The first semifinal of the table tennis men's singles at the Athens Olympics: Ye Hao VS Wang Liqin.

Wang Liqin looked at the young and immature face on the opposite side with a strong fighting spirit, and threw away the last trace of scruples in his heart.

"I'm going to fight for myself!"

The game started, and the first ball was Ye Hao's serve. For a short ball in the table in the direction of the backhand, Wang Liqin gently pulled a board with his backhand and returned the ball. Ye Hao also used a backhand, but his return ball added enough power and spin. The two began to pull on the backhand, and after two rounds, Ye Hao gradually gained the advantage, and Wang Liqin's backhand was still a little worse than Ye Hao. In the end, Wang Liqin's backhand return ball fell into the net and lost the first point.

1:0, Ye Hao took the lead.

In the latter part of the first game, Ye Hao grasped the quality of the first three boards, and gradually widened the gap in the score by suppressing Wang Liqin in the backhand position.

2：0，

3：1，

4：1，

5：2，

……

8：4，

9：5，

10：6，

Ye Hao got the game point in the first game. At this time, it was Ye Hao's turn to serve, and this ball he chose to serve in the reverse rotation, but it was no longer a short ball in the table, but a sneak attack on the topspin long ball, and it was in the forehand direction. Ye Hao, who had a four-point lead and got the game point, decided to take a risk, fight hard, win the best, and have a chance to score three goals after losing.

In the face of Ye Hao's bold sneak attack, Wang Liqin, who had been at a disadvantage in the first game, was a little unprepared, and after reluctantly pulling the ball over, he also lost his position, and a large amount of space was exposed on his own table. Ye Hao was of course overjoyed when he saw this, and made a quick draw of his forehand, with little power but extremely fast, and the table tennis ball went straight to Wang Liqin's left side.

At 11:6, relying on the sneak attack of the last ball, Ye Hao won the first game of the semifinals.

At the beginning of the second game, Wang Liqin, who was slow to heat, still did not find his best state, and his hand felt cold. After the start of this game, the two barely took more shots of each other's balls, which was extremely unfavorable to Wang Liqin, who is known for his ability to attack each other. Therefore, the rhythm of the game in this game was once again firmly grasped by Ye Hao, and the situation once again became similar to the situation in the first game. Ye Hao occupies the lead in the score, and Wang Liqin has been in a state of chasing points.

The 4:1 start showed Ye Hao's strong performance.

6：3，

8：5，

9：7，

10：9，

Wang Liqin was constantly trying to adjust, and the score was forced to get closer, but Ye Hao still took a lead of one point and got the game point, and he had the initiative to serve. This time there was only a 1-goal lead in hand, Ye Hao did not dare to sneak attack as boldly as in the previous game, but chose to send a downspin ball in the table towards the opponent's backhand position.

Ye Hao's idea is very clear, compared with Wang Liqin, he does not have an advantage in the attack power of the forehand, but he is full of confidence compared to the power of the backhand. Therefore, in the handling of this key ball, Ye Hao's tactic is to force Wang Liqin to fight his backhand, and resolutely not give the opponent a chance to turn sideways with his forehand.

According to this strategy, Ye Hao desperately opened the angle of the ball from the serve to the return ball later, vowing to nail Wang Liqin firmly to the left backhand position of the table. Because the serve occupies the initiative, this tactic is quite successful, Wang Liqin was forced to only use his backhand to fight back, even if he wanted to force the sideways use of the forehand, but Ye Hao did not give this opportunity, the speed of the return was very fast, and the angle suppression was quite successful.

Just when Wang Liqin was tired of defending, Ye Hao seized the opportunity, suddenly turned sideways, changed the line with his forehand, and sent the ball to Wang Liqin's right forehand position. This sudden change caught Wang Liqin off guard, so he could only stretch out his arm in vain and wave the racket "pretendly", but he didn't gain anything.

At 11:9, Ye Hao still retained his advantage and won the second game.

