Qin Huachang is right again.
The first game of This World Table Tennis Championships final was an inextricable stalemate from the beginning. The most terrible thing was that no one could tell which way the game would tilt, because from the scene, they were evenly matched throughout the game, so the key to victory or defeat seemed to completely lie in "who made one less calculation on the spot" or "who had less luck when playing on the spot."
Luo Jiu won one point and lost one point in his serving round.
The point he won was when he seized an opportunity. Three consecutive blows disrupted Wang Chao's balance. Then, he used continuous forehand and backhand maneuvers at large angles and a continuous combination of distance and distance, combined with constant forehand loops and backhand bounce transitions. In the end, Wang Chao was forced to make a forced error. He misjudged the rotation of a ball and caught the ball out of bounds after blocking it for eight rounds.
So it was really not easy. From the time he got the huge initiative to the time he actually penetrated Wang Chao, it took eight boards.
If you add the first three consecutive blasts, it would be a full eleven combos.
You know, he didn't have such a hard time defeating Hook's defense at Portugal half a month ago.
Of course, this cannot simply be attributed to "Wang Chao's defense is stronger than Hook", but because Wang Chao is too familiar with Luo Jiu's offensive system. It is a system that he has practiced countless times. In vulgar terms, it is called Luo Jiu. Once he sticks his butt, Wang Chao knows what he is going to do.
The point that Luo Jiu lost seemed too easy because Wang Chao caught the ball and wiped the net. Then the ball rolled directly off the net and didn't bounce at all. It's hard to save.
It can only be said that luck is also a part of strength.
The score was 2:2, Wang Chao got the right to serve.
Wang Chao chooses to serve Sneak Long Serve.
Since participating in more and more high-end competitions, Wang Chao has not had Sneak Long Serve for a long, long time.
This time Sneak Long Serve, of course, is not looking down upon Luo Jiu, but because this Superconductor can indeed make many fresh changes in serving, so Wang Chao still wants to try to see if Luo Jiu can perfectly judge all the actions he can make with the new racket.
So this Sneak Long Serve only appears to rotate, but actually does not rotate.
Of course, there is another reason why he dares to Sneak Long Serve: the quality of Luo Jiu's single board is indeed not too great, at least it is within the range of his trial and error tolerance, and he will not die if he makes a mistake.
Luo Jiu successfully made perfect judgment and charged directly sideways.
Wang Chao had expected it, and the racket came forward, Lin Zijun-style aggressive counter-attack.
Luo Jiu made an action that he had never done before: he also faced the opponent with the racket and also punched forward.
If we must talk about the difference, Wang Chao is used on the front side of the racket, and Luo Jiu is used on the back side of the racket.
Luo Jiu's argument was really unreasonable. After all, Wang Chao didn't have Extreme Speed Talent. His ability to hit Luo Jiu's looping ball was already maximizing his reaction speed. The speed of the ball he hit had already exceeded his own reaction limit. When the ball was hit back unexpectedly again, it was impossible for him to react at all.
Because his nervous system had no time to react.
So what the audience saw was the white shadow formed by the ball moving back and forth in two consecutive trajectories in an instant, and then flew out from the side of Wang Chao. What they heard in their ears were two "ping ping" sounds that sounded almost simultaneously, with an interval of no more than 0.1 second.
Tenth of a second is the ultimate speed of human nervous reaction.
2:3, Luo Jiu overtook the score.
The audience was silent for a moment. This was because the ball Luo Jiu was too fast and their brains couldn't keep up.
But then there was thunderous applause, and many viewers stood up directly.
Even Qin Huachang was stunned for three seconds in the live broadcast room before sighing, "This is really... so cruel."
Luo Jiu This response is indeed very telling.
Usually when two players are playing, the speed of the ball will definitely fluctuate. The reason is that the player's muscle memory speed is usually faster than the nerve reflex speed. Therefore, when some balls are hit, not only the spectators can't keep up, but they themselves can't keep up.
Therefore, no player plays fast and faster all the time, and no player relies entirely on his own on-the-spot judgment to hit every ball. Even Hook had a fixed routine for some balls during the game., and the meaning of the routine is that you give up all the thinking process in the formation of the routine, copy it directly, and form muscle memory through a lot of practice. In this way, you can shoot directly without thinking, and the body's reaction speed is faster than the thinking reaction speed.
The Lin Zijun style Super Speed Defense Mode is essentially breaking through the speed of this muscle memory. When the opponent's ball speed is fast enough and the ball he hits back is faster, then the ball exceeds the limit of the neural reaction speed of both players.
But in general, players must rely on on-the-spot judgment when playing, and it cannot be all about muscle memory. So when you rely on muscle memory to hit a kill that exceeds the limit of human reaction, if the opponent is not killed, you will subconsciously slow down the rhythm because you also need to rethink and judge what you should do next.
Therefore, "explosive charge-retaliation" is actually a complete cycle. The former is fast enough, but there is time to react, while the latter is faster and there is no time to react. The cycle ends here, and there can be no next step, because there is no time to react in the second step, so the winner will be determined directly. Where is the next step?
So can this kind of ball be broken?
In fact, it is possible. The method is very old and very effective, which is to withdraw from the stage.
In table tennis matches, most problems can be solved by retreating from the table, because as long as the ball is allowed to fly for a while, the ball speed and spin will definitely slow down and decay to a level that humans can control and react to.
