After the timeout, the game continues.
Luo Jiu serves directly Sneak Long Serve.
This level of sneak attack is naturally useless to Lin Zijun who owns Super Speed, but at this moment Lin Zijun's mentality is completely different from before.
The normal approach should be to attack directly, and his approach in the first two games was to simply move quickly, but now Lin Zijun feels that both methods are wrong.
Because his offensive power is insufficient, the rotation and landing changes he can create are of little significance in front of a character like Luo Jiu. If he drives quickly, it is more like actively feeding the opponent the ball.
He already knew that Luo Jiu was going to launch a crazy attack on him at all costs.
He is not afraid, but has a faint expectation in his nervousness, because since he completed the super evolution in July, he has been looking forward to someone to challenge him in a real sense of hard-hitting, but he has been waiting for two months. No matter it is the three-place training camp, the small competitions within Taiwan Province, or even the occasional exhibition match, no one has dared to exert force in front of him without scruples.
Everyone was frightened by the way he beat Hook in July.
But at this time, Lin Zijun still didn't lose his mind. While he was full of anticipation, he still kept telling himself: You can let the opponent attack, but you can't take the initiative to give the opponent a chance to attack.
Why?
Because looking for offensive opportunities itself consumes energy, brainpower and physical strength, and the duel between the top professional table tennis players requires constant calculation, constant pulling, and constant consumption of every little detail.
He is 18 years old this year, and Luo Jiu is 27 years old. Although Luo Jiu is not old yet, don't forget that today's game was played for such a long time, with an average of more than 20 rounds per ball. So if this game can reach the decisive game, I am afraid it will take two hours in total. The further it goes, the more factors of physical strength and energy will become more prominent.
When you are exhausted, no matter how perfect your tactics and techniques are, you can only be defeated by me with brute force.
Lin Zijun was prepared for a rainy day and decided to delay Luo Jiu's opportunity to launch an attack as long as possible.
He chose to step back, flip his wrist, adopt the standard posture commonly used by chip players, and use the back of the racket to steadily chip the ball back.
The friction of Super Luo's racket is better than most rackets on the market, so the backspin of this ball is extremely strong. In addition, the serve of a player of Luo Jiu's level will not be pure backspin, but will definitely bring some side spin, so Lin Zijun can only slice the ball to the center of the opposite table. He hopes to let the ball land as close to the center of the table as possible, but in the end the ball lands on the middle table of the backhand position.
This level of error is completely acceptable. Lin Zijun does not think Luo Jiu will attack.
After all, the back of Luo Jiu's racket has raw rubber particles. This kind of rubber cannot be twisted with the backhand because it cannot lift the ball.
But Luo Jiu just assumed the standard backhand twisting posture. He took a half-step forward without hesitation, moved his body forward, and raised his elbows.
"He's scamming me."
"He must be scamming me."
"I have studied all his game videos in the past six months, and I have never seen him twist the ball with his backhand rubber."
"No, the correct statement should be that it is impossible for raw rubber particles to twist the ball."
"Even if the ball doesn't spin, it can't be twisted, not to mention that the ball I chipped has a lot of backspin."
Lin Zijun gritted his teeth, and subconsciously spread his legs a few inches wider than usual, making the lower body more stable. He stared at Luo Jiu's hand holding the racket, feeling that every inch of his skin was tense at this moment, and his scalp was even stimulated by this unknown and powerful pressure, which made him feel numb like an electric shock.
He had a strong urge to step down, which is the instinctive instinct of human beings before they foresee danger coming.
But reason told him that it was impossible for Luo Jiu to do such an unreasonable thing. If he really quit, he would be fooled.
So he resisted and refused to take a step back.
Don't think that his Super Speed can really keep up with all high speeds. He is a human being after all, and he has his limits. More than a minute ago, Luo Jiu just performed an unreserved backhand bounce in front of him. It was then that Lin Zijun discovered how fast Luo Jiu's backhand bounce was.
That is definitely a level faster than the peak Hook Forehand Loop.
Everyone thinks that Hook's power is number one in the world, so Hook's batting speed is also number one in the world, but this is wrong.
After all, pulling the ball has spin, but rotation will slow down the ball speed. The fastest way to hit the ball in the world is not pulling the ball, or even a hard forehand shot, but a backhand bounce.
Under the same force, the backhand bounce is 30% faster than the Forehand Loop, which is fair to say.
On this basis, Luo Jiu can make this speed 20% faster by optimizing the rubber and batting posture.
This 20% bonus represents the terrifying collective wisdom of the Huaping coaching staff and decades of advanced research on table tennis technology.
