Watching the Asian Games table tennis women's doubles 1/4 final Chen Meng and Wang Yidi lose miserably to the Indian combination of Sutilta and Esika, you will feel very depressed: the ball loses very strangely: Chen Meng and Wang Yidi can hardly play, the scene is not fierce at all, and they have been pressed and knocked over, as if the level is different.
Are Chen Meng and Wang Yidi very poor?
In fact, if you look closely at each ball, this is not the case.
1. There is a reason for the blame.
From the perspective of the game process, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi have been "not right" from beginning to end, they are very uncomfortable with the ball of the Indian combination, the quality of the return ball is not high, the response measures are ineffective, and even the footsteps cannot keep up, is it because of their low level? Of course not, if you pull it out to practice, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi are both world-class first-class players, and the level is definitely no problem.
The reason is that Indian players have formed their own unique routines in rhythm, rotation, and speed, and coincidentally have a high degree of tacit understanding, fast and slow, turn or not, and change the landing point, all of which are different from what they have seen before.
The master's move, the slightest difference, will be magnified in the game.
The so-called "surprise soldier" is that you are not adaptable, not his overall level overshadows you.
There is no need to doubt the strength of Chen Meng and Wang Yidi, they are technically fine. The problem is: to study this pair of Indians well, if necessary, imitate their style of play, and carry out targeted training, things are not difficult to solve.
2. Blame has a history.
Waldner developed a novel way of serving, which also made Chinese players uncomfortable. Later, the "slippery", "skimming" and other techniques that appeared in table tennis technology, as well as the mainland's "straight racket and horizontal play", also made many masters whose technology has been formed unadaptable.
Looking back at the development history of table tennis, the so-called "strange players" are actually emerging one after another, and China and foreign countries have repeatedly appeared, thus driving the continuous research and development of table tennis technology.
This is all normal.
For the Indian pair, they do have two brushes, not only this time won China's Chen Meng Wang Yidi, in fact, this year they also won the Korean team, won the Japanese team, won the WTT Tunisia women's doubles championship! The skillfulness of the cooperation and the trickiness of the ball path have reached a very high level.
It is precisely because of the "tricky" that the world celebrities are caught off guard at important competitions.
3. There is no need to be afraid of monsters.
The emergence of new faces and the phenomenon of "overthrowing the hegemon" is not a bad thing for the sports world, this is the law of development of things, only by constantly overthrowing and being overthrown, technology can continue to progress.
This time, the Chinese woman was overturned at home again, and after going back, she must study carefully and overcome difficulties, and it is not difficult for the overall powerful Chinese table tennis team to study these techniques.
It is safe to say that the "key" to restraining the Indian combination will soon be mastered, as it has been several times before. The Indian combination is also unlikely to "sweep the ping-pong".
The Indian combination gives us a challenge, which is normal for sporting events, but also an incentive that motivates us to keep working hard and go to the next level.