Ping Pong Life

Chapter 428 Zhigang vs Zhirou
Although the match between Wang Chao and Bayer was very dramatic, the next match that attracted the most attention this morning was Luo Jiu vs. Lin Zijun.

Temporary "No. [-] attack in the world" vs "No. [-] defense in the world".

Well, it's not recognized, but it is indeed recognized by a large number of fans.

This is the fifth and last round of the game in the morning. Since the last game was played for too long, it was already 11:40 am local time, and it was time for lunch.

But no one left in the crowded arena.

When Luo Jiu and Lin Zijun appeared on the stage, the cheers and cheers in the stadium could blow the roof off.

The fans at the scene were almost all cheering for Lin Zijun. At this moment, the match scene in Budapest, Hungary seemed to be the home of Bay Island.

Naturally, this is not because Lin Zijun's popularity really crushes Luo Jiu, but because all along, as long as the competitions are held abroad, as long as the Huaping players face the players from the Shanghai Foreign Association, the audience will support other than Huaping without any suspense. that contestant.

This is the enemy of Huaping after decades of continuous dominance. This is not a kind of discrimination, but a great honor.

But in fact, when he really approached the table, Lin Zijun's heart was far less peaceful than it looked on the outside.

He is very polite.

Although he had liberated his mind during the last super-evolution, he is still a player whose reason far outweighs his passion, so when the lottery results came out a few days ago, he had already realized that, if nothing else, 16 into 8 This game will be the most difficult game on the way to the final - if I have this opportunity.

Lin Zijun knew very well that the three most difficult players for him to face in this World Table Tennis Championships were Wang Chao first, Luo Jiu second and Bayer third.

The above rankings are not arranged according to the initials of the names, but are arranged according to the degree of threat from high to low.

The current Lin Zijun has a flaw, and this flaw is "insufficient ability to actively attack".

He completed a super-evolution at the Deutsches Open and became the fastest-moving table tennis player with the fastest nerve response in history. His style of play is known as "super speed mode", which is more talented than "extreme speed". A level of existence.

At that moment he thought he was invincible, especially after he used super speed mode to prevent Hook head-on.

But then he was slapped to death by Wang Chao.

Only then did he really calm down and realize that he still had such a huge flaw.

"Insufficient offensive ability", these eight words are the unified evaluation of him by the table tennis media all over the world after the German Open.

The two most fundamental words are "active".

He can play a super attack, provided that the opponent first exerts strength, and then he leverages strength to attack.

But if the opponent doesn't exert strength, he can only exert strength by himself, and his weakness will be exposed, because he is thin and absolutely lacking in strength, no matter how he pulls the ball with his forehand, he can only have so much power.

His backhand is more powerful than his forehand, because the backhand can at least twist the ball fast enough.

But purely in terms of strength and rotation, it is still not enough.

So Wang Chao can play him to death easily.

After the German Open, Lin Zijun participated in some small competitions, including some invitational matches and exhibition matches in the Bay Island Province. He found that everyone was trying to use Wang Chao's style of play to deal with him, but in the end, these people were easily defeated by Lin Zijun. Shoot dead.

After the World Cup in August, Sakura Country and Kimchi Country also took the initiative to invite Bay Island to conduct a three-region joint special training in Asia, trying to find a way to deal with Huaping in this way. It was also in this special training, Lin Zijun fought against Zhang Benkuang, Uta Seiya, Xingchuan Ruiji and others from the Sakura Kingdom, and Li Zhengzhi, Zhu Shixian and others from the Kimchi Kingdom.

He thought that on the premise of exposing the fundamental flaws, he might be targeted badly, but in the end he found, oh, I seem to be quite strong, and it turns out that the so-called flaws in me are not something everyone can catch yes.

He didn't really have a clear understanding of himself until the end of August, when the special training in the three places was completely over.

"I'm strong."

"Very strong."

"I do lack offensive strength, but relying on placement, rhythm, transition, change, speed and technique, I am enough to kill 90.00% of the professional players in the world."

"The remaining [-]% of professional players that I can't beat to death can't beat me so easily, because they can't beat me to death either."

"So in fact, even if I have a flaw, I am still naturally invincible in most cases. The victory or defeat only depends on whether the opponent has the ability to penetrate my defense head-on."

