At 10 a. m. on December 18, the highly anticipated Men's Singles semi-finals finally began.
The reason why the game started at ten o'clock was naturally because Women's Singles played first. Now Women's Singles has ended. Two Chinese players Liu Wen and Shen Sha met in the finals. On the contrary, Jin Ling of World number one was eliminated by the young player Shen Sha in the semi-finals.
For foreign fans, Women's Singles is over, and there is no need to watch the Chinese table tennis civil war.
But for Jin Ling personally, this is a session of Olympic Games full of regrets.
Jin Ling, this "most waterlogged Grand Slam in history" still failed to prove her gold content. Instead, she once again proved her "water mark" after being crushed and eliminated by Shen Sha. She is 28 years old and has no chance to participate in the next Olympic Games. This also means that she will never have the opportunity to prove herself again.
Her name "most waterlogged Grand Slam in history" is finally confirmed.
At the same time, due to the International Table Tennis Federation reform this year, Huaping began to focus on mixed doubles, and no longer let veterans take on the role as in the past, so she has not made any achievements in mixed doubles this year, and has not even had a chance to compete.
Of course there will be no more in the future, because Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan's Tang Dynasty Combination has firmly established itself as the number one player in the world. Jin Ling asked herself that even if she joins forces with Xiao Fei or even Sun Tianlong, she may not be able to overthrow Tang Dynasty Combination in this weird event of mixed doubles.
This was a bit of an upset in a sense, which made the first sister of China Table Tennis Team slightly red in the eyes. She sat in the stands, waiting to watch the Men's Singles game, but did not return to the hotel to adjust her mood.
She also wants to quit. The competition in women's table tennis is too fierce and has to surpass that of men's table tennis. She wants to transform into a coach like Xiao Fei and Sun Tianlong. Watching more games, analyzing the situation, understanding the players and paying more attention to the dynamics of the table tennis world will be an indispensable daily lesson for her in her future career.
Since there is no way to achieve satisfactory results in your career, let your disciples strive for higher honors, and you are willing to be the silently dedicated person behind them.
This is the inheritance and tradition of Huaping. Generation after generation, it goes on forever. Although it is selfish, it still walks on the road of dedication.
This year's Men's Singles semi-finals were very strange. There was a huge difference in expectations between the two games.
Luo Jiu vs Sun Tianlong, the audience's expected value voted 93%.
Wang Chao vs Lin Zijun, the audience's expected value voted 7%.
Yes, it's that outrageous.
No one wants to see Wang Chao fight Lin Zijun. Everyone agrees that this is a game with a clear winner.
As for Luo Jiu playing Sun Tianlong, although the vast majority of the audience is optimistic about Sun Tianlong, they still want to watch, not to see the outcome, but just to watch the process.
Countless people wrote analysis articles on the Internet before the game, but no one could tell clearly how the game would turn out. This scene was almost the same as the World Table Tennis Championships final two months ago.
Don't forget, at that time, even people like Qin Huachang, who were like masters in the world, said that he could not predict at all and everything depended on on-the-spot performance.
But now two months later, Luo Jiu is as excited as taking medicine, while Sun Tianlong calmed everyone down through the first two shocking fights, beating Zhang Benkuang's prestige is no longer good, and Pike is asking for a shave. It can be said that even those fat guys who don't understand football can see that these two people are definitely in much better condition than World Table Tennis Championships.
How good is this game?
The audience couldn't even imagine it.
At this time, some viewers want to ask, when 16 goes into 8 and 8 goes into 4, there are many games that seem to have a clear winner. Why are the fans so excited about betting on both sides? Now it's Wang Chao's turn to beat Lin Zijun. Lin Zijun is so powerful, but you said that only 7% of the people want to watch this game. Are you going to blatantly engage in shady manipulation against us Little Lin? Is the protagonist your biological son?
Yes, the protagonist is of course the author's own son, but the author can still explain why this is the case.
After all, this is America's home turf.
When the semifinals turned into a pure Asian civil war, the fans naturally pulled away their partiality emotions. When they regained their senses, wasn't the situation of the game obvious?
Lin Zijun was beaten by Wang Chao many times this year, from Men's Singles to mixed doubles, and then from mixed doubles back to Men's Singles.
According to rumors, when the mixed doubles competition first started, Taiwan Island Combination asked Tang Dynasty Combination to be a sparring partner in order to deal with Kimchi Combination. That night, Lin Zijun was bullied miserably by Wang Chao.
All the public competitions + gossip + clues are enough to prove that the showdown between these two 18-year-old most powerful geniuses of the contemporary era is not actually a battle of fate, but a cat-and-mouse battle.
There are no twin stars in the world table tennis world. Only one star of Huaping's Unrivaled Divine Dragon shines, and the rest are dim.
