Luo Jiu used 27 boards to finally penetrate Lin Zijun's defense and score the first point.
This is very exaggerated.
When the caliber of table tennis had not yet changed, games rarely lasted more than three rounds. At that time, the technology of the first three boards was the mainstream in the world.
When the table tennis ball was enlarged and the material of the ball was modified, International Table Tennis Federation used various methods to slow down the flight speed and rotation speed of the table tennis ball. On the one hand, it improved the viewing experience, and on the other hand, it also made the number of rounds less and less, so the number of rounds began to increase.
But even so, in a normal table tennis match, after seven complete rounds, there are basically no balls that last more than ten rounds - except for chipping, of course.
But the game started with 27 rebounds, which seemed to have hinted at how protracted the game would eventually be.
In the second ball, Luo Jiu still sent short backspin. The two sides began to defend closely and restrict each other. In the end, Luo Jiu still got the opportunity to attack first.
This is certainly because Lin Zijun doesn't mind his attack, but it's also because Luo Jiu's in-table ball is indeed much better than Lin Zijun's.
Soon the two sides once again entered into a standard continuous attack and defense session.
When Luo Jiu started the full attack, the audience, who were still hot on their butts, couldn't help but stood up again and started applauding wildly.
They really couldn't stop, it was like eating Xuanmai.
Because this ball was played so beautifully. A terrifying enough attacker and a stable enough defender jointly turned this ball into a big scene. Everything was there. Every attack the audience saw could actually kill people in other games, but here, it was just a small fireworks in a grand spectacle.
But this time Luo Jiu did not win. He scored 31 boards, but in the end he accidentally overexerted himself on the last board. Lin Zijun found the opportunity and tried his best to use his strength to block the ball. The ball was too fast. Luo Jiu, who had just finished pulling the ball, had no time to react and was directly beaten to death by Lin Zijun.
The audience burst into even louder cheers, because they not only like to watch exciting matches, but also look forward to the victory of non-Chinese table tennis players.
Undoubtedly, the Lin Zijun score is a higher climax than the Luo Jiu score.
Luo Jiu also slightly adjusted his attitude at this moment.
He realized that he had just played so smoothly that he was drifting a little.
In fact, when facing an opponent like Lin Zijun, you either have to imitate Wang Chao and make the ball look ugly, without giving Lin Zijun a chance to take advantage of it.
But Luo Jiu doesn't want to fight like this.
Not only because he doesn't want to learn Wang Chao, but also because Wang Chao's playing style actually has very high requirements for rhythm and card points. Luo Jiu thinks that he is not as good as Wang Chao in this aspect. If he insists on learning, he may not be able to learn the essence.
Wang Chao can change the rhythm at will because he has Unrivaled talent. He can switch his various parameters perfectly anytime and anywhere like a robot. But after all, Luo Jiu still needs to form muscle memory through practice. If he wants to adjust, he needs to practice again and readjust the muscle memory.
In fact, last year, in order to adapt to his reverse rubber and raw rubber, he seemed to have completed technical changes very quickly, but the actual effort he put in was beyond what outsiders could imagine.
Therefore, Luo Jiu chooses the current style of play not only to continue to increase his momentum, but also because this is the style of play that truly belongs to him and suits him.
But don't be proud.
He was just proud.
He mistakenly thought that Lin Zijun had no ability to counterattack in his mercury-like offensive, and had become a background for him to show off his skills. However, in fact, Lin Zijun was a silent snake, struggling to support while looking for opportunities, wanting to spring out and bite him anytime and anywhere.
At this moment, Luo Jiu magically thought of the battle between Dragon Team and the pinnacle Hook last year. He realized that the purpose of Lin Zijun's game was actually the same as that of Dragon Team at that time.
He didn't know that Lin Zijun had thought of this battle just like him a few seconds ago.
This can be regarded as reaching the same goal through different paths in a certain sense.
The game continued, and Lin Zijun got the right to serve.
The match between these two people has reached the current point where the serve has become less important. Lin Zijun chose to serve fake moves to confuse the ball, but it did not work. The two sides were still in a stalemate. Then Luo Jiu launched another attack and hit the forehand inside the table.
Lin Zijun chooses to fight hard.
Luo Jiu directly converts backhand bounce.
Lin Zijun blocked.
Luo Jiu converts the forehand loop again.
Lin Zijun blocked.
Luo Jiu switches backhand bounce.
Lin Zijun did not simply block it. He took a step forward. When the ball had just passed the net, the racket had already caught it. When the ball had just hit the table, it had already been pushed forward at a large angle.
This ball directly killed Luo Jiu.
The reason is that there was something wrong with Luo Jiu's backhand shot just now.
What's the problem?
The ball originally hit Luo Jiu's forehand position, but Luo Jiu pursued an extreme change in attack and moved two steps to the right. He did not choose the natural forehand attack, but chose to force a backhand bounce.
He didn't think this was a flaw, because he often fought like this in the past.
His offense is sharp enough that it is difficult for his opponent to find a flaw in counterattacking at this time.
Even if the opponent catches a flaw, he is confident that he can move to the left as quickly as possible and save the ball that may go wrong.
But he still underestimated the speed of Lin Zijun.
This ball Lin Zijun hit the most extreme head-up ball, and the speed of the ball exceeded Luo Jiu's prediction. Therefore, combined with the two factors, when it finally landed on the left side of the table at a wide angle, Luo Jiu had no time to run over.
2:1, Lin Zijun overtook the score.
The audience became even more excited. The air wave in the venue was deafening at this moment, and many people jumped to their feet.
They saw the scene they wanted to see the most: Luo Jiu had been attacking for a lifetime, but in the end he was slapped to death by the defender.
