After the first two stages of the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, a total of 6 people won tickets to the World Table Tennis Championships. On April 15, the third stage of the selection competition also ended, and Xu Xin, Lei Zhenhua and Qiu Yike were selected into the final squad.

In addition, Chen Qi also qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in May this year with the "wild card" issued by his coach. Among them, the most regrettable thing for Ye Hao was that Zhang Jike lost to the little-known Lei Zhenhua and lost the "direct ticket" to the World Table Tennis Championships. Otherwise, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Zhang Jike will appear on the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time.

In this World Table Tennis Championships, the seven players sent by the Chinese men's table tennis in the men's singles are: Ye Hao, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Wang Hao, Ma Long, Chen Qi and Hao Shuai. After seeing this list, Ye Hao had to sigh that Chen Qi was really lucky, first he could receive a "wild card" from the coaching staff after losing the straight selection tournament, and then he could qualify for singles.

The men's singles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships is what the Chinese team wants to win the most, but the opponents are also the most. Chinese men's table tennis coach Liu Guoliang said dryly, "All the top 16 players in the world are our main opponents, and even when it comes to the capital Olympics, it will pose a huge threat to us." ”

Among the many main opponents, the Chinese team is most worried about the two. One of them is Germany's Bohl, and regardless of whether he is one of the foreign players who have caused the most "trouble" for China in recent years, and European players have always formed alliances, based in Europe, as long as they play in Europe, they have home advantage, and they will play well. Although he has not had an advantageous record against several main players of the Chinese team in the past year, he is still the biggest enemy of the Chinese team.

The second person that the Chinese team is most worried about is the South Korean team's Yoo Seungmin, who first fought Ye Hao in the men's singles final of the Athens Olympics to the seventh game, only to lose 3:4, one step away from the Olympic champion. Then, at the 05 World Table Tennis Championships, he was even more powerful, taking advantage of the perfect opportunity for Ye Hao to retire, and won the men's singles championship in one fell swoop. Moreover, Yoo Seungmin is a "competition-type" player with a strong ability to adapt on the spot, which should not be underestimated.

But for the Chinese team, there is another kind of opponent that is even more terrifying, that is, invisible opponents. For example, Schrager and Zhu Shihe at the 2003 Paris World Table Tennis Championships, if it weren't for Ye Hao's birth, then the men's singles championship would have fallen into the hands of Schrager. Some players who have not yet attracted the attention of the Chinese team often become terrible "dark horses".

Compared with the men's singles, the pressure on the men's doubles is not small, the Chinese team sent three combinations, Wang Liqin/Wang Hao, Ma Lin/Chen Qi, Hao Shuai/Ma Long, the lineup looks extremely strong, but the strength of the opponent should not be underestimated. For example, the two teams of Hong Kong, China, Li Jing/Gao Lize and Liang Zhuen/Zhang Yu, such as South Korea's Oh Sang-yin/Lee Ting-woo, and Germany's Bol/Souss, all of these people have the strength to overturn the Chinese team. Even Liu Guoliang admitted that among the five individual events, the most difficult to win the championship is the men's doubles.

As for the women's singles and women's doubles, they are relatively easy, there are not many opponents, the difference in strength is obvious, and there are few who can threaten the Chinese team. In the end, it is estimated that the "civil war" of the Chinese team is basically the mainstay.

As for the final mixed doubles in the five individual events, it is also the event that the Chinese team focuses on at the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, and the reason why it is concerned is not because of how difficult it is to win the championship, but because the Chinese team has formed a multinational combination with other countries for the first time to participate in the competition.

However, in addition to sending Cao Zhen/Qiu Yike, Guo Yan/Xu Xin, Ding Ling/Lei Zhenhua and other young combinations, the Chinese team also sent Wang Lan/Ma Lin and Guo Yue/Wang Liqin, two super combinations, so it is not easy for Ye Hao and another foreign player to win the final championship. Otherwise, the national table tennis would not send Ye Hao, China's first brother and Grand Slam winner, to form a team.

As for Ye Hao's partner, he finally selected an athlete from the Korean women's team, which made him a little relieved. Regardless of whether people have plastic surgery or makeup, at least their appearance is better than that of ordinary female table tennis players, after all, Ye Hao's requirements are not high, he doesn't want to be pleasing to the eye, he just wants to be able to see it.

The 49th World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb will start on May 21, 2007, but the national table tennis team came to the capital of Croatia for acclimatization training more than ten days before the start of the competition. For Ye Hao, time is even more tight, because he still has to pair with a Korean female athlete who has never been in contact with and cooperated with before.

The day after arriving in Zagreb, when the rest of the Chinese table tennis team had already started training, Ye Hao was taken to the South Korean team's training ground by Liu Guoliang alone, which was his first meeting with his mixed doubles partner.

Ye Hao stood beside Liu Guoliang and looked at the two people who were walking towards him, one of them should be the coach of the Korean women's team, and the other should be his mixed doubles partner. He focused his attention on the female player.

"The skin is very white, I like it. The face and nose are quite small, and the eyes are big and bright, which is good. It looks quite pure and acceptable, but I don't know if it's imported in the original packaging, or has it been artificially modified? ”

"What are you muttering about kid? People have already come, be serious! Liu Guoliang looked at Ye Hao next to him with a critical look, and couldn't help but hurriedly scolded.

After Ye Hao heard Liu Guoliang's warning, he pursed his lips, stopped talking, and quietly waited for the two people of the Korean team to come to him.

"Hello, Director Liu. I'm Hyun Jing, the coach of the Korean women's team, and this is my team member, Seo Hyo-won. Hyun Jing, the coach of the South Korean team, introduced herself and the female players next to her.

After Ye Hao heard the other party's introduction, he suddenly remembered some things about the Korean female table tennis player. Xu Xiaoyuan, who was once known as the most beautiful female chipper in the table tennis world in later generations, although her strength is average, but because of her petite figure and pure appearance, she has long been regarded as a new generation of goddesses in the world table tennis world. She was born in 1987 and is just 20 years old this year.

For this partner, Ye Hao is very satisfied, although the strength is a little worse, but who makes the parents beautiful, as for the matter of winning, of course, it is on himself.

After Liu Guoliang finished greeting the other party, Ye Hao immediately took the initiative to step forward and greeted the two opposite, of course, his focus was on the cute girl......