December 19th.
Mexico.
Mexico City.
Olympic Stadium.
Table tennis event Men's Singles finals.
Game 1.
The score is 5:2.
Sun Tianlong started to work hard.
This is a moment that the entire world table tennis community should remember.
This man once remained undefeated for 2539 days, setting an unprecedented record in the history of table tennis. In these seven years, he did not participate in all the games. He gave up due to injury, gave up strategically, gave up games to his teammates, and had many accidents. However, wherever he went, he won every game he participated in.
During these seven years, he won a Grand Slam, also won the National Games championship, and reached Grand Slam.
In these seven years, he won the first World Cup Men's Singles championship, the first World Cup team championship, and the second World Cup Men's Singles champion, the second World Cup team champion, the third World Cup Men's Singles champion, and the third World Cup team champion.
During these seven years, he also won the first World Table Tennis Championships Men's Singles championship and the second World Table Tennis Championships Men's Singles championship.
He had won the National Games championship once earlier, so so far, he has won two gold medals in the National Games men's singles championship, which is known as "more difficult than Olympic Games".
In these seven years, he won most of the various individual and team championships (if any) in short-lived competitions that were held only once and were lost in the long history of history for various reasons.
He also took the time to play doubles with Xiao Fei and won the championship in all the games they participated in. However, because in Men's Doubles he played the auxiliary position, and Xiao Fei's forehand kill was too good. Because it is unique and highly entertaining, the world always thinks that the carry position in doubles is Xiao Fei. Only professional players know who is carrying Men's Doubles, who has always been ranked No. 1 in the world in China Table Tennis Team.
He even played a guest role as Liu Wen's mixed doubles partner due to some internal reasons such as attendance and rotation in the early days, and he also won every game.
He really, really, really is only one Olympic Games men's singles gold medal away from the double-circle Grand Slam.
He met Wang Chao today.
He was defeated by all the challenges in the first half of the game. He competed with the opponent for strength, speed, rhythm, technique, mind, and stability, but none of them won.
This is undoubtedly something that he and everyone in the industry did not expect at all.
He didn't think of it himself because he thought it was unreasonable, but he could only force himself to accept the reality.
So Sun Tianlong started working hard.
He has put on a desperate posture many times in the past seven years. He never looks back and forth just because he has a strength advantage. His "fighting" is an attitude. He puts himself on the same level as the opponent, so as to ensure a stable mentality and dare to fight. He uses fighting to deal with the opponent's fighting, and uses targeting to respond to the opponent's targeting. He is a grandmaster who takes victory as his first priority on the field and never has any airs or arrogance.
But today his efforts were different from any other time in the past.
He really couldn't find a way to win.
Wang Chao serve, short backspin.
Sun Tianlong stabbed directly and cut sideways near the table.
It was unreasonable, but he succeeded.
Wang Chao has an astonishing response speed, and it can directly place a Forehand Flick on the front of the body.
Sun Tianlong pulls directly horizontally, without pulling backspin or topspin, but pulls out a pure backspin ball.
This is also against the rules of the game.
In the amateur world, pure strong forward and reverse spin has an extremely good effect on rookies, but in the professional world, everyone undoubtedly prefers up and down spin.
But Sun Tianlong no longer thinks about the truth. He just wants to combine all kinds of techniques that are not in line with the rules of the game to mess up the game, trying to turn this originally rigorous game into a chaotic battle with Wang Chao.
The ball drew a steep parabola on the vertical plane, but was slapped hard by Wang Chao.
Facing the explosive charge, Sun Tianlong's racket instead passed horizontally under the small ball, hitting a long ball with a steeper arc than before but seriously rising, and landed on Wang Chao's center edge of the table.
The audience was exclaiming, wondering why Sun Tianlong made such an obvious mistake in catching the ball.
But Wang Chao is still as calm as a killer. He only looks at what kind of ball it is, and does not analyze what happened to the person. In his eyes, the ball is high and comes out, so he retreats from the stage, turns sideways, and rushes with all his strength.
Sun Tianlong chose to take five steps back, not catching the ball, and let it fall to a height of less than one meter from the ground. Then he came up with another ultra-long-distance super ball. It seemed to show off the touch, but in fact it meant slowing down, changing the rhythm, reducing the quality, and improving the mentality.
