The fourteenth ball of the first innings continues.
The audience today is very lucky, because what they see at this moment may have never been seen before in the century-long history of table tennis competitions.
Because the world finally has a peerless person like Sun Tianlong who is proficient in all technologies.
He is the only one who has succeeded in inheriting the past and opening up the future.
Theoretically, there can only be one such master in an era - unless someone cheats.
Then a cheater really came from a parallel world, carrying the world's top concepts and technologies from the sky. Even because of the inexplicable mysterious power of time travel, the body he obtained was forcibly endowed with unreasonable learning abilities.
So he obtained the same technology as Sun Tianlong.
In terms of the actual combat capabilities shown by both sides of this game, it is actually not top-notch, because the current lethality of Wang Chao is at least two levels lower than the peak Hook.
But this is the only purely technical confrontation.
Everyone saw a game in which the ball was controlled to the point of madness.
Sun Tianlong's playing style is ever-changing. Everyone says that his backhand is weak, but so far he has used more than ten completely different techniques with his backhand. Some techniques are so unpopular that even people in the industry have to pause for a moment before they can remember what the name of this move is.
But no matter how he fought, he just couldn't disrupt Wang Chao's rhythm.
In terms of attack power, short-term fighting ability, and defensive ability, Wang Chao still has a long way to go, but in terms of the comprehensiveness of technology and the flexibility of using technology, he can really stand in front of Sun Tianlong on an equal footing.
It was also because of this confidence that he said such words to his mother Wang Mei at the end of last year.
He said that he found a way to play Sun Tianlong because after considering all factors, he really thought he had found a way to play Sun Tianlong.
Brother Da Ma is going crazy because his explanation has turned into repeating the same sentence at the top of his lungs. "Unrivaled Youth presses the backhand at a wide angle! Unrivaled Youth continues to press the backhand at a large angle! Unrivaled Youth is still pressing. Backhand at a big angle! Oh my God, Dragon Team was forced to push forward and hit the ball at a big angle! Still pressing! How many boards is this, my friends?"
The official explanation from the Chinese Table Tennis Association chose another angle. "Sun Tianlong pulled a board back, Sun Tianlong twisted a board, Sun Tianlong rubbed a board backhand, Sun Tianlong was forced to panic. He chose to step back and pull back and spin. Sun Tianlong directly cut sideways. Sun Tianlong chose to hang short. Alas, Sun Tianlong made a rare move. He lightly wiped the board. Let's see Wang Chao. How does respond? Okay, Sun Tianlong directly throws Wang Chao's forehand at a wide angle, is this a deliberate move? He wants to seduce Wang Chao and rush forward, but Wang Chao ignored it. Wow, Sun Tianlong reversed the forward looping ball. Did you see it? Dragon Team reversed the forward looping ball. This was an offensive ball with extra power. He was really anxious. He had never done this before."
When the number of rounds exceeded 20, the director very succinctly pushed the camera to Sun Tianlong's face, taking a super close-up.
Everyone could see clearly that Dragon Team, who had always been calm and silent, was frowning at this moment.
Sun Tianlong is really pissed off!
Before going to Jiangcheng City, Sun Tianlong certainly knew that Wang Chao would definitely choose the tactic of suppressing the backhand.
After all, this is a tactic used by countless people in the world table tennis world. It is obvious like lice on a bald man's head. How could a master tactician like Wang Chao not use it?
But he didn't pay too much attention to this.
Because he really has too much experience in how to protect his backhand.
There are many amazing talents in the world of table tennis, but they can't suppress his backhand.
Don't look at Hans. Bayer's 27-game losing streak against him. In fact, Bayer should be Europe's most comprehensive and super-talented player with the best feel so far. And every time Bayer meets Sun Tianlong, he will undoubtedly suppress the backhand, and every time they meet, he will come up with something new.
All his life, he wanted to break through Sun Tianlong's backhand and win a strategic victory.
