On December 12, 2021, the Japanese Table Tennis T League officially restarted, ushering in a new battle. To the surprise of the old fans, a world champion who is very familiar to everyone has finally appeared under the "thousands of calls"! who? He is the 38-year-old national table tennis player who was once on a par with Olympic champions Wang Hao, Chen Xuan and others - Hao Shuai.
In this duel, Hao Shuai was old and strong, and after 5 rounds of fierce battles, he narrowly defeated Japan's famous Yuya Oshima 3-2, ushered in a victory for his trip to Toei, it seems that his career will be rejuvenated, and the chinese table tennis team's superb first three board skills will be rejuvenated in Japan!
Speaking of Hao Shuai, I think many people will not be unfamiliar, this famous player born in 1983 was once the hope star of national table tennis at the beginning of this century, when he first debuted, he once went hand in hand with Wang Hao, and in the 2003 finals, he reached the final of the men's singles, and finally lost to Wang Hao to be the runner-up.
In the following ten years, Hao Shuai has repeatedly ranked sixth in the team, becoming the last "touchstone" for young players to rank among the main forces, and he himself has defeated the team's masters many times, and won the World Cup team gold medal, and won the title of world champion, but there is still a gap compared with the Olympic champion and singles world champion Wang Hao.
From the technical style point of view, Hao Shuai is a left-handed horizontal beat, two-sided anti-glue playing athlete, good at the control of the first three boards and fast-paced attack, and today's Chinese Taipei famous Lin Yunru belongs to the same sect, but limited by the times, his backhand does not have a more mature twisting system, but both are good at "four or two thousand pounds", no brute force, good at playing cleverness.
During the national team, Hao Shuai once had the opportunity to impact the core main force, but always a few breaths, especially in the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships was defeated by the Danish player Metz after the high ball began to decline, but even so, Hao Shuai still conscientiously for the whole team to imitate the German rival Pol sparring work, also worthy of everyone's respect.
After withdrawing from the national team, Hao Shuai did not choose to retire immediately, but tossed around the battlefield of the Domestic National Games, the National Championships, and the Table Tennis Super League, but when the 2021 National Games were held, everyone did not see Hao Shuai register, so they speculated whether he would officially announce his retirement, but then fans and friends received a new news, that is, Hao Shuai officially joined the Japanese T League!
However, in the 4 months since the news was announced, everyone has not seen Hao Shuai in the T-League, and it was once believed that the plan was canceled, until December 12, Hao Shuai finally appeared for the Okayama team and played against Tokyo, and the first match met the former Japanese national team main player Yuya Oshima.
After the start of the match, the two sides played inextricably in the first two sets, and as a result, Hao Shuai won two consecutive 11-10s with the help of rich experience and special format, successfully forcing Yuya Oshima into a desperate situation. However, in the next two sets, the younger Yuya Oshima successfully organized a counter-attack, winning the two cities 11-7, 11-9, and the match was dragged into the decider.
In the fifth game, the two once again fought to the tense situation of 2 points to determine the victory and defeat, and the result was that Hao Shuai was worthy of being the world champion, and this time it was a 11-9 narrow victory, which led to a big score of 3-2 to lock in the victory, thus ushering in the victory of the first game of his T League, which is really a sword!
For Hao Shuai to play in Japan, many fans and friends are understanding, after all, he has faded out of the international arena for many years, and the technical playing style is lagging behind today's table tennis, so it will not divulge the secrets of the national team; and as an athlete, Hao Shuai's participation in commercial leagues to earn money and support his family is also a very normal thing, and it is conducive to promoting the development of world table tennis, which is beyond reproach.
Prior to this, Hou Yingchao, the national champion of national table tennis, participated in the T League in Japan, and became teammates with Zhang Benzhihe, Mizutani Falcon and others, these experiences also made him know a lot of the inside story of the Japanese table tennis world, maintaining his competitive state while also contributing to the national table tennis after returning home.
So can Hao Shuai play the prestige of national table tennis again in Japan? Let's sit back and wait for his next showdown to kick off!