In the men's singles final of the Recently Concluded South Korea Table Tennis National Championships, national table tennis rival Zhang Yuzhen (who had defeated Zhang Jike and Xu Xin) suffered a 0-3 defeat and was swept away by the 19-year-old Zhao Dacheng, losing extremely ugly.
In recent years, most Chinese fans have focused on young Japanese athletes such as Zhang Benzhihe and Ito Mimachi, but in fact, the young players in the Korean table tennis world have actually made great progress, such as Shin Yubin, born in 2004, who has been able to qualify for the Olympics, and Zhao Dacheng has now overturned his own core main force, and may become an important opponent of the Chinese team in the future.
Born in 2002, Zhao Dacheng is not yet 20 years old and ranks only 130 in the world; Zhang Yuzhen, born in 1995, is currently the highest-ranked athlete of the Korean men's team (13th in the world), and has defeated zhang Jike, Xu Xin and other core players of national table tennis, and is also the men's singles champion of the last Korean National Championships, and the results are far from being comparable to Zhao Dacheng.
It is these two athletes who seem to have a very large difference in strength, but in the men's singles final staged an unexpected showdown, the result is that Zhang Yuzhen is not to say that the defending champion, directly did not win a game (5-11, 10-12, 7-11), which is a big surprise.
In fact, before that, Zhao Dacheng also had many outstanding performances, such as winning the mixed doubles championship of the Open with Shin Yubin, and they won the final victory over the later Tokyo Olympic champion combination - Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa.
In addition, Zhao Dacheng had reached the men's singles final four of the South Korean National Championships as early as he was 15 years old and was still in junior high school, and he broke into the final at the age of 16, but at that time he lost to Zhang Yuzhen, so everyone thought that this year would still repeat the past history, but he did not expect that he won clean and clean, it was really three years of Shibei, when he was impressed!
In addition to Zhao Dacheng, this year's South Korean Championships also appeared in the media as a "monster" of young players, that is, Only 10 years old, 1 meter 4 tall, still in the fourth grade of primary school. This athlete not only reached the men's singles round of 32, but also forced the main player of the national team, Lee Sang-so, to a situation where 2 points was decided to win or lose twice, which was really a terrible future life!
Recently, the Korean Table Tennis Association first carried out the selection of the national team, and then replaced the head coach, which seems to be an ambitious attempt to impact the gold medals of the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games: so can they create pressure on the Chinese team? Can these new people make a big difference in the future? Let time give us the answer!