Bayer's suppression ability is getting stronger year by year, and Sun Tianlong's backhand protection is getting stronger and stronger, and what he has shown makes the coaches in the European table tennis world more and more desperate.
So later the European table tennis circles changed their thinking. They believed that Sun Tianlong's backhand could not be suppressed at all. If they wanted to beat Sun Tianlong, they had to start elsewhere.
That's why there are Pike from England and Hook from Brazil. They insist on "putting me first", using attack instead of defense, and use their incomparable power and speed to cover up the shortcomings of strategy and tactics and the roughness of the feel.
So they play rougher and make more mistakes, but the quality of the boards is higher, they can play as they please, and they can often hit unreasonable shots.
"On the table, who can speak more truthfully than Huaping? Whose technical research is as comprehensive as Huaping? Since it can't be said, it can't be counted, so let's just overthrow them all." - This is a way for European coaches to find out from the cracks.
This idea is not Gao Ming. By analogy, it is like beating Old Master to death with random punches. Although Old Master will be knocked down by Old Master in most cases, there is indeed a chance to take advantage of Old Master's unpreparedness and punch him in the nose, leaving him stunned.
German head coach Rohlskov's tactical philosophy is very close to that of Huaping. He was once hailed as the most threatening head coach in the world by the Huaping coaching staff. However, precisely because he always insisted on suppressing Sun Tianlong's backhand, it eventually led to Bayer's 27-game losing streak, which also caused head coaches from other European countries to lose confidence in his philosophy.
In fact, with the rise of England and the Brazilians, even Rohlskov's own mentality is wavering. After all, in his mind, Bayer, the only master in Europe, has been faintly suppressed by Pike and Hook in this era.
Even Germany has faintly lost its status as the most powerful country in Europe.
It can be said that the history of suppressing Sun Tianlong's backhand is the history of blood and tears in the world table tennis world. It was actually two years ago that they officially gave up this concept.
Hook also started to rise two years ago.
It was only two years ago that Sun Tianlong realized that his backhand could not be suppressed.
No matter how humble, restrained, and rational he is, he is not a god after all, but a living person. He has single-handedly changed the concept of the entire world table tennis world. In the face of such a great victory, he developed a kind of almost blind confidence. He felt that his backhand might really no longer be suppressed by humans.
Until then.
Until now.
He had tried everything he could think of.
At first, he simply played backhand against Wang Chao, because he remembered that Wang Chao's backhand was not that lethal. Even if he fought against him, he would only be comparing whose technique was more stable.
But Wang Chao ruined his plan by using a high-quality variant stolen from Pike to pull forward and loop the ball.
Although he won that ball, he knew that if he continued to backhand against backhand, Wang Chao would launch killing moves at will, and all he could do was defend.
So he started to speed up, trying to destroy Wang Chao's rhythm by changing the rhythm quickly enough to make Wang Chao's landing point lose its accuracy, but he found that Wang Chao's rhythm was not slower than him at all.
Then he wanted to increase the mass of his backhand appropriately and attack tentatively in order to destroy Wang Chao's control, but he found that his backhand was indeed limited in power and could not break Wang Chao's balance.
During the above test, he demonstrated a dazzling array of skills. Any technique that was unfamiliar to Wang Chao would affect Wang Chao's accuracy in controlling the ball. However, he was extremely surprised to find that Wang Chao could produce skills that were no less than his, changing with changes, and always perfectly resolving all his tricks.
In the end, Sun Tianlong chose to use his most essential backhand technique, which is "cheating".
This deception is no longer a technical thing, but a psychological thing.
Simply put, he started selling flaws.
I give you a forehand without turning the ball. Do you want to give up the backhand and give me a sideways burst?
If that's not enough, I might as well give you a forehand baseline lob. Why don't you give me a blast?
Okay, if you're afraid of bursting and breaking the rhythm, then I'll give you a backhand that's close to the table and high and doesn't turn the ball, but you can give me a backhand twist.