Otherwise, why would Luo Jiu rely on his own offense to defeat Hook when his power is far inferior to Hook?
Going back further, before Luo Jiu had been sparring with Hook for more than a month, why did he directly defeat Lin Li, who is known as the best veneer in Huaping, with his backhand bounce?
So Lin Zijun can be said to be willful at this time and want to take a gamble, but it can be said that this ball is a clear signal. Luo Jiu has released the winner. What depends on Lin Zijun's attitude.
Of course, Lin Zijun can withdraw unconditionally. In this case, at least in this round, Luo Jiu will not be able to kill him no matter how hard he fights, but he will also be completely passive in the situation.
This kind of passivity may not be fatal. After all, he still has Super Speed Defense Mode, and there is a great possibility that he can save the situation by borrowing his strength.
But it is undeniable that even if it is defense, your defense in a small passive situation must be easier than your defense in a huge passive situation.
Luo Jiu has made it clear that it will explode in full force, so Lin Zijun himself is not sure whether Lin Zijun can withstand it in an extremely passive situation.
Since I'm not sure, why should I let myself fall into extreme passivity?
You want to deceive me, but how can I be so easily frightened?
Out of this mentality, Lin Zijun refuses to give up this little bit of initiative, which is reflected in his actual actions, that is, he refuses to take this step back.
He was still staring at Luo Jiu's right hand holding the racket. He saw that the racket had already moved forward, as if to rub the ball that was bouncing off the table.
Then Luo Jiu suddenly made an extremely abrupt little move.
Most viewers didn't notice this scene, it was very subtle, but it wasn't foul.
Luo Jiu The racket in his hand suddenly rotated at this moment, so the back of the racket turned into the front, and the red rubber turned into black rubber.
International Table Tennis Federation has already clearly stipulated that all kinds of covered serves are not allowed. During the game, in order to prevent players from making actions that the opponent cannot observe at all, they stipulated that the front and back rubber of table tennis balls must be of different colors. Their various regulations are to ensure a very simple fact: both sides of the game must theoretically be able to see all the small movements of the other party. Only in this way can the game be fair and just.
Lin Zijun saw Luo Jiu's little move.
So the action of Luo Jiu is very reasonable.
He just changed the raw rubber side to the reverse rubber side at the last moment before twisting the ball, and then performed a very standard backhand twist.
This twist is very heavy, but the ball speed is not very fast, because Luo Jiu is still like the ball it won just now, putting most of its power on the rotation.
Although in the minds of all professional players, the technique of twisting the ball is based on landing point and speed as the first selling point, but when facing Lin Zijun, twisting the ball has to use this unconventional playing method.
Lin Zijun was confused at this moment.
Although his nerve reaction speed and body movement speed are unparalleled in the world, this does not mean that his brain is also unparalleled in understanding things and accepting surprises. He saw Luo Jiu's actions and understood Luo Jiu's choice, but this does not mean that he can switch his judgment method to another gear at this moment.
What's more, he has worked very hard to distinguish the front reverse rubber from the reverse raw rubber of Luo Jiu. Every time he catches the ball, he has to work hard to estimate the rotation intensity and flight trajectory of the ball. At this time, the raw rubber and reverse rubber suddenly interchanged. He felt like there were two untied yarns in his mind, and they were suddenly mixed together.
He completely lost his judgment.
He subconsciously pushed his racket forward. As a result, the ball spun wildly on the rubber of his racket, climbed up, and shot into the sky.
Since his battle with Luo Jiu, he has experienced left-hand and right-hand spins. This is the first time that he has experienced a solid top-spin.
2:0, Luo Jiu scored another point.
The audience did not understand the ball, so the applause was not enthusiastic, because what they saw was that Lin Zijun suddenly lost his defensive spirit and simply ate the ball.
Jiang Peirong subconsciously stood up from the barrier, raised one hand halfway, trying to call a timeout, but quickly put it down, realizing that Lin Zijun had already called a timeout just now.
"This is Huaping."
"This is Huaping..."
Jiang Peirong A bit desperate at this moment.
Of course he has also paid attention to Luo Jiu, and accompanied Lin Zijun to analyze Luo Jiu for a long time, but he and Lin Zijun have all the I spent all my time studying Luo Jiu in the game video, but I never expected that even Luo Jiu, who had been recognized as Number One Attacker in the World, actually had a hidden move.
This trick of temporarily changing faces is not new. Many players have used it in the past.
But there is no doubt that Luo Jiu was suddenly used in such a high-pressure and high-intensity environment. Even a small change was enough to completely disrupt the entire rhythm of Lin Zijun.
It was also at this time that he suddenly thought that in the past seven years, Luo Jiu had been using reverse glue on his backhand.
