In the third game, Fan Xiaodong was completely different.
Hook served again, still the bottom line Bullet Serve, Fan Xiaodong exploded again.
Hook refused to show weakness and also charged forward, but this time it hit the backhand position of Fan Xiaodong.
Fan Xiaodong Move one step steadily laterally, adjust your body position, and twist with your backhand.
His movements are very coordinated, but they are different from others who only swing their arms when twisting the ball. His arms are not as stretched as Sun Tianlong or Wang Chao. Instead, his body makes a small deflection in sync with the ball pulling action. It looks like he is using his mountainous body to drive his arms and whip the ball hard.
In China Table Tennis, there has been a saying many years ago: It is best for table tennis players to be slightly heavier than the standard weight.
This statement is unwritten, and no coach has publicly admitted it, but in fact, when selecting young players, many coaches do have a soft spot for fat people.
Many players were asked by their coaches to gain weight after joining the national team, such as Gao Mingyuan.
If you still don't quite understand why coaches have such a strange concept, you only need to take a look at Fan Xiaodong's backhand twisting action at this moment, and you will understand everything.
Fan Xiaodong is young and not tall, so his backhand is actually not very powerful, but with this special method, he can twist out powerful heavy balls.
Weight can be converted into strength.
The quality of this ball's single board even made Hook a little scared, so he had no choice but to take a half step back and pull it hard with his forehand.
This time he played the forehand position of Fan Xiaodong.
In fact, Hook was a little frightened at this time.
He found that Fan Xiaodong's ball seemed to be heavier than the previous two games.
This backhand twist gave him a vague feeling that he couldn't control it, so he quickly switched back to the forehand position.
Fan Xiaodong is not picky either. If it's a forehand, then go for it.
Hook also blasted with a forehand.
Fan Xiaodong explodes again.
Hook also exploded.
Fan Xiaodong continues to rush.
Hook continues to rush.
Fan Xiaodong explodes again.
Hook couldn't keep up.
At this moment, he clearly felt unsustainable. His steps were already unsteady and his center of gravity was gradually losing, which made him panic.
In the past few years, it is not that he has never played against players with such a strong style. He has also had more than ten stalemates with people like Michel and Sissifield in the middle and long range. However, although all the stalemates in the past seemed to be a confrontation, in fact, there was a transition.
Theoretically speaking, there must be a transition in all midfield stalemates. No player can always maintain 100% strength to pull the ball with all his strength. They must have one board with strong power and one with low power. When the power is high, it is to score, and when the power is low, it is to adjust the position of the ball and find a new balance.
That's why some skilled players suddenly switch to side cuts or long cuts during a stalemate.
It's not that they don't want to continue, they just can't stop.
Because the harder you push, the more frivolous your lower body will be. If you continue to explode with all your strength, your lower body will become completely loose. In the end, you may even fall directly.
But Fan Xiaodong really exploded with all his strength on every board. He stood on the ground as if he was rooted, and he was really motionless.
Only then did Hook clearly realize that in fact, the innate power, good sustainability, and fast reaction speed were all just appearances. The real scariest thing about Fan Xiaodong was actually his balance ability.
He is so stable, as stable as a rock.
Under such a high explosive situation, although Fan Xiaodong kept shouting because of the forced exertion, his expression was actually calm. He could actually return to a stable state instantly after each exertion. This is simply incredible.
Hook himself is extremely unstable.
In essence, he is more unstable than the average professional player. He is almost constantly bouncing on the ground when he plays.
This was a bad habit he had developed from playing field ball since he was a child, but he didn't know it was a bad habit at the time. Instead, he won many amateur events because this method helped him get into the game as quickly as possible.
Later he learned that there are too many ways to mobilize your state. If you really can't do it, then why don't you just find someone to warm up ten minutes before the game?
If it's really that slow to warm up, then twenty or thirty minutes of warming up is okay, right?
No matter what, it shouldn't be at the expense of balance.
Hook fought all the way with huge flaws, and finally reached the super high position of No. 3 in the world.
No one discovered his weakness.
Because no one can compete with him for more than three boards, not even bulls like Michel and Sissifield.
They are often defeated within three boards by Hook's comprehensive changes in power, speed, placement and rotation.
After all, Hook not only has power, he also has touch and speed.
Hook almost thought that his weakness had disappeared, because he had never encountered such a situation even when he played against Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu.
After all these years, even Hook himself didn't realize that he still had this weakness.
Until today.
Until now.
Fan Xiaodong can keep up with his speed, block his power, judge his landing point, and has good enough skills to resolve his spin, and then force him to fight head-on.
So he ran out of tricks and was forced to enter a real stalemate with Fan Xiaodong. This time the fight was no longer about various technologies and changes, but pure stability.
