On the court, players from both sides guessed coins. Wang Chao had no luck as always, and Lin Li got the right to serve first.
Lin Li didn't think much and just sent a short backspin.
There is nothing special about this ball. It is purely his instinctive choice. He strictly followed Sun Tianlong's instructions and did not consider how Wang Chao would catch the ball or how he would connect when serving.
Because theoretically, as long as he calculates, he may be one step short of Wang Chao and fall into the trap. But if it doesn't count at all, then in a simple dichotomy situation like this on the field, he can force it. Leading to a chaotic conclusion, no one can count, relying entirely on luck and instinct to develop the situation, and then using hard power and basic skills to compete, just like the third and fourth balls in the first game of Bai Feng this morning.
But it's strange, Wang Chao seemed to have expected it. As soon as he served the ball, Wang Chao's body had adjusted slightly and turned into an attacking posture on the table, and then he made a very smooth jump on the table.
Note that it is a sudden pick, which means that Wang Chao is already ready to go and is 100% ready to fight. If the ball is hit, it will be scored. If it is caught, it will be defeated. There is no follow-up at all.
This ball is too abrupt and of high quality, which directly beats Lin Li to death.
1:0, Wang Chao took the lead.
This is not surprising, because when Lin Li relies on instinct to play the first game, it means that he, like Bai Feng in the morning, must first clearly see the path of the ball when handling the ball, and then make a reaction sequence, so that the reaction speed must be a little slower than the pre-judged reaction speed.
What's more, he is slightly fat and extremely powerful. He is walking the path of single board quality, but his movement speed is not outstanding.
Lin Li got the right to serve again.
As a veteran, he has played so many games that the moment he holds the ball, he can't help but start calculating the ball in his mind: I sent a short backspin, and he directly hit the ball, which shows that he has a strong desire to fight today. Logically speaking, I should stop his fighting and interrupt his rhythm., then I should make the backspin stronger, or hit a gap he didn't expect. So should I throw it high to increase the spin, or Sneak Long Serve to find his gap? Oh, no, maybe he guessed that I would think so, and then...
Lin Li's train of thought came to an abrupt end here, because he suddenly remembered that now was not the time to count the ball. Although losing the first ball was a bit strange, he should still give up counting the ball and use unreasonable serve choices to force Wang Chao to be confused with him.
He had just analyzed that he should serve a high toss with backspin, but since the analysis itself was wrong, then it must also be wrong to serve a high toss with backspin.
So he shook his head vigorously to expel all the messy thoughts. After pondering for a while, he sent a hook Reverse Spin.
The ball was served to Wang Chao's backhand mid-table position.
In fact, when faced with a left-handed player like Wang Chao, theoretically speaking, regardless of forward spin or Reverse Spin's serve, the landing point should be on the forehand position as much as possible. However, after all, the number of forehand players in the table tennis world is much greater than that of backhand players, so Lin Li was in the past. In so many games, whenever he served a hook, most of them were looking for a backhand position. But this time, the thought "Wang Chao is a left-handed player" actually crossed his mind before serving. However, strict discipline still made him erase this information immediately and still serve according to instinct and habit.
Something magical is coming.
As soon as he served, Wang Chao turned sideways. This action and position were very natural, as if he was waiting for Lin Li to feed the ball to his mouth.
When he got into position, the ball really came to his mouth.
Then Wang Chao came up with a forehand blast with seven points of strength.
This time he did not resort to fighting, because fighting is a double-edged sword after all, and now it was a God-given opportunity. He only needed to get the initiative to attack, and there was no need to fight the opponent desperately.
Lin Li felt unsure when the ball was released, so he subconsciously became more defensive. Seeing Wang Chao rushing forward, he did not panic. He took half a step back from the stage and steadily pulled the ball back.
At this time, you can see the difference between him and Bai Feng.
Bai Feng is faster than him. If the first ball is caught by Bai Feng, even if Wang Chao is a sudden challenge, Bai Feng will still have a chance to catch it. Once he catches it, he can even counterattack Wang Chao.
In this situation, Bai Feng is stronger than Lin Li.