"Just fight!"
"Lin Zijun, great job!"
"Kill Luo Jiu and advance to the finals."
"Do it again Wang Chao and subvert Huaping's rule!"
The audience shouted wildly.
Lin Zijun is still as quiet as water.
He could feel his heart pounding, but he wasn't nervous, just excited.
He has gradually adapted to Luo Jiu's attack intensity. He feels that if Luo Jiu continues to play at this pace, he may really be able to find more and more counterattack opportunities.
He was originally quite pessimistic about this game, but now he has an exciting thought.
He wanted to completely end the momentum Luo Jiu had been building up for a month in his own hands.
He had carefully studied Luo Jiu's ball in the past, but no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see any obvious flaws.
Until the real match today, in the three goals that took just two minutes to play, he suddenly discovered a truth that he had never thought of.
It turns out that Luo Jiu's seemingly smooth and coherent, seemingly invulnerable attack actually hides many more subtle flaws than Wang Chao's.
It turns out that Luo Jiu is not without flaws, but he has never met anyone as good at defense as himself.
The opponents he had beaten to death with combination punches in the past had completely lost their ability to fight back under his powerful offensive, which is why Luo Jiu's attack seemed so sharp.
And he has stronger reaction power and speed, so he can still analyze and observe under this suffocating offensive rhythm. As a result, when he observes, he sees something that no one has ever seen before.
"Do I really want to win this game?"
Lin Zijun thought this was the truth that only he could see in the whole world.
He didn't know that in fact, whether it was He Jingping sitting behind the baffle, Qin Huachang sitting in Yangcheng City's own home in Guangdong Province, or Sun Tianlong sitting in the stands, they all saw the truth simultaneously.
The sharp vision of Huaping coaches is beyond non-Chinese associations's imagination most of the time, because they have seen too many peak duels in daily training.
This is a classic battle that fans don't see a few times a year. They watch it every day in the training hall and almost feel sick from watching it. How could they ignore any slightly unusual detail in the game?
Lin Zijun continues to serve, and he chooses Sneak Long Serve.
Relatively speaking, he is very free in serving because he is not afraid of Luo Jiu's attack.
Sneak Long Serve is invalid, Luo Jiu directly retreats and pulls forehand, so the ball enters the classic offensive and defensive mode again.
In fact, when the basic skills of two people are good to a certain extent, the unexpected factors will be reduced, and in the end it will always be a final showdown between the two parties using what they are best at.
So don't feel that the situation is repetitive, and it's not because the author is too lazy to design it, but this is what the game is really like.
Luo Jiu continued to attack crazily, while Lin Zijun continued to block.
During this period, Lin Zijun actually found an opportunity to pull back, but he gave up.
Sometimes, reverse pulling is not necessarily better than pushing and blocking, especially when you are convinced that your strength is not as strong as the opponent's, and your arc-drawing skills are not as good as the opponent's, hiding clumsiness is the most correct choice.
Luo Jiu hit 19 boards in one breath, which made the fans in the stands have orgasms one after another, especially those who were in urgent need of urination. It was painful and joyful. Every ball they saw was an orgasm, like a movie with no peeing spots in the whole process, but they really wanted to go to the bathroom...
But when Luo Jiu was playing the 20th board, Lin Zijun once again found an opportunity to counterattack, hitting Luo Jiu's forehand forward looping ball at a wide angle, into a blind spot that Luo Jiu couldn't run past.
3:1, no one expected that it was Lin Zijun who had the big score advantage.
The director's lens fell on Luo Jiu's face, and fans all over the world who were paying attention to the game saw that Luo Jiu looked thoughtful at this moment, and then suddenly smiled.
I have to say, the smile is very sunny, the scene is also very handsome, and it even has the meaning of an idol drama. If it is paired with BGM, then it can be paired with a line, such as "It's a bit interesting, but that's it, because I want to be serious."
But the audience didn't know what Luo Jiu was thinking specifically and why he was laughing.
"Luo Jiu is looking for problems in himself. In the past, he knew there was a problem, but he could never find it. Now he has found it."
In the live broadcast room, Qin Huachang saw the truth at a glance. "He just lost two goals. He was not worried, but was a little happy, because he finally met someone who could be his whetstone."
"Do you still remember the great alliance between European countries on Hong Kong Open about Wang Chao? They tried every means to target Wang Chao and found Wang Chao. All the flaws in the game, even small oversights in habits, became their breakthrough points. But in the end, they did not defeat Wang Chao, but instead helped Wang Chao correct all his bad habits."
"The scene today is exactly the same as it was back then."
"Just as Bayer is the whetstone for Wang Chao, Lin Zijun at this time is also the whetstone that Luo Jiu has been looking for for a long time."
"In the past, no one could stop Luo Jiu's offense, not even Hook, so no one knew what problems were hidden in Luo Jiu's offense. But now, Lin Zijun uses classic defensive counterattacks to continuously defeat Luo Jiu. This shows that Lin Zijun has found Luo Jiu's flaw."
"So next, Luo Jiu only needs to solve the problem in this game, and he will truly become invulnerable and perfect."
Qin Huachang took a sip of water, exhaled, shook his head, and sighed, "Who drew this lot? It's like the hand of God. Before these two brothers met, each of them sent the most suitable whetstone. It's like a fate that has been arranged long ago."
Everyone understood this.
If Bayer gives Luo Jiu, it is meaningless. Bayer cannot stop Luo Jiu's attack at all.
It would be meaningless if Lin Zijun gave to Wang Chao, because Wang Chao could defeat Lin Zijun just by using the old method.
But it happened that these two opponents met the right people, and thus they became two perfect whetstones.
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