The Mixed Doubles semi-finalists were concluded after the fourth round, with the Chinese pair of Wang Liqin/Guo Yue and Ma Lin/Wang Lan, and the Hong Kong pair of Ko Lai Chak/Ti Yana, plus the multinational pair of Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan.

The semi-finals will see two Chinese pairs fight each other, while the multinational pair will face off against Hong Kong. Such a match is the best choice for both Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan and the Hong Kong pair. Because both Chinese pairs are too strong, it was lucky to avoid them, although they will still meet in the final.

After the mixed doubles match, Ye Hao also had to participate in the third round of the men's singles that day, this time his opponent was Stégel of the German men's team, a player whose name Ye Hao had never heard of.

After the start of the match, in order to easily control the situation, the opponent was an unknown person after all, and the threat to him was too small. In the first game, Ye Hao attacked and struck, solved the battle in less than ten minutes, and easily won the first game 11:5.

At the beginning of the second game, Stegel wanted to make a difference and change his passive situation, but Ye Hao did not give his opponent this chance. Brush, brush, brush, three times five divided by two, and the battle was solved in ** minutes, and then the next city at 11:6.

The lead of the total score of 2:0 greatly reduced Ye Hao's attention to the game, and the weak strength of the opponent made him unable to lift his spirits. Therefore, in the third game, Ye Hao began to fugue, and his thoughts didn't know where to fly.

Therefore, in this game, Stegel gradually found his form, began to play vigorously, firmly bitten the score, and maintained a slight lead for a while.

2：2，

4：5，

7：8，

9：10，

10：12。

In the end, Ye Hao lost this game, he did not lose in the strength of his opponent, but lost to himself, and lost in the game and was inattentive. Ye Hao, who returned to the sidelines, was severely criticized by his coach Qin Zhijian, and suddenly his attention returned to the field.

Ye Hao, who was full of energy to return to the game, decided to vent his depression and the unhappiness of being criticized by the coach in the game, and let the opponent be his own punching bag. The strong attack, like a surging tide, wave after wave, hit Stegall.

Soon, the situation in the fourth game was completely controlled by Ye Hao, from 0:0 to 11:3, in just six minutes, this game was easily won. With a total score of 3:1 ahead, Ye Hao was only one game away from winning the game.

In the next game, Ye Hao did not relax his vigilance because of the opponent's poor strength, he made persistent efforts, pushed the boat down the river, and won the fifth game 11:4 with bulldozer-like brutality, and finally won the third round of the men's singles competition, and successfully advanced to the top 16.

In addition to Ye Hao's promotion to the top 16 of men's singles, as the competition ended one after another, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Samsonov, Ma Long, Wang Hao, Liu Chengmin and others also successfully advanced. Therefore, in the next men's singles one-eighth finals, there will be a lot of strong confrontations, which can be described as fierce competition.

However, before that, Ye Hao had to participate in the semifinals of the mixed doubles and fight with the Hong Kong team. At 4 p.m. on May 25, capital time, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan faced Hong Kong's Gao Lize/Tiyana in the World Table Tennis Championships venue.

As the only combination in the mixed doubles semifinals of this World Table Tennis Championships without members of the Chinese table tennis team, Gao Lize / Tiyana has shown their strong strength, so Ye Hao / Xu Xiaoyuan does not dare to despise this game, the strength of the opponent is probably above the Lei Zhenhua/Ding Ling they have met before, which can be called the strongest opponent in the mixed doubles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships so far.

After the start of the first game, the Hong Kong combination gave Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan a dismount, in the case of Xu Xiaoyuan's first serve, Gao Lize carried out two consecutive serve grabbing, and then Tiyana assisted perfectly, and the tacit understanding between the two was simply seamless. Even Ye Hao, who has always boasted of having a high defensive foundation, did not withstand the attacks of the two.

After being broken by the opponent two serve in a row, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan did not find a chance to break through on the opponent's serve, but let the opponent play exquisite cooperation and sharp counterattacks, and continued to maintain an embarrassing record of no points.

So far, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan has been hard to find since the start of the game, falling behind the Hong Kong combination with a score of 0:4, and the situation of the game is shaky. In the next game time, Ye Hao strengthened his offense, tried to replace defense with offense, and played the game in a more active way.

However, Gao Lize/Tiyana are not fledgling youngsters, the two of them are very experienced, and their steady tactics make Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan unable to start, and they are still in a backward state.

0：4，

1：5，

2：6，

3：6，

5：9，

6：10，

7：11。

Although the multinational team has been trying to chase the score, the disparity in the score behind at the beginning is too great, so they are always at a disadvantage in the first game, and the road to chasing points is also bumpy, and in the end they still failed to turn the danger into a difficult situation.

In the second game, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan still did not find a good way to deal with the Hong Kong pair, and they were suppressed by the opponent during the game. Even if Ye Hao has played several extraordinary offensive scoring goals through his strong personal strength.

However, the mixed doubles match is a two-person match, and if you want to win, you have to rely on the joint play of two people. No matter how wonderful Ye Hao's performance is and how sharp his attack is, it is difficult to beat four hands with two fists, and it is difficult to change the backward situation on the field.

1：2，

3：5，

4：7，

5：9，

6：11。

In the second game, the gap in the score became wider and wider, and in the end, the Hong Kong combination still beat the multinational combination through tacit cooperation and targeted attack, and then took a 2:0 lead in the total score, and the victory seemed to be more and more unstoppable.

Ye Hao and Xu Xiaoyuan, who were behind by a big score, had a bitter face and returned to the sidelines, especially the latter, who was very depressed, she thought that her strength was too poor, which dragged Ye Hao down and led to the current loss.

Ye Hao saw that the Korean beauty next to her was very wrong, and it could be seen from the other party's lips that were about to be bitten and bleeding, how unwilling she was and how self-blaming she was at this time.

Therefore, Ye Hao knew that he had to do something now to change this unbearable situation. Otherwise, the road to the World Table Tennis Championships for the two of them will end here.