Chapter 196: The Top Four

After Ye Hao withdrew due to an accidental injury, the men's singles field of the China Table Tennis Open became a chaotic scene of demons dancing. Wang Hao is one of the direct gainers, after all, in the game at that time, Ye Hao had already equalized the total score, if he was not injured, then what happened later is still unknown.

After the third round of the men's singles competition, in addition to Wang Hao's promotion to the quarterfinals, the Chinese table tennis team also had Wang Liqin, Ma Lin, Ma Long and Hao Shuai also successfully advanced. As for the remaining three spots in the quarterfinals, South Korea's Yoo Seung-min and Oh Sang-yun were awarded, as well as Germany's Bohl.

The grouping of the fourth round of the game is, Wang Hao VS Liu Chengmin, Wang Liqin VS Wu Shangyin, Ma Long VS Hao Shuai, and Ma Lin VS Pol.

In these four men's singles quarterfinals, the first thing to do was the civil war between Ma Long and Hao Shuai. However, although this game is a civil war, Ma Long's strength is slightly better, but the process is still a bit thrilling, after all, the two know each other too well in the national team, and Hao Shuai is one of the "Six Little Dragons" who became famous at the same time as Wang Hao.

So, although this quarter-final is the first to start, it is not the first to finish. Prior to this, Wang Liqin's match against Wu Shangyin, which started later, was carried out first. Wang Liqin swept his opponent 4:0, and the game ended in less than an hour.

The match between Ma Long and Hao Shuai lasted for two hours, and after seven rounds of fierce battles, the winner was finally decided. The final result was that Malone defeated his opponent 4:3 and successfully advanced to the semifinals. However, 11:7, 11:8, 9:11, 7:11, 11:6, 8:11, 11:9, it can be seen from the score of these seven games that it is too difficult for Malone to win this game.

Next up is the match between Bol and Marin, and it is also a match that has attracted a lot of attention. Bol and Liu Chengmin, as the biggest opponents of Chinese men's table tennis, have always been the focus of attention of the coaching staff of the Chinese team.

After the start of the game, Bol showed good competitive form, and in the first game, he looked like a rainbow, and with a score of 11:5, he easily leveled Marin. Such an eye-catching performance made Liu Guoliang, who was watching from the sidelines, frown.

After the start of the second game, Marin's backward situation still did not improve, and Bol still suppressed him very strongly. The score went from 4:1 to 7:3, and then to 11:6 in the end, and Bol laughed all the way to the end.

The aggregate score was 0-2 behind, and the key was that Marin did not enter the game for a long time, which made Liu Guoliang, who was guiding him on the sidelines, anxious.

"Marin, you can't play with the rhythm of the opponent, you must reduce the holding with the opponent, and instead make more fuss on the first three boards, and give full play to your own characteristics." Liu Guoliang made suggestions to Marin again and again, but everything still depends on the athletes' own adjustments, and the coach can't play on the field for them after all.

Under Liu Guoliang's earnest teachings, Marin's performance improved slightly, and in the third game, he was not led by Bol's nose, but worked hard to play his first three board skills and did not play a protracted battle with the opponent. As a result, the game became a stalemate, and the score was never pulled apart.

Gradually, the third game came to the end of the game, and the score climbed all the way to 10:9, and Marin got his first game point of the game. Next, it was Marin's turn to serve, and he sent a very spin inside the table to try to lay a solid foundation for his next steal.

However, Pol's principle did not make Marin's wishful thinking work, and he unexpectedly dared to grab a board, and he also succeeded. Marin's lack of preparation was the biggest reason he dropped points. After missing the best opportunity to get back a game, Marin's momentum went all the way down, and Bol took advantage of the victory to chase and began to attack, even taking the ball to win the third game 12:10, and continue to lead 3:0 on aggregate.

After the start of the fourth game, Marin regained his strength, played very aggressively, and attacked fiercely. Under Marin's counterattack, Bol began to make a lot of unnecessary mistakes and lost points one after another. In the end, Marin pulled back a game at 11:6 and narrowed the gap in the total score.

However, Marin's form in this game was really average, and his excellent performance in the last game seemed to be a flash in the pan. In the fifth game, Marin turned into the same old form again and was suppressed by Bol. As a result, Marin lost the match at 7:11, and Bol was able to successfully break into the semi-finals.

The four quarter-finals of the men's singles have been completed, and only Wang Hao and Yoo Seung-min are left to match. Speaking of which, these two people had a great fate in their previous lives. Wang Hao had never lost to Yoo Seungmin before the Athens Olympics, but that defeat caused him to regret it for the rest of his life. If Wang Hao could have put his mentality right, let go of pressure, play calmly, and finally win the championship in the final of the Olympic men's singles, then his career may have been even more brilliant. The third Grand Slam of Chinese table tennis men's will not wait until 2012 to be completed by Zhang Jike, who came from behind.

In this life, due to Ye Hao's birth, the competition between Wang Hao and Liu Chengmin completely lost the special significance of the previous life. Moreover, the battle between Liu Chengmin and Ye Hao is more like a battle of fate, after all, it was Ye Hao who snatched the championship of Liu Chengmin at the Athens Olympics.

Therefore, the match between Wang Hao and Liu Chengmin, although the national table tennis coaching staff is also very concerned, after all, Liu Chengmin still won the men's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, while Wang Hao has nothing, which is a vicious battle. And there is an example of Marin losing to Bol in front, so whether Wang Hao can successfully break through can be regarded as a suspense.

After the game started, the situation on the field was unusually one-sided, and Wang Hao had the complete upper hand. In fact, such a scene is not unusual, after all, Wang Hao's performance in the game with Ye Hao was extremely brilliant before, although he was caught up by the other party in the end, but he was able to lead Ye Hao at the beginning is enough to show Wang Hao's strength now.

The score of the first game was 11:6, and Wang Hao won.

The score of the second game was 11:7, and Wang Hao won again.

The score of the third game was 8:11, and Yoo Seungmin pulled one back.

The score of the fourth game was 11:7, and Wang Hao led the opponent with a total score of 3:1.

The score of the fifth game was 11:9, and Wang Hao won the whole game and successfully advanced to the semifinals.

So far, the top four men's singles of the China Table Tennis Open have all been produced, they are Wang Hao, Wang Liqin, Bol and Ma Long, and the Chinese team accounts for three of the four.