Let us turn our attention back to China Tianfu City.
8 goals and 4 goals were scored in the final game between Bayer and Hook.
In a sense, this should be the most important game for European fans, because it is an absolute battle between the old king and the new king.
Everyone knows that Hook who plays crazy is invincible, but at the same time, everyone knows that Hook usually falls apart before reaching the semi-finals.
So in this game, more people actually support Bayer.
Bayer himself has worked very hard. He has seen a large number of newcomers rise over the past year, and he has vaguely realized that he can't play for a few more years. The table tennis world may soon enter a new era, and a large number of old people will become the front wave that is photographed on the beach.
So he plans to work hard for a year while he can still play, and then retire.
Anyway, he has become famous and has wealth and freedom.
He played this game more seriously than every other game in the past, because he had the idea of fighting and refused to play purely health-preserving games.
He began to attack Hook, started running with all his strength to save the ball, and tried to seize every opportunity.
He knows how to beat Hook because he has played against Hook many times in Europe. He has seen everything from Hook's youthfulness when he debuted to his current maturity.
What's more, he saw how Sun Tianlong played against Hook in the Oman Open finals last year. He also knew how to seize every small opportunity to steal points, because he was also a simplified version of the hexagonal warrior.
But after seventy-five long minutes, Bayer was still defeated in the end, with a score of 3:4, a narrow defeat.
In fact, today's game was quite enjoyable because it was a stalemate situation where both sides were evenly matched. Bayer was exhausted from playing this game, but he really couldn't contain Hook's crazy desire to attack.
In fact, he did not want to stop Hook from the front. He just hoped that it would be enough to cause Hook to collapse naturally.
But today, Hook is more tenacious than ever. Although his playing style is still rough, his condition is still quite good, and he can always hit various high-quality magic balls.
So in the end, Bayer's physical strength couldn't keep up.
The biggest x factor in the world table tennis has reached the semi-finals just like this.
According to the grouping of the upper and lower halves, the next ones will be Luo Jiu vs Morad, Lin Zijun vs Hook.
These two games will be held this afternoon, and the final will be held tomorrow morning.
So at noon that day, three coaches from Europe gathered in a small room again.
They plan to tailor a set of targeted tactics for Morad to defeat Luo Jiu.
After all, Morad has shown his excellent touch and mind. A player like him, with the aura of Old Wa, can completely implement good tactics.
The world table tennis community's estimate of China Open's situation generally believes that Luo Jiu is facing a more dangerous situation than Wang Chao last month.
Wang Chao played Michel in the semifinals, while Luo Jiu played Morad.
Morad is very smart, and the octagonal racket is unique in the world, which means that everyone will not adapt to this racket. In addition, his style is completely different from the new generation players. He has a stable backhand and an explosive forehand, but his playing style is the non-retreating style of the new generation, so the combination of these two characteristics looks very different, which makes opponents more uncomfortable with him.
He also has an extremely good touch, and can occasionally play strange and unconstrained balls according to circumstances, which makes his ball path more accidental.
All in all, if a player like him wants to protect the throne, he may not have enough stability, but if he is used to attack the throne, then the large amount of chance in him will become the best weapon.
The European Forum gave the two sides a winning rate of 61% and 39% before the game. This data is actually not disparate. A large number of European fans believe that Morad is full of opportunities.
But at 2:30 that afternoon, the first game of the semi-finals came to an end. Morad was swept by Luo Jiu 4:0 in just 30 minutes, and European fans were speechless.
This game was probably the only bright spot in the avalanche of Huaping in the past two days. After the game, someone saw the head coach Cai Guodong sitting in the front row of the audience showing a smile and couldn't help but stand up and applaud.
"Luo Jiu is so strong?"
"This is impossible! We have obviously found a lot of details of his habits in his playing style and made perfect targets."
"There is no problem with Morad's performance. He also followed our tactics."
"But all the tricks seem to have lost their meaning with Luo Jiu. Why is that?"
"Is it true, as the legend says, that Huaping will cheat at the last minute?"
"They only have one. It used to be dedicated to Sun Tianlong, but this time Sun Tianlong didn't participate, so it was lent to Luo Jiu."
"This is very reasonable. Just because he lost his link, Sun Tianlong lost to Wang Chao in yesterday's Table Tennis Super League."
"It's real!"
