After the thrilling match with Bol in the second round, Ye Hao's game mentality is much better, he no longer has too much pressure, he just wants to play every game well, as for how far he can go, let luck and strength decide together.

Ye Hao's opponent in the next round is Glinka from Greece, who is already a 31-year-old veteran this year. He holds the racket horizontally in his right hand and combines the arc with the fast attack style, which is similar to Ye Hao's style. As in the 90s of the last century, that is, in the era of Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui, he was a quasi-super-first-class player and one of the main opponents of the Chinese table tennis team. Glinka has a good record and has won the world "runner-up" many times.

That's right, although it is not easy to be only the "runner-up", from the 90s of the last century to the beginning of the 20th century, that is, in the past two years, the international table tennis world was in the Warring States era, and masters came out one after another. First, there is the Swedish star Waldner, and then there are China's Liu and Kong twin stars, in addition to South Korea's Kim Taek-so, Yoo Seung-min and others are also eyeing the sidelines.

For this Greek veteran, Ye Hao will not have any light opponents, and those who can enter the singles arena of the World Table Tennis Championships are not unknown, not to mention that it has now reached the 1/16 finals. Strategically despise the opponent, tactically attach importance to the opponent, surpass the opponent technically, and be stronger than the opponent in confidence, what reason is there not to win this game for Ye Hao.

11:6,11:8,8:11,11:6,11:4,Ye Hao won the third round of the game through five rounds of fighting.

The remaining four members of the Chinese team played normally in the 32-16 game. Wang Hao, who is in the same 3/4 zone as Ye Hao, swept Gao Lize of Hong Kong 4:0, and he will face Austria's naturalized player Chen Weixing in the next round. It can be said that Wang Hao is bound to win this game, and if he wins successfully, he and Ye Hao will meet in the quarterfinals to compete for a place in the top four.

In the 1/4 area where Kong Linghui is located, there are not many strong players, except for South Korea's Wu Shangyin who will put a little pressure on him, the rest of the people are not much of a threat. He won the match against Greek athlete Tesiocas with a score of 4:1 to advance to the fourth round.

Wang Liqin and Marin also defeated their respective opponents smoothly, with Belgium's Dafu and Japan's Toshio Tazaki unable to stop their progress.

Ye Hao ushered in a tough opponent in the fourth round. He is Samsolov, who is known as the "Three Tigers of Europe" along with Waldner and Primola. The 27-year-old Samsolov is at the peak of his career, winning the singles title of the Table Tennis World Cup in '01 and is one of the top 10 players in the international table tennis world today.

Ye Hao defeated the world's No. 1 Bol because he was "lucky", and he can already be said to be a little famous at this World Table Tennis Championships, and many people are jealous and jealous of his good luck. Now that he's up against another World Champion, there's no shortage of people gloating.

Among them, the most heckling is not the German media, nor the local French media, but the neighbors of the Chinese team - Japan and South Korea. Perhaps for historical reasons, these two neighbors in China are always trembling, and they like to pull the European and American powers to embolden themselves.

Japanese media: "The Chinese teenager who has made the best use of it meets the world champion again, and the European tiger pounces, who can stop it?" ”

South Korean media: "The Chinese teenager is about to show his original form, and he wants to win unless the opponent retires again." ”

The Chinese team is calm and undisturbed by the outside world, and Liu Guoliang is analyzing the tactics of the next game for Ye Hao.

"I'm familiar with Samsolov's style of play, I've played against him more than once. He is good at defending, soft and strong, and good at causing opponents to make mistakes and score. Although it is a horizontal shot, his backhand is mainly a push, and the angle of the push is extremely tricky, mainly so that the opponent cannot attack continuously, thus leaving him with opportunity and time to launch his own forehand attack......"

Ye Hao listened carefully to Liu Guoliang's analysis, which was all from his own personal experience of the contest with Samsolov, which was very rare and very targeted.

After the start of the game, Ye Hao found that the opponent was really like Liu Guoliang said, the forehand attack was very strong, and the backhand only played a transitional role. It was Ye Hao who followed the tactics established before the game and attacked the opponent's backhand. Although Ye Hao's backhand was suppressed by Bol in the last game, indicating that his backhand still has certain flaws, it was also caused by Bol's use of his left hand to take advantage of Ye Hao's backhand with his forehand. Ye Hao's backhand is still easy to deal with Samsolov.

In the first game, the tactics formulated by Liu Guoliang were fully exerted in Ye Hao's hands, and the effect was excellent. Ye Hao grabbed the ball after serving, received the serve and attacked, and hit the ball to Samsolov's backhand, forcing him to hold his backhand with himself, which caused his mistake to score directly, or caused him to return the ball to a low quality and was caught by Ye Hao and then scored again. The suppressed opponent was powerless to resist, and Ye Hao easily won the first game 11:6.

At this time, the team, the media and the audience were all surprised at the out-of-court battle. Didn't you say that the world champion beat the lucky youngster, how did it turn around?

In the second game of the two, Samsolov tried to force an attack with a forehand to get rid of Ye Hao's tactics against his backhand, but the effect was not good, his own attack success rate was too low, and there were too many mistakes, giving Ye Hao a lot of points in vain. At 11:5, Ye Hao went to the next city and continued to expand his lead.

However, Samsolov is worthy of being a famous player for a long time, and in the third game, he finally adjusted his style of play again, stabilized his mentality, and relied on his textbook-like solid technical moves and all-round skills to turn the game back in his favor. He mainly plays short balls in the table, his rubbing ball is very distinctive, and the landing point is extremely shallow, even if the line of the ball is a little higher, Ye Hao can't take the initiative to attack, and can only passively compete with him in the table. Samsolov relied on his soft touch and comprehensive skills to constantly change tactics to limit Ye Hao's attack, and pulled back a game 11:7 and got a key point, and the total score of the two became 1:2.

In the fourth game, the competition between the two became more intense and exciting. Samsolov used a combination of small balls and forehand attacks to deal with Ye Hao. Ye Hao is stabilizing his mentality, patiently seeking opportunities, and attacking the opponent's backhand. As a result, the score of this game was played until 12:12, and the two sides were still tied.

The following key ball, Samsolov continued to fight with Ye Hao in the table to play a small ball, his cricket ball came back, Ye Hao found that the landing point was later, did not hesitate to be soft, and took the initiative to pull the ball up. Looking at the line where the ball went out, Ye Hao was a little worried that the ball would go out of bounds. Samsolov, on the other side, watched the incoming ball, took a pose, and prepared to pull a forehand backhand.

Suddenly, the ball grazed the edge of the table and changed direction, which was so sudden that Samsolov had no time to react, and he could only symbolically wave his hand, but he failed to touch the ball. A lucky sidekick, Ye Hao won a crucial point.

13：12。

Perhaps still immersed in the loss of the last goal, Samsolov's last ball was directly on the net, giving Ye Hao the most important point of the game. At 14:12, Ye Hao led Samsolov 3:1.

Due to the big score behind, Samsolov played more and more restrained, and in the fifth game, Ye Hao easily grasped the game and won the deciding game 11:4.

After the game.

The Chinese media published a report with the title "Chinese Youngster: Not Just Luck, More Strength!" ”

The Japanese and South Korean media were speechless, while the media in European countries affirmed Ye Hao's performance and regarded him as the biggest dark horse in this competition.