After Tang Dynasty Combination advanced to the quarterfinals of Mixed Doubles, the next match that attracted more attention was the match between Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia from the top half and Sissifield and Solga.
In the words of European fans. "This is another battle of dignity in the European table tennis world."
Why say it again?
Because in the three months before this, the European table tennis world has repeated this sentence countless times. The difference is that this sentence mostly appeared in singles. For example, in February, Hong Kong Open, the three European heroes encircled and suppressed Wang Chao. As a result, It failed. In March, China Open European powers encircled and suppressed Luo Jiu. It failed again. In April, Swedish Open Hook tried to clear the level, but failed to get to the last level.
The European table tennis world thought it had a chance time and time again, but was crushed again and again. In the end, they decided not to play anymore and changed the track. We will not play Men's Singles but play mixed doubles.
Then their dignity was ruined again in May. The ace combination Sissifield and Solga, assembled by the strongest European table tennis country, failed to reach Scarlet Gossip Combination and were easily eliminated by other Asian teams. The final mixed doubles final was still held among Asian teams.
European table tennis is disappointed.
But they are not yet desperate.
Because they have one last hope left: Old Wa has not yet taken action.
Everyone is waiting for Old Wa to match his disciple Morad with a female partner and stage a return of the king.
The reason why I haven't heard any news about this for the time being is just because Morad has been banned.
Well, that's probably it?
Under such a premise, when the Europeans saw Germany's only mixed doubles team facing Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia, their first reaction was: they can lose the following games, but they must win this game.
Why?
Because all Asian associations have only one pair of partners, and only Sakura Country has two pairs. Obviously, Mizutori Hato and Ichikawa Mima are the number one partners, and Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia are just spare tires.
Germany's singles performance in the World Series in the past ten years has always been higher than Sakura Country. Now on the mixed doubles track, how can Germany's main selection team lose to the opponent's backup team?
The Europeans thought so and expected so, but the final outcome did not depend on their will.
The German team was eventually crushed by Sakura Country's spare tire 4:1.
The reason why it was not 4:0 was not because Sissifield and Solga fought back against adversity, but because Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia had a very high error rate, so the game they lost was entirely their own fault.
After the game, the whole of Europe was silent.
They were finally forced to face a potentially cruel reality: This newly opened track may be an opportunity to surpass Huaping, but it is definitely not an opportunity for European teams to surpass Huaping.
How about the cooperation between Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia?
In fact it's not good at all.
They played very rough, with obvious mistakes and omissions in various details. The two even had obvious collisions and squeezes with each other during the game.
But they still won, completely in the first three boards.
When Rohlskov designed tactics for Sissifield and Solga, he was actually full of confidence, because in his opinion, Sissifield is a super violent turtle with extremely high-quality boards, which is very suitable for playing mixed doubles.
At the same time, Sissifield is still stronger on the backhand than the forehand, just as Solga is stronger on the forehand than the backhand. In this way, although they are a match of two forehand players, in fact, Sissifield can barely be regarded as half a left-hand player.
As we all know, the best pairing in doubles is a right-handed player paired with a left-handed player.
Therefore, the foundation of this pair is very good. In terms of cultivating immortals, this is a perfect match for new people who have cultivated their own roots.
But when the game actually started, Sissifield and Solga revealed a fatal problem: the ball in the table was not thin enough, and their serving and receiving abilities were not good enough.
Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia, with their better in-table ball skills, could easily take the initiative to attack and then launch an attack. Although they were both weak in strength, the ball speed was extremely fast and the landing point was very tricky. As soon as they took action, Sissifield and Solga had to move.
Solga Let's leave it aside, let's just talk about Sissifield. If it's a singles match, this violent turtle can completely spread his arms and get into a posture when faced with an attack that lacks quality and only has speed, and directly and violently pulls back unreasonably, forcing the passive to become active. In this way, the opponent's attack can be easily resolved.
But now it is a doubles match, and there is a problem of two people giving way to each other and walking towards each other. Sissifield cannot fully open his posture and round his arms at the first time, not to mention that half of the time it is not him who is facing the attack, but Solga.
As for Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia, they only need to simply keep up with the second board's strong attack to score directly with a high probability.
Therefore, the powerful combination from Germany could not produce any power at all. The speed combination of Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia penetrated them in the first three boards and could not drag out the stalemate.
After the game, some people in the world table tennis world began to marvel.
"Isn't the core of doubles not strength, but speed?"
"Why is it that Asian teams are always right no matter how they play, but we are always wrong no matter how we play?"
"How to play mixed doubles? Is there a clear guiding ideology?"
"What does Rohlskov do for food?"
"Everyone, do you think Rohlskov is the most overrated national team coach?"
Rohlskov expressed that he was very aggrieved.
He can naturally see that the core of the problem is not the dispute between the power flow and the speed flow, but the small ball and serve and return in the table.
But what can he do?
Among all the professional players in Germany, the one with the best small ball in the table is Bayer, but Bayer doesn't even run much in singles. If you ask him to run around in the mixed doubles arena, will he agree?
The European mixed doubles has come to an end, but the competition among Asian teams continues.
Next, the pair Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing easily reached the quarterfinals.
Then, a battle broke out between Minato and Sakura Country in the second half. In the end, Sakura Country's No. 1 partner Mizutori Hato and Ichikawa Mima defeated Hong Kong District Combination Weng Chunting and Ai Qin relatively easily.