So in essence, the reason why Lin Zijun was able to prevent Hook from dying was because Hook was unwilling to step down. He wanted to compete with Lin Zijun for speed, but he couldn't. And when he is willing to step down, he will find that his offensive power has declined, and he will be even more unable to kill Lin Zijun. Later, according to the principle of "hardness cannot last long", he will gradually become the last of his strength.
After explaining the above principles clearly, if we look at Luo Jiu in turn, it seems very anti-human.
Because the ball that Wang Chao hit has exceeded Luo Jiu's nerve reaction speed, this is the end of a cycle. There should be only two endings for Luo Jiu, either being killed directly, or retreating to buffer and slowly figure it out.
If he doesn't retreat, but wants to make judgments before taking action, he will never be able to respond in time.
Unless he has Super Speed who is also anti-human like Lin Zijun.
Of course Luo Jiu cannot have the speed of Lin Zijun.
But the fact is that he did accurately capture the ball Wang Chao, and in turn killed Wang Chao.
That leaves only one reasonable explanation: prejudgment.
In other words, when Wang Chao serves Sneak Long Serve, and when Luo Jiu chose a sideways powerful loop, he has actually anticipated Wang Chao's response.
This is not too difficult, after all, Wang Chao has also demonstrated this skill before. Wang Chao has at least six points of imitation of Lin Zijun's Super Speed Defense Mode, and this mode is indeed one of the best ways to deal with explosive charges.
Then the real difficulty is that Luo Jiu has to guess how Wang Chao will hit the ball, where it will hit, and where it will land.
He has a certain direction of speculation. After all, Wang Chao also has game videos to analyze in the past few days. At the same time, Wang Chao has begun to show this since Swedish Open in April. As a defense method, it can be said that Super Speed Defense Mode, which Lin Zijun finally developed, was originally brought by Wang Chao, and Lin Zijun only carried forward it.
Therefore, through the system analysis of a large number of videos of Wang Chao, we can roughly find some details of Wang Chao's habit of hitting the ball. Combined with the current specific height, rotation direction, angle and intensity of the ball, we can roughly infer where Wang Chao will hit the ball.
Then, after completing the first step of the explosive charge, bet that Wang Chao will fight hard, and then just use the racket to defend there.
"Listen to me, isn't it quite simple?" Qin Huachang asked.
Qin Zhenyu rolled his eyelids behind his back and wanted to complain: How on earth is this tmd so simple? It sounds like my tooth hurts, okay?
Qin Huachang continued, "But you must understand that although this thinking process is not difficult, it is very intense and cannot be calculated on the spot. Therefore, it is obvious that Luo Jiu has already thought about how to deal with Wang Chao's confrontation a long time ago. His success today means that he is He didn't know how many times he had rehearsed it in his mind. At that moment, if he wanted to pretend to be competitive, he could actually just close his eyes before taking action. Anyway, his brain would definitely not be able to keep up with it when he took action. He just followed the routine that he had already thought of, charging first, and then immediately pushing hard, and it was impossible for his brain to react to what happened."
Qin Huachang is conservative.
In fact, not only Luo Jiu, the instigator, did not know the specific process of the ball, but even the bystanders did not see it clearly.
So the big screen above the stadium began to play back the scene in super slow motion, so everyone could clearly see the whole process of how the ball was hit by both brothers at the same time in less than tenths of a second.
"But that's it here." Qin Huachang said, "He doesn't know how many videos he watched, how long he thought about it, and how long he deduced it in his mind before he could make today's push. But who is Wang Chao? Wang Chao has Unrivaled, Wang Chao does not need to form a fixed muscle memory. This time Luo Jiu calculated him. The next time he encounters this kind of ball, he will definitely change the details. If Luo Jiu still wants to predict, it will definitely fail."
At this point, he looked at the barrage and couldn't help laughing, "Is it worth it? What do you think?"
He paused and said seriously, "It doesn't seem worth working so hard for so long just to get this point, but of course it is worth it, because these two people have been fighting hard from the beginning. Every point is a knife inserted into the opponent's body. I can stab you one more time out of thin air. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?"
"What's more, although Wang Chao has an unparalleled talent, he was forced by Luo Jiu to adjust his movement habits on the spot, which also consumes brain power. In their opinion, which indicator was the least adequate and least able to withstand consumption in today's game?"
"Body, brain, or energy?"
"There's no doubt about it, of course it's brainpower."
"How many changes have these two smart people made in just three minutes from the first ball to now? How many times have their minds turned?"
"So, Luo Jiu used a lot of brainpower that he spent in the past to exchange for a small amount of brainpower that Wang Chao is spending now. It seems like a loss, but in fact it is clearly a gain."
On-site in Budapest, He Jingping and Sun Tianlong, sitting side by side, also understood Luo Jiu's intention and were extremely surprised by the strategy of this ball.
Then Sun Tianlong drew another inference from another angle. "It seems that he really can't find a way to defeat Wang Chao."
He Jingping nodded. "Yes."
As long as Wang Chao can find a way to defeat Wang Chao, Luo Jiu will not put his mind into consuming brain power. When he is willing to spend a lot of time and energy calculating this small point, it means that he has long realized that today's final will be an extremely tragic war of attrition.
The one who will have the last laugh will most likely not be the stronger one, but the one who can survive better.
After Wang Chao's head is still spinning, Luo Jiu can win the final victory.