Chapter 35: Men's Team Competition

The singles competition of the Asian Youth Championships is over, the men's singles champion is Ye Hao, and the women's singles championship is also won by the Chinese team. Next up will be the team competition.

The first round opponent of the Chinese men's team was the Malaysian men's team. The team competition of this Asian Youth Championship implements a best-of-five system, and each team sends three players, divided into No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 main forces. The two teams are divided into the home team and the away team, and the home and away teams are determined by drawing lots.

The three people sent by the Chinese team are, Ye Hao, Zhang Chao, and Qiu Yike, corresponding to the first, second, and third main forces respectively. Since the home team was drawn, the first game was played by Ye Hao against the No. 2 main team of the away team.

Malaysia has never been a table tennis powerhouse and has a low level. After Ye Hao came on the court, he didn't sweat much, 11:3, 11:3, 11:4, and easily won the first game of the Chinese team.

Zhang Chao, who was the second to play, played against the No. 1 main force of the Malaysian men's team, but there was also a huge disparity in strength, 11:5, 11:6, 11:5, and it was still a victory in three straight games.

In the third match of the team competition between the No. 3 main players of the two sides, Qiu Yike has now come out of the shadow of losing to Mizutani Hayabusa, 11:6, 11:7, 11:5, and won the game neatly.

The Chinese men's team eliminated the Malaysian men's team and advanced to the second round of the team competition. The opponent in the next round is the Thai team, and for the Chinese team, it can only be regarded as a practice and is not challenging.

Then the Chinese team easily eliminated the Thai men's team 3:0 and advanced to the semifinals. The remaining teams in the semi-finals are South Korea, Japan and Singapore.

The semi-finals will be the Chinese men's team vs the South Korean men's team, and the Japanese men's team will vs the host Singapore men's team.

First up was the match between Japan and Singapore. Since it was a home game, the host Singapore team was very strong at first, and their No. 1 main team defeated Japan's No. 2 main team 3:1.

However, the Japanese team was stronger after all, and after three consecutive games, they finally won with an aggregate score of 3:1, blocking the host from the door of the final.

The next game is between the Chinese team and the South Korean team, and it stands to reason that this should be the most suspenseful game. didn't expect that the Chinese team was almost eliminated.

In this game, the Chinese team's lineup was as follows, Zhang Chao, Ye Hao, and Li Ping were No. 1, 2, and 3 singles respectively. Since it was the away team that was drawn, No. 2 singles Ye Hao took the lead and won the first point unsurprisingly.

In the second game, Zhang Chao fought, and he did not relent, and successfully won the victory with a score of 11:6, 11:8, 6:11, 11:7, and finally 3:1. The Chinese team is only one step away from qualifying.

However, the performance of the South Korean men's team surprised everyone, and their third singles took advantage of the carelessness of the Chinese team Li Ping when the total score was 1:2, and won 2 games in a row, completing a big reversal, 3:2 to retain hope for the Korean team.

Zhang Chao, who represented the Chinese team again, was entangled by South Korea's No. 1 singles Kim Zexiu when he didn't perform in the second game, and the game between the two was very close.

Jin Zexiu once met Ye Hao in the singles match and was swept by Ye Hao 3:0, but in this game, he played at a super level and played a good game.

Zhang Chao and Kim Taek-so played a total of five games, and finally the Korean team narrowly won the games, the scores of these games were: 11:8, 9:11, 11:9, 10:12, 9:11.

In this way, the result of the match fell on the fifth matchup. The two sides are Ye Hao of the Chinese team and Lee Se Hyun of the South Korean team.

South Korea were at their peak after the third and fourth matches, and most of the crowd was cheering them on, hoping to see a shocking comeback.

In the face of these, Ye Hao did not feel the slightest fear, even though the coaches and other teammates of the Chinese team had solemn faces on their faces.

In the first game, Ye Hao served first. After serving, Ye Hao quickly prepared, and when the opponent's return ball just fell on the table and bounced, he didn't wait for it to reach the highest point, and directly twisted and pulled his backhand vigorously. This fast-paced return caught Lee Sehyun off guard, and he didn't touch the ball.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Hao's second serve was still to take the serve to attack, prepare for the sideways early, take the lead with the forehand, and after the two shots of the forehand arc ball, he suddenly scored a backhand in a straight direction.

When it was the opponent's turn to serve, Ye Hao took the serve to attack, vowing to give full play to the advantages of the Chinese team's first three boards.

The so-called first three boards refer to the technical playing styles such as serving, receiving and serving, which is the valuable experience of the Chinese table tennis team for many years.

As soon as he came up, Ye Hao unceremoniously poured cold water on the head of the South Korean team, and easily won the first game 11:4.

At the beginning of the second game, the Korean team began their traditional tactics, which is to fight, fight, and continue to fight. They don't expect this trick to work every time, but what if they run into it once?

For example, at the Athens Olympics two years later, Liu Chengmin didn't just look at this tactic and successfully stunned the young Wang Hao, thus taking away the championship.

However, Ye Hao will not make this mistake today, he is steady and steady, not afraid of the fierce fight of the opponent, exert force when he should exert his strength, swing short when he should swing short, attack and defense are very good, and did not leave any opportunity for Li Shixuan to take advantage of.

The scores of the second and third games were 11:5 and 11:3 respectively. Ye Haobing was bloodless and won this crucial victory for the Chinese team with a total score of 3:0.

The Chinese team advanced to the final and will play against the Japanese team for the team championship. At this time, the coach of the Chinese team finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and almost lost Jingzhou carelessly and was overturned by the South Korean team.

Looking at Ye Hao, who was calm beside him, Coach Jiang of the national second team was very satisfied, the young man has a good ability to resist pressure, and he can add more burdens in the future, maybe he can be promoted to the first team earlier.

Ye Hao naturally didn't know what Coach Jiang was thinking next to him, what he was thinking about now was that he was going to meet the Japanese team and Mizutani Hayabusa again, whether it would leave him with another memorable game.

This feeling can be there, let Mizutani Hayabusa and his teammates spend an impressive Asian Youth Championship, such a helpful thing, Ye Hao consciously must go all out and not let the other party down.

At this time, Mizutani Hayabusa and the Japanese men's team are thinking about how to get revenge in the team finals. After several victories in the team competition, Mizutani Hayabusa feels that his state has reached the peak again, and when he meets Ye Hao again this time, he will definitely be able to fight.

The strength of a fight, yes, it's not a must-win, and now Mizutani Falcon doesn't dare to release the slogan of victory anymore, and the swollen face that was beaten last time is still "painful".

The coach of the Japanese team saw the performance of the Chinese team and the South Korean team after 5 rounds of hard work to advance to the finals, and his heart was also full of different thoughts.

He was thinking, the state of the Chinese team is not good, only that Ye Hao still maintains a perverted level, and the others are not to be afraid, maybe our Japanese team has hope to win the championship!

Can Japan's dream come true?