Lin Zijun is ready to fight.
This is the semi-final of this Olympic Games Men's Singles at 11:00 a. m. local time on December 18th in Mexico.
The successful guesser is Lin Zijun, which perfectly matches Coin Toss Law.
He is a proud young man with a heart as high as the sky, but he is not an arrogant young man who is blindly confident and does not know the heights of the sky.
He still has the dream of winning the Olympics and even winning Grand Slam, but at least in today's game with Wang Chao, he did not feel that the two sides were evenly matched opponents.
He is weaker than Wang Chao, which has been shown through various signs.
So he worked hard unconditionally.
As a player who has grown up smoothly, has no ambitious coach, and lacks fierceness himself, Lin Zijun was greatly touched when he watched the match between Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong today.
He originally thought that since it was a losing game, there was nothing to struggle with. He could just play casually, maintain the most basic face, and ensure that he didn't get bald in every round. Then... he didn't seek to win the game, but just wanted to hold on for a while longer in each round, make the scene more beautiful, and the score closer. That would be enough.
But now he felt that it didn't matter if he was bald or the situation was embarrassing. He had to win unconditionally.
After all, even people like Luo Jiu are working hard and getting up again and again in embarrassment, so what qualifications do I have to lower my requirements for myself?
Luo Jiu, who risked his life to win like that, was beaten 11:1 in the last game...
There are two semi-finals. The quality of the first game is obvious to all. Now it is the second game. Even if I don't think about myself, I still have to think about Wang Chao. This game must be of high quality no matter what, at least, it can be on par with the previous game.
Otherwise, facing a Sun Tianlong who has reached the peak of his potential, what should his good friend Wang Chao do to win?
So Lin Zijun has to work hard, not to win, but to be a good grindstone so that Wang Chao can sharpen the knife in his hand fast enough to fight Sun Tianlong in the finals, instead of being like Luo Jiu, who looks tough but is defeated hastily in the end.
Thinking about it this way, Lin Zijun found it quite interesting. Could it be that he and Wang Chao were in love and killed each other in some sense?
He served Bullet Serve Sneak Long Serve directly and landed on the Wang Chao backhand baseline.
He is now going all out to win, so naturally he is not willing to fight with Wang Chao in the ring anymore, for the reason I have mentioned many times before.
But precisely because the cause-and-effect relationship is too clear, his Sneak Long Serve is not actually a steal, but a trump card.
Wang Chao starts directly, turns sideways and pulls the forward loop ball with a forehand, actively exerting force.
The audience immediately let out low exclamations.
Everyone knows what Lin Zijun and Super Speed Defense Mode are most afraid of and what they like most. However, Wang Chao can obviously hit the ball that Lin Zijun is most afraid of, but he directly hits the ball that Lin Zijun likes most from the beginning.
He exerted force, and Lin Zijun naturally pushed the racket forward, trying to speed up.
Wang Chao does not retreat, and the racket also moves forward.
No one knows whether he was gambling, or whether he calculated the specific position of Lin Zijun based on Lin Zijun's behavior when he took action, or whether he reacted after seeing Lin Zijun's movements. In short, the two rackets hit him at the same time, and the two impact sounds from the collision of the ball and the racket sounded almost simultaneously.
Although the audience couldn't see clearly the trajectory of the ball at this moment, since they could hear the second impact, it certainly meant that Wang Chao successfully intercepted Lin Zijun's ball.
When I look at it again, Lin Zijun has retreated quickly, as fast as a ghost. If this world is not definitely materialistic and objective, then many people with Internet poisoning syndrome will probably feel that the spiritual energy of this world has revived.
Only then did the ball finally show its traces. It had already flown in front of Lin Zijun who was retreating, and was forcibly pulled over by Lin Zijun.
The quality of this pull is very average. After all, the power of Little Lin is slightly inferior to the original Wang Chao.
So Wang Chao once again got an opportunity to attack. He stepped back from the stage, turned sideways, opened up his posture, and made another forehand burst.
For Lin Zijun, the opponent's explosive charge was like a start signal, causing him to enter Super Speed Defense Mode again like a conditioned reflex. At this time, he was already the well-deserved leader in movement speed in the table tennis world. At this time, he was working hard, and his speed was extremely fast. He took two steps forward with his feet and returned to the stage, but only his upper body seemed to flash. He raised his racket and gave another fierce blow.
Wang Chao accidentally raised the racket on the opposite side and also gave him a slap in the face.
