He Jingping knows very well that on Olympic Games at the end of November this year, Sun Tianlong's biggest opponents are Luo Jiu and Wang Chao.
Lin Zijun is not qualified to be an opponent in the eyes of Dragon Team, because Wang Chao's style of play with stuck points and changing rhythms cannot be achieved by Luo Jiu, but Sun Tianlong can perfectly replicate it.
So in theory, as long as Sun Tianlong doesn't have any problems, Lin Zijun is just a piece of cake - unless he continues to evolve.
Therefore, if there is even the slightest bit of selfishness, Sun Tianlong should not give Luo Jiu any advice.
In this game at this moment, if Luo Jiu loses to Lin Zijun, then Luo Jiu will probably lose his mentality, and Sun Tianlong will lose one of the most terrifying opponents.
But a hero is a hero.
This kind of selfless mind cannot be faked, every detail will be revealed inadvertently from all aspects of life.
Lin Zijun serves Sneak Long Serve.
Luo Jiu chooses to start the board directly.
Lin Zijun push block.
The two sides continued to fight. This time, a total of 42 boards were played. The audience went crazy watching it. In the end, Luo Jiu had the last laugh.
3:5.
Luo Jiu is slowly trying to restrain his impulse. Many times there is a more ferocious way to attack, but because this method may reveal flaws, he suppresses this impulse.
If the ball is in the forehand position, he will attack with the forehand, and if the ball is in the backhand position, he will attack with the backhand. He no longer forces displacement and will never let himself go to a certain corner of the table.
He has been standing in the center of the table, moving slightly to both sides, and by spreading his arms, he perfectly covers the entire table, ensuring that there are no obvious blind spots.
He doesn't take the initiative to exert force, and always keeps his ball in a state of "relatively average power but a lot of changes".
In this case, all Lin Zijun can do is defend, but cannot borrow strength from itself.
Facts have proved that in this situation, Lin Zijun really has no good way to break the situation, and all he can do is maintain a stalemate.
After a full 42-board stalemate, Luo Jiu finally won the ball, which fully demonstrated that his stability is indeed much better than Lin Zijun.
In the world table tennis world, Lin Zijun's stability is highly praised. He and Wang Chao are known as the most stable players among the younger generation of players.
But at this moment Luo Jiu understood that Lin Zijun was far worse than his junior brother.
As the saying goes, gold is refined by fire. Lin Zijun's past stability was only because he had too strong personal ability. His opponents were not enough to force him to make mistakes, and there was not enough offensive intensity to cause Lin Zijun's skills to fluctuate.
But under his own pressure, Lin Zijun couldn't bear it.
If you compare your junior brother Wang Chao to a stone, then Lin Zijun is an egg.
Everyone seems to be hard on the surface, but stones are hard from the inside out, but as long as the hard shell of an egg is cracked, it will be a mess inside.
Luo Jiu decided to continue to reproduce this style of play.
He liked the effect of this multi-round game very much. He felt that the untimely edges and corners that occasionally appeared in his attack were being polished away bit by bit and gradually became smooth and perfect.
He himself never thought that there were so many flaws hidden in the offensive routine that he was so proud of.
And Lin Zijun is like a magnifying glass, illuminating all his flaws.
Luo Jiu even vaguely hopes that he will lose a few more goals, because every loss means that Lin Zijun has helped him pick out another loophole, giving him a chance to make up for it.
The audience was extremely surprised to find that the scores of both sides were miraculously stable, as accurate as a fake match.
3:6.
4:6.
4:7.
5:7.
5:8.
6:8.
6:9.
7:9.
7:10.
8:10.
8:11.
The first game went to the end without any surprises, and Luo Jiu lost by three points.
But during the break, the performances of both players were completely opposite.
Lin Zijun, who won the game, frowned and kept discussing with Jiang Peirong, as if they had many problems.
Luo Jiu, who lost the game, smiled and communicated with He Jingping, just a few words, and then rested quietly.
Soon the second game came.
Judging from the scene, at least the fans can't see many changes in details, it seems to be very similar to the first game.
The only difference is that this time Luo Jiu scored one point at the beginning and then lost one point.
Then, the scores of both sides increased staggered again, showing the same precise state as the first game.
1:0.
1:1.
2:1.
2:2.
3:2.
3:3.
9:9.
10:9.
Until the score climbed alternately to 10:9, Luo Jiu led by one point.
The game was played so evenly that many spectators were led to believe that this alternating trend would continue forever.
However, the score did not naturally become 10:10.
Because Luo Jiu suddenly stole a long serve this time.
Lin Zijun immediately chose to pull the ball through the forehand loop.
