At 9:30 a. m. on June 17, the mixed doubles finals of ITTF World Tour Malaysia officially began.
This is a game that has been completely one-sided before the game. The world table tennis world is optimistic about Tang Dynasty Combination without exception. Head coaches from various countries have publicly spoken out, saying that China Table Tennis has excelled in the mixed doubles event and has reached the farthest point where other associations can't even see the smoke.
This time, even the jealous Rohlskov was not satisfied with the lemon. When interviewed by reporters, he admitted that his country's Sissifield and Solga still have a long way to go.
Only Bay Island, out of the intention of encouraging his players, the head coach Jiang Peirong stood up and said a few words: "Table tennis is round, anything can happen on the court. I admit that Tang Dynasty Combination is very strong, but I also want to say that the reason why the Sakura Country combination failed so miserably is that In fact, it is also due to the lack of firm implementation of tactics. In yesterday's match, when I saw player Ichikawa Mima taking the initiative to attack, I knew she had forgotten the iron law of upward compatibility. And when I saw player Mizutori Hato actively choosing to receive Wang Chao's serve, I knew he had forgotten that he was the main attacker of this combination."
He concluded. "In short, I think the defeat of player Sakura Country was mainly due to lack of discipline, and our two players Zhen Jing and Lin Zijun have super discipline. So everyone, I absolutely agree that yesterday's game was a preview of the final. I think the final is the final. Since we can get here, it means that we have the strength to match this position. We still have to fight for this championship."
These words were quite satisfactory. It was understandable to say this in order to encourage his own players, but he did not realize that these words were equivalent to taking out the Sakura Country combination that suffered a heavy defeat yesterday and beating their corpses again. It is said that Ichikawa Mima cried again during the interview, while Mizutori Hato had a beeping expression on his face.
Fans are blind, they don't care about Jiang Peirong's true intention when he said this, especially when they are full of dissatisfaction and need to vent it.
So it is conceivable that there should be some more relevant comments on the table tennis forum in Sakura Country now.
"Even the head coach of Bay Island said that the water bird player should not take the initiative to receive Wang Chao's serve. As expected, the water bird player was fully responsible for yesterday's failure."
"He has lost the courage to be the main attacker. He does not dare to attack and only dares to defend. He must have been broken by Wang Chao player a long time ago."
"All in all, our Sakura Country Table Tennis Association can no longer keep this guy, so he should retire as soon as possible."
However, Jiang Peirong's good wishes were crushed by reality.
It is no exaggeration to say that the final was a complete massacre.
Zhen Jing and Lin Zijun do have very good discipline, which is reflected in the fact that Zhen Jing never attacks, while Lin Zijun never defends.
This idea is actually correct.
Female players have physical limitations. Even the most powerful ball-killing ball in the Women's Singles arena is only equivalent to an ordinary offensive pull in front of a male player. Therefore, when facing the opponent's male player, even if she tries her best to attack, the opponent's male player will have a high chance of forcibly pulling back. Once she completes the full pull, she can turn passive into active, which in turn will make her partner fall into absolute passivity when catching the ball.
The reason for this is essentially because, although the action of looping the ball is recognized as the most powerful technique, it is also the simplest and most obvious technique. After all, all looping balls are 100% topspin, with at most a little side spin, and there are no other hidden changes.
Even if you pull the circle and change the line at the same time, because you have to exert force, the range of movement must be larger than usual, so this line change is actually easier to observe. The reason why pulling the ball and changing the line is so powerful is not because the opponent cannot observe it, but because the opponent cannot react, cannot move so fast, or cannot resolve the force you exert on the ball in a hurry, that's all.
Therefore, once any player launches an attack, it means that he has given up on the various complex subsequent changes that the ball may have had, and completely simplified the ball into a pure right or wrong question: Can you block my power?
You can play this way in singles, because when the strength level of both sides is not much different, even if the opponent can block it, there will definitely be flaws. Therefore, everyone generally believes that you can seize the initiative by attacking.
