Wang Chao continues to serve, still an extremely rigorous short backspin.
Lin Li swing short.
Wang Chao swing short.
Lin Li refused to move any further, so he chose to change his move and throw the ball to the bottom line of Wang Chao's forehand position. For the left-handed player, this forehand position is also the backhand position of Wang Chao.
This has nothing to do with calculation, and it does not mean that Lin Li has given up on relying on instinct to play basketball. It is purely an instinct, just like you just touched a red-hot iron bar with your hand and got a blister. You must not touch the iron bar again next time you see it.
Precisely because this is a natural change, it is still within Wang Chao's plan.
Wang Chao's choice was backhand twisting, but this time he did not use Pike's vigorous backhand twisting, but Lin Zijun's quick twisting.
What he does is even more extreme than Lin Zijun. He doesn't want rotation at all, just speed.
This is called naked targeting.
The second goal just now proved that it is useless to fight for strength. Even if Wang Chao gets the initiative first, Lin Li can take the initiative back with the advantage of strength. Even when he starts to attack continuously, Wang Chao cannot stop him.
Of course, strategy is strategy, and actual combat is actual combat. Countless people in the world table tennis world know Lin Li's weakness, but few people can really grasp it. This is because their skills are not in place.
Not just anyone can switch between different screws seamlessly.
But Wang Chao can.
So this ball gave Lin Li a headache again. He was already on guard, but even though he retreated earlier than before, he still barely saved a shaky lob.
If a hundred professional players were to handle this ball, ninety-nine of them would choose to rush directly. However, Wang Chao played too pointedly today. He refused to rush. Instead, he chose to move the ball quickly and brought the ball to Lin Li's backhand position, close to the table and at a wide angle.
A large angle close to the table is obviously more dangerous than a large angle on the bottom line, because the ball will come out from the side, so Lin Li could only try his best to save the ball. He circled the table half way and just picked back the ball that had fallen below the table.
But this is meaningless. Wang Chao only needs to flick the ball to the other side near the table at a wide angle. The ball has become a theoretical dead ball for Lin Li.
3:1, Wang Chao continued to score.
He Jingping glanced at Sun Tianlong, wanting to see Sun Tianlong's deflated appearance and make fun of him, but at first glance, Sun Tianlong's face showed a thoughtful look, which was also vaguely mixed with a bit of expectation.
He Jingping was a little surprised, so he asked, "A Long, do you think there will be a turn for the better in this round?"
Sun Tianlong said, "Yes."
He Jingping was stunned. "What's the turning point?"
Sun Tianlong smiled, "You don't think that my junior brother is so inflexible when it comes to playing, do you?"
At this time Lin Li has regained the right to serve.
He hit a high tossing ball with backspin. The ball was spinning very fast due to friction, but the forward force was not great. It looked a little floaty and landed close to the table.
Wang Chao is of course short.
But the ball was thrown high, the backspin was too strong, and the landing point was very close to the net. Wang Chao did not dare to rub hard. Instead, he accurately controlled the subtle power in his hands, and on the premise of reducing the quality of the rotation, he perfectly placed the ball close to the center of the opposite table.
Under normal circumstances, there is no problem with this ball.
But this time, Lin Li had already predicted it. As soon as he saw that Wang Chao was in a short pose, his body began to lean forward and an extremely fierce on-stage challenge came.
Theoretically, it would be very difficult to hit such a low ball, but because the ball does not have enough spin, it is not as difficult as imagined.
What's more, this is a genuine bargain.
If there is still a possibility of being caught by ordinary professional players, then when players like Monstrous Strength Talent like Lin Li try their best to make a sudden challenge, once they succeed, it is really impossible to be blocked.
Lin Li succeeded in a sudden attack, but Wang Chao was directly beaten to death without even moving.
3:2, Lin Li regained one point.
Lin Li served again, still a high toss with short backspin.
Wang Chao directly changes the catching strategy.
Faced with this strong rotating short backspin, since the short swing cannot guarantee the rotation intensity and is easily beaten by the opponent, he directly exerts extra force to spin, instead of trying to control the ball closer, but directly rubs the ball to Lin Li's backhand baseline at a large angle.
With depth, there is room to exert force. The ball Wang Chao spins very low and is a little floaty.
But after Lin Li took a step back, he started fighting again regardless of the cost, and pulled out a looping ball with an extremely powerful backhand.
With the movement of the ball, Wang Chao suddenly felt tense all over, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Because he saw that Lin Li's arms had been completely rounded, and his whole body was moving. This posture was fully in place and the full version of the backhand pull was combined with Lin Li's natural strength. The ball he pulled out was really scary. Wang Chao was not completely sure that he could catch it, so he had to concentrate 100%.
Fortunately, the ball finally hit the net. The ball spun wildly against the net, making a squeaking sound, but in the end it failed to crawl over the net.
4:2, Wang Chao widened the score difference again.
