Xiao Fei served, and this time he finally no longer served short backspin, but directly Sneak Long Serve, stealing Wang Chao's backhand baseline.
He is not afraid of Wang Chao attacking directly.
This is not because he is really fearless of Number One Attacker in the World's double-sided loop attack system, but because his forehand kill has a uniqueness that is different from any other professional player.
For other players, the main power of attack lies in speed, power and rotation intensity. The attributes of the ball they hit are actually relatively clear at a glance. That is why I have mentioned many times before that when the ball enters the confrontation stage, it will be simpler and rougher than the small ball stage on the table, with not so many changes.
But Xiao Fei's offense not only has excellent power and spin, but also has its own attributes that are very difficult to judge. Therefore, when the opponent catches the ball from him, they must not only be able to resolve the power and spin he exerts on the ball, but also first determine what kind of power and spin he gives to the ball.
This is the real reason why Sun Tianlong commented that his Great Python Turn is unsolvable for newcomers.
Because of such outstanding characteristics, Xiao Fei is not afraid of falling into passivity, because unlike others, he must be able to regain the initiative in terms of rhythm, balance, strength, speed, rotation, etc. if he wants to fight back.
He just needs the opponent not to hit him too hard and give him a chance to force the ball.
The difficulty has been reduced by more than ten times.
For example, in the fifth ball just now, he found an opportunity when he was almost completely crushed by Wang Chao. He hit a Great Python Turn with difficulty and directly completed the reversal, forcing Wang Chao to make an offensive error and spin the ball out of bounds.
As for the sixth ball just now, it was even more clear that it was Wang Chao who was still trying to crack his Great Python Turn head-on, but the result was that the ball got spun again.
So now he directly Sneak Long Serve, asking Wang Chao to take the initiative to attack, guide the ball into a simple situation, and then look for opportunities to pull back.
This is what old athletes are like. They played too simple when they first started playing. Later they learned to make the ball more complex and more refined. Then they returned to their original nature and continued to play simple and direct balls. They gave up all redundant links and only hit seven inches.
He Sneak Long Serve, Wang Chao directly counterattacked without any hesitation.
Xiao Fei pushed the ball back steadily.
Wang Chao draws another forehand.
Xiao Fei blocks again.
Wang Chao increases his strength and makes a powerful forehand punch.
Xiao Fei took a step back and rubbed the ball back steadily.
He is still waiting.
Wait until Wang Chao exerts more force.
Because his Great Python Turn also has obvious flaws. He needs more space, longer depth, and his body needs to be able to fully move and complete a large range of movements.
Wang Chao seemed to have lost his mind at this moment, and directly rushed out of his fourth board attack with greater force, hitting Xiao Fei's forehand bottom line at a wide angle.
The ball was released, and Cai Guodong frowned slightly.
In fact, he has already reserved a place for Wang Chao in the Olympic Games quota. As long as there is no big surprise in the next few months, this position will belong to Wang Chao. Therefore, he does not mind that Wang Chao loses in this game, but he does mind that Wang Chao shows some bad tendencies.
For example, now, Wang Chao, who has always been smart, is aiming at Xiao Fei's forehand position to hit continuously. This is like giving Xiao Fei a chance to counterattack, and it is more like a self-defeating feed in despair.
This is what Cai Guodong is quite disgusted with.
As a Chinese table tennis player, even if you are in a desperate situation, you must have a tenacious attitude and work hard to find opportunities until you lose completely.
"Is it because you've been playing so smoothly since your debut that you can't handle it when you encounter real difficulties?"
Cai Guodong was slightly worried. "It seems that it is impossible without experiencing setbacks."
On the field, Xiao Fei did not wait any longer because this opportunity was good enough.
He pulled hard with his forehand, Great Python Turn.
Wang Chao gritted his teeth, inhaled quickly, his pupils shrank at this moment, and once again stared at the oncoming ball. At this moment, countless data and pictures flashed through his mind, and finally settled into a set of numbers formed by intuition.