"No, the truth is, Wang Chao also has a hanger! This is a mother-and-son hanger. Luo Jiu holds the mother one, and Wang Chao holds the small one."
"Yes, I heard that the Qin Clan has been controlling this hanging for seven years. The time limit is up, and now the Zhu Clan has taken it away."
"No wonder He Jingping has been dancing like this in the past year, that's it!"
European fans began to make up their own minds. Although they were disappointed, they were not too frustrated. After all, they had become accustomed to it over the years, so making up their minds became a game of ridicule and fun for the whole country.
"Huaping's hook" is an evergreen meme that has been circulated for more than 20 years.
Only Morad is very depressed.
In fact, his ambition is as high as the sky. This time he came to win the championship. Outsiders said that he only had a 40% winning rate against Luo Jiu, but he himself thought it was 80%. In the end, when he actually fought, it turned out to be 0%.
He didn't understand why.
But actually it's because the player characteristics of Luo Jiu and Wang Chao are completely different.
Wang Chao is indeed faster in learning techniques than Luo Jiu, and He Jingping's double-sided loop ball system is indeed more authentic than Luo Jiu's. But if anyone has a deeper understanding of the essence of this system, it is definitely not Wang Chao, but Luo Jiu.
After all, Luo Jiu has been practicing this set of things for seven years without interruption.
He was able to successfully change the rubber technology in just two months because he had a deep understanding of the system, so when the system was adjusted, he could adapt as quickly as possible.
His backhand no longer loops, but all his understanding of loops is still intact.
Then let's talk about the technology of Morad.
Morad is a typical double-sided loop ball technology.
In fact, 99.99% of all new-generation players in the world's table tennis world today use a double-sided looping attack system with no blind spots, as long as they use horizontal shots.
If we use the container theory for comparison, then the system of all European players is an independent closed loop. The closed loops may be large or small, but none of them are complete. This is because Europe's technical and tactical research on table tennis is indeed incomplete, and it is difficult for them to come up with a truly complete system on their own.
Only a technical genius like He Jingping, who borrowed the special national system of Huaping, brainstormed and tinkered for seven years, could finally develop this truly complete system. It is the largest closed loop, all-encompassing and all-inclusive.
Wang Chao is currently using this system, and the various variations of routines that come with the system are still used. To describe it as a martial arts realm, this is called "having moves".
If there is a move, there will be a flaw and it will be targeted, so Hong Kong Open, he was almost defeated by Bayer.
But Luo Jiu has played this system for seven years. In the past, he just suffered from the incompatibility of his playing style with his own characteristics. The problem lies in performance, not understanding.
Now that his playing style is fully integrated with his own characteristics, he has directly entered the "no move" realm.
Therefore, the tactics designed by the European coaching team for Morad are actually meaningless.
Because they designed these tactics for Luo Jiu's recent game videos.
But in fact, the changes in the He Jingping system are enough to support a hundred games without repeating the same thing. This is a matter of permutation and combination. Any permutation is endless.
Therefore, what the European coaching team actually analyzed was only the small part of the iceberg that emerged from the water.
Morad used what they analyzed to fight Luo Jiu. He thought he was very smart, but Luo Jiu saw it and didn't think there was anything novel about Morad's playing style. He only needed to find corresponding changes in his own tactical system and adapt to changes to easily crack it.
From this point of view, the point of view put forward by European countries after being disgusted by Sun Tianlong's backhand is actually right: when playing Chinese table tennis, don't play reasonable balls, but play unreasonable balls.
This double-sided loop ball system is already the biggest reason for the most advanced style of play in the world of table tennis today. Any player who relies on tactics to play will only die if he meets someone like Luo Jiu. The European table tennis world basically does not want to catch up with Huaping in terms of technical and tactical concepts. After all, they do not have a national system, so the only way they want to win is excellent technical and tactical skills + extreme violence.
Fortunately, Europeans do have an advantage in physical strength, so they still have hope.
This can probably be regarded as a kind of balance.
At this time, someone has to ask, since Luo Jiu cannot be defeated by skills and tactics, how did Sun Tianlong win?
The reason is also very simple, because the closed loop of Sun Tianlong is, strictly speaking, larger than the closed loop of Luo Jiu.
His technical and tactical system was created by Qin Huachang. Although it is not as self-contained and logically consistent as the double-sided loop ball system, Sun Tianlong itself is proficient in countless techniques and concepts. He relies on on-site adaptability and the number of changes he can make is by no means inferior to Luo Jiu.
