The much-anticipated Olympic Games Men's Singles final reached its climax after just two goals.
Many spectators were even a little worried about whether they could last through the entire game, because in just over two minutes, they had already shouted until their voices became hoarse.
This year has been a turbulent year for the world table tennis world. Many super talents have emerged, and many players have begun to evolve. As a result, countless famous scenes have been born.
But now everyone is convinced that the most famous scene this year must be the game in front of us that has not yet been played.
Because each of the two goals that just ended was a famous scene.
This is so exciting.
The game continues.
Wang Chao got the right to serve and sent a short backspin.
There is nothing wrong with this.
Because he is now the number one fighter in the world.
Sun Tianlong Choose to continue trying.
Since fighting shortcomings doesn't work, sneak attacks don't work, and stalemates don't give you an advantage, let's try again technically.
In March this year, he tried a purely technical confrontation with Wang Chao. At that time, Wang Chao did not fall behind. Therefore, the world table tennis community unanimously recognized that Wang Chao is the only grandmaster who can technically compare with him.
But Sun Tianlong knew that what he used at that time was not all his skills.
Because he was injured at the time.
In any sport, indicators such as speed, strength, technology, etc. cannot exist completely in isolation. They must complement each other. When one factor is hindered, it will definitely affect the performance of other factors.
Sun Tianlong Because he was seriously injured at the time, he couldn't run, and he couldn't exert his full strength, so many of his skills were actually sealed.
But now, he is unblocked.
Sun Tianlong Turn it directly with your backhand.
This simple action caused another low buzz in the stands.
Because in the past few years, Sun Tianlong's backhand almost didn't twist this action.
He is more accustomed to using movements such as rubbing, swinging, leading, supporting, and pushing to solve the opponent's in-table backspin.
On the one hand, this is because he was still the world's number one short player at the time and did not need to quickly advance the content of the game to the stage of competing topspin balls.
On the other hand, it's because his backhand power is indeed a shortcoming. The technique of twisting the ball is a double-edged sword. If the ball is twisted without quality, it will really be like feeding the ball to the opponent.
But Sun Tianlong actually twisted a ball at this time.
Ordinary fans cannot tell the specific quality of this ball. Only a few people such as He Jingping on the scene and a few people such as Qin Huachang outside the field can roughly tell that the quality of this ball is actually quite high.
It is not as fast as Lin Zijun, nor as explosive as Fan Xiaodong, but there is no doubt that this is a high-quality twisting ball under the normal category. It has both speed and rotation. The ball drew a turning curve and plunged onto the table in front of Wang Chao.
Wang Chao's most conventional response would be to step back and pull a forehand loop, but at this moment he chose to step forward and directly pull the forehand to loop the ball forward.
Sun Tianlong is reversed again.
Wang Chao pulls forehand again.
Sun Tianlong pushed forward.
Wang Chao reverse pull in the platform.
Sun Tianlong raised his arms, turned his wrist, and hit the ball to Wang Chao's forehand baseline at a wide angle. This was the unpopular swipe technique originally invented by Wang Chao.
Wang Chao moves horizontally very fast, and his forehand hits hard.
Sun Tianlong blocked.
Wang Chao is another board.
Sun Tianlong blocks again.
Wang Chao third board.
Sun Tianlong used force to pull backhand, and abruptly changed the ball into a line, pulling it to Wang Chao's backhand baseline at a wide angle.
Wang Chao chose to take a half step back from the stage and pushed the racket forward hard.
At this time, it was already the 14th round.
Some people have noticed the key point of this ball. Whether the two parties are switching between forehand and backhand, offense and defense, or changing their response methods, they always stay close to the table, and no one takes a half step back.
This resulted in their efforts not being thorough, and there was no real decisive blow.
But at the same time, this also caused the pace of their fight to be extremely fast, one action after another without any pause, so that the audience's brains could not keep up with the movements of the ball flying back and forth on both sides. For the time being, they could only watch the excitement, and had no time to think clearly about the specific content of each round.
Even Qin Huachang chose to shut up and just watch quietly. No matter how fast he spoke, he would not be able to explain in time when encountering such a situation of high-intensity competition between the two sides.
In the 14th round, Wang Chao took the initiative to break the confrontation with a hard push. He used Lin Zijun's signature Super Speed Defense Mode, trying to use Sun Tianlong's power to fight back Sun Tianlong and hit a super-fast return kick that exceeded the limit of normal human reaction speed.
But as soon as he pushed, Sun Tianlong retreated. When the ball flew over, Sun Tianlong was already one meter away from the table. He was watching the high-speed flying ball turn from a white afterimage into a small ball visible to the naked eye, appearing in front of him.
Still a backhand position.
From the beginning to the end, Wang Chao pressed the backhand position of Sun Tianlong. This is the basic principle Wang Chao has set for himself, and it will not change no matter how long he plays.
Sun Tianlong took another step back.
He was not afraid that he would not be able to catch the ball, but to leave himself a sufficient buffer area.