"What a pity." Sun Tianlong couldn't help but shake his head.
He Jingping was a little sluggish, because he discovered that Lin Li had actually changed his moves.
He has been on the coaching staff for so many years and has naturally watched Lin Li play countless games. He has long been familiar with Lin Li's playing style and battle strategies. He thought that Lin Li will strictly abide by Sun Tianlong The game strategy formulated by requires at least one game to be played before considering other plans. In this case, at least in the first game, he will be beaten from beginning to end by Wang Chao. Even if he cannot score a single point in the follow-up, it is normal.
But the reality is that after only four balls were played, Lin Li changed his tactics without hesitation in his own serving round.
In these two balls just now, Lin Li actually had the upper hand, or at least found an opportunity to actively fight.
Although the two fighting balls were successful and failed, judging from the scene, Lin Li took the initiative. The point Wang Chao scored was more about luck than ability.
This is so strange.
"How did you do it?" He Jingping couldn't help but ask.
"Don't get me wrong, my junior brother hasn't figured out Wang Chao's strategy yet. He is probably confused and can't figure out how Wang Chao predicted the success of the previous few balls."
Sun Tianlong explained, "I just gave him one more warning before he came on the stage. I told him, don't worry about those complicated calculations and psychological games. These are not suitable for you. You just need to remember that when you use the original strategy but the effect is not good, you must make a decisive change."
He paused and smiled, "So he changed his tactics and started fighting directly."
He Jingping blinked. "You didn't tell him specifically what move to use?"
Sun Tianlong shook his head. "No."
He Jingping frowned. "Then how does he know what move to use?"
"He thinks for himself." Sun Tianlong's attitude was very calm. "He has been a veteran for so many years. It's not that he has no competition experience, nor that he has no brains. Why doesn't he know what moves to use?"
He Jingping didn't speak for a long time.
If he remembers correctly, when Qin Huachang was the coach, every time Lin Li's key games were played, he would personally be there to direct them. Old Qin was a master in both technology and tactics. He would give Lin Li detailed instructions on the ball, even down to the specifics of how to handle a certain ball and which choice to make in each situation.
When the game was very close, Old Qin showed his excellent court judgment and observation. After each round, he would teach Lin Li how to play the next round and what details should be changed in the way he handled the ball before.
Under such guidance, Lin Li has almost never been suppressed in terms of strategy in foreign battles. When he loses occasionally, it is because of technology or personal competitive state.
The most important game of World Cup final in July last year was precisely because Old Qin had a heart attack the day before and went to the hospital. He was replaced by Wang Lu as a temporary off-site coach. As a result, Lin Li couldn't play directly. The game was ugly, and the tactics and strategies were completely suppressed. In the end, he lost to Bayer, and Huaping lost a gold medal.
Thinking about the Lin Li at that time, and then looking at the Lin Li in front of me, He Jingping just feels like a completely different person.
He originally didn't pay much attention to the transformation coach Sun Tianlong, but then he suddenly realized that maybe Sun Tianlong could really bring something new to the Huaping coaching staff.
For example, now, just because Qin Huachang is no longer here, and just because Sun Tianlong took the initiative to delegate power to Lin Li, Lin Li suddenly became smarter and regained his subjective initiative.
Doesn't this mean that Qin Huachang's training of Lin Li in the past few years was wrong?
At least... it's not entirely correct.
On the court, Wang Chao regained the right to serve.
He still has a short underspin.
Lin Li This time he did not swing short or fight, but directly played a very casual forehand.
This wave seems a bit careless in high-end professional competitions, because the ball passed by has neither spin nor speed, and the quality of the single board can be said to be almost non-existent. Its only advantage is that it is less likely to catch the ball, and it is easier to hit the ball to the landing point you want.
In fact, this is a transition ball, which usually occurs in low-end games or amateur games. For professional players, the stronger the player, the fewer transition balls, because any transition ball will become an opportunity for the opponent to directly attack.
For example, the reason why Luo Jiu has been unable to achieve great success in the past seven years is because when he used reverse rubber on both his forehand and backhand to hit the loop, the connection was not good, and transition balls would appear. Therefore, there were loopholes in his skills and tactics. After replacing the reverse side of the racket with raw rubber, he no longer had the transition link.
Therefore, Lin Li's clear transition ball is to actively let Wang Chao attack.
But Wang Chao refused to attack, and instead rubbed the ball directly to Lin Li's backhand baseline at a wide angle.
It is said to be the bottom line, but this ball is just barely out of the ball. It is the kind of situation where it is difficult to pull off the stage and difficult to twist in the stage, which shows the good feel of Wang Chao.
Since it was difficult to pull, Lin Li did not force the attack. His choice was also very strange. He directly used a backhand quickly.
