In fact, the first two balls of the first innings were very interesting because of the different impact they had on different levels of the spectator circle.
Ordinary fans are probably just surprised, with a bit of surprise. After all, they heard before the game that Wang Chao has a big advantage, and now Bai Feng takes the lead. This shows that today's game will be better and more suspenseful than imagined.
The average person in the industry will feel enlightened after the accident. They will use their own understanding to guess why Bai Feng served like this, and why Wang Chao made mistakes in receiving the ball. No matter what the result of their analysis is, they will feel that they have learned.
Non-Chinese associations coaches at the national team level and a few top professional players will try to find a reasonable explanation for what they see in front of them.
Because they are also proficient in ball theory, even if they do not analyze it as carefully as the players on both sides before the game, they are still roughly aware of their respective strengths and weaknesses and the key points for breaking the game. As a result, the two balls they saw are different from what they imagined. They will think that they have made some omissions, and thus guess whether there is some unique information within Huaping that they do not know.
For example, top coaches such as Rohlskov and Persson, because Wang Chao's first ball was succeeded by Sneak Long Serve, they guessed such outrageous conclusions as "Wang Chao may not have slept well yesterday and therefore reacted slowly today."
The ones who really burn their brains and feel the most crazy are only those with the highest professional level in the Huaping coaching staff.
Forget it, let's just name them. In fact, they are Qin Huachang and He Jingping. If we must add one more, then Sun Tianlong, who did not participate in this Open but came to the scene as the head coach, can also be counted as half.
The smartest people in the table tennis world are completely confused at the moment.
Others are confused about the exact professional ability ranking within the Huaping coaching staff. They may think that this time Wang Lu, Bai Feng's teacher, defeated He Jingping, Wang Chao's teacher, in pre-game preparation.
After all, we are all nationally renowned coaches, so how big of a difference can there be?
You win today and I win tomorrow, that's normal, right?
But these two semi-intelligent men were certain: this must not be the case.
Wang Lu and He Jingping are bound to lose in a one-on-one duel purely based on technical theory. If he and Wang Chao challenge people's calculations, they will both lose.
Even in 1v1, there is a slight possibility that a blind cat could catch a dead mouse, but in 1v2...
If this Wang Lu can really win with strength, Qin Huachang is willing to eat the chair live on the spot.
He Jingping said he could accompany me to eat.
Only Sun Tianlong feels that it is more reliable to eat canned herring.
In short, the newly popular anchor Qin Huachang was silent at this time because he really couldn't figure it out.
He stared at the screen for a long time. It wasn't until Wang Chao got the ball and got into a teeing stance that he sighed and said helplessly, "Look at it first, look at it first, and then I'll tell you about it after I understand it."
The audience will not look down upon Qin Huachang because of this, they will only feel more excited, because it is obvious that Old Qin didn't even understand this game. What does this mean?
It means it's high-end enough.
Even if this kind of high-end game is something they can't understand, it doesn't stop everyone from cheering and having a forced orgasm. After all, there may have been such a game before, but they didn't know what the quality of the game they were watching was. But now, with the guidance of Old Qin, they at least knew for sure that they were watching a high-end game.
This kind of mentality is a bit like paying a lot of money to watch a high-quality, world-class symphony performance. Others are cheering, but you only feel noisy.
But this does not prevent you from posting a message on Moments after you come out, praising how intoxicated you were by today's performance, and feeling ecstatic and sublimated in the envious replies from your friends.
In this atmosphere, Wang Chao served.
He also directly Sneak Long Serve, stealing the backhand bottom line of Bai Feng.
I have to say that this is another unreasonable choice.
As we all know, Wang Chao now has both physical and psychological advantages when facing Bai Feng. His correct choice should be to seek stability. The first serve at the beginning should be short backspin, because he has just tried Bai Feng's attack power, and now he needs to figure out how Bai Feng feels on the small ball in the table.
So Wang Chao and Sneak Long Serve look like they are angry: you stole a long from me and scored, then I must steal a long from you to retaliate.