But if a female player attacks a male player, what she thinks is a kill in the eyes of the faster and more powerful male player is not a kill at all. At best, it is just an ordinary who is slightly faster and stronger than usual. It's just Bullet Serve, Bullet Serve, it has no backspin and is 100% launched. It is an excellent opportunity to attack. The male player has full room to get into position first, then open up his posture, and then hit his own killing board.
In fact, this is how Tang Dynasty Combination played against Sakura Country yesterday. When Ichikawa Mima attacked Wang Chao fiercely, if Wang Chao could react, he would directly stick to the table and pull the ball back. His small pull without any action was enough to easily resolve Yichuan's attack.
And when Yichuan attacks too fast, even if Wang Chao can't keep up, he only needs to take a step back, let Yichuan's ball speed slow down, and then pull hard. After all, female players can't pull hard from the middle and long range, but male players can easily do it.
Because of this, Jiang Peirong emphasizes discipline. Even if a female player sees an opportunity, she will never attack unless it is extremely good. She would rather slice the ball back, cut it back, and throw it back to deal with the opposite male player through placement, rotation and deception.
In short, female players must compete with the opposing male players in terms of skill, not strength.
Why has Scarlet Gossip Combination been able to dominate mixed doubles for many years?
It is precisely because Liu Wen's skills are better than 99% of non-Chinese associations's male players.
But why is the upper limit of Scarlet Gossip Combination not high?
It is also because Liu Wen is used to playing fast attack mode. She takes on half of the offensive tasks in mixed doubles, but in fact she should not attack at all.
Let's talk about this final. In the first game, Lin Zijun served, and Tang Dynasty Combination chose to let Tang Yuanyuan catch the ball.
This choice surprised all the fans watching, and even Lin Zijun himself was shocked, because everyone knows that the essence of mixed doubles is "our male player penetrates the opponent's female player", but now you directly let the female player catch my ball. Do you have any misunderstanding about the concept of mixed doubles, or do you have any misunderstanding about the strength of my attack?
With such doubts, Lin Zijun chose Sneak Long Serve for the first serve.
This is the right choice.
As mentioned before, mixed doubles pays attention to the first three boards, and places great emphasis on allowing our male players to get the opportunity to attack first. Short backspin serves will largely cause the two sides to fight short. Even if there is no short fight, the receiving side can take the first step and throw the ball to a wide angle. In any case, it is detrimental to the server.
But in the case of Sneak Long Serve, because it was Tang Yuanyuan who caught the ball, Lin Zijun considered that Tang Yuanyuan's skills and predictions were not that good after all, so Sneak Long Serve himself might be able to exploit the opponent's flaws.
He Sneak Long Serve was successful, and Tang Yuanyuan was indeed a little surprised. If Tang Yuanyuan forced the save at this time, he would most likely lose points, but Tang Yuanyuan was not in a hurry to catch the ball. She stepped back directly, retreated to the far platform, and then used her strange strength comparable to that of men to force the ball over with her forehand.
This treatment is exactly the same as yesterday's treatment when Mizutori Hato sent a high-throwing deception ball.
In fact, she has practiced this weird-looking way of catching the ball countless times in Chinese Table Tennis base.
She did not predict well enough, and she suffered a lot from sneak attacks in singles before. At the same time, she occasionally could not judge the opponent's ball path and could not figure out the opponent's rotation.
Wang Chao thought of many ways to help her solve this problem. At first, she used conventional methods to teach her various ways to judge the serve. However, after teaching her for a long time, the effect was better than nothing, because this ability to judge and predict is actually a problem of the player's own golf quotient. It is basically innate and has been finalized, and it is difficult to improve it completely.
So in the end, Wang Chao came up with this weird way: to step down.
Anyway, regardless of any ball, even if its mass is so strong that it explodes within the first three or four meters, as long as it continues to fly, its speed and rotation will definitely decrease sharply under the action of air resistance.
Anyway, Tang Yuanyuan itself has the ability to pull the ball from the midfield.