Luo Jiu Although he changed the rubber and made technical modifications, the various techniques of using anti-glue on his backhand are still there.
He was switchable from the start.
The reason why he didn't use it was simply because he couldn't use it against other people.
The right to serve returns to Lin Zijun.
Lin Zijun's attitude became more rigorous, and he sent a short backspin.
Luo Jiu swing short.
Lin Zijun swing short.
Luo Jiu swings short again.
Lin Zijun swings shorter.
Luo Jiu directly throws the backhand baseline.
Lin Zijun forced the ball back to the center.
Luo Jiu Quickly dial the ball to the forehand baseline.
Lin Zijun forced the ball back to the center.
The situation became weird. Lin Zijun, who had been actively pursuing an offensive and defensive battle, seemed determined not to let Luo Jiu attack. His touch was obviously not as good as Luo Jiu, but when Luo Jiu took the initiative to break the situation, it was Lin Zijun who put the ball back again and again.
The audience at the scene couldn't understand this. Fortunately, the director was very professional. Taking advantage of the opportunity to shorten the stalemate, he actually split the live broadcast screen in half. The left side continued to live broadcast, while the right side replayed in slow motion the scene where Luo Jiu had just changed sides.
Belated applause resounded throughout the venue at this moment.
"Oh my God!"
"So that's it."
"In other words, is Lin starting to be afraid?"
"Lin no longer dares to let Luo Jiu attack?"
"But his Super Speed Defense Mode, if the opponent doesn't attack, how can he win?"
"Perhaps... Lin is planning to start an attack?"
The audience did not guess wrong, Lin Zijun did have a new idea.
"I'm not just defensive."
"Yes, my offense is not sharp enough, but before July this year, didn't I have a lot of good games relying on offense?"
"It's not like I can't really kill anyone."
He seized an opportunity when Luo Jiu was rubbing the ball, launched an attack directly, and stepped back from the stage with a forehand blast.
This board used up 80% of the force.
At the moment when he hit the ball, he suddenly figured out a truth: Luo Jiu was actually not as good as Hook. At least, with his level of explosive charge, Hook could directly back off the stage with brute force and forcefully pull back, but Luo Jiu may not be able to do it, because he has neither the strength nor the speed of Hook.
Lin Zijun's idea is right.
When he started to attack with all his strength, the nature of the game between the two sides changed from a relatively extreme offensive and defensive mode to a regular mode. Facing Lin Zijun's powerful charge, the only thing Luo Jiu could do was to step back and pull the ball back. The arc of the ball was very good, but it could only be regarded as a defensive pull.
So Lin Zijun took a step forward and switched to a backhand in-table speed twist.
There are not many changes in the backhand twisting of Lin Zijun. The only thing pursued is the ultimate speed.
This is his biggest signature so far.
The ball was so twisted that Luo Jiu couldn't keep up. He had to take two steps back from the stage before he could barely get the ball back, forming a high hanging arc.
Lin Zijun didn't care so much, gritted his teeth and hit hard with another forehand.
Luo Jiu still blocked the ball, but he was a little embarrassed.
Lin Zijun One more board.
Luo Jiu is still blocked.
Then Lin Zijun stalled and chose to take a near penalty kick, hoping to hit Luo Jiu's gap.
However, Luo Jiu managed to catch up at the last moment, went around to the side of the table, and gently lifted the ball that had fallen below the table, over the net and onto the table.
Lin Zijun took a step forward, inspired Yu Yong, and charged forward again with his forehand. This time the ball hit the net and did not cross the line.
He committed suicide.
3:0, Luo Jiu scored another point.
The ball was played extremely thrillingly. The two sides exchanged offense and defense many times in succession. The audience screamed in surprise and then burst into applause.
But the expressions of both sides of the game were very calm.
Because this ball is actually a unanimous and tacit attempt for both sides.
Both want to know the answer to the same thing: What will happen if Lin Zijun attacks and Luo Jiu defends?
Now they both know.
Lin Zijun only has first-class offense, but he really can't defeat a top player like Luo Jiu who has first-class defensive ability.
Therefore, Lin Zijun can give up the idea of attacking.
Next, let us return to the previous mode, with Luo Jiu still attacking and Lin Zijun defending. After we have eliminated all the wrong answers together, let's try to see who is the one who persists to the end in the only correct mode.
Lin Zijun is no longer obsessed with limiting Luo Jiu's offense. He sends short backspin and competes with Luo Jiu on the table ball. Then at the right time, Luo Jiu takes away the initiative and once again enters his familiar defensive link.
But this time, the offensive and defensive intensity of both sides was no longer comparable to that of the previous two games.