It can only be said that if there is a forest, how can there be a super?
The competition was about to begin, and the host was still announcing the contestants impassionedly and briefly introducing the honors of each contestant. At this time, Luo Jiu asked He Jingping next to him, "Teacher, can you give me some advice?"
Today is a civil war, and off-field coaching is not allowed. Since Qin Huachang is no longer on Sun Tianlong's side, He Jingping has temporarily served as off-field coaching for the past few games. As for today, everyone naturally relies on their own abilities.
But Luo Jiu has something to ask for. He Jingping is not a saint after all. He still feels sorry for his great disciple.
It's just that he really couldn't give any advice, because he was sitting in his room thinking about it for a long time yesterday, and in the end he couldn't come up with a reason.
At this moment, Comrade Old He felt that instead of asking Luo Jiu him, it would be more meaningful to ask Wang Chao.
So he asked directly, "What did Junior Brother You say?"
"He said to let me fight hard." Luo Jiu smiled bitterly, "Teacher, I also know how to fight hard, but I also want some opportunistic ways... You know, I am a shameless person. As long as I can win, I will use any trick."
He Jingping stared at him for a long time, until the host called Luo Jiu's name, and couldn't wait any longer, he reached out and patted Luo Jiu on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Then I will give you two words as well."
Luo Jiu As he walked forward along the passage, he turned around and shouted, "That's what you said."
He Jingping said loudly, "Just do your best, there is no other way."
Luo Jiu was stunned. His originally casual expression suddenly became fierce, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"
He strode onto the field, raised his hands, and enjoyed the roar of the crowd that was hard to come by on the road.
This game has nothing to do with nationality, everyone wants to see the peak of the game.
On the other side, Sun Tianlong walked in calmly. Compared to Luo Jiu, he looked extremely calm.
In this peak showdown, the host naturally wanted to make trouble and put the microphone in front of Luo Jiu: "Are you confident?"
Luo Jiu roared, "Yes."
The host asked, "How much confidence do you have?"
Luo Jiu hesitated for a moment and said, "Eight points."
So the audience clapped and shouted wildly, and there were even people beating drums, which made the stadium full of excitement and deafening.
The host asked Sun Tianlong again, "How confident are you?"
Sun Tianlong smiled, and his tone was as steady as ever. "Like him, it's also an eight score."
The audience went even crazier and beat the drum as hard as they could, as if they wanted to pierce their eardrums. When they heard the two people giving exactly the same answers, they naturally felt that this was the most typical, passionate, neutral and targeted tit-for-tat.
Strong against strong, head-to-head, the smell of gunpowder is immediately full, and it's about to start. Is your blood hot?
But Wang Chao, who was quietly watching the battle, sighed silently at this moment.
He knew that the fans had misunderstood.
These two people are talking about eight-point confidence, but in fact they are completely different.
The senior brother is a big talker. Although he has no confidence in his heart, he tries his best to cheer himself up. If he says eight points, then his real confidence must be only five points. He is just hypnotizing himself.
But Sun Tianlong has a calm temperament, is reserved, low-key and humble. If he says eight points, then I'm afraid what he really thinks is nine points.
In this way, the difference is huge.
"Do your best, senior brother." Wang Chao prayed silently in his heart. "Work hard for your Olympic Games Men's Singles silver medal."
"You make it to the finals, so I can win the gold medal."
Luo Jiu is working hard.
From the first ball of the first game, he put on a desperate posture.
But Sun Tianlong didn't tolerate him, and Sun Tianlong was also trying his best.
It's just that Luo Jiu's eyes are red, and he thinks that he will be successful if he doesn't succeed, and he will fight without success.
What Sun Tianlong wants is to finally be able to let go and be happy. Although he is working hard, he is in a happy mood. He just wants a hearty battle and doesn't care about winning or losing.
The successful guesser is Luo Jiu.
He served the most cautious short backspin, but Sun Tianlong directly overturned the table, fought unreasonably, and successfully scored with the overthrow.
Luo Jiu sent another short backspin, which was shorter and lower than before. Sun Tianlong carefully swung it short and was almost invulnerable. However, Luo Jiu was not unreasonable in fighting and also successfully scored with a sudden attack.
Neither of them has top speed and cannot play Super Speed Defense Mode like Lin Zijun, and because both sides have too many skills, there is no way to predict the opponent's ball path. In this case, facing the opponent They couldn't guard against Fang's Unreasonable Shot and violent attacks that exploded with all his strength. Since they couldn't guard against it, they simply attacked. You fight once, and I fight once. It's like you stabbed me with a sword, and the swords were all bloody.
Luo Jiu's serving round, one point is gained and one point is lost.
Sun Tianlong's serving round also gained one point and lost one.
Luo Jiu takes the right to serve again and still gains one point and loses one.