So, if you encounter a ball that you don't understand clearly, just back off the stage and talk about it later.
Let the bullet fly for a while.
Of course, there are problems with this approach, because Tang Yuanyuan is still a girl after all, and her long-distance ball pulling is at best to ensure the attendance rate. If you ask her to ensure the quality at the same time, it is impossible for her to do it.
But it doesn't matter, because after she pulled the ball over, it was Zhen Jing who caught the ball.
Zhen Jing was quite conflicted because the ball was high, straight and had simple topspin. Her hands were itching and she wanted to twitch.
But strict discipline made her choose to rub the ball back.
Then Wang Chao started directly.
After all, Zhen Jing's playing style is actually not delicate. She is also a powerful female player with a masculine style of play. Her ball-striking is quite satisfactory in the eyes of outsiders, but in the eyes of Wang Chao, it is full of flaws.
It's not low enough, the landing point is not close enough, the backspin is too weak, the point is too positive, and the speed is still slow.
Wang Chao directly hit the forehand, which was extremely powerful. Lin Zijun had Extreme Speed Talent, but he reacted. Zhen Jing's cooperation was in place and gave up his position early. However, Lin Zijun, after being positioned early, made a beautiful reverse pull and hit the ball into the sky.
It wasn't that his posture wasn't standard enough, or that his speed wasn't fast enough, but the force of the Wang Chao ball was far beyond his expectation.
The first goal in the game seemed to be just an appetizer, but in fact, both Lin Zijun and Jiang Peirong, who were watching the game from behind, had already cast a shadow on their hearts.
Because this sudden pick clearly illustrates one thing: Wang Chao's current power has exceeded the bottom line of Lin Zijun's normal defense.
This means that if Lin Zijun wants to defend Wang Chao, it needs to put in more energy, not just keeping up with the speed.
The second ball Lin Zijun was still Sneak Long Serve, and Tang Yuanyuan still stepped back and pulled hard, but this time Zhen Jing did not rub it anymore and chose to charge directly head-on.
At the moment of the explosion, Zhen Jing felt completely unsure, but after hitting the ball hard, a sudden realization suddenly arose in Zhen Jing's heart, and she realized for no reason that her handling was right.
Although Jiang Peirong has repeatedly emphasized the discipline of doubles to her and explained the specific reasons why female players cannot focus on attack, in fact, yesterday's semi-finals clearly proved that strict upward compatibility is not enough. The truly correct mixed doubles play must be based on upward compatibility for players to make exceptions.
To put it simply, it means adapting to circumstances.
The current opportunity is exactly the same as the first ball. In the first ball, I followed the discipline and ended up losing. So this ball, I have to make a new attempt no matter what.
At this moment, Zhen Jing really hopes to kill Wang Chao directly, because this means that she has become enlightened. This kind of understanding in actual combat is very important. A player often has such opportunities rarely in his entire career.
However, in the end she encountered the situation Jiang Peirong once explained.
She rushed towards the ball, but Wang Chao rushed back even more fiercely, killing her partner Lin Zijun with a single blow.
2:0.
Zhen Jing was a little worried and turned around to take a look, only to see Lin Zijun smiling at him and nodding, saying in a very small voice, "That's right."
Zhen Jing felt at ease all of a sudden.
She and Lin Zijun both know that today's game is probably a loss, but it doesn't matter, because the Bay Island Table Tennis Association itself has no idea about the gold medal. Their purpose is just to become a strong mixed doubles pair. If Olympic Games fails to get a medal, there will be no punishment, but if they can get even a bronze medal, they will make history.
Therefore, she and Lin Zijun have a consensus on the handling of this ball, or in a broader sense, on the controversy between kingly style and special style of play, and that is enough.
This means that they can continue to go forward in the future and play better than they are now.
Thanks to "Haiziyuan" and "Wang Yize" for the 500-coin reward.
Thanks to "I wish you could understand my thoughts" for the 100-coin reward.