On the evening of December 26, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis T League welcomed two heavyweights: on the one hand, the 38-year-old national table tennis world champion Hao Shuai, who represented The Okayama team; on the other hand, the Main Japanese Olympic athlete Niwa Takashi, who represented the Caiyu Club.
Unfortunately, these two did not meet in today's game, the result is that Niwa Takashi defeated Kita and won one game, and Hao Shuai won two single wins and lost one, and the decisive set was cold and defeated the 19-year-old Japanese youngster Zeng Genxiang, thus interrupting the previous 6 consecutive wins, some regrets! See below for details.
Born in 1983 and Niwa Takashi in 1994, the two are 11 years apart, two table tennis players who grew up in different eras, but their playing style has a lot in common:
Both are left-handed horizontal beats, two-sided anti-rubber arc ball play, are excellent feel, good at playing the drop point and line of the athletes, the strength is not very large, the pull is relatively inferior, the first three boards "four or two strokes" to end the battle is their favorite mode, so fans and friends are also very much looking forward to seeing them fight each other.
Unfortunately, the coaches of both sides didn't seem to want to overdo their respective ace players in today's game, and as a result, Hao Shuai and Niwa Takashi were perfectly staggered:
In the first set, Niwa Takashi / Matsudaira Kenta both opened the game unfavorably, losing 1-2 to Okayama's Morien Masataka / Asuka Asuka; in the second set, Hao Shuai scored another point for Okayama team and defeated Hideta Rishi 3-1; in the third set, Niwa Takashi won back Ichijo for Caiyu and won Morien Masashi 3-1; in the fourth set, Tseng Genxiang continued to work hard, defeating Kazuhiro Yoshimura 3-1, and then the decisive set was still up to him against Hao Shuai.
According to the T League rules, the fifth set is a game to win or lose, the result is that Hao Shuai came up and played very passively, has been chasing points, and finally inevitably lost 7-11, and The Okayama team also lost 3 sets in a row.
As mentioned earlier, Hao Shuai had already maintained a singles 6 consecutive wins in the T League, defeating Yuya Oshima, Tomoki Hirano, Yudou Muramatsu, Yumon Ariyon, Isamu Kizo, and Rishi Hideta, but he did not expect to lose to the less famous Zeng Genxiang this time, but the 38-year-old can still have such a fighting ability is very good, still worthy of our affirmation!
So can Hao Shuai meet Japan's top players such as Zhang Benzhihe and Niwa Takashi? Let's wait and see: Come on!