Sun Tianlong regained the right to serve and also gained one point and lost one.
The score was 4:4 in the blink of an eye. The pace of the battle between the two sides was suffocating. The most brutal thing is that until now, no ball has lasted more than two rounds.
Either one move is fatal, or one move is fatal after a transition.
Everyone chose to challenge on the stage, no one chose to challenge conventionally, and no one tried to bet on the angle of the opponent's challenge.
But this involves a very critical factor called "error rate."
You need to find the right moment to initiate a challenge on the table, and these two people's ability to control the ball is already extremely strong. Theoretically speaking, the ball they send out and the ball they swing past does not have an angle of attack.
But there happens to be something that can break the conventional theory, called "Unreasonable Shot".
Therefore, the two players played unreasonable shots, and the shots they took were all shots that should not be possible. After playing four balls in one breath, the success rate of the two sides was 100%.
The fans couldn't understand the thousand-layer game between these two people, but at least they understood how dangerous the goal was. It can be said that both sides were following the path of sealing the throat with a sword.
Then everyone is equivalent to understanding this ball - what you don't understand are only the details, but what you understand are the fundamental principles.
Because they understood, there was an eerie silence in the gym at this moment. Everyone clenched their fists, stretched their necks, widened their eyes, and held their breath, fearing that their shouts would affect the stability of the two people in the field.
Because they know that to play this kind of Unreasonable Shot, the power, rotation, and angle must be controlled to the subtle limit. Maybe the slightest disturbance will break this balance and cause technical fluctuations-maybe the players on the field are not so fragile, but the audience is worried about this.
Luo Jiu served, Sun Tianlong directly attacked and killed him.
Luo Jiu finally changed his tactics and sent a bottom line Bullet Serve.
Sun Tianlong turned sideways and directly attacked, then the second plate exploded, the third plate exploded, the fourth plate exploded, and the fifth plate exploded, killing him.
The stadium went from silence to boiling in an instant, and everyone jumped up like crazy.
A full five-board explosion, what a terrifying explosive power this is.
Is this something that a man in his thirties who has suffered from injuries all year round can achieve?
Sun Tianlong has been famous for a long time and is invincible in the world. Fans thought that they had clearly analyzed Sun Tianlong's various skills, but they just couldn't beat him. But now they suddenly discovered that Sun Tianlong actually has hidden tricks.
Normal professional players only need three boards before their balance breaks down. Wang Chao hit four boards against Zhu Shixian before, which surprised everyone. But after all, Wang Chao is still young and strong, but Sun Tianlong is already old. How can he have five boards?
He really does, and it's extremely powerful, enough to kill people like Luo Jiu.
This is the first time the score has opened up, with Sun Tianlong leading 6:4.
Sun Tianlong gets the right to serve.
This game showed some strange counter-logic for these two people. The law of "serve advantage" was exactly reversed for these two people.
Whoever serves, the opponent will attack. As long as the attack is successful, there is a high possibility of scoring.
The key here is not the attack, but the success rate of the fight.
A fight with a 100% success rate cannot be called a fight. It should be called a conventional technique. Only a technique with a success rate of 50% or even lower can be called a fight.
So what Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong showed at this time essentially broke through the conventional theoretical basis of contemporary table tennis. If in the future, with the overall improvement of human physical fitness, there will be a large number of similar Hook and Lin Zijun If there are freaks like E, then the basic theory of table tennis may be rewritten, and today's battle between Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong may be taken out and re-researched in that era, and it will perfectly conform to the logic of table tennis games of that era.
Sun Tianlong served with short backspin, and Luo Jiu scored with a sudden attack.
6:5.
Sun Tianlong's hair is long and downward, Luo Jiu's hair is forced into an arc.
Sun Tianlong reverse pull.
Luo Jiu is right.
Sun Tianlong charges sideways with a forehand.
Luo Jiu moves in the opposite direction and hits hard with his backhand.
Sun Tianlong racket is a direct attack.
Luo Jiu backspins the ball sideways, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Sun Tianlong also retreated from the stage, waited for the ball to fall, fished out the moon from the bottom of the sea, and fished out a ball with a large curve visible to the naked eye.
Luo Jiu hits the forehand again.
Sun Tianlong Forcibly reverse pull with forehand.
Luo Jiu Pull again.
Sun Tianlong Pull again.
Luo Jiu Pull again.
Sun Tianlong Pull again.
The audience who had just sat down left the table again, stood up in unison, and began to count neatly. "One, two, three, four, five, wow!"
What they saw was a scene they had seen countless times in major competitions within Europe: a forehand stalemate on the COSCO table.
Asian players don't like to play this kind of simple and crude stalemate, but Europeans like it very much. All European games have many rounds, and the audience is also happy to watch this kind of big scene.
