The first gold medal at the 49th World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb in 2007 will be won after the mixed doubles final. After Ye Hao entered, he saw the podium that had been set up outside the field, and his heart suddenly perked.

This is his first mixed doubles final, which has extraordinary significance for Ye Hao. If you can win the gold medal at the end, of course, it will be a perfect experience, but it will all have to be done through competition.

In fact, not only for Ye Hao and Xu Xiaoyuan, this game is of far-reaching significance, but also for their opponents, Wang Liqin and Guo Yue, it is also an inevitable game. Because of the glory of the championship, no one can give up easily.

The mixed doubles final officially began, Ye Hao served first, and his serve speed and spin were both high quality. Guo Yue pulled a board lightly after receiving the ball, but did not dare to take the initiative to exert force. Immediately afterwards, Xu Xiaoyuan slipped the ball and hit the table tennis ball to Wang Liqin's backhand.

This is actually a tactic discussed by Ye Hao and Xu Xiaoyuan before the game, when the latter receives the ball, try to limit the opponent's attack, do not give the opponent a chance to go crazy, and wait until Ye Hao receives the ball and then give the opponent a thunder blow to solve the battle.

Xu Xiaoyuan's chipping made Wang Liqin feel very twisted, and he could only use his backhand to transition to the board, and did not play a threatening attack. Then it was Ye Hao's turn to catch the ball, and he did it overnight, punching hard and rushing to the board. This ferocious attack directly broke Guo Yue's defense, and the multinational combination successfully scored, 1:0.

In the next game, the multinational combination took the lead in entering the state of the game, and played very well, Xu Xiaoyuan was the main defender, Ye Hao was the main attacker, and the two cooperated tacitly to completely suppress the Wang Liqin/Guo Yue combination.

2：0，

3：1，

5：2，

6：3，

8：4，

9：5，

11：6。

In the end, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan took the lead and got off to a good start in the final.

The game continued, and after the start of the second game, Wang Liqin and Guo Yue immediately launched a counterattack, and they were eager to chase the score back.

In the second ball, after Wang Liqin served, Xu Xiaoyuan successfully crossed the net with a board chip, and then Guo Yue took the lead and began to take the initiative to attack. Ye Hao faced the opponent's attack and pulled a board without showing weakness.

Next, Wang Liqin gave full play to his forehand advantage, he was not afraid of Ye Hao's counterattack, continued to exert his strength strongly, and rushed straight to the middle of the table.

For Wang Liqin's such a ferocious attack, Xu Xiaoyuan, who was about to catch the ball next, immediately tensed his little face and looked under great pressure. Sure enough, her slicing defense was unsuccessful, and the ping-pong ball flew off the table.

The score in the second game became 2:0, and Wang Liqin/Guo Yue maintained the lead. However, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan is no longer the time when they were just paired at this time, and the tacit understanding between the two has greatly increased, and they are not afraid of the backward situation. The two of them stabilized their positions, attacked and defended well, scored three points in a row, and suddenly overtook the score 3:2.

In the next game, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan stubbornly suppressed the opponent's offensive rhythm, and the two of them completely controlled the situation on the court.

On the sixth ball, Ye Hao received the serve and scored directly. In the ninth ball, Xu Xiaoyuan's chipping ball caused Guo Yue to make a mistake in the attack. In the tenth ball, Ye Hao was even better in a direct conversation with Wang Liqin, scoring with a backhand and a board.

The score of the multinational combination led all the way, and before it knew it, it was 10:5, and Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan got the game point in the second game.

Xu Xiaoyuan served, Guo Yue grabbed the ball directly after receiving it, and wanted to kill it with a board, but the next person to receive the ball was Ye Hao, how could Guo Yue's plan succeed. Ye Hao attacked more violently and hit the ping pong ball back.

Three rounds passed, and the multinational combination gradually took advantage of the court, with Ye Hao and Xu Xiaoyuan suppressing their opponents and only being on the defensive. Then, it was Ye Hao who launched the final blow, and successfully scored with a sideways forehand crit.

At 11:5, Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan won the second game neatly and neatly won the second game, and took a 2:0 lead in the mixed doubles final of the World Table Tennis Championships, and the championship seemed to be in sight.

However, the next competition told Ye Hao that it was not so easy to win a gold medal. Although Ye Hao can be said to be invincible in the men's singles arena now, he can only be regarded as a newcomer in the mixed doubles arena.

Wang Liqin/Guo Yue, Ye Hao's opponent in this game, has been paired for a long time, and the two also reached the mixed doubles final in last year's Asian Games, but they finally lost to Ma Lin/Wang Lan. And this time, Wang Liqin and Guo Yue successfully crossed the mountain of Marin/Wang Lan, how could they be willing to fall on the last step of winning the championship.

In the third game, under the situation of Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan leading 6:3, Wang Liqin and Guo Yue did not give up, the two tacitly cooperated, gritted their teeth, chased point by point, and finally succeeded in counterattacking 11:9 and pulled back a game.

It was the reversal of the third game that made the morale of the Wang Liqin/Guo Yue combination soar, and in the fourth game, the two were completely in control of the situation, and they suppressed Ye Hao/Xu Xiaoyuan to the death, as the other party did before.

2：1，

4：2，

6：3，

7：5，

9：6，

10：7，

The Wang Liqin/Guo Yue combination got the game point in the fourth game, and the next ball was Xu Xiaoyuan's turn to serve. Faced with this very critical juncture, Xu Xiaoyuan played abnormally, and under great pressure, her serve came out, giving her opponent a fatal opportunity.

Wang Liqin didn't waste this opportunity from the sky, and his signature powerful attack was not even able to resist Ye Hao. At 11:7, the fourth game was won by the Chinese combination, and the lead of the multinational combination was gone, and the two sides fought to a 2:2 draw.

During the break, Xu Xiaoyuan looked annoyed again, and she was very guilty of her mistake just now. Ye Hao saw that his partner's psychology had fluctuated again, and he had to take the initiative to enlighten her again.

If you want to talk about the gap between ordinary athletes and top players, one is strength, and the other is psychology. A world champion-level master like Ye Hao has a very strong psychological quality, and some mistakes and failures can't affect his desire to win at all. On the contrary, once an athlete with average strength like Xu Xiaoyuan is frustrated in the competition, he is prone to self-denial and loss of fighting spirit. Therefore, this time at the World Table Tennis Championships, Ye Hao has comforted and encouraged his partner several times, after all, the pressure brought by the World Table Tennis Championships is even more incomparable to ordinary competitions.

As a result, after Ye Hao's encouragement, Xu Xiaoyuan regained his strength and went into battle again. At the beginning of the fifth game, the two combinations fought each other, and the score gradually came to 9-9......