In recent years, Fan Zhendong has performed well in domestic and international competitions, and has entered the men's singles finals of world competitions for many times, which is closely related to his advanced playing style and reasonable technical and tactical application. Today's Zhen Fan can be compared with ZhangJike, Malone and others in terms of technical height and thickness, and even has advantages in some aspects. Fan Zhendong's technique can be said to be a distinctive development on the basis of inheriting the mainstream style of Hengban.
Fan Zhendong's style of play is a typical double-sided arc combined with fast attack system. His style emphasizes "quickness, fierceness and ferocity" and pays attention to the shaping of backhand technical system, which is similar to ZhangJike's style of play. On the whole, Fan Zhendong's technical system is not only complete, but also innovative, which is mainly manifested in excellent reverse serve, more oppressive twisting and pulling technique in the table, fierce forehand attack, quick squeeze backhand swing, good psychological quality and will quality. However, its technical structure system is too intense and inflexible, the overall technical style is too single, the game is not enjoyable, and the receiving service relies too much on the twisting and pulling in the backhand table, which leads to the lack of comprehensive control of receiving service.
I. Technical characteristics
Unique reverse spin serve. Anti-rotation serve is a popular service technique in table tennis in the world in recent years, which can enrich the rotation of serve and make it more difficult for opponents to judge the rotation when receiving serve. This kind of serve is especially suitable for people with strong backhand attack ability. At present, China's ZhangJike, Fan Zhendong, German Bohr and Japanese Shuigu Junyi are all representatives of this service technique. As straight players, Wang Hao and Xu Ting also have the skill of shoveling and serving. Among many players' counter-spin serve, ZhangJike and Fan Zhendong are the most typical ones.
In the service link, Fan Zhendong and ZhangJike are similar, that is, on the basis of retaining the traditional high-throw service, the forehand backhand service is the main service, and its landing point is mainly the forehand position and short ball position of the opponent. Compared with the traditional high throw serve, the forehand reverse serve has the following advantages: First, the reverse serve can reduce the quality of the opponent's backhand twist to some extent. Because the backspin service rotates away from the player's body after landing, there are high requirements for the movement of the torsion side and the search for the hitting point when hitting the ball.
In addition, forehand or neutral serve can effectively limit the opponent's strength torsion. Secondly, due to the different rotation directions of the ball, it is easy to have a high deviation of the return ball when using the traditional short-brush long-split serve, and it is difficult for the opponent to pick out the high-quality return ball even if he uses the forehand in the table. Third, the rotation is strong and the landing point is easy to control. Backspin is similar to backhand loop ball, and the hitting action moves from the inside of the body to the outside of the body. With the help of the inertia of wrist abduction, it is easy to fully rub and produce strong rotation. Because of its strong rotation, the landing point is easy to control. Fan Zhendong's forehand backhand serve not only has the above characteristics, but also has a strong backhand technique to ensure the connection of backhand technique after backhand serve.
More oppressive backhand twisted on the table. Before Wang Hao and others retired, China men's table tennis was composed of three generations of players, namely, veteran Wang Hao, Wang Hao, Mesozoic player ZhangJike, Xu Xin, teenager Fan Zhendong and Zhou Yu. Wang Hao, ZhangJike and Fan Zhendong have obvious characteristics in playing. Although Wang Hao is a straight player, his backhand without pushing is still a horizontal board playing system. Therefore, for the three people, backhand technique, especially table tennis strong backhand twist technique is obvious, especially young Fan Zhendong's table tennis twist technique is very unique.
Quickly squeeze the backhand (defense). With the application of backhand twisting and pulling technique in the table in the service receiving technique, the backhand technique of the horizontal stroke has been further enriched and improved, but the backhand twisting and pulling, the arc outside the table and the pushing block can not constitute the whole backhand technique, and Fan Zhendong supplemented its backhand technique. It should be said that Fan Zhendong's backhand technique is the most complete at present, and its backhand technique includes twisting and pulling the serve inside the table, curling the backhand outside the table, blocking the backhand generally and hitting the backhand quickly, among which quickly squeezing and hitting the opponent's forehand empty is another major feature of Fan Zhendong's backhand technique.