Data map: Japanese player Mito Ito celebrates victory.
China News Network, Beijing, March 8th (Wang Hao) On the evening of the 7th, Beijing time, the Qatar Table Tennis Open entered its fifth competition day. In the women's singles semifinals, Ding Ning lost to Japanese star Ito Mitsui 0: 4 and stopped in the semifinals. Among them, the score of the third game was 0:11. Some fans were surprised by the score. According to the so-called "court etiquette", shouldn't Ito Mitsui make a ball?
In the match between Ding Ning and Mito Ito, the scores in the four games were 6:11, 12:14, 0:11, 5:11. Judging from the scene, it is basically the same as the score. Except for the second game with a little suspense, the situation in the other three games is one-sided.
Such a result appeared on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics, and naturally there are many discussions about the prospects of the Chinese and Japanese women's table tennis Olympics. And some people are concerned about the score of 0:11.
Data Map: The Rio Olympic Games table tennis women's singles final was launched inside Chinese athletes. After seven rounds of fierce competition, Ding Ning defeated Li Xiaoxia 4-3 to win the championship. Photo by Du Yang
In table tennis, such a score is also called "shaved head". The strength is as strong as Guo Ping. In most cases, it is the active side on the court, but if there is no special situation, it will not play a score of 11: 0. Without knowing when, "not shaving your opponent" has also become a potential "etiquette" on the court.
In the fourth round of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Women's Singles, "The Devil" Zhang Yining played against Japanese player Fukuhara Ai. In the second game, Zhang Yining had a clear advantage, leading 9: 0, and it seemed to sweep Fukuhara Ai. At this time, I saw her hit the ball directly on the ground when she served, and "send" a point to Fukuhara Ai.
The powerful "Devil King" has encountered many such situations in her career, but she has never been able to find a natural way to give up, so that fans have said that "acting is too poor." For her, "how to give up" may be a more difficult problem to solve than "how to score".
Zhang Yining gave the ball.
The original intention of "handicap" was to prevent the opponent's score from being too ugly, naturally out of respect. However, for the loser, how big is the difference between 0:11 and 1:11? Either one is annotated with the word "frustrated."
In recent years, it seems that more and more players no longer agree with this potential "ceremony", and many games have scored 11: 0.
In the women's singles semi-finals of the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships in 2019, the Chinese team's civil war appeared. In the end, Liu Shiwen defeated Ding Ning 4-2 and advanced to the final. In that game, Liu Shiwen gave Ding Ning a 11:00, which also caused a lot of discussion at the time.
Data map: The 2016 Rio Olympic table tennis women's team finals started, the Chinese team played against Germany. The picture shows Liu Shiwen in the game. Photo by reporter Sheng Jiapeng
According to media reports, Liu Shiwen responded to this after the game. She stated that there is no hard and fast rule that cannot be played at 11:00. Ding Ning is very strong. She dare not relax in the slightest. At that time, there were many voices in favour of Liu Shiwen's approach.
In fact, it is difficult to say a clear relationship between "giving the ball" and "respecting the opponent". Is it normal to respect opponents? Or does it make the opponent embarrassed to respect the opponent? This is probably a matter of opinion.
Of course, the potential court etiquette does not exist only in table tennis. Many sports have unwritten rules, "do" or "don't do" under certain circumstances to show respect for the opponent.
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For example, on the basketball court, if one side is leading and the game has no suspense, then at the last moment of the last quarter, the two teams will basically not defend fully, and the chance of the last attack will basically be abandoned or shot at will. But this "hidden rule" is not followed by everyone.
In the NBA regular season on January 30, Beijing time, the Knicks faced the Grizzlies. With 50 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies had a big lead, and Payton was intercepted by Claude. He was a little bit annoyed. After Claude finished shooting, he rushed to push it down, which triggered a big game between the two sides Conflict of scale.
Some fans have analyzed the reason why Payton was not calm, that is that Claude was a bit too "real" in "garbage time" and thought he was doing more.
Spring abuse in e-sports games.
The same is true in e-sports competitions. After one party captures the opponent's high ground, some teams will choose to rush into the spring of the opponent's resurrection to continue the attack. This behavior is called "spring abuse". Potential "ceremonial".
However, in actual competitions, from time to time, you can see the players "on the head" in the game, and rushed directly into the opponent's spring to kill and kill. Some people think that this approach is very impolite, while others think that as long as the rules allow it, there is nothing wrong.
In fact, it can be seen that the central idea of the hidden rules in these stadiums is "can not let the opponent lose too ugly." But for the loser, failure is failure, even if it is "decent", it is still failure. They can't be glad when they think about this game because they are "not so ugly."
Data Figure: Ding Ning. Photo by reporter Sheng Jiapeng
As for the opponent's failure to abide by the "hidden rules" and become angry, it is unnecessary. After all, the embarrassing situation he is in is caused by himself. The opponent is willing to leave a "decent" under the circumstances that have been determined. That is the "love score". The iron face is ruthless. It must be the "duty" in the rules.
Let the discussion about the game focus on the game itself, which people who love sports should learn. Although zero to eleven is not always there, you don't need to scratch your head too much. After all, winning or losing is a common practice. (Finish)