This is not a fantasy brain computer. Strictly speaking, what is formed in his mind is not a specific and clearly identifiable number itself, but a concept, a model that is slowly built up from scratch. From the beginning to the present, he has seen this ball many times. He will make a judgment every time he sees it, but every judgment will be biased, so he keeps fine-tuning, improving, and revising. He hopes to get the correct conclusion one time.
He swung his arm again and pulled the ball back.
It still went out of bounds, this time not from the left or right, but directly pulled the ball too high and flew out of the table head-on.
7:0, Xiao Fei continues to lead and has scored more than half of the points in this round.
But amidst the hoarse cheers and roars of the audience, Sun Tianlong in the stands couldn't help but say "Eh".
He is still a player, but also serves as a coach, so he is sometimes more sensitive to certain details on the court than people like He Jingping who are purely coaches.
Wang Chao Although he kept losing, he noticed two differences.
First, Wang Chao only had the problem of misjudging the spatial position when he first took the move Great Python Turn. Every subsequent time he pulled the ball, although he failed to pull the ball successfully, he found the right spot.
Second, Wang Chao has actually successfully resolved the forward or reverse spin imposed on the ball by Xiao Fei this time. He just failed to grasp the strength.
Others have never played with Xiao Fei, so they don't know how amazing this adaptation speed is, but Sun Tianlong knows it.
Wang Chao's progress in this short half-game may seem inconspicuous, but it is the context that he and Xiao Fei gradually figured out after more than ten head-to-head matches.
He subconsciously sat up straight, opened his eyes wide, and felt that his originally strong heart actually beat slightly faster at this moment.
He has personally experienced many Olympic competitions and won an Olympic championship. At that time, his heart had never been beating so fast because the coach kept telling him that athletes must maintain a stable state of mind on the court.
But today, in a mere ordinary open tournament, before it even reached the finals, he actually felt his long-lost heartbeat and nervousness.
Because he suddenly had some strong expectations,
He finally began to understand why so many Chinese table tennis coaches had heart disease and it had become an occupational disease for the coaching staff. He once did not understand that coaches were also athletes before and should have a stable heart. Why did coaches not need to play games themselves but were easily emotional?
But now he finally understands.
In fact, it is precisely because he is unable to do it himself that the entire battle situation is full of uncertainties that cannot be controlled by one hand.
It is this kind of uncertainty that makes people worry about gains and losses, and also makes people fascinated. They can't help but beat faster, just like the first love in their youth.
He was fascinated by this feeling.
He started to really get a feel for what it was like to be a coach, and he loved it.
Xiao Fei serves and continues to steal Wang Chao's backhand position.
Wang Chao attacks directly.
Xiao Fei blocked.
Wang Chao Forehand pull.
Xiao Fei blocked.
Wang Chao explodes with a forehand.
Xiao Fei stopped blocking, he took a step back and launched a strong counterattack, Great Python Turn.
The world in Wang Chao's eyes slowed down again, and he saw the ball again.
But this time he found that he understood more things.
The movement of this ball has appeared in his mind simultaneously, but it is not flying in the void, but flying in a model full of data. He has already seen the similarities and differences between the ball Xiao Fei hit this time and every ball he hit before.
"It's harder than the first hit."
"More topspin than the second shot."
"It's a similar arc to the fourth shot, so it's positive sidespin."
"The downward trajectory is more obvious than the third time."
"..."
This is the Wang Chao's analysis method.
In fact, it is a stupid way.
Because he couldn't really get any exact numbers, he could only compare. He kept every ball he had seen in his mind and compared it with the ball he had seen so far, so as to speculate on the specific changes in this ball.
The more he looked at, the more samples he compared, and the more accurate his final conclusions became.
Although he has only hit the eighth ball now, he feels that it should be almost done.
Because in itself, he doesn't have to be so accurate...
Wang Chao swings his arm and hits the ball. The slow motion in front of him collapses again and returns to normal.
The ball made a dull impact on the rubber, then turned around like flying, and plunged into the middle line of the Xiao Fei backhand table.
Sun Tianlong At this moment, he clearly felt his heart beating "dong".
His scalp was numb as he realized: We are on stage!
Wang Chao successfully pulled Xiao Fei's Great Python Turn onto the opposite table using a face-to-face pull method!