The so-called fast pull is actually a backhand pull, but this pull does not pay attention to quality or rotation. It is the same as the forehand pull. The only advantage is that it is not easy to catch the ball. Because the difficulty is lower, it is easy to hit the ball back and it is better to control the landing point.
So the ball was fed to Wang Chao's mouth again, and the intention was still to invite Wang Chao to attack.
Wang Chao still refused to attack, so he rubbed the ball again, creating a short backspin that was close to the backhand and had a wide angle.
The ball was played from the side, so Lin Li could only go around the stage to catch it. He knew that Wang Chao's next ball would have to be thrown to the other side at a large angle. In desperation, he could only bite the bullet and force Overlord Twist.
However, Wang Chao played the ball extremely well, short, low and spinning. Lin Li failed to twist the ball and lost points again.
5:2.
Wang Chao continues to serve, still with short backspin.
Lin Li changed his strategy this time and chose to directly Overlord Twist.
It's a pity that the screwing failed.
6:2.
At this point in the game, all the ordinary spectators can see is that the players on both sides have been changing their receiving and serving strategies. They will think that this is testing each other, that this is a warm-up, an appetizer.
So even if Wang Chao scores consecutively, the audience still thinks that the game is still suspenseful.
He Jingping and Sun Tianlong knew that the game had ended early at this stage.
Why?
Because it is obvious that Lin Li is playing smarter than ever today.
He did not make precise calculations with Wang Chao. He just kept in mind a principle that Sun Tianlong told him: if you find that your trick is not working well, then just change it. As for why you should change it, if you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Just treat it as trial and error.
In fact, Lin Li did exactly that.
When the audience saw Lin Li and Wang Chao constantly changing the way they received the serve, they thought it was a game. In fact, it was not a game, just trial and error. Wang Chao might be speculating and predicting, but Lin Li was just trying out the techniques he had practiced one by one.
Of course, he is also the main player of the national team after all, and he knows that Wang Chao wants to overwhelm him with speed.
He also found that Wang Chao was very afraid of his offensive ability.
So all the fights between the two revolve around this.
Wang Chao insists on short backspin, just not wanting to give Lin Li a chance to attack.
And Lin Li moved the ball, moved quickly, and skimmed the baseline, clearly asking Wang Chao to attack, just to let Wang Chao pull the ball up.
As I have emphasized many times before, once someone pulls the ball, the ball will become a topspin ball, and all other subtle changes will be invalid.
And what is the ultimate in topspin?
It's a forehand blast, a backhand pull, a standoff, a collision of sparks hitting the earth.
It can be said that as long as Wang Chao pulls the first board, Lin Li will try his best to guide the ball into the second board, the third board, the fourth board...
Therefore, Wang Chao refuses to take the initiative unless he can find an opportunity to use a super-fast attack mode such as a pick-up or a quick backhand twist on the table. Lin Li can't react directly and is fatal in one blow.
The fundamental intentions of both parties are very clear, and what remains is how to suppress the other party's purpose and highlight one's own.
In this game of suppression and prominence, Wang Chao scored four points in a row, which actually proved that he could indeed suppress Lin Li, but Lin Li could not suppress him.
Lin Li is good at many techniques, but in the current situation, there are only a few that are really applicable. They have been fully demonstrated in the four-ball confrontation. He does not have the ability to force Wang Chao to actively pull the ball, so in order not to slowly wait for death, all he can do is to actively fight.
But his success rate in fighting was extremely low.
This is of course not a problem with his technique, but that Wang Chao plays the ball too tightly.
It can be said that Wang Chao was able to beat him not because of luck or strategy, but because Wang Chao is indeed much better than Lin Li in terms of technology, feel, and precision of power exertion.
Of course, apart from that, there is one last thing left, which is the technical stability of the players.
The stability of Chinese table tennis players has always been amazing, which is why there have been so many famous scenes of Chinese table tennis players turning around from desperate situations in international competitions over the years.
Lin Li played very tenaciously today. Although Qin Huachang was not here, he did not lose his backbone. Instead, he played very relaxed and free, with various inspirations pouring out. He persisted until the fourth game.
However, Wang Chao is more stable than him.
As an 18-year-old young player, Wang Chao's stability has always amazed the world table tennis community.
Neither side made any mistakes, and the game went on like this, until the end Lin Li did not collapse, but he was indeed blocked by Wang Chao 4:0.
This is why players who are stable enough are scary.
Even if I'm just a little bit better than you, I can still score a score that looks very disparate.
The game lasted exactly thirty minutes.
By the time the game was over, the world table tennis community had begun to exclaim, "Wang Chao has officially begun the journey to seize power within China Table Tennis Team, and the future Great Demon King has begun to take shape."
(Brothers, let me be lazy today. I really can't hold it anymore. I wrote 1 million words in 3 and a half months. I feel bad recently. I'll just update it today. Tomorrow is the starting point for updates. I will try to update it three times to make up for what I missed today. If I can adjust my status, I may write more.)