Chapter 112: The Butterfly Effect

Time soon came to May 6, 2005, the 48th Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships has come to an end, a total of five events, four have produced champions, all of them were won by the Chinese team.

Among them, Zhang Yiling won the women's singles championship, completed the Grand Slam of the World Cup, the World Table Tennis Championships and the Olympic Games, and became the third Chinese women's table tennis Grand Slam. At the same time, she also cooperated with Wang Lan to win the women's doubles championship. The men's doubles championship was not taken away by the Olympic champion combination of Ma Lin/Chen Qi, but was won by Kong Linghui/Wang Hao, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation and dream come true. The mixed doubles champion was Wang Liqin/Guo Yue.

Only the men's singles champion has yet to be decided, and the final match is Liu Chengmin VS Wang Liqin. In the eyes of all the spectators, fans, and coaches and players from various countries, Wang Liqin, who is fighting at home, has an all-round advantage in terms of strength and past records, and the probability of winning is very high, and it can almost be said that he has a chance to win. The coaches and players of the Chinese table tennis team are also full of confidence, although many players were eliminated prematurely in the early stage, and Ma Lin finally failed to meet in the finals, but Wang Liqin's all the way forward and broke into the finals to make up for all this.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the last game of the Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships - the men's singles final began.

In the first game, Wang Liqin took the lead and beat Liu Chengmin 11:6. The audience was boiling, and the home stadium was like a rainbow.

In the second game, Yoo Seungmin began to fight back, and the ferocious fighting began to be played frequently. However, Wang Liqin withstood the opponent's onslaught and won the next game with difficulty 11:9.

The process of the first two games was the same as everyone's expectations, and the Chinese fans, all the players and coaches of the Chinese table tennis team were full of joy at this time, as if they had seen the dawn of victory.

However, the real game, or rather, the fight has just begun!

In the third game, Liu Chengmin increased the power of the counterattack, every ball must fight, every ball must fight, every ball must fight! 3:1, 7:5, 9:6, 11:8, Liu Chengmin completely suppressed Wang Liqin in this game, and finally stopped the defeat and pulled back a game.

In the fourth game, Wang Liqin also began to increase the intensity of his attack, and the multi-shot attack rounds between the two gradually increased. 2:2, 4:4, 5:5, 7:7, 9:9, 10:10, the two were tied six times in this game. The battle for the last two points was particularly fierce, and after eighteen rounds of battle, Yoo Seung-min scored with a forehand arc that turned straight into a straight line, 11-10. In the last ball, after the 20-beat attack, Wang Liqin was in a hurry to exert his strength and made a mistake to send points. At 12:10, Yoo Seungmin won the most exciting and important game of the game.

2:2, the two tied on aggregate.

Between the fourth and fifth innings, Liu Guoliang adjusted his tactics to Wang Liqin, and showed good results as soon as he came up in the fifth inning. The 4:0 start laid the foundation for Wang Liqin's victory in this game early. In the end, at 11:7, Wang Liqin finally scored another point after losing two games in a row, and took the lead again with a total score of 3:2.

"Ye Hao, do you think Wang Liqin can succeed in winning the next game?" Lu Wei looked at the young man sitting next to him.

"From what I know about Yoo Seungmin, he won't give up so easily. The sixth game should still be very hotly contested. While Ye Hao was waiting for the premiere of the extreme challenge, he couldn't help but watch the men's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships.

At the beginning of the sixth game, as Ye Hao estimated, Liu Chengmin was like a crazy vicious dog from the first shot of the first ball, biting and attacking unscrupulously, completely disregarding defense. Although Wang Liqin expected that the opponent would launch a decisive fight, he still did not resist at the beginning and fell behind at the beginning of 1:4. However, after that, Wang Liqin gradually gained a firm foothold, but the gap between these two or three goals has not been recovered. At 11:9, Yoo Seungmin withstood the pressure of the loss and once again tied the total score.

In the seventh game, see the tiebreaker again! is like the men's singles final of the Athens Olympics, this time the two sides are still China and South Korea, but it is still Yoo Seungmin who represents South Korea, and Ye Hao has become Wang Liqin who represents China.

The Si people are gone, and yesterday is gone!

1:1,

2:2,

3:3,

……

8:8,

9:9,

It's really like a repeat of Athens, how similar the score is, and the next two balls are Wang Liqin's turn to serve. This is Liu Guoliang on the sidelines clenching his fists, "With two service advantages, I will definitely be able to win it!" I don't know if he is cheering for Wang Liqin on the field, or cheering up his nervous self.

Wang Liqin sent a backhand inside the table short ball, which was of good quality. And Yoo Seungmin put on a sideways attack posture early, and no matter whether the opponent's serve is a long ball or a short ball, he is ready to attack and prepare to fight!

Ye Hao watched Liu Chengmin's bold fight in front of the TV, and he had to admire this former defeated general, "He is worthy of being a person who can win the Olympic championship in his previous life, can he win this game?" This thought suddenly popped up in Ye Hao's heart.

You must know that after Liu Chengmin won the Olympic championship in his previous life, he had no achievements, and it can be said that he was out of the ordinary. However, in this life, Ye Hao snatched the championship that belonged to him, of course, there are too many people who have been robbed of the championship by Ye Hao in this life, far more than him. However, it seems that because of Ye Hao's appearance, history has undergone unpredictable changes. In the original history, this time the men's singles final should have been a civil war for the Chinese team, Wang Liqin defeated Marin and won the championship at home.

After three consecutive axes, Yoo Seungmin scored a valuable point, 10:9, and the championship point was in hand.

"The Butterfly Effect!"

When Ye Hao saw the score on the field, this word couldn't help but pop up in his mind.

Liu Guoliang, who was outside the court, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately offered the only and unused timeout of the game. A minute later, the two sides were back in action again.

It was Wang Liqin who served first, and Liu Chengmin received the serve. This time, Wang Liqin's serve was more biased towards Yoo Seungmin's backhand, and the intention was very obvious - to force Yoo Seungmin to transition a ball and not directly attack sideways with his forehand.

However, Liu Chengmin's response caught Wang Liqin off guard, and he violently pushed backhand, attacking or attacking! Who said that pushing can only be transition and defense, not offense! Wang Liqin paid too much attention to Liu Chengmin's forehand fighting power and ignored his backhand lethality, almost everyone did not expect that at this critical moment, the key score, and the championship point of the World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Chengmin dared to launch the final onslaught with his "weak" backhand!

Wang Liqin didn't expect it, Liu Guoliang didn't expect it, and all the Chinese team players and coaches on the sidelines didn't expect it! So the final result was 11:9, and Yoo Seungmin won.

Looking at Yoo Seung-min and his coach Kim Taek-so, who were celebrating wildly on the court, Liu Guoliang couldn't help but think of it, "In Athens last year, the person who had the last laugh was Chinese men's table tennis, it was us, it was Ye ......"