Sun Tianlong serves again, still with short backspin.
Wang Chao swing short.
Sun Tianlong moved the ball directly to the backhand baseline at a wide angle to Wang Chao's backhand position.
There are two details that need to be mentioned here.
The first is that Sun Tianlong did not choose to fight short.
Even though the first goal between the two sides was a narrow victory after more than 20 short board battles.
This is because Sun Tianlong knows how stable Wang Chao is. He will never think that he still has a chance with the second ball just because he lost the first ball. Sun Tianlong is a very self-aware person. He only tries once, and if he loses, he loses. If he tries again, he is very likely to lose another point.
The biggest difference between him and other professional players is that he will never waste any point. Even if it is the second ball in the first game and there are many opportunities later, he will never do such a thing that is very disadvantageous in terms of probability.
The second thing to note is that Wang Chao is left-handed, and the short swing of Wang Chao is played with the backhand position of Sun Tianlong, so Sun Tianlong is fast Dial, the dial is the backhand position of Wang Chao, but it is actually the right side of the table on Wang Chao. In other words, the ball is not actually flying in a diagonal line, but in a straight line close to the edge of the table.
In a sense, this can actually be regarded as a line-changing ball that increases the difficulty. Both the difficulty of hitting the ball and the difficulty of the opponent's ball are simultaneously increased. This is Sun Tianlong clearly raising the basic difficulty of this ball. It can also be regarded as some kind of respect and recognition of Wang Chao.
"You are such a powerful opponent, so of course we should fight at a higher baseline."
Sun Tianlong's backhand really didn't kill the board, so he simply gave up using force and chose to speed up. After trying to fight short and losing clearly, he wanted to try something else with the second ball.
Wang Chao's feet moved sideways very quickly. He landed immediately and twisted the ball with his backhand. He also pursued speed rather than strength and still crushed Sun Tianlong's backhand.
Sun Tianlong chose to pull backhand, half using force and half using force. This is not an offensive kill, but this ball is actually very easy to score because it is very fast and changes from a straight line to a diagonal line, directly reaching Wang Chao's forehand baseline at a large angle.
Wang Chao moved laterally again, took the initiative to exert force, and pulled forward with a forehand to loop the ball.
Sun Tianlong didn't hesitate and thrust the racket vertically. The side of the racket was tangent to the ball, which contained at least 70% of Wang Chao's power.
This is an in-table cut.
At this moment, there were low exclamations in the audience, and many viewers subconsciously covered their mouths.
Because the processing of Sun Tianlong is very risky.
The difficulty of side-cutting lies in the word "side". It essentially uses the inclination angle of the racket itself to be large enough to force the flying ball to change its line, and the line-changing range is extremely large, almost at a right angle of 90 degrees. Therefore, once the side-cutting is successful, the sudden change of the ball will make the opponent unable to react most of the time.
The inability to react this way is not entirely due to the inability to keep up with the nerve response speed, but rather the inability of the brain to react. Sometimes one feels that this conflicts with one's basic cognition, and is therefore unable to make a reasonable response immediately.
Sakura Country player Niuwa Xiaoxi, who is known as "the world's number one side cutter", can always use side cuts to create all kinds of incredible and famous scenes, largely because the side cut technique itself has some meaning of "visual spectacle".
If it must be broken down, the side cut from the far table is essentially more similar to chipping. It focuses on the accuracy of force and rotation. The greatest significance of side cut is to create a compound rotation that is more difficult to determine the direction.
But the side cut near the table is really one inch short and one inch dangerous. It uses the most suicidal way to catch the ball and cuts out the ball that is most difficult for the opponent to deal with. It is like a seven-injury punch. I take great risks to create huge difficulties for you. Either I die or you die.
The ball Sun Tianlong is a typical side cut near the table, and the cut is an explosive shot that Wang Chao used at least seven points to hit.
Its difficulty is comparable to the most classic side-cutting scenes in the career of "Little Prince of Side-cutting" Niuwa Xiaoxi.
This is also a technology that fans around the world have rarely seen on Sun Tianlong.
Sun Tianlong really let go today. In the past, he really gave up too many things for the sake of stability. He never dared to be arrogant in an international competition. But this game is already the last game of his career. No matter he wins or loses, he will officially retire after this game. Therefore, these are the last years of his burning passion, and he will not hesitate even if it is burned to ashes.
He wants the world to see his true self.
"Now, have you seen it?"