Just as Wang Chao's Great Python Turn requires a wide enough space and enough time, Sun Tianlong also has such a board on the backhand position of the COSCO Taiwan. He used it in the decisive battle with Wang Chao Table Tennis Super League in March, but only used it once because it caused an old injury in the body.
But now Sun Tianlong has no worries at all.
He felt a dull pain somewhere in his body, but it didn't matter, because he would never compete again, and he had taken good care of himself before the competition. Although these hidden injuries on his body could not disappear completely, they were harmless.
So he sunk the racket to the bottom, almost pulled it up from the ground, and brought the ball all the way to the level of his chest. The whole movement was like Divine Dragon Emerging from Water, soaring into the sky.
At this moment, Sun Tianlong felt a sense of pleasure in venting his heart, because before he met Wang Chao, he had never met someone who could suppress his backhand like this. And when he met Wang Chao twice, his backhand was suppressed to the point of being really uncomfortable. It was that kind of suffocating feeling that he couldn't use his strength.
He let it out at this moment.
He wanted to tell Wang Chao with practical actions: My backhand actually has a kill board. You can press me, but don't be too reckless, because if you don't press well enough, I can still kill you with one move from my backhand position.
The ball withstood enough full and solid high-intensity friction, and accumulated full force as the racket rose from the ground, roaring back.
This movement of Sun Tianlong is perfect. The force movement is hearty and huge. It is similar to Great Python Turn of Xiao Fei. The only difference is that one is a forehand pull and the other is a backhand pull.
Theoretically, the power of the backhand pull is not as good as that of the forehand pull, but Sun Tianlong's posture is too perfect and the force is too thorough, almost reaching the limit of acquired technical skills. Therefore, the power of his pull is completely comparable to the original Great Python Turn of Xiao Fei at its peak.
This can definitely be regarded as the top killing board in the world table tennis.
The audience let out low exclamations and widened their eyes, wanting to see how Wang Chao would respond.
They all thought that Wang Chao would withdraw from the channel, because anchor Hua Guoqin clearly said during the literacy course that withdrawing from the channel is the universal answer to any difficult problem of catching the ball.
But Wang Chao insisted on not taking a step back. He stood in front of the stage, only took a half-step back with one foot, turned sideways, faced the ball that was spinning violently in the air, and was extremely curved in both the horizontal and vertical directions, and threw it hard with a board.
There is not much skill in this pull, but when Wang Chao swings out the racket, He Jingping and Luo Jiu in the stands, the two Wang Chao supporters, push their heads down at the same time, retract their gums, turn their eyes upward as they lower their heads, and take a breath at the same time.
This is an instinctive reaction that people make subconsciously when they attach great importance to something.
They both know the significance of this board.
The Sun Tianlong backhand board can perfectly match the Great Python Turn of the Wang Chao.
Therefore, "how to catch the opponent's strongest kill board" is actually a critical issue for both sides of the game.
Wang Chao just used Great Python Turn. Sun Tianlong's choice was to take an extra step back and pull a high hanging circle.
This means that Sun Tianlong is not sure to take over this board. He chose to make a transition and give up the initiative.
But Wang Chao's current choice is completely different. He refuses to retreat even a step and wants to force his way to the top.
The ball pulled back by Sun Tianlong is actually very difficult to withstand when standing close to the table in terms of power and spin. The most terrible thing is that, like Great Python Turn, it has the side spin forcibly given by the last section. This makes Wang Chao not only have to consider how to withstand the opponent's intensity when catching the ball, but also how to resolve the opponent's tricky spin.
So even though Wang Chao's response is simply to throw the paddle out, the real difficulty with this paddle is not in the action itself, but in the strength of the throw, the shape of the racket itself, the angle of pressing down, and the direction in which the arm is swung out.
Only if you get all these details right can you catch the ball.
In the blink of an eye, the racket touched the ball, and there was a clear and loud "pop", and the force was transparent. The ball flew back along a dangerous and dangerous trajectory. It was a little off, but it did not deviate from the baseline in the end. It plunged into the bottom line in the center of the table in front of Sun Tianlong.
On stage successfully!
Luo Jiu and He Jingping exhaled in unison and touched their chests, feeling their hearts pounding.
This is the first time Wang Chao failed to suppress Sun Tianlong's backhand.
But this small flaw is innocuous, because Wang Chao proved that he can catch Dragon Team's kill without retreating from the stage.
At this point, Dragon Team's backhand was broken again after just showing his hole card, and it will become a situation where he will be infinitely suppressed to death.
In fact, even Sun Tianlong himself lost his balance after hitting this kill. His move had the same fatal flaw of "too slow recovery" like Xiao Fei's Great Python Turn. If Wang Chao had stepped back to catch the ball, he would have had time to respond, but Wang Chao counterattacked too fast. He could not respond at all and was directly killed.
2:1, Wang Chao leads the score again.
At this moment, Qin Huachang simply said his conclusion in the live broadcast room, "The power of Wang Chao... is accomplished."
Yes, that's the crux of the matter.
