It has to be said that at the moment Alexander defeated Yao Guangzhi, although Ling Zhi rationally maintained a certain degree of attention to Alexander, emotionally speaking, he was a little bit happy.
Because compared to playing against Yao Guangzhi, who is obviously very strong, Alexander seems to be easier to deal with.
Although Alexander won the last game, it does not mean that his overall ability is better than Yao Guangzhi. It only means that he just suppressed Yao Guangzhi in certain situations. If he was purely attacking, Alexander should not be Yao Guangzhi's opponent.
Furthermore, a best-of-five-game game actually involves a lot of luck, and it is not a rare phenomenon for the weak to defeat the strong. And if it is a long-game game, people with stronger comprehensive abilities will obviously have the advantage.
So in general, Alexander's single-shot scoring ability is not strong, and he still has a chance to lay out the layout. And if he faces Yao Guangzhi, Ling Zhi really doesn't have the confidence to extinguish his fiery scoring touch.
The two walked to the stage. Alexander was still wearing his familiar black coat. He held the club in the crease of his right arm, stretched out his right hand and shook hands with Ling Zhi with a smile. Ling Zhi also smiled back and held hands with Alexander.
grip.
Next, the referee tosses a coin, and the two guess heads or tails. Alexander stretched out his right hand and pointed at Ling Zhi, indicating that Ling Zhi should make the first guess.
Lingzhi guessed heads, and the coin thrown by the referee was also heads, so the referee indicated that Lingzhi could choose who would kick off first, between him and Alexander.
Lexus gave the kick-off "courtesy" to Alexander, and the game officially began.
It was still a standard n-shaped tee shot. This time Lexus was lucky enough to stand next to Alexander and observe his power release at close range.
As expected, even after adding spin to the white ball, Alexander's shot still didn't sway at all. It seems that for him, the handstand is really dispensable. As long as there is something to cushion, he can do it.
to a stable shot.
Ling Zhi withdrew his thoughts and carefully observed the situation after kick-off.
At this time, a red ball left the pile of red balls. Although it was some distance away from the mouth of the bag, looking at the angle, if you aimed towards the goal, the white ball should be able to just pass under the black ball and return to the upper half of the table smoothly.
In this way, even if the red ball cannot be scored, there will be no big leak.
Thinking about the established strategy he had determined, Ling Zhi rarely decided to be reckless. He first glanced in the direction of the red ball, determined the separation angle, and then came to the white ball. After dribbling four or five times,
, decisively hit the white ball with a low shot.
Unexpectedly, the position where the white ball hit was much thinner than Lexus expected, so that the white ball did not bypass the black ball after hitting the bottom, but directly hit the black ball, and then exploded the red ball pile!
Lingzhi forcibly resisted the urge to cover his face. This, this is too amateurish! Not only did the ball miss, but he also gave Alexander a great situation!
"Tch, it seems like you haven't made any progress at all. The long platform is so far behind? You finally got a good draw. Don't waste it. It's really ugly to lose to a disabled person."
Ling Zhi looked back and saw that it was Jin Zhen. Judging from his leisurely look, he must have advanced to the top eight.
Ling Zhi didn't bother to pay attention to him. He was already unhappy when he didn't score a goal, but when Jin Zhen said this, he felt even worse.
Fortunately, Jin Zhen did not sneer further, but turned and left, leaving everyone present pointing at Ling Zhi.
Watching Alexander step up to hit the ball, Ling Zhi felt that he could never calm down. He was constantly replaying the shot he just made a mistake in his mind, thinking about why he made the mistake, and he didn't care to carefully watch how Alexander attacked.
Yes.
Because both of them had a handicap of -10 points, the referee set their scores to zero at the beginning. After an unknown amount of time, Ling Zhi saw Alexander interrupting his attack, and he glanced at the scoreboard:
36:0.
This mistake actually gave Alexander 36 points. It was really a huge loss!
With this mentality, Ling Zhi stepped forward again and observed the spherical shape.
In the last shot, Alexander failed to score in the attacking half, but now he gave Lingzhi a good opportunity.
At this time, the left and right bottom pockets of the black ball were open, and the distribution of red balls was relatively scattered. Lingzhi also wanted to seize this opportunity to score points quickly, so he didn't think much and scored a simple ball.
But Ling Zhi immediately regretted it, because after scoring, the white ball went too straight and the black ball went too straight. He didn't control the strength of the previous shot, and now he was in trouble!
The angle is constant, and the position will either drive the white ball forward or pull it back. There is no third option. This is why professional players don't like to hit straight balls because it is difficult to move.
There was no good way. Ling Zhi saw that there was no ball under the black ball, so he had to pull a low shot in the direction of the black ball, hoping to pull the white ball to the middle of the table and create more opportunities for himself.
However, Ling Zhi was a little anxious at this time, and the accompanying physical manifestations were that his muscles were tight and he was unable to exert force. Therefore, after one shot, the white ball did not move back very far, which made Ling Zhi dumbfounded!
However, there was still a chance to hit the pocket at this time. Lingzhi saw that the angle was upward, so he didn't think much about it. When he scored, he wanted to hide behind the low-scoring colored ball. If he didn't score in this way, he would still have a chance to get entangled.
