Ye Hao's opponent in this game, Zhuang Zhiyuan, is a native of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, who is just 22 years old this year, but although he is young, his strength is not weak. 2002 was a year of explosive results for Zhuang Zhiyuan, who first defeated Kong Linghui in the Busan Asian Games, and lost to Wang Liqin in the final, and finally won a silver medal. In October of the same year, Zhuang Zhiyuan won the men's singles championship in the ITTF Tour Finals and won the world championship for the first time. As the defending champion of this year's year-end finals, Zhuang Zhiyuan is eager to defend his title, but when he meets Ye Hao, he is destined to have a cup.

Zhuang Zhiyuan adopts a typical Asian style of horizontal board arc ball play, which is characterized by speed and the first three boards, and is also praised for the delicate handling of the serve and the inside ball.

After the start of the match, Zhuang Zhiyuan served first, and his first serve was a forehand hook serve, which was a bit strange. But after Ye Hao received the ball, he found that the spin of this ball was very strong, and he could only rub the board slowly and return the opponent with a short ball of downspin. Immediately afterwards, Zhuang Zhiyuan rubbed the ball again, although it was still with not weak spin, but it was a half-table return ball. Ye Hao unceremoniously grabbed a forehand, landed trickily, and approached Zhuang Zhiyuan's middle chasing position. Sure enough, the opponent didn't have time to turn sideways and missed the ball.

1:0, Ye Hao scored the first point.

In the next first game, the two did not have more than three rounds per point, most of them were in the first three boards, and Ye Hao grabbed Zhuang Zhiyuan to win. Ye Hao did not pay attention to the opponent's good at the first three board technology, you must know that compared with the first three board technology, the Chinese team is the ancestor of all teams, and the research and application of the first three board technology is unmatched. Ye Hao, as the leader of the Chinese table tennis team, needless to say, is not to mention his level, unless he meets a super-first-class player like Ma Lin, he will be slightly inferior if he adopts the first three board technology of the fighting type. However, Ye Hao also has a way to deal with it, just like he did in this year's Table Tennis World Cup, avoid your strong points, increase the number of rounds, and fight against you. As for Zhuang Zhiyuan, he obviously does not belong to the person who can force Ye Hao not to have the upper hand.

1:0, 5:2, then 8:4, and finally 11:6, Ye Hao didn't give the opponent a chance at all, Zhuang Zhiyuan didn't taste the lead in the entire first game, he has been lagging behind, and Ye Hao has never been surpassed.

Zhuang Zhiyuan, who was depressed and lost the first game, wanted to make a difference in the second game, and at the beginning of the second game, he directly began to receive the serve and attack on Ye Hao's serve points. However, he looked down on Ye Hao's serve level too lowly, and ate two serves in a row, but fell behind 0-2. When it came to his own serve points, Zhuang Zhiyuan didn't have time to serve and attack, so Ye Hao took the lead to receive the serve and attack, so he had to passively start defending or enter the stage of holding off.

Playing against attack, how could Zhuang Zhiyuan be Ye Hao's opponent, Ye Hao's forehand against Zhuang Zhiyuan's forehand, win! Ye Hao's forehand against Zhuang Zhiyuan's backhand is even more victorious! What about a backhand attack between the two? Or Ye Hao is better! Until the end, Zhuang Zhiyuan was stunned, his forehand advantage couldn't be brought into play, and he was still abused with his forehand against Ye Hao's backhand!

Poor Zhuang Zhiyuan, bitter Zhuang Zhiyuan.

4:11, the score in the second game was even more disparity. Zhuang Zhiyuan, who has an honest and honest personality, was about to be beaten and cried.

When it came to the break between the games, even Liu Guoliang couldn't help but say to Ye Hao: "It's almost enough, you have to stop in moderation, save some face for your opponent, and don't shave your head." ”

Yes, not shaving the opponent's head in a game is a "fine tradition" of the Chinese table tennis team. This is the interesting little story of the later great demon king Zhang Yiling's "undistracted" handicap to Ai Fukuhara.

Today, Ye Hao has become the Great Demon King, and Zhuang Zhiyuan on the opposite side is a poor person who has been bullied by the Great Demon King. In the third game, Zhuang Zhiyuan was further beaten and only scored three points, Ye Hao took 6 minutes to win, and each ball averaged no more than 3 shots. Zhuang Zhiyuan, who had already lost three games, was completely defeated. At the beginning of the fourth game, he collapsed, 0:1, 0:2, 0:3, until 0:10. Ye Hao looked at it, and the other party still hadn't scored a point, remembered Liu Guoliang's confession, and remembered the glorious tradition of the Chinese table tennis team. Well, the serve threw the ball directly under the table, giving the opponent a point, the score became 1:10, and Zhuang Zhiyuan finally scored.

At this time, Liu Guoliang, who was outside the court, was dumbfounded when he saw this, "I'll let you save face for the other party, you don't need to be so obvious!" TNND, I'm speechless. Liu Guoliang suddenly wanted to burst into foul language, I really have never seen such an arrogant person. However, if Ye Hao knew, he would never admit it, after all, he was just learning from the Great Demon King Zhang Yiling. However, he just brought this less "distracted" handicap to the world a few years in advance.

The score became 1:10, and Ye Hao had nine chances to cash in on match points, of course, he only needed one chance to succeed.

At 11:1, Ye Hao won the fourth game, successfully completed the task assigned to him by Liu Guoliang, defeated Taiwan's first brother Zhuang Zhiyuan, and advanced to the semifinals.

After the game, for Ye Hao's strong performance in this game, major media said that I was surprised, you are really good.

CCTV Sports Channel reported: "A new generation of national table tennis leaders is born! ”

Phoenix News: "The Chinese Demon King is so powerful that he easily crushes Taiwan's famous generals."

Sina, Sohu and other well-known websites also made headlines on the front page, vigorously praising Ye Hao's eye-catching performance.

There are even tabloids jokingly saying that Ye Hao is following the rhythm of the Shenwu spaceship and Yang Liwei to go to the sky.

Through Ye Hao's wonderful performance in the game, Liu Guoliang's pressure was greatly reduced. As the master who single-handedly discovered and cultivated Ye Hao, the big demon king, in the national team, Liu Guoliang received a lot of affirmation for a while, and even blew away a lot of the haze of the previous defeat of Ma Lin and Wang Liqin.

At the end of the first two rounds of the game, two of the Chinese team advanced to the semifinals, and the semi-final grouping was also beneficial to the Chinese team, namely Wang Hao against the old enemy Liu Chengmin, and Ye Hao against Sweden's Leenqvist.

The first semi-final is Wang Hao VS Liu Chengmin. This time, the duel between Wang Hao and Liu Chengmin is still fierce and exciting, and the final winner is still Wang Hao. In fact, in his previous life, Wang Hao had never lost to Liu Chengmin before the Athens Olympics, and he also had a very high winning rate against his opponent after that. The final score of the semifinals between the two was 4:2, and Wang Hao won.

In this way, Wang Hao first entered the finals. For a while, the situation of the Chinese team is very good, as long as Ye Hao can win the other semi-finals, he will be able to meet his teammates in the finals, and the Chinese team will also win the championship and runner-up in the year-end finals.