On the fourth day of the main event, the Men's Singles game continued. Wang Chao played in the first round in the morning and defeated Fretas, the first brother of Portugal, ranked 41st in the world, with another difficult 4:2. Then he played again in the fourth round in the morning. This time, he finally met an old acquaintance: German player Sissifield.
This is a 32-to-16 game. Considering that Rohlskov and Cai Guodong just fought each other because of Wang Chao the day before yesterday, the game in front of us seems to be full of the smell of grudges.
In fact, this game is indeed Wang Chao World Table Tennis Championships's most difficult game so far.
He first lost one game, then won one, then lost two more, and then won three consecutive games, finally completing the comeback with difficulty at 4:3.
This game really made the hearts of many spectators almost jump out of their chests.
Don't understand?
Then look at the score.
Game 1, 7:11.
Second game, 11:9.
Game 3, 6:11.
Fourth game, 3:11.
Fifth game: 11:8.
Game 6, 14:12.
Game 7: 15:13.
Have you noticed that there was basically no suspense in the three games that Wang Chao lost, and of the four games that he won, the first two games were only with a relatively small point difference, and the last two games were just risking their lives with their heads up, especially in the final game, it was actually Sissifield who won 10:8 After getting two match points, Wang Chao held on and dragged it to 10:10. Then the two began to see each other from 10 to 13. The atmosphere at this time was already suffocating, but then Sissifield actually hit a lucky shot that missed the mark.
Qin Huachang, who was live broadcasting, groaned at that moment, and felt a twinge in his heart, as if he was being clenched tightly by a hand. He was so frightened that he lay back on the spot, and shouted in shock and fear, "Zhenyu!"
Qin Zhenyu stood up immediately and rushed over. He found that his father's face was blue, his eyes were closed tightly, his breathing was rapid, and he looked extremely scary.
Fortunately, Qin Huachang had taken good care of his body during this period, and he had medicine with him and boiled water on the table all year round, so a short first aid and medicine finally did not cause a serious disaster.
But Qin Huachang really didn't dare to broadcast this game anymore.
The situation on the court at that time was actually like this: Faced with this side ball, Wang Chao did not give up. He stepped back directly and made a huge forehand forward loop ball.
If it were 99% of the rackets in the world, this ball would definitely not be able to be pulled up, but the stickiness of the "superconductor" racket came into play at this time. It was obviously a ball that fell absolutely passively, but because of the unique parameters of the racket, Wang Chao instantly found an opportunity to make a comeback. His forward loop shot was the standard Great Python Turn. In fact, this was the first time he used such an original Great Python Turn in the international arena after changing his racket.
This ball is at least 80% similar to the original version of Xiao Fei. The differences are just because the height, body shape and arm length of Wang Chao and Xiao Fei are different, so the posture of pulling the ball has been adjusted somewhat.
Although the shape is not completely similar, the meaning is complete.
So this ball directly killed Sissifield.
It was precisely because of this ball that Wang Chao overtook the score and led 14:13 in the deciding game. This ball greatly boosted morale and destroyed Sissifield's originally unreliable confidence.
It can be said that Wang Chao finally won the decisive game 15:13, which was due to chance and luck.
If he didn't have that blessed soul Great Python Turn at that time.
If he had failed to cast Great Python Turn at that time.
Then he might have to bid farewell to the World Table Tennis Championships Men's Singles arena early, and the matchup between him and Luo Jiu, which was highly anticipated within China Table Tennis Team, died early.
"How dare you? How dare you?"
After the game, Wang Chao was calm, but He Jingping, who was sitting by the fence, was so excited that he rushed over, grabbed Wang Chao's arm, shook it desperately, and kept asking questions.
Yes, not asking, but questioning.
In fact, He Jingping was already frightened when Wang Chao fell behind 1:3 in the game. He tried to persuade Wang Chao to change his style of play during the intermission.
Yes, Wang Chao can actually change his playing style. His control of superconductors is not as poor as it seems from the outside world. The reason why he behaves like this is actually because Wang Chao wants to expose all the most difficult, most difficult to adapt to, and least likely to succeed parts, use this racket in the most difficult way, and then work hard to overcome all these most difficult details.
Otherwise, with his adaptability, he can actually play well with this racket and produce a game that will please the fans.
But Wang Chao rejected He Jingping's proposal.
"My goal is to defeat senior brother, so I must overcome all these difficulties. Otherwise, even if I fight easily now, when I really meet senior brother and be forced by his high-intensity attack, I will be full of flaws."
