In the second round of the China Table Tennis Open, Ye Hao VS Ma Lin's match became the focus of the battle. One is the champion of the new World Table Tennis Championships, the other is the main force of the national team and the singles champion of the Table Tennis World Cup.

Ye Hao calmly looked at Marin on the other side of the table, he entered the national first team in 96, the runner-up in the World Table Tennis Championships in 99, the World Cup champion in 00, and the men's team champion in the World Table Tennis Championships in 01. This is not an easy opponent to deal with, and it can even be said that it is the strongest opponent Ye Hao has encountered in official matches since he was reborn.

At the start of the match, Marin held the racket straight in his right hand and began to serve. Ye Hao didn't dare to be careless when he saw the ball, he knew that the first three board technology was Marin's housekeeping skill, and it could be said that no one could beat it in today's table tennis world. chose to rub the board cautiously, Ye Hao's return ball was of good quality, with a shallow landing point and rotation. But Ma Lin's response was even better, only to see him standing on his toe sideways, directly picking up the slash line, and the ping-pong ball flew towards Ye Hao's backhand.

1:0, Marin scores.

In the face of this ball, Ye Hao had no choice but to look at the ball and sigh.

In the second ball, Marin continued to serve, Ye Hao judged that it was a short ball in the table, and wanted to return the opponent with a violent pick, but when the racket came into contact with the table tennis ball, he found that he had misjudged Marin's serve. I thought this serve had spin, but who knew that Marin's action confused him, but in fact it was a non-spinning ball. Ye Hao's pick made a mistake and was caught.

At 2:0, Marin continued to lead.

Then Ye Hao used his serve to grab two points in his two serves, and drew 2:2. This is the first and last time that the two men have been tied in this game. In the rest of the match, Marin used his front three board technique, his varied serve, and his forehand to rush sideways to firmly grasp the game.

At 11:7, Marin easily won the first game.

Due to the civil war of the Chinese team, neither of them had a coach to guide them during the break, so Ye Hao could only analyze the game by himself and adjust his tactics by himself.

"Marin's biggest feature is that he has strong skills in the first three boards, and if he can be dragged into the opposite attack and play multiple rounds of holding the ball, maybe the odds of winning will be higher." This is Ye Hao's idea.

In the second game, Ye Hao played according to his own ideas, trying to limit Marin's first three boards, and striving to play more rounds of the ball. It worked out well, and in the second game, he and Marin were inextricably matched, with the score going from 2-2 to 8-8.

Seeing this, Liu Guoliang, who was fighting on the sidelines, couldn't help but nod his head and expressed his appreciation for Ye Hao's tactical changes and choices.

When it was Ye Hao's turn to serve, Marin received another board and successfully hit the ball on the table. Ye Hao fell into passivity all of a sudden. Two beats later, Marin scored with a powerful dash of a sideways forehand.

At 9:8, Marin took the lead.

Ye Hao continued to serve, and he sneaked a long ball on this ball, but he didn't want to be caught by Marin, so he hit it directly and sent the ball to Ye Hao's backhand. Ye Hao didn't have time to pull back, so he could only use his racket to block and put a high ball over. The following is the violent buckle of Marin's board, Ye Hao kept putting high balls, and in the end, Ye Hao couldn't resist the opponent's attack first.

At 10:8, Marin got the game point.

Outside the court, everyone from the Chinese table tennis team watched the game.

Liu Guoliang said to Ma Lin's head coach Wu Jinping: "Ma Lin is still experienced, these two balls dare to play and rush, and the judgment is accurate, it seems that there is no problem in winning this game." ”

Wu Jinping listened to Liu Guoliang's words and said: "After all, Ma Lin is 23 years old this year, almost 10 years older than Ye Hao, and he must have more experience in the game." But as long as he goes through a little more competition training, I'm afraid it won't be possible for Marin to be so easy at that time. ”

The situation on the court was the same as predicted by the two coaches, Ye Hao saved a game point by fighting, but finally lost the second game 9:11.

Seeing that his situation was precarious, Ye Hao became impatient, and in the third game, he began to fight fiercely, and it did work at first, but the experienced Marin quickly thought of a way to restrain him. After that, although Ye Hao continued to play desperately, Ma Lin was unmoved, did his own thing, and did not give Ye Hao any chance.

At 8:11, Ye Hao lost another game. The situation of falling behind 0-3 made Ye Hao's heart completely cool, and he knew that it was impossible to get the ball back. So he decided to just continue practicing his backhand technique.

It was with such a mentality of practicing that Ye Hao's performance became better. His return and backhand twist allowed him to occupy the advantage of the first hand, combined with the continuous fast attack of the forehand, Marin was a little unable to resist for a while. At 8:5, Ye Hao was a rare leader in this game.

Then Marin relied on his own pick and sideways rush to recover two points, and Ye Hao's lead was only one point. However, in the next goal, Ye Hao's backhand scored the most beautiful point of today's game. After the first four boards, Ye Hao and Ma Lin entered a state of stalemate. Marin's forehand pull angle was very awkward, and it went straight to Ye Hao's backhand. At this time, Ye Hao had no time to move under his feet, so he could only choose to backshoot and pull back on the far platform. Ye Hao was not sure that he could pull the table tennis ball to the table, because his backhand was still quite threatening in the attack of the near platform, but there were not many attempts in the middle and far platform. Ye Hao kept his eyes on the ball until he confirmed that his backhand backpull was on the stage, but Marin continued to use a forehand and sent the ball back, still in a backhand position. Ye Hao didn't think about it at this time, and pulled backhand again, and the ball flew across the arc and flew to the opposite table again. Marin continued to return the ball to the same position, and Ye Hao still chose to pull back the back, but the angle of this ball was pulled larger, and the landing point was no longer in the middle of the table, but ran to the far right of the table. The table tennis ball successfully came to the stage, but Ma Lin didn't expect Ye Hao to dare to tear such a big angle at this time, so he could only watch the ball slip away.

At 9:5, Ye Hao scored one more point. This wonderful score hit Marin's momentum, and Ye Hao easily won the next two goals, and finally pulled back a game in the total score, avoiding the embarrassment of being shaved head.

Liu Guoliang couldn't help but applaud when he saw Ye Hao's beautiful backhand pull ball on the far platform with three consecutive boards outside the court. "I didn't expect that in such a short period of time, his backhand has improved a lot, and now COSCO can also play wonderful offensive defense. No wonder I had to fight hard to use my backhand in the last game. For Ye Hao's belief and persistence in practicing his backhand, Liu Guo's conscience finally began to fully agree.

Ye Hao took advantage of the winning momentum in the fourth game and took another set at 11:5 in the fifth game, making the score 2:3. But Marin, who finally came to his senses, no longer gave Ye Hao a chance to continue to fight back, and won the sixth game 11:7, giving Ye Hao his first defeat since the official game.

Ye Hao, who lost the game, was not overly frustrated, he knew before that he was now slightly inferior to the rest of the main players of the men's team, and the loss was expected. However, this defeat, the continuous backhand pull, strengthened Ye Hao's determination, he wanted to continue his plan and improve the offensive and defensive ability of the backhand in the near, middle and far platforms. His goal is to be as strong as his forehand and backhand, with no weaknesses.