In the men's singles competition of the 2018 Austrian Open in table tennis, Japan's Kenta Matsudaira, who only defeated the national table tennis teenager Zhou Kai, did not break through the iron wall of the Chinese team after all, and lost to another national table tennis teenager Liu Dingshuo with a total score of 0-4, stopping the third round of the qualifier (in fact, he only played two games, the first bye).
And even if it was the ball that won Zhou Kai, although Kenta Matsudaira performed OK, some unexpected situations on the scene also had a great impact on the situation of winning and losing, because the referee directly judged Zhou Kai's serve violation three times during the game, which seriously affected Zhou Kai's play.
Of course, this is not to say that Zhou Kai's loss was entirely caused by the referee, and the referee's decision is not necessarily wrong - if zhou Kai plays normally, he cannot say that he is fully sure of winning Matsudaira, but such a situation does make the confrontation between the two sides of the ball affected by too many factors other than competition, so there is nothing wrong with it.
When it came to the match with Liu Dingshuo, Kenta Matsudaira did not have such good luck: in the fourth game, except for the second game, he had to tangle to a 10-12 two-point difference before losing, the other three games were 7-11 defeats, and indeed there was a gap in strength with Liu Dingshuo.
Today, Kenta Matsudaira is no longer young, and at the age of 27, it is difficult to be called a "genius teenager": looking back, he has long been lost to everyone!
Kenta Matsudaira's career so far has two shining points, one is the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships seven-game battle lost to the national table tennis Olympic champion Marlene, the other is the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships to win Marlene, in addition to his results are really unable to take the hand, even within the team can not compete for the Olympic quota - 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, he did not compete once.
However, the subsequent defeat did not hide some of the light he had briefly emitted, although the 18-year-old Matsudaira Kenta was defeated by Marlene, but he showed that he was not inferior to the Chinese athlete's serve and in-stage control technology, nothing more than so many people are optimistic that he will become a major enemy of the future national table tennis and the star of hope in the Japanese table tennis world.
Although The 22-year-old Matsudaira Kenta won the soon-to-retire Marlene, he still played well in the battle with Xu Xin, and he was almost able to create the best singles performance in Japanese men's table tennis in recent decades. If Kenta Matsudaira could get even a bronze medal that time, his life would have been very different from what he is now.
Yet nothing happened.
The predecessor Mizutani Hayabusa he did not play, the junior Niwa Takashi and others he did not compete to win, and now there is Zhang Benzhihe behind Niwa Takashi, and Zhang Benzhi and Matsushima Huikong behind him are also ready to move - Zhang Ben and Matsushima can call Matsudaira Ken too uncle, and Matsudaira Uncle in the table tennis arena is still stuck in his position when he was a nephew, which is also very helpless.
In fact, at the end of last year, Kenta Matsudaira once broke into the world's top ten in the world rankings, and this year's Bulgarian tournament he also won Zhang Benzhi and Zheng Peifeng, a direct shooter of national table tennis, which is also a good performance. However, it turns out that Matsudaira Kenta's routines have gradually drifted away from the mainstream playing style of today's table tennis, and it is almost impossible to rise again in the future.
In the past decade, there has been no innovation and improvement in technology, and the key competitions are not tough enough, and opportunities have been missed again and again, which is an important reason for the fall of Kenta Matsudaira.
It can be said that Kenta Matsudaira can also be regarded as a good negative teaching material for the national table tennis players: an athlete's career is only a little longer, and when there is a chance, he must grasp it, and when he fails, he must summarize and improve himself, because no one knows whether the next opportunity will be his turn - even the competition of the Japanese team is so fierce, let alone the national table tennis.
However, I heard a while ago that Kenta Matsudaira's coach still has some hope for him, and his age is still in prime time, so there may be new performance opportunities in the future. However, although competitive sports are full of various uncertainties, the reason why the unpopular is unsolicited is because the possibility of occurrence is very small: it is difficult for Kenta Matsudaira to achieve good results now!
We welcome Kenta Matsudaira to continue to challenge the national table tennis: not afraid of you coming, not afraid of you winning, as long as you have the ability, everyone is willing to gamble and lose - look at your skills!