"I can also cut sideways, and maybe it's not inferior to Niuwa Xiaoxi. I didn't use it before, just because I wanted to win in a more secure way."
Sun Tianlong made a successful side cut. The ball suddenly turned around and changed from a vertical flight to an almost completely horizontal flight. It hit the Wang Chao side of the table at a forehand position close to the table at a wide angle. The next moment it flew out from the side of the table.
In 99.9% of professional games, this can be regarded as an unsolvable ball.
But Wang Chao didn't give up.
Wang Chao's body started to move without reservation at this moment, his feet rubbed against the professional rubber, and even made a harsh "squeak" sound because of too much force. His speed was so fast that he actually intercepted the ball when it flew more than one meter away from the side of the table.
At this time, Wang Chao's lower body was already unbalanced, but it was still too late to be fully in place. Only his upper body was in a "saving" posture, as if he had transformed into a football goalkeeper. In this way, he could barely reach the ball. He threw his arm out fiercely. In this complicated state where the body and arms were in motion at the same time, he managed to successfully locate the ball in space.
He seemed to want to hit the ball hard, but the moment before the racket touched the ball, he suddenly changed his gesture and pressed his wrist down. The racket also turned from the side of the small ball to the bottom of the ball, and steadily sliced the ball back into a baseline long ball.
At this time, he no longer cares about pressing Sun Tianlong's backhand position. The only thing he can guarantee is that the ball must be long enough and have good backspin.
Because he must buy time for himself.
At that moment, directly forehand looping the ball was a subconscious reaction that almost all professional players would have. It was also the simplest, roughest and least difficult way to handle the ball. But Wang Chao suddenly realized something just before hitting the ball.
"My opponent is Sun Tianlong."
"If I attack with force, it is actually unlikely that I will kill him."
"Then he'll move me."
"And I am currently at the very edge of the right side of the table. My body is still temporarily unbalanced. It is impossible for me to deal with his large-angle maneuvers."
"So, I need time."
"I need the ball to go slower, not faster."
"If it's not enough that the ball slows down, I also need the ball to be long."
"Because no matter how much he wants to speed up, he has to at least wait for the ball to fall first."
"So what I need is not a fierce pull, but a slice as slow and as long as possible."
These thoughts may sound complicated, but in fact they were just a flash of lightning, and Wang Chao made the most correct judgment.
He landed on the ground, took a step forward, regained his balance, then quickly moved laterally and returned to the front of the table, almost one meter away from the table. He did not try to take a step forward, but squatted slightly on the spot, with the muscles of his legs completely tense, waiting for Sun Tianlong to make a move.
From the corner of Sun Tianlong's eyes, he could see all the details of Wang Chao's movements. He looked calm on the surface, but he was actually extremely shocked inside.
He knew that Wang Chao had become faster when he was watching the game yesterday, but it was not until this moment that he experienced how fast Wang Chao was now.
His side cut was meant to be a sure win, because it was a new technology that he had never used before. He could also see that Wang Chao was indeed unprepared, but even so, Wang Chao still caught up with the ball purely through temporary reaction.
But that's not the scariest thing.
What is really scary is that in this situation, Wang Chao actually still had the energy to think carefully, and after making a judgment, he forcibly adjusted his batting action, turning a forced loop ball into a long ball that cut the baseline.
This is a bit exaggerated.
In that flash of lightning, Sun Tianlong asked himself, if it were him, when a huge accident suddenly occurred, he would probably be able to concentrate only on "saving the ball", and would have no time to think about unnecessary things, because the speed of thinking could not keep up, and the intensity of thinking could not keep up.
Therefore, I will definitely pull the arc hard, and then be easily maneuvered to death by the opponent at a large angle.
But Wang Chao was able to make adjustments at the last minute, which meant that his nerve reaction speed was really faster than his own.
Not only is his body movement speed moving closer to Lin Zijun, but his reaction speed is also moving closer to Lin Zijun.
What kind of monster is this tmd?
Sun Tianlong finally chose to pass the ball and also made a long baseline ball.
He didn't even bother to take the initiative with his forehand.
Because he had already seen Wang Chao taking a tight defense posture in advance about one meter away from the table, it was meaningless for him to attack again at this time.
In fact, this also represents Wang Chao's thinking speed and judgment accuracy.
If it is based on instinct, the first reaction of a professional player after hastily rescuing a fatal ball must be to rush to the table first, because only in this way will he not fall into the disadvantageous situation of "hitting the near table from the far table" and be attacked by the opponent indefinitely until he is beaten to death.
