It was clear that just four balls had been played and the first inning of this game had just begun, but the audience was already a little tired.
Because these four balls have been played for more than a hundred rounds in total, and including the reception and preparation time in the middle, the total duration is more than three minutes. During these three minutes, the audience has been standing, shouting, and clapping. When they occasionally break away from the extreme excitement, they will feel physically exhausted.
But they didn't care. They continued to cheer up and once again immersed themselves in the fanatical atmosphere of the scene, and began to continue cheering and shouting.
Because this is the last game of the morning, and perhaps the most beautiful game of World Table Tennis Championships this year so far. It is more exciting than the bottom-out reversal battle between Wang Chao and Bayer twenty minutes ago.
Luo Jiu serves, still short backspin.
But as mentioned above, by this time, it no longer matters what ball he serves, because both he and his opponent have perfectly proved through the three minutes just now that what they are going to fight is indeed the most peak spear and shield battle in the world.
For the time being, this spear was not sharp enough, but the shield was inlaid with fangs, so Lin Zijun 3:1 gained a greater advantage.
Luo Jiu forehand loop.
Luo Jiu backhand flick.
Luo Jiu changes the line to the forehand bottom line at a large angle.
Luo Jiu strongly pulls the backhand position at a close angle.
Luo Jiu fake action, a positive top spin.
Luo Jiu changed from pulling the ball to pushing and blocking, trying to hang a close penalty kick in the blind corner.
Luo Jiu is picked in the stage.
Luo Jiu exited the stage and performed a very unscientific high-hanging arc, as if singing Empty Fort Strategy.
His offense is still dizzying and breathtaking.
In fact, many professional players at the scene were even a little disheartened when watching the game, and wanted to retire or change careers, because the skills displayed by Luo Jiu made them feel like fools. If they continue like this and challenge the stupid Huaping, they will only be able to hide in the basement and eat dust.
Sometimes, the gap between professional players and professional players can also be so huge that it makes people desperate.
In the past few months, everyone has gradually understood how terrifying Luo Jiu's offensive ability is, but in fact, they don't really understand this fear, because Luo Jiu's opponents can only block a few boards and then lose hastily.
But this time, Lin Zijun's defense was so perfect that the whole world finally saw the truth of Luo Jiu's attack.
It's true, terrifying, and outrageous!
But the most terrifying thing is not Luo Jiu's outrageous offense, but Lin Zijun's even more outrageous defense.
In the eyes of most professional players, Luo Jiu's offense is full of kills, but no matter what kills, Lin Zijun perfectly blocked it.
Lin Zijun's movements are very simple, even simpler than the game against Hook in July after he just completed his super evolution. He always only has two movements: moving and pushing and blocking.
The movement is to catch up with the ball.
The purpose of pushing and blocking is to catch the Luo Jiu ball with unpredictable attributes.
Let you come in all kinds of ways, I will push you away.
The essence of this gear is that the inclination of the racket, the angle between the racket and the table, and its position in space are all very strict.
At the right time, in the right place, with the right strength and the right angle, just a push forward can keep you unchanged in response to all changes.
If there are sudden fluctuations in the technical stability of the opponent's endless changes, I can quickly increase my strength and use my strength to give you a defensive counterattack.
"In a sense, the requirements for Luo Jiu in this game are higher than those for Lin Zijun."
In the live broadcast room, Qin Huachang immediately commented. "Because Luo Jiu seeks change, and Lin Zijun seeks unchanged. Changes are more error-prone than unchanged, not to mention As an attacker, Luo Jiu hits the ball harder than Lin Zijun, his range of motion is greater than Lin Zijun, and he has much more things in his mind than Lin Zijun."
"Of course, Lin Zijun also requires high-intensity thinking and judgment. But because he has turned on Super Speed Mode, this reaction has become his body's instinct, so he does not need to expend mental energy in this regard. He uses a much faster reaction speed than Luo Jiu to fight offensive and defensive battles with Luo Jiu, so he will have more energy to observe the flaws in Luo Jiu's play and take advantage of them calmly."