Or, I simply step back from the stage, move my body to the left, and directly leave a gap. If you want to give me a big angle on the forehand baseline, maybe I won't be able to run through.
All he gives are opportunities to score, which is a real delicious bait. In fact, such deception is a double-edged sword for Sun Tianlong himself. Once the opponent's offensive quality is high enough, he can really score.
Of course, the higher the offensive quality, the stronger the force, and the weaker the ball control. When the ball is shot, whether the ball can be blocked or not, it means that the opponent's control of the ball is over.
——Wang Chao is proud enough to be able to force Sun Tianlong to take the initiative to show his double-edged sword, because for so many years in the international arena, only Bayer and a few others have ever forced Sun Tianlong to this point.
But Wang Chao refused to take the bait. He firmly suppressed Sun Tianlong's backhand and did not move at all.
He is active and Sun Tianlong is passive. Even if it is a stalemate now, he still has an advantage, so he maintains this advantage and is not in a hurry to score, just for the stalemate.
This is also a psychological consideration. If he wants to defeat Sun Tianlong, just scoring one point is meaningless, but if he can mess up Sun Tianlong's mentality, it will be of great significance.
He succeeded.
This situation continued endlessly, making Sun Tianlong feel anxious for the first time in many years.
In the past, Dragon Team had a stable mentality no matter the situation was good or bad, because he always occupied the commanding heights strategically. Even if he lost points, it was because of technical factors or injuries.
For example, the points he lost when playing against Hook all came from Hook's unreasonable fighting, but the truth of these goals was actually on Sun Tianlong's side.
As the Europeans say, "Who can talk about table tennis better than Hua Ping?"
Sun Tianlong is always the biggest truth on the field.
It is precisely because of this that Qin Huachang feels regretful, because he feels that Dragon Team has peerless swordsmanship, but the opponent is covered in iron and only relies on brute force to collide. This is a very disgraceful thing and has no sense of beauty at all.
Even if the peerless swordsman is hit by a bull and vomits blood, his mentality is still aloof.
But today Sun Tianlong is strategically held down by Wang Chao.
It was like he had successfully performed a peerless swordsmanship, but every move he made was broken.
This kind of frustration from the IQ and technical level is difficult for even Sun Tianlong to ignore.
He took a deep breath and felt the blood all over his body boiling slightly at this moment.
At this time, Wang Chao made another forward looping forehand ball that hit Sun Tianlong's backhand at a wide angle.
Sun Tianlong no longer simply uses force to bring the ball back, but directly steps back, moves to the left, squats, sinks his arms, stares at the flying ball, adjusts his position, takes one step back, and half a step back.
At this time, the ball's power has been exhausted, its rotation has weakened, and it has begun to fall from the highest point, almost falling below the table.
Sun Tianlong's arms were fully extended, and he drove the racket upward from the lower left side of his body. With a low roar, his body leaned back, his thighs violently grabbed the ground, his waist was straightened, and the racket was swung directly from the bottom to the height of his head.
This is a very complete, very stretched, very smooth backhand strong pull. In order to ensure that the ball is pulled up from below the plane, the racket rubs against the ball very deeply and the ball is in contact with the ball for a long enough time. The ball is almost forcibly scraped up from a low place invisible to the sight, drawing a very steep curve, just like Divine Dragon Emerging from Water.
There is no doubt that Dragon Team didn't hold back, he studded.
Seeing the ball rising all the way from the blind spot of his sight, hitting his face like thunder, Wang Chao was shocked, and even felt a little numb.
The quality of this ball is too high.
Generally speaking, the power of the backhand pull is lower than that of the forehand punch, and the power of the force from the middle table is lower than that from the near table. However, this ball Dragon Team is obviously a forcible pull from the backhand table, but because the posture is too smooth and the force is too thorough, it has a terrifying power that can only be pulled out by a sideways blast from the forehand table.