He just can't kill people with offense, but he doesn't shy away from attacking. Instead of chipping or rubbing the Sneak Long Serve ball in a more error-prone way, it's better to just pull it over.
Lin Zijun waits for Luo Jiu to pull back, and then both sides enter the normal attack and defense mode.
But this time Luo Jiu suddenly made an extremely violent charge.
He had been holding back his strength throughout the entire game today, fearing to give Lin Zijun a chance to use his strength, but at this moment he seemed to be going crazy, desperately hitting the ball hard.
Lin Zijun was a little surprised, but his super reaction speed kept him from panicking, and he hit the ball back immediately.
But this was still an accident after all, so his response was still a little late.
Therefore, his push was not pushed out immediately after the ball collided with the table, so the speed at which the ball flew was a little slower than the theoretical limit speed.
At the same time, because the ball bounces higher when pushed, the height of the ball after being pushed will be higher than the theoretical value.
Luo Jiu was already prepared.
He is not a power player, but at least he is not weak in terms of strength, so when he is fully mentally prepared, he can still hit the ball continuously.
He struck hard again, using ten percent of his strength.
This is a desperate plan.
Lin Zijun became excited in an instant, and every cell in his body jumped uncontrollably. He finally saw such a powerful attack for the first time after playing this game for a long, long time.
He wanted to have a perfect leverage.
He pushed the racket forward hard, trying to launch a super-fast return ball that humans could theoretically not react to.
But when the ball was pushed, it flew directly from the side of the racket.
Lin Zijun At this moment, the whole person was confused.
He... took a spin?
The referee blew the whistle and the second game ended. The score was 11:9. Luo Jiu pulled the game back.
Until he returned to the baffle, Lin Zijun felt his head was buzzing and he didn't understand what was going on.
"He played a psychological game on you." Jiang Peirong told Lin Zijun: "The right topspin movement in the last explosive charge was quite obvious, but you may have been too excited at the time and only thought about counterattack, and did not pay attention to the details when he pulled the ball... There was a lateral displacement of his racket at the end."
When Jiang Peirong said these words, he felt a little emotional in his heart.
In fact, Luo Jiu's last finishing move looked familiar to him. It was Xiao Fei's signature Great Python Turn finishing move.
Great Python Turn is not something that ordinary people can learn, but the principle of Great Python Turn is actually not complicated. The real essence of it is that Xiao Fei has thought of a practical operation method and presented this theoretical and principled thing in actual combat.
Of course, the racket is also important.
Wang Chao tried Great Python Turn when he was holding Super Luo, but the effect was very poor. It was not until he got his own customized racket superconductor that he displayed several very beautiful Great Python Turn in the game with Bayer just now.
Luo Jiu naturally doesn't know how to Great Python Turn, but he has seen the video of Wang Chao using Super Luo racket to perform this trick. He followed the example and only took the last little detail, only seeking the little extra side spin, and did not insist on the other things.
There is a huge power gap between this slight side spin and the original version of Great Python Turn. As long as the opponent can judge it, it can be easily blocked.
But Lin Zijun just didn't notice.
Generally speaking, when watching the ball in actual combat, you will only focus on the movements of the opponent's racket and wrist at the moment when the ball touches the racket, and then your attention will completely return to the ball, but Luo Jiu's last trick requires Lin Zijun to look at him more.
Jiang Peirong's emotion is that he found that Chinese table tennis players have very strong learning and improvement abilities, and they are almost always thinking of ways to improve themselves.
As for himself, he actually lacked the motivation in this area, so when he was a player, his performance could only be said to be average. After training Lin Zijun, he was actually satisfied with the strength Lin Zijun showed when he debuted for a long time, and felt that this strength was enough to help Bay Island win many medals.
Lin Zijun's second super evolution is entirely due to the player's own ambition and has nothing to do with him as a coach.
So Jiang Peirong couldn't help but ask himself at this moment, "Bay Island Table tennis has never developed. Is it the player's fault or my fault as the head coach?"
Lin Zijun's reflection was more direct than his. "With my eyesight, I should have seen the complete action of Luo Jiu. The reason why I didn't pay attention was actually because I was too excited at that moment... When a ball that could be perfectly used suddenly appeared after I had been looking forward to it for a long time, I subconsciously ignored other things."
"So, is this a coincidence, or did Luo Jiu do it on purpose?"
"Of course this is a coincidence." Qin Huachang laughed in the live broadcast room, "Luo Jiu is a smart man, but not a small silver coin. He could not have imagined such a weird calculation method. He just tried to see if he could use violence to break the game head-on. Anyway, he was one point ahead. He was mentally prepared for the experiment to fail, but he didn't expect that he actually scored directly."
