Luo Jiu serves with short backspin, Sun Tianlong chooses to swing short.
This is the most common scene in professional leagues, but the audience breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed their always tense bodies a little.
The ball was played too fiercely in the first half of the game. Both sides were not even willing to make a short swing. They fought right away and fought until death. It was like a movie with a climax from beginning to end. It was refreshing, but it was too labor-intensive.
Usually, fans hope to watch the game as exciting as possible, but now the audience hopes that both sides can slow down a little and let us viewers take a breath. Otherwise, what if there are a few more heart disease patients?
Sun Tianlong swung short, Luo Jiu also swung short, then Sun Tianlong swung again, Luo Jiu swung back, four rounds passed in the blink of an eye, both sides unanimously chose to cease fighting at this moment, and entered the rational stalemate stage from the fighting stage.
This is very reasonable.
Even though both sides have an unbelievably high fighting success rate, fighting itself is not a stable skill after all. As the saying goes, it can only be done once or twice, and the two people's 100% fighting success rate just now was entirely based on one breath. At the same time, it was also because the game had just begun and everyone's energy and spirit were at their absolute peak, so this state must not last long.
Otherwise, this would turn from sports into fantasy again.
Of course, these two people are also particular about their short swings.
Regarding the clichés of "turning enough", "low enough" and "close enough", we will not explain too much. Based on the technical structure of both parties, the short swing of Luo Jiu must be towards Sun Tianlong He went for the backhand, because he knew that Sun Tianlong, an older generation player with a traditional playing style, must have a better forehand than a backhand. For this, Wang Chao had proven it with actual actions in March this year.
And Sun Tianlong should of course hit Luo Jiu's forehand. After all, what Luo Jiu is currently most praised by the world table tennis community is his backhand bounce. According to International Table Tennis Federation's technical statistics of all international competitions this year, 67.5% of Luo Jiu's scores were also through backhand bounce.
But Sun Tianlong had to backhand Luo Jiu.
This is because he knows that Luo Jiu's backhand is not a strength, but a weakness.
The reason why the world table tennis world is afraid of Luo Jiu's backhand is because, on the one hand, the conversion of the hitting attributes of the forehand and backhand is too abrupt and difficult to adapt to. On the other hand, it is also because Luo Jiu's backhand is an unpopular technique, and all the players who have grown up in the new generation cannot adapt to it. After all, when they first started practicing at the age of six or seven, raw rubber particles were already eliminated.
But don't forget, Luo Jiu still uses He Jingping's double-sided loop ball attack system with no blind spots in Taiwan.
The core of this system is still the word "arc circle".
Luo Jiu's backhand does not have a loop, only a bounce, but the bounce cannot pull the ball or create friction, so the ball must be higher than the horizontal line of the net before he can bounce. This is a hard requirement.
And the reason why he always gets the chance to hit backhand is because he creates opportunities for himself by relying on the forehand loop.
If Luo Jiu is compared to a sports car, then its backhand can be the best tires, the best braking device, the best streamlined shell, the best driver and the best technology, but its forehand must be the irreplaceable heart of this car: the engine.
Daoism says that two give birth to two, two give rise to three, and three give rise to all things, so all things in the world come from one.
For Luo Jiu, all his technical and tactical systems are launched through the forehand loop.
After all, serving is a forehand, swinging short is a forehand, rubbing the ball is a forehand, pulling the ball sideways, pulling the ball in the center, and cutting sideways from the far table are all forehands.
It seems that his backhand particles are amazing, but in fact, 90% of the techniques in Luo Jiu's technical and tactical system are completed through the forehand, and the original forehand rubber of the Super Luo racket is still used.
Originally, Sun Tianlong had a vague understanding of these principles, but not so thoroughly. After all, he had not personally verified them with Luo Jiu.
But with the help of Hook, he was 100% sure of it.
So he saw through the core essence of Luo Jiu's entire technical and tactical system, and the rest was just for targeting.
