposite table. With these two advantages, the ball he originally twisted should have defects in spin and power, but what is awesome about him is that he can still produce extremely strong spin and power.
This is because his height exceeds the average height of table tennis players, and his arm length is comparable to that of a big man like Michel. He is very strong, but his body has no extra fat at all. He is lean and lean, so his movements are still very flexible.
Such physical conditions perfectly combine the strength of European players with the speed of Asian players, ultimately forming his unique signature backhand twist.
This is not a regular ball twisting, but a variant of ball twisting. This is something that others cannot learn, because it is a special skill that is formed when physical conditions, strength conditions, and technical conditions are combined into one, and they just fit together. It is unique in the world.
As for the characteristic that the hitting point is forward, he has a unique advantage, that is, the inclination of the racket and the degree of wrist flip must be adjusted when he releases the ball. This results in the side spin angle of the ball that is completely different from the conventional twist ball. Therefore, when the ball flies past, it will have a completely different degree of turning in the horizontal direction, making the opponent feel quite uncomfortable.
All his super evolutions stem from this twist.
Wang Chao very carefully assumed the standard forehand posture for pulling the ball, turned his body half a circle, and used his arms to pull the ball back hard.
A layman only thinks that this goal is wonderful, and it is a direct confrontation from the beginning, but insiders have already seen something from it.
In the last game, facing Michel's forehand pull, Wang Chao's response was to pull back lightly. His posture was actually not in place. He was trying to streamline the details and reduce the range of his shots, so that his body could return to its position better and ensure that he had more sufficient reaction time.
But Pike's reverse twist forced Wang Chao to solemnly assume the standard posture during training, and also deliberately used the power of body rotation. This actually represents a considerable degree of attention.
This shows that Wang Chao believes that if he is not careful, he may be directly killed by this ball.
But because he was under a lot of pressure when catching the ball, his priority was getting on stage instead of changing lines.
His Forehand Loop, pulled diagonally across, happened to be in the backhand position of Pike.
This time Pike didn't even need to forcefully move it, he twisted it with his backhand again.
The ball was still fast and fierce, forcing Wang Chao to pull the ball hard with his forehand again.
At this time, the ball was actually coming out of the billiard ball. Pike took a step back, but his body still maintained a unique forward leaning posture, his arms moved forward to meet him, and he pulled back heavily.
Counter-pull and counter-twist are essentially the same technique, but there are changes in the degree of force and range of motion. The reason why twisting the ball is a killer is because the distance is close enough, the suddenness is very strong, and the rotation and route are difficult to judge. As for the counter-pull...
The backhand pull of most players in this world is actually just excessive, because the power that the backhand can produce cannot be compared to the forehand punch.
But there are still very few exceptions.
Pike happens to be one of these people.
His forward looping ball also had unique spin and speed, and had a heavier force than the twisting ball close to the table, so Wang Chao had to retreat.
The quality of this reverse pull was too high, just like a raptor crossing a river. If he didn't retreat, he was sure he wouldn't be able to suppress the momentum of the ball.
Wang Chao took a step back, quickly moved sideways, and tried his best to hit the board with a forehand.
This board cannot be called a rush attack, it can only be called a forced attack.
Facing this ball, if he is still reluctant to exert his strength, he has only two options, either to draw a high-hanging arc to ensure the chance of getting on the court, or to simply cut it.
Facing a monster like Pike, whose backhand can directly hit the mid-range stalemate, pulling a high loop is no different from seeking death, and cutting a board... unless he can completely resolve such a fierce ball situation and perfectly create a short backspin.
Wang Chao thought he couldn't do this, so he could only rush with all his strength and use his stronger strength to forcefully offset the power Pike exerted on the ball.
Pike's racket was directly forward, without hitting or pulling, and hit a super-fast return ball close to the table, which landed directly on the left side of the net at a wide angle.
This is very smart.
If he and Wang Chao compete in a stalemate, although the European players will not suffer in this regard, it will still turn the initiative into a stalemate, and the gains outweigh the losses.
And he directly increased the speed and angle, forcing Wang Chao to run quickly to save the ball immediately after the explosion. In this way, Wang Chao's body could be forced to lose balance under the dual pressure of fierce exertion and full sprint.
This is the favorite tactic of Asian players. They try to make the opponent make forced errors. Pike uses this little tactic to appear very skilled.
Wang Chao had no choice but to go around the left side of the table with all his strength to save the ball that had fallen below the table.
He showed excellent touch. He gently picked up the ball and it passed the net with almost no flaw.
But Pike just went around the edge of the table and made an effortless pick. He hit the ball to a wide angle on the other side and scored easily.
