Ping Pong Life

Chapter 19
Serving has always been a very important part of the sport of table tennis.

From the popularity of the blocked serve back then, until the ITTF changed the rules later, blocking the serve was not allowed.

From the time when there were no restrictions on throwing the ball, it is now mandatory to throw the ball vertically upwards, and the height of the throw should not be lower than [-] centimeters.

From the popularity of all kinds of weird rubbers back then, many rubbers have been ruled as violations.

All kinds of glues can be used in the past, and now organic glues are not allowed in regular competitions.

It can be said that in order to avoid "opaque information" during the competition and make the competition as fair as possible, the ITTF has made countless rule amendments over the years.

The serving problem is exactly the hardest hit area of ​​the "information opacity" problem.

Up to now, all the serves can be seen at a glance under slow motion. Theoretically, as long as the opponent observes carefully enough, there will never be a problem of being unable to judge the serve line and direction of rotation.

Therefore, Wang Chao's serving points have nothing to do with the difficulty of serving.

His difficulty lies in "calculation" other than skills.

for example.

For the same short backspin serve, if the opponent predicts it and catches up ahead of time, he can forcefully twist or hit it, and it is possible to kill him directly with a single board.

But if the opponent mistakenly thinks that this is a long ball from the bottom line and does not meet it in advance, then he can only choose to play short and stabilize the board first.

And if he actually judges that this is a fast steal, then he will quickly take a step back. When he retreats, he suddenly finds that the ball turned out to be a short backspin, but he has no way to stop the fast backspin. pulled back.

He will directly eat the serve and lose points.

——This is the mystery of serving.

Its essence lies in both "deception" and "prejudgment".

The person serving the ball must find a way to deceive the person receiving the ball.

The person who catches the ball must accurately predict the opponent's serve.

This is a very high-level psychological game.

Many amateur players don't know that after a real high-quality match, the first thing the players on both sides feel is not physical exhaustion, but mental and physical exhaustion.

What they are really tired of is the "heart", to be precise, the "brain".

While Wang Bin was in a trance, six more rounds had been played on the court, and the score jumped to 9:3, with Wang Chao leading.

From 3:3 onwards, he never conceded a single ball and scored six points in a row.

By this time, there were no more noise from the players outside the court, and even the most heartless people began to realize that Wang Chao's style of play was definitely not as simple as it seemed.

Zhao Fuqiang and Li Zhenguo stopped arguing a long time ago. Both of them felt their faces were burning and aching.

After arguing for a long time, the third place is still Wang Chao's, so what is the fight between me and the other party?

"you……"

Li Mu's voice trembled very slightly, and it was very clear in the arena that had just gradually quieted down: "When... have you studied my ball?"

Young people are not really fearless. When you find that the other party seems to see through you completely, when you find yourself naked in front of the other party, you will also feel some kind of unspeakable fear.

Wang Chao smiled and shook his head: "This is the first time we have played against each other. I didn't know you before today. How could I study your ball?"

"But...but..." Li Mu's face flushed slightly, but he didn't know how to continue the conversation.

Wang Chao sighed slightly in his heart.

"It's still too heavy a shot, I hope it won't affect his mentality."

If possible, Wang Chao didn't want to do this.

It's just that his physical strength really can't keep up today, and he really doesn't want to miss such an opportunity to enter the professional field.

So, I can only apologize, children.

After all, he was once a famous coach of the national team, and after all, this place is just a small substitute area for the city team.

It is no exaggeration to say that the combined experience of everyone present is less than one-tenth of Wang Chao's.

He has seen too many different types of players and knows the playing style and specific habits of any type of player.

For players of Zhao Ge and Li Mu's level, he only needs to take a look, and he can see the opponent's whole person through the opponent's demeanor, speech, racket holding posture, and serve movement.

For the rest of the places that are not clear, you only need to hit the opponent with two or three balls, and it is enough to see clearly.

So when he played Zhao Ge, he scored 4:1 at first. On the one hand, he was observing, and on the other hand, he was actually familiarizing himself with the racket he just got.

And after Li Mu came up, he was already familiar enough with the racket.

Therefore, Wang Bin's judgment cannot be wrong. Under the current situation, Li Mu is indeed more threatening than Zhao Ge.