Cai Guodong once commented that Sun Tianlong's fight was like tying up hairy crabs. At first, the opponent showed his teeth and claws, and Sun Tianlong could only avoid its sharp edges. But when the battle progressed, Sun Tianlong slowly tied up the opponent's crab claws with twists and turns of rope. In the end, the opponent turned into a lamb to be slaughtered.
This is what Sun Tianlong wants to do.
Since the ever-changing core of Luo Jiu is still the forehand loop, then wouldn't it be enough not to let him loop?
You see, no matter how high-end the technology is or how high the competition is, in the final analysis, the key strategic points can still be summarized in one sentence.
So the audience saw a very strange scene. When Luo Jiu tried hard to suppress Sun Tianlong's backhand, Sun Tianlong also began to continuously suppress Luo Jiu's backhand.
This ball is very interesting. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen rounds have passed. Each short swing of the two sides is at a wide angle close to the opponent's backhand. The same movements and postures are repeated over and over again. It looks like some kind of martial arts special effect that repeats three times.
After ten rounds, Luo Jiu finally returned the ball and went high.
In the end, his short ball inside the table couldn't beat Sun Tianlong.
Sun Tianlong can perform a backhand twist on the table. Although he doesn't use this technique very much, he has practiced it. At this time, the ball is high and very close to the net. He only needs to circle the table slightly and lean forward to twist hard. He can use the force smoothly and have at least half a chance of directly killing Luo Jiu.
But he still refused to take action. He just put the ball back steadily, and he and Luo Jiu continued to enter the long stage of pressing each other's backhands.
Another eight rounds passed, and Luo Jiu returned the ball high again.
He was already prepared for the opponent to attack. He subconsciously took a half-step back with one leg and shifted his weight back slightly. Once Sun Tianlong had the intention to attack, he would quickly step back to buffer.
But Sun Tianlong seemed to have never seen it before and still put the ball back steadily.
There was a brief buzz in the auditorium, and the audience was not impatient. After all, after they recognized that this was a super showdown, even if the scene was too dull, they would not really feel dull. At most, they would feel "It's my fault, I can't understand the advanced game." Of course, some people will think "It's anchor Qin's fault. It's reasonable for us not to understand, but he has no professional ethics if he doesn't live broadcast."
And somewhere in the auditorium, there are some familiar people sitting, Fan Xiaoxian, Fan Xiaofan, Wang Mei, Wang Zhongzhu, Wu Li, Geng Shuai...
It must be explained here that the reason why Fan Xiaofan is here is because he has the responsibility of supervision to prevent Luo Jiu from getting too close to his sister before marriage. This mentality is somewhat similar to "preventing pigs from outside from easily getting into my little cabbage."
Wang Mei and Wang Zhongzhu were invited by Fan Xiaoxian to eat, drink and travel abroad.
Wu Li was specially brought by Fan Xiaoxian to serve as a preliminary sparring partner for Luo Jiu.
As for Geng Shuai, he came with the group at his own expense.
After all, Lao Fan's family is not a charity, so they don't really want to invite the ordinary team members of Spade Q to travel abroad. Their efforts to win over Wang Chao's family are emotional investments, and their efforts to win over Wu Li are for future planning, and they can win over Geng Shuai...
A new generation replaces an old one, because only the new generation laughs. We have to admit that I, Brother Geng, have no win-win value now...
Fortunately, I, Brother Geng, have money, so I came here at my own expense to cheer up my good brother.
He and Wang Chao are real good brothers who have taken off their clothes together and fought together. They are different from the plastic brothers Luo Jiu and Hook who hurt each other.
In short, at this moment, Fan Xiaoxian couldn't understand the situation and turned to ask others.
Wu Li shook his head. "It's meaningless. If it were me and he didn't hit me, I could fight with him all day long."
Fan Xiaofan shook his head. "I am the owner of the table tennis club, not the club coach, how do I know?"
