Bohr, born in Odenwald, Germany, plays in a two-sided arc with a racket held horizontally with his left hand. Last year, he defeated Wang Liqin and Kong Linghui to win the men's singles title of the Table Tennis World Cup, and is now ranked No. 1 in the world at the age of 22 and is known as Waldner's successor.

In the first game of the game, Bol served first, and the angle of the ball was not tricky, a decent short ball in the table. Ye Hao's response was to take the initiative to get started and pull the ball up. But after a few crickets, Ye Hao noticed that something was wrong, and the ball was gradually returned to his backhand position, and the opponent was pressing his return space. After another cricket, Ye Hao's backhand finally made a mistake and fell behind 0:1.

In the next first game, whether it was Bol's serve or Ye Hao's serve, Ye Hao felt that he had been restricted, and the opponent relied on the advantage of his left hand to attack his backhand with his forehand, constantly causing Ye Hao to make mistakes and lose points. At 6:11, Ye Hao unknowingly lost the first game.

At the beginning of the second game, Ye Hao was still at a disadvantage on the field. Ye Hao's backhand strength is not weak, it can even be said to be very strong, whether it was against Zhang Jike and Ma Long in the youth competition, or against Chen Qi and Qin Zhijian in the national championship, he was at ease. But now, his backhand seems to have become a leak, and the scores have been stolen from here. The final score of the second game was 7:11, and the loser was still Ye Hao.

Ye Hao, who lost two games in a row, was already standing on the edge of the cliff, and if he lost one more game, he would fall behind 0:3, and he couldn't believe that he could catch up with such a score. So in the third game, Ye Hao can only win, not lose, and if he loses, he will never recover.

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Coach of the German team: "It seems that Bol is stable in this game, and the opponent will not be able to hold it if he wins another game." ”

French journalist: "Now we can think about the interview with Bol after this game. ”

Scout of the Japanese team: "The Chinese teenager can't hold on, there is no suspense in this game." ”

On the Chinese team's side, Liu Guoliang saw that the game situation was so unfavorable to his beloved apprentice, and he was secretly anxious in his heart. "The opponent is a left-handed racket and now he's attacking your backhand, you can't use your backhand to fight his forehand. You're desperately sideways and attacking! I really couldn't turn sideways, so I fought with him for the ball in the table. In short, don't give him a chance to attack your backhand, understand? ”

After hearing Liu Guoliang's analysis and guidance, Ye Hao nodded and decided to give it a try according to the coach's instructions. The results were remarkable, and Bol's offense was not as smooth as the first two games. Although the forced sideways attack made Ye Hao's hitting success rate decrease, it effectively suppressed the opponent's scoring, which can be said to be more beneficial than disadvantageous. In this way, 5:3, 8:5, 11:9, Ye Hao won his first game in the whole game, and the total score was 1:2. Although it is still lagging behind, it is finally like speculating in stocks, and the stop loss has rebounded.

In the fourth game below, with Ye Hao in hand, his mentality was more relaxed. He executed the tactics laid out by Liu Guoliang more perfectly, and established a lead from the beginning of the game. 4:2, 7:5, 9:7, 11:9, Ye Hao can always maintain a two-point advantage, and maintain it to the end. The aggregate score between the two became a 2:2 draw.

At the beginning of the fifth game, Bol also began to change his tactics, no longer blindly attacking Ye Hao's backhand, but playing steadily and patiently entangled with Ye Hao. The score of this game was as stalemate as the situation on the field, until it was tied at 9:9.

Ye Hao landed trickily and went straight to the curved ball in the corner of the table, which gave Bol a great threat. This goal is not only about the outcome of the game, but also more likely to determine the outcome of the whole game. Bol made up his mind to catch the ball, he strode with his right foot, and a jumper flew to the right side of the table, but the soles of his feet slipped and the whole person fell heavily to the ground, and he didn't get up for a long time.

Medical personnel arrived in a hurry, and as a result, after Bol received emergency medical treatment, the German team received bad news. Bol suffered a severe sprained right ankle and may not be able to continue playing. Bol, who learned of his injury, hid his face with his hands and wept, shedding tears of unwillingness and sadness. At this time, he was at his peak, defeating two Chinese players to win the World Cup singles championship at the end of last year, and he wanted to make persistent efforts to win the World Table Tennis Championships this time. After that, his goal was to complete the Grand Slam, but now the sudden injury shattered all these possibilities and illusions.

Ye Hao on the other side of the table also came to Bol's side and expressed his concern. Ye Hao is not unfamiliar with this scene, he himself was injured in the final of the National Championship because of a slip and fall, and he even recuperated for a month after the game. But he was luckier than Bol, it was already the final, and Ye Hao only needed one more game to win the championship, and in the end he gritted his teeth and survived. Now that Bol was injured in the second round, he certainly won't choose to hold on, after all, even if there are more matches to come.

Therefore, the final decision of Boll and the German team was to withdraw from the competition. This high-profile match ended with such an ending that everyone was caught off guard and taken by surprise.

German media: "China's table tennis player, the world's No. 1 Boll, was injured in the game and had no choice but to retire and miss the final championship. ”

Local media in France: "Lucky Chinese boy, unlucky number one in the world!" ”

Japanese media: "Chinese table tennis players easily pick up a victory!" “

South Korean media: "According to reliable sources, the German table tennis star Boll who retired from the tournament due to injury is in love with a girl from the Republic of Korea!" ”

(Well, that last one might not be sports news, entertainment tabloids.) ）

Ye Hao's thoughts on this result are regretful. That's right, it's not that he was happy that his opponent was able to win easily, nor is it that he was angry and angry that the media despised him, he just regretted that he couldn't finish this game! Playing against world-class opponents in world competitions has given Ye Hao a lot of inspiration and gains. His complacent and proud backhand is still a little short of a real master, and there is still a lot of room for improvement at both ends of his offense and defense, which may be the reason why he lost more and won less against Wang Liqin, Ma Lin and others in the team before.

Ye Hao got a lot of insights from this unfinished game. "If I can finish the race and win the race, maybe I can get more."

No matter what the outside world comments, Ye Hao finally won the game with the world No. 1, and broke the biggest upset since the start of the World Table Tennis Championships.