Soon, Ichikawa Mima won the second game 11:5 without any danger. At this point, she led the game 2:0.
The scores of the first two games were exactly the same, but this did not mean that the difficulty of the two games was exactly the same. In fact, Ichikawa Mima's expression gradually became serious at this moment, which was very different from the cheerful look she had in the first game.
She has a character who can't hide things in her heart. When she wins, she can't help but smile on her face. And because she looks a little weird, her eyes are turned up and the whites of her eyes are easily exposed, so this smile falls on the director's lens, and after magnification, it is interpreted by the fans to have various complex meanings. Most foreign fans just think she is strange, but overall they still support her. After all, people always sympathize with the weak. In addition to shaking M, normal people hope that the brave can defeat the evil dragon.
But the Chinese fans' speculations about her are rather malicious. Perhaps because she really poses a threat to Chinese Women's National Table Tennis Team, the Chinese fans will instinctively feel disgusted when they see her smile and always think she is evil.
And because she always laughs when she has an advantage, she gives people the feeling of being smug and a villain. Therefore, Chinese fans are generally full of malice towards her. At first, they only judged her playing style as being eccentric and difficult to be elegant. Later, they began to judge her appearance, her movements, and her words and deeds, all of which were observed under a magnifying glass.
"Laugh, laugh, laugh at your paralysis."
"Make her laugh, and then beat her until she can't even cry."
"Hahaha, Big Head Yichuan is home."
"Hahaha, Big Head Yichuan is home again."
"Hahaha, Big Head Yichuan was eliminated without even meeting a Chinese player."
"I made you laugh, I made you laugh, can you still laugh? Cry for me!"
Remarks like this have been very common in the past six months.
In fact, this is unfair to her, because strictly speaking, she is just an eighteen-year-old girl. As an athlete, her personality is not that complicated. She is just not good at hiding her own emotions and taking care of others' emotions.
Before her, Sakura Country, the two generations of female table tennis leaders, Mizuhara Koai and Hayakawa Junko, both had very high emotional intelligence. They had been training in China for a long time and had a very good relationship with the Chinese provincial team and national team players. Although They compete on their own in the field, but they are like sisters afterward. Each of them even speaks fluent Chinese, and Mizuhara Koai still has a pure Northeastern accent. Under the influence of the two of them, Chinese has become the second communication language even within Sakura Country female table tennis.
Of course, there may be another reason why these two people are loved by Chinese fans, that is, they always give points to Chinese players...
For example, Bayer is the special vagina for Sun Tianlong. These two are also the special vagina for Great Demon King, the two previous generations of female table tennis players. This is where the joke about being beaten to tears comes from.
In any case, seeing Ichikawa Mima no longer smiling, the Chinese audience in front of the screen generally felt relieved.
When the third game started, Tang Yuanyuan adjusted his tactics.
She began to retreat more and use depth to break the speed. This idea is essentially the same as Michel playing Gao Mingyuan this morning.
But the strange thing is that Michel is tall and a man, so he can do this, but Tang Yuanyuan is only a little over 16 meters tall, a little girl with thin arms and legs, actually does this.
The most amazing thing is that what she did actually had a certain effect.
When she retreated from the stage, Ichikawa Mima failed to kill her with several consecutive strong attacks. Instead, she found an opportunity to forcefully pull out several forward loops from the middle stage. Then the biggest flaw of Ichikawa Mima's style of play was exposed.
Ichikawa Mima is really not good at spin. Faced with Tang Yuanyuan's too strong spin under full force, she couldn't resolve it with the reverse rubber on the front of the racket. She was forced to move in a very strange position, and used raw rubber backhand to bounce the ball.
However, the purpose of bouncing is to play near billiard balls. With the introduction of this introduction, the power of bouncing was suddenly reduced by more than half. Without the speed blessing, the bounced ball neither turned nor became heavy. Tang Yuanyuan found the opportunity to adjust his position and made several forehand blasts in succession, scoring consecutive points.
Five minutes later, the game was tied at 7:7.
At this time, both on-site and online commentators generally praised Tang Yuanyuan for his flexible play style and firm will.
But Wang Chao looked around and saw only two words: strange power.
This little girl, if I read it correctly, actually has Monstrous Strength Talent.
This is too weird.
Wang Chao can be regarded as a person with "a thunderous chest and a flat lake" type of person. This was also cultivated by him as a coach in his previous life, so he is relatively calm. But if he were replaced by Lu Feiyang and his like, maybe his eyes would pop out right now.
As we all know, it is recognized by the world table tennis community that female players do not have "strange" talents.
It's not that female players can't have strength, but due to their innate physical conditions, their strength, no matter how big or small, cannot be compared with regular male players. This also means that they are actually unable to hit the middle and long range in a head-on confrontation like male players. Once the ball really reaches the middle and long range, most of them will pull or slice it without exerting force, just to get a chance to get on the stage.