Hong Kong District Combination trained at Chinese Table Tennis base throughout late May and early June, and played against Huaping's two sets of spare tires many times. In the end, the outcome was about a 40-60 split, only slightly inferior to Huaping's two sets of spare tires. They were actually full of confidence before they came to Malaysia to compete. After all, they received special training from the best association in the world.
But in the end they were beaten into pieces in front of Mizutori Hato and Ichikawa Mima.
After this game, the outside world is quite normal. After all, the pair Sakura Country won the mixed doubles runner-up in Qatar last month, but only lost to the Chinese table tennis player in the last game of the final. This in itself has proved their strength.
But Weng Chunting himself felt that this problem was very serious. After eating at noon that day, he took the initiative to visit Wang Chao in the hotel room and seriously told Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan to be careful.
Weng Chunting also participated in Qatar Open in May. He definitely told Wang Chao that this time the Sakura Country combination is much stronger than last month.
Wang Chao agrees with this.
In fact, the Ichikawa Mima and Mizutori Hato of this world are very similar to the Olympic winning pair in my previous life memory, both in terms of staffing and player ability indicators. Even the style of play and the direction of progress are almost exactly the same.
So there is no doubt that they will be non-Chinese associations's strongest mixed doubles player in this Olympic cycle, bar none.
And in the remaining half a year from now to Olympic Games, they will continue to become stronger step by step.
In the previous life, the strength of the Sakura Country combination in the Olympic finals was actually about the same as that of the Chinese Table Tennis Team, and there was no obvious difference in strength. This is because the Chinese table tennis team in the previous life has always maintained a 100% winning rate in the world competition by using backward compatible wrong playing methods. Until Olympic Games, they had never lost.
This also gives the whole world an illusion, making the whole world unsure whether backward compatibility will definitely not work. This hesitation makes many combinations not decisive enough in their tactical thinking, even the Sakura Country combination is no exception.
It wasn't until the Olympic Games final match that the Sakura Country combination first lost, then won and then lost again. The situation was ups and downs. Finally, they finally strengthened their faith on the edge of the cliff and decided to implement an upwardly compatible attitude and play the final decisive game.
It was the correct decision in the end that allowed them to win the crucial seventh game and create Sakura Country table tennis history.
But in this life, things are different.
Although Scarlet Gossip Combination won last month's Qatar Open, it showed weakness prematurely. This allowed countries around the world to directly determine the principle of upward compatibility without much hesitation.
Once this principle is truly confirmed, players from various associations will immediately develop by leaps and bounds during training, and the pair of Olympic seed players Sakura Country, Ichikawa Mima Mizutori Hato, have made a qualitative leap, reaching the state they had only reached in the previous life in the Olympic Games finals early in the middle of the year.
Mizutori Hato and Ichikawa Mima in this state are naturally not something Weng Chunting and Ai Qin can resist.
It can even be said that even if Xiao Fei and Liu Wen come, they will probably suffer.
Therefore, Weng Chunting is not unfounded, and his judgment is quite keen.
There is another person who is as keen as Weng Chunting, and that is Mizutori Hato, one of the parties involved in the Sakura Country combination.
Mizutori Hato let himself go after winning this game and said some very arrogant words in the post-game interview.
"You asked me what my goal is? Then why bother asking? Of course it is to win the championship."
"Tang Dynasty Combination is very strong? Crush Double Chopper Combination? Hahaha, are you kidding? What the hell is Double Chopper Combination? Is it difficult to crush them? In my opinion, it is our duty to keep them clean, and it would be a shame not to keep them clean, okay?"
"If I had to evaluate it, I might think that Tang Dynasty Combination's attack power is not enough. It took a full 35 minutes to beat two chippers. If Yichuan and I were to take action, we could win it in about 20 minutes."
"Is player Wang Chao crazy? I don't think that when he said he could win the championship, he probably just didn't know Yi Chuan and I well enough. In fact, we are not who we were last month. Isn't it popular to talk about super evolution recently? I think Yi Chuan and I probably just completed a super evolution."
"Now, even if we face a veteran partner like Scarlet Gossip Combination, we still have at least an 80% winning rate, let alone a mere Tang Dynasty Combination?"
In fact, Mizutori Hato was interviewed yesterday when he first arrived in Malaysia. During the interview, the reporter asked him what his goal was. He said in a low-key manner that he would guarantee four points and two points. After just one night, he completely changed his mind. The reason was that after playing this game, he realized that he had become stronger.
So Mizutori Hato is actually a genius. Not only does he have a delicate touch that ranks among the top five on the planet, but he also has extremely keen natural judgment on the overall battle situation, personal status, and overall strength. He dared to provoke Wang Chao so unscrupulously because he now feels that he is really too strong. He has never been so strong in his life.
He was already frustrated enough in the singles arena, and he finally had a lead in the mixed doubles arena. Why don't he quickly make fun of him?
While he was speaking, Ichikawa Mima stood beside him with an expressionless face, neither agreeing nor blocking, and said nothing.
The reporter was very excited and couldn't help but marvel. "I didn't expect that the waterfowl players who have been relatively quiet recently would have such confidence in the mixed doubles event. This makes me want to ask one more question, what are your thoughts on the men's singles event this afternoon?"
Mizutori Hato recalled the group he was in, hesitated for a moment, and still maintained an arrogant look on his face, saying, "My requirements are not high, I just need to enter the finals."
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