On the court, Sun Tianlong clenched his fists and roared, cheering himself up, and trotted around his half of the court with a light body.
Sun Tianlong naturally does not have the problem of delaying the game time. He is just keeping his body active, his mind active and his fighting spirit high.
Then Sun Tianlong serves, short backspin.
Luo Jiu swings short and suppresses the backhand.
Sun Tianlong swings back and suppresses the backhand.
Luo Jiu swings short and suppresses the backhand.
Sun Tianlong swings back again, pressing the backhand.
The situation suddenly returned to exactly the same situation as before.
Luo Jiu groaned in his heart, knowing that this would not work, so he took the initiative to put the ball to Sun Tianlong's forehand position. What happened was Sun Tianlong's unceremonious forehand pick, followed by three consecutive board blasts, then a high-angle dip ball, and once again killed Luo Jiu from the front.
9:6.
Sun Tianlong serves and continues short backspin.
Luo Jiu feels a little numb...
He really doesn't want to compete with Sun Tianlong on the backhand, but the problem is that Sun Tianlong is really good at seizing opportunities. If it were someone else, he might be happy with the backhand and ignore other factors, and would keep pressing. But Sun Tianlong is not. He will take action as long as he seizes the slightest chance, and he can really kill someone once he takes action.
Therefore, if you dare to put him on the forehand position if you play short, he can either fight or attack from a regular attack to a continuous attack. With his hard power, there is more than 90% chance that he can really kill you.
But if you put him in a backhand position, he will fight with you on the backhand. This is another road of no return. To follow the previous metaphor, this is taking off his pants and exposing his weaknesses to the world's audience, and it is exposed for a long time. The pants will not be pulled up until the ball is over.
The above describes the situation of Sun Tianlong serving.
But when it was Luo Jiu's turn to serve, the situation was even worse.
If he dares to do a short underspin, it is equivalent to continuing to take off his pants.
But if he dares to Sneak Long Serve, Sun Tianlong will still attack immediately, and there is still more than 90% chance of killing you.
This...
No solution...
In fact, any technical and tactical system has loopholes. The difference is that some systems have big loopholes, some systems have small loopholes, some system loopholes cannot be made up, and some system loopholes are fleeting. In short, there is no perfect system in this world.
So what Luo Jiu really can't figure out is how Sun Tianlong can control himself so accurately?
If this is playing cards, then Sun Tianlong is simply watching the cards in Luo Jiu's hand being played.
With a "pop" sound, Luo Jiu was beaten to death again, 10:6.
Luo Jiu takes back the right to serve.
He took advantage of the gap before serving to think desperately, trying to figure out what went wrong. The harder he thought, the stronger the reaction from a certain good brother. Hook sat in the stands and sneezed seven or eight times in a row, with tears and mucus coming out of his nose.
Then the referee blew the whistle to urge Luo Jiu to have no further delay and decided to serve a high toss ball.
High throws can improve the quality of the serve and create greater pressure on the receiving side. Two months ago in the World Table Tennis Championships final, he and Wang Chao exchanged high throws and had a large-scale game.
This time he wanted to try again.
Sun Tianlong: Try and die.
After Luo Jiu threw it high, it was a long backspin from the bottom line. Sun Tianlong chose to directly lift the ball and forcefully pull forward to loop the ball. This is a situation where he doesn't even want the transition board and just wants to kill him with one board.
When he successfully pulls a high-quality serve with such strong spin into an aggressive forward loop, half the battle is won.
The next step is just to blast through a few more boards and penetrate Luo Jiu.
The score of the first game was finally fixed at 11:6. After Luo Jiu played well for half the game, it plummeted.
In the stands, Wang Chao sighed silently, feeling a little regretful.
He already understood the game, so he knew that he had no chance.
If Sun Tianlong beats Luo Jiu, then Sun Tianlong will win the gold medal, because he will not play against Sun Tianlong. This is something he decided more than half a year ago.
