On August 26, Beijing time, in the women's singles final of the Japanese Junior High School Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Benmei and 3-1 defeated Shinohara Yumeko to win the championship. After the game, Zhang Benmei and her father Zhang Benyu celebrated the victory in front of the camera.
Zhang Benmeihe is a first-year junior high school student, and her final opponent Shinohara Yumeku is a junior high school student, and her ability to defeat her opponent at a two-year younger shows Zhang Benmeiwa's talent. In fact, in her elementary school years, Sheamoto has repeatedly defeated senior players who are much older than herself, and at the age of 12, she can win the U18 tournament, and her strength is definitely one of the best among Japanese middle and elementary school students. It is worth mentioning that in this Japanese middle school table tennis championship, Zhang Benmeihe was not accompanied by the previous Chinese coach Sun Xue, but by his father Zhang Benyu himself as a sideline guide.
Born in 2008, Zhang Benmeihe is only 13 years old now, but her height is more than 1 meter 62, and she has quite excellent physical condition. She was touted by the Japanese media when she first appeared in the Japanese domestic competition, claiming that her "talent is better than that of her brother Zhang Benzhihe". The Japan Table Tennis Association, which launched underage athletes on a large scale and tasted the sweetness in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, will almost certainly increase its efforts to "innovate". For this reason, there are already Japanese media planning the mixed doubles combination of the Zhang Brothers. After all, three years later at the Paris Olympics, 16-year-old Zhang Benmeihe already had the basic conditions to impact the qualifications. Considering Ishikawa's age and Hirano's competitiveness, Hirano miwa is regarded by many Japanese fans as a secret weapon for the Paris Olympics to impact the supremacy of national table tennis.