Ye Hao, who returned to the national team, has been identified as one of the main forces due to the victory of the World Table Tennis Championships, which makes many people envious. Now the main force of the national table tennis men's team is: Kong Linghui, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Wang Hao and Ye Hao. As the "Five Tiger Generals" of national table tennis, their training is the top priority of national table tennis. Ye Hao had more encounters with several other main players, but after playing with them in the team, he found that he was probably the weakest one.

If it is indeed a bit exaggerated to say that the World Table Tennis Championships won the championship completely by strength, I have to say that Ye Hao's luck is good, he did not meet any teammates in the game, otherwise the result is really hard to say. Of course, Ye Hao can become a world champion at this age, which shows that his strength and potential are already the top in the world. However, these teammates of his are all world champions and stronger, if Ye Hao can't continue to improve his ability and skills, then it will be very difficult for him to break out of the encirclement in the team.

So after learning from the other "Four Tigers", Ye Hao began to plan his own promotion plan. At present, his backhand strength is weaker than his forehand strength, which can be known from the fact that he was attacked by Bol at the World Table Tennis Championships. Therefore, the next focus should be on improving the strength of the backhand, and the top masters must not have shortcomings. How to improve his backhand offensive strength in the shortest possible time is Ye Hao's current top priority. Training is one method, and actual combat is the best way.

So after Ye Hao communicated with Liu Guoliang, he appropriately modified the training plan and focused on his backhand, and the goal he ultimately wanted to achieve was the level of Wang Hao at his peak. That's right, not Zhang Jike at his peak. Although in terms of power alone, Zhang Jike's backhand attack is powerful, fast, spinning, and extremely lethal, but the accuracy and stability are poor. If it's just in the state, it's another story, once you have ups and downs, it's easy to make mistakes. And Wang Hao's backhand is more comprehensive, not only can he deal with any twist and pull in the platform, but he can also attack wantonly on the COSCO platform.

Of course, Ye Hao will not relax the improvement of the forehand, in table tennis has always been the forehand winner of the world, although in the development of backhand technology is becoming more and more rapid, the forehand is still the killer of the game. Now Ye Hao's favorite thing to do is to compete with Wang Hao and discuss backhand techniques with him.

In June 2003, there was a big personnel change within the Chinese table tennis team, Yin Xiao no longer served as the head coach and head of the teaching and research team of the men's team. The new head coach and head of the men's team fell on 27-year-old Liu Guoliang.

At the end of June, the China Table Tennis Open will be held, and Liu Guoliang will lead the men's team for the first time as a coach. Founded in 1998, the China Table Tennis Open is a part of the ITTF Pro Tour series, with six competitions: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, U21 men's singles and U21 women's singles. This year's China Open will be held in Fuzhou.

The national table tennis men's team sent all the main forces, and Ye Hao naturally participated, but he did not participate in the U21 competition, after all, with his current strength, it is really unbearable to abuse those "young people" again.

Due to the victory of the Paris World Table Tennis Championships, Ye Hao's world ranking has risen rapidly, from the original 100 to 24th in one fell swoop. Because Ye Hao is participating in the China Table Tennis Open for the first time, his ranking is not high, and he is not among the seeded players in this competition. The result of the draw was very unfavorable to Ye Hao, and in the second round he will meet a strong opponent - his teammate Marin.

Since he has been training his backhand recently, Ye Hao deliberately used his backhand frequently to attack and defend in the first round. As a result, his strength was not fully utilized, and the game was very difficult.

In the first game, Ye Hao lost to his opponent with a score of 9:11 and ate the black start. In the second game, Ye Hao continued his strategy, with his backhand as the main and forehand as the supplement. Because it was the first time to use this tactic in an official competition, Ye Hao's success rate was not high, and he made frequent mistakes.

This made Liu Guoliang, who was guiding on the sidelines, frown. "This kid is too anxious, the backhand is not something that can be practiced in a day, and the backhand is used in a desperate gamble regardless of the situation, this game is difficult!" Sure enough, the final score of the second game was 8:11, and Ye Hao lost another game.

Ye Hao, who returned to the sidelines, was not too frustrated, as if he had predicted the current situation in advance.

"Ye Hao, you can't fight like this! It's okay to improve your backhand, but not in this way, you have to do it gradually. ...... below: "Liu Guoliang decided to rearrange the tactics for him.

Ye Hao listened silently, he knew that such a performance would make the coach dissatisfied, but he had to hurry up and improve himself, time was too precious for him. Because his goal is the Athens Olympics! With his current strength, it is not enough to guarantee one of the three singles places in the Olympic Games, you must know that Kong Linghui, a Grand Slam winner in his previous life, was blocked from the list, let alone the current one. Even if he sacrifices some competitions, he is not distressed, as long as he can maintain an excellent record in international competitions, such as the Table Tennis World Cup at the end of the year and the ITTF year-end finals, that is the best resume.

At the end of the break, Ye Hao, who was back on the court, began to play according to Liu Guoliang's arrangement, and the effect was immediate. The opponent is just an unknown young player of the Japanese team, his strength is not strong, and if it were not for Ye Hao's own mistakes in the first two games, he would not have lost to the opponent at all. After Ye Hao took a 9:3 lead, he continued to use his backhand. Fortunately, the score advantage was larger, and finally won the game 11:7. However, all this made Liu Guo's conscience on the sidelines unhappy.

Next, Ye Hao adopted the mode of the third game, first using the normal level to take a big lead, and then experimenting with his backhand offensive and defensive methods, respectively, 11:8, 11:8 and 11:7 three games in a row, reversing the opponent, and winning the first round with a total score of 4:2.

After the game, Liu Guoliang said to Ye Hao seriously: "If you deal with Marin like this in the next round, you will suffer a big loss." Of course, Ye Hao knows that Ma Lin's strength is not vegetarian, and it is not an exaggeration to rank in the top five or even the top three in today's world table tennis.

This is the first time Ye Hao has met Marin in an official competition, how can he despise it? Although Ye Hao felt that he didn't have much chance of winning, he still decided to go all out, he wanted to know how much worse he was than the other party. So of course Ye Hao will not be the same as this game, focusing on the purpose of practicing skills, and he will fight the next game as a life and death battle.