Cai Guodong's eyes widened, and he almost jumped out of his seat, and he said uncontrollably, "Fuck!"
Compared with the shock of these big guys, the audience was not so shocked because they did not know the gold content of this ball or what this scene actually represented.
They just saw that Wang Chao finally caught Xiao Fei's attack for the first time, so they all gave warm applause.
Wang Chao's pull directly killed Xiao Fei.
In fact, after Xiao Fei completed Great Python Turn, it was difficult for him to quickly return to a new balance because his range of movements was too large. His killing move already contained fatal flaws. This was his strongest point and also his weakest point. It was an absolute double-edged sword.
So what Xiao Fei is actually always wary of is Wang Chao's push and block, because pushing and blocking gives him a chance to catch his ball and hit a super-fast turnaround. What Xiao Fei is afraid of is the fast pace because of his playing style.
He uses a heavy sword, which is about killing with one blow, but if you can block my power, then it will be your turn. If your fast sword exceeds the speed of my heavy sword swing, then I will be killed by you in one blow.
——That's probably what it means.
7:1, Wang Chao finally scored.
"A Long..." He Jingping's voice trembled a little. "Does this mean..."
Sun Tianlong took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes."
He smiled, very happy. "It seems I guessed wrong."
He Jingping put one hand on his chest and nodded with lingering fear, but he couldn't believe it because he really didn't expect that even Sun Tianlong would see the ball wrong.
He asked shakily, "But why is this happening?"
Sun Tianlong was stunned, frowned, thought for a long time, and then said, "Maybe... this is... Wushuang, right?"
At the beginning of the year, Huaping Cai Guodong personally named Wang Chao's talent, which shocked the table tennis world. Then non-Chinese associations started talking about it. No one knew what Wushuang meant, and no one could explain it. Then Rohlskov even publicly mocked. "Isn't he just a subtle player with a flexible mind? As for doing this kind of stunt?"
At that time, Cai Guodong did not refute. On the one hand, he was used to it and was too lazy to care. On the other hand, it was also because even Cai Guodong himself did not know how to accurately comment on Wang Chao's talent.
But now everyone knows.
The so-called Wushuang is actually the meaning of Wushuang itself: there is no second one in the world.
unique.
Unprecedented.
Never in history.
I can do things that no one else can.
Even Sun Tianlong asserted that it was impossible to happen.
I spent half a game playing to build a new model of Sun Tianlong that would take more than a dozen games to build.
I first met Xiao Fei, the only one in history, and cracked his trick in five minutes.
This is probably the most terrifying trick in contemporary table tennis.
Wang Chao got the right to serve again and served a short backspin.
Xiao Fei swing short.
Wang Chao swing short.
Xiao Fei throws backhand baseline.
Wang Chao directly lifts the board.
Xiao Fei block it back.
Wang Chao connected with a forehand blast.
Xiao Fei Great Python Turn.
Wang Chao skillfully took a step back from the table, steadily pulled the forehand, and once again pulled the amazing Great Python Turn, landing on the bottom line in the center of the table on Xiao Fei's side.
This landing point is not good, but when seeing this scene, many big guys who really understand the ball, such as Qin Huachang, couldn't help but shout the word "good".
This is indeed a bad placement, but it illustrates some truth.
Wang Chao is wary of Great Python Turn, because he is still not sure whether he can accurately judge, so in order to avoid spin, he will try to pull the ball to the center, so as to have the greatest fault tolerance rate.
If the ball eventually reaches the sideline of the table on Xiao Fei's side, it means that Wang Chao still cannot completely accurately judge Xiao Fei's ball path, but can only roughly suppress Xiao Fei's attack.
But Wang Chao actually pulled the ball to the center of the table, which shows that, at least for this ball, he made the right decision.
In fact, this ball is not a simple topspin ball. It has a very obvious side turn, and the arc is erratic enough to be seen by the naked eye.
But Wang Chao did not score directly with this ball, because Xiao Fei was already on guard. He took a step forward and made a simple forehand blast.
Wang Chao blocks firmly.
Xiao Fei hits the forehand again.
Wang Chao took the initiative to push Xiao Fei's backhand position.