The national table tennis leaders who watched the game in the stadium were very satisfied when they saw the game on the court.

"It seems that this Wang Liqin is still knowledgeable about current affairs!"

"Alas, for the sake of the country, I can only grieve Wang Liqin."

"It looks like the game is going to go as planned."

Among the insiders who know about the "handicap plan", a few feel sorry for Wang Liqin, and are more satisfied that the game is going according to their ideas and plans, and they have a bit of a wanton feeling of pointing the country.

However, the next game made these people stunned and even angry.

The defeat in the first two games did not defeat Wang Liqin's fighting spirit, since he had decided to go all out to play and fight for himself to the end, how could he give up easily. Through the adaptation of the two games, Wang Liqin gradually found his senses, and the crazy chasing of points in the second half of the second game is the best example.

At the beginning of the third game, Wang Liqin changed the passive state of falling behind at the beginning of the first two games, and opened the invincible mode from the first ball. In the first point, Ye Hao and Wang Liqin played as many as 13 rounds, which was the most rounds in this game so far, and the final result ended with Wang Liqin's forehand score.

1:0, Wang Liqin is ahead!

The second ball was another multi-shot attack, and after ten rounds, Ye Hao relied on a sudden change of line to pull back a goal.

1:1, split evenly.

Next, Wang Liqin dragged the game into his favorite rhythm. Although Ye Hao tried to solve the battle in the first three boards, Wang Liqin, who felt and was in good shape, was not so easy to be killed, and wanted to end a point with the attack of one board and two boards, which may be possible in the first two games, but it became impossible in this game.

2：2，

4：4，

7：6，

9：8，

11：9。

This time the winner was Wang Liqin, relying on his strong ability to hold each other and relying on the excellent play of his forehand, he finally stopped the decline in the third game and pulled the total score to 1:2.

If Wang Liqin's victory in this game only made some people outside the court feel that it was an expected "normal" counterattack, then the next fourth and fifth games shocked them.

In the fourth game, the number of multi-shot counterballs increased further, and almost every point had to be fought over at least 5 rounds to determine the winner. This made Ye Hao, who was eager to win, a little angry, and his mistakes began to increase gradually.

1：1，

2：2，

3：4，

5：4，

7：7，

If at this time, the game was still evenly matched in the fourth game, then the next game was completely one-sided.

7:8, Ye Hao pulled the ball into the net and made a mistake!

At 7:9, Wang Liqin scored with a strong forehand smash.

At 7:10, Ye Hao pulled the ball too hard and went out of bounds, and it was another mistake!

On the last ball, Wang Liqin served, Ye Hao received the serve and attacked, and then it was gone, the table tennis ball fell directly into the net, and another mistake was given away!

At 11:7, Wang Liqin scored four points in a row to win the fourth game, and the total score was tied at 2:2.

In the fifth game, Wang Liqin, who had completely entered the state, was unstoppable, and he played a 4:0 as soon as he came up, and Ye Hao had no temper at all. This game seems to be a repeat of the first game of the game, except that the leading and backward sides swapped positions, and Ye Hao became the side struggling to chase points.

1：3，

2：4，

4：7，

5：9，

6：10，

The score gap was getting bigger and bigger, and Ye Hao was falling behind more and more.

It was Ye Hao's turn to serve, but Wang Liqin, who received the ball at this time, changed his normal state and attacked directly after receiving the serve, and Ye Hao, who was already ready to hold each other, was dumbfounded.

At 7:11, Ye Hao lost another game, leading from 2:0 to 2:3 behind, and the situation suddenly became extremely bad. At this time, the most anxious people are not Ye Hao, but the leaders!

"What's going on? Didn't you say a good handicap? ”

"What is Wang Liqin doing?"

"This is disregard for the interests of the country! Too selfish! ”

……

The situation is no longer under the control of the leaders, and the results of the game seem to be drifting away from their plans.