On November 29, 2006, the table tennis competition of the Doha Asian Games officially began. For this Asian Games, although the Chinese table tennis team did not send all the main lineups, the combination of Ye Hao and Ma Lin still showed the importance of this competition.

At the last Busan Asian Games, the Chinese table tennis team can be said to have suffered Waterloo. In the team competition, the Chinese women's table tennis team lost to the North Korean team 1:3 and lost the gold medal of the women's team. In the individual competitions, the three gold medals in men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles were not retained. As a result, the national table tennis won only three of the seven gold medals in this Asian Games.

However, the tragic experience of national table tennis in the Asian Games does not stop there. From Tehran, Iran in 74 to Busan, South Korea in 02, the Chinese table tennis team has participated in a total of eight Asian Games.

Compared with the higher-standard Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, which have a wider range of participation, the Chinese team did not show an overwhelming advantage in the Asian Games, in addition to the halo of glory, they also left too many painful memories on this venue.

In the 74th Tehran Asian Games, the national table tennis participated in the war for the first time and won 6 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes; The 78 Bangkok Asian Games won all 7 gold medals, which can be said to have reached the pinnacle of glory.

However, in the 10th Seoul Asian Games in 1986, the men's and women's teams both lost the team championship and lost to the same opponent - the South Korean team!

In the next 11th Capital Asian Games, the Chinese men's table tennis team did not even enter the team finals, and it was the North Korean men's team that had never lost before, with a total score of 0:3 without suspense.

Not only is the situation in the team competition continuous, but in the individual events of the Asian Games, the Chinese table tennis team has also repeatedly tasted defeat.

In the 86 Seoul Asian Games, Liu Nankui of the South Korean team won the singles title, and he defeated Jiang Jialiang and Hyejun in succession to win the men's singles gold medal.

At the Hiroshima Asian Games in 94, Japan's naturalized player, former Chinese Tomori Koyama, launched a shock wave. She first defeated Chen Jing in the quarterfinals, and then knocked down the Chinese team's "double insurance" Qiao Hong and Deng Yaping one by one in the semifinals and finals, winning the only Asian Games women's singles gold medal lost by Chinese women's table tennis so far.

Immediately afterwards, it was the South Korean men's table tennis team that broke through the blockade of the Chinese team and won the men's singles gold medal by relying on strong personal strength, but this time it was changed from Liu Nankui to Kim Zezhu. In the semifinals, Kim Taek-so shouldered the last hope of the Korean team, defeated Kong Lingshen, who had just lost in the team competition, and entered the final with great momentum. In the final with Liu Guoliang, he won the men's singles championship cleanly with a 3:0 victory. Especially in the first and third games of the match, Kim Taek-so came back from 12-16 down to win, and neither of the Chinese twin stars could stop the other party.

Therefore, in the history of the Asian Games, the Chinese table tennis team has had many glorious moments of victory and victory, but also many bitter defeats. This time at the Doha Asian Games, the national table tennis came with a heart of shame and vowed to sweep away the shadow of four years ago.

Therefore, all the players participating in the competition received the mental encouragement and encouragement of the coaching staff before the game, and everyone was screaming and wanting to kill all sides and show their majesty.

The first was the competition in the team competition, and the men's team was divided into four groups: A, B, C, and D. Among them, the Chinese team, the Japanese team, the Yemen team and the Indian team are all in Group A, and the top two teams will enter the quarterfinals and participate in the knockout round.

The strength of this group of Chinese men's table tennis can be said to be outstanding, even the Japanese men's team cannot bring them the slightest threat, and their only opponent is the South Korean team.

Therefore, after a day and a half of preliminaries, the Chinese men's team undoubtedly won the first place in the group with a record of three wins and advanced to the quarterfinals. The other qualification spot was won by the Japanese men's team, after all, the table tennis strength of Yemen and India is too weak.

In the group stage of the team competition, all five athletes of the Chinese men's team appeared, and Ye Hao was no exception.

After the group stage of the team competition, the individual competitions have not yet begun, and the quarter-finals of the team competition will be held in the afternoon of the second day, and the individual competitions will not start until the third day begins.

The opponent in the quarterfinals of the Chinese men's table tennis team competition is the Vietnamese team, and the strength is still average. The Chinese team did not send Ye Hao and Ma Lin, the two main lineups, and Chen Qi, Ma Long and Hao Shuai alone played the game, and they had already beaten their opponents to the ground, and they had no power to fight back.

After the competition in the team competition came to an end temporarily, the athletes ushered in the individual competition, and Ye Hao's first round of men's singles began on the afternoon of December 1 on the third day.

His opponent is an unknown person in Uzbekistan, his strength is miserable, Ye Hao is not embarrassed to exert too much force, and easily swept to advance to the next round with a score of 11:3, 11:2, 11:3, 11:1.

At the same time, the other members of the Chinese table tennis team are also making great progress, showing their strength in the first round of each individual event, passing the test easily without a defeat.

Immediately after that evening, it was the semi-finals of the team competition, and due to the tight schedule, many athletes had to compete twice a day, and even had to compete three times a day for those with more events.

The semi-final opponent of the Chinese men's team is the Hong Kong team, I don't know if it is because of the same Chinese, the Hong Kong team is also very eye-catching in the table tennis competition.

However, when the Hong Kong, China team met the Chinese table tennis team, they became soft-footed shrimp and couldn't afford to be beaten fat. It's as if Ghost Li met Li Kui, and he was vulnerable.

Ye Hao, Ma Lin and Chen Qi played, and all three won, without giving the Hong Kong, China team a glimmer of hope, and won the team semifinals neatly 3:0 and entered the finals.

The two sides in the men's team final are the Chinese men's team and the South Korean men's team, a pair of old enemies. The South Korean men's team defeated Chinese Taipei with an aggregate score of 3:1 in the semifinals to advance to the final.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the competition, that is, at 16 o'clock on December 2, the team final between the Chinese men's team and the South Korean men's team will begin. The Chinese team is ready to send the strongest lineup, Ye Hao, Ma Lin and Chen Qi. The lineup of the South Korean team is actually easy to predict, which is nothing more than Yoo Seungmin, Zhu Se-hyuk and Oh Sang-yin.

Ye Hao is less than 24 hours away from his first Asian Games gold medal......