The so-called "lowering quality" and "improving mentality" are not just joking. There is indeed an indescribable energy pull in professional competitions. When you cheer up, I will cheer up, and when you relax, I will also feel a little unmotivated. For example, in March this year In the China Open final, Luo Jiu destroyed Hook's mentality by continuously serving the ball and wiping the net. He took off Hook's defense and made Hook's state plummet.
But Wang Chao was as stable as ever. Even though the ball fished out by Sun Tianlong's Haidilaoyue had curved to the extreme that was visible to the naked eye, and the trajectory almost turned into an arc, he still accurately found the point, and "pop" was another full-strength impact.
Sun Tianlong is still five steps away and chooses to slice the ball long distance.
Wang Chao The third board exploded.
Sun Tianlong is still five steps away, using his forehand to draw the circle with all his strength.
Wang Chao hit the diagonal line at super speed, and easily killed Sun Tianlong who couldn't catch up at all.
The score became 6:2.
Sun Tianlong serves, high throw to the baseline with long backspin, a fake move, but it doesn't actually turn.
But the fake move was ineffective, Wang Chao directly hit the board with a forehand.
Sun Tianlong does not use the conventional pull, and chooses to push the racket forward, but it is not a push and block like Lin Zijun, but simply pushes the ball, launching a very long baseline ball that does not turn.
Wang Chao takes the forehand again.
Sun Tianlong takes the backhand, hits the diagonal, and still hits the baseline long ball.
Wang Chao made the third forehand lift.
Sun Tianlong used a swerving technique that Wang Chao himself had not used for a long time, and sent the ball to the other side of the table, still at the baseline.
Wang Chao pulls backhand, retreats from the stage, and charges forward with force.
Sun Tianlong tried to cut a board with force, trying to cut the backhand side closer, and wanted to hit the ball from the side.
But the ball first touched the net, and then rolled directly off the net. It did not hit the table and went out of bounds sideways.
7:2.
Sun Tianlong serve, short backspin, and serve directly to the forehand position.
Wang Chao was violently challenged on stage.
Sun Tianlong was beaten to death before he had time to react.
8:2.
During this period, the scene showed a relatively quiet and low-pressure state. A few minutes ago, when the score became 4:1, everyone thought that this was a very common small climax in the game, that is, one of the teams would score three to five points in a row. This is normal. Usually there are many small climaxes in a game. The scores of the players on both sides are always one jump for you and one jump for me. There are only a few that actually rise one point at a time.
But when the score changed from 5:1 to 8:2, everyone began to realize that what just happened might not be a small climax.
Such a score difference is most likely a reflection of the true strength of both players.
As for the fans watching the live broadcast outside the stadium, they learned the truth long before Qin Huachang fainted during the live broadcast, because Qin Huachang finally shouted out the sentence with all his strength, "How can we be evenly matched? This is a clean sheet!"
This sentence is like a prophecy and is unknown. Qin Huachang's fainting is more like the backlash after predicting the future. Therefore, although his words were spoken in peaceful times, they still have the meaning of crying blood.
As a result, even the audience in front of the screen was uncharacteristically silent.
After Qin Huachang was downloaded, they were not supposed to understand the game, but they actually did.
What I can't understand is the specific content, but what I can understand is a certain strong emotion.
They saw Dragon Team struggling.
The once invincible figure began to play all kinds of strange shots. Many of his responses would have made the audience laugh even in a low-end professional event.
As for whether there is any higher-level purpose hidden in Sun Tianlong's response, no one knows, and they don't think it is important. They only need to know that Sun Tianlong is really helpless and desperate now.
It was precisely because of despair and because he could not find a way to break the situation that he started to "fight randomly".
But his opponent is as calm as steel and as cold as ice and snow. No matter how crazy or crazy Sun Tianlong is, he will never show mercy. Every ball is played so beautifully, cleanly and impeccably, as if a new textbook is slowly turning every page in front of everyone.
There is metabolism in the world, and the exchanges become ancient and modern. Dragon Team is a textbook that has been turned over. Too many people have read it, and it is finally time to be eliminated by history. Now, it is time to give new people in the table tennis world a new textbook. It is equally wonderful, equally reasonable, and equally clear every move.
As we all know, new textbooks are only better than old ones.
Sun Tianlong is playing more and more unreasonably, but Wang Chao is playing more and more rationally, every move is perfectly matched, leaving no chance for speculation.
