The 2022 Japan Table Tennis National Championships is in full swing, in the matchup of the mixed doubles event, the national table tennis rivals Zhang Benzhihe and Hayata Xena are almost cold, the first game is a hard fight for 5 innings to win 3-2 thrilling, almost "a round of travel" out, and then played a 4-innings vicious battle, finally there is no danger to get promoted.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Tomokazu Zhang/Hina Hayata had replaced olympic champion combinations Hayabusa Mizutani/Mishimasa Ito as the ace mixed doubles duo of the Japanese table tennis team and won the silver medal in mixed doubles at last year's Houston World Table Tennis Championships. But obviously, Japan's national championship is not easy to win, and then Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Hina will still face a severe test!
As we all know, Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa is the top mixed doubles combination of the Japanese team, and since 2019, it has gradually replaced the world table tennis champion Maharu Yoshimura / Yoshinori Ishikawa to undertake the task of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and finally defeated Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen and other world masters, winning the first table tennis Olympic mixed doubles gold medal in history.
But soon after that, Mizutani Hayabusa retired from the rapids and ended his career, so Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Hina, who had been "spare tires", came to the fore and challenged the national table tennis combination at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and the result was swept 3-0 by Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha, but still won the runner-up, so everyone thought that they had little problem in participating in The Japanese domestic competition to win the championship.
However, after the start of the national championship, Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Shina's first match (first round bye, so this is the second round) was almost cold, and was played very passively by the unknown Izumo Takuto / Chiba Naotsu, and finally the two sides did not divide the winner until the decider, and the world runner-up combination won 3-2 (11-8, 11-13, 11-4, 9-11, 11-7).
Immediately after the third round, Zhang Benji and / Hina Hayata also won 3-1 against the equally unknown Akira Hori / Tomoshi Takemoto, and two of the sets were key point wins (11-9, 5-11, 11-4, 12-10), which was really surprising!
At present, only Zhang Benji and / Hayata Shina have the highest rank among the mixed doubles combinations participating in the national championships, after all, the Olympic champion Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa combination has disintegrated (even if they do not dissolve they are not mixed doubles partners in domestic competitions), masahashi Morien / Mimachi Ito, who have won the championships for three consecutive times, have not participated, and the World Table Tennis Champion group Ofsei Yoshimura / Yoshinori Ishikawa does not participate.
However, Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Xina's performance is really not ideal, who knows if they will be out of the cold at the back? So let's wait and see what happens!