Everyone knows that for a long time, national table tennis in today's world table tennis is a well-deserved king, if you can beat Chinese players in competitions, especially in competitions such as the Olympic World Table Tennis Championships, it will definitely cause a sensation and shock the international table tennis world.
There was once such an athlete who defeated two Chinese players in succession in the World Table Tennis Championships and strongly broke into the men's singles quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships, and at this time, he was full of confidence and boasted that he could beat anyone.
However, in the next round, he met Marlene, but Marlene taught him to be a man every minute.
This person is the Danish star Metz.
What's going on here?
At the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships, the then Chinese men's table tennis lost the men's singles championship at the Athens Olympic Games the previous year, which also put the Chinese men's table tennis under great pressure when they held the World Table Tennis Championships on their doorstep.
At that time, the national table tennis was single-minded, and it was necessary to play a beautiful turnaround battle at the door of their own home.
At that time, there were still seven singles places in the World Table Tennis Championships, and the Chinese men's table tennis sent Wang Liqin, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Kong Linghui, Liu Guozheng, Chen Xuan and Hao Shuai to participate in the competition.
As a result, in the quarter-finals, Wang Hao, the runner-up in the men's singles at the Athens Olympic Games, met Metz, an athlete from Denmark.
Before the game, many people were more optimistic that Wang Hao would be able to successfully advance to the quarterfinals, after all, Wang Hao was the star of hope for Chinese men's table tennis at that time, and he also won the men's singles championship at the Athens Olympic Games.
Unexpectedly, Wang Hao faced Metz and was actually swept 0-4, which was something that no one had thought of.
This game, in fact, is not how well Metz played, but more or Wang Hao himself had problems, and various mistakes in the game continued, so that Wang Hao became the first male singles athlete to lose the foreign war in that World Table Tennis Championships!
In the quarterfinals, Metz faced Hao Shuai, another star of hope in Chinese men's table tennis.
In this game, Hao Shuai made very full preparations, after all, After defeating Wang Hao, Metz has quickly attracted the attention of the Chinese men's table tennis coaching team.
At the beginning of the game, Hao Shuai quickly entered the state of the game and quickly achieved a 3-0 lead!
In the fourth game, Hao Shuai was leading all the way, and soon won the match point of the whole game 10-7, at this time, I believe many people thought that the game was about to end, and Hao Shuai would successfully advance to the men's singles final four. Reporters on the sidelines also focused their cameras on Hao Shuai, ready to witness the victory of the youngster.
However, this time the accident occurred, Metz in the face of seeing no hope of victory, played the exhibition game, frequently gave up the high ball, this ball to tell the truth, more of a performance nature of the ball.
But in the face of this kind of opportunity ball, Hao Shuai was too anxious and made a mistake in slaming! Metz saw that the high ball was effective, simply put the high ball continuously, and we all knew the later results, Hao Shuai was more and more anxious, and in the end, he was pulled by Metz for four consecutive rounds, which was tragically reversed.
And this game has also become a turning point in Hao Shuai's career, and since then Hao Shuai has been considered to have too poor psychological quality and is difficult to be a big responsibility!
After defeating Hao Shuai, Metz was full of confidence and boasted that he could now defeat anyone!
However, Metz's big words were premature, because in the semi-finals, Metz met Marlene!
In the face of Metz's aggressiveness, Marlene said: "I will definitely attach great importance to Metz and fight for every point in the game!"
Sure enough, in this game, Marlene made more full preparations, facing Metz's good play to put a high ball, Marlene did not rush to attack like Wang Hao and Hao Shuai, but chose to suck short! This also made It impossible for Metz to catch the ball!
Ma Lin sucked in a short score, and Hao Shuai in the stands was stunned, and he asked Chen Xuan on the side, how did Ma Lin do it? Chen Xuan's hand stall, I don't know!
Metz's high ball did not play a role in facing Marlene, which also led to the complete collapse of Metz's mentality in the later games, 0-4, Metz was swept by Marlene!
Arrogance can defeat anyone, and it has become a joke!
That year's Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships, the final Ma Lin and Wang Liqin met in the final, Ma Lin experienced six hard games, and finally lost to Wang Liqin, and Ma Lin's career, only missing a World Table Tennis Singles Champion, did not achieve a Grand Slam in the end!