"If you can't penetrate it, then what everyone compares is actually the comprehensive attributes such as stability in continuous combat, comprehensive technology, feel, ability to adjust mentality, and ability to adapt to the situation."

"In terms of these comprehensive attributes, I am also very strong, very strong, surpassing 90.00% of the people in the world."

Only then did Lin Zijun really understand.

It turns out that if a professional player wants to beat himself, he must have good enough technique, good enough stability, good enough touch, good enough control of the small ball in the table, good enough adaptability and tactical adjustment ability, enough Good defense ability, and - super powerful attack power.

Of course, he must have at least world-class movement speed, reaction speed, and connection speed. Otherwise, he can't even pass the basic skills, so what tactics are there?
The question is, how many players are there in the world who meet so many conditions at the same time?
As Lin Zijun could think of, there is only one Bayer in Europe, because Bayer is known as Little Sun Tianlong and is comprehensive enough.

Bayer's only problem now is that they lack strength and speed when they are old, so in a real fight, even if Bayer uses the most targeted tactics, it is hard to say whether Bayer can defeat itself.

In South America, North America, Africa and other places, Lin Zijun believes that at least for now, no one is his opponent.

And finally Asia.

Kimchi Country and Cherry Blossom Country, as traditional Asian ping-pong powerhouses, were originally worthy of analysis, but because everyone had just trained together and played head-to-head, Lin Zijun was sure that these two countries were not a threat.

The original water bird eagle may have been a threat, but the water bird eagle has already gone to Germany and did not even participate in the World Cup.

So the biggest threat is still Huaping.

Wang Chao is the absolute number one enemy, because in July, Wang Chao had already personally demonstrated how to defeat himself.

Then there is Sun Tianlong, who is truly number one in the world. Even when Lin Zijun just completed his super-evolution in July and felt that he was invincible, Sun Tianlong was subconsciously excluded in his mind.

The charm of the Dragon Team is that when Lin Zijun himself doesn't know how to lose, he still instinctively feels that the Dragon Team will tell him how to lose—yes, that's an exaggeration.

The last threat was of course Luo Jiu.

Luo Jiu is too similar to Wang Chao.

They are brothers from the same school, they practice the same tactical system, and they both have the same rich and unpredictable offensive methods. Luo Jiu's attack methods are even more unpredictable than Wang Chao's because of the change of rubber for the racket.

Lin Zijun didn't have unparalleled talent. Even though he knew that his adaptability was good and his touch was good, he never dared to say that he would be able to make perfect judgments under Luo Jiu's double attack attributes of reverse rubber and raw rubber.

The reason why Lin Zijun ranked Luo Jiu's threat behind Wang Chao was simply because he had never fought Luo Jiu before, so after all, he still had a fluke mentality, that's all.

Playing today, Lin Zijun felt uneasy. He had to take long breaths to adjust his mentality. When he walked into the arena, his heart was beating wildly. calm.

He turned tension, fear and excitement into motivation, forcing himself into an extremely delicate state.

His whole body was tense, and his concentration was unprecedentedly concentrated. Although his chest was full of fighting spirit, his eyes were exceptionally calm.

He even felt that his spirit was a little withdrawn, as if he was watching his own battle indifferently and alienated somewhere. At this moment, he was not lacking in passion, but maintained absolute rationality, like a man with human emotions but A robot that perfectly retains all functional modules.

The referee tossed the coin, drew a bright silver curve, then landed, quickly covered it with his hand, turned his head, and signaled Lin Zijun to guess the coin.

But the referee didn't know, Lin Zijun actually knew the answer in advance.

He knew it was "words", not "flowers".

Because when he turned on the super speed mode in July, the dynamic capture ability of his eyes also improved along with his nerve reflex ability, reaching an unbelievable level.

He clearly saw the whole process of the silver coin rolling from the bright silver track that fell rapidly, until the referee's other hand covered it, and the state of the silver coin when it really touched the skin of the back of the referee's hand was clearly discernible, as if in slow motion.

Lin Zijun hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "Flowers."

The referee let go of his hand, and the camera focused on the words on the coin.

"Luo Jiu serves." The referee raised his hand to signal the start of the game.

At this moment, there was a slight commotion in the auditorium.

European fans have developed a habit. In any game related to Huaping players, they will definitely think of "Wang Chao's law of guessing coins" at the first time.

