"Fight hard and don't take it lightly." Before entering the game, He Jingping warned Wang Chao.
This is an old saying that every coach will nag before the start of the game. Because it is heard too much, it is usually useless, but this time He Jingping always felt that something was wrong. He paused and said again, "Please calm down."
Wang Chao smiled and pointed to his head, "Don't worry, I have studied Brother Fei's carefully. There are a lot of things in it."
He Jingping couldn't help but laugh, knowing that he was too concerned and a little suspicious.
In fact, although he is open-minded and has full confidence in Wang Chao, after taking the initiative to make suggestions at the coaching staff meeting a few days ago, he still feels a little uneasy. He is always afraid that if Wang Chao loses to Lin Li or Bai Feng, will he have to take the blame? Do I have to give Wang Chao a kiss to be worthy of my conscience?
At this time, Wang Chao entered the room. He looked at each other and smiled at Xiao Fei, who entered the room on the other side, and shook hands according to the rules.
The atmosphere is very good, because Wang Chao and Xiao Fei have been practicing mixed doubles together for several months, and they have become very familiar with each other. In addition, Xiao Fei is a Buddhist character who does not fight or fight, so they have always been getting along well, so much so that when they meet on the court, they still feel a bit in a trance. They always feel that the next moment they put their rackets on the table, they can sit down and chat and spank.
When the two returned to both sides of the table, the referee tossed a coin to signal the two to guess. Xiao Fei couldn't help but laugh, waved his hands and shook his head, signaling that he would not guess and let Wang Chao guess.
This is also a joke among acquaintances. After all, Wang Chao is known as a coin guesser with 100% chance of success. There are rumors within Huaping that the only way to make Wang Chao succeed in guessing coins is to invite Sun Tianlong to guess with Wang Chao.
Not even Luo Jiu, because everyone thinks Luo Jiu is not stable enough.
Wang Chao randomly guessed a word and waited for the referee to reveal the patterned side of the coin. As a result, the referee released his hand and the three of them took a closer look and were extremely surprised.
It turns out that a "word" really came out this time. Wang Chao guessed the coin successfully and got the right to serve.
"Wow, this is interesting." Brother Da Ma laughed loudly in the live broadcast room, "Wang Chao actually won the coin guessing game. Is he going to lose this game?"
"This world is materialistic and objective. You can't betray materialism just because there is a small probability event such as coincidence, okay?" Ye Hongye skillfully answered, "Let me put it this way, if Wang Chao loses this game, I will eat your monitor on the spot."
"Oh, you said it yourself. The audience friends have heard it. The recording is proof. You can't go back on it." Brother Da Ma immediately followed. "Let's first say that we can't play word games this time. If you want to eat, you can eat it for real. With the monitor in front of us, whoever doesn't eat is a puppy."
Ye Hongye had the calmness of a boss, smiled, and shook the feather fan in his hand. If you want to ask why there is a feather fan, it is naturally because summer is here. "I agree, but one monitor is not enough... add this keyboard too."
At the same moment, almost all the anchors around the world who were broadcasting the game noticed the coin guessing thing. Because this meme was really popular, many people were actually expressing their opinions at this time.
Of course, most people still think that Wang Chao will win, because judging from the past results, the two sides are indeed far apart, and Xiao Fei's performance when playing Morad yesterday was really not good. He made many low-level mistakes, which shows that his condition is not good.
Considering that he is older, everyone is more willing to think that it is not that he is in poor condition, but that there is a physical problem caused by age, which affects his condition.
In other words, his strength has dropped from his peak.
Only Qin Huachang is slightly different.
He was a little surprised when he saw the result of the coin guessing. Then he thought about it, suddenly showed a slightly surprised smile, and said mysteriously, "Maybe Wang Chao will capsize in the gutter during this game."
Although Qin Huachang always proved to be right every time he pretended to make shocking remarks, this time he was still criticized by the audience in the live broadcast room.
