The Japanese table tennis league followed the World Cup finals, and the 38-year-old world champion Hao Shuai joined the Okayama club finally lost 2-3 to Tokyo FC, suffering a black opening. Hao Shuai played in doubles and singles sets in the match, winning one and losing, losing 1-2 to Tokyo's Kenta Tian Tian / Hokuto Koriyama, and defeating Japan's veteran Yuya Oshima after five innings of singles.
The level of players in Japan's table tennis league has to admit that it is indeed not as high as China's table tennis super league, but the Japanese league is a wide range of talents, not only the main players of the national team all participate, but also in terms of foreign aid, Moray Gaud, who has just won the men's singles runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships, Pitcheford of the United Kingdom, Lee Sang-so of South Korea, Tian Zhixi, Lin Yunru of Taipei, Du Kaixuan of Hong Kong, Huang Zhenting and other famous players have all gone, increasing the fierce competition in the competition.
Only Hao Shuai, a Chinese player, has played in this season's Japan Table Tennis League, and he has joined Okayama FC. Tianjin player Hao Shuai as early as 2003 in the national team to emerge, the International Table Tennis Federation year-end finals 3-4 defeat to Wang Hao, missed the opportunity to win the men's singles championship, his sadness has continued for two World Championships, in the 2005 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles 1/4 final 3-4 was cold out of the game by Metz's high ball interference, followed by the 2007 World Table Tennis Championships 1/4 final was eliminated by Wang Liqin, missed the men's singles medal. Although Hao Shuai is very strong in men's singles and has been firmly in the ranks of the main force of national table tennis, he has never been able to participate in the men's team lineup of the World Table Tennis Championships, and it was not until the 2010 World Cup team competition that he was fortunate enough to win a world championship title as a substitute. After Hao Shuai quit the national team, he has been active in the National Games and other events for tianjin team, and recently joined Okayama to participate in the Japanese League.
In the first set against Tokyo FC, Hao Shuai and Machi Asuka partnered in the men's doubles match, the opponent was Tian Tian Kenta / Koriyama Hokuto, due to Hao Shuai and Machi Asuka's strange cooperation, there was a language communication barrier between them, but still fought 3 games, regrettably lost, Okayama Club lost a set first. Judging from the competition process, Hao Shuai/ Machi Asuka has the advantage of one left and one right running position, and I believe that in time, the two will also improve the degree of tacit understanding between them.
Hao Shuai once again put on the men's singles 4th set, the opponent is the main force of the Japanese men's team in the Rio Olympic cycle Oshima Yuya, the veteran once and MoriEn Masashimi with the men's doubles to participate in a number of world championships, the most impressive is the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, facing the final champion Xu Xin / Zhang Jike, once got the match point, on the back of the burden of wanting to win and afraid of losing, was reversed by the national table tennis combination did not qualify for the final four. Oshima's singles record was lackluster, reaching the men's singles semifinals at the China Open.
The format of the Japanese League is different from international matches, in the case of a 10-10 battle between the two sides, only 1 point is required, and whoever scores 11 points first wins a game, rather than having to win 2 points to count the end of a game. Hao Shuai faced Yuya Oshima, the first 2 sets were the key points of the competition smoothly won, although the last 2 sets suffered a tie, but the decider Hao Shuai is still the final winner, the score of 5 sets:
11-10/11-10/7-11/9-11/11-9, although Okayama eventually lost the game 2-3, but Hao Shuai has consistently scored one point in singles and remains an important pillar of Okayama Club this season.