"If you don't understand, you can simply understand it this way: They both have talents, but Microscopic Precision of Luo Jiu cannot be used in the entire attack, while Extreme Speed Talent of Lin Zijun is the most important part in defense. In this way, it is equivalent to Luo Jiu having one less skill than Lin Zijun out of thin air."
Qin Huachang paused, glanced at the barrage, and smiled, "Luo Jiu will lose? Haha, of course not, because he must win this game."
A large number of barrages came out, and many people accused Qin Huachang of favoring his players at this time. Some people thought that Qin Huachang's words had a strong color of idealism, but Qin Huachang just smiled without explaining, and stared at the screen quietly for a long time. After the fifth ball was played, the score became 1:4, and Luo Jiu's situation looked even worse. Then he said leisurely, "Don't believe it? Just wait and see."
Qin Huachang is of course not a tough talker, he just knows Hua Ping deeply, so he knows very well that in many cases, "must win" and "must win" are completely different.
Luo Jiu is a person with excellent psychological quality, and Lin Zijun is also a person with excellent psychological quality. Judging from the past game history, Lin Zijun's psychological quality is even better than Luo Jiu, because he once had a very famous "close his eyes for 10 seconds" scene, and is recognized by European fans as one of the most magical Asian Evil Arts.
But this is just an appearance.
The so-called tenacity of some players is just because the difficulties are not big enough.
And the tenacity of some players is that they will never be defeated.
Compared with Luo Jiu, Lin Zijun is still too young, which leads to the lack of some suffering and obsession in his soul.
Lin Zijun wants to win, just simply to win honor for Bay Island, to live up to the cultivation of Jiang Peirong, and to develop his own career.
In fact, he has never suffered, let alone been suppressed. He is a talented boy, everything has been smooth sailing, and he has become famous all over the world. He has a coach who values him, and fans who support him. Everything about him is sunny and positive. Even after losing a few games in silence, he will undergo another super evolution because his personal talent is too amazing, and become the only Super Speed player in history.
He is truly the Chosen One.
Therefore, his belief is too frivolous. Once he encounters real difficulties, he can actually abandon it, because really, it doesn't hurt his muscles at all.
But Luo Jiu wanted to win because he had been waiting for seven years. He was burdened with the title of "talented number one" and could not get ahead no matter how hard he played. Later, even the coach left him. He was actually a private joke among the non-Chinese associations players for a long time.
"Is this the number one talent?"
"Number One Attacker in the World's technical and tactical system is this?"
If it weren't for Luo Jiu's naturally optimistic and open-minded nature, I would have been crushed.
But who knows whether the character he displays is just a helpless protective color? Just to give myself a channel to vent under this huge pressure.
"If I tell others I don't care, then they will really think I don't care, so there will be less strange looks, and I will bear it."
He has too many things in his heart.
He has a girl who has been waiting for him for seven years, and she has already grown old.
He himself is old, 27 years old.
Seven years ago, he left Spade Q when it was just starting to improve. In fact, he was burdened with some "unjust" reputations. The most important thing is that this was not his original intention. What is even more embarrassing is that he jumped to a team that lived in the same city as Spade Q.
Everything was for the highest honors, but the problem was that he didn't get them.
But the above is still not the key.
The real key is that after he accomplished his magic, he found that Sun Tianlong was still standing firmly on a place higher than himself. He also saw with his own eyes the 18-year-old Wang Chao, who had stepped up step by step from a place much lower than him, and also reached the same height as him.
No one could imagine the urgency.
He is 27 years old and he only has this one chance left.
He may still have a chance in the next World Table Tennis Championships two years later, but he has absolutely no chance in Olympic Games four years later, because Fan Xiaodong, who is younger than Wang Chao, is also growing and has shown terrifying potential that is not inferior to Wang Chao.