But now for the second ball, Wang Chao started a heavy forehand loop, trying to take the initiative. At this time, if Bai Feng catches the ball, he is not strong enough, so he has to step back, and he cannot pull back strongly. He can only pull the ball passively, and there is no way to apply extra force and turn. The only thing he can do is to control the landing point and height, so of course he falls into a passive position. If nothing goes wrong, he will be slowly beaten to death by Wang Chao's combination punch.
But Lin Li has unique veneer quality.
He was obviously pulling the ball in a passive situation, but he pulled out a heavy arc with a higher quality than Wang Chao, which created great difficulties for Wang Chao and forced Wang Chao to take an extra step back.
This time, he unreasonably took back the initiative.
Wang Chao Forehand pull.
Lin Li is also pulling.
Wang Chao pulls forehand again.
Lin Li also pulls the forehand again.
Wang Chao changed his moves first, cutting a board far away and spinning sideways, trying to use this change in speed to affect Lin Li's state.
But this level of change of moves was meaningless to Lin Li. Instead, he took advantage of the slowdown of the ball to readjust his position. His feet landed on the ground as if they were taking root, he completely twisted his waist and hips, rounded his arms, and used his whole body to pull out a super-high-quality forward arcing ball.
Wang Chao did not dare to continue to pull the ball. He was afraid that his own strength could not resolve the rotation of the ball, so he could only adjust the angle of the racket, press down firmly, and use his strength to push and block.
In this way, the ball passed by quickly enough, but because it was too deep, there was no suddenness. Instead, the ball lost its rotation, and its trajectory in the air lost its arc and became a simple straight line.
Lin Li naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity. He took a step forward and pushed forward with a forehand.
Wang Chao has no chance to play again. All he can do is adjust the position of the racket and continue to defend.
He fell into passivity.
But he wasn't too worried because he felt he could guard against it.
Because at Swedish Open in April, he had specifically studied how to defend against overly violent attacks. At that time, he taught Fan Xiaodong to defend Hook in this way, and then used the same method to defend Fan Xiaodong in the finals.
He has tasted the sweetness of defense.
But this ball, after he defended it for six times, was shot through by Lin Li.
Wang Chao had never fought Lin Li before. He only knew that Lin Li was very violent and the quality of the board was extremely high, but he didn't know the specific reasons why he was so skilled and why it was so difficult to defeat him.
Later, when he successfully defended Fan Xiaodong in Swedish Open, he felt that pure violence was actually not that scary, because no matter how violent you are, you can't completely turn your power into the speed of the ball's flight. You put more power on the rotation.
And with Wang Chao's excellent feel, as long as he can keep up with the speed of the ball, no matter how strong the ball's spin is, he can achieve a perfect resolution by finely adjusting the angle between the racket and the table. In fact, by leveraging his strength, he can actually make the return ball of higher quality, making the opponent trapped in a cocoon.
What's more, Lin Li was beaten to death by a brainless player like Sissifield on the backhand position.
This makes Wang Chao's evaluation of Lin Li from the bottom of his heart not very high. Objectively speaking, it is lower than Bai Feng.
But today he finally knows why Lin Li has been ranked third among the five main players of the national team for seven years.
It turns out that Lin Li's attack is not just about violence, but also contains secrets.
He blocked Lin Li's six boards. In almost every board, Lin Li's posture and force for pulling the ball looked similar, but in fact, the nature of the ball hitting Wang Chao's racket was different for each board.
Lin Li Although he claims that the single board quality is the highest in Huaping, what he pursues is not to exert all his strength on every board, but to keep changing. Not to mention the strength is large and small, and even the degree of rotation of the ball is different.
As we all know, there are two most basic indicators for offensive pulling. One is the degree of friction between the rubber and the ball, which is rotation, and the other is the propulsion effect of the rubber on the ball, which is forward movement.
The proportions of forward motion and spin are different, and the balls you pull out will have different trajectories and properties. Some are heavy but not fast, some are fast but not heavy, and of course some are heavy and fast.
In theory, all professional players will pull out various balls with different ratios, but in fact, in actual combat, especially in very intense actual combat, the balls pulled out by all professional players are relatively fixed, because there must be a ratio that they are best at, have the highest success rate, the most thorough, and the most powerful.