Of course he would not choose to admit defeat at the last moment in the finals. This would discredit himself, Sun Tianlong, and Huaping. He is not stupid enough yet.
He will do something more subtle, such as... losing to Lin Zijun later?
A super genius like Lin Zijun has a good personality and a good temper. The most important thing is that he has always regarded himself as his best friend. So, letting him enter the finals to win a Olympic Games Men's Singles silver medal can be regarded as a little compensation for the calculations he had made against him.
Wang Chao Thinking like this, he got up and left, going to the table next door to warm up.
He felt it was a good time to start warming up because the game was going to be fast.
Sun Tianlong This time Olympic Games really wants to explode with all his strength, so he will not deliberately give Luo Jiu face. He will definitely use his overwhelming power to hit as fast as he can and as hard as he can. Before he retires, he will set an invincible record in the world table tennis world that will make people laugh.
Sun Tianlong naturally has a desire to win. If Double Grand Slam is his ultimate goal, then in addition, he actually has a small goal: he hopes to tie the record of "win all games with zero seals" created by Wang Chao in July this year on German Open.
It's a pity that although Men's Doubles won the championship, he lost a small game.
Then Men's Singles and Sun Tianlong don't plan to lose any more games.
During the warm-up, Wang Chao was actually a little confused. Like Luo Jiu, he could see that Sun Tianlong had completely understood Luo Jiu.
He couldn't figure out why.
But he admired a strategy implemented by Sun Tianlong when targeting Luo Jiu.
This strategy is called "grab the big and let go the small."
Wang Chao himself was also targeted with high intensity. It was Hong Kong Open in February this year. The whole of Europe united to target him. From his playing habits to his behavioral habits to his tactical habits, he was exposed to everything and almost beat him to death.
It seems that that is an exhaustive and all-round approach.
But at that time Wang Chao had already felt the huge gap between coach non-Chinese associations and the Huaping coaching staff.
This gap comes from vision and height, rather than specific technical details.
The European coaches' targets were too complicated, and the tactics they formulated were also too complicated. As a result, they clearly had three candidates, but in the end only Bayer could execute this set of targeted tactics. The other two were actually unable to execute them because of insufficient skills.
This is ridiculous.
Whether a set of tactics is good or not, the final criterion should be its versatility. Tactics that everyone can use are good tactics.
In fact, the reason why Bayer was so successful in the first half but was a complete mess in the second half was not just because of his lack of physical strength, nor just because Wang Chao was too tough, but the most important reason was that the tactics were too complicated and had too many points, which really consumed Bayer's too much energy and brain power.
A veteran who was running for four, engaged in such a complicated tactic, but in the end, he failed to even take advantage of his original advantages.
Sun Tianlong is completely different from Luo Jiu.
Let's not talk about how he analyzed Luo Jiu so thoroughly. Let's just talk about his specific approach. In fact, it is just one thing: finding the essential weakness of Luo Jiu.
Just this is enough.
He doesn't have to think about Luo Jiu's habitual movements when playing, and then target them.
He doesn't have to study how Luo Jiu will handle a specific situation, and then predict it in advance, or engage in things like "I predicted your prediction" that may seem high-end but are equally cumbersome.
There is no need for him to compete with Luo Jiu for things like speed, efficiency, and reaction ability. Even if he has been recuperating for half a year, he may not lose if he competes with Luo Jiu.
Sun Tianlong uses the least labor-intensive targeting method, and it is also the most strategic targeting method.
He represents Huaping's vision and highest wisdom.
As long as Luo Jiu's backhand is perfectly suppressed, Luo Jiu will become a monkey under Tathagata Buddha's hand. No matter how much he jumps around, he can't change the overall situation.
Therefore, in fact, Geng Shuai's guess just now was wrong after all.
The reason why Sun Tianlong only presses but not fights is not entirely because of the mentality of Luo Jiu, nor does he really want to teach others how to fight Luo Jiu.
