After Ma Lin men's singles was out, Ye Hao and Wang Liqin remained in the Chinese men's table tennis. Ye Hao's opponent in this round was Lin Ju from the Dominican Republic, whose strength was weak and did not pose much threat to him.

11:6, 11:9, 11:7, 11:6, Ye Hao, who played for the second time in this Olympic Games, did not heat up as slowly as in the first round, nor was he affected by the successive defeats of the Chinese team, and soon entered the state of the game, and finally swept the opponent 4:0 and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Wang Liqin's opponent in this match was tougher, and Zhu Shihyuk, a chipper from the South Korean team, caused him a lot of trouble. Zhu Shihe's chipping counterattack style is like a piece of chewing gum that can't be shaken off, which makes Wang Liqin feel a headache. Although Wang Liqin won two games first, the scores were very close, 11:9, 11:8, which shows that he did not win easily.

In the third game, Zhu Shihe suddenly strengthened the counterattack, and the lethality increased greatly, and Wang Liqin, who had not adapted for a while, lost the game 7:11. The fourth game was the focus of contention between the two sides, and it was not until after 10:10 that Wang Liqin relied on his strong ability to hold each other, scored two points in a row, and won a key game. Wang Liqin, who was two games ahead, finally let go of his burden, and his mentality improved to make him play more freely. At 11:6, he didn't give Zhu Shihe another chance, and won the game neatly.

The Chinese men's table tennis team finally withstood the pressure and did not continue to lose.

However, things are often so wonderful, just when the national table tennis coaching staff thought that the team's momentum had improved, the worse situation appeared the next day, August 19.

In the Sydney Olympics, Wang Lan finally reversed Singapore's national player Li Jiawei with a big score of 1:2 and a 16:20 deficit in the fourth game; The two met again at the Athens Olympics, and Wang Lan once again pulled back a game with a big score of 0:2 and a 0:7 deficit in the third game, which made people seem to see a glimmer of hope for a comeback. However, although history has a striking similarity, it has not been repeated after all, Li Jiawei did not make the mistake of seeking victory 4 years ago, and successfully eliminated Wang Lan with 4:1 "revenge".

So far, the Chinese table tennis team has switched to single-line combat in all four events, which means that even if they reach the finals, they will face all foreign players. What's even more worrying is that the negativity of losing consecutive games seems to be contagious to everyone, bringing unprecedented pressure to everyone. Even the athletes who have won the ball are in a wrinkled state.

It was in this context that Wang Liqin and Ye Hao appeared again, and on August 20, the two ushered in the 1/4 finals.

Wang Liqin was the first to play, and his opponent was Ko Lai Chak from Hong Kong. Gao Lize, 28 years old this year, is at the end of the golden age of athletes, and he is also from the Chinese table tennis team, and his ancestral home is Foshan, Guangdong. However, in terms of strength, Gao Lize, the "outcast" of the Chinese table tennis team, of course, cannot be the opponent of Wang Liqin, the current core of the team.

In the first game, Gao Lize relied on the active attack of the left-handed direct shot and Wang Liqin's slow heat, and won the first game 11:7. However, as soon as Wang Liqin came to his senses, Gao Lize immediately fell into passivity, 6:11 in the second game, 5:11 in the third game, 6:11 in the fourth game, and 6:11 in the fifth game. Wang Liqin won four games in a row, killed his opponent in seconds, and broke into the semifinals.

However, next, Wang Liqin will most likely meet his teammate Ye Hao in the semifinals, provided that Ye Hao can reach the semifinals.

Ye Hao also met an old acquaintance and old opponent Zhuang Zhiyuan in Eight Into Four. This Taiwanese brother has suffered a lot of losses in the hands of Ye Hao. As soon as the match began, Zhuang Zhiyuan, who was in a weak position, immediately launched an onslaught, hoping to gain an advantage in the opening game to get the final victory.

However, how could Ye Hao give the other party a chance, in the first game, he was full of firepower, grabbed the first three boards, and played very actively.

4：1，

7：3，

9：5，

11：6。

The first game was won by Ye Hao without any suspense. Zhuang Zhiyuan's desire to grab the start was disappointed. Zhuang Zhiyuan, who lost the opportunity, became impatient, he knew that in terms of strength and state, he did not have the slightest advantage compared with Ye Hao, and now he was even more backward at the beginning, and there was little hope of winning the game.

It's no wonder that Zhuang Zhiyuan is so negative, even if he just loses one game first. Because at the ITTF Finals at the end of last year, he was beaten 1:11 by Ye Hao, which made Zhuang Zhiyuan remember it vividly, as for how the only 1 point came from, everyone knows very well in their hearts.

This is Ye Hao's deterrent!

In just over a year, Ye Hao went from a dark horse to a thousand-mile horse, although it took a short time, but his record was amazing, and he couldn't help but be unconvinced. Now, there is no reason not to win in the face of an opponent who is cowardly before fighting.

11：4，

11：3，

11：2。

Ye Hao not only won, but also won quickly! It's a big win! Such a strong performance finally swept away the recent decline of the Chinese table tennis team, which greatly boosted the morale of the national table tennis team.

The smooth promotion of Ye Hao and Wang Liqin made the media who have been singing about the Chinese table tennis team immediately turn their heads.

"The men's table tennis duo met smoothly, and the Chinese team booked a place in the finals in advance."

"Ye Hao's strong performance, the haze of national table tennis is gone!"

"Are you trembling when the day comes?"

"Damn, when did my nickname get to the media? Who the hell did this! In the midst of a cheering voice, a man's wail suddenly came......

At the same time, the coaching staff of the Chinese table tennis team is holding a meeting in secret to discuss which of the two men's singles players will have a better chance of winning the championship after advancing to the final.

It can only be said that history is so similar! Ye Hao's previous life, in the men's singles semifinals of the Athens Olympics, Wang Liqin VS Wang Hao, the former lost 1:4 to the latter and failed to enter the final. And what happened later has become an eternal pain in the hearts of all Chinese fans!

According to "unreliable" sources, due to the "correct judgment" made by the leaders of the Chinese table tennis team, the final table tennis men's singles championship fell to the opponent, and the Chinese table tennis team lost the heaviest gold medal.

The reason for this result is that the other semi-final match was played against South Korea's Yoo Seung-min and Sweden's Waldner. The leader of "Wise Shenwu" thought that Lao Wa was bound to be able to defeat Liu Chengmin to qualify, and Wang Hao was better able to deal with Lao Wa than Wang Liqin, so he made the decision to ask Wang Liqin to give the ball to Wang Hao.

However, no matter how shrewd the calculations were, Yoo Seung-min defeated the world's first Grand Slam winner, Valdner Sr. At the same time, it is even more ironic that Wang Liqin defeated Waldner in the bronze medal match, while Wang Hao lost to Yoo Seungmin in the gold medal match.

In this life, the same thing will happen again, but the protagonist in the story is replaced by Ye Hao......