"This little anchor doesn't want to go to international competitions to make a name for himself. Why is he starting to talk nonsense in his own live broadcast room?"
"Anchor, if you want to increase your popularity, hurry up and spoil the show. Just relying on sensationalism and big words won't do."
"Hurry up and tell me how to capsize the boat?"
As a host who has never been accustomed to his own audience, Qin Huachang chose to ignore all the complaints and leaned forward slightly, preparing to concentrate on watching the game.
He did not intend to give a spoiler-style explanation, because he guessed that the direction of the ball would be very strange, and it was not something that he was currently capable of spoiling.
On the screen, the game has officially begun.
Wang Chao The first serve was short with backspin.
This means that his attitude is very rigorous and he does not take it lightly just because Xiao Fei does not compete for the Olympic quota of Men's Singles.
In fact, he values Xiao Fei more than most fans because he has practiced mixed doubles with Xiao Fei for several months. Even though mixed doubles is completely different from singles, he still got a glimpse of some of Xiao Fei's outstanding abilities in singles during these few months.
He plays the ball in the most rigorous way, with short backspin and not giving the opponent any chance to attack. Then he waits to compete with the opponent and looks for opportunities to initiate an active attack.
Xiao Fei swings short steadily without changing his moves, which also shows his rigorous attitude towards this game.
He knew that Wang Chao had the same feel as Microscopic Precision level, but he still wanted to start the game short.
This is the first time that he and Wang Chao have really met in an international competition. Even if they have practiced together many times before, Wang Chao must now be regarded as a brand new opponent, because competition and practice are completely different, and in-team assessments are completely different from international competitions.
Wang Chao swing short.
Xiao Fei swing short.
Wang Chao swings shorter.
Xiao Fei swings short again.
Wang Chao swings back steadily.
Everyone thinks that Wang Chao must have found the opportunity first in this duel, because everyone knows that Xiao Fei is not as good as Microscopic Precision. At the same time, in their memory, Xiao Fei never seems to have small balls in the table as his specialty.
But what no one expected was that after seven consecutive short rounds, it was Xiao Fei who launched the attack one step ahead. He took half a step forward, pressed his body forward, and kicked off the battle with an extremely sharp Forehand Flick.
Strictly speaking, Wang Chao didn't think that his short swing in the seventh round revealed any flaws, but as soon as Xiao Fei's challenge came out, Wang Chao had a very clear feeling: Yes.
This challenge was extremely difficult, because the opportunity taken by Xiao Fei was not an opportunity at all, but his challenge was very successful, fast and low, as if flying close to the table. He lightly touched the table on Wang Chao's side and floated out like Dragonfly touching water.
The texture of this challenge seemed to be different from the challenges Wang Chao had encountered when playing against any other players before.
Wang Chao actually knows the reason.
That's because Xiao Fei is tall and has long legs. When he hits, he presses his body forward more than most players, so his arms extend longer. If other people's picks are broken down in slow motion, they basically use the racket to scoop up the ball before sending it out. However, Xiao Fei's pick action is more like using the racket to carry the ball forward and rub it from beginning to end.
This is essentially a pick shot similar to a fast one. If the action is slower, it may even be suspected of "holding the ball". He can play like this because the rubber of his custom-made racket is stickier than most people.
All customized rubber is closely related to the player's own characteristics, and this is especially obvious for the national-level player. The Xiao Fei stroke alone is something that no one else can learn, and his most famous forehand Great Python Turn style kill is the limit of what this racket can achieve, giving people an extremely magnificent, pleasing but unreasonable beauty.
Wang Chao's first reaction was to step back and pull hard with his forehand, because the ball was just fast and floating, but not heavy.
But as soon as he got the ball in hand, he realized that the spin of the ball was much weaker than he expected, and his pull actually resulted in a seriously high ball.