Even Wang Chao, the little Chinese table tennis stars Yin Di and Shen Sha, who felt the most violent during the sparring session the day before yesterday, mostly only used their forehands to explode on the stage. Once outside the stage, they still only focused on placement and not on strength.
But Tang Yuanyuan is currently taking advantage of the mid-stage confrontation with Ichikawa Mima.
When the score became 7:7, Ichikawa Mima quickly adjusted his tactics.
She began to use less forehand and backhand forceful attacks, and instead switched to rapid maneuvers from both sides at wide angles.
This tactic quickly achieved results, and the score quickly became 10:7.
Tang Yuanyuan's pace is actually good, but after all, she doesn't have top speed. She can't protect the entire stage as she retreats from the stage. When Ichikawa Mima attacks, she only needs to stay in the middle area to move the ball left and right. But when Ichikawa Mima starts to turn left and right at wide angles, she is immediately blinded.
Wang Chao saw that Tang Yuanyuan had slowed down the rhythm of serving and receiving. Before serving, he must wait for a few more seconds to let the ball bounce on the table a few more times. When receiving the serve, he must also wait for a few seconds, wipe the sweat with his sleeves, touch the table with his hands, and then take the posture to catch the ball.
This is a matter of game experience. It is usually something that experienced players will do when they fall into a passive situation and cannot find a comeback point. The purpose is very clear and the referee can see it, but the referee is really not good at blowing the whistle, let alone making penalties.
Because this is all fragmented time, a little more here, a little more there, and the game is just about jumping left and right near the rules.
In fact, the more shameless ones will squat down to tie a pair of shoelaces that haven't come apart at all...
It's just that female table tennis players generally want to be shy. Even veterans, the limit of indolence is to speed up every move at 1.25 times. As for the young girls, they are even more tender-faced. They are afraid of being booed by the audience even if they think twice about serving. Most of them just get the ball and go straight to it.
Therefore, Tang Yuanyuan's delay immediately made Wang Chao's evaluation a little higher.
Not only is this little girl mentally stable, but her competitive skills are also really good.
Then Wang Chao saw Tang Yuanyuan squatting down...
Wang Chao's eyes were particularly sharp, so he noticed a detail: Tang Yuanyuan took the initiative to pull away his shoelaces as quickly as possible and in a subtle way, and then began to tie them slowly.
At this moment, the audience all started to boo.
They understand. They are emotionally leaning towards Ichikawa Mima. The reason is that Sakura Country is the only one left, while Huaping has already had four players reach the quarterfinals in previous games.
Fans all over the world are looking forward to Ichikawa Mima being able to reach the quarterfinals with one shot, then complete a series of three against Huaping, win the championship against the odds, and become a true lone warrior.
Only Wang Chao is a bit messy in the wind.
This girl... she is a bit weird.
There were loud boos from all directions, but Tang Yuanyuan turned a deaf ear to it and still looked serious like a young adult. She pretended to tie her shoelaces for at least fifteen seconds. After standing up, she jumped a few times before assuming a catching posture, indicating that the opponent could serve.
It can only be said that she really did her best in the details of on-the-spot tactics.
It's a pity that it is of no use.
She still failed to win, and was defeated by Ichikawa Mima with two more points, 11:7.
The game score now became 3:0, Ichikawa Mima held three match points, and the situation was excellent. His originally serious expression gradually relaxed, and the corners of his mouth could not help but turn up.
In fact, Tang Yuanyuan was already cornered at this time.
She was just trying to think of a way to break the situation, but in the end she was still scored two points in a row, which meant that even though she bought a lot of time, she still couldn't think of any way.
Wang Chao saw that Coach Ge Miao was constantly talking to her. Obviously Coach Ge Miao still had an idea, but in Wang Chao's view, this idea was probably about how to hold on and how to wait for Ichikawa Mima to make mistakes in an extremely passive situation, rather than how to truly effectively crack Ichikawa Mima's tactics.
So can Ichikawa Mima's tactics be broken?
Wang Chao thought carefully, then shook his head slightly.
It's hard.
It's not that her playing style is invincible, but with what Tang Yuanyuan has shown so far, I'm afraid it won't be broken.
Facing the speed flow style, retreating from the stage is not the optimal solution. Michel can play like this because he is sure to protect the entire stage in the middle stage. However, Tang Yuanyuan's arms are not long enough. If she must stand in the middle stage, she must increase her speed.
Or speed up your feet.
Or increase the swing speed.
Or improve the feel so that you can pull the ball back with your hand even when your steps are not in place.
Wang Chao felt it was a pity, but he didn't take it to heart. After all, this was just 16 entering 8. There were still many people waiting for Ichikawa Mima. According to Wang Chao's observation at the moment, Yin Di and Shen Sha's forehands are definitely better than Yichuan's, and Wang Yu's backhand is definitely better than Yichuan's. If we really want to say where Yichuan's advantage is at this stage, it can only be speed.
The connection speed of her forehand and backhand is surprisingly fast. It is no exaggeration to say that it is even faster than Wang Chao and Luo Jiu who practice the double-sided loop ball attack system without blind spots in Taiwan. In terms of connection, she has really touched the ceiling.