He really couldn't wait any longer.
If he can no longer stand out, he will become a completely lost generation like Fang Xiaobo, Yan Ping'an, and Zou Zhengyu, and will eventually be forgotten silently.
He couldn't even go to Lao Fan's house to propose marriage, because his relatives would ask him an unanswerable question, "Since you look the same seven years ago and seven years later, what's the point of waiting for these seven years?"
No matter how funny, optimistic, lively, or heartless he is, he can't bear the torture of his soul.
That's why we saw that Luo Jiu has changed since the through game.
He is no longer talkative and no longer wanders around Huaping as a social butterfly. He has become bitter, serious, and very cautious, and even lacks some of the free and elegant temperament of the masters. He actually plays very hard, and every game is like a raging fire cooking oil and flowers blooming. He does not dare to relax or lose any ball that he should not lose. This is because in the past, he played more casually, so some bad habits are deeply ingrained, and now, he is doing his best to correct them.
He wants to win, even if he wins in embarrassment.
He didn't want to lose, even if it was a calm and glorious defeat.
Luo Jiu is in the most utilitarian moment of his life so far.
"You have to win" is not a joke, it's a matter of risking your life.
Luo Jiu lost the fifth goal because he was too crazy when attacking and chose to force a backhand attack when he should have attacked with a forehand.
This certainly adds more changes to the offense and creates more difficulties for the opponent, but once the opponent adapts, his choice will have negative consequences: he will inevitably have a defensive gap that theoretically must exist.
In fact, so far, he has lost three of the four points at 1:4. This is his bad habit. Over and over again, it will naturally become like this if he is not careful, but now he is trying to remind himself not to do it again.
Luo Jiu played more cautiously, and finally broke through Lin Zijun's defense through rigorous and continuous high-quality offense, bringing the score back to 2:4.
This also made him understand one thing: it turned out that Lin Zijun's defense was not impeccable, because Lin Zijun's technical stability was actually worse than his own.
Your own offense is so complex and the opponent's defense is so simple. In this case, if you can penetrate the opponent's defense through offense, it actually proves that your performance is better than the opponent's.
This also means that in this stalemate situation, everyone can work hard for mentality and continued stability.
Lin Zijun got the right to serve and started the next round of battle.
The score became 2:5 after eight minutes. This time, Luo Jiu used too much force on his forehand during the attack and made a standard burst. Lin Zijun perfectly caught the burst and made a fairly standard push and block. The strength of both sides was superimposed. The ball was too fast and the landing point was too awkward. Luo Jiu did not block it.
"But with his reaction speed and movement speed, this ball should be able to be blocked." Sun Tianlong whispered behind He Jingping: "This is also a problem that has always existed in his offense... Once he let go of his hands and feet, he was a little too addicted. This kind of continuous attack is so exciting that it is easy to ignore the opponent's sudden counterattack. He actually made a mistake. When he plays smoothly, the opponent will also play smoothly, but the essence of table tennis is not that everyone plays smoothly, but that everyone plays poorly."
Everyone knows this truth about Huaping, but when it comes to actual fighting, most people are easily confused by the authorities.
Sun Tianlong paused and continued, "In my opinion, even if he can't play like Wang Chao, he shouldn't blindly emphasize his attack power, but should slow down the rhythm. It's best to follow each attack with other skills. If he plays like this, Lin Zijun may be stuck until he vomits blood."
He Jingping nodded in agreement.
He understands what Sun Tianlong means.
He Jingping's strength lies in overall strategy formulation and system research. In fact, Sun Tianlong is more experienced and sees more thoroughly than him about the details and rhythm issues in actual combat. Therefore, instead of saying that Sun Tianlong is discussing with him, it is better to say that Sun Tianlong is reminding him in this way.
In this case, he can tell these things to Luo Jiu during a break.
So he said sincerely, "A Long, thank you."