Xiao Fei did not hesitate, took half a step back, opened his stance, and performed a classic Great Python Turn, with his arms completely rounded. When the ball came into contact with the racket, his whole body turned sideways and pressed down, as if he was doing a beautiful Peking Opera-style roll on the spot. Because of this action, the ball also completed the entire friction process on the racket.
But this process is actually very complicated, because the first stage of friction is almost a standard topspin, but as the body turns sideways, the second half of the ball begins to spin sideways. When it finally flies out, the ball not only plunges down crazily in the vertical direction, but also turns sideways in the horizontal direction.
Wang Chao took another step back, his eyes fixed on the ball that was spinning crazily.
Sometimes the outcome of a battle between players depends on one or two very small points, such as whether I can block your move to kill the board, or whether you can keep up with my offensive rhythm.
For anyone who fights against Xiao Fei, the biggest key to cracking Xiao Fei is whether he can block his move Great Python Turn. If he can block it, to what extent can he block it?
Is it barely holding on, or is it a perfect defense?
Wang Chao actually rarely competes with the opponent in terms of pure strength. When the opponent is too strong, his best choice is often to play a fast-paced return ball, using his precise judgment of the ball's speed and spin to directly push the ball back.
But this time he decided to give it a try.
Because the ball was too spinning, too floating, the friction process was too long, and the friction steps were too complicated, he really didn't have the confidence to resolve it purely by pushing and blocking.
He shouted, swung his forehand diagonally forward, stepped forward with his waist, half-turned his whole body, and made an extremely beautiful forehand forward loop to pull the ball.
There was a muffled "pop" sound, like a light fart, and Wang Chao pulled the ball crookedly.
To be precise, it wasn't that he pulled it crookedly, but that the ball's lateral arc in the horizontal direction was too large, and Wang Chao's lack of prediction caused the ball to hit the outside edge of the racket.
So as soon as Wang Chao exerted force, it flew out directly from the side.
1:0, Xiao Fei scored one point first.
Wang Chao regained the right to serve.
He sent another short backspin.
Xiao Fei's attack just now seemed to him to be a fight, and he didn't care, because no one had ever been able to complete the game with a fight ball.
In Wang Chao's opinion, as long as you hold on without making any mistakes and prevent opponents who fight in advance from gaining points, then if the fight continues, the momentum will wax and wane, and victory will be within your grasp.
But after seven rounds, Xiao Fei once again took the initiative to challenge on the stage, and succeeded again.
Wang Chao still retreated and held on.
But then came the Forehand Counter-attack of Xiao Fei, and the signature Great Python Turn.
Wang Chao still chose to pull the ball back from the front. This time he corrected the prediction problem of the previous ball and successfully pulled the ball back.
But the ball was indeed heavy and floaty enough. Although he succeeded in pulling it back, it was still a little too high and his pull was not rigorous.
So Xiao Fei made another forehand with a slightly smaller range of motion.
Although the amplitude is small, the quality is still extremely high, and even exceeds the full blast of ordinary professional players.
This is reasonable, after all, Xiao Fei has been hailed as the best male doubles player in the past many years, precisely because his forehand is explosive, and his explosive method is different from that of most brute-force players.
Wang Chao chose to hit the ball hard this time by pushing and blocking, and successfully hit a super-fast turning ball.
Xiao Fei was on guard and pulled another forehand.
Wang Chao hits again.
The ball was still in Xiao Fei's forehand position, just slightly closer to the center. Xiao Fei went up to it and suddenly leaned his body to the right. He changed his wrist position in an instant, converted the forehand pull into a backhand twist, and twisted out a strong spin ball that changed the line to the extreme. It hit the bottom line of Wang Chao's backhand position at a wide angle.
In fact, the quality of this ball is not that high when viewed alone, but he has a fast pace and presses step by step. Every pull of the ball puts great pressure on Wang Chao. At this moment, the change of the ball's line became the straw that broke the camel's back, and it flew out from Wang Chao's side.