Only the weak will be favored by the coin-guessing gods.

Although everyone was trying their best to preach before the game that this is a contradictory battle between "the world's best attack" and "the world's first defense", but in fact, there is still a comparison deep in everyone's heart. They generally feel that the god of coin guessing should favor it today. Lin Zijun.

But in the end it was Luo Jiu who got the right to serve.

Only Jiang Peirong's expression at this moment was a bit subtle, because as the head coach of Bay Island and Lin Zijun's most trusted elder, he actually knew that Lin Zijun could clearly see the coin tossed by the referee.

Guessing coins is not a random question in front of Lin Zijun, but a sub-question.

But Lin Zijun chose to fill in a wrong answer.

"He was still affected after all..." Jiang Peirong sighed softly in his heart.

Before the match, he told Lin Zijun many times that he must grab the right to serve, because the world of competitive sports must be objective and materialistic, and those rumors about coin guessing are nothing more than memes created by ignorant fans. any reference value.

But Lin Zijun did not bear the pressure. He chose to guess wrong, which means that he is very concerned about the "omen" of this game.

Many people pay attention to omens before doing important things. For example, before flying, they never say "bon voyage", but only "safe voyage", and they never say "death" during the Chinese New Year, but take a risk When it is dangerous, you will never dare to set any flag.

Jiang Peirong knew very well that Lin Zijun was a young man with very upright views, he did not have any feudal superstitions, he did not believe in ghosts and gods, he was an absolute materialist, so he couldn't figure out why Lin Zijun chose such a choice.

This was because he didn't know that Lin Zijun made a wish before the match.

"I pray that Luo Jiu will use an offensive style of play against me instead of playing like Wang Chao..."

This was not to show weakness in his heart, but Lin Zijun felt that Luo Jiu might indeed attack him.

As a super genius, although Lin Zijun has no real contact with Luo Jiu, he feels that he understands Luo Jiu.

For a man as proud as Luo Jiu, it would be impossible to imitate Wang Chao's style of play according to the scriptures, because this would be equivalent to weakening his momentum invisibly. Now, Luo Jiu is constantly gaining momentum and is about to push this momentum to the peak. How could he lose his momentum for no reason?
Even if it is just a little pretense, Luo Jiu is probably not willing.

Well, even if Luo Jiu planned to learn Wang Chao's style of play last night, after watching the match between Wang Chao and Bayer this morning, Luo Jiu might very well change her mind on the spot.

After all, everyone could tell that Wang Chao had officially completed the process of sharpening his sword.

If it is said that in the first half of the World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Chao suffered from all kinds of bumps and bumps, then now, Wang Chao has officially unsheathed like a peerless sword, and will show his sharpness in the next three rounds of competitions, blooming an amazing world. shine.

At this time, if Luo Jiu used Wang Chao's style of play again, it would be equivalent to giving Wang Chao half of the momentum he had accumulated through hard work.

So Lin Zijun giving up the right to serve is not superstition, let alone some good omen, but a practical tactic.

If Luo Jiu wants to attack, then simply give him the right to serve, let him take the initiative more logically, and let him attack quickly.

If you want to attack, then you attack.

I want to defend, so I will defend.

It's a win-win.

……

Luo Jiu chose short backspin for the first serve in the first game.

Lin Zijun swayed short.

Luo Jiu is right.

Lin Zijun poses again.

Luo swayed back and forth nine times.

Lin Zijun continued to pose.

Although Luo Jiu wanted to attack and Lin Zijun wanted to defend, the beginning of this round did not go straight to the point. Both sides played very rigorously, strictly adhering to the procedures that should be expected in the highest level of professional table tennis competitions.

This is also an attitude.

"I allow you to attack, but you also have to rely on your ability to get the opportunity to attack."

"Of course I will get offensive opportunities based on my strength."

After nine full rounds of the ball, Luo Jiu seized the opportunity first and hit the ball with a forehand.

This ball is not powerful, but it is very tricky, fast, and has a wide angle.

A ball of this level is actually enough to kill people in a city-level or even a provincial-level competition, but it is just an appetizer here for Lin Zijun. He moves easily and does not even need to put on a standard super speed defense. In this mode, it is just a simple forehand in the court, and the ball is brought back.

