The champion's mentality is better than the runner-up; The champion serves better than the runner-up; The champion experienced a fierce battle before the final; The legend of "closing the mountain" is difficult to realize.
In the mixed doubles final of table tennis in Tokyo Olympic Games, Xu Xin and Liu Shuangshuang lost the election, which seems to verify the hidden law of the final again. Competition finals are never technical competitions, and some metaphysical causes and effects seem to play a greater role.
Let's talk about the first law: champion mentality.
For Deng Yaping, Zhang Yining, Malone and other big devil players who crush their opponents, a good attitude is domineering and self-confidence; For an opponent with equal strength, a good mentality is actually: balanced strength, less reputation, happy to win, but not afraid of losing.
Take the men's singles as an example, 1988 won the men's singles championship, 1992 defeated Waldner of Gaiting repeatedly, and 1996 defeated Liu of Wang Tao all the time. In 2000, he almost never won the hole of Lao Wa. In 2004, surprise gift was behind Wang Hao technically in 2008, 206543.
In women's singles, Chen Jing of 1988, Deng Yaping of 1992 and Ding Ning of 20 16 also meet this feature. In view of the phenomenal appearances of Deng Yaping, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, the remaining champions are full of self-confidence brought by detached strength, which is not included in the "mentality reversal".
In doubles, Wang Lin of 1992 and Wang Yansen of 2000 are not the most popular candidates, but they are in the wrong position, maintaining the psychological advantage of "balanced strength, slightly inferior reputation, happy to see their success, but not afraid of their defeat".
The balance deviation of psychological advantage is very obvious only from Ito's ghostly and relaxed smile in the table tennis mixed doubles final of Tokyo Olympic Games.
The second law is that the champion serves better than the runner-up.
The player who can win the Olympic finals is already the first in the world in terms of strength. In the fiercest competition, serving well often becomes the key factor to accumulate a weak advantage.
A good serve wins a strong serve, which is not only reflected in the Olympic Games, but also in other competitions.
China's first men's singles Grand Slam winner Liu is a typical serve genius. Among his contemporaries, Wang Tao and Kong are relatively balanced in strength, but the "ghost talents" who serve have seized the opportunity of the competition and took the lead in reaching the top.
Later, as we all know, table tennis has undergone changes in big balls and serving rules, which greatly weakened the serving advantage of skilled straight players. Liu also fell into the dilemma of losing his mind when he got a haircut, and retired after some struggle.
In this mixed doubles final, Ito is undoubtedly the first player in women's singles service, while Mizutani Jun is the master in hiding service. Although Xu Xin's serve has advantages, it has been studied repeatedly, especially before the final. Xu Xin became the teacher of the opponent's female player in the service pit. The first three boards never met the opponent's teacher, and Liu Ye never won by serving. In contrast, we are not only at a disadvantage in serving, but also I know that the enemy is dark and the disadvantage is even greater than expected.
Third, in the competition, people who have experienced fierce fighting before the final are often stronger than they look.
If you go all the way to the final, anyone will inevitably have the problem of state adjustment. The baptism of fierce fighting before the final will inspire a strong fighting spirit and be superior in momentum.
1988, Chen Jing took the lead in experiencing the semi-final foreign war and completed the key battle to ensure that the gold medal did not fall behind; Almost every match in the semi-final of Liu 1996 will be bombarded by Rosskopf. In 2004, he killed Laowa, the biggest imaginary enemy of China table tennis team, and in 2008, he played against Wang, who had almost no weakness at that time. Before entering the finals, these players all experienced real challenges, and they released and found their own state through these challenges.
Xu Liuxin Shi Wen hardly encountered any real resistance before the final, and it was not until the final that she began to face the headwind ball for the first and last time. Although they are battle-hardened veterans, they haven't smelled the real bloody breath for a long time before entering the finals.
Shui Gu Miki It?, the Japanese regiment commander, was not. They experienced a big reversal in the quarter-finals and saved seven match points, but faced with the super-strong China Taipei team, they easily passed the test. This kind of combat state adjusted by actual combat is definitely not what Xu He can have.
Finally, the legend of "closing the mountain" is difficult to realize.
For veterans who have experienced glory, when they acquiesce that a certain game is their own harvest and expect to end their career with honor, there will always be subtle changes in their mentality, which makes it difficult to have the legendary "harvest".
Liu in 2000, Wang He and Wang Nan in 2008 and ZhangJike Li in 20 16 are all table tennis legends, and they all have the mission of "closing the mountain for the last Olympic Games". If the work of closing the mountain ends perfectly, the whole career will be more legendary.
However, once athletes have this mentality of gathering mountains, they often unconsciously fall into a state of conservatism, fear of losing and depression. They can't be crazy in the lead, nor can they spell backwardness. They can't breathe a sigh of relief and watch the younger generation dance and surpass themselves. "Gathering Mountain" often becomes an imperfect swan song.
In contrast, we should know that Kong in 2000, Zhang Yining in 2008, Ding Ning in 2008 and 20 16 all won the last Olympic champion in their careers, but at the moment they won the championship, they never thought of winning the mountain with this competition.
As for Xu Xin and Liu, it is almost well known that they are almost impossible to participate in the next Olympic Games in terms of age and style of play. Liu's situation is more special. She is the first national table tennis player who won the singles title in the recent World Table Tennis Championships, but missed the Olympic singles lineup. The coaching staff very much hopes to make up for her lost chance to compete for the Grand Slam by winning the Olympic mixed doubles championship. In this way, the compensation at the end of this career is more obvious.
To sum up, before the Olympic table tennis mixed doubles final, some mysterious factors have quietly favored the Japanese team. Mentality, skill and state actually imply many advantages of the Japanese team.
Perhaps, countless table tennis fans hope to go back in time. Someone told Xu Xin in the fourth and fifth games, don't blindly pull out the arc of the platform during the falling period. Once the opponent defends, it is a leveraged attack. From the technical analysis, it seems that this is the only link that China team can call a technical mistake.
However, there is no if.