2:0.
At this moment, countless spectators inside and outside the stadium all said "Hey".
This is the first time they have seen Wang Chao encounter such a situation in the world arena.
It was obviously his own serving round, but he actually lost two points in a row?
What's going on?
"What's going on?" At the same time, Wang Chao was also asking himself.
He realized something was wrong.
There is no problem with the ball inside the table, and the quality of the short swing is no problem. It is even less likely that his Microscopic Precision is inferior to Xiao Fei. However, for two consecutive balls, Xiao Fei attacked first. This is the fundamental reason why he lost two points in a row. As for Xiao Fei's continuous attack or the quality of the board, it is just a logical follow-up, so don't worry about it.
So, why did Xiao Fei succeed in attacking twice in a row?
Wang Chao initially judged that Xiao Fei was fighting, so he didn't panic.
But fighting must have a success rate that matches the fighting, and it should never exceed 50%, and now Xiao Fei has succeeded in both attacks.
Of course, this may also be luck, after all, I only hit two goals.
But the thing is, if it's not luck, it's trouble.
Everyone knows how important offensive opportunities are in a rigorous and high-quality duel. It almost determines more than 70% of the outcome of this ball.
"So... is there any problem with my pendulum that I'm not aware of?" Wang Chao thought silently.
Wang Chao didn't know that someone sitting in the stands at this time, his uncle, Zhu Zeshi, was carefully staring at the expression on his face.
When he saw the look of astonishment that flashed across Wang Chao's face for a moment, Zhu Zeshi smiled, a little narrow-minded, a little proud, and with a bit of bad taste.
Yes, Zhu Zeshi knows the inside story.
Cai Guodong said that Xiao Fei was slack in fighting spirit and preparations, and made many mistakes when fighting Morad. In fact, it was because he didn't know what Xiao Fei was doing these days.
The fact is that these days, Xiao Fei, with the help of Zhu Zeshi, is secretly, intensively and wholeheartedly studying Wang Chao and thinking of ways to defeat Wang Chao.
Just because he invested too much energy, his mind was not on Morad at all.
Morad is certainly a future supernova in the eyes of European fans, but for Xiao Fei, a veteran of the same era as Sun Tianlong, he is still too young. He only needs to put in a little effort during the game, and he can win with bumps and bumps.
Xiao Fei wants to defeat Wang Chao on Brazil Open this time.
This was not a sudden thought, nor a whim, nor an order from Zhu Zeshi, but his own idea.
"Do you really know Xiao Fei?"
"Do you really know what he wants and what he thinks?"
At this moment, Qin Huachang in the live broadcast room finally began to reveal the secret after seeing the ending of the first two goals.
"Everyone says that Xiao Fei is a Buddhist, but have you ever thought about it, a China Table Tennis athlete, who has fought his way through a field full of masters, reached the main camp of the national team, and sat at the No. 2 position in the world for so long, does he really have no desire to win? Can a person who has no desires, no demands, no competition, no competition, really reach such a high place?"
"It's impossible!"
"Xiao Fei's Buddhist tradition is not so much natural as it is forced out by the current situation."
"He also wanted to win Grand Slam when he was young. When he first debuted, he was more favored by the coaching staff than Sun Tianlong, but A Long came from behind, quickly surpassed him, and defeated him many times in head-to-head competition. Then, Sun Tianlong began to fully blossom and entered the invincible mode that has dominated for seven years."
"As for Xiao Fei, he has never surpassed him again. He has lived in the shadow of A Long for seven years. In these seven years, he has also won numerous honors. He and A Long played in many international competition finals, and he was defeated without exception."
"If he didn't have Sun Tianlong, he would have already gotten Grand Slam."
"Everyone says that European King Bayer is the royal cash machine of Sun Tianlong, but in fact, Xiao Fei, which is of the same era as Sun Tianlong, is not the same Really? You know, other people in their era have fallen behind a long time ago, and he has been the only one struggling to catch up. Although he has not caught up, he has never fallen behind. From this alone, you can see his tenacity and desire to win. How can he be a truly devoid of desires?"