The most terrible thing is that the ball is pulled up from below the horizontal plane, so the first half of Dragon Team's pulled ball is completely hidden under the table. Wang Chao cannot see the details at all, so it is impossible to judge what kind of side spin the ball has in addition to top spin.
At this moment, Wang Chao officially lost possession of the ball.
He could only take two steps back to avoid the most powerful moment of the ball, then turned sideways and made a desperate charge.
He still couldn't determine the specific rotation of the ball, but he could use force to overcome skill. As long as he was strong enough, he could forcefully offset part of the opponent's force.
Of course, the effect caused by the rotation is still there, which will cause the ball Wang Chao to pull over to land at a different point than expected and will deviate.
Therefore, the ball Wang Chao can only be played towards the center of the table. In this case, whether it deviates left or right, it will not come out.
Then he saw Sun Tianlong jump in front of the table like a tiger, facing the ball he pulled over, and hit it hard with a forehand.
At this moment, Dragon Team's heart cleared.
He was suppressed for more than a minute. His right hand was already holding it in so much that he finally pulled it out.
So he roared with excitement.
This kind of passionate and uncontrollable scene is extremely rare for Dragon Team in international competitions.
This board beat Wang Chao to death.
10:4.
Wang Chao stood in front of the table, completely confused.
He almost thought he had really caught Dragon Team's weakness, but at the last moment, he still lost control.
Losing control once is not terrible. What is terrible is that accidentally forcing out some terrible things from Sun Tianlong.
It turns out that Dragon Team's backhand position is not without a kill board, he just can't find a point of force close to the table, and when he is willing to give up reasoning and go all out to exert force, he actually has such a terrifying counter-pull in the middle table.
It's simply scarier than the reverse pull of Zou Zhengyu.
But Wang Chao quickly figured out the reason.
Yes, this is reasonable.
Dragon Team's posture is recognized as the most standard within Huaping, and he has never had any problems with his understanding of force. The reason why his backhand is not lethal is actually due to the lack of pure strength and explosive power of his body, rather than any technical omissions on his part.
So when he steps back far enough, theoretically, he will have enough room to move and completely round his arms. With the help of waist and leg strength, he can certainly pull out the ball to this extent without technical bottlenecks.
It's just that this kind of ball is completely out of control, and once it is hit, it is left to fate. This is not in line with Dragon Team's playing style, and no one has forced him to this point before, so he doesn't want to play like this at all.
In addition, Wang Chao also discovered a frustrating fact: Sun Tianlong's physical fitness is actually better than his own.
Yes, Dragon Team only has injuries and physical decline due to age, but the strength and explosive power his body has developed over more than ten years are actually far superior to Wang Chao at this stage.
Especially the continuous explosive power.
Therefore, after a terrifying counter-pull, he still had the energy to follow up with a forehand burst, but Wang Chao lost his rhythm after the first burst, and was still defeated in the end.
So far in this round, Wang Chao has lost two consecutive endgames.
The first time was when he used Pike-style backhand loop to carry out a sneak attack, and was saved by Sun Tianlong in a hurry. At this time, Wang Chao took the initiative, but due to lack of experience, he forced himself to use force, but Dragon Team took advantage of it and lost a point.
The second time is now, and he lost without any suspense in a pure and continuous explosive confrontation.
With some opponents, you really don't know how strong they are until you face them.
Wang Chao thinks that he is unparalleled in terms of tactical concepts because he once had a disciple like Sun Tianlong in his previous life. He coached countless games off the court and thought he could understand every correct detail of every ball.
He thought that his endgame ability was not inferior to Sun Tianlong.
But now he understands that player experience and coaching experience are not completely interchangeable.
In that flash of lightning, you don't have time to think at all. All your reactions are based on instinct, and instinct can only be formed in countless actual battles.
His instincts were not as good as Sun Tianlong, so he couldn't find the only correct solution in the endgame, lost two points that he shouldn't have lost, and wasted the opportunity that he worked so hard to find.
From 8:4 to 10:4, not to 8:6, this painful two points was a lesson he would never forget.
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