Xiao Fei backhand quick dial.
Wang Chao found an opportunity and directly hit a fast ball with his backhand, still suppressing Xiao Fei's backhand.
Xiao Fei can only continue to dial backhand quickly, because he is really not used to exerting strong force from the backhand position.
He ran to the left corner of the table again, waiting to be backhand pressed by Wang Chao until the end of time.
But Wang Chao didn't hesitate at all this time and directly hoisted the ball to the table on his right side.
Xiao Fei tried his best to save the ball and returned the ball to the table from the side.
Wang Chao then hung closer to the left, successfully hanging Xiao Fei.
7:2, Wang Chao scored another point.
At this point in the game, the audience was still confused. They just felt that Wang Chao had finally found his hand and started to have some back and forth with Xiao Fei. They were sitting upright, or eating some snacks at hand, feeling that the appetizer was over, and they were ready to look forward to the fierce battle that followed.
Zhu Zeshi, who was also sitting in the stands, sighed and shook his head with some regret, knowing that Xiao Fei was doomed.
The so-called Opening Three Axe Slashes, although it represents the ultimate strength, also represents the ultimate follow-up weakness. When the three-axe is cracked head-on, the fatal flaw in Xiao Fei's play style is exposed.
In the eyes of a master of tactics and technology like Wang Chao, even the slightest flaw is fatal, let alone such a flaw like a sinkhole?
I think back then, Sun Tianlong only had a flaw in his backhand that was not a flaw, but it was crushed to death by Wang Chao, let alone the current Xiao Fei?
7:2 is not the beginning of the battle, but the early end of the game.
Therefore, sometimes laymen are happier watching football than insiders, because they will be emotionally ups and downs with the ups and downs on the surface of the battle. They watch the football immersively and watch the climax one after another, while real insiders only find it boring, because the game has already decided the outcome of the next 40 minutes in the first five minutes.
"Wang Chao won."
In the live broadcast room, Qin Huachang also gave a direct conclusion. "Xiao Fei cannot defeat Wang Chao, so now it is Wang Chao's turn to defeat Xiao Fei, but Xiao Fei's defense is not good."
"His rhythm was too slow, his steps were too slow, and his hitting range was too large. He couldn't suppress Wang Chao with his forehand, but was crushed by Wang Chao with his backhand. The last one who was beaten to death like this was Sun Tianlong, and now it's Xiao Fei's turn."
Qin Huachang said with some emotion, "It's really time for the older generation of players to retire... These days, if you don't have a backhand to kill the board, you really can't compete in the World Series."
After saying this, he actually felt a little sad.
Sun Tianlong, Xiao Fei, and Fang Xiaobo, Yan Ping'an, and Zou Zhengyu, who are effectively retired. These people once shined brightly. In my memory, they once aroused cheers from the crowd. Their games once caused coaches to have heart attacks, but now they have been gradually eliminated by the times.
Sun Tianlong and Xiao Fei are the only two veterans who can still play with Chinese Table Tennis First Team, but Sun Tianlong is suffering from injuries and can only play with Olympic Games at most, while Xiao Fei has completely lost his desire to win as early as a year or two ago.
This game was probably Xiao Fei's last strong effort to win, but in the end his dream was shattered by a rising star like Wang Chao.
Thinking about it this way, Qin Huachang actually felt a bit cruel.
"A small silver coin is a small silver coin. What will happen if you lose a game? Anyway, your spot in Olympic Games is already confirmed."
"Can't we just let Xiao Fei retire with a bang?"
"A Long There is another Olympic Games who can shine the last light, but Xiao Fei... he is done here."
"This is the first battle between Xiao Fei and Wang Chao in the international arena, but if nothing else, it will also be the last battle."
"After today, the Xiao Fei style Opening Three Axe Slashes will become forever famous in the table tennis world."
At this moment, even San Jiang Ge was a little confused. He plagiarized a poem and said: Open the door with three axes and it will make a dead sound, Xiao Damang will not be seen in the world.
(The integer of Chapter 400, a commemorative number, coincides with the ending of this battle. I am personally very satisfied with the writing. I hope you are also satisfied. Remember to vote when you are satisfied.)