But then Qin Huachang became a little excited. "So, everyone, please be prepared. In the third game, the game may be very unexpected."
Qin Huachang understood the meaning of Luo Jiu's last ball.
In fact, the same principle applies when fighting Bayer with Wang Chao.
At the end of the second game, Luo Jiu realized that all the flaws in his offense had been picked out, because Lin Zijun had not caught his new loopholes for a long time.
So he felt that the value of Lin Zijun in this area had disappeared, and he decided to enter his next stage.
Yes, this game is the most important game before the final for Luo Jiu. Of course, what he has to solve is not just the problem of "checking for leaks and filling in gaps".
What he really wants to do is to take his actual combat effectiveness one step further and elevate it to an unprecedented level.
This realm is not for fighting Wang Chao, but for fighting Sun Tianlong.
Although he was playing World Table Tennis Championships, his sights had already been set on Olympic Games two months later.
World Table Tennis Championships will still have a chance to catch up in two years, but Olympic Games will definitely not be able to catch up in the next session.
The end of November this year is his last chance.
And Sun Tianlong is his ultimate opponent.
Lin Zijun is the whetstone for him to defeat Wang Chao.
Similarly, Wang Chao is also the whetstone for him to defeat Sun Tianlong.
All opponents had been marked with clear values by Luo Jiu before the game started.
At the beginning of the third game, Luo Jiu served with short backspin.
Lin Zijun's swing was a little random because he played the ball for too long in the first two games and he was already a little numb. He felt that all the foreplay was in vain.
So he swung the ball a little higher.
He doesn't care.
He knew that Luo Jiu would hit him directly with appropriate force.
But this time Luo Jiu moved forward with far more momentum than before, and then the challenge was so fierce that it could almost be regarded as a violent challenge.
The ball is very fast and spins very fast.
Lin Zijun was surprised, but he could react.
At the same time, when such a fierce challenge appeared, his body became uncontrollably excited again. He did not need any prelude and directly entered the state of Super Speed Defense Mode.
Everything in his eyes went into slow motion.
He steps back and pulls the forehand.
The reason why he didn't directly attack was because the ball landed at a wide angle on the backhand baseline, and he paused slightly due to an accident, so it was too late to attack.
But he didn't care, he brought the ball over quickly and waited for Luo Jiu's next shot.
Luo Jiu did not disappoint him. He pulled a forehand loop on the second board, and the shot was very heavy, but the ball speed was not fast. With extremely violent rotation, he allocated most of his power to friction and only a small amount of power to forward motion.
The ball spun in the air at a dizzying pace, to the point where it was a little fluttery, and the soft forward momentum also made it difficult for Lin Zijun to accurately grasp the distance in space.
In a sense, this is indeed a good way to deal with Lin Zijun Super Speed Mode.
Lin Zijun's judgment and feel are both first-class, but after all, they have not reached the level of subtlety. Therefore, although he can react to a strong enough rotation, whether he can resolve it perfectly depends on his judgment, not his reaction speed.
Lin Zijun chose to press the racket extremely downward and hit it forward fiercely.
The ball landed on the Luo Jiu side of the table, closer to the backhand position.
In fact, Lin Zijun wanted to challenge the center position, but his judgment on the rotation was still not accurate enough, and he suffered a little bit of rotation.
Of course, this is all within a reasonable range of error.
Luo Jiu backhand flick.
This bomb exploded with almost full force. In the eyes of the audience, Luo Jiu's racket seemed to have turned into a spring, which was suddenly released after being extremely compressed. Then it shot out hard and collided with the racket. The sound it made was clear and short, and it even seemed like it hit the wooden base without rubber.
This is a sign of full transparency.
How fast is this ball? It's a little hard to catch with the naked eye.
But Lin Zijun can still be captured.
His movement speed has reached the limit, and his arm speed is at full speed, but he still has no time to catch the moment when the ball bounces off the table. Instead, he only completes the landing when the ball completely bounces to the highest point, and then places the racket horizontally in front of him and uses the power of his body to press forward.
It was also at this moment that a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.
Since his debut, this is the first time he has encountered such a fast ball. It was so fast that his Super Speed almost couldn't keep up.
The ball passed over and just bounced off the table. Luo Jiu made another forehand move. It was really scary. Strictly speaking, before the ball even hit the table, Luo Jiu had already swung his arm. The moment the ball just bounced off the table, Luo Jiu's racket just swept over the ball, perfectly wrapping the ball in it and smashing it back.
But even so, Lin Zijun can still keep up.
He forced himself to be calm and move steadily, hoping to pass the ball.
But he got another spin, and the ball sailed off the right side of his bat.
