The secret weapon of the Indian team is "strange glue"

Recently, the Busan World Table Tennis Championships is in full swing, in the second round of the group stage of the just-concluded team competition, the Chinese men's team defeated Cuba 3:0, and the Chinese women's team defeated Uzbekistan 3:0.

Compared with the calm waves in the second round, the Chinese women's team was shocked by the Indian team in a cold sweat in the first round.

Although the final score was 3:2 reversal and victory, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi's successive points still make people question: the Indian team is so strong?

↑ China's Sun Yingsha after losing the first set. She lost 3-1 to India's Mukherjee.

Indian women's table tennis has developed rapidly in recent years, vigorously cultivating players with special playing styles, and as early as the 2022 Asian Cup, the long rubber player Batra won against Chen Xingtong. In the women's doubles competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, the Mukherjee sisters defeated Chen Meng/Wang Yidi in an upset and finally won a bronze medal.

According to reports, in this World Table Tennis Championships, Mukherjee, who won Sun Yingsha in the first game, used a backhand arc resistant rubber. The "secret weapon" of Indian players is actually the combination of rubber with different characteristics, and the "strange glue" is surprisingly successful.

The rubber on the table tennis racket is divided into many kinds, most of the national table tennis players are positive and backhand anti-glue, in addition to raw rubber, long rubber, positive rubber, anti-arc rubber, etc., the length, size, direction and so on of the rubber will make the ball form different degrees of rotation, the characteristics of the particle play are prominent, and it takes time to adapt. The special playing style of Indian players disrupted the rhythm of national table tennis as soon as it came up, which is in line with the old saying: "Punch the master to death".

The Orange Persimmon Interactive reporter interviewed Wang Tong, a former member of the national youth team and executive deputy secretary general of the Zhejiang Table Tennis Association.

"The level of Chinese table tennis players is already at the top of the world, and the double-sided reverse glue style is very smooth. The weaker Indian team played against us, and if the first game was tied and played point by point, it would be impossible to complete the impact. Wang Tong analyzed, the Indian player opened with a "trouble", quickly entered the rhythm and disrupted the opponent, "With the change of the size and material of the table tennis ball, the rotation force of the ball is reduced, like the original rotation is strong, all of them are easy to make mistakes, and now the success rate of the forehand and backhand in the process of playing has increased compared with before, and it may be a 2-point difference between the back and forth, which makes the national table tennis uncomfortable and uncomfortable, a little timid, even if an athlete like Sun Yingsha, there may be fluctuations." ”

Three people, three different rubber is indeed difficult to deal with, especially Mukherjee's anti-arc rubber is rare for many years, and now it is impossible to find a relatively high-level sparring partner of the same type, and it is difficult to make a difference in the special style of play under the existing selection mechanism of national table tennis, "Now the national team players have almost no special playing style like India, granular glue has its limitations, and it is difficult to stand at the highest level in the world all year round." Wang Tong said.

↑ China's Wang Yidi wiped his face during a pause in the third set. In the end, she lost 0-3 to India's Akula.

↑China's Sun Yingsha (left) celebrates chasing the aggregate score to a 2-2 draw after defeating India's Batra 3-1 in the fourth set.

Talking about the reason for the defeat after the game, Sun Yingsha said frankly that the main thing is the preparation of the opponent's special style of play, and she has never played against the arc before, and she doesn't know so much about the rotation and the entire style of play and style, "The main reason for the loss is that the control of the key points is not handled well, and I can see the rotation of the opponent's ball, and I am a little hesitant to grasp the key points." ”

Some netizens also asked, since we know that the opponent may use various special playing styles, but we can't adapt to them all of a sudden, why don't we make a more targeted training plan in the usual training of national table tennis, such as sparring partners who specialize in finding different particle playing styles?

In this regard, the orange persimmon interactive reporter also consulted another person in the table tennis circle, the person said that the national team does not have such athletes, need to look for from various provinces, and the provinces need to go to the municipal level grassroots young athletes to select and train, this is a process, not overnight, it is understood that in some provinces of youth table tennis events, the team competition requires three people must have a special style of play.

However, in terms of absolute strength, national table tennis still has an advantage in major events, it is normal to win or lose in competitive sports, and the loss of one of the team competitions is not a bad thing, and encountering strong opponents in the first round is definitely of positive significance for subsequent games.

Fans who care about national table tennis and Sun Yingsha don't have to over-interpret and worry, I believe that the athletes themselves can summarize and adjust, just cheer for them!