Speaking of Zhang Benzhihe, everyone knows that this is a potential opponent of Chinese men's table tennis. If you talk about Zhang Benmeihe, everyone should also hear about it, she is Zhang Ben's sibling sister, and she is also very talented in table tennis, and she became famous at a young age.
Zhang Benmeihe, born in June 2008, is 12 years old this year.
1) In April 2018, he was selected for the Japanese Junior Team as the first place in the same age group in Japan.
2) In July 2018, she won the women's singles championship at the ITTF U13 World Junior Tour.
3) In February 2019, she won the women's singles championship of the ITTF Junior Tour Sweden.
4) In February 2020, at the ITTF Czech Junior Open, she won three consecutive "U18 Women's Singles Championships, U15 Women's Singles Championships and U15 Women's Doubles Championships", which was a blockbuster and attracted the attention of the International Table Tennis Federation, believing that her future would be surprising.
From the above results, it can be seen that 12-year-old Zhang Benmeihe has shown her good table tennis potential, and she can play some famous places in the world, which is a major discovery of Japanese women's table tennis after Ito Mimachi.
With her current performance, as long as there are no major accidents, the next step into the national first team is basically a foregone conclusion.
Ito began to enter the national first team at the age of 14 and made a name for himself. According to this characteristic of Japanese table tennis good at pushing newcomers, at most in the following year (2022), 14-year-old Zhang Benmeihe may enter the national first team and compete with Chinese women's table tennis in the world arena.
It can be said that the world is changing too fast, and the world is full of talents.
When we are still just focusing on the main players such as Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, Japan's reserve forces have quietly caught up, which is a phenomenon worth vigilance.
Because: We are currently at the same age of 12 years old, and we have not found a good seedling that can compete with Zhang Benmeihe, and in the following year, we can only play big and small, so that our world champion can accompany her to practice, which is the same as the development trajectory of Ito Mimachi and Zhang Benzhihe at that time.
In this way, for the Japanese women's table tennis, in the long run, if she can lead us by one or two years in each age group, the accumulation may form a "generation gap", if one day, we can only "play small with the old", it will be very troublesome ~ because: the same age group may not be able to find anyone who can compete with her.
Of course, this is just an idea, although it may not happen, but it must also be vigilant ~ now it has begun to appear.
1. Zhang Benmeihe's playing style characteristics.
Among the Japanese women's table tennis players, Zhang Benmeihe is like a different kind of person, because her coach is a Chinese, so her playing style is a bit like "Chinese style of play".
Specifically, there are about three significant features:
1) Good at playing the arc circle ball on the forehand, and the strength is fierce.
This is different from the Japanese player's "first practice backhand" practice process, she plays well with her forehand and is lethal, so she has more advantage in the competition with the same age group, which is the main reason why she can achieve good results.
Because, players of this age group generally have poor muscle development and cannot play high-quality arc balls, but Zhang Benmeihe can play.
Judging from the characteristics of being good at forehand, it belongs to the Chinese style of play.
2) Strong strength, good explosiveness.
As the saying goes: vigorously produce miracles,
The "great power" is a taboo for Chinese players. It doesn't matter if you have a good forehand, because the forehand is the traditional advantage of Chinese players, and if you fight on this point like Hirano Miyu and Ishikawa Yoshinori, you may not necessarily be able to take advantage.
However, if you have a lot of strength and are very violent to draw the ball, it is a bit troublesome ~ the power is big, just like Ito Mimachi, the ball is fierce and fierce, then we will have a hard time dealing with it.
Also, just like Hina Hayata, she is also full of strength, pulling the ball vigorously, belonging to the typical strength of the player, this will be a trouble in the future.
3) Very flexible, fast forehand and backhand conversion.
When everyone hears her characteristics, does it feel more and more like Sun Yingsha?
Yes! ~ Playing forehand is good, very violent, and also very flexible, the forehand and backhand are seamless, if she waits for her backhand to practice well, then the left and right bows are even more difficult to deal with.
Her brother Zhang Benzhihe is known for his flexibility, both the conversion speed and the connection speed are first-class, and Zhang Benmeihe is not inferior at all in this regard, playing the ball is very flexible.
At this point, it has some characteristics of Japanese players ~ in general: Zhang Benmeihe is a kind of compound player who belongs to the "combination of Chinese and Japanese technology".
2, in general: she is not a small threat to us, we may not be able to cure her in the same age, and we can only fight small with big.
In this way, by the following year, when Zhang Benmei and come up, the players we can play against her are:
1) Sun Yingsha, who is eight years older than her.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Sun Yingsha's group of players will become the main force, playing in the international arena, at that time, she may have to deal with both Ito Mimachi and Zhang Benmeihe ~ Like Ding Ning and Ito Mimachi at that time, a fight is several years.
Therefore, the Japanese Table Tennis Association is very cunning, releasing young players to play with us early, that is, to let our world-class players practice with them, it doesn't matter if they lose for a few years first, they get up after practicing, maybe later it is a difficult Ito Mimachi ~ In China, where does she go to find such a powerful sparring partner?
2) Chen Yi, who is four years older than her.
Chen Yi, born in 2004, is the best seedling that Sun Yingsha can see behind her, and at present, among the young players, only she can fight against Zhang Benmeihe.
If we say: when fighting Against Ito Mimachi, we still have Sun Yingsha in the same age group, and against Zhang Benmeihe, we may not be able to find players of the same age for the time being, only chen Yi, who is four years older, is more reliable.
Chen Yi's playing style is a bit like Chen Meng: make good use of the backhand, the strength is fierce, the forehand is a killing move, used when it is critical, both offensive and defensive, fierce and stable, very promising, temporarily suppress Zhang Benmei and the problem is not big.
However, it is difficult to say whether Chen Yi can play the main force at that time.
Here, to summarize:
1) Zhang Benmei and "strong forehand, strong and flexible" are a more difficult character to deal with.
2) However, since we have the echelon construction of "Sun Yingsha + Chen Yi", we should still be able to cure her in the next Olympic cycle.
3) However, we need to pay attention to the cultivation of players of the same age, otherwise, in the future, if there is a greater "generation difference" in age, it will not be easy to follow.
In short, having the opponent of Japanese table tennis next to us is a good thing, I hope we can start from the overall situation, do a good job in echelon construction, so that the national table tennis talents emerge and prosper for a long time.
Come on, Chinese Ping Pong!