Wang Chao sent a short backspin in an orderly manner.
In fact, in doubles matches, players usually don't play short backspin very much, because the core idea of short backspin is "to expose the opponent's flaws through the adjustment of the small ball in the table." Generally speaking, this is a process that requires multiple rounds to complete, but doubles places great emphasis on the first three boards, and there are not so many rounds for you.
What's more, you are exchanging shots with your partner. Just because your in-table shot is good does not mean that your partner's in-table shot is also good.
Therefore, despite the fact that Mizutori Hato suffered a crazy loss at the hands of Wang Chao and behaved in such ugly ways that even Di Hua Nabu was suffering from persecution paranoia, in fact, he was still regarded as the top player in the world.
In terms of serving and returning serve, he is even more of a top-notch player.
Wang Chao's serve shows the importance he attaches to Mizutori Hato.
If you change to someone with a slightly weaker catching ability, even the newly-emerged Michel, Pike, Hook in Europe, in doubles mode, Wang Chao will consider using fancy serves and a lot of fake moves to try to directly expose the opponent's flaws.
Because these three players are only powerful in attack but not in defense, especially when it comes to receiving serves and handling small balls in the table, the possibility of making mistakes and being deceived is not small.
But Mizutori Hato is a genius with the feel of Microscopic Precision level and a very high golf quotient.
So Wang Chao has no choice. Instead of making so many fancy moves that affect the quality of his serve, it is better to serve a high-quality short backspin. Even if we cannot take the initiative, at least we should not let Mizutori Hato find a chance to attack directly.
Mizutori Hato couldn't do anything when the ball was passed over. He could only pass the ball with the same cautious attitude.
But he did not skim the short ball inside the table, but directly skimmed the ball to the high-angle baseline on the right side of the opposite table.
This is the biggest difference between singles and doubles.
In singles, when you have no chance to attack, there really is no chance at all. Putting the ball closer to the center of the opponent's table is the most flawless way to deal with it, which is the so-called frontal fight.
But in doubles, because the two players standing in front of the table at the same time have the problem of avoiding each other's pace no matter what, so even if the serve is flawless, you can forcefully mobilize the other party through the simplest wide angle, forcing the other party to move, thereby gaining a certain advantage.
So in theory, when neither side shows any flaws, it can basically be assumed that the receiving side takes the initiative.
Of course, the two pairs on the court are considered to be the top combinations in the world, and they will not show flaws in such a basic place. When Mizutori Hato hit the ball, Wang Chao was already retreating, while Tang Yuanyuan took the position early and steadily chipped the board.
In the past, she would have never chipped this kind of ball. She would have forced it to loop without saying a word, because she was strong enough. Based on her previous playing experience, she could pull it up as long as the billiard ball was thrown.
But please note that that is because she used to hit Women's Singles, and the ball she was able to pull up was actually hit by a female player.
But now she has to face male players.
The difference in strength between men and women is no joke. If she still wants to handle the ball in the same way as Women's Singles and place her hope on "One force overcomes ten skills", then even if she is Monstrous Strength Girl, she will be beaten by the more terrifying explosive power of the male player opposite her and make her doubt her life.
For example, the baseline ball thrown by Mizutori Hato at a high angle has a significantly stronger spin than the ball thrown by the female player. If she pulls the ball based on her past experience, she will most likely commit suicide directly by going off the net.
So she had to change everything from her thinking to her habits.
In fact, during these two months of training, Wang Chao sorted out all the habits and details of Tang Yuanyuan's handling of each type of ball. Almost 80% of the methods of dealing with the ball were modified. Her tactical system in singles has been changed beyond recognition. Her current playing style and on-the-spot thinking have almost all changed into the shape of Wang Chao.
This of course comes at a cost. If the current Tang Yuanyuan were to play Women's Singles again, she would probably no longer be able to play, because all her thoughts on handling the ball assume that the opponent is a male player. When defending, she has the problem of over-preparing and making a fuss. When attacking, she also assumes that the opponent is a male player, so she has the problem of exerting too much force and wasting energy.
But this is not what Wang Chao has to worry about. After all, the top priority now is to get the mixed doubles done quickly. As for whether Tang Yuanyuan is still competitive in singles, does it matter?
Once the mixed doubles is done, let her slowly adjust back.