Luo Jiu The reason why Luo Jiu couldn't sleep last night was not because of Morad, but Hook and Sissifield.
As for now, of course only Hook is left.
Luo Jiu prays to Ping-Pong God San Jiang Ge with a pious heart, hoping that Lin Zijun can super evolve the explosive species, defeat Hook, and join him in the finals.
But after a long forty-five minutes, Lin Zijun, who was in excellent condition, was crushed to death by Hook's unreasonable 4:2 ratio.
Lin Zijun played this game with unprecedented bloodiness. He is usually shy and silent, but today he shouted for a vigorous fight. It was obvious that he had received instructions from the coach before the game and was determined to win.
He played really well, and his signature backhand was a feast for the eyes. In addition to the fastest in-table backhand twist in the world, even the off-table backhand has become a phenomenon. From the posture point of view, it is actually somewhat similar to the action of Pike player. The same is to move the hitting point forward, move the body backward, and hit the rising ball.
It can only be said that all super geniuses in the world are the same. Those signature techniques that are said to be unique and cannot be copied, as long as they are willing, they can learn them in detail.
But even so, Lin Zijun still can't beat Hook.
His most powerful backhand twist, almost one-third of the balls were blocked by Hook.
While Hook's forehand exploded, Lin Zijun only followed three in six games.
Hook is going crazy.
Don't forget, this brother possesses the triple talents of "extreme speed", "strange strength" and "subtlety". When he activates to the extreme, theoretically speaking, almost no one can beat him to death.
No matter how fast the ball is, he can save it with his extreme speed.
No matter how heavy the ball is, he can force it back with his uncanny strength.
As for those balls whose spin cannot be judged clearly, he will touch the ball first, and then use his talent for subtlety to feel the power changes on the ball within a tenth of a second after touching the ball, and make a belated rescue.
Although this kind of rescue was very embarrassing, it still allowed him to save a lot of goals.
In fact, it doesn't matter how many goals you save. What's important is that this kind of play will really knock people out.
Lin Zijun was almost destroyed.
In the fifth game, he once again used Asian Evil Arts. He closed his eyes for ten seconds, causing the audience to cheer, but it was useless after opening his eyes.
Lin Zijun Although he looks weak, his mind is actually extremely strong. He never collapsed from the beginning to the end. He was simply unable to defeat and was defeated.
When he walked off the court, the unwillingness on Lin Zijun's face was so obvious that anyone could see it.
He is convinced that this is the best game he has played since his debut.
He used to be able to finish second when he was not in such good condition, but today he was in unparalleled form, but he couldn't even make it to the finals.
He really wanted to touch Luo Jiu, because Wang Shou, the new head coach of Imperial Capital New City Team, told him: Theoretically, no technical player can beat Luo Jiu. Luo Jiu has already achieved great success. At the tactical level, he is already invincible.
Lin Zijun didn't believe it and asked Wang Shou why.
What Wang Shou explained to him at that time was the container theory of Cai Guodong, and finally told Lin Zijun that the reason why Sun Tianlong is the only one in the world that can compete with Luo Jiu is precisely because Sun Tianlong has the same huge closed loop.
Lin Zijun was stunned by this theory.
He grew up in Bay Island and was treasured by Jiang Peirong. He was the world runner-up when he debuted. Although he was humble on the outside, he was arrogant on the inside. He thought he had learned all Coach Jiang's ideas. He thought he was at least a master of tactics. But that day, he realized that there was indeed an insurmountable gap in tactical theory research between the Table Tennis Associations around the world and Hua Ping Tong.
Then he eagerly wanted to try out what it would be like to fight Luo Jiu, and whether it would be more suffocating than the debut match last year when he met Sun Tianlong.
But he didn't stand a chance.
As he walked off the field, he suddenly remembered Wang Chao.
He remembered that Wang Chao defeated Sun Tianlong yesterday.
He also knew that Wang Chao showed unique and outstanding skills in the world, causing an earthquake in the table tennis world.
He vaguely realized that perhaps the all-encompassing technology displayed by Wang Chao represented the legendary closed loop?
Lin Zijun suddenly felt a strong impulse at this moment. He wanted to fly directly to Jiangcheng City and have a good fight with the current Wang Chao.
Thanks to "Otcigatz" and "Pipi Xia Zhuang" for the tip.