The Table Tennis World Cup, together with the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, is one of the three major events in the world table tennis, which is divided into four events: men's and women's singles and teams.

The format of the Table Tennis Singles World Cup is similar to that of the FIFA World Cup, which is divided into two stages. The first stage is the group stage, with a total of four groups, with the top two teams from each group making the cut. The second stage is the knockout round, where the top two teams of the four groups are played by a total of eight people, and through the quarterfinals, semi-finals, third- and fourth-place competitions and finals, the champion, runner-up and third place are finally obtained.

Three members of the Chinese team were placed in different groups. Among them, the four athletes in Group A are: Marin, Yoo Seungmin, Samsolov and Jackson. Group B is composed of Wang Hao, Bol, Primorac and Jackson. Ye Hao was placed in Group C, and the other three were Wu Shangyin, Zhuang Zhiyuan and Seifer. The four members in Group D are Smirnov, Glinka, Zhu Shihe and Jiang Penglong.

In the group stage, each group will play 6 matches, and each person will play 3 games. Ye Hao's first match was against Taiwan's first brother Zhuang Zhiyuan. Zhuang Zhiyuan, who was regarded as one of the "New Three Tigers" by the Chinese table tennis team, failed to show his strength in the game with Ye Hao, and was swept by Ye Hao 4:0.

Oh Sang-yin is Ye Hao's second opponent, he is 26 years old this year, and he and Yoo Seung-min and Zhu Shi-hyuk form the "Three Musketeers" of the Korean team. Wu Shangyin holds the racket horizontally with his right hand, and combines the two sides with a fast attack style of reverse rubber arc circle.

Ye Hao found out in the first game with him that the opponent's style of play inherited the tradition of the Korean team, which was very fierce, and because of his height advantage, he had a large platform area and a good defense. Because it was the first time to fight with Wu Shangyin, Ye Hao was not familiar with him, and the two were very close. After Ye Hao became familiar with the opponent's style, he scored 4 points in a row and won the first game 11:7.

Liu Guoliang, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was shocked when he saw this, "It seems that he has understood my previous words, and he no longer blindly pursues the attack and power of the backhand." ”

Ye Hao has indeed changed, and during this period of time, he is like a demon, and he attaches too much importance to the backhand. However, this is not without benefits at all, at least Ye Hao has made rapid progress in his backhand skills through the recent crazy practice and the use of his backhand in the game, especially the lethality has been greatly enhanced. Now, Ye Hao uses the backhand as a sharp blade for his attack, but he doesn't rely too much, and his first choice is still the forehand. Sun Tzu's Art of War Yun "Win with the right and win with the odd", which is exactly what he said.

In the second game, Ye Hao's forehand and backhand continued to exert power, and the effect was surprisingly good, and Wu Shangyin on the opposite side was beaten without the power to fight back. Ye Hao was a little embarrassed when he saw the other party's "innocent" little eyes. However, sympathy is sympathy, Ye Hao's subordinates have no mercy, if they lose to the other party, God knows how the Korean media will blow to the sky.

At 11:5, the score difference in the second game was even greater.

With the cooperation of Ye Hao's strengthened version of the forehand and backhand, the Taiji Tiger, who was originally fierce, couldn't be ruthless and became a sick cat. Ye Hao took advantage of his illness to take the opponent's life, and it took less than 10 minutes to win the third and fourth games, and continued his strong performance in this World Cup without losing a game.

Belgium's star Seifer is the strongest opponent Ye Hao has encountered in the group stage, although he is a 34-year-old veteran, but he has played very well in this World Cup, defeating the other two in the same group in a row, and is currently undefeated like Ye Hao.

After the start of the game between the two, Seifer played his characteristics of being good at serving and grabbing half of the billiards, and played very actively in the first game and was not pulled away by Ye Hao. Holding the racket horizontally in his right hand, he has a strong ability to attack continuously, and he has carried out long rounds of confrontation with Ye Hao many times in this game. However, in terms of strength and state, Ye Hao is not inferior to him, if he doesn't want to take the lead in the game as soon as possible, he doesn't mind attacking more with the opponent, and by the way, sharpen the offensive connection of the forehand and backhand. So Ye Hao did not entangle with Severdo, and tried his best to solve the battle on the first three boards, relying on high-quality serve and serve, Ye Hao launched before the opponent in the next board, and solved the battle in three rounds.

5:3, 8:6, and finally 11:8, Ye Hao took the initiative in the game.

In the second game, Seifer still wanted to fight Ye Hao hard as always, and relied on fierce fighting to impact Ye Hao. It was indeed effective in the first few goals, and the two once fought to a 5:5 draw. But fighting means risk, and the mistake found Seifer in the second half of the second game, or out of bounds or under the net, Ye Hao won the second game with a stable play, 11:7.

Ye Hao, who had two games in hand, played even more like a fish in water in the later games, on the other hand, Seifer, the more impatient he was, the easier he was to make mistakes, two 11:5, the third and fourth games ended in Ye Hao's victory.

So far, Ye Hao has won all three games in Group C, ranked first in the group, advanced to the quarterfinals, and entered the knockout round of the second stage of the World Cup. The other place in Group C was won by Seifer, who lost to Ye Hao in the third group game.

Marin's Group A was the last to advance to Marin and Yoo Seungmin. However, Marin won 4:2 against Yoo Seungmin in the group stage, and the game was not easy.

The situation in Group B is more complicated, I thought that Wang Hao and Bol could easily advance together, but what I didn't expect was that Bol was in a very poor state, winning only one of the three group games, and finally relying on the relationship between victory and defeat, he was thrilling to advance.

The situation in Group D was a little unexpected, South Korea's Zhu Shihyuk, the second dark horse in this year's World Table Tennis Championships, failed to qualify from the group. Another dark horse in this group was Russia's young teenager Smirnov, who advanced to the knockout round along with Glinka.

After the first stage of the group stage, all three athletes of the Chinese table tennis men's team successfully advanced. The draw for the quarterfinals was also very beneficial to the Chinese team, and Ye Hao and the three did not draw together and killed each other. The matchups in the first round of knockout rounds are as follows: Marin vs Bol, Wang Hao vs Liu Chengmin, Ye Hao vs Smirnov, Glinka vs Seif.

Because Bol's performance in this World Cup was so poor, even if he was lucky enough to advance to the quarterfinals, he was completely wiped out in the quarterfinals with Marin. It took only half an hour for Marin to win comfortably 4-0 and advance to the semi-finals first.

Wang Hao's victory over Liu Chengmin was much more difficult. The two fought hard for seven rounds, and finally Wang Hao narrowly won with a total score of 4:3 with his excellent performance in the deciding game.

The other two quarter-final results were Glinka's victory over Seifer, and his next opponent is Marin. Ye Hao lightly defeated Russian rising star Smirnov and maintained his winning record without dropping a game.

So far, Ye Hao's performance has been perfect, and the coaches of the Chinese team have been surprised. Where did Ye Hao, who had been defeated repeatedly some time ago, go, or was Ye Hao really invincible in foreign wars? However, there will be an answer to all this in the semifinals, Ye Hao and Wang Hao will meet in the semifinals, whether Wang Hao wins again, or Ye Hao succeeds in revenge.