This is probably the most unlikeable away game Wang Chao has ever encountered.
In the previous four games that Spade Q played in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, everyone was polite. Especially during training, they were absolutely clear-cut and guarded against each other. When eating, Fan Xiaoxian also took everyone out to eat, and each other was like guarding against thieves.
This is the Southern way.
Northeasterners have a completely different approach.
That night, Jingyuewan Club officials came forward to entertain Spade Q people, but before they even had a few bites of food, they started drinking like crazy. As they continued to drink, they began to put their arms around each other and call friends. In the end, it was almost impossible to tell who was on which team.
The "four boxes and three bottles of white wine" that Fang Yuan said in the training hall was not a joke. It was really four boxes of Ice City beer and three bottles of high-altitude liquor with over 60 degrees of alcohol. You were not allowed to leave until you finished drinking.
Even people like Wang Chao, who are determined not to drink alcohol in their lives, just can't resist the burning enthusiasm of the Northeast brothers...
Well, the fact is that three big men from Northeast China pinned him down on the sofa and stared at him with six eyes. They used their interests and true feelings to intimidate and induce him, so that he had to blow a bottle of beer on the spot.
This makes people in the world unable to control themselves.
The dinner went on for two or three hours. In the end, all the wine was drunk, and everyone went back to their rooms to sleep drunkenly. As for the arrangements for making a game plan that night, it was natural that they were shelved.
At seven o'clock in the morning the next day, Wang Chao and Gao Ming went to the training ground to start training first, and then other team members arrived one after another. It was not until about ten o'clock that they all arrived. Miraculously, Jingyue Bay's team members were training on a few tables not far away. It makes Wang Chao quite puzzling.
Are the brothers from the Northeast really so magnanimous?
Soon he found out why.
"Is it necessary to cover up? Anyway, no matter how hard you fight, you will lose, so just let it go and play."
The Fang Yuan team leader of Jingyue Bay explained nonchalantly, "You just joined Table Tennis First Division, so you may not understand the market... Let me tell you this, your Geng Shuai is defeated by our Niu Linjun."
Wang Chao's eyes widened. "Tianke?"
"That's right, Tianke." Fang Yuan laughed and said, "The so-called Tianke means that if they play ten games, Geng Shuai won't be able to win a single game, or in other words, won't win a single game!"
Wang Chao was simply shocked.
You know, even Zhu Ding, who is known as Table Tennis First Division, couldn't beat Brother Geng in the first game. Is this guy named Niu Linjun so awesome?
But he soon understood the key.
Niu Linjun is a chipper.
Slicing is a style of play that has existed since the birth of table tennis and has always been unpopular. Over the years, there are only a handful of slicers who have won gold and silver in international competitions.
There are rumors in the world: I don't go out for a year on the straight bar, I kill people on the horizontal bar for half a year, and I only get started on the chipping game after three years.
Therefore, every chipper has extremely good patience and sufficient endurance.
This thing is difficult to practice and difficult to achieve results. The only advantage is that the career life is long enough.
A professional chipper will have no problem playing into his forties, and his skills may even become more sophisticated.
As for a player who plays a regular sideways game, his strength will decline rapidly along with his physical strength until he is in his thirties at most.
Not to mention the straight plank, because it requires more running than the horizontal plank, and physical strength is a big issue.
One of the characteristics of golf chippers is that they play extremely slowly.
Why?
Because chipping is essentially defensive, and practicing chipping hard means practicing defense hard. The main way to win is to wait for the opponent to make a mistake, rather than taking the initiative to attack.
In this way, when a slicer encounters an attacker, the attacker is afraid of backspin and does not dare to attack too hard, so he cannot kill the opponent. However, the slicer has no intention of attacking, so both sides have to play many rounds for each ball to determine the winner.
Even if the winner is determined, in most cases it will not be based on offensive points, but on offensive mistakes or defensive mistakes.
What if there are no mistakes?
Just wait and see who is more patient. Anyway, chippers are all turtles.
And when two golf chippers meet, it is even more terrifying torture. The two of them can chop until the end of the world, the sea has dried up, and the stone is broken, casually for seventy or eighty rounds, without any difficulty at all.
So much so that International Table Tennis Federation had to directly add a restrictive rule: the number of consecutive slices must not be higher than 13. Once it exceeds, whoever dares to slice again will be punished by the referee (penalty points).
It is this rule that forced many chip players to start learning to attack, which has become the more popular "attack and chip combined" system today.
The so-called combination of attacking and cutting means using cutting to create opportunities and then attacking to score.