"It's just that he couldn't beat Sun Tianlong, so he gradually lost the fighting spirit to win Grand Slam. He was desperate and resigned. At this time, Lin Li Bai Feng and Luo Jiu, three people two years younger than him, caught up with him, making him feel the cruelty of competition even more."
"On top is the insurmountable Sun Tianlong, and below are the young players who are following step by step. He thought about it, but he couldn't think of any possibility of achieving Grand Slam. When Sun Tianlong was still playing, he couldn't beat it. When Sun Tianlong retired, he couldn't beat it anymore, at least he couldn't beat the younger main force."
"It was under such circumstances that he became the Buddha he is now."
"But his blood is still not cold, and he still wants to prove himself."
"Now that Olympic Games has given up competing for the spot, and Sun Tianlong cannot be defeated, the only way to prove himself is to defeat Wang Chao."
"Yes, you are right, he can also defeat Bai Feng and Lin Li, but the fact is that he has done this many times before, and it doesn't mean anything in the end. Everyone is still accustomed to thinking that he and Bai Feng Lin Li is of the same grade, because there is always Sun Tianlong blocking it. People have the illusion that only the first place is different, while the second, third and fourth places are almost the same. They cannot tell how far apart the second place is from the third and fourth place."
"Anyway, everyone didn't care, so Xiao Fei didn't want to continue to prove it, so he started to give way during the game, and started to give way when other players needed honor. He became a Buddha-like player."
"At this time, the emergence of Wang Chao gave Xiao Fei a rare opportunity. You know, Wang Chao not only faced Bai Feng and Lin Li maintains a record of unbeatable wins, and just defeated Sun Tianlong this year. At the same time, he also won all the foreign games, and also set the strongest record in history of winning the championship without losing a single game in both lanes in July on German Open."
"Defeating such a person should prove my strength - that's what Xiao Fei probably thinks."
"From an objective perspective, this matter actually has a huge benefit, which is to help Wang Chao escape from possible current dangers."
"Don't forget, if Wang Chao beats Xiao Fei this time, he will fight Lin Li again. And if Wang Chao loses to Lin Li, then the Olympic competition will be in trouble again."
"But there will be no problem if Wang Chao loses to Xiao Fei, because Xiao Fei doesn't participate in the competition at all."
"Wang Chao is the disciple of Old He, and Xiao Fei is the disciple of Old Zhu. They are brothers in the same discipline. If Old Zhu had not acquiesced and actively promoted this matter, how could Xiao Fei suddenly show his claws today?"
Qin Huachang paused here and sneered, "Of course, there is another driving force, which comes from Old Wa."
Old Wa is a great enough player, Qin Huachang admits this.
But whether Old Wa is a real god, Qin Huachang thinks not.
The strength of Xiao Fei is obvious to all the Chinese table tennis coaching staff. Old Wa, who is thousands of miles away in Sweden, dares to come to the conclusion that "Morad can win" just by watching a few games of Xiao Fei. This actually makes Qin Huachang a little angry.
Even an outsider like him is angry, let alone Xiao Fei himself?
"You just look down on me so much? Do you think I can't even beat a Morad?"
"Do you really think the top three rankings in the world are a joke?"
"Sir, times have changed. This is no longer the table tennis world of twenty years ago."
Just to slap Old Wa in the face, Xiao Fei will definitely show his best in this game and play a game that will shock the world table tennis world.
From Qin Huachang's point of view, every super ball Xiao Fei hit in this game was a slap in Old Wa's face from Zhu Zeshi.
Just like when Fan Xiaodong hit Hook, every ball he hit to kill Hook was a slap on Rohlskov's face from Qin Huachang.
So in a sense, this game is also a distance game between the top coaches in Asia and Europe.
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