On January 8, 2022, the Japanese Table Tennis T League staged a very wonderful showdown - 38-year-old national table tennis world champion Hao Shuai Lao Dang Yizhuang, after defeating Zeng Genxiang 3-1, met with the Japanese national team's Olympic main player Niwa Takashi (27 years old), and the result was that the two sides laughed 11-6 in a game of victory and defeat: It is really great! Looking forward to him to meet Zhang Benzhihe!
As an athlete who was once on a par with Olympic champions Wang Hao, Chen Xuan and others, hao shuai can maintain such a good state after retiring from the national team, which is indeed incredible, and many people also regret it: if it were not for the chinese team's too many talents, Hao Shuai would probably be able to qualify for the Olympic Games, right?
Born in 1983, Hao Shuai is one of the "six little dragons" of the national table tennis men's team at the beginning of this century, earlier than Chen Xuan, Qiu Yike, Zhang Chao, shan Mingjie, second only to Wang Hao, in 2003, he reached the men's singles final of the ITTF finals, but finally lost to Wang Hao, and then the career trajectory of the two changed dramatically:
Wang Hao was firmly in the main force of the team for ten years with his unique direct shooting without push block and all-horizontal play technology, while Hao Shuai has been difficult to move further in the sixth position, until he was older and did not get the opportunity to play the World Cup team competition, which fulfilled his dream of world championship.
After retiring from the national team, Hao Shuai has been fighting in the domestic table tennis super league, the national championships, and the National Games, so the competitive state has remained very good. At the beginning of last year, he also officially announced his joining Japan's T League, and officially debuted in December, becoming the best performer among the athletes participating in the competition.
In last year's showdown, Hao Shuai won 6 win-win games and only lost 2 games, the performance was very good, the only regret is that he did not play with Zhang Benzhihe and Niwa Takashi, the two main Olympic players of the Japanese national team, and this time he finally got the opportunity.
In the match between Okayama and Caiyu, Hao Shuai once again became the former's "needle in the haystack": he first defeated Zeng Genxiang 3-1 in the desperate situation of Okayama 0-2 behind, and then defeated Niwa Takashi 1-0 (11-6 in the tiebreaker) in the decider set - both of them are left-handed, cross-gripping rackets, good at playing the first three boards, and the veteran is still better!
According to the arrangement, the Okayama team will play against Zhang Benzhihe's Tokyo team on January 9, so Hao Shuai is very hopeful to play with Zhang Benzhihe! So can everyone wait for this peak showdown to arrive? Let's sit back and wait for the new big war to kick off: Come on, Hao Shuai!