But Wang Chao's choice was to only adjust the horizontal position and not the vertical position. This was because he clearly judged at that time that he would not have time to fully adjust. If he had to forcefully adjust, he would not be able to find the center of gravity and stabilize his body shape immediately.
Do you choose to move into position, or choose to find the center of gravity first?
Wang Chao of course chooses to find the center of gravity first.
Because his opponent is Sun Tianlong.
Sun Tianlong knows very well how to deal with an opponent with an unstable center of gravity. He will rely on his strong ball control ability to hit continuous chasing balls, chasing your body, continuing to destroy your balance, suppressing your hitting action, and making you unable to even stretch your arms until you lose.
Therefore, Wang Chao made the right choice again.
Facing a winning goal, through three consecutive flawless on-the-spot judgments, and avoiding all subsequent risks, Wang Chao finally pulled the ball back to the starting point. He and Sun Tianlong faced each other across the table, as if the opponents in the boxing ring had just experienced a round of confrontation but the outcome was indifferent. At this time, they returned to the table to fight again.
Only Qin Huachang in the live broadcast room let out a long breath and felt a slight sting in his heart. He had to grit his teeth and endure it for a long time before turning on the microphone again. He did not see the specifics of the last few rounds of the ball. He only saw the referee flipping the scoreboard to 1:1.
Therefore, Sun Tianlong won the second ball after all.
But Qin Huachang was not happy at all. He whispered into the microphone, "Sun Tianlong is going to lose this game."
He didn't talk much today, because his energy was exhausted, so he basically didn't talk nonsense, but at this moment, these words really spoke from his heart.
He didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit that Wang Chao had really reached a height that was completely unimaginable before he retired.
He didn't understand how this was done.
He recalled what he had complained about many, many years ago when he was still a young and vigorous coach, accompanying Sun Tianlong, holding his breath, and practicing hard in a deserted corner. "If the world table tennis world is full of super geniuses like you who can defeat most people just by relying on talent, then what is the point of ordinary players training hard for more than ten years?"
At first, he was not convinced by this, so he would fight with Sun Tianlong. Later, Sun Tianlong became invincible and slapped all the super geniuses in the world in the face. In those years, Qin Huachang was sitting on the sidelines as a coach, seeing with his own eyes Sun Tianlong beat the super geniuses with brilliant talents to despair and crying, and he felt a kind of evil pleasure in his heart.
"Yes, that's it, beat them hard and kill them."
"Why can they reach heights unimaginable by ordinary people with much less effort than ordinary people?"
"That's not fair."
"Since it's unfair, we must smash it into pieces."
He really felt relieved. The feeling was very much like a child who was bullied as a child and then grew up to seek revenge on the person who bullied him.
Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Don't bully ordinary people.
But later, after seeing this kind of scene more often, Qin Huachang gradually relaxed his mind and no longer insisted on this. He even thought about taking on a super-genius apprentice, and successfully found Fan Xiaodong.
But deep down in his heart, what he is most proud of has always been Sun Tianlong, because Sun Tianlong really used practical actions to crush the complaints he had when he was young. He really achieved unrivaled dominance in the world with a body without any special talent.
As long as Sun Tianlong is there, Qin Huachang's faith will be there.
Sun Tianlong is the only sustenance of Qin Huachang's feelings, ideas, obsessions and dreams in this life.
But at this moment, Qin Huachang felt that what he had insisted on for decades seemed to be shattered by the boy named Wang Chao on the screen.
The game has just started, only two goals have passed, but Qin Huachang has already read too many terrible truths from it.
For the first ball, Wang Chao proved that his touch and power were superior to Sun Tianlong.
In the second ball, Wang Chao proved that his movement speed and reaction speed were superior to Sun Tianlong.
So what else does he have to prove next?
Qin Huachang feels a little distressed. He feels that his apprentice is really working hard. He has to use this blank slate to challenge these monsters who were born with all kinds of talents. He has struggled for so many years just to prove that ordinary people can defeat geniuses. But today, if he loses to Wang Chao, then all these years of persistence seem to have become a joke.
It turns out that the reason why you have defeated so many geniuses is not because ordinary people can really defeat geniuses, but because what you have met is not a real genius...
How can this world be so fair to ordinary people?
Thanks to "Shen Fengxin", "Meow's Schrödingerjin" and "Lu Bo Te Zhi Lei" for the rewards.