What's more, with Tang Yuanyuan's own talent, even if Women's Singles returns, she may not have a place in the team. But don't think that she has good results in the last two team assessments, just because she has more prospects in singles than Wang Yu and Shen Sha.
The biggest possibility for the Chinese Table Tennis Women's Team in the future is to let Tang Yuanyuan directly specialize in mixed doubles and completely abandon Women's Singles.
Let's say that at this moment, Tang Yuanyuan cut the ball over, and Ichikawa Mima found that there was no chance and could only continue to rub the ball back.
Then Wang Chao starts.
He seemed to have been waiting there for a long time. As soon as Ichikawa Mima touched the ball, he had already started to circle the stage and hit hard with his forehand.
Mizutori Hato actually took precautions, but because he was not sure whether Wang Chao would actually hit it, he did not step back in advance. When Wang Chao hit the ball, he found that the ball was much faster than expected, and he had no time to step back and was directly hit.
1:0, Tang Dynasty Combination won first.
After the ball was played, Mizutori Hato felt a thump in his heart.
He found that the power of Wang Chao and Forehand Flick was far greater than he expected.
If it was a normal challenge, he would actually be able to react, but the problem is, Wang Chao is a violent challenge this time, which is equivalent to a direct life-threatening blow, and the hit is a killing board.
If he remembers correctly, in his previous two singles matches with Wang Chao, Wang Chao would at most find an opportunity to hit a board with his forehand position in order to gain the initiative and launch a series of subsequent attacks, but he had never scored directly with a sudden blow like now.
This is of course because Wang Chao's tactical system prefers to rely on combination punches to kill people without forcing a kill, but it is also because Wang Chao's absolute strength and instantaneous explosive power are not enough. His previous challenges are not qualified to be called violent challenges. Even if he exerts 100% force, he will not be able to kill people, but will destroy his own rhythm and balance.
But now, he was beaten to death by Wang Chao.
"So he has gained strength again?" Mizutori Hato felt a little uneasy.
Wang Chao serves again, still with flawless short backspin.
Mizutori Hato did not skim the baseline long ball this time, because through the ball just now, he discovered that Tang Yuanyuan, a female player with obviously rough skills, actually sliced the ball very well. His wide-angle tactics failed to create any opportunities for his partner Ichikawa Mima.
So he changed his approach and chose to swing short.
The long ball on the baseline is easy to cut because the distance is far enough, so it is easy for the rubber to exert force when it rubs against the small ball. However, short backspin at a closer point tests the delicateness of the hand. In this case, he wanted to see if the Tang Yuanyuan's return swing would rise or suffer from spin.
But Tang Yuanyuan did not continue to swing short, but took the initiative to throw a long baseline ball to Mizutori Hato's backhand baseline.
The height of this ball is well controlled, but the spin is not strong, because this kind of subtle force is really not the strong point of Tang Yuanyuan.
The reason why she didn't swing short was precisely because she knew that if she faced Mizutori Hato, she would risk rising if she swung short.
But even if she directly ignores the bottom line, strictly speaking, she can still give the opponent a chance to attack.
She knows this herself, so she throws the ball to the backhand at a wide angle, because she knows that no one's backhand force is as thorough as the forehand, so she tries to limit it Ichikawa Mima.
At this time, Ichikawa Mima showed her true strength as the thorn in the side of the Chinese Table Tennis Women's Team. Her footsteps moved at an alarming speed. It was obviously Tang Yuanyuan who threw the ball out first. She reacted after seeing the ball's trajectory, but she landed early and reached the far left side of the table in an instant.
She even moved one more position than most viewers expected, because she didn't want to use her backhand bounce to handle the ball, but wanted to force it directly with her forehand.
This is the power of Extreme Speed Talent.
She slapped it hard with her forehand.
This ball is extremely fast because spin is completely sacrificed.
But Wang Chao didn't panic at all.
Because the ball was shot from the bottom line of the opposite table, the distance was too far.
Wang Chao has long told Tang Yuanyuan that if you are not confident in handling the opponent's short ball, then try to keep the ball as far away as possible, the further away the better.
The reason why we always emphasize that the quality of a ball without rotation is low is precisely because, without rotation, the speed of the ball will rapidly decay as the distance becomes longer, because it will completely eat up all the air resistance.
