Luo Jiu's state suddenly became depressed.
It is actually very clear whether a player has the desire to fight on the field.
Although Luo Jiu kept losing in the first three games, and although he was hit on the head by Hook and his nose was bruised and swollen, he was at least unyielding. He tried his best to think of a solution for every ball. Even if he lost, he would never sigh. Instead, he kept shouting to cheer himself up.
But now, Luo Jiu, who has returned to the competition, looks like his bones have been removed. His head is drooped, his energy is weak, his eyes are lifeless, and he already looks like a zombie.
He slowly walked back to the table, and the referee threw the ball to him, but he seemed to have a brain short-circuit. He stayed for a while and threw the ball directly to the opposite table.
The referee quickly blew the whistle, signaling Luo Jiu's violation and issued a yellow card.
You must know that Hook got the right to serve first in the first game. According to the rules of service rotation, Luo Jiu should have served first in this game. As a result, Hook on the opposite side was squatting like a toad, but he did not serve well and threw the ball directly. It was clear that he had made a mistake and wanted Hook to serve.
How far do you think this distraction has gone?
In this case, it is okay for the referee to just give him a red card and impose a penalty, but it was probably because Luo Jiu was beaten too badly today, so the referee still showed mercy and only gave him a yellow card to warn him not to cause trouble again.
Behind the baffle, the faces of all Huaping bosses were not good-looking.
Behind the baffle on the opposite side, Rohlskov and others were so excited that they almost stood up and sang a war song.
Everyone can see that Luo Jiu has been fooled.
Everyone thinks this is normal.
If it were any other person, being tortured by the other party's completely unreasonable tactics for half an hour, he would almost collapse.
It is true that Chinese table tennis players are generally more resilient, but Luo Jiu is an exception, because he has been on the cusp of technical reform in the past. He has really not played many good games in the past seven years, and the coaching staff has almost never put a heavier burden on him. Therefore, his ability to withstand pressure is not enough.
Well, the above are all opinions from the outside world.
Luo Jiu himself was smiling bitterly in his heart. He was thinking, Junior Brother, Junior Brother, I am gambling for my lifetime fame. If the method you give does not work, my image in Old Cai's mind will probably plummet.
We were also facing Hook in the finals. Hook was also playing like crazy, but Dragon Team was able to find a chance to win through the cracks. But you, Luo Jiu, not only didn't win a single round, but were beaten to the point of losing your soul. Do you think this contrast is strong enough?
The distracted Luo Jiu regained the right to serve and served a very strange ball.
This ball was soft and weak, but it was not backspin, but a topspin ball. However, judging from the force exerted, the ball must have landed close to the ball, and the spin was not strong. It looked like Luo Jiu had given up resistance, so he served a strange ball, hoping to quickly finish the last round.
Hook assumed the classic pose of a toad squatting, feeling deep down that this was an opportunity.
After all, he dared to hit even the short backspin that Luo Jiu seriously played. He didn't even have to think about this kind of topspin near-point shot. He only had to wait for the ball to come over, and he could turn into a toad to catch flying insects, explode in an instant, and complete the strong kill.
However, the ball missed the net, and the referee blew his whistle to signal for a re-serve.
Hook had to squat down again and concentrate on waiting for the next opportunity for the toad to catch flying insects.
However, Luo Jiu missed the net again on his second serve.
Hook had to return to the toad squatting position again, waiting for the opportunity.
Luo Jiu served for the third time and still missed the net.
By this time, a low buzz could be heard in the audience.
Things like serving and wiping the net are particularly irritating, because the beauty of a table tennis game is largely reflected in power, rotation, arc and smoothness. Serving and wiping the net is like cutting off a very smooth movement in the middle and jamming it. The key is that you can't continue playing after the jam is over, because wiping the net is considered invalid and it is judged as a re-serve.
Luo Jiu wiped the network three times in a row, that is, it was stuck three times.
Modern people are very particular about a viewing experience. For example, you can often see titles starting with "Extreme Comfort" on various video websites. If you click on it, you will see that large chunks of extremely difficult-to-remove dirt are washed away, or a whole piece of honey is scraped from beginning to end with a spoon in an extremely smooth manner, or a rotten tooth covered with caries, black spots and yellow spots is powerfully repaired and becomes as white as new.
This is a sensory experience, very mysterious, but it is really related to the mood.
For Hook, this thing is also related to status.
Hook himself is an intuitive and instinctive player. In the first three games, he played Luo Jiu. Luo Jiu struggled very hard. The balls he hit were of super high quality, fast, spinning and heavy. He was constantly stimulated by such super high quality balls and became more and more excited. When he was strong, he got stronger, so of course he hit many magic balls.
This situation is common in all sports fields. It is often when you encounter a strong opponent that you will perform exceptionally well and finally achieve a famous game. If the opponent is very bad, then even if you play a crushing game, your performance will be normal at best. You may even relax your vigilance when the opponent is bad, and you will make many irrelevant mistakes.
But now Hook has encountered the opposite problem. His touch is hot, but Luo Jiu's continuous serves are ineffective, but it seems that he keeps shouting stop at his excitement point. If we must make a metaphor, it is probably equivalent to the reader reading a novel. After finally finishing all the preliminary foreshadowing, foil, and rendering, the climax is about to come, but the author breaks the chapter.
The reader waited patiently until the next day, thinking that today I would finally be able to watch the climax, but when he went in and took a look, the author's updated chapter actually "divided the words into two parts, each with a branch", telling a story about a supporting character in another place.
The reader thinks, I can bear it, although this author is getting more and more bad, but after all, this book is good-looking, and I will continue to wait for the final climax.
