Regarding the incident of Fan Xiaodong violently beating Mizutori Hato, there are still some final aftermath.
After losing the game, Mizutori Hato, who was lying on a stretcher pretending to have a waist injury, publicly expressed his doubts about Fan Xiaodong: "I think in the first game, he attacked four of my short shots in a row. Spin serve is unreasonable. If you can forcibly pull up any high-quality short backspin serve as long as you are strong enough, then the sport of table tennis needs to be redefined. In the future, will the server still be considered the dominant side?"
"I Mizutori Hato dare not say how good my serve is, but my short backspin is absolutely rigorous and impeccable, and it should not be handled in this way by my opponents."
His doubts are actually justified, because theoretically, a rigorous enough short backspin should not be attacked. There are only a few people in the world like Hook who can pull up this kind of ball on a whim in a completely unreasonable way.
But even for Hook and others, the success rate of doing this will definitely be very low. It involves a lot of luck. The success rate must be less than 50%. Otherwise, the entire table tennis landscape will change. The quality of the server will be completely redefined. Even short backspin, the most versatile serving method in history, will be swept into the recesses of history and never be released again.
So Mizutori Hato then directly asserted. "I think the equipment used by Fan Xiaodong is illegal and he cheated!"
This sentence sounds familiar to many people, because many years ago, he questioned Sun Tianlong in the same way after his head was shaved by Sun Tianlong.
But in Mizutori Hato's own opinion, the essence of these two things is different.
That time many years ago, he simply couldn't stand it after his head was shaved, and he forced questions and false accusations just to survive. But this time, he really had doubts in this regard, because he really felt that this was too outrageous.
The four consecutive attacks in the first game knocked his soul out of him. In the next three games, he never dared to hit the short backspin near the center. He was frightened by Fan Xiaodong's heavy artillery.
If it wasn't for his fear, he shouldn't have lost so miserably given his strength.
About half an hour later, Fan Xiaodong responded publicly.
"Continuous attacks? Must break the short backspin serve? There is no such thing..." Fan Xiaodong was confused when he was first asked by the reporter, but the reporter did his best to help him remember the content of the classic attacks in the first game.
"Oh, you said this." Fan Xiaodong smiled, "I've always been slow to get started, right? Brother Chao wanted to help me solve this problem at first, but he couldn't solve it after trying many methods, so he later gave me an idea. He said, anyway, I will lose points by default for the first few balls in the game, so that's not the same as His step-by-step mistakes allowed my opponent to score points. Why didn't I just let myself go and make a few good shots? After all, letting my opponent score points based on his strength would boost his opponent's morale. But if I took the initiative to force the shot, I would score if I hit it, and if I didn't hit me, I would kill myself. The initiative rested entirely with me, and they wouldn't be able to gain morale."
The reporter felt something was wrong when he heard this. "So you..."
"So I was really confused. I didn't know if I could hit it." Fan Xiaodong explained sincerely, "I got two of the first four balls. I felt quite happy. When I was in a good mood, I felt good. I thought, I lost points at the beginning before, but this time it was a 2:2 tie. Let's just get a few more. We have to fall behind by a few points first, so this game is like that. So I tried a few more times in a row. Hey, I was really lucky."
He said it was luck, but of course it was not entirely luck, but because he did have good enough skills and strong enough strength. In the past two months, according to Wang Chao's advice, he had directly imitated actual combat in private practice. Every time he came up, he had to blindfold a few, and his ability to attack was actually improved subtly. Although the success rate was not high, it was not uncommon for him to get lucky occasionally and hit several in a row.
"I'm still wondering. He obviously has a good short hairdo, but why he suddenly stopped doing it, and later he actually wanted to confront me." Fan Xiaodong smiled honestly, "I can't help it, he came to my door, I can only teach him how to behave."
All the followers of the world table tennis community laughed together when they saw this follow-up interview.
It's obvious.
It's not that the table tennis landscape is really going to be rewritten, but that Fan Xiaodong's rare good luck frightened Mizutori Hato, who was not very courageous. He was so frightened that he didn't dare to serve another short backspin in the next three and a half games.
