2022/8th Original
Author:Yang Lei
"Without The Fat Final, how about I win the world?" So, the Dragons also lost the game.
Haha, a little joke.
Today's Macau men's singles match, "cold wind habits", after Xiao Fat was defeated by Xu Yingbin 3:1 in the afternoon, the Dragons lost to the big head Wang Chuqin by the same score in the evening. Such a result is indeed unexpected.
We take it for granted that the Dragons and Chubby are the "more deserving side" because countless games in the past have "proven" the correctness of our judgment. But the cruelty of competitive sports is that every new race is a restart after the starting line has been zeroed, and the victories of the past can bring you confidence, but not direct victories.
A few sorrows, a few joys.
In this competition, Xinwen Combination stood out from as many as 15 pairs of mixed doubles combinations of national table tennis, and won the final championship, proving with results that they are still the strongest combination in the field of mixed doubles in national table tennis today.
Champions, of course, are gratifying. Tasting it carefully, it also makes people silently hurt.
01 It is even more difficult to fight the country and the mountains
The hardest thing for an athlete is not to win a certain game, but to keep winning. As strong as the dragon team, he still can't escape this iron law.
The Dragons and Little Fat are much more profound than our understanding of winning and losing. In the face of the defeat of the Dragon Team and Xiao Fat, we can regret missing a "planned" peak showdown, but there is really no need to go online and over-interpret.
There is no undefeated god of war in the world. After all, in the most deadly Tokyo Olympic Men's Singles Semifinals, Houston World Table Tennis Championships Final, this kind of key games that must be won and regretted for life, the Dragon Team and Xiao Fat have resisted, which is enough!
After all, they are also flesh and blood, no matter how much they are refined into steel, they will be tired from continuous combat, and they will be tight in the face of impact.
It is true that on the comprehensive strength, the Dragon Team and Xiao Fat are still the top two people in today's Chinese men's table tennis, but in the face of the young descendants who know the roots, follow the former servants, and "only want to win and then fast", they only have a slight upper hand, and they do not have an absolute grasp of the handle.
However, these hardships are often ignored by us after they have won again and again. It wasn't until today that we suddenly discovered that the impact of the young generals was so rapid and the persistence of the veterans was so difficult!
There are no generals in the arena who sing triumphantly forever, or lose to opponents, or lose to years, and defeat is something closer to the essence of competition than victory. To lose is to lose, remember the unwillingness to lose, and win back next time.
Win, confidence; lose, self-improvement. Don't tangle, look forward, is the male nature of Chinese men's table tennis!
I would like to give this to the Dragon Team and Xiao Fat who lost today, and also to Wang Chuqin Xu Yingbin, who lost to the Dragon Team Xiao Fat more times and "bittersweetly" today!
02 Normal play Xinwen combination, is the strongest mixed doubles in my heart
After thinking about it for half a day, I still wrote down such a small title, and I know that such a title is not flattering on both sides.
On the one hand, many people think that xinwen group is not worthy of the name, losing the most important Olympic mixed doubles final, especially the decisive game with a near-collapse rout, which is still a lingering pain in the hearts of many people (including me).
On the other hand, fans who support xinwen group will think that I added the word "normal play" to imply that when they were in the mixed doubles final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, their "slight abnormality" was blackmailing them and they were angry.
To be honest, many times it is not flattering on both sides.
The dust has settled, the times have passed, and the past has been recalled, the significance has not been great, who plays well and who plays poorly is no longer important, what is important is that the national table tennis missed the glory of the first gold of the table tennis mixed doubles in the history of the Olympic Games, which can never be changed. As a fan who loves table tennis, whenever I think of this, I can't help but be sad.
The cruelest thing in the world is "I could have done it."
Yes, to this day, I still think the Xinwen combination is OK. Just like today's Macau mixed doubles final facing Fan Zhendong / Ku Man, who reached the final with a dark horse posture, one is the champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships and is now ranked first in the world, and the other is the representative of the new generation of women's line, and has won consecutive victories, especially in the semi-finals, defeated the big hit Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha, the strength should not be underestimated.
However, the Dongfeng Kudi combination encountered the normal play of the Xinwen combination, 6:11, 6:11, 5:11, the three sets combined to score a total of 17 points.
With such a strong dominance, the Xinwen combination is by no means a waste of time.
It's just that the competition is different at different levels, and the weight of the championship is very different. The Xinwen group still had no choice but to miss the golden cup that they could have grasped in their lives, and every time I thought of this, I had a deeper understanding of the word "regret".
03 Lin Shidong, the future star in my eyes
Today's all-day competition, I was impressed by Lin Shidong, who is only 17 years old.
Although Lin Shidong was reversed in the lead many times in the quarterfinals with Lin Gaoyuan, and finally passed by the victory with a small score of 11:13 and a large score of 2:3, Lin Shidong was only 17 years old after all, and his potential to play so anxiously could be seen.
Looking at the young man, it doesn't matter whether a game wins or loses, what matters is to look at the potential and space, and the potential and space are hidden in the framework of his movements.
Influenced by Zhang Jike, the new generation of young generals backhand technology is generally good, it is easy to find a backhand, it is not easy to find a forehand balance, and as we all know, the more late the emphasis is on the forehand, the forehand technology is much more difficult to practice than the backhand technology.
Therefore, having a balanced front and backhand in the early stage of your career will lay a very solid foundation for the future technology to take off, and sometimes even decide. To take a less appropriate example, Fang Bo and Zhou Yu, who have announced their withdrawal from the national team, have an obvious forehand profit and an obvious backhand profit, and throughout their national team career, they have not "adjusted the balance".
17-year-old Lin Shidong, nicknamed "Little Fat", has a more balanced forehand and backhand technical structure than fan Zhendong, who was 17 years old at the time, which is what I am most optimistic about him.