In a daze, Qin Huachang only felt that this scene seemed familiar. If he remembered correctly, the game between Chinese Table Tennis base and Chinese Table Tennis base last year was Wang Chao consecutive Sneak Long Serve, deliberately irritating Bai Feng, and then Bai Feng was indeed provoked, making the bad habit of being too proud and tough, and followed Sneak Long Serve consecutively, and was completely counted by Wang Chao.
Today the scene is reversed. Bai Feng's two serves are different, showing a flexible game strategy. As for Wang Chao and Sneak Long Serve, no matter how you look for reasons, you can only find one reasonable explanation in the end: a battle of spirits.
Qin Huachang thought Bai Feng would attack directly.
But in fact, Bai Feng did not start. Instead, it chose to move and then carefully rubbed the board.
Qin Huachang squinted his eyes slightly at this moment, and subconsciously moved his head closer to the screen, trying to see it more clearly.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that there was a pause when Bai Feng was catching the ball, but the pause was too short, close to nothing. Only a top coach like him, who has extremely high standards for the smoothness and precision of players' hitting, can instinctively feel the slightest violation.
Little did he know that there were two other people feeling the same at this moment.
One was He Jingping. He and Ge Miao were sitting in the auditorium watching the game. When they saw this, they let out a soft "Huh". Ge Miao turned around and asked him what was wrong, but he shook his head and said it was okay, because he didn't know if it was his illusion.
The other person is Wang Lu.
Wang Lu thinks that Bai Feng will definitely attack this ball because he knows Bai Feng too well.
Therefore, his judgment was clearer than that of Qin and He. Even if he did not observe any clues, he could still directly judge: There was something wrong with Bai Feng's state of just catching the ball.
But he was different from Qin and He. He knew the problem right away: Bai Feng did not try to predict Wang Chao's serve. He chose to act purely according to circumstances and take advantage of the situation later.
In other words, Bai Feng actually waited until Wang Chao's serving action was completely completed before deciding his next step based on the ball he saw on the spot.
The reaction speed of professional table tennis players is super fast, but there is still a gap between those who have prediction and those who do not.
In addition, the quality of Wang Chao and Sneak Long Serve is extremely high, and it is faster than most people's Sneak Long Serve. Therefore, in this unforgettable moment, Bai Feng still missed the opportunity to directly attack, and had no choice but to give up.
This is probably one of the fatal flaws of the "No moves are better than any move" strategy in actual combat, but Wang Lu thought about it and decided that it was the lesser of two evils. He would rather Bai Feng miss such an opportunity to attack.
So he didn't feel sorry and continued reading calmly.
Bai Feng This ball spins very well, the spin is not weak, and the landing point is far from the baseline. Strictly speaking, this kind of low and unobtrusive backspin ball has no loopholes.
But Wang Chao still chooses to force start.
The ball was actually on his forehand. Considering his left-handedness, if he wanted to attack, he could only twist it with his backhand, but this time he chose to move significantly, directly around the table for half a week, and converted into a fierce Forehand Flick.
This ball was extremely difficult, and Wang Chao did not dare to forcefully change the line. But even so, in such a short distance, the ball was almost unhittable. The challenge was still very abrupt. Even if Bai Feng reacted quickly, the ball had already flown in front of him when he took a step away.
Bai Feng had no choice but to retract his arm, and in a very uncomfortable state relied on the rotation of his body to forcefully pull the ball back.
The ball was too high, didn't turn enough, and didn't have enough power. Wang Chao hit the ball directly from the forehand position.
But Bai Feng had taken advantage of the short gap in this round to regain his body balance. Even though he was still passive, he still pulled the ball back, which was actually better than the previous one.
Wang Chao pulls the change line directly.
Bai Feng Penhold Backhand Loop, pull the ball back.
Wang Chao switched to the forehand position and continued to charge. This time, he did not use all his strength. Instead, he accurately controlled the landing point to the large angle baseline of Bai Feng's forehand position, and hit a ball that did not turn but was super fast.