As for a rotating ball, no matter which direction it rotates, it can naturally produce a certain wind-breaking effect. The reason why it can draw an arc in the air is because the ball is actually rolling in the wind.
If you still don't understand, here's the simplest example. If you spin and throw a Frisbee, it can fly very far. But if you smash it violently, it can only fly a few meters at most.
So when Ichikawa Mima took the ball from the bottom line of her own table, even though she had tried her best, Wang Chao still had no intention of retreating. She just stayed close to the table, waiting for Ichikawa Mima to slap the ball over, and then hit the ball with a forehand inside the table.
This ball has much more momentum. The strong top spin makes the ball go through an obvious arc and plunge into the bottom line of the opponent's backhand.
In fact, Ichikawa Mima had already retreated early after hitting the ball, and Mizutori Hato also moved early, but the power of Wang Chao's pull once again exceeded Mizutori Hato's expectations, leaving him no time to run to the far left side of the table to charge with his forehand. He was forced to stop midway and pull back.
There is not much quality to this ball. It is a passive reverse pull. The defensive attitude is obvious. At best, it does not make a bad lob loop.
Tang Yuanyuan immediately became excited. This opportunity was quite good. She rushed forward and made a forehand blast.
This rush naturally penetrated Ichikawa Mima.
2:0, Tang Dynasty Combination scored another point.
After playing two balls, Mizutori Hato was already a little panicked.
Because he found that the situation seemed different from what he imagined.
His initial idea was actually very simple: in mixed doubles, the core idea is actually very fixed, which is to use our male players to penetrate the other side's female players, while preventing the other side's male players from getting through our female players.
So he chose to catch the ball from Wang Chao, which could perfectly achieve this effect.
His ball should be caught by Tang Yuanyuan, so as long as he finds an opportunity to attack, he can kill Tang Yuanyuan. Even if he can't find it, he believes that with his strength, he will not expose a flaw to Tang Yuanyuan.
He was responsible for catching the ball from Wang Chao, and Ichikawa Mima was perfectly protected.
The idea was good, but when the fight actually started, something unexpected happened.
Wang Chao's offensive power is much greater than imagined.
The first point was lost because Wang Chao directly challenged Ichikawa Mima's return ball. In Mizutori Hato's pre-match plan, Wang Chao should not choose to challenge Ichikawa Mima's ball.
Why?
Because although Ichikawa Mima's return ball does not spin enough, the angle and height are extremely well controlled. Even if Wang Chao can successfully pick this kind of ball, it cannot guarantee the quality. Instead, due to the action of the pick, the ball will turn into a simple topspin billiard ball. In this case, Mizutori Hato only needs to take a step back at the right time, and the ball will in turn become Mizutori Hato's offensive opportunity. If Mizutori Hato hits a forehand at this time, Tang Yuanyuan will probably not be able to catch it.
But Wang Chao just challenged directly and scored. In the final analysis, it was because he had increased his strength. This is very important because it directly broke the tactical balance and gave Wang Chao an extra means of scoring directly with a sudden challenge on his forehand.
Then on the second ball, when Ichikawa Mima finally got the chance to take the initiative with his forehand, Wang Chao, who was supposed to step back from the table and pull back as expected by Mizutori Hato, actually did not step back at all and directly stayed on the table and pulled back with his forehand.
He dared to do this also because he had gained strength.
Precisely because he did not retreat, the speed of this reverse pull was much faster than Mizutori Hato expected. As a result, Mizutori Hato failed to reach the right position and failed to throw his forehand. Instead, he could only barely use his backhand to pull Wang Chao's ball back while standing still in a hurry.
It was during this round that Mizutori Hato lost control of the ball, which led to Tang Yuanyuan directly violently kicking the ball through Ichikawa Mima.
It can be said that there was nothing wrong with Mizutori Hato's thinking. The mistakes in the first two goals all came from prediction errors. He misjudged Wang Chao's strength, which resulted in a violent challenge and an in-table pull by Wang Chao, disrupting the rhythm twice in a row.
The right to serve came to Mizutori Hato.
He and Ichikawa Mima looked at each other briefly, then made a gesture in the audience, and then Ichikawa Mima nodded slightly.
This is the communication between them. What Mizutori Hato said is, "I, Sneak Long Serve, you attack."
Ichikawa Mima said, "Okay."
Thanks to "Haiziyuan" for the 100 coin reward.