It's a pity that Wang Chao is also more familiar with the racket in his hand and the table in front of him.

So in a real fight, Li Mu's stats were not as good as Zhao Ge's.

……

The game was still going on, Wang Chao served two balls, Li Mu ate two balls, the whole scene was understated, as if Li Mu had given up resistance.

The score was fixed at 11:3, and Wang Chao won the first game.

He lay on the floor again, panting exhaustedly, but everyone looked at him completely differently from before.

Li Mu felt aggrieved, walked to the side, and whispered to Li Zhenguo next to him: "I didn't play badly...I didn't give up resistance...I was really serious about catching the ball, I was just cheated by him..."

Li Zhenguo didn't say anything, and patted his own nephew on the shoulder.

He saw clearly.

Wang Chao’s last two serves were very strange. The first serve was obviously long, but every detail of his serve was like a short backspin. It was just that the moment the racket touched the ball, his wrist suddenly trembled. , the movements were extremely subtle, even he, the coach, hardly noticed it.

As for the second serve, whether it is the tilt angle of the racket, the tilt direction of Wang Chao's body, or even the position where Wang Chao's eyes are fixed on, it all proves that the ball should be aimed at the small triangle area on Li Mu's right hand, but in the end the ball The landing point was on the bottom line of Li Mu's left hand.

Li Mu didn't give up resistance, he was just deceived.

He was fooled by an overly clever fake move.

Ten minutes later, Wang Chao sat up from the floor again, but it was not the second game between him and Li Mu.

Li Mu immediately conceded defeat.

"Can you still fight?" When Wang Bin asked this sentence, his eyes were very complicated.

"I guess I can hit one more person." Wang Chao said frankly, "It won't work anymore, I can't hold it anymore."

His eyes wandered outside the field, and then he suddenly noticed a problem, and couldn't help asking: "Where's Tian Zhengguang? Doesn't he want to try again?"

Wang Bin didn't say anything.

But Wang Chao wanted to understand the cause and effect of the matter as soon as he asked this sentence.

He is too familiar with the specific situation in this level of table tennis training bases. After all, he has stayed in each level of base for a long time.

So it took only a second for him to guess that Tian Zhengguang must have been severely punished, and then he naturally changed the subject: "Then who do you want me to fight with?"

Wang Bin searched the field, and was about to speak, but suddenly stopped, then frowned, and said, "Where is Jiang Shan? Why isn't Jiang Shan here? Didn't he come to practice today?"

Yes, Jiang Shan, the youngest and strongest kid on the bench, who usually likes to join in the fun, unexpectedly didn't show up at the scene today.

"He came with me in the morning." It was Tian Ye who spoke: "Later, I heard that there was a trial training for newcomers, and everyone came to watch the fun, but he said that he was going to the bathroom. Once he went, he never came back."

"What the hell are you doing?" Wang Bin was a little displeased, and turned his head to look at Tian Qi: "Go find him and let him come over quickly."

Tian Ye was a little eager to try, and said: "Head coach, Jiangshan will come back after a while anyway, why don't you...let me try?"

Wang Bin glanced at him, then at Wang Chao, pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "Forget it, Wang Chao can only fight one game, let's wait for Jiang Shan to come over."

The implication was that Tian Ye could not defeat Wang Chao.

Only Jiang Shan, who ranks first in the bench team, still has a little chance.

"This head coach's vision is not bad, he should have seen something." Wang Chao secretly smiled.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Shan came late, and when he saw Wang Chao, his face was not very good-looking. Obviously, the shadow of yesterday has not dissipated.

"Hello, we meet again." Wang Chao greeted with a smile.

"Who wants to meet you!" Jiang Shan said indignantly: "I heard that there was a trial training, and I knew it was you, but I didn't expect wow, I hid in the toilet, and was arrested by Coach Tian abruptly !"

After saying this, everyone looked different.

"You two fought?" Wang Bin frowned.

"Well, I just played yesterday, and I can't beat it at all." Jiang Shan sighed: "Head coach, don't waste your time, he is such a pervert that our substitute players can't deal with, you should hurry and send him to the main team let's go."

(End of this chapter)