Every player has various detailed requirements for the racket.
Some need the rubber to be more elastic or smaller, the stickiness to be stronger or weaker, the base plate to be lighter or heavier, and the shape of the plate to be smaller or larger.
There are 10,000 physical fitness indicators for 10,000 people. They have different strengths, different arm swings, different ball feel, different reaction speeds, and different motion capture vision. Therefore, this racket needs countless detailed adjustments, bit by bit, to be corrected to the state that best matches your own skills.
He Jingping made technical modifications for Luo Jiu. Just to find a rubber, I tried countless brands from all over the world.
Geng Shuai can catch the ball like this, which means that the rubber of his racket must be less sticky than ordinary rackets, and the base plate is more elastic. Therefore, when facing a high-level hit like Wang Chao, he can hit it directly, and the action is similar to that of a bounce, using the least effort to achieve the best results.
This is part of his complete technical and tactical system, and he has a clear way to deal with this kind of ball.
In just this first round, Geng Shuai has already proved that he was indeed a "national player".
Only customized rackets made by national players can have such exquisite attention to detail.
A former world-famous coach like Wang Chao can even analyze more things from this ball.
For example, since Geng Shuai's racket is not sticky enough, it must not be a typical double-sided loop ball.
If his blade bounces like this, he should be more inclined to a speed-based style of play.
But he is using a large blade, and his arm swing speed will be affected, so he will have to step back from the table. During the game, he will inevitably step back and form a stalemate.
Since stalemate is the main method, the basic skills must be very good and the strength attribute of the body must be fully developed.
The above things may sound complicated, but they are actually just a flash of lightning. The ball has been photographed directly in front of Wang Chao's eyes by Geng Shuai.
The speed of this ball indeed exceeded Wang Chao's expectations.
His double-sided looping style requires swinging his arms Attacking from all sides. Once he gets into his own attack rhythm, he will attack continuously and endlessly until he defeats the enemy. But now, before he could throw his arms away, he was directly strangled by Geng Shuai. In his haste, he could only move the racket forward and barely block the ball back.
Fortunately, the ball didn't spin. Even if it was caught hastily, the return was still not high, but a little far, and it flew to the Geng Shuai forehand baseline.
Geng Shuai, just like Wang Chao's analysis, really loves stalemate. He took a step back, raised his arm, and pulled out a beautiful forehand loop.
It is still of unexpectedly high quality from Wang Chao. The ball spins sideways, has an extremely steep arc, and is a little floaty. When it lands on the table, it runs almost horizontally and diagonally forward.
Wang Chao had never been so focused as at this moment. He also took a half step back, waited for the ball to come out, shouted in his mouth, and tried his best to force the ball back.
Also a nice forehand loop.
He could see that Geng Shuai's ball was of extremely high quality, but he still wanted to go head-to-head with Geng Shuai to see if his current double-sided loop ball play would be effective against the former national player.
Geng Shuai is fully awake.
Wang Chao's first fighting ball shocked him into a cold sweat. It also completely awakened his body that was a little stiff due to alcoholism. His muscle memory was revived in an instant. His eyes flashed with a light that he had rarely seen before. Facing the flying ball, he swiped it hard again without hesitation.
At this moment, he is like a lion. Someone has invaded his safe area. He must defend his territory!
He knew many years ago that he did not have a good understanding of friction, but he had an excellent sense of space. In addition, he had extremely developed arm muscles and quite tough waist strength. Therefore, under the suggestion of the provincial team coach at the time, he finally customized a racket with very special technical indicators. After getting this racket, his skills began to improve by leaps and bounds, and he finally scored First Team.
He encountered many things later and revised his technical and tactical system, but he never changed his racket again.
Wang Chao The ball he is playing now is his favorite ball. This is his comfort zone.
He doesn't allow anyone to challenge his strengths.
At the table, several people looked a little dull.
No one expected that the first ball would be so heated, from Wang Chao's direct fight to Geng Shuai's lightning counterattack, now the two seemed to be really fired up and began to back off the stage to exchange support.
The arc of Wang Chao has a more obvious arc, while the ball of Geng Shuai has a small arc, but has a faster speed.
Wang Chao showed excellent skills. He made very few footwork movements. Attacking from all sides's movements were smooth and skillful, with almost no flaws.
Geng Shuai's posture looks more simple. He rarely pulls back, so he makes a lot of footwork and runs around the court. He tries to use his forehand to counter Wang Chao.
Judging from the scene, it seems that Geng Shuai, who is always running, is even more embarrassed.
But judging from the force and intensity of pulling the ball, it seems that Geng Shuai is suppressing Wang Chao.
In just a few breaths, the two of them had already pulled thirteen boards.
By this time, even the half-time coach Fan Xiaoxian could see that the two players' landing points were not biased at all. It seemed that they deliberately kept the same line, trying to see who had better basic skills and who could win the first ball in the stalemate.
In regular table tennis matches, such stalemate balls usually appear in the middle or even later stages of the game, because once such balls appear, it often means that the game is about to enter a one-sided situation.
Those who win the stalemate will have their morale boosted, while those who lose the stalemate will be depressed and suffer a huge decline.
Holding the ball is almost always synonymous with self-confidence.
Gao Ming frowned when he saw it. He was thinking about a question, "With Wang Chao's physical strength, how long can he last playing this kind of ball?"
The first ball finally ended after seventeen boards.
Wang Chao stood by the table, wiping the hot sweat on his face with his sleeves, and let out a long breath with some regret.
After all, he still hasn't pulled Geng Shuai.
It's not that his playing style is bad, but that his current ball strength is not enough. Although he can penetrate Wu Li, he cannot penetrate the former national player.
"Come again!" Wang Chao squatted slightly and got ready again.
Geng Shuai still sent a short backspin.
This time Wang Chao did not continue to fight, he chose to rub the board.
When he hit the first ball, he had already discovered that Geng Shuai's ball did not spin enough, so theoretically speaking, although Geng Shuai's short backspin serve was short enough and low enough, its quality was not too high.
So Wang Chao tried to play a difficult and high-quality ball, and it hit Geng Shuai's left baseline at a wide angle.
This is observation and thinking when playing.
Geng Shuai's ball doesn't spin, so Wang Chao dares to touch his baseline at a wide angle, which is an extremely easy landing point for suicide.
Geng Shuai prefers to use his forehand and doesn't like to use his backhand, so Wang Chao aims at his backhand.
Geng Shuai really couldn't do anything about the ball, so he could only take half a step back and hit it back again.
Wang Chao rubbed it again, Geng Shuai rubbed it again, and by this time the ball had risen a little, revealing flaws.
So Wang Chao charged with a forehand, but Geng Shuai actually kept up with the pace and caught the ball hastily.
Wang Chao entered the rhythm of Attacking from all sides and began to pump the ball wildly. This time he stopped playing basic skills and began to change his lines in various ways to target Geng Shuai's weaknesses.
He thought that in this situation, Geng Shuai could be killed with at most three boards.
But in the end Geng Shuai supported five boards.
So when the score became 1:1, Wang Chao did not feel any joy.
He realized that he was a coach-turned-player after all. In his previous life, he had watched the ball on the court for decades and thought he knew the quality of any ball. However, when he actually stood on the table, he discovered what it means to "see what is on paper but what is superficial".
The national player's ball, both offensive quality and defensive strength, must exceed his expectations.
Just two goals actually made him feel a little exhausted.
"I chose to play Table Tennis First Division instead of rushing to join the national team. It was indeed the right thing to do!"
Today's game will definitely be fun!
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