Chapter 36: Defeat the Japanese team

How you arrange your troops is crucial to the success or defeat of the team competition. The reasonable arrangement of the singles ranking of the players can play a miraculous effect of Tian Ji horse racing, on the contrary, it will be wrong and make it worse.

The Chinese team's final lineup was decent, Ye Hao was the No. 1 singles, Qiu Yike and Zhang Chao were the No. 2 and No. 3 singles. Since the Chinese team drew the home team, the home team's No. 1 singles played against the away team's No. 2 singles, and Ye Hao was the first to represent the Chinese team.

How are the Japanese teams in order? Mizutani, as the strongest person in the Japanese team, naturally made the No. 1 singles, so that he would meet the No. 2 singles of the Chinese team in the second round, that is, Qiu Yike, who had lost to him. However, if the two sides can play the fourth game, he will have to face Ye Hao again.

Japan's No. 2 and No. 3 singles were Junzo Koizumi and Tomokazu Mizui. Junzo Koizumi is Ye Hao's opponent in the first game, and he is also the clown who clamored to follow Mizutani Hayabusa to dominate the world table tennis arena.

The team final of the Asian Youth Championship began.

Japan's Junzo Koizumi served first, perhaps knowing that the gap between his level and his opponent was too great, he did not be conservative at first, but boldly used the topspin long ball.

The so-called topspin ball is the rotation of the ball caused by the racket rolling forward and upward, which is fast and not easy to control. However, this kind of ball is suitable for pulling a strong arc ball, as long as the judgment is accurate, you can seize the opportunity.

After Ye Hao saw the opponent's serve, he understood his tactics, the opponent wanted to hold the ball with him, play against the attack, and use fighting tactics to fight himself.

However, Ye Hao has faced the opponent's fight many times, and he is not afraid at all, so he still took the initiative to pull the ball up, and the two sides entered a state of pulling.

After two or three boards, Junzo Koizumi couldn't resist it, and took the ball back to the net first, sending Ye Hao a point.

In the next game, Junsan Koizumi launched a fighting attack on Ye Hao when he had the opportunity, but he failed repeatedly, turning the fight into suicide.

11:3, 11:4, 11:4, Ye Hao, who won all three games with a big score, felt very relaxed, and he didn't wipe his sweat a few times during the game. It's the opponent Junzo Koizumi, and after a game, the entire T-shirt is soaked with sweat.

The second match is Qiu Yike VS Mizutani Hayabusa, the two have already played each other in the singles semifinals, and Mizutani Hayabusa narrowly won 3:2.

In their game, the two fought very fiercely, and the strength of the two sides can be said to be between them. However, after all, Mizutani Falcon had just won against Qiu Yike, and he still had a great psychological advantage.

Don't underestimate this psychological advantage, on the field of play, it will be infinitely magnified, and even affect the final result of the game.

Although Qiu Yike wanted to defeat Mizutani Hayabusa with the determination of revenge, then on the one hand, he wanted to win too much and caused his impatience, and on the other hand, the defeat in the previous two days made him shackled.

After losing a game at 9:11, although Qiu Yike stubbornly pulled back a game with 11:8, he lost two games in a row and finally lost to Mizutani Hayabusa 1:3.

The Chinese team and the Japanese team played to a 1:1 draw in the first two games.

In the third game, Zhang Chao of the Chinese team lived up to expectations and did not fall into the gutter, and he defeated the Japanese team Mizui Tomokazu with a score of 3:1.

The fourth game is a life-and-death battle for the Japanese team, with a win or a life, and a defeat or death. The fourth game was played by the No. 1 main force of both sides, that is, Ye Hao VS Mizutani Falcon.

Mizutani looked at Ye Hao on the other side of the table, gritting his teeth, wanting to defeat his opponent and avenge his singles final.

Ye Hao would not give him this opportunity, as soon as the game began, he firmly suppressed Mizutani Falcon on the first three boards, and did not give him a chance to hold the ball.

Mizutani Hayabusa is a talented player with high hopes in the Japan Table Tennis Association's Lying Salary Tasting Program, and has been sent to Europe to train and play in leagues since he was a child. It's because his style is more European, sticky and tangled, and he is also good at putting high balls, and he can hit some incredible good balls from time to time.

Ye Hao will not give him this opportunity to give full play to his strengths. Taking advantage of your illness and wanting your life, Ye Hao just wants to use his own strengths to attack the shortcomings of the water valley falcon.

The final score in the first game was fixed at 11:5, and Ye Hao scored one point first.

At the beginning of the second game, Mizutani Hayabusa changed his defensive counterattack style of play, but began to learn from Ye Hao and strengthen the changes and firepower of the first three boards.

This change had a good effect, and the two played from 1:1 to 9:9, and then came to the crucial score.

Ye Hao served first, and the long ball that came out was a bit unexpected by Mizutani Falcon. Because before that, Ye Hao's serve was almost always a short ball in the table, at most it was half-staged.

Although Mizutani was a little surprised, he took the initiative to pull the ball up. This is exactly within Ye Hao's calculations. Because the tactic of using the first three boards to solve the problem did not work well in this game, Ye Hao simply decided to have a tough confrontation with the opponent and rely on strength to speak.

Anyway, compared with the strength of the Mizutani Falcon, Ye Hao is not weak at all. He quickly took the initiative in this ball, and Mizutani fell into a passive defense.

When the opponent was forced to put the high ball, Ye Hao knew that this point was there. Patient smashing board after board, slowly forcing the opponent to the side of the table, when the time was ripe, Ye Hao suddenly slashed the board and dunked the ball to the empty place of Mizutani Falcon.

Mizutani Hayabusa didn't have time to run to save the ball, and could only watch as he lost this crucial score, 10:9.

In the next ball, Ye Hao took the initiative to pull the ball up and started an attack with Mizutani Falcon again. is still the routine of the previous goal, the two of them attacked, and it became Ye Hao attacking, and Mizutani Falcon defending.

In the end, Mizutani Hayabusa, who was passively defending, lost another point and lost the second game, as well as his confidence and hope for this game.

In the third game, the two seemed to have returned to the singles final, Ye Hao fully controlled the table, 11:2, and beat Mizutani Hayabusa.

In the fourth game, the Chinese team won as desired, and the total score of the two teams became 3:1, and the team championship was in hand!

All the players and coaches of the Chinese team excitedly ran to the center of the field to celebrate. The Japanese team silently packed up their equipment and said nothing.

The scenes on both sides are in stark contrast. CCTV5's photographer recorded this scene, and the photo appeared on the sports channel's evening news, titled "Ice and Fire".

This team championship did not cause much turmoil in China, firstly, it was only the Asian Youth Championships, and secondly, Chinese table tennis was too strong, and the impression of the Chinese people was that if they did not win the championship, they would fail.

The audience talked about the frustration of the Japanese team, and the Chinese team was even more disappointed under the celebration, which was very happy.