Chapter Seventy-Six: The Situation Reversed
Ye Hao and Ma Long, who returned to the court, took vigorous steps, their eyes burned with fighting spirit, and they stared at the Korean combination opposite. In particular, Liu Chengmin received special care, and he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck when he was stared at, as if he was being prey by some fierce beast and monster bird.
After the match started again, the strategy of the Korean team to grab the serve did not change, and it was the two Chinese pairs who changed. In the face of the fierce return attack, Ye Hao is no longer anxious, but to take advantage of the situation, take advantage of the situation, never blindly attack it before the time comes, cut a board, rub a board, change the rhythm, and interrupt the opponent's attack. Ma Long got rid of his fear, attacked and pulled with his forehand, and shot when it was time to shoot, no longer soft.
Yoo Seungmin and Lee Cheol-sung noticed the change in their opponents and found that it was not as easy to win as the first two games. Liu Chengmin vigorously arced the ball with his forehand, and Ye Hao made a skateboard with his forehand, skillfully using his strength to send the ball to the opponent's backhand position. At this time, Yoo Seungmin didn't have time to get out of the way, the ball had already come to the stage, and Li Zhecheng could only cry out in vain, watching his companion block his swing route.
In this way, Ma Long and Ye Hao are both rigid and soft, both rigid and soft, and they are easy to deal with the fierce fight of the Korean combination. Gradually, the score lead became more and more. After the score came to 9:4, the Korean combination began to "give up on itself", sending points with service errors, receiving the serve directly into the net to send points, and was easily won by Ye Hao/Ma Long in the fourth game.
The aggregate score came to 2:2, and the game needed to be decided through a tiebreaker.
The Chinese pair, who came back from the edge of the cliff, suddenly showed their fangs at the beginning of the fifth game and took the initiative to attack. This makes the Korean combination uncomfortable, after all, it has always been them who take the initiative in this game, and shouldn't the initiative attack and the deadly attack be their own characteristics?
In fact, this is exactly the effect that Ye Hao and Ma Long hope to achieve. After the opponent attacked the whole game, he suddenly returned the favor with the other way, and the opponent was caught off guard, which is the strategy of the Chinese team. Moreover, this strategy worked, and the South Korean team was stunned when they came up.
The score quickly changed from 0:0 to 4:0, and after falling behind so much, the coach of the South Korean team hurriedly called a timeout. The South Korean double "bears" who were splashed with cold water and played again were still in hibernation, and the game situation did not ease in the slightest. Yoo Seungmin's performance was okay, but teammate Lee Cheol-sung was not on standby at all. Facing his teammates who were already outside the world, Liu Chengmin said that I really can't take this product.
Ye Hao/Ma Long had already seen that Li Zhecheng was not in good shape at this time and had become the weak link of the Korean team, so he decisively grabbed him, patted one after another, and vowed to beat the water dog.
5:0。
6:0。
7:1。
9:1。
10:2。
The score of the Chinese pair has always been in the lead and has never been overtaken.
On the last ball, Li Zhecheng served, and Ye Hao received the serve. Looking at the young face opposite, Li Zhecheng couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "This is a world champion, no matter how I serve, I will die." Forget it, just send one, let Yoo Seungmin have a headache. ”
As a result, the quality of Li Zhecheng's serve, which holds the idea of a dead friend and not a poor man, is really good. However, this is a half-high ball for Ye Hao, and the spin is not strong, it is a good serve in all aspects, but this is for the butt serve. Facing this ball, Ye Hao was secretly happy in his heart, "If I don't attack, I'm sorry for your divine assist!" ”
So, Ye Hao decisively chose to rush sideways with his forehand. Liu Chengmin, who saw the effect of his teammates' serve, didn't have time to complain at this time, only to see that Ye Hao's return ball was a combination of strength and speed, and it had already flown towards his own table. After hurriedly stretching out the racket, Liu Chengmin didn't look at the landing point of the ball, but just muttered a sentence in his mouth, "Pit daddy!" (Of course, this is Korean, Ye Hao said he didn't understand.) )
There is a reason why Yoo Seungmin no longer pays attention to the ball, because he knows that this ball is no play, and this ball will be lost. The result did not disappoint him, and the ping pong ball crossed a beautiful and moving arc before falling directly to the ground.
11:2, the score of the tiebreaker was unexpectedly disparity, but this was a good thing for the Chinese team, because they were the ones who won.
From leading one game, to being tied by the Korean team, until overtaking the score and falling into a dead end, Ye Hao and Ma Long completed their transformation under the reprimand of the coach. The reborn duo extinguished the Korean team's dreams and kicked them back to reality. However, on this day, except for Ye Hao and Ma Long, the two were lucky to complete the big reversal, but the rest of the Chinese team was in a bad situation.
Especially Ye Hao's eldest sister in the capital team, Da Zhang Yiling, lost to the German good player Struzer in an upset under the good situation of leading 3:1. In addition, Niu Jianfeng, who just won the women's singles championship in the ITTF Finals, also lost 3:4 to Lithuania's Budian and failed to enter the quarterfinals. On the men's team's side, veteran Kong Linghui and core Wang Liqin also fell outside the quarterfinals.
At present, there are still four people left in the national table tennis men's singles: Ye Hao, Ma Lin, Wang Hao and Chen Qi, and Ye Hao's next opponent is a local Greek player, the veteran Glinka, who is currently ranked ninth in the world. And Ye Hao has jumped to third place in the world ranking at this time due to his impressive record last year. As of now, the men's table tennis ranking is No. 1 in the world is Marin, and the second place is occupied by Germany's Bohr.
The calculation algorithm of table tennis world ranking points is very simple, which is equal to the world ranking points of the previous month + the basic points of this competition + reward points (penalty points) - the basic points of the same month last year. The base score varies depending on the level of competition you are participating in and the results you have scored. In general, the champion has 220 points and the runner-up has 160 points, while the champion and runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships and the Olympic Games have 480 points and 330 points.
Because there is not much difference between Ye Hao and the second-place Bol, as long as the opponent's performance is average, and Ye Hao can win the championship, he has a great chance of surpassing Bol to become the second in the world. As for the points gap with the first place Marin, it is still a bit big, because Ye Hao's performance in the Open last year was average, and he only won rich points by winning the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup.
However, if Ye Hao can win the gold medal in the Athens Olympics, then his points will definitely surpass Marin and become the new world No. 1. In this way, the Grand Slam winner, the first person in the world, can gather all the honors in one, which can be described as a complete merit. But it's just the best thing to look forward to, and the most important thing is the game in front of us.