This is a very rare situation.
The vast majority of normal professional players, once they are at an absolute disadvantage during a game, they will try various methods again and again, trying again and again, because they have no choice. If they can't break the opponent's system, what else can they do except keep trying and making mistakes?
But when Mizutori Hato faced Huaping, he was the type who had been frightened for a long time.
You only need to think about a player who, in order to avoid being chased by others and not have his head shaved, would rather hide from his opponent for years, would rather participate in fewer games and win fewer points, and you will know that this player has some psychological problems to some extent.
I can't say he's crazy, but he's definitely a little bit perverted.
The reason why he smoked, drank, and stayed up late to pick up girls was probably because of the huge mental pressure of being hunted all year round. He had to find other ways to relieve his stress and give himself an outlet to release his emotions.
So in the end Mizutori Hato will become what it is now.
A coach in Sakura Country once commented that Mizutori Hato ruined his life with one mouth. In a sense, this is actually not wrong.
But this time when facing Fan Xiaodong, Mizutori Hato actually didn't realize that the deepest part of his heart was filled with fear.
He is really frightened by Great Demon King, who has risen from generation to generation in Huaping.
The mental damage caused by Wang Chao has not yet healed, and another smaller one came. He said verbally that he had a good chance, but this kind of self-confidence was extremely fragile and could not withstand any disturbance.
He is like a smooth and dense egg, which looks perfect and has no flaws, but as long as the other party knocks it hard, it will break.
It was precisely because he was so unconfident in his heart that after Fan Xiaodong happened to succeed in four consecutive attacks, he didn't even have the courage to look back and verify again, and directly chose to give up short backspin.
"If I meet player Mizutori Hato again in the future, I hope he can correct his mentality and have a good fight with me. This time it was really disappointing." Fan Xiaodong is an honest kid and did not realize that what he said was right. Mizutori Hato said that it was such a huge damage. He was full of longing. "Next time, I will try my best to beat him 11:0. After all, this time it was only a little bit close. That missed goal in the fourth game, alas, I almost saved it."
Fan Xiaodong does not hold grudges. He was not angry because of Mizutori Hato's public questioning. He wanted to beat the opponent 11:0 purely for the sake of improving his skills. However, when these words came back to Mizutori Hato's ears, Mizutori Hato remained silent for a long time, and then his heart was filled with deep despair.
Because Mizutori Hato clearly realized that there was another name on the list that he needed to avoid being hunted down.
If Sun Tianlong Luo Jiu Wang Chao's pursuit alliance cannot completely cover all events around the world, then with the addition of Fan Xiaodong, there is really no way to escape.
From now on, Huaping's pursuit will be all-pervasive and will not end until the day he retires.
Wang Chao I remember that in the previous life, there was a teacher from New Oriental, Mr. Luo, who had a debt of 400 million. The image of him slapping himself hard in front of the camera went viral and was made into various animated pictures.
But he didn't know that at this moment Mizutori Hato did the same thing in his small room after listening to Fan Xiaodong's interview.
It's a pity that it was not recorded.
The next morning's game was again mixed doubles first, followed by singles.
The first half staged a real strong confrontation: Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing, against Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia.
The overall table tennis level of Sakura Country is higher than that of Bay Island, but the pair of Sakura Country is a spare tire, while the pair of Bay Island is the main force, so in the eyes of the outside world, the two sides should be evenly matched.
In fact, the two sides are indeed evenly matched.
Lin Zijun's personal strength is slightly stronger than Zhang Benkuang, but his partner Zhen Jing's strength is slightly weaker than Yamano Mia. When the two sides fight, the audience can clearly see the difference in style between the two pairs.
The pairing of Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing perfectly follows the principle of upward compatibility. The two should have trained a lot, and it can be seen that they have a high degree of tacit understanding, especially in terms of walking. Zhen Jing has a high degree of anticipation of Lin Zijun's movements. Whenever Lin Zijun wants to make a forehand charge, the audience will find that she has already given up enough position.
