(Liu Guoliang under the national flag, radiant)
Liu Guoliang, vice chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, China's first men's singles Olympic champion, China's first Olympic champion, World Table Tennis Champion and World Cup champion in one "Grand Slam" athlete, the first "Grand Slam" player to win the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships in all participating events, the "fat man who does not understand the ball" in the mouth of fans, the "Imperial Commander" in the mouth of the Japanese media, and the super coach who led the Chinese men's and women's teams to achieve brilliant results during his tenure as head coach. There is no doubt that whether as an athlete or as a coach, he has achieved unattainable results. The coach's performance is not listed for the time being, in terms of athletes alone, is his strength really as "invincible in the world" as stated on the Internet? Personally, I thought it was not the same, and listened to my slow analysis.
(Liu Guoliang in the eyes of the Japanese media, full of secondary wind)
Serve technology: This point Liu Guoliang is an absolute advantage, in the history of nearly 30 years of table tennis, almost invincible existence, the only one who can fight it, may be Sweden's Waldner. (At this point, many people may want to spray me: You forgot the "god of straight board" Marlene?) First of all, during Marlene's career, no one had ever called him that, because there were too many straight-liners at the time, and Marlene did not have an absolute advantage. It was only after he retired from the army that he began to advocate his technology on the Internet in recent years that he got this name. Secondly, in the record of Liu Guoliang and Ma Lin's confrontation, Liu Sheng lost more and lost less, relying on the first three board technology. Do you want Liu to use positive glue and Marlene's anti-glue to pull the arc circle? Liu's serve Marlene ate a lot, and Marlene's serve Liu basically did not eat. Third, from the opponent's point of view, China's number one opponent at the time, Waldner, often ate Liu Guoliang's serve in the early stage to collapse, and when facing Ma Lin, it was just the opposite, And Ma Lin often did not receive Lao Wa's serve. By analogy, Liu Guoliang's serve should be slightly better than Marlene's. ）
(As can be seen from this figure, Liu Guoliang uses a lot of strength in his waist and legs when he serves the ball)
Liu Guoliang is playing straight plate positive glue, and the natural rotation is not as strong as the anti-glue. He could send out more than 200 tee shots with positive glue, far more than the other players in the team at the time (including Marlene) with about 100 turns. In addition to this talent, there is also hard practice, Liu Guoliang once said in his autobiography: what he was most willing to think about at that time was the serve technique. The super strong rotation allows the opponent to judge which rotation is the one, but often mistakes because of underestimating the intensity of the rotation.
Another characteristic of Liu Guoliang's serve is that there are many changes. Different rotations can be made in almost exactly the same motion, making the opponent confused. In addition, The straight forehand back serve Liu Guoliang also used it very well, which was very rare among players at that time, and often achieved unexpected results.
(Schlager, a European star who can "one hit three" in doubles)
In contrast, the service level of Ma Lin, Yan Sen, Schlager, Wang Tao, and Chen Xuan can basically rank in the forefront of the players in the past 30 years, and Ma Lin is slightly ahead.
Serve:
(It was still very beautiful at that time)
At this point, Liu Guoliang and Lao Wa are still leading, followed by Ma Lin. In addition to the conventional rubbing, picking, pointing, skimming, and splitting, Liu Guoliang also creatively uses the technique of "twisting" with the front and back hands (not the current twisting, but similar to the action of screwing, the effect is very good. When encountering an opponent who is also very good in the first three boards, Liu Guoliang will also use the fast-dial and bullet strike techniques in the straight plate to fight back, which will often disrupt the rhythm of the opponent. At the 1995 Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Guoliang met Lao Wa, who was full of confidence before the game. Behind at 5:10, Liu Guoliang put the back rubber into the forehand, used the arc ball to catch the serve, broke the old tile's serve, and won the key victory. It can be seen that Liu Guoliang's ability to receive the ball is still very deep.
In contrast, Marlene's serve emphasizes more on hand control, first controlling the opponent in the stage, and then seeking to grab the opportunity to grab the pull. Yan Sen is very clever in controlling the landing point, increasing the difficulty of the opponent's return to the ball. Schlager can pull the ball directly with his backhand, but the pick-up in the forehand position is not stable enough.
(Yan Sen, a former national table tennis champion, is now a national team coach.) ）
Forehand attack: As the forehand attack that best reflects the hard strength of straight players, Liu Guoliang is somewhat inferior. The king of this technology may go to Guo Yuehua, Jiang Jialiang, and Kim Taek-so.
Guo Yuehua is a straight-panel anti-glue playing style, and the forehand arc is out of the blue, and basically no mistakes. As the absolute main force of China in the early 1980s, if it were not for injuries, he would have been basically invincible in the international table tennis arena and the opponent that Lao Wa most admired.