"Pop!"
There were two more sounds in no particular order. Before the audience's brains and eyes could catch up, they discovered that Lin Zijun was madly retreating from the stage again, and then the little ball appeared and came to Lin Zijun again.
"Wow!" the audience shouted in unison.
Obviously, Wang Chao once again intercepted Lin Zijun's super-fast return ball.
Lin Zijun's steps this time were a little pretentious.
No matter how fast he is, he can't withstand this kind of tossing. Besides, he is not a powerful player, which means that the stability and balance of his lower body are not very good. So now his upper body is shaking. Facing the ball that has already rushed in front of him, he does not choose to pull the ball sideways, but hastily picks it up.
Once this high ball is released, in this world-class peak duel, it is basically a slow death.
Because it is difficult for any professional player to make mistakes when hitting high balls, and after a ball of this height is smashed, the inclination angle will be very small when it bounces off the table, almost vertically, which is beyond the scope of the Lin Zijun method of hard hitting the ball in the table.
So of course, even though Lin Zijun took three rounds with great difficulty and retreated seven or eight steps away, he was eventually beaten to death by Wang Chao head-on.
1:0, Wang Chao leads.
In other games, the most colorful part of this ball must be the last consecutive high ball, because this is a truly big scene, but now the audience has improved their vision, so when the ball is over, they are whispering and discussing, but the core of the discussion is on another point: How did Wang Chao catch the Lin Zijun ball?
Lin Zijun's Super Speed Defense Mode has been praised as the best defense in the world since the day it was born. Essentially, this is because the return kick produced in this way is so fast that it exceeds the limit of human reaction. Only Lin Zijun can react.
Therefore, this is the most perfect design to "use our strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses".
If Wang Chao only responded once, it can be said that it was through calculation and prediction. After all, in previous games, Wang Chao and Luo Jiu have successively demonstrated similar methods.
But Wang Chao responded twice in a row, and attacked fiercely from the beginning, making it clear that he was not afraid of Lin Zijun's hard attacks. This was like telling everyone directly: I have cracked Lin Zijun's moves.
How did it break?
Everyone wants to know.
At this moment, even the coaches of Huaping were whispering, such as He Jingping, who was responsible for off-field guidance, and Cai Guodong, the head coach of Huaping who was sitting behind He Jingping.
"You don't even know?" Cai Guodong was surprised.
He Jingping smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"You..." Cai Guodong reached out and tapped him twice, but didn't know what to say.
Old Cai was also a gold medal coach back then, and trained Grand Slam devils like Wang Wendong, so he also has a complete set of theories about teaching. According to his philosophy, coaches must know their students well, and He Jingping's treatment of Wang Chao is, to put it bluntly, pure breeding. Apart from providing emotional value and occasionally acting as a nanny, it is really not technically helpful at all. Cai Guodong actually can't stand this kind of behavior. He thinks it is irresponsible to put it lightly, and to put it seriously, it is called a vegetarian meal.
However, Wang Chao himself likes this model and has proven with practical actions that he can produce results, so Old Cai endures it even if he doesn't like it anymore, and does not want to interfere with other people's teaching styles based on his own likes and dislikes.
But your disciple quietly launched such a large satellite, and you didn't even know that he had this ability. This... is too much, my Coach He.
He Jingping's mind was not on this. Although Wang Chao had just hit a magic goal that fans all over the world could not understand, he didn't care much because he had known for a long time that Wang Chao would definitely win against Lin Zijun. It just depends on how he wants to win.
So what he really focuses on is: whether Wang Chao wants to win.
"Head coach, what I told you before..." He Jingping sighed, "I've thought about it for a long time. I really can't act. How about you come?"
Cai Guodong was stunned and laughed angrily, "Old He, show some face, look at you, do you still look like a teacher? You don't know my disciple's strength, you don't know his new tricks, you don't know if he wants to win the ball, and now I ask you to lose your temper and scare him, and you still ask me to do it, what else can you do?"
He Jingping was embarrassed, but also a little ashamed and did not dare to argue anymore.
Old Cai suddenly figured out a question, and his anger suddenly rose to a higher level. "Okay, I just said that you used to invite others to sit behind you to chat. Why did you suddenly invite me today? You have been making trouble for a long time. Have you thought about using my status as head coach to put pressure on him? Old He, Old He, Wang Chao is your disciple, are you afraid of him or something?"