Luo Jiu attacked again, with a forehand arc.

Lin Zijun continued to pull the ball inside the table.

Luo Jiu continued to attack, and began to change the landing point and the direction of the side spin.

Lin Zijun's judgment on the rotation is very precise, and he keeps it tight.

Luo Jiu attacked again, but directly switched to a backhand bounce. The ball was as fast as lightning, and it changed from an arc trajectory to a straight trajectory in an instant. Even the sound of the racket hitting the ball changed, from the slightly dull sound just now. "Puff" turned into a crisp "bang" at this moment.

However, this level of "turning or not" and the subtle changes in the flight path of the ball caused by the impact of raw rubber are still not a threat to Lin Zijun. It is true that he is not accurate enough to judge the impact of raw rubber, but with him His reaction speed can be judged after the ball actually flies out, and what his eyes see will never be fake.

What's more, his abnormal dynamic capture vision at the moment can even see the specific direction of the ball spinning rapidly in the air.

He has a feeling that, given time, if he continues to practice, he may be able to directly judge the approximate strength of the ball's rotation through the appearance effect of the continuous annihilation of the lines on his body when the ball rotates.

So he still adjusted the angle of the racket to perfectly block the bouncing ball.

At this time, the game had only been going on for less than ten seconds, and the audience had already started bursts of warm applause.

Because the appearance of the ball at the beginning is exactly what everyone expected.

One is attacking and the other is defending. The attacker keeps changing his attack style, and the defender can always defend. This is the most beautiful big scene battle.

Luo Jiu launched what he claims is the world's number one double-sided loop ball attack system without dead ends. The trajectory of the ball in the air became more chaotic, and it flew almost irregularly to any landing point on Lin Zijun's side of the table. .

They spin forward, reverse, sideways, up, down, sometimes they turn, sometimes they don't turn, sometimes they go straight, sometimes they go in an arc, sometimes the arc is steep, sometimes it's gentle, and sometimes it falls at the near point , Occasionally landed at the far point, different attack attributes combined with various dazzling hitting postures that Luo Jiu showed at one end of the table, almost ten times of attacks without any repetition, the audience's shouts were overwhelming. Today, a large number of spectators stood up and started applauding, and the entire stadium reached a climax directly at the first ball of the game.

And all these attacks were perfectly blocked by Lin Zijun.

At the same time, Lin Zijun also understood Luo Jiu's plan.

Luo Jiu really didn't learn Wang Chao's style of play, and completely blocked Lin Zijun's super speed defense mode.

But he also didn't want Lin Zijun to take advantage of his strength, because his attack followed an ever-changing route, not a route of speed or strength.

He just poured out all the offensive methods he knew, like a dam releasing floods, like a galaxy hanging upside down, as for the effect of these attacks, he didn't care, he was just venting, superimposing, showing, this game , what Luo Jiu wants is not only to win, but also to win in the best possible way.

This means that, from the very beginning, what Luo Jiu considered was not the outcome of the game, but how to win. He wanted to use a beautiful game and use a match that was better than March. Wang Chao vs. Sun Tianlong also had a gorgeous match, pushing his momentum directly to the top.

Therefore, Lin Zijun judged that Luo Jiu's current mentality should be: "You have to hold on, but don't be beaten to death by me before I have fully demonstrated."

After understanding Luo Jiu's intentions, Lin Zijun didn't feel that he had been humiliated, he thought it was normal.

He is a very self-aware kid. He knows that if Luo Jiu learns Wang Chao's style of play, he will not be able to beat him. Therefore, if everyone is rational and objective in this match, he has no chance of winning.

But since Luo Jiu wanted more, he had to pay some price for it.

"Do you want a steady small victory, or a risky but hearty big victory?"

Luo Jiu chose the latter.

Then, what Lin Zijun has to do is to calm down, stabilize his mentality, bite and hold on, just like the Dragons did when they faced the peak Hu Ke last year, looking for any scorer from every corner. Opportunity lasted until Luo Jiu's attack fatigued.

Hardness cannot last long, and softness cannot be defended. This is the principle of heaven and earth. It is said that the offense cannot be sustained if it is too vigorous, and the defense cannot be sustained if it is too tight. So now let's compare it. In the end who can't bear it first.

(There is another chapter, maybe a little later, still writing)

(End of this chapter)