Chapter 161: Direct Selection

After the Asian Games, Ye Hao did not fly directly to Singapore with the national table tennis - the venue of the ITTF Tour Finals, but followed the Chinese delegation and returned to the capital. [_ζ–°\思\θ·―\δΈ­\ζ–‡\0m Hand-hit House]

Zhejiang Hengdian Film and Television City in December.

The last scene of the TV series The Legend of Sword and Fairy III is being filmed, and it is about to be finished. With the director's "over", Xiansan finally ended after half a year of filming. After that, it's time for post-editing, production, and finally packaging and promotion.

Yang Mi hadn't taken off her costume yet, and walked forward in a gorgeous costume. Suddenly, she spotted a strange and familiar figure, one that had recurred in her dreams.

"Why are you here?"

"I missed you, so I'm here."

"Hmm."

There were not too many love words, no exaggerated movements, and the two reunited "plainly", and it was also the first meeting after the relationship was confirmed. The rest of the matter became a matter of course, after saying goodbye to the director, Ye Hao left the crew with Yang Mi and started their first date.

Sanya, Hainan.

Ye Hao and Yang Mi hugged each other and strolled, the sea breeze blew lightly, and the sunset afterglow, a wonderful and moving sweet picture. In a week of alone time, Ye Hao enjoyed the gentle journey of the beauty on the side. Of course, some of the do's and don'ts, both did.

"Mimi, you're not old enough!"

"What's not big enough?"

"This is it."

"You, you're going to die!"

People are not romantic! This is Ye Hao's sigh, and it is his smug smile, now he can say that his rebirth journey is perfect, there is beauty like this, what more can a husband ask for. Isn't this the so-called awakening to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties......

Happy times always go by very quickly, and it's time to say goodbye again. Ye Hao and Yang Mi went their separate ways, the former was going back to the Chinese table tennis team to report, and the latter was going to catch up with the announcement that would never end.

Within a week of Ye Hao and Yang Miqingqing, the 2006 ITTF Tour Finals came to an end in Hong Kong. Wang Hao became the final winner, and he won the final men's singles championship with Wang Liqin, Bol, Liu Chengmin, Samsonov and others participating.

Especially in the men's singles final with Wu Shangyin, Wang Hao saved four game points in a row in the sixth game, beat the opponent to win, and finally won the championship with a total score of 4:2, which made himself, his coach and teammates, and all the Chinese fans excited. But even so, due to the absence of Ye Hao and Marin, the gold content of this championship is still insufficient.

The year 2006 is over, and the next 2007 is a new year, the most important event in the international table tennis world in this year is the World Table Tennis Championships, and the biennial World Table Tennis Championships is about to kick off again.

The 49th World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, from 21 to 27 May 2007. Although it is only the end of January, this time the Chinese table tennis team will use the live TV broadcast of the team competition to conduct an open selection of the World Table Tennis Championships players. So this means that the World Table Tennis Championships has started early.

In fact, since last year's "Straight to Bremen", the national table tennis has used the TV selection for the first time to conduct open selection, but Ye Hao had just made a comeback at that time and needed time to train, so he missed the selection and the World Table Tennis Championships team competition.

However, this time, the rules of the selection competition are more complicated than last year's, and there are three stages in total. Among them, the first stage of the men's team will be held from February 9 to 12, and the second stage of the competition will be held from March 21 to 24.

A total of 16 members of the national team men's table tennis team participated in the selection, namely Ye Hao, Wang Liqin, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Chen Qi, Hao Shuai, Ma Long, Zhang Jike and others. The World Table Tennis Championships has a total of 12 places for men, so the probability of 16 into 12 is still quite large, and the elimination rate is not high.

Ten of the 12 spots were awarded through three round-robin tournaments, while two so-called 'wild cards' were decided by the coaching staff based on a combination of factors. The first round does not produce a separate number of participants, and the "through-through" places are mainly determined by the combined results of the first two rounds. The top three finishers in the first two rounds of the tournament qualify for the singles competition, and the 4th to 8th place finishers qualify. In addition, the third round robin will also produce 2 seats.

This time, the selection of the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb has one of the biggest differences from last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, that is, it is more cruel. It seems that three-quarters of the promotion rate is high, but it also involves the distribution of singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles, which is more complicated and not as simple as last year's team competition.

Although Ye Hao is the number one main force of the current Chinese men's table tennis, it stands to reason that there is no suspense in participating in the World Table Tennis Championships, and it can even be said that the qualification for men's singles is certain. However, if you perform too poorly in a live TV match, it will be a big shame. What's more, don't look at Ye Hao now seems to be an invincible opponent all over the world, but the competition in the national table tennis team has always been the most difficult, because they are too familiar with each other and there is no mystery at all.

The first stage of the round robin is a best-of-seven format, with each person playing 15 games over a four-day period. However, there is a special thing that is that this stage uses a six-point system, that is, there are only six points in each game. In this way, the uncertainty of the game has greatly increased, and the test for athletes is greater, especially for champion-level players like Ye Hao, the possibility of being impacted is greater, because the possibility of an upset has greatly increased.

As the time approaches, the atmosphere within the Chinese table tennis team has become more and more tense, but all this is nothing to Ye Hao, he is preparing to use this round-robin match as an opportunity to experience and shape his offensive style of play more perfectly.

Of course, Ye Hao will not underestimate the enemy because of excessive self-confidence and relax his requirements for himself. You must know that after the Asian Games, he has not participated in official competitions for two months, so he doesn't know what his state is, and he can only rely on actual combat to test.

In this round-robin match, Ye Hao will also meet many old acquaintances, such as Qiu Yike, a teammate of the national second team who participated in the Asian Youth Championships with him, such as Zhang Jike and Xu Xin, who have played against him several times in the National Youth Championship and are also the big enemies in the future, not to mention Ma Long, who has now become the main force of national table tennis.

A new journey begins......