"Crack!"
8:3.
"Crack!"
9:3.
"Crack!"
10:3.
"Crack!"
10:4.
"Crack!"
11:4.
The score of the first game was settled.
The struggle in the last few balls allowed Sun Tianlong to score two more points, but this was meaningless except to make the score look better. On the contrary, Sun Tianlong dived again at the last moment to save the ball, and then landed heavily. Due to the too much inertia, it slipped a few inches on the highly frictional rubber, and let out a muffled groan.
The referee asked Sun Tianlong if he was okay. Sun Tianlong smiled and shook his head, with sweat dripping from his hair. He showed his freely moving body to the referee, indicating that he was fine.
But a scratched red bruise on the side of his right leg was clearly visible under the director's lens.
During the game, both sides sat on chairs quietly drinking water, wiping sweat and thinking without any unnecessary movements.
Then the second game started, and Sun Tianlong continued to work hard.
He found that he couldn't disrupt the rhythm of Wang Chao, so he started to do some even more unreasonable things.
He used forced displacement to attack the backhand short backspin sent by Wang Chao.
Wang Chao cut the ball with strong backspin, but he wanted to pull forward and loop the ball.
Wang Chao suppressed his backhand, so he stepped back from the stage and forced Divine Dragon Emerging from Water's killing move within a wide enough range.
Wang Chao hit a super-fast turning ball. Even though he couldn't react, he refused to retreat. He just relied on instinct to wave his arms and tried to bet on the position of the ball.
His serve was very long, with very weak spin and very little power, as if he was feeding the ball. No one knew what he wanted to do, but Wang Chao could tell that he wanted to do something that has been done for decades but has never been done before: serve to the edge.
A scratch ball requires a re-serve, but a side ball can be scored directly.
But since he failed, what greeted him was another stormy blow from Wang Chao. After all, all attempts have a price.
Sun Tianlong was not discouraged. He was still trying. Since all the strange moves were ineffective, he returned to the main move. He and Wang Chao competed again for touch and small balls.
Any athlete will inevitably experience ups and downs in emotions and performance in a long and complete game. Wang Chao can beat Sun Tianlong when he is in the best condition, but it does not mean that he can beat Sun Tianlong at any stage of the entire game. This is the opportunity Sun Tianlong is looking for.
He really... was thinking, testing, and trying to find any possible theoretical flaws in Wang Chao from the beginning to the end. There was never a ball that was played passively.
However, if his temptation fails again, then he must continue to pay the price.
So the score in the second game actually climbed faster than the first game.
1:0.
2:0.
3:0.
4:0
4:1.
4:2.
5:2.
6:2.
7:2.
7:3.
Sun Tianlong can of course play like he did in the first half of the first game. In this case, although he will lose, the data will be much better, and the situation will be back and forth, making him look evenly matched. Knowing that he has a huge chance of losing, this is actually a more honorable way to leave.
But he didn't allow himself to become such a player.
He has never wanted the demeanor and toughness of the best player in the world. He always has a hard-working spirit on the court. He just wants to win.
Use a more painful loss to bet on a possible win. For Sun Tianlong, this is not a multiple-choice question, but the only option.
Wang Chao once again successfully forced him back to the middle, and then began to move from both sides. At this stage of the ball, for experts like them, there is almost no problem of being unable to snowball or penetrate the defense.
But Sun Tianlong is still trying his best to save the ball. He ran more frequently in today's game and a half than he did in the entire four games when he played Luo Jiu in the semifinals.
Wang Chao controls the ball so accurately that as long as he falls slightly behind, he will immediately face endless maneuvers.
Originally, Wang Chao was pressing the backhand, but that was under the premise that Sun Tianlong was reasonable in playing. Now Sun Tianlong started to mess up the punches and took the initiative to expose all kinds of huge gaps. Of course, Wang Chao let go.
Because he also knew very well that in this state, Sun Tianlong's various responses were no longer acting, nor were they released as bait.
Sun Tianlong really took the initiative to give up the stable state and turned himself into chaos.
Chaos is like a mess, and it is impossible to sort out the mess, only to cut it with a sharp knife, so Wang Chao hits harder and harder, and strikes harder and harder.
Thanks to "Qidian Writer Joking", "Sha Shou Bu Kao Yun Qi" and "I am the only one" for the reward.