On the contrary, Geng Shuai saw some clues. As one of the former six dragons, although he has fallen, his aura is still there. "Dragon Team must be following Xiaojiu's mentality, right?"
He was right.
In fact, after the technical transformation of Luo Jiu, no one in the European Forum proposed this tactical strategy of "suppressing Luo Jiu's backhand throughout the entire process." However, Luo Jiu, like Sun Tianlong, is also a master of technical flow. The only thing he is weaker than Sun Tianlong is that his technical closed loop is slightly smaller than Sun Tianlong.
But among the contemporary players in the world table tennis world, except for Wang Chao, there is really no player who has reached the master level technically. The most shining Hook and Lin Zijun currently rely on super talent to make a living, while Pike relies on "one trick" to make a living. When it comes to skills, For the technique flow, Bayer must belong to the older generation. After Bayer, Wolf also wanted to take this path, but failed. Finally, under the suggestion of Rohlskov, he embarked on the route of half technical flow and half strength flow. The later Sissifield was purely mindless and violent.
Therefore, in the large and small competitions that Luo Jiu has participated in in the past six months, the opponent has suppressed his backhand, but really can't. This situation is the same as when they tried to suppress Sun Tianlong's backhand in the past seven years.
No one knew what Luo Jiu would look like after being completely suppressed with a backhand, until they saw the ball at this moment.
It turns out that Luo Jiu's backhand has such a big loophole.
After all, the rubber on the back of his racket cannot twist the ball, which theoretically makes him lose the possibility of attacking. The only way he can break the game is to use various techniques to disrupt the opponent's rhythm, break the opponent's control, and prevent the opponent from pinpointing the ball's landing point.
Luo Jiu could do this against anyone else, but he couldn't do it against Sun Tianlong.
So now Luo Jiu is in an extremely embarrassing situation of "I can only defend but not attack".
The two flaws he exposed in a row were actually intentional.
Although his short ball in the table is slightly weaker than Sun Tianlong, it is not so easy to go high when the opponent has no effort. The reason why he deliberately goes high is to let Sun Tianlong rush to attack and break this embarrassing deadlock.
He would rather retreat and bear the explosive charge of Sun Tianlong, even if he loses this point, it doesn't matter.
Because of the stalemate in front of him, his weaknesses were completely exposed, but the ball never ended, so his weaknesses were exposed in front of everyone and criticized. This feeling was like he was forced to take off his clothes, but he couldn't cover them up, and he had to be dragged out and paraded on the street. This feeling was very uncomfortable.
At the same time, this is very much like a teaching program. The name of the program is "Sun Tianlong teaches you how to play Luo Jiu". The students attending the class are professional players from all over the world.
Whether you can learn it or not is another matter, and whether you can do it or not is another matter. At least this theory is completely clear.
Therefore, it is actually the right choice for Luo Jiu to take the initiative to expose his flaws and seek death.
But the problem is that he continuously exposed his flaws and Sun Tianlong just didn't attack, so he could only continue.
Then he didn't show his flaws intentionally, but he was really exposed.
But Sun Tianlong still doesn't attack.
He was like a smiling old cat, poking at the half-dead mouse with his paws, full of playful meaning.
Luo Jiu is going crazy.
He just swung the board randomly and hit the ball out of reach of the eight poles.
This is a gecko's survival by cutting off its tail.
7:6, Sun Tianlong leads the score again.
Luo Jiu continues to serve.
He was a little worried and didn't want to send a short underspin, so he chose to send Bullet Serve.
Sun Tianlong was of course not polite to him and rushed sideways.
Luo Jiu blocked.
Sun Tianlong rushes again.
Luo Jiu can resist again.
Sun Tianlong rushed on the third plate, then on the fourth plate, and then on the fifth plate, once again showing the amazing explosive power of this thirty-year-old body.
Luo Jiu were all blocked precariously.
But it was useless, because he had already stepped back three steps to block the five consecutive boards, but Sun Tianlong hit a close penalty kick on the sixth board, easily killing Luo Jiu.
8:6.