Even Ling Zhi himself didn't realize that he was playing with a "weak mentality" at this moment. As a result, he was not decisive enough when taking action and paused many times. As expected, the shot was not scored.
In the next few shots, Ling Zhi's shots were far from what he imagined, and he could never control the white ball to the most comfortable position. In this way, Ling Zhi lost the whole set in confusion.
In the second game, Ling Zhi forced himself to cheer up. He also realized that an overly aggressive offensive method seemed not suitable for him. After all, his strength did not support such a move.
So he decided to return to his old style of play and become more conservative.
So when the second game started, the two of them defended for half an hour.
The two of them attacked each other for half an hour, but there was no relatively high single-stroke score. Therefore, at first Lingzhi focused all his attention on the table and did not pay too much attention to the total score of the two.
But half an hour later, Lingzhi accidentally glanced at the scoreboard and found that the score had reached 45:12! Was he already so far behind Alexander without knowing it?
Ling Zhi suddenly felt like he was being cut with a dull knife, and the anxious mentality from the last game resurfaced. He thought, he couldn't go on like this, and he had to make changes as soon as possible!
Looking at the red ball at the bottom of the pile of red balls in front of him, he was originally unwilling to attack, because if he attacked directly, the white ball would directly hit the pile of red balls. If he didn't score, it would easily give his opponent a chance. If he did, the white ball would hit him again.
It's difficult to get around the pile of red balls and call for the colored balls.
But now he decided to push himself, attack hard and let the white ball rush out of the red ball pile to try his luck. Maybe the bicycle turned into a motorcycle?
So Lingzhi aimed the club at the high pole, suddenly exerted force and started to charge the ball!
The red ball fell into the bag, and the pile of red balls was blown apart. The white ball passed through the pile of red balls and came to near the middle pocket, just in a comfortable position to hit the blue ball!
Great! Sure enough, we still have to fight hard at the critical moment!
But then, Lexus heard the referee's voice coming from hell:
"Foul, Alexander 6 points."
??
Foul? Where was the foul?
Ling Zhi watched blankly as the referee picked up a pink ball from the top pocket. Only then did he realize that he had been focusing on the white ball just now, and did not realize that the pink ball had rolled into the ball unknowingly due to the explosion.
Top bag! Such bad luck!
However, it was useless to blame others. Ling Zhi could only sit back in his seat with a sad face.
There was no suspense about the next situation. Alexander easily scored more than 20 points with his concise and devoid of any fancy shots. After scoring the super-point goal, Lingzhi took the initiative to admit defeat.
After winning the ball, while the referee was swinging the ball, both of them sat in their seats, deep in thought.
Alexander did not show any joyful emotions. Instead, he put his right hand against his upper lip, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Ling Zhi was a little confused, and he didn't even know what strategy he should adopt in the next game.
But then, Ling Zhi saw Li Mengyao standing behind a ball table opposite with her arms raised and fists clenched, as if to encourage herself?
Oh, yes. From her perspective, the scoreboard on her side is clearly visible. It seems that she understands her situation at this moment.
Ling Zhi smiled and nodded to her from afar, feeling somewhat calmer. After his thoughts were freed for a moment, Ling Zhi suddenly felt that something was not right:
My mentality is not right! Why are I so anxious to win the game? And when did my mentality start to change?
Ling Zhi thought about it carefully, and after a few seconds, he was gradually able to confirm that the change should have started at the moment Alexander won.
Alexander's victory gave Lingzhi hope of advancing to the semi-finals, so he mentally formulated his own game strategy in advance, but ignored his original game rhythm!
Also, if you think about it carefully, in the first two games, my average stroke time was probably less than 20 seconds. If I shot the stroke so quickly, why should I rush up? No one is rushing me!
And to be honest, in fact, I had never noticed before that I had been despising Alexander!
Although he had clearly seen Alexander's strength before the game, during the game, whenever he saw Alexander's broken arm, his heart would fluctuate.
So much so that when I was sitting down after falling behind 0:2, I was even thinking, how about we fight hard in the third game and forget about winning. If not, let Alexander win and let him enter the top four.
Do you think you have helped him increase his popularity?
If a disabled person finally wins the Citizen Cup, it will be a very inspiring story. It seems good to be the background of this matter!
No, no, no! This must not be the case!
After calming down, Ling Zhi instantly realized how ridiculous his previous idea was!
Every billiards player has his or her own training experience of blood and tears. Alexander's journey to this point seems to be full of hardships, but he is definitely not the most difficult one!
Among those professional players, which one is easier?
Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s just talk about Selby and O’Sullivan falling into depression 20 years ago, Mark Allen’s bankruptcy crisis, and the hardships of many Chinese players who came to the Eagle Country to play at their own expense. Which of these players
Aren’t you constantly moving forward under tremendous pressure?
Thinking of this, Ling Zhi stood up and looked at the ball shape that the referee had set up and Alexander who was about to step forward to kick off, and the fighting spirit ignited in his heart!
Want to be a background board? That's too easy! Every player's experience is worthy of you being their background board, but that way it would be endless.
This time, I must not give up victory easily!
If you want me to be the backdrop, then use your strength in exchange!