This change of rhythm is actually very demanding on the feel and sense of rhythm. Most players will form inertia when continuously looping. If the rhythm of the ball does not drop, he will keep looping. The reason why He Jingping's tactical system, which is known as the best offense in the world, requires a super genius to learn the essence is because the changes in various offensive routines emphasized in it need to be achieved by super strong touch and rhythm control capabilities.
Wang Chao suddenly changed from pulling to shooting, which caused Bai Feng to suffer a severe loss. When pulling the ball, he subconsciously tried to offset the spin, but instead pulled the ball directly into the air. Fortunately, it did not fly out directly.
But Wang Chao quickly made up for it, forcing Bai Feng to a position three steps back, and then converted it into a near penalty kick, pulling Bai Feng to death.
1:2, Wang Chao regained one point.
At this point in the fight, Qin Huachang was still frowning slightly, unable to fully understand the intentions of both sides.
In fact, in the actual process of table tennis matches, this kind of ambiguous situation often occurs. It does not mean that whoever formulates a targeted tactic will be able to clearly show this targeting in every ball. On the contrary, because there are too many variables in the game, the core tactics of the players often only take shape after many balls.
For example, when Wang Chao scored this goal, even top coaches like Qin Huachang and He Jingping could see only two abnormalities.
First, Bai Feng seems to have some problems when receiving the serve.
Second, Wang Chao's fighting rhythm started much faster than expected.
As for the subsequent continuous attacks and defenses that the audience cheered for, they were actually just the effects that the conventional tactical systems of both sides would inevitably show during normal collisions.
So Qin Huachang could only say, "Don't worry, look again, look again."
Wang Chao served again, still Sneak Long Serve, but this time it was Bai Feng who stole the forehand baseline.
Bai Feng didn't hesitate this time and charged forward with a forehand without hesitation.
This is not because he had a prejudgment, but because Wang Chao Sneak Long Serve changed its nature this time. The ball speed was not as fast as the previous serve, but the spin was stronger, so Bai Feng had enough time to react after seeing the ball clearly and complete the attack.
Wang Chao was also expecting it. He stretched out his racket to block the board and blocked a super fast return ball.
Bai Feng also expected it, moved forward, and was beaten hard on the stage.
Wang Chao naturally took a step back, pulled the ball over with his forehand, and changed the line to Bai Feng's backhand position at a wide angle.
Bai Feng steadily used Penhold Backhand Loop to pull the ball back, and also changed the line to Wang Chao's forehand position at a wide angle.
Wang Chao still maintained his position of taking a step back and pulled back steadily.
Bai Feng converted to a forehand blast again, using seven points of force.
Wang Chao also moves in parallel and converts into a forehand blast, also using only seven points of force.
The ball looked very routine. Both sides had guessed the opponent's response and had predicted it, so of course the situation turned into a stalemate. The stalemate between the Chinese table tennis players in the civil war showed a completely different style from that of the non-Chinese associations players. Both sides played extremely steadily, and neither one was willing to exert 100% of his strength, because everyone knows that if the strength is too thorough, if he cannot kill someone, his balance will be damaged.
So both sides are fighting for real basic skills.
It just so happens that Chinese table tennis players are a small group of people recognized in the world as having the most solid basic skills.
However, Chinese table tennis players have specially conducted defensive training, rhythm training and mental toughness training.
Therefore, no one can be killed by the explosive charge of seven points, and no one is willing to be discouraged first. Everyone holds on tightly.
So the two sides unanimously upgraded the difficulty of the stalemate. Under the same strength conditions, they added variables such as rotation, landing point, line changes, and the connection between forehand and backhand, trying to suppress their opponents with their comprehensive abilities.
The ball hit seventeen boards, from the left side of the table to the right side, from the right side to the left side, from the middle table to the far table, and from the far table back to the near table. In the end, the balance of both sides was shaky. Wang Chao pulled a backhand side spin that was not too high in quality. Bai Feng went up to catch it with scattered steps, but his arm was empty and the ball flew out from his side.
2:2, Wang Chao equalized the score.