Once the quarter-finals have been decided, the World Cup has come to the knockout stage, where the four group winners and group runners-up will be drawn to determine the quarter-finals. Among the four members of the Chinese team, except for Wang Liqin, they all qualified first in the group, which means that the three of them will not meet, and it also ensures that the national table tennis will not prematurely kill each other.

Finally, the matchups in the first round of the knockout round were determined, Wang Hao vs. Wu Shangyin, Marin vs. Liu Chengmin, Ma Long vs. Wang Liqin, and Bol vs. Samsonov. Such an ending is not perfect for the Chinese team, because if Wang Liqin can be separated from Bol, the national table tennis may even win the semi-finals. However, on the bright side, the encounter between Wang Liqin and Ma Long allowed the national table tennis to take the lead in occupying one of the top four.

The match between Wang Hao and Wu Shangyin started first, and this match was the least suspenseful of all four games. Wang Hao's current strength, he may feel a little pressure when he encounters Liu Chengmin, but Wu Shangyin does not have the qualifications to give him a headache.

After the game started, Wang Hao didn't even give the opponent time and opportunity to adapt to the game, and as soon as he came up, he began to attack extremely actively. The excellent play of the forehand sideways attack, coupled with the continuous strong backhand straight shot, made Wu Shangyin, who scored on the opposite side, feel like swallowing Coptis chinensis, and he was miserable.

If the first game was just an appetizer, the score of 11:5 was not enough to make Wu Shangyin despair. So, from the second game, Wu Shangyin learned a new word, that is, what is "confused".

After the quick defeat in the first game, Wu Shangyin held an extremely firm belief and decided to play the consistent style of Korean men's table tennis in the following games, relying on fighting to fight for the world.

However, just when Wu Shangyin was about to put his ideas into action, Wang Hao was one step ahead of him and took the lead in launching a ferocious offensive, leaving his plan stillborn. Some people may ask, is Wu Shangyin stupid, Wang Hao attacks, he can also fight back and attack the other party?

But the actual situation is that Wang Hao's firepower is too fierce, and Wu Shangyin does not dare at all, nor is he powerless to compete with him. So there is no suspense in the final result, Wang Hao through high-pressure tactics, so that Wu Shangyin has completely become a puppet in this game, a clay figure that can be kneaded at will, a clay figure without the slightest fire.

The final score in the second game was 11:4, the score in the third game was the same as the previous game, and the score in the fourth game became 11:2. Wang Hao maintained his excellent form when he won the championship in the Chinese Table Tennis Championships, and made a good start for the national table tennis in the knockout stage of this Table Tennis World Cup.

When Wang Hao took only forty minutes to solve the battle, on the table next to them, the match between Marin and Liu Chengmin had already begun. In fact, the two played each other in the group stage, when Marin defeated Yoo Seungmin 4:2 and won the first place in the group.

Therefore, in the eyes of most people, Marin has a better chance of winning. Therefore, even the South Korean media, which has always been very arrogant, spoke out extremely depressed and slightly aggrieved before the game, and the two Korean players had too poor luck this time.

Especially on the table next to them, Wang Hao has already given Marin a good start, defeating a South Korean athlete, and now it is Marin's turn to perform and play. After the start of the game, the scene did seem to be as expected, Marin quickly took advantage of the court in the first game, and it seemed that the suspense of this game was also lost.

In the first game of the two, Liu Chengmin was the first to serve, and Marin made full use of his superb first three board skills, and directly picked a board after receiving the serve, and the strong offensive firepower made the opponent directly raise the white flag and admit defeat, 1:0.

In the second ball, Marin did the same trick, after the opponent served, he took the initiative to grab, a sideways forehand rush, and scored directly again. With such a strong performance, the opponent did not have the slightest power to fight back, and Marin's game seemed to have been properly taken into his hands.

The next game of the first game also confirmed this idea, Marin broke his opponent's two serve in a row, and still performed well on his own two serves, scoring consecutive points.

4：0，

5：1，

7：2，

8：3，

10：4，

11：5。

Marin successfully won the first game and temporarily led 1:0. After the start of the second game, Yoo Seungmin's performance still made the coach of the Korean team on the sidelines look solemn. Wu Shangyin, who had already lost, also came to South Korea's large army at this time to cheer for his teammates.

However, Yoo Seungmin disappointed everyone in the South Korean team, he still couldn't control the decline, and was pressed by Marin's momentum again and again, and lost points by mistakes. In this game, Marin did not encounter much resistance on his own serve, but he showed his strength on his opponent's serve as always.

2：0，

4：1，

7：3，

9：4，

11：6。

The second game lasted ten minutes and ended in Marin's victory. The lead of the total score of 2:0 made the national table tennis coaching staff who watched the game off the court, especially the head coach Liu Guoliang, feel at ease.

However, Liu Guoliang's good mood did not last long, and as soon as the third game came up, the scene was abrupt. Yoo Seungmin, who lost two games in a row, began to exert his might, he changed the malaise of the first two games, and became aggressive, like a bloodthirsty hungry wolf, with fierce eyes and bloody mouths.

The first ball was Yoo Seungmin's serve, although Marin received the serve and directly grabbed the attack and rushed a shot, but this time the opponent did not sit still, but had already defended sideways and pulled a forehand backhand, and the table tennis ball was returned the same way.

Marin frowned when he saw this, but he had no chance to hesitate at this time, so he immediately slapped the ball back with the same forehand and hit the ball back to the opposite table. Next, the two men fought fiercely for the first ball of the game.

Yoo Seungmin gave full play to his "crazy" nature, and his playing style was extremely crazy, and there was no reason at all. Even Marin, who has always been known for his hard work, did not have the slightest advantage in the first three boards, but was gradually suppressed by the other party. As a result, the ball was won in Yoo Seungmin's forehand bombardment, 1:0, making a good start to the game.

Liu Chengmin, who has entered a state of crit frenzy, is unstoppable, even if Ye Hao comes, he will feel a headache and avoid his edge for the time being. Marin's luck wasn't bad, and it wasn't good. Although he managed to win the first two games and establish a certain advantage, he also indirectly forced his opponent to be in good form.

A drink and a peck, is it predetermined......