He was totally blown away.
For two consecutive balls, he could only hit the third board. Once he entered the fourth board, he lost control.
This is not to say that Hook can really only play three consecutive attacks, but that he can only play three consecutive attacks under the ultra-high-intensity offensive pressure of Fan Xiaodong.
If he meets other people, he can still hit a dozen terrifying combos as usual.
In fact, the quality of his boards is still higher than that of Fan Xiaodong. After all, Fan Xiaodong is only 15 years old, and the strength of his body has not really matured yet. But the problem is that at this time, Fan Xiaodong's current strength is enough to fight him.
Yes, my veneers are of higher quality than yours, but I can't beat you to death.
Your boards are of lower quality than mine, but I still have to give it my all to deal with it.
It's a delicate balance.
Hook's fourth blast was completely out of control, his technique deformed, and the ball flew directly into the sky.
2:0, Fan Xiaodong continued to score.
Next Fan Xiaodong served, the same bottom line Bullet Serve, the same lead-in stalemate, in just one and a half minutes, Fan Xiaodong scored two more points, and the score became 4:0.
Hook was a little helpless with these two balls, because Hook's usual style of play was to attack, attack, and then attack, but today's attack was ineffective. In a hurry, he couldn't find any other method to use.
The noise in the stands disappeared unconsciously, and many spectators had a hint of uneasiness in their eyes.
Rohlskov was keenly aware that something was wrong. He called a timeout without hesitation and gave Hook a face-to-face meeting and said a lot of things.
Hook, who returned to the court, changed his way of serving. He no longer served the bottom line Bullet Serve, but instead served short backspin on the table.
He doesn't like to play short, because it doesn't fit with his open-and-close style and playing philosophy.
But when his aggressive style of play is restrained, he can also fight against shortcomings. After all, he is meticulous.
Facing this serve, Fan Xiaodong directly hit the forehand, but failed, and the score became 4:1.
Hook sent short backspin again, Fan Xiaodong was still Forehand Flick, this time it was successful, but after the ball passed by, Hook directly twisted it back with his backhand.
The route of this ball is extremely tricky.
In fact, Hook is such a player. When you give him a regular ball, he will also play regular balls. But when you want to kill him, he is forced to rush at that moment and will often play high-quality shots that are incomprehensible.
This ball is a typical return shot, but when faced with a kill, most players simply push to block and use their strength to return the ball. Hook is not like this. He uses force and initiative.
This ball almost killed Fan Xiaodong.
Fan Xiaodong tried his best to retreat to save the ball, and finally pulled back with a very rough lob loop.
Hook took a step forward, didn't even bother to draw a circle, and just shot hard.
In this situation, generally speaking, the overall situation is determined and the attacking side will win.
But today, neither player can rely on common sense.
Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people in this world, faced with such a fierce frontal shot, will choose to throw the ball over hard, and then wait for the opponent to continue to hit the lob, hoping that the opponent will make a mistake when hitting the lob.
But after Fan Xiaodong took two more steps back, he suddenly let out a loud roar and used his forehand forcefully. He squatted with his legs into a horse stance and made a super long-distance forehand loop shot.
When he posed to pull him off, many spectators were already shouting.
And after he actually pulled the ball out, there were huge screams from the stands.
He was at least two and a half meters away from the table.
The total length of the table is 2.74 meters, and the length of the half table is 1.37 meters.
In other words, his ultra-long-distance pulling of the ball must at least pull this light and fluttering ball that can be blown by the wind to a place four meters away.
If there are still people who don't understand, then you can roughly imagine that you are on the basketball court, from under the basket on your side, forcing a long-distance shot into the opposite basket.
Or a football player, kicking his foot directly from the center line of the field, trying to penetrate the opponent's goal.
This includes not only unparalleled power, but also extremely meticulous control. After all, the farther the distance, the greater the error.
The ball bounced hard from the racket. The first half of the trajectory was extremely stiff, almost forced displacement, and then it became smooth in the second half. Like a perfect topspin serve, it landed on the bottom line of the table in front of Hook.
This ball cannot be said to be of high quality, because Hook can still explode sideways.
But at least, Fan Xiaodong's extreme passivity just now was actually resolved by his shocking move.
Hook really exploded.
Fan Xiaodong had quickly rushed to the table from a distance and then stopped suddenly. He took a step to stand still, and suddenly it was like taking root again, without even the slightest inertia to move forward.
He swung the racket, swung his arms, and pulled hard.
The ball didn't go beyond three boards.
Because after two boards, Hook lost his balance again and knocked the ball away.
5:1.
When the ball hit this point, Rohlskov, who was sitting behind the backboard, could no longer laugh. He looked over to He Jingping again, only to find that He Jingping was still sitting calmly, with no trace of panic or joy.