He Jingping Just apologize and don't dare to say another word.
But in Cai Guodong's eyes, he had clearly admitted Cai Guodong's accusation.
Yes, that is indeed what He Jingping planned.
Twenty minutes ago, Sun Tianlong defeated Luo Jiu 4:0 and reached the final. Then he did not choose to go back to rest immediately, nor did he choose to sit quietly on the sidelines waiting for the next semi-final. Instead, he went straight to He Jingping and quietly told He Jingping something.
"Wang Chao might give up the ball because he doesn't want to play with me." At that time, Sun Tianlong smiled bitterly and seemed a little helpless, "Don't ask me why, because I don't know, but this matter is true. If you don't believe it, you can ask Luo Jiu."
He said, "I knew about this last night, and I didn't tell you until now. I only have one request. Please stop Wang Chao from doing stupid things. Of course I, Sun Tianlong, want to get Double Grand Slam, but if I get it through this dishonorable method, then I would rather not get this honor."
He Jingping did not go to Luo Jiu to confirm, he just believed it.
After all, why don't you believe what Sun Tianlong said himself?
He could also guess why Sun Tianlong said it now, because Sun Tianlong had to advance to the finals first, and then Wang Chao could talk about giving the ball. If he was defeated by Luo Jiu, then Wang Chao naturally had no need to give the ball to Lin Zijun.
So Sun Tianlong chose to talk after defeating Luo Jiu, which shows that he is still the humble and low-key man.
He Jingping's first reaction was "How should I dissuade Wang Chao?"
He was hesitating whether to call Wang Chao over to give him a slap in the face or to call Wang Chao over to persuade him. But whether he was a good person or a bad person, there was a problem: it was equivalent to betraying the "snitch" Sun Tianlong.
At this time, Sun Tianlong added, "I didn't take the initiative to go to Wang Chao because I was afraid of affecting his mentality. After all, I am the person involved and his opponent in the final. You are the bystander. So what I mean is, can you pretend that you don't know about this matter and then watch carefully when he plays Lin Zijun. Once he wants to give up the ball, you will stop it and stop him severely?"
He smiled and said, "In this case, he should not be affected."
Sun Tianlong finished speaking and left, but He Jingping was troubled. He knew how independent Wang Chao was, and he also knew that he had never made any mandatory requirements for Wang Chao on the field in the past. So if he wants to severely stop Wang Chao now, I'm afraid it's not enough to just talk, he has to act.
What play? Crazy drama.
I never get angry but if I do it on the spot, the lethality must be very high.
But He Jingping still felt guilty.
He was not really afraid of Wang Chao, he just always felt like he was a peer when he got along with Wang Chao, which made it particularly difficult for him to put up an airs and maintain his dignity as a teacher. He was afraid that his momentum was not enough.
What to do? Of course, I should turn to the head coach for help. After all, as we all know, leaders are inherently coercive, just like when an office party goes out, the real excitement will only come after the director leaves.
Well, that's the thing, not complicated, but subtle.
So Old He is a little absent-minded now, constantly simulating the scene where he gets angry. How should he say the first sentence and what should his expression be?
Should I say quietly with a cold face, "Okay, you are really brave. Am I usually too indulgent to you?"
Or should you point angrily at Wang Chao's nose and say, "If you dare to lose to Lin Zijun today, I won't want you as my disciple anymore"?
Or should I beg Wang Chao with a grimace, "Please, just win, take me to fly, I really want to be Grand Slam's coach"?
Which option works best?
Will he find out I'm acting?
Will he ask me why I am so sharp?
Will he realize that Sun Tianlong snitched on me?
Will it affect the friendship between our main Chinese table tennis players?
Old He thinks too much, which fully embodies the characteristics of Pisces, an emotional old virgin with both ends, confusion and rich imagination. However, some things become more and more confusing the more he thinks about them. In the end, he has completely lost confidence and has to ask the head coach for help, but he is scolded for a while. The specific scene is as mentioned above.
Let's go back to the playing field.
The first ball was defeated by Wang Chao, but Lin Zijun did not give up. The second serve was still from the bottom line Bullet Serve.
Super Speed Defense Mode is the foundation for his survival in the current situation, and he cannot give up easily.
(It's very strange. I clearly sent out a single chapter notice today, saying that the update time was temporarily changed, but some readers still left messages asking. Should notices in the future be sent to the VIP volume instead of to the work-related items? I have no experience in this. Can anyone explain to me?)
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