And when Lin Zijun only hits a small backhand shot, she will stand firmly side by side with Lin Zijun, reducing the physical exertion and balance damage caused by excessive running.
In short, it is to try to reduce unnecessary losses and mistakes without damaging the batting efficiency and quality of teammates.
The characteristic of this pairing is that Zhen Jing hardly attacks and only plays ball and transition. In fact, in singles, Zhen Jing imitates the advanced masculine style of the Chinese Table Tennis Women's Team and advocates offense. However, in doubles, she resisted all her desire to attack because she knew that her offense could not kill the opposite male player.
This is a very disciplined pair.
Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia are completely different.
They both attack and speed up. No matter who is serving, the other will attack desperately at the first opportunity. Even if there is no opportunity to attack, they will never compete. Instead, they will force the ball to a wide angle first and increase the speed of the ball.
The two of them don't have a good understanding of each other when it comes to walking, and they occasionally collide with each other, but this does not mean that they have not practiced enough, but because their playing system of double speed and double attack requires too high a level of tacit understanding between the two parties. Even though they practice hard, they can only achieve the current effect temporarily.
It is unlikely that they will be able to practice without colliding with each other in the future, because they are not only fast with the speed of the ball, but also with the speed of their feet. This means that their physical strength cannot keep up with their brains. They hope to avoid each other perfectly, but they do not have such good balance ability, let alone exaggerated sudden stops and changes of direction and continuous retracements.
Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, the ball played by Taiwan Island Combination was obviously heavier, like a heavily armored warrior riding a big horse holding a heavy iron gun, while the Sakura Country combination was like an assassin on Hot Wheels, holding a short and thin blade, pointing at the opponent's fatal throat.
It was a great game, and in the end Taiwan Island Combination won 4:2.
Zhang Benkuang and Yamano Mia did not lose to their opponents, but to themselves, because they were indeed too fast. In order to break the opponent's defense, they accelerated like crazy. In the end, they could no longer control themselves. They were riding a tiger and couldn't get off. It was like sitting on a racing car that was running but couldn't brake. They could only rush and rush, and finally hit the railing and killed themselves.
When it comes to the specific content of the game, the Sakura Country combination made crazy mistakes in the late stage and committed suicide in various ways, without the opponent having to do anything.
This also made many non-Chinese associations coaches who were still waiting to see finally confirm their country's mixed doubles team thinking: speed flow seems to be really not possible, and it is not useful to go to the wrong side.
There is obviously a problem with backward compatibility. Scarlet Gossip Combination has such a strong personal strength. He still played in danger last month and finally won the championship. It has nothing to do with doubles cooperation. It all depends on his personal ability.
Only Taiwan Island Combination Lin Zijun Zhen Jing, Sakura Country combination Mizutori Hato Ichikawa Mima, these two combinations are the real kingly style of play.
As for the playing style of Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan, although it is based on upward compatibility, it is essentially a special playing style that can only be adopted by special players. It has no promotion value and cannot be learned at all.
So now comes the biggest suspense about mixed doubles.
Is the original King's Way style of play more powerful, or is the special style of play based on King's Way mode more powerful?
The former emphasizes the players' previous cooperation, and discipline is far greater than individual performance. For example, the female player Bay Island is Zhen Jing. She is obviously a masculine player with a strong desire to attack, but in order to cooperate, she completely restrained her aggression during the game.
Lin Zijun, who originally rarely used the forehand position for explosive attacks, also worked hard in the past two months to practice strength and forehand power posture because of the discipline of doubles, just to have the final kill on both front and back.
The latter places more emphasis on the use of the player's own special talents in the game. Personal performance is far more important than discipline. For example, if Wang Chao's skills are good enough, he can switch between assist and main attacker at will, and if Tang Yuanyuan is strong enough, she will be responsible for holding that board, and will not care about anything else, keeping everything simple.
To refine it further, it is actually a simple question: Should the system be the main one, or should the people be the main one?
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