At this moment, Rohlskov was a little frustrated.
In fact, he was also a top player in Europe at the time, otherwise he would not have become the head coach of Germany after retiring and stayed there for so many years.
He has coached Bayer, coached Wolf, coached Sissifield, and also coached Qiu Shang. He knows the situation of each Germany club and the ace players in it. He has also worked hard to study almost all styles, advantages and disadvantages of the world table tennis.
He believes that he has made great contributions to the European table tennis world, and he also believes that no one else can train as many top players as him.
So he later began to feel it was unfair.
He feels that Huaping's talents have exploded from generation to generation only because of its strong family background.
It's like it's extremely easy for rich people to make money, and they can easily make money, but it's extremely difficult for poor people to make money because they don't have the first pot of gold.
In the world of table tennis, all non-Chinese associations are the poor, only Huaping is the rich.
If this is the case, why is it that the world's number one coach over the years is always the Huaping coach?
Is it just because Huaping has the best results?
Is it really just about merit?
In the early years, Rohlskov had great respect for Huaping, especially when he was a player. He had played against the main players of Huaping many times, and he also praised the main players of Huaping a lot in interviews.
But later jealousy went to his head, and he began to occasionally make lemony, sour connotations to Hua Ping in public.
But for many years, no one paid attention to him.
So he has been connoting Huaping more and more over the years. Whenever Huaping loses, you can always see Rohlskov coming out for interviews and saying something like "Huaping is no longer good".
He thought that was it.
But he didn't expect that when he was so proud of himself and took credit for Hook's results, Huaping would respond positively.
He Jingping's words in the restaurant made his face burn with fever.
Because he really didn't understand the problem with Hook, and he really didn't expect that Huaping would suddenly jump out to confront him.
Regarding Hook, it is a real issue of vision.
This makes his self-deception over the years somewhat difficult to justify.
He guided Hook to play this game, thinking that when Hook won, he would at least have something to say in defense.
But when the game got to this point, he saw time and time again that he was not as good as He Jingping.
He didn't even understand the game in front of him. He was actually smiling because of the victory in the first two games, but he didn't expect that all the reversals were expected by He Jingping.
Yesterday's restaurant conversation was probably a perfect prediction of today's game, right?
Rohlskov glanced at He Jingping in the distance again, sighed softly in his heart, and realized that it was time to wake up from his dream.
It turns out they were not lucky.
It turns out they are really better than me.
The game continues.
Fan Xiaodong gets the right to serve.
He still sent the bottom line Bullet Serve, looking for a counterattack, but Hook didn't want to counterattack this time. He followed Rohlskov's instructions during the timeout and directly rolled the ball back into a short backspin.
Seeing this scene, many professional players were a little emotional.
In the past few years, Hook was the only one who suppressed his opponents and committed suicide while attacking even if he lost. How could Hook be beaten by others and be forced to take the initiative to defend?
Did Hook change his gender, or was he really frightened by the kid across from him?
However, Hook's changes did not work. After five consecutive short swings on the table, it was still Hook who showed his flaws first and returned the ball high.
This has nothing to do with feel, just because Hook's technique is too rough and lacks changes and coping methods on the table. Even if he has subtle talents, it is still difficult for him to make a fool of himself.
What's more, the feel of Fan Xiaodong is quite good, but it's not clear how good it is yet.
When Hook showed a flaw, Fan Xiaodong directly attacked. Hook stepped back to counterattack. Fan Xiaodong faced off with a strong attack on the table. The ball did not hit the fourth board, because on the third board Fan Xiaodong directly came up with a backhand twist to change the forehand bottom line angle, and directly mobilized Hook who retreated to death.
By this time, there was silence inside and outside the stadium.
All the viewers could see clearly that Hook was really broken by Fan Xiaodong from the front.
With this large-angle maneuver, Hook could have been saved if he tried hard to save him, but he gave up. This only shows that Hook has been beaten and has no confidence.
The pause just now and Rohlskov's endless tactical guidance seemed to be of no use.
They didn't understand the subtle principles of tactical restraint, but their hearts went cold when they saw Hook being penetrated by Fan Xiaodong in frontal stalemates time and time again, and then being defeated by small balls in the table.
The European table tennis world has already put down its shame and invited foreign aid from South America, but will Hook, who they have high hopes for, be defeated head-on by the new player just released by Huaping in the end?
This is truly a devastating blow.
The mentality of European fans completely collapsed at this moment.
When they recalled He Jingping's always calm expression, Rohlskov's cheerful smile, and the director's frequent close-up shots of He Jingping, they felt that the entire European table tennis world was like a clown, constantly jumping up and down in front of the calm Hua Ping.