1:0, Luo Jiu scored.
Lin Zijun took a deep breath.
Although it was only a matter of one ball, he finally realized at this moment that something was wrong with this game.
Something is very wrong!
The two games just played took too long. In fact, Lin Zijun was a little slack, because he found that Luo Jiu really couldn't beat him.
Although he also knew that Luo Jiu did not use all his strength, he still habitually believed that the reason why Luo Jiu did not use all his strength was because Luo Jiu had self-knowledge and had known that it would be useless to use his full strength.
He thought that the style of play in the first two games was the best strategy Luo Jiu could come up with when dealing with him.
If you must find a better strategy than this, then the only thing left is the disgusting play style of Wang Chao that blocks the rhythm.
But now he suddenly wasn't sure.
Because whether it was the last ball in the second game or the first ball in the third game, Luo Jiu was using all his strength and didn't care whether he would use his strength to play.
And Luo Jiu just made a forehand slam, a backhand bounce, and a forehand loop. The power was far beyond his expectation.
Most importantly, both goals scored.
In other words, Luo Jiu exploded with all his strength and attacked the enemy with force. In fact, he could have penetrated himself?
Yes, Luo Jiu's ball speed is not as good as Hook, and its power is not as good as Hook, but Luo Jiu is slightly inferior to Hook in speed and power. With the addition of various techniques that are much more subtle, tricky, and abrupt than Hook, coupled with his reverse targeting of the opponent's psychology and catching habits, the lethality he truly displayed was actually far better than Hook.
Lin Zijun suddenly remembered a fact: Portugal Open and Luo Jiu had just blocked Hook in the finals not long ago. In that game, Luo Jiu played a full-court attack, forcing such a domineering player like Hook into a defensive posture.
This in itself has blatantly proved that the attack power of Luo Jiu is indeed higher than that of Hook.
Lin Zijun's mind is a little confused.
"No, no, that can't be the case."
"Why did he fight me for so long if he could get through me from the start?"
"He used the first two rounds to consume my physical and mental energy, and also to paralyze my vigilance. Without me even realizing it, he had already drained part of my fighting spirit and made me feel like I was underestimating the enemy. That's why a sudden explosion at this time can be effective."
"What does he want to do?"
"Actually, it's easy to guess. In this way, he wanted to create a huge psychological gap in me and directly destroy my mentality. Then today's game is over."
Lin Zijun's vigilance grew crazily, and there was a voice in his head that kept alarming, which made his heart skip a beat. He squatted down again and again, and straightened up again and again, still unable to get into a stable catching posture. It wasn't until the referee blew the whistle to warn him not to delay anymore that he finally made up his mind, raised his hand to signal, and used up his only timeout opportunity in this game.
He needed to take a minute to calm down and reshape his mentality to face the stormy attack of Luo Jiu.
He was convinced that as long as he returned to his original state, he would not be defeated and Luo Jiu's conspiracy would not succeed.
He didn't know that he was wrong.
His thinking has been limited to "Luo Jiu wants to beat me", but he doesn't know that Luo Jiu is not thinking about winning or losing from the beginning to the end.
Luo Jiu is certainly not trying to mess with his mentality.
In fact, Luo Jiu has no intention of making a sneak attack.
He just wanted to use his attack power to hit Lin Zijun head-on without any tricks in a very serious and sincere way.
If it doesn't penetrate, continue to increase the intensity until it does.
If you can't beat it in the end, you might as well just be eliminated here.
——In a sense, these two disciples of He Jingping have the same stubbornness. They have nerves as stable as steel. Under everyone's frightened gaze, they steadily execute their plans to advance on World Table Tennis Championships, embarking on a grand and epic two-way rush.
If we can't meet each other at the peak when we are at our strongest, then this meeting will be meaningless.
Yes, that's how willful it is.
Therefore, Lin Zijun is still just a whetstone, but this whetstone actually has two sides.
The front is used to polish off those inappropriate offensive habits in Luo Jiu.
On the other hand, it is to hone Luo Jiu's attack power, which is not yet fierce enough, to the point of being invincible.
So the interesting thing is that Lin Zijun guessed wrongly about Luo Jiu's thoughts, but correctly guessed Luo Jiu's next plan, and he chose to pause and adjust his mentality, hoping to be in the best condition to meet Luo Jiu's next real attack like a storm. This is actually what Luo Jiu hopes for.
(Well, I didn't expect that I didn't finish writing about this game today, so I'll give you a preview in advance. The game will definitely be finished tomorrow, and there will be some sketched games in the future. The finals will start the day after tomorrow. Well, that's it. The last part is the eternal vote-seeking session.)