What racket angle, what swing direction, what board shape adjustment, these are all technical matters, and Wang Chao has never been restricted by technical issues.
If you want to catch the opponent's super-killing board near the stage, there is always only one core factor: power.
This is like a battle between two people in a martial arts story. No matter how many moves you have, they must be driven by internal force in the end, otherwise it will be all in vain.
Therefore, Wang Chao dared to take the risk to catch the ball in this way because he was confident in his own strength.
And the facts have proved that he did it.
"So the power of Wang Chao has exceeded Dragon Team?" someone asked in the live broadcast room.
Qin Huachang did not hesitate and nodded. "Yes."
"Then what shortcomings does Wang Chao have now?" someone asked again.
"No more, it's completely gone." Qin Huachang smiled bitterly, "Now Wang Chao has fundamentally made up for all his shortcomings, and has even reached a height that you can't imagine in terms of speed. If I guessed correctly, he probably already has Extreme Speed Talent."
There were so many question marks on the barrage that everyone was speechless. They didn't want to type, they just wanted to type question marks, and wanted to ask if Anchor Qin had made a mistake.
Isn't talent something something you are born with? How can there be anything acquired?
But Qin Huachang did not change his mind, but continued, "The talent of Wushuang may be more exaggerated than you think. In the future, I doubt that Wang Chao can still get Monstrous Strength Talent, Eagle Eye talent, even Hundred Refinements talent, give him enough time, as long as he doesn't have any problems, he may gather all the talents in the table tennis world in his life... I tell you, he is different from anyone else, he is a complete monster."
After saying these words in one breath, Qin Huachang quickly turned off the microphone, gasped and took a sip of warm water, closed his eyes and lay back, leaning on the back of the chair for a long time before he recovered. He was a little depressed and a little desperate, because he had clearly realized that A Long's dream was about to be shattered.
There will be no more Double Grand Slam.
There won't be the most intense, brilliant, and perfect veteran's curtain call.
There will be no happy ending.
The future is dark. No matter for non-Chinese associations or for Huaping, everyone will live in a dark world and enjoy the taste of complete despair under the suppression of Great Demon King.
Ordinary people can't beat super geniuses after all.
The world is still unfair after all.
Qin Huachang felt that his heart ached, it was a real sting, not a modification in the literary sense.
He waved and motioned for Qin Zhenyu to come over and give him a hand.
He desperately wanted to finish the game, but he probably couldn't.
Because he discovered that he was not really pure in his desires. He still had obsessions, and they were far deeper than he imagined.
Now something inside him was slowly starting to collapse.
He suddenly hated himself for having such a good vision and strong judgment, and actually saw through everything in advance after just three balls in the first game.
This prevents him from being able to enjoy more exciting moments of this game with peace of mind like others.
He saw that everyone on the barrage no longer asked questions, but started a heated discussion. Everyone was saying that the game was evenly matched. Some people thought that Wang Chao was Xiaoyou, and some thought Sun Tianlong was Xiaoyou. But almost everyone agreed that the game would at least go to the sixth game, and might even reach the deciding game.
They don't have as many obsessions as Qin Huachang, because they are just ordinary fans who support Huaping. They are enjoying this civil war more.
So they want to see it longer.
"Dad, I'll take you to the hospital." Qin Zhenyu's voice was a little anxious.
Qin Huachang nodded weakly, but then shook his head, pointing his arm at the screen, signaling Qin Zhenyu to turn the microphone back on.
Qin Zhenyu knows his father's temper and can only follow his instructions.
At this moment, the audience had already seen the changes on Qin Huachang's side. When Qin Zhenyu appeared behind Qin Huachang with such an anxious expression, the audience also stopped discussing the battle situation and began to say "Anchor Qin, what's wrong with you?", "Anchor Qin, do you need it?", "Hurry to the hospital" and the like.
At this time, the microphone was turned on. Qin Huachang leaned forward and held the microphone with one hand to support his shaky upper body. He gasped and his tone was unexpectedly intense.
"How can there be so many equals?"
"How can there be so much balance that we take for granted?"
"Do you think that two opponents of equal strength will definitely still be of equal strength after making progress at the same time?"
"Haha, have you read too many novels?"
"The more masters compete, the more it only takes one detail advantage to expand into a huge advantage in the entire game."
"Because... there is really no room for error..."
"So this ball... this ball... cough cough cough, this ball..." After Qin Huachang coughed violently, he still insisted on leaning in front of the microphone and finished the last sentence. Because his strength was gone, it was like shouting, with a faint tremor in his voice. "This ball must end with a clean sheet!"
The live broadcast room was not closed, but the anchor was no longer there. The audience was in chaos, and fans all over the world were also worried. Only in the table tennis competition venue in Mexico City Olympic Village, the game was still going on, and the fans were still shouting, unaware of what was happening outside.
Only Sun Tianlong suddenly groaned and felt his heart contract violently.
(Let's talk first, Qin Huachang will be fine, I won't cause trouble on purpose, I like happy endings. OK, now you can feel free to ask for votes.)