This ratio varies from person to person and there is no right answer.
In fact, even Fan Xiaodong has this problem when he pulls the ball. In most cases, his violent attacks only change the landing point and direction of rotation, but there are not many subtle changes in the ratio of rotation to forward motion.
The changes in landing point and direction of rotation are visible to the audience at a glance, but in fact, even if the ball is pulled to the same landing point in the same posture and direction of rotation, there can be various changes, but outsiders cannot see it.
Lin Li is a rare person who works hard on the quality of the loop ball.
This change is very tricky because it is very difficult to distinguish. When the ball lands on the racket, it is too fast and spins too strongly. No matter how good Wang Chao's hand is, it is difficult to quickly adjust the angle and height of the racket in such a short period of time. Therefore, his six cricket balls are getting more and more incomprehensible. In the end, he has completely lost control of the power of the ball. Every ball obviously landed on his racket, but he was hit hard.
1:1, the two sides drew.
In the eyes of the audience, this ball was just a clear high-quality offensive and defensive matchup, but Wang Chao realized a very serious problem: I couldn't guard against his attack?
Lin Li has many problems. His playing style is not flexible enough and his mentality is not good enough, so he has lost many games that he shouldn't have lost. However, when his offensive power can be perfectly unleashed, he finally showed the horror of being the main player of the national team.
Wang Chao gets the right to serve.
He chose to send a very cautious short backspin.
Lin Li can only swing back.
Wang Chao again.
Lin Li again.
Wang Chao played this ball very carefully. All the landing points were near the center of the table on Lin Li's side, and the height was extremely low. It was clear that he and Lin Li must decide the outcome of the ball on the table before giving up.
If Lin Li really doesn't want to play short, of course, he can also just throw the ball to the bottom line of the table and force Wang Chao to play the long ball.
But at this time, he was playing from his heart, and he didn't think there was any problem with shortcomings. After all, as the main player of the national team, even if he is not famous for his touch, how can his touch be any worse?
In fact, he can make various changes that are difficult to discern with the naked eye in the seemingly unchanged heavy arc pull. This in itself proves that he has a rough and fine side. He is Zhang Fei, but he can also embroider.
If his guidance today was Qin Huachang, he would definitely tell him not to fight against Wang Chao no matter what.
However, Sun Tianlong is a new coach after all. He only wanted him to learn from Bai Feng and play by instinct, but he forgot to tell him that while relying on instinct to play, he should also keep in mind some iron rules.
Therefore, Lin Li, with the pride of being the main player and trust in his own touch, chose to continue playing short.
After eight rounds of this, Lin Li was still inferior in fine power control, making mistakes in exerting force, exposing flaws, and swinging back to gain heights.
Wang Chao did not hesitate to make a sudden challenge, and changed the line to the opponent's backhand baseline at a wide angle, directly killing Lin Li who was not fast enough and had no time to retreat.
2:1, Wang Chao takes the lead again.
"What a pity." In the stands, He Jingping sighed suddenly.
As a player, Sun Tianlong is the best in history, but as a coach, he is still a rookie after all, and is not as sharp as He Jingping. In fact, he didn't understand Bai Feng's game that morning, but only after watching the video many times.
At this moment, he didn't notice the problem, so he humbly asked, "What's wrong?"
He Jingping chuckled. Although he said it was a pity, he looked very proud and pointed. "Have you noticed that Lin Li is obviously playing instinctively, but for two consecutive serves, he was defeated by Wang Chao predicted it, and for the third ball, Wang Chao deliberately forced a shortfall, but Lin Li dared to follow. It can be said that his every move was all planned by Wang Chao."
Sun Tianlong frowned slightly. "But... why?"
His acumen for actual combat is not inferior to anyone else's, the only difference is his coaching experience. Of course he also sees the situation at this time, he just doesn't understand it.
"Because you were seen through by Wang Chao." He Jingping sighed, but with a smile in his eyes, "He told me that he had an idea. I was still curious about how he suddenly had an idea when he didn't have an idea yesterday. But now I understand. He didn't have an idea on how to fight Lin Li, but he guessed what you, the instructor, were thinking."
Sun Tianlong was speechless for a long time.