Of course, this comes at the complete expense of spin and board quality.
She slaps forehands, bounces backhands, and hits the ball with her head up. This requires her to have a very strong sense of space and the ability to predict the movement trajectory. In fact, she has accomplished all of these. She has practiced a low-error-tolerance style of play to make almost no mistakes when attacking. It must be said that this girl is indeed qualified to be regarded as the number one enemy of the women's team by Wang Wendong.
It is precisely because she is about to reach this point that Tang Yuanyuan must step down because her nervous reaction speed really cannot keep up with Yichuan.
Seeing this, Wang Chao actually felt a little worried.
He can see problems that Wang Wendong may not have seen yet.
The suppression of Ichikawa Mima by the top three women's team will gradually lose in the next one to two years, and then they will be conquered by Yichuan together. No matter how experienced they are and how high the quality of their boards is, they are old after all, which will lead to slower movements and slower reactions. This decline is irreversible. As long as Yichuan does not eat their spin, they will become increasingly unable to keep up with Yichuan's speed until they are beaten to the point where they cannot react.
Therefore, the person who will suppress Yichuan in the future must be born among the 13 little flowers competing in this open competition.
Only young people can keep up with the speed of young people.
If no one steps forward, then Yichuan will have a certain chance of suppressing the entire Chinese women's team in the future, accomplishing something that no one has done in decades, and becoming the first non-Chinese associations women's Great Demon King in the true sense.
Wang Chao's thoughts returned to the field after being distracted for a while, and the fourth game began.
Tang Yuanyuan is still very calm. Even if she can't find a tactical way to break the game, she still works hard to hold on. She still retreats from the stage, still looks for opportunities to pull back, and strengthens line changes, trying to use changes to disrupt Yichuan's rhythm, so that Yichuan cannot easily mobilize the wide angles on both sides.
However, her touch is not as good as Yichuan's. This forced change does not really solve the problem, it just makes her lose points slower.
Five minutes later, the score reached 8:5, and Tang Yuanyuan was still behind.
This three-point difference was the result of her hard work. If it had been a weak-willed player, such as Gao Mingyuan, with such skills and tactics being completely suppressed, the score would have been 11:1.
At this time, Tang Yuanyuan was lucky enough to pull out a side ball and successfully regained a point, 8:6.
Yichuan frowned and rolled his eyelids, looking a little unhappy.
Ge Miao coach called a timeout without hesitation at this time.
This makes Wang Chao have to give a thumbs up to coach Ge Miao in his heart.
He didn't pay attention to Ge Miao's off-field coaching in other games, but he only said that the use of this timeout can be said to be master-level.
First of all, Tang Yuanyuan, who was completely behind in the situation, experienced many desperate situations in the first three games, but Ge Miao remained stable without using this pause. This kind of stability is very rare.
The reason why she didn't scream was because she didn't know how to break the situation, and Tang Yuanyuan's mentality was good enough and didn't need to be adjusted, so even if the situation was critical, a timeout would be meaningless.
But as the disadvantaged side, it must be called once before the game is completely over, otherwise this opportunity will be wasted.
Ge Miao was still very stable in the fourth game. She was not in a hurry even after the score was halfway through. She had been carefully looking for opportunities until this moment, and found a very subtle mood swing in Yichuan.
Just because Yichuan frowned, Ge Miao called a timeout without hesitation.
She wanted to make the slight discomfort linger in Yichuan's heart for at least one minute.
This may not work, but it's better than yelling when you don't have a chance.
Wang Chao saw that Ge Miao did not talk endlessly this time. He just handed Tang Yuanyuan a bottle of water, smiled and said a few words to her casually, and patted her on the shoulder.
Therefore, there will be no discussion of tactics during this timeout. Just like the majority of high school students in China, they will never study questions the day before the college entrance examination and must relax.
But Wang Chao then discovered the weird side of Tang Yuanyuan.
Others only drink one or two sips of water to moisten their throats, and if they drink too much, their stomachs will be full of water, which will affect their running. But Tang Yuanyuan raised his head high and his posture was very bold, and he finished the whole bottle of water directly. He used the method of blowing bottles from Northeastern men, only missing one twist first.
After finishing the filling, while talking to Ge Miao, she unconsciously and easily twisted the plastic bottle into a twist with her hands, and then flattened it horizontally, finally turning it into a wrinkled plastic pancake.
Is this what girls should do?
Wang Chao is a little helpless to complain.
Although he himself often tears off the labels on the outer packaging after drinking water or eating fast food, and has been teased about his obsessive-compulsive disorder, he still believes that men can do this, but girls cannot.
Beside the baffle, Tang Yuanyuan finished chatting, looked down, and realized what he had done, so he smiled at Ge Miao and stuffed the plastic pancake into Ge Miao's hand.
Ge Miao laughed and scolded her, motioning her to return to the court and continue the game.
However, Wang Chao has clearly labeled Tang Yuanyuan at this moment: a tomboy.
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