(Guo Yuehua, who was still very handsome back then, is now blessed a lot)
Jiang Jialiang is a straight board straight glue play, the lethality of the forehand single step in the table tennis, once beat the old tile on the court on the spot tears. He is also the number one player in the Chinese team after Guo Yuehua.
(Jiang Jialiang, a master of standing on the top of the world with a forehand fast attack)
Kanazawa Soo is a world famous player in the 1980s and 1990s, the "world's first forehand" before Wang Liqin became famous, and his sideways blast pull this board is unmatched. (Many netizens are pursuing Kanazawa-so's apprentice Yoo Seung-min, and maybe everyone doesn't watch Kanazawa-soo's game much.) At that time, when Liu Chengmin won the Olympic Championship, many professionals sighed: Liu really caught up with a good time. If Yanagi was in Kanazawa's time, he was a second-rate player, but if Kanazawa was born in Yanagi's time, it would definitely not be just an Olympic champion. ）
(Kanazawa-so, kill the high ball can be smashed on two boards, a terrifying forehand)
Liu Guoliang's forehand lethality is lacking due to the excellent technology of the first three boards (as if the first three boards are good to hold each other, and this is also the case with Lao Wa). His forehand is still dominated by the small arc of the positive glue, and in terms of the understanding of the rotation of the positive glue, only Chen Longcan may be able to match. But in terms of absolute lethality, it is still slightly inferior.
Someone may want to spray me again: Marlene's forehand is so outstanding, why can't she rank in the first gear? In fact, when Marlene first debuted, she was known for being able to fight and bite (note: the first three boards and forehand are not specialties). At the 1999 World Table Tennis Championships, although Marlene defeated many masters and won the runner-up, all of them were spelled out in a backward situation, and his nickname "Desperate Sanlang" was also derived from this. His specialty is that the combination of the serve and the subsequent tackle is very good, so the tackle is very threatening. On the quality of the veneer single hand, he is actually similar to Xu Xin and Liu Chengmin.
Backhand technology: This liu guoliang also has no advantage, his straight board horizontal play is mainly unexpected, and does not have the strength to directly confront the horizontal board backhand. Personally, I think that the players with outstanding strength in the straight backhand are nothing more than these few.
Wang Hao, the ceiling of the straight board, is the only straight board player who can directly confront or even gain the upper hand with the backhand of the horizontal board. Unique on the straight backhand strength list.
(Also the Bayi team, Liu Guoliang's disciple)
(In fact, Feng Zhe used straight plates to fight against horizontal plates earlier than Wang Hao, but his backhand sometimes used push blocking techniques, which weakened his backhand threat to a certain extent.) ）
Jiang Penglong, formerly the number one men's singles player in The Chinese Taipei team, is said to have studied under the old national "heavy gunner" Zhou Lansun. Its backhand push block is so strong that it can be used against the horizontal backhand, and is called "ghost push block" by the Japanese (this name, I really don't know what to call it, just think it is a very powerful meaning). One of Marlene's "hard hands", marlene has won many times in her career, and in the 2000 Olympic Games, Marlene was abandoned by the coaching staff for her poor performance.
(Jiang Penglong, once ranked fifth in the world)
Kanazawa Su / Liu Nankui, both are Japanese straight play, the backhand in addition to pushing and blocking have a backhand attack, compared to the traditional Chinese straight board play has a certain advantage in the backhand. The difference is that Kanazawa's backhand is more stable and the veneer quality is higher. Liu Nankui is more fierce and has a higher application rate.
(First Olympic men's singles champion)
Tactical awareness: Liu Guoliang, Lao Wa and Ma Lin have an absolute advantage in this regard. Liu Guoliang's tactical awareness is very strong, and there are often many sets of tactical comprehensive applications. Coach Cai Zhenhua praised him at the time, calling him "the only player in the national team who doesn't need a coach to fight independently." ”
Old Wa, nicknamed "Guerrilla Captain", is said to be his tactics out of the blue, making it difficult to figure out. And every time you meet him, there will be new techniques and tactics that will always put the opponent in the process of constant adaptation.
(The first Grand Slam player, one person against six generations of Chinese athletes)
Marlene, who is good at calculation, is always adjusting her tactics according to the situation of her opponents. At that time, the national team had a saying: "Yan Sen is fierce, Ma Lin oil", which is described very appropriately.
In summary, Liu Guoliang is at the top level in three aspects of serving, receiving and using techniques and tactics, which has also helped him become one of the most successful athletes in history, and the Grand Slam is well deserved. Of course, Liu Guoliangdi's achievements are far more than just an athlete, and I will further introduce his achievements as a coach in the future.