I have to say that in the cultivation of young athletes, Japanese table tennis is indeed in front of the national table tennis.
Since the London Olympics, Japan has started the off-generation program training, which has also allowed them to cultivate a large number of very good young athletes such as Tomokazu Zhang, Ito Mishimasa, Hirano Mizumi, etc., and even Ito Mishimasa also partnered Mizutani Hayabusa in the Tokyo Olympic Games, won the mixed doubles championship of the Tokyo Olympic Games, becoming the first Olympic champion in the history of Japanese table tennis.
This also allows The Japanese Table Tennis to taste the sweetness brought by the discontinuity plan, and it has also increased the training of young athletes.
In the ongoing All Japan Championships, we see a lot of very young athletes, even twelve or thirteen years old, but they play very well in the competition.
Zhang Benzhihe is an athlete who is very familiar to fans, he once reached the men's singles quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships at the age of 13, and now, Zhang Benzhihe's sister has also played very well in the All Japan Championships, and has now reached the mixed doubles final four of the all-day competition!
In this All Japan Championship, 13-year-old Hiramoto Miwa and partnerEda Tian, first defeated the defending champion group Abe Ari/ Uemura Keiya 3-0 in the quarter-finals, and the scores were 11-5/11-3/11-7, which really surprised many fans.
After that, Zhang Benmei and the combination defeated the Izumo Miku/Izuku Duo combination 3-0 in the quarter-finals, with the scores of 11-6/