Chapter 20 Singles and Seedlings
On the second day after coming to Shenyang, Ye Hao ushered in his first round of singles matches.
The opponent in the first round was Jin Bing from the Hebei Provincial Team, and after the fight, Ye Hao quickly discovered the technical characteristics of the opponent.
Jin Bing is a burly player with a clear power type, and so does his style of play. Often, as long as he is allowed to get started, he can beat the opponent to death with one shot.
But it's a pity that he ran into Ye Hao. Although the tonnage is not as good as the other party, if it is compared to strength alone, Ye Hao is not afraid of him.
And table tennis is not as powerful as a crab, rampant and domineering. Ye Hao's method of dealing with Jin Bing was both rigid and soft.
If you want to come hard, I'll just fight with you for the small ball in the table, so that you can't use your strength.
When you are soft, I will beat you to death with my strength, and treat others in the way of others.
Jin Bing, who was squeezed by this strategy, was depressed and could not give full play to his own characteristics and advantages at all. Soon, it was swept by Ye Hao 0:3.
When Ye Hao easily won the game, after sending Jin Bing a round of tours. The game that started at the same time as them had just reached the second game, and it only took less than 20 minutes for Ye Hao to solve the battle.
The next day, the second round of singles began again. As for the team competition, it will not start until the round of 16 of the singles competition is determined.
Ye Hao's second-round opponent is Huang Fei from the Liaoning team, who is fighting at home, and he is also full of expectations for this competition.
However, after the game started, Ye Hao used a strong play to puncture Huang Fei's dream in minutes.
In the first two games, Huang Fei was able to resist one or two, losing the game 6:11 and 7:11 respectively. By the third game, he had completely lost the confidence to win.
If it weren't for Ye Hao to concede a ball, Huang Fei would have been shaved with an ugly bald head. However, the score of 1:11 also made him feel gloomy, and as soon as the game was over, he immediately flew away, the same as his name.
In the third round, Ye Hao continued to move forward bravely, with a momentum like a rainbow, and the opponent from Xinjiang could not find a way to deal with him at all.
No, Ye Haobing ended the game in half an hour without blood. Coach Lu, who was guiding on the side, saw this, and his heart was happy.
He thought that Ye Hao would be able to play the first two rounds and enter the top 32 would be good, but he didn't expect that it was already the top 16 now, and it seemed to be very easy.
It's good that I didn't say my judgment, otherwise I would have been slapped in the face. However, if it is such a slap in the face, it is estimated that Coach Lu will accept it with a smile even if he is beaten.
How did the rest of the Capital team perform?
In addition to Ye Hao, Ma Long also successfully entered the top 16, as for Liao Hai and Xu Xu, the former fell in the second round, and the latter did not break through the first round.
The performance of the women's team was unsatisfactory, except for Ding Ling, who fell in the third round, the rest did not even break through the first two rounds. In the end, none of the women's teams made it to the round of 16 in singles.
Then the goal set before the game, the task of women's singles entering the top three and winning medals is naturally impossible to talk about. Later, it will only be up to us to see if we can accomplish this goal in the men's singles.
Since the top 16 of singles has been produced, the team competition has also kicked off. The first game of the capital men's team was against the Henan men's team.
Ma Long and Ye Hao played as the team's first and second singles respectively, and the task of doubles naturally fell on Liao Hai and Xu Xu.
In the first game, Malone won the first point for the Capital team 3:1.
In the second doubles, the two people sent by the capital team obviously did not cooperate well and made a lot of low-level mistakes, and the Yu provincial team took advantage of this to get back a point.
In this way, the burden fell on Ye Hao. If they can't win the game, then the capital team will be out of the tournament in one round. This is unacceptable.
So the team leader Yao Bin hurriedly came to the sidelines of the men's team from the women's team to watch Ye Hao's game.
At the beginning of the first game, Ye Hao received the serve first. Since it was a tiebreaker, the opponent was obviously under a lot of pressure, and the service movements were deformed. Naturally, the ball he sent out was not of much quality, the spin was not enough, and the landing point was decent. Ye Hao has a big heart, seizing the opponent's mistakes, decisively attacking directly sideways, and scoring directly on the serve.
Next, the game was also a one-sided situation, and Ye Hao firmly controlled the score.
After Yao Bin watched a few balls on the side, he put his heart into his stomach again. At this time, he put his mind at ease and chatted with Coach Lu next to him.
"Lao Lu, when you poached Ye Hao from Ningcheng into the team, you definitely made money!"
"Hey, that's. This kid has improved a lot since the tryouts in the team. But I didn't expect him to finish in the top 16 in singles. ”
"Well, it's a bit of a surprise, but it's expected. The last time Zhang Yiling came to the team, after playing a game with Ye Hao, she also felt that he had great potential. Gold always has to shine. ”
In the end, Ye Hao scored a crucial point for the capital team with a score of 3:0 and helped the team advance to the second round.
By the afternoon of the same day, the capital team won the second opponent, the Gansu team.
The Capital team still lined up the same lineup as the previous game. Malone was still the first to play, and this time he won comfortably 3-0.
Then it was the doubles match.
Because the cooperation of Liao Hai and Xu Xu did not achieve the expected results, the confidence of the coach and the players in the game was insufficient. And the strength of doubles has become a shortcoming that restricts the capital team.
However, it was the second time to play, and the cooperation of Liao Hai and Xu Xu had improved to a certain extent compared to the morning. Although the game was still relatively close, it was still difficult to win the game with a score of 3:2.
Therefore, Ye Hao has no chance and necessity to play. So far, the Capital team has broken into the top eight of the team competition.
On the fifth day of the competition, the singles competition was ushered in, Ma Long will play in the morning, and Ye Hao's game will be scheduled in the afternoon.
Ma Long's opponent is Zhou Bin of the Liaoning team, who has a high talent in table tennis, and later was also selected for the national team and was a teammate with Ma Long.
After the start of the game, Zhou Bin took advantage of the psychological advantage of fighting at home, coupled with his excellent performance, and soon won two games in a row 11:7 and 11:9, forcing Ma Long to the edge of the cliff.
In this game, Ma Long's condition was not good, causing his body to be very bulky and his feet moved slowly. This is very detrimental to his near-stage fast attack style.
In the third game, Malone adjusted his playing style in time, reduced his active attack, and controlled the ball more, taking ensuring that the ball can be on the table as the top priority, rather than blindly pursuing high-quality returns.
That helped him pull a game back, but the form was still treacherous.
In the fourth game of the game, Zhou Bin adopted a fighting style to deal with Ma Long, and it did have a good effect.
Ma Long was forced to fight and attack him, and it was difficult for him to restrain his opponent at this time.
At 8:11 in the end, Ma Long unfortunately lost the fourth game, was eliminated by Zhou Bin, and stopped in the top 16.
This ending was unexpected by the capital team, and neither the coach nor the team leader expected that Ma Long would be unexpectedly stopped out of the top 8.
Now only Ye Hao is still left in the singles arena of the capital team, and the rest have all been eliminated.
As the only remaining seedling, can Ye Hao break through the hurdle in front of him, or even complete the goal set before the game and break into the top three in singles?