Wang Tao and ITO are both raw rubber players, but Wang Tao is affected by raw rubber players and has not won a singles world champion in his whole career. Thirty years later, can ITO break the magic spell of raw rubber playing and do what Wang Tao didn't do?
Among the foreign table tennis players, Itoh Meicheng has the biggest influence in China, which benefits from her outstanding performance and unique playing methods. Under the towering tree of Guoping, ITO can survive tenaciously and achieve good results, largely because of her unique backhand raw rubber playing method. If ITO is not the most powerful female player, she is the most powerful raw rubber player, there must be no objection. The almost forgotten way of playing raw rubber, ITO successfully revived it in the age of big ball and gave it charming charm.
In fact, thirty years ago, there was a national player who used raw rubber to the extreme in his era, helped Guoping come out from the bottom of the valley and achieved remarkable achievements. He was Wang Tao.
In those days, the little fat man who was determined not to leave Taiwan defeated countless generals of the Damascus sword
Although 30 years later, from ITO, we can still see many shadows of Wang Tao.
Let's look at the same place. The same equipment: forehand and backhand glue, backhand raw glue; the same stand: all occupy the near platform; the same physical conditions: Ito's height is 1.48m, Wang Tao's height is 1.65m, and they are short; they have the same advantages: quick response, strong backhand bounce, forehand violence; they also have the same weaknesses: slow movement, poor platform protection, and many mistakes.
Look at different places. Different times: ITO is a big ball era, the threat of slow ball speed and rotation has been reduced. Wang Tao is a small ball era, the threat of fast ball speed and rotation is great; men and women are different: the ball speed and rotation of male athletes are much faster than that of female athletes, and the forehand play is different: ITO forehand arc ring is mainly used for defense, and the attack is mainly based on clapping. Wang Tao's forehand is mainly a violent arc, with twists and bands between them; the scoring methods are different: Ito's score is mainly in the backhand, mainly in the backhand flick, and the score in the forehand slap is relatively small; Wang Tao's score is both the forehand and the backhand, and his forehand violent arc is even better than the backhand flick in scoring ability.
After talking about the similarities and differences between Wang Tao and ITO, we can now talk about the fatal weakness of raw rubber. If there is no such Achilles' heel, then raw rubber has long been the mainstream. The fatal weakness is that there are many mistakes!
Why are there many mistakes in raw rubber playing? There are several reasons as follows: first, raw rubber's play method requires different play methods for different incoming balls, which requires athletes to have accurate judgment on incoming balls, while table tennis needs to make judgment in a blink of an eye. The difficulty can be imagined, and there will be more mistakes. The second is the position, which is determined by the backhand raw rubber. If the main attack method is bullet attack, the backhand raw rubber must stand close to the platform, but the raw rubber basically does not have the ability to pull the ball. Once it is hit by the opponent to retreat from the platform, the backhand position will immediately become the live target of the opponent's attack. The biggest problem of near station position is that whether forehand or backhand, their reflection time is very short, which also causes the increase of mistakes. Third, focus. Raw rubber playing requires a high time to judge and reflect the ball, and a high level to focus on the players. Once the concentration is reduced due to the interference of the competition environment or poor physical strength, the errors will increase naturally.
It's not a business of making money to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred. No matter how big the threat is, a method with high error rate is doomed to become the mainstream method. Wang Tao was loved by many fans in the 1990s because of his unique raw rubber playing method. Unfortunately, he didn't win a world champion in singles in his whole career. The high failure rate of raw rubber playing method has to be the main reason. Wang Tao chose to retire at the age of 30 because of his energy consuming playing style. With his retirement, this kind of playing method of raw rubber basically disappeared in people's vision. It wasn't until 30 years later, when ITO was born, that people remembered this unique way of playing.
My return is of high quality, so you can't play it!
Compared with Wang Tao, ITO has two obvious advantages: first, she is facing female players, and the ball speed and rotation are quite different; second, the ball speed and rotation in the era of big ball are also lower than that in the era of small ball. The reduction of ball speed and rotation is absolutely good for raw rubber playing. With the talent of ITO and the efforts of the day after tomorrow, the failure rate of her raw rubber playing method has been reduced to a level that can produce enough threats, which gives her a chance to win even against the main players of table tennis. But when she faces the heavy and strong return, it's still a nightmare for her to make too many mistakes. This is also the reason why ITO can't take advantage of Chen Meng and sun yingsha, who are strong players.
Will the fatal damage caused by raw rubber beating to Wang Tao be transferred to ITO? It's quite possible. After all, in the world competition, she finally has to face such powerful groups as Chen Meng and sun yingsha. When the opponent honestly pulls out the strong topspin ball that presses the bottom line, the backhand bounce will greatly increase the error rate, and the forehand slap this evil martial arts, in front of such forehand arc experts as Chen Meng and sun yingsha, there is basically no space for us to display. At this time, we I will miss the power of Wang Tao's violent arc again. Does ITO also look to Wang Tao, the elder, to practice a violent forehand arc? If this unique skill can be practiced, the dream of world champion that little girl has day and night may be realized!
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