"Actually, it's right to think about it. Old Qin wanted to help Fan Xiaodong deal with Wang Chao before. It took so long to calculate, but in the end nothing was calculated. It can be seen that it is difficult and almost impossible to calculate Wang Chao from the purely technical field, so Ah, the theory of No moves are better than any move proposed by Lao Wang today is actually the best way to go about it. Now you want to help Lin Li fight Wang Chao. What good idea can you come up with in a hurry? The only thing you can do is to copy Lao Wang's strategy."
He Jingping talked eloquently. "If Old Qin is still here, he will definitely not copy it, because he is afraid that we will laugh at him. But you are definitely willing to copy... A Long, it seems that Wang Chao knows you very well. He guessed your thoughts and figured out Lin Li's tactics."
Sun Tianlong feels a little aggrieved.
Although his attitude was always humble, how could he not be arrogant in his heart? This trip to Germany was his first public appearance as a coach, and of course he wanted to make a splash.
He has no sectarian views, but he also hopes to maintain his reputation as a teacher while serving the public good, rather than letting the Qin sect be suppressed by the powerful sect.
However, he had just encountered his first fierce battle, and he was counted dead by Wang Chao. This was a typical example of him dying before he left the battlefield.
"So I said it's a pity. In fact, if we fight normally, Lin Li has a chance of winning." He Jingping added.
Sun Tianlong nodded, and finally couldn't help but sigh, "Yes."
He and He Jingping both saw that Wang Chao was somewhat unable to block Lin Li's attack.
This surprised both of them.
Wang Chao's record in the past six months has been too brilliant, with almost no disadvantages. This often makes people subconsciously put Wang Chao on the level of Sun Tianlong and Luo Jiu, without delving into how he achieved such a record.
In fact, Wang Chao is not the opponent of Sun Tianlong. In the first battle with Table Tennis Super League, he was defeated miserably. He was crushed by Sun Tianlong in terms of experience, strength, technology and other aspects.
In fact, that is the true strength of Wang Chao.
But Wang Chao has a unique advantage, that is, his pure technical ability has reached the master level in one step.
It just so happens that Sun Tianlong, as a veteran of the traditional style of play, has a fatal flaw in the backhand position.
Others couldn't force out Sun Tianlong's flaws, but Wang Chao could rely on Grandmaster level's other skills, forcing Sun Tianlong to be unable to slow down his backhand.
Relying on this alone, he forced Sun Tianlong to explode with force, thus causing injuries. Only in this way could Wang Chao finally succeed in slaying the dragon.
So, it's not that Wang Chao is not strong, but even though he is strong, he also has some weaknesses.
To be more precise, it's not called a weakness, it's called "a point where he's not strong enough."
When faced with Lin Li's super powerful attack, Wang Chao's "not strong enough" was unexpectedly highlighted.
This definitely surprised Wang Chao himself.
The root cause is that his strength is still not enough to face Lin Li head-on. When Lin Li wants to exert force, he can only choose to defend, but when defending, he cannot block Lin Li's subtle changes, and is eventually penetrated.
It should be said that if the two sides made it clear from the beginning that they were going to fight head-on, Lin Li could work hard on this point.
However, from the beginning, Lin Li listened to Sun Tianlong's words and was completely guessed by Wang Chao.
So when Wang Chao got the right to serve, he immediately chose to fight short.
Why?
Because on the first ball, Wang Chao had already discovered that Lin Li's "not strong enough" was speed.
The fight inside the platform is short, the depth is short enough, the attack is violent, and the speed is fast enough. The combination of these two will make Lin Li unable to react.
Therefore, when playing Lin Li, you need to play speed.
Slowly peeling back the cocoons from the complicated competition situation and looking to the innermost, what you see is such a simple truth.
All other processes are just to advance the game to this stage.
"I ask you to provide on-the-spot guidance now. Do you have any ideas?" He Jingping asked.
Sun Tianlong said, "Yes."
So He Jingping chuckled, "But you can't enter now."
He had no objection to Sun Tianlong, but he was still very happy to see the Qin disciples defeated. Especially when he thought of Old Qin's expression when he got up tomorrow and saw the results of the game, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.