1:0, Pike won the game.
Today, the leaders of the Huaping coaching staff were very quiet. They did not have any expression fluctuations because of the lost point, and they did not even whisper to each other.
Because after the game against Bayer, the big guys all reflected on it.
It must be admitted that when Wang Chao played Bayer, the Chinese table tennis coaching staff and the European coaching staff paid different attention to it.
Cai Guodong's idea is actually very simple. Sun Tianlong hitting Bayer is like a father hitting his son. You Wang Chao are capable enough to imitate Sun Tianlong perfectly. Then when you hit Bayer, even if your father is not hitting your son, you are still your uncle hitting your nephew, right?
So he did take it lightly.
What's more, who could have expected that the Europeans would suddenly launch a joint operation?
"Targeted research" is inherently unpredictable, because athletes' habits and flaws are two completely different things. Flaws need to be corrected, but habits are not right or wrong.
But habits can still be targeted. After all, there are no perfect tactics or perfect players in this world.
You can't always predict before every game that the opponent will conduct targeted research on you. You also have to predict the depth of the opponent's research and what habits of yours they will use, and then counterattack.
This is something that is simply impossible to do, because it represents too much energy cost and time cost, which will make the Chinese table tennis coaches who are already working at full capacity directly tired to death, and will also force players who could easily win to force themselves to make very awkward adjustments to their habits. In serious cases, it will even affect the player's competitive state and cause him to suddenly lose power.
To give a simple example, you are playing a Bronze game in LoL, and it is clear that the opponent will die if you use a skill. Should you predict that he will suddenly change to a king power leveler, and then he will play an infinite level of psychological game with you based on the skill you use?
Should you directly use a skill to knock him down, or should you first use a clever flash to trick him into flashing, then deliberately place the skill crookedly to predict his position, and finally use the gap when he is dodging skills to approach him and hit him with a flat A that cannot be avoided?
If you really want to do this, no one will think you are an expert, and everyone will think you are probably sick...
Ok, let's get down to business.
In fact, the Europeans also paid a huge cost of time and energy for that game.
Therefore, in the face of this kind of targeted research, the only thing we can do is to find ways to solve the problem.
But in fact, the coaching staff of China Table Tennis Team didn't even do this, because Cai Guodong and others had already had conceptual differences with He Jingping before the game, which led to He Jingping not listening to Cai Guodong at all on the court.
Cai Guodong thought very well. He felt that if he really encountered difficulties on the field, the most he could do was to quickly ask Wang Chao to change his playing style. In the world competitions over the years, Huaping has done this kind of experimental tactics.
But he didn't expect that at the critical moment, He Jingping would directly turn into an iron-headed boy.
At that time, if he really dared to rely on his status to suppress others, He Jingping would really dare to report to the referee and request that the troublemaker Cai Guodong be temporarily removed from the field.
Yes, Old He is such a cool person.
Therefore, Cai Guodong did not dare to mess around for fear of losing face, and was completely devastated because of this accident.
Fortunately, Wang Chao won in the end, but the way he won was completely different from what Cai Guodong had imagined.
The big bosses of Huaping are usually very stubborn. That's because their knowledge is indeed at the top of the planet. There are very few people who can see further and make more correct judgments than them.
But they are not stubborn. When they find that things are completely unexpected but have a happy ending, they realize that they have made a mistake.
So they calmed down and reanalyzed Wang Chao and his battle with Bayer.
After taking off the filter of inherent prejudice, they could easily see the truth about Wang Chao's super evolution again, and also understand Wang Chao's intention to fight like this.
In fact, it's what Wang Chao said in his own mind: If I use Sun Tianlong's tactics to defeat Bayer, then when I encounter Sun Tianlong in the future, whose tactics should I use?
The coaches realized: This kid is too ambitious and we are underestimating him.
In this case, the coaches chose to let go and only let He Jingping communicate with Wang Chao.
When the internal conflicts were resolved, Old He changed from an iron-headed boy to a good boy again. After all, he was just upright and not a fool. Is it possible that he still had to go against Cai Guodong?
So before the finals, Old He took the initiative to ask Wang Chao for advice. Wang Chao's answer was, "Don't worry, I know how to play."
Old He didn't ask any questions and directly conveyed the original words to Cai Guodong.
Cai Guodong is relieved.
Although he still didn't know how Wang Chao was going to play, after the entire coaching staff was continuously crushed by Wang Chao in terms of ability and knowledge, he also understood that there were some things that he couldn't control, and all he could do was trust.
So the score of 1:0 in front of us is a bit of a surprise.
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