Wang Chao smiled gently, but his attitude was firm. "Sissifield is a rare backhand super-heavy gunner. His backhand power is still higher than that of his senior brother, and his speed is about the same as that of his senior brother. He happens to be my best sparring partner to solve problems."
He Jingping said anxiously, "But if you lose to him, there will be no future."
"Forget it if I don't." Wang Chao was still calm, as if the big score deficit in front of him was all fake. "I have a plan list. I have to solve some problems in every game. If I can't solve them, they will become my weaknesses later. Therefore, even if I am eliminated early, I must continue according to my plan."
He Jingping did not continue to persuade him, because he knew from the first time he saw Wang Chao last year that this was a player who did not need his own guidance.
Now that Wang Chao has made a decision, what he has to do now is to support Wang Chao, at least not to say any more unnecessary words that will affect Wang Chao's status in this game.
So He Jingping never did anything to Coach He's fault in the next game. He watched the whole process silently, watching Wang Chao's thrilling game after game, from 1:3 to 3:3, and then fell into passivity in the decisive game, from 8:10 to 10 seconds. The hanging thread continued to escalate, and when the usual 13-point miss appeared, Qin Huachang held his breath directly on the other side of the screen, but He Jingping's side was not much better. He also felt his heart beating wildly, his face turned pale, and in an instant there was a dense layer of sweat on his back.
He was also a professional player when he was young, but his results were mediocre, so he couldn't understand at all how Wang Chao could persevere so calmly in this passive situation that was almost suffocating.
Obviously he only needs to change his playing style and switch back to his most familiar routine, and he can easily defeat a strong but brainless player like Sissifield, but Wang Chao insists on exposing his own weaknesses, allowing Sissifield to attack his weaknesses, and then uses this outrageous method of "attacking the strong with the weak" to forcefully win back one ball after another.
Are his nerves made of iron?
He was really not afraid of making a slight mistake, and the World Table Tennis Championships journey that he had worked so hard for ended early.
Is this really an 18-year-old boy?
He Jingping was sitting alone by the fence, sweating, thinking about messy things, clenching his fists, and beating his heart. It wasn't until the dust settled on the last ball that he finally let out the breath he had been holding for a long time. Then he could no longer control his emotions and rushed to the court, grabbed Wang Chao's arm and started shouting, "How dare you? How dare you?"
This scene was also completely captured by the camera, and it will be a famous scene played over and over again on World Table Tennis Championships for many years to come.
In a sense, this shot represents another sublimation of future Great Demon King's strength, like some important ceremony worth watching over and over again.
Wang Chao has now officially entered the top 16.
He came to Budapest and played all the way until now. He stumbled and made ugly scenes. Finally, he played a good game today.
The game was not smooth, and Wang Chao's performance was not perfect, but he struggled to support Sissifield's stormy attack, and finally succeeded in counterattacking with weak strength. This scene was full of contrast, like a weak grass emerging from a crack in the rock with strength, and it actually gave many people a moving power.
On the afternoon of the fourth day of the main event, the mixed doubles match continued. This time Tang Dynasty Combination met the pair of veterans Kim Bong and Kim Jong from Daehan Minguk.
After three rounds of mixed doubles, it was already the 16-to-8 stage, and the truly strong pairs finally began to collide head-on.
Kim Bong and Kim Jong once defeated Scarlet Gossip Combination in Asian Championships many years ago. They are a truly old and strong team. However, they were unlucky when they participated last time. They actually encountered Ichikawa Mima and Niuwa Xiaoxi, the No. 1 combination of Sakura Country, in the qualifying round, and ultimately failed in the qualifying round.
But this does not mean that they are weak. At most, it can only mean that they are no longer the top class in this era.
But compared to Weng Chunting and Ai Qin in the previous round, it is obvious that the Daehan Minguk pair is much stronger.
For Wang Chao, this is his favorite situation.
As your opponents become stronger and stronger, your proficiency with the racket becomes higher and higher, and your flaws become fewer and fewer. Only in this way can you continue to improve and things will come naturally, just like the Saints entering the Golden Zodiac. When you reach the last level, it will be the day when you have achieved great success.
The outside world generally believes that Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan will be difficult to play in this game, and the reason for such misunderstanding is actually Old Wa's fault.
Old Wa told everyone last time that Wang Chao was familiar with the racket, but in order to pretend to be a comparison, he used an understatement, which also led to everyone not being able to carefully understand the specific situation of "Wang Chao is familiar with the racket."
Old Wa naturally won't explain it in detail, because if he takes it seriously, he will reveal the fact that he is pretending, and he will not be handsome.
Therefore, everyone thinks that Wang Chao can only become what it is now with a superconductor.