But even the combination of attacking and cutting can only alleviate the problem slightly, but it cannot completely solve the problem. Games with chippers always play extremely long.
Having said this, let's look at the game between Niu Linjun and Geng Shuai. The principle will be clear at a glance.
Geng Shuai can only play well for twenty minutes at most, and then his condition will decline rapidly. Usually, twenty minutes is enough for him to finish three games against other players, but against Niu Linjun, twenty minutes may not even complete a round.
Don't forget, Niu Linjun is, after all, the only active member of the national team among all the current Table Tennis First Division players.
This kind of world-class chipper does not mean that he will definitely not be able to hit the ball within two or three balls, but absolutely no one dares to say that he will definitely hit the ball within three or two balls.
If you want to kill the slicer, you need to be patient and look for opportunities slowly. If you are impatient, you will make a mistake.
Therefore, from this point of view, Niu Linjun is really Tianke Geng Shuai.
"You only have one special player in your team, and so do we, so Geng Shuai will definitely play the first game with Niu Linjun, and he will definitely lose."
Fang Yuan analyzed the situation very frankly to Wang Chao: "You are very powerful. I have watched your game. I am afraid that your strength can compete with Zhu Ding, but no matter how strong you are, you can only score two points. What next?"
She was wrenching her fingers to settle the score for Wang Chao: "Geng Shuai can't beat Niu Linjun, Lu Jia can't beat Sun Yuanqiang Li Huashan doesn't even have the slightest chance. As for your two substitutes, you can still lead them in doubles, but their singles abilities are completely worthless. Wang Chao, tell me, how on earth do you win?"
Sun Yuanqiang, Li Huashan, these are the second and third single players of Jingyuewan Club. Their skills are both stable in the first echelon. Even if they are slightly weaker than last year's second single player Yoshikawa Hiroshi, they are still very weak.
At this time, Wang Chao heard roars of laughter not far away. It turned out that Geng Shuai was playing a friendly match with Niu Linjun. The scoreboard next to it clearly read 14:12. Geng Shuai was defeated.
As Fang Yuan said, it was difficult for Geng Shuai to win even the first game, because Niu Linjun was able to carry more than a dozen balls, and each ball carried more than a dozen boards, plus a series of means such as running in circles to wipe sweat and tie shoelaces. After playing for exactly twenty minutes, Geng Shuai immediately cut off the power.
Geng Shuai seemed to be in a good mood. He just shook his head and smiled bitterly, with a faint hint of helplessness in his eyes.
This is not the first time he has lost to Niu Linjun, and he is already used to losing. However, as a professional player, after losing a disappointing game, he will still be a little frustrated.
This feeling of being dragged to death was more depressing than being forcibly beaten to death by Zhu Ding, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"This is no longer a problem that can be solved by arranging troops, because no matter how your teammates line up, it is impossible to get points."
Fang Yuan smiled and patted Wang Chao on the shoulder, "Okay, don't think too much. The team competition cannot be solved by you alone. Just do your best tomorrow and don't leave any regrets."
Fang Yuan left, but Wang Chao was a little lost.
After much deliberation, he decided that the only way to solve the problem was for Brother Geng to win the second singles match without cutting off the power after losing to Niu Linjun.
But with Brother Geng's current situation, how is it possible?
At this time, the footsteps were approaching, and he woke up from his meditation. When he looked up, Jingyue Bay and Niu Linjun were already in front of him.
"Let's play a game, Wang Chao. Let's follow the regular rules of the game and win three out of five games."
Niu Linjun is very direct. "I don't care what the result is tomorrow, as long as you beat me today, I will admit that you are stronger."
Wang Chao asked, "Why?"
"Because if you can beat me, you will definitely be able to beat Sun Yuanqiang and Li Huashan, and Geng Shuai can beat both of them besides me." Niu Linjun did not shy away from it. "So theoretically, as long as I can't catch Geng Shuai, you will definitely be able to win three singles matches."
Wang Chao said, "But according to the rules, you will definitely catch Brother Geng."
Niu Linjun shook his head. "Table Tennis First Division The advantage caused by the rules is not a fair and reasonable advantage in my opinion. In fact, if I guess correctly, you will definitely enter the national team next year and you will definitely get the opportunity to play in the World Tour. By then Although it is difficult for you to win a gold medal, it is still easy to get a bronze medal and get a Special Class Athlete qualification. At that time, you and Geng Shuai can exchange the order of appearance at will. How can I catch Geng Shuai?"
Geng Shuai had also come over at this moment and interrupted, "Wang Chao, fight him."
Wang Chao nodded and smiled, "Okay, let's have a fight."