Finally, on the third day, I saw that the story about the supporting characters was also finished. It was time to write the climax, right?
When I checked in, the author said, "Sorry readers, my aunt came here recently and I really don't have time to write, so I can only stop updating for two days."
How do you think the readers feel at this time?
Should I continue to wait patiently and force myself to ignore the fact that the author is a man and does not have an aunt, or should I just choose to take it off the shelves, stop subscribing, leave comments and criticize, and part ways?
Even if the author finally wants to write a climax, readers probably won't want to read it because the emotion will be lost.
Now it's the playing field. Hook can't give Luo Jiu a try. He can only try to keep his mind calm and wait for Luo Jiu's fourth serve.
Then Luo Jiu wiped the Internet again...
By this time, everyone realized something was wrong.
It's not that no one in the international arena has served many times ineffectively, but it's usually because he wants to serve a powerful enough ball that his control of the ball is not precise enough, so he will wipe the net. But now, Luo Jiu, it seems that he is deliberately wiping the net?
In fact, wiping the tennis ball is not so easy to serve. As mentioned in the previous article, no matter whether you are wiping the edge or wiping the net, you need to master the accuracy of the ball's landing point to the limit, but that is talking about the process of playing, not the serving.
The accuracy of serving is still much easier to control than hitting the ball.
Moreover, Luo Jiu is a thief, he chooses to serve topspin.
It was obviously a near-short ball, but why was it topspin instead of backspin?
At first, the audience just thought this serve was strange, but now many experts have understood that it is because the topspin ball can crawl through the net.
Yes, as long as there is enough rotation, even if the ball hits the net in a less precise position, as long as it is roughly within a certain area and the rotation is in place, the ball can actually "climb" over.
In this way, the accuracy that Luo Jiu really wants to control is actually to make the ball fly above a certain height line of the net without capping it.
If it goes directly over the net, it's a normal serve.
And if you don't cross over, then it's just a passing edge anyway.
The reason why his serve is weak is because reducing the force can make the control more precise.
Of course, even if the difficulty is reduced to this level, not everyone can serve this kind of ball, but don't forget, Luo Jiu is a person with subtle talents after all.
Although his short swing level on the table is not as good as Dragon Team due to experience and technical issues, but in terms of pure accuracy of ball control on the table, he should be the best in the world at this stage, there is no doubt.
Therefore, four consecutive serves that hit the net were indeed intentional.
The buzz in the audience became more and more obvious, but Luo Jiu never tired of it and hit the net with his fifth serve.
The sixth time... He wanted to clean the net, but he didn't control it well and accidentally served the ball over the net.
This is a serve with no quality at all. If it were Hook from the previous game, he would definitely come around the table and hit the ball so hard that Luo Jiu wouldn't even have a chance to react.
But Hook is tired now.
For him, what happened in the past two minutes was like a Brazilian version of "The Wolf is Coming". The wolf came five times and turned back halfway. The sixth time, he didn't bother to fight the wolf at all, and the wolf really came.
But it didn't matter. It was just a missed attack opportunity. Hook quickly concentrated and passed the ball at will.
Although his touch was good, his technique was rough. The swing was neither close enough nor low enough, and it didn't turn. It landed directly on the center of Luo Jiu's forehand position.
This is definitely a God-given opportunity to attack.
Hook subconsciously took two steps back and concentrated on waiting for Luo Jiu to charge sideways.
This ball is very dangerous and stressful, but Hook is not afraid, but is slightly excited, because he has encountered this situation many times in the previous three games, but as long as he defends hard enough and rescues desperately enough, he is fully capable of blocking Luo Jiu's full-out attack, and then looking for opportunities to force the board to complete the counterattack.
For him, this kind of ball is the most difficult and exciting thing in Ping Pong World.
He waits to surpass himself!
But Luo Jiu seemed to have not seen this opportunity. The ball was clearly right under his nose, but he still looked listless. When he stretched out the racket, he paused for a moment. That look was like a third-rate player who wanted to hit but didn't dare to hit, looking forward and backward.
Because of this hesitation, he missed a good opportunity and finally returned the ball feebly.
It's still a soft ball with only a little spin.
Hook was a little depressed by him.
If the ball could simply be placed better and rotated a little more, the difficulty would make Hook want to give it a serious challenge, but the ball was so boring that Hook felt a little discouraged for a moment.
He couldn't cheer up.
So in the end he just put the ball back.
Luo Jiu didn't even bother to show off this time, and just picked on the stage gently.
Note, it's not a violent pick, not a quick pick, it's a gentle pick.
If I had to describe it, it would be like the nondescript response made by amateur players who dare not directly attack when facing a ball in the table, but also want to adopt an offensive posture.
Although this ball was bad, to be honest, it resonated very strongly because many viewers laughed at it.
Why?
Because they often encounter this situation when playing basketball.
It was obvious that I was going to hit the ball directly when I served, but the ball returned by the opponent was a little unexpected, so I didn't dare to hit the ball, but I was not willing to switch to rubbing the ball, so I flicked it.
Hook just felt tired. The originally hot feeling had completely cooled down unconsciously. He was not stupid. He knew that this situation was wrong, so he yelled, forcibly stimulating his emotions, and then he went up to him and beat him regardless.
Off the Internet...
This ball is really easy to hit, but Hook made a very low-level mistake. His movement posture was not correct enough, and his force was not accurate enough. It looked like he committed suicide on purpose.
Rohlskov, who was originally smiling and watching the excitement, suddenly felt a thump in his heart at this moment, feeling that something was not good.
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