After watching the game, the mood was a little heavy. I thought that what kind of strategy the opponent adopted caused IELTS to not adapt and lose, but after reading it, I found that it was not, and the opponent's performance was excellent, but the more important reason was that IELTS did not play well. Although before this year's World Championships, IELTS did not come out to play for a long time, but this was also the case before the Olympics, and the last two mixed doubles pairs successfully met in the final, so I am not worried. I thought that at this year's World Championships, the IELTS combination could successfully defend its title and win the World Championships three consecutive championships to make up for the regret of not winning the Olympic Championship. As a result, the first game was lost, which was really surprising.
Looking at the whole game, I think the biggest problem is that Zheng Siwei has lost the deterrent power of the backcourt. For the IELTS combination, Zheng Siwei is the core, he relies on his excellent ability to cover the entire backcourt, for Huang Yaqiong, there is no need to organize some ball paths, just need to safely let the ball go of the net, get the advantage in front of the net, and the rest is left to Zheng Siwei. Occasionally retreat to help defend a shot or two, and then seek opportunities to surf the Internet. Today, the IELTS combination basically continues to use this style of play, but Zheng Siwei has not shown his strong personal ability.
This is mainly manifested in the following two aspects, the first point is the decline in the offensive ability of the backcourt. Today Zheng Siwei played a lot of hanging in the backcourt, even in the decider, which shows that he seems to have little confidence in his personal offensive ability. In the first set, the opponent was still jealous of Zheng Siwei's backcourt attack and was hanged several times. However, after finding out that Zheng Siwei did not kill the ball much, he began to pay attention to the advantages before grabbing the net, but instead let IELTS fall into passivity. The most representative goal is the second set of 1:2, Zheng Siwei killed the slash, the opposite girl has fallen into a passive situation, Zheng Siwei online coherence even failed to kill the opposite female partner, but let the opponent defend up and push Ya Qiong score, which was unimaginable before.
The second point is the decline in Zheng Siwei's ability to move sideways in the backfield, and the previous Zheng Siwei flew from the overhead area to the forehand position, and the speed was fast. But today Zheng Siwei's lateral movement is a bit slow, after a large range of lateral movement, it is difficult to get the position of active force, resulting in slow ball speed, the opponent's pressure is much smaller. Because of this, Zheng Siwei did not play much of a slash line today, especially the overhead area did not dare to kill the straight line, so he had to hang the ball. The opposite side also saw this, the defensive pressure is much smaller, and the passive in front of the net also dares to take the initiative to pick the ball to Zheng Siwei to attack. These two points affect each other, precisely because the ability to move laterally decreases, resulting in the fear of attacking can only hang the ball, and the hanging ball is easy to be defended by the opposite side, so it will be mobilized by the opponent and fall into a vicious circle. If it is the peak of IELTS, the opponent picks the ball means that there is a high probability of losing points, but today, Zheng Siwei failed to play the strength of the application.
In fact, after watching this game, I think the cooperation of IELTS is still quite reasonable, unlike before, Yaqiong watched Zheng Siwei running in front of the net, and the rotation cooperation between the two was basically there. However, it is because of the lack of offensive ability that the opportunity came out and failed to score, but was counterattacked by the opponent. As I said before, Zheng Siwei's attack is a king explosion, and the landlord cannot blow up the king as soon as he comes up, he can first test the strength of the opponent, and wait until the critical moment to blow up before it is too late. However, today's IELTS, although playing more reasonably, but lost its own big move, lost the ability to score, but was countered by the opposite side, I have to say that it is a bit regrettable.
For IELTS, the top priority is for Zheng Siwei to find his offensive ability. Of course, there is no problem in hanging, but Teacher Chen Jin said that the threat of hanging is also based on killing the ball, and only by pressing the opponent in the backcourt can the hanging ball be powerful. I still have confidence in Zheng Siwei, after all, in the Olympic Games half a year ago, his ability was still enough. On the other hand, maybe Yaqiong can play a more abundant ball in front of the net, rather than just a single net to force the opponent to start. I think this defeat also sounded the alarm for IELTS, the opponents are improving, and we can't stop moving forward. Hopefully, in the coming year we can see a stronger IELTS combination.