Sun Tianlong just feels that since I have found your weakness, I must use an impeccable attitude to deal with it to the end. Even if I discover a new weakness, there is no need to force it.
Because what he wants is to grasp the big and let go of the small, and to grasp the fundamental contradiction until the end.
As for you saying that fighting like this takes a lot of time?
Does it matter?
The completeness of tactics in theory and the perfect execution of tactics in actual combat are the surest ways to win.
The game is still going on.
The audience began to cheer enthusiastically. Sometimes they stood up and applauded, sometimes marveled, sometimes lamented, sometimes shook their heads, sometimes whistled, sometimes beat drums, which shows that the battle must be quite exciting.
Wang Chao didn't watch the aftermath of the game. He was warming up and his sparring partner was Fan Xiaodong.
He warmed up for twenty minutes, then heard a long whistle and knew the game was over.
The referee announced quickly and the big screen also gave the specific score.
Sun Tianlong 4:0 Luo Jiu.
11:6 in the first game.
11:4 in the second game.
11:2 in the third game.
11:1 in the fourth game.
Both of them were recognized as players sitting on the ceiling, but the final score was a disparity that no one in the world had ever imagined.
When the final results were announced, when the host announced in a slightly broken voice that Sun Tianlong had entered the finals, the audience in the venue almost reached a collective climax.
It was a hysterical orgy.
When the god who had been invincible for seven years untied all the shackles on his body and began to bloom with all his strength, everyone realized that this man was not a god-like man, he was the true god, Ping-Pong God.
It can be said that what Sun Tianlong has played in these three days of competition has become more exaggerated and terrifying day by day. At this moment, it has reached its most intense peak, making his whole body shine with dazzling brilliance.
He didn't want to build momentum, but the momentum he accumulated in the past three days exceeded the one-month accumulation of Luo Jiu World Table Tennis Championships.
No one can imagine what the concept of playing Luo Jiu 11:1 is.
The specific process of the game was actually not as exciting as everyone expected, because starting from the second game, Sun Tianlong's tactics became very monotonous. He suppressed the backhand all the way and pressed from the beginning. He quietly suppressed, quietly waited for Luo Jiu to struggle, and then suppressed all Luo Jiu's struggles.
It's that simple.
Luo Jiu once forced a large lateral displacement and tried to violently break the game with his forehand, but failed.
Luo Jiu once exchanged the front and back of the racket on the spot, trying to break the game with the backhand loop ball he had practiced in the past seven years, but failed.
Luo Jiu once tried to disrupt Sun Tianlong's suppressive rhythm with continuous backhand kicks and fast moves, but failed.
Luo Jiu once took the initiative to hit the ball high, but tried hard to lose the initiative and destroy Sun Tianlong's control of the ball, but failed.
Let you change in a thousand ways, I will only suppress you at one point, from the first game to the fourth game, until you die.
Facts have proved that when you are caught in a fundamental flaw and cannot make up for it, then the power of love has its limits.
In the last game, Luo Jiu collapsed shamefully.
No one laughed at him because anyone would collapse in such a situation.
If you are forcibly penetrated by the other party, you will not actually be depressed, you will only be desperate.
Only this feeling of boiling a frog in warm water, knowing that you will die but waiting for death, like cutting flesh with a dull knife, cutting into thousands of pieces, dying slowly, can really drive people crazy.
When the final game reached 10:0, Sun Tianlong conceded a goal as usual, and viewers around the world could see it.
Luo Jiu accepted Sun Tianlong's kindness somewhat numbly.
At that moment, Hook, who was sitting in the stands, shivered and suddenly felt a little scared. He was thinking whether he should secretly call Sun Tianlong during lunch break and tell him that he must never let Luo Jiu know about his backstabbing.
Thousands of miles away, Qin Huachang turned off his mobile phone and lay contentedly on the quilt. He gently touched his heart with his hand, feeling the slightly rapid heartbeat there. He took a long breath, smiled in the silent dark night, and then fell asleep.