But the reason why the Mexico City local audience was excited was not because the ball was played in a European style, but because Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong were in the same position this time. In the high-intensity and high-variation duel, first of all, through mutual mobilization and continuous changes of moves, they each hit a super ball, namely Luo Jiu's far-office side cut and Sun Tianlong's far-office sea fishing.
But the two super balls were so common in the hands of these two people that they couldn't even cause a ripple. It developed calmly to the later stage, and the two began to fight forehands from the far table with all their strength.
Note that the most important word here is the word "full force".
They didn't have any transitional version. Although both of them were running and using their left and right hands, they actually kept charging at full strength.
Sun Tianlong had just proved his terrifying explosive power in the previous ball, and Luo Jiu quickly responded with a five-board attack, pushing back Sun Tianlong's offensive momentum.
At this time, Sun Tianlong actually changed his moves in advance. In such a long distance, the racket turned up, with a sense of stickiness to the ball, and barely carried the ball.
This is a transition ball.
He can no longer burst forward, which also proves that he is still a human being after all, not a god. His limit is only five rebounds.
Luo Jiu's face turned red.
Essentially speaking, he is not a brute force player, but rather tall. Although he is four years younger than Sun Tianlong, his physical fitness is actually not as good as Sun Tianlong after recovering from injuries.
So in fact, strictly speaking, his limit is only four boards.
He really risked his life, he didn't care about anything, he must withstand the ball and fight for this breath.
He will never forget that before he went into battle, both his master and his junior brother said the same two words to him: fight hard.
If you want to win, you can only fight hard, because when the whole world doesn't know who is stronger or weaker between him and Sun Tianlong, He Jingping and Wang Chao, two sensible people, have clearly told him in a more subtle way: Sun Tianlong is better than you.
Luo Jiu is actually not afraid of losing, because Fan Xiaoxian has been comforting him, relieving his stress, telling him that winning or losing does not matter and does not affect anything other than the game.
But he still wants to win. This is due to his damn desire to win and unfounded pride as a man.
He just wanted to use an Olympic gold medal as a betrothal gift when marrying his wife.
He just felt that this thing was the best betrothal gift in his mind, even though Fan Xiaoxian had already expressed that he preferred a simple bouquet of roses.
So this fifth board really drained his body and made him a little bit overwhelmed.
But when Sun Tianlong's transition plate came over, he still surged out the remaining strength from the deepest part of all flesh and bones. This strength is like the last drop of milky white liquid squeezed out after completely flattening the box when we drink yogurt and pinching all the gaps with our fingers. This is the stock scraped out by Luo Jiu's bone marrow.
There really isn't a drop more left.
He used his racket to drive his body and swung the board over, then his legs softened and he knelt down in front of the table.
It was very funny and embarrassing, and made the audience burst into laughter. Many people were confused and had no idea what was going on.
But this ball finally killed Sun Tianlong.
6:6.
Although they were in a complete mess, Luo Jiu was able to regain the score in the end.
Sun Tianlong ran over to pick up the ball. When he came back, his eyes touched Luo Jiu lightly and he smiled slightly.
He liked this atmosphere very much.
He can see Luo Jiu's efforts, and he appreciates them very much.
So, next he will take action for real.
Sun Tianlong is certainly not a pervert, but after crushing the dreams of countless non-Chinese associations super geniuses in the past seven years, today he is still subconsciously feeling sincerely excited because he is about to crush a super genius from Huaping.
Non-Chinese associations's chickens and dogs never let him enjoy himself to the fullest. He occasionally lost, but only to his body and time.
But today Luo Jiu's toughness finally succeeded in arousing the desire to win and lose that had been dormant for many years in his body.
"I will do my best to defeat you. This is my greatest recognition for you."
"It's just that you might be a little miserable."
"Because I was using a normal fighting style just now, and from now on, I am going to target you. I can't let your good brother Hook waste a night in vain, right?"
"So, are you ready?"
Sun Tianlong didn't know that at this moment, thousands of miles away, Qin Huachang, who was theoretically already asleep, was secretly holding his cell phone and covering his head, hiding under the quilt, holding his breath and staring at the screen, waiting to see what would happen next.
Qin Huachang couldn't help it after all.
Because in his mind, this game has another meaning.
This is the most outstanding disciple of the Qin Clan vs. (one of) the most outstanding disciples of the Zhu Clan.
After more than half a year of anchoring career and more than half a year of being ascetic, Old Qin has downplayed a lot of concerns about gains and losses, but his competitive spirit has never been downplayed from beginning to end.
He has to win the portal battle.
He touched his heart.
In fact, after watching this game, Qin Huachang could already see that Sun Tianlong had a great chance of winning, but he still felt a faint throbbing in his heart, which made him have to take advantage of the short time before serving to close his eyes and calm down his mood a little.
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