Chapter Seventy-Five: Difficult
"It's going to be a quick start to the game, don't be as slow as you were yesterday!" Before the start of the game, Coach Xiao Zhan told Ye Hao. Obviously, yesterday's thrilling singles match scared him a lot.
Ye Hao stuck out his tongue in embarrassment, he was indeed slow in the first singles match yesterday, and it took two games to find his form. No, today's opponent Samsolov fell into blood mold, and met a murderous Ye Hao at the beginning.
At the beginning of the game, Ye Hao quickly adjusted his state and focused on the control of the first three boards. Samsolov's serve, the threat is small, Ye Hao directly rushes to attack, the forehand and backhand are switched, how to win, how to play, how to play; The quality of the serve is high, Ye Hao does not attack, and then he will see the opportunity to act after the first board is short, if the transition ball on one board is not enough, then two boards, three boards, until the advantage is forced.
As a result, Samsolov is under pressure, can they still play happily together? The serve, which should have been the dominant link, has now become a burden, like a chicken rib, tasteless but cannot be abandoned. "It's uncomfortable, it's so uncomfortable." It was a word that lingered in Samsolov's mind at this time.
At 11:6 in the first game, Ye Hao won.
At 11:5 in the second game, Ye Hao continued to win.
At 11:4 in the third game, Ye Hao was still winning.
In the fourth game, Samsolov, who couldn't bear it anymore, was finally really angry and began to attack frantically regardless of it. This made Ye Hao on the other side a little aggrieved, isn't it just a game, you make it the same as a suicide attack, is it necessary?
But I have to say that under Samsolov's crazy attack, the situation on the field is no longer one-sided, but has become a thunderbolt against a fire, fierce and abnormal. The score went from 3:4 at the beginning, to 8:7 in the game, and then to a 10:10 draw at the end of the game, neither of the two achieved an absolute advantage.
It was the crucial score again, and at this time, the coaches of both sides on the sidelines all stood up and watched. On the one hand, there is still a chance to win this game, and on the other hand, if you win, you will complete the sweep and end the game.
Samsolov served, Ye Hao did not choose to attack, but rubbed the board heavily and added enough downspin to the ball. Ye Hao's intention is very obvious, I have three games in hand, and the advantage is exhausted, and now it is the opponent who is in a hurry, so use your impetuousness to make a little stumbling. Anyway, if the other party is in a hurry and wants to do it, then ......
Next, as Ye Hao expected, Samsolov continued his suicidal fighting tactics, attacking! If I can go on stage, I will earn it, and if I make a mistake, I should take it as a point of back. Samsolov, who forced his forehand sideways to attack, encountered this short ball with strong downspin, and the result can be imagined.
Arrested! Blunder!
Ye Hao won the match point, 11:10.
The match points are all in hand, will victory be far away? Samsolov, whose tactics were cracked, fell into hesitation instead in the next goal of life and death. Ye Hao's one-and-a-half-stage serve made him tremble, and he didn't know how to deal with it. Samsolov, who lost the opportunity, was directly scored by Ye Hao's serve and lost his last hope.
With a total score of 4:0, Ye Hao did not repeat yesterday's mistake and won the game neatly.
In the morning game, Ye Hao won without the slightest delay, but in the men's doubles match in the afternoon, he encountered huge trouble. This is the first time he has played against Liu Chengmin, although it is not in a singles match, but Ye Hao still attaches great importance to it. In this year's Olympic Games, Liu Chengmin was listed as the first target by Ye Hao, after all, the other party snatched the Olympic championship from Wang Hao in his previous life, which made Wang Hao regret it for life. Ye Hao didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so this time he played with Liu Chengmin, just to familiarize himself with the opponent's ball path in advance and prepare for the Olympic Games in half a year.
As soon as the game began, the situation on the field immediately entered a white-hot stage, without any foreshadowing. The Korean combination probably learned about the battle between Ye Hao/Ma Long and the Japanese pair yesterday, and knew that although the new Chinese pair had not been in the team for a long time, they were very strong, so they launched a fierce attack as soon as they came up.
In particular, Yoo Seungmin showed extremely strong lethality, continuously fighting sideways with forehand, and the momentum sank. For a while, Ma Long, who was opposite him, was a little overwhelmed and defeated. However, similarly, Ye Hao also attacked the opponent's other team member, Li Zhecheng, and beat him into a sieve, forming a strange balance on both sides.
The score gradually came to 10:9, and Ye Hao/Ma Long got the game point first. At this time, due to the change of serve, it was the turn of Ye Hao and Liu Chengmin to have a direct conversation. Liu Chengmin served, Ye Hao received the ball and directly twisted the ball with his backhand and hit the ball to the right side of the table. Then Li Zhecheng pulled a backhand backhand, and the ball came to Ma Long's forehand position, seeing how Ma Long could let go, the anger that was suppressed by Liu Chengmin for a game finally broke out, and a board pulled a strong arc ball sideways. However, Yoo Seungmin did not panic, pulled back his forehand, and continued to exert force, and the ball speed became faster. However, Ye Hao's speed was not slow, and he quickly set up a counterattack, borrowed his strength, and returned the ball to the opposite table with lightning speed. This is bitter for Li Zhecheng, he is the weakest link of the four, and before he has time to react, the ball arrived in front of him, and then hit his body.
At 13:11, the two members of the Chinese team won the first game, but the win was also stumbling.
At the beginning of the second game, the two of the Korean team changed their strategy slightly, and attacked fiercely on the opponent's serve, which made Ye Hao/Ma Long's mistakes increase. In terms of their own serve, Yoo Seungmin/Lee Chol-sung pays great attention to the quality of the serve and the attack after the serve. In this game, the Korean combination firmly grasped the situation and pulled back a game 11:8.
In the next third game, the Korean pair's style of play made Ye Hao/Ma Long still very uncomfortable, especially in their own serve, which made the two depressed and became more and more impatient. The Korean pair took advantage of the situation to score consecutive points, and the game was smooth sailing and happy.
At 11:6, Ryu Seungmin/Lee Zhecheng made another game and overtook the total score to 2:1.
Ye Hao and Ma Long, who returned to the field, were full of anxious and unwilling emotions on their faces. This made Xiao Zhan, the coach on the side, frown, so he said in a dissatisfied tone: "Can't you play against the wind now?" Can you only win a smooth game and lose the confidence to attack? Two rhetorical questions in a row made Ye Hao and the others lower their heads in shame.
However, Xiao Zhan's rebuke was not over yet, "Especially you, Ye Hao!" As the singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup, he can call for wind and rain in the singles competition, and now he takes the initiative to ask to participate in doubles, why did he encounter a little resistance, and the whole person will be in chaos, and he will not play? ”
After Ye Hao heard Xiao Zhan's criticism, he did not refute, but secretly clenched his fists, determined to give his opponent some color in the next game, otherwise he would not be scolded for nothing.