They don't know that Wang Chao can switch back to normal mode at any time if he wants to win.
Kim Bong and Kim Jong are obviously two people who have been misled. They believe that Wang Chao at this stage is the flaw of Tang Dynasty Combination, so the game is focused on Wang Chao, hoping to open a breakthrough from Wang Chao.
All I can say is that the idea is wrong and the result is also wrong.
After defeating Sissifield, Wang Chao's control over superconductors has reached another stage. Now, he no longer has any obvious and simple flaws.
If he was riddled with holes when the game just started, now he has repaired the most critical main parts, and has achieved the effect of "quantitative change leading to qualitative change" to a certain extent. Therefore, now Wang Chao is already a strong man even if all the remaining flaws are still exposed.
Sissifield is just mindless, but his aggressiveness is real. Wang Chao showed his flaws in that game and let Sissifield play casually, but he still eliminated Sissifield.
By that time, he was already used to the intensity of Sissifield.
So now, how could Kim Bong and Kim Jong beat him to death?
In fact, this game was easier than the one between Weng Chunting and Ai Qin, because Wang Chao steadily blocked all attacks, and then his small ball in the table began to show its power.
Superconductors exhibit completely different properties from Super Luo.
For the same ball rolling, Super Luo only changes the rotation intensity and rotation angle, but the ball rolled out of the superconductor can actually show two completely different properties of "turning" and "not turning" under the exact same action.
Ultimately, it's stickiness.
Wang Chao can adjust the details that are difficult to discern with the naked eye in the ball-touching action through the delicate touch. It can make the ball stick to the racket, or it can make the ball quickly break away from the viscosity of the racket. The difference between the two may only be that the wrist is slightly raised or sunk a little during the ball-touching process.
His action of pulling the ball is also very different from before.
In the past, when pulling the ball, when the height of the ball was too low or the backspin was too strong, Wang Chao had to insert the racket into the bottom of the ball and pull it up diagonally. In fact, there was a "lifting" action.
But now he can rub directly from the upper side of the ball, and then adjust the level at which the ball is pulled up by perfectly utilizing the stickiness of the rubber.
In addition, there are a large number of other detailed changes.
Perhaps Xiao Fei himself didn't expect that the special rubber he made simply for Great Python Turn's unique skill would blossom into countless novel changes in Wang Chao's hands that he had never dreamed of.
In the end, Tang Dynasty Combination 4:0 defeated Kim Bong and Kim Jong.
This is also the first time Tang Dynasty Combination has played a crushing game on World Table Tennis Championships.
After the game, Kim Bong and Kim Jong looked a little pale. They couldn't figure out why Wang Chao made so many mistakes in handling small balls in the table when Wang Chao didn't have many offenses in the game.
Is Wang Chao's ball too weird, or is my condition really a little bad today?
It felt like it wasn't the opponent who played well, but the fact that I made too many mistakes that led to the loss.
The two veterans were somewhat doubtful about life, because their fixed thinking still believed that Wang Chao was the same Wang Chao who failed in doubles yesterday, but they did not expect that Wang Chao would officially be reborn today.
This is not their fault, because Wang Chao's playing style is actually the same as yesterday, with no offense throughout the game. On the surface, there is indeed no improvement.
It was the Huaping coaching staff who really understood.
They know in their hearts that the purpose of Wang Chao's playing style has not changed from the beginning to the end. In the game against Sissifield in the morning, his life was already hanging by a thread. Wang Chao didn't change his moves. So of course he can't change his moves in this mixed doubles now.
In other words, Wang Chao was already playing in the worst way he could, but he still defeated the veteran combination of Daehan Minguk so easily.
So, what will it look like when he returns to his normal state and becomes a complete body?
Most coaches are looking forward to the peak showdown between Wang Chao and Luo Jiu.
As the head coach, Cai Guodong thinks more about the future development trend of mixed doubles.
He was thinking that Tang Dynasty Combination was already the number one in the world in a crushing style. After changing the racket to Wang Chao, his playing style became so enchanting. He could win against a master like Kim Bong Kim Jong even without attacking. So in the future of table tennis, is there really no suspense about mixed doubles?
Then he found it a little funny.
Mixed doubles itself is unscientific. The disparity in strength between male and female players is a flaw. The reason why it is so popular is because International Table Tennis Federation wants to suppress Huaping, so it forcibly elevated the status of mixed doubles.
But now that the situation is like this, International Table Tennis Federation is equivalent to giving Hua Ping a gold medal in vain. How can they be willing to do so?
Will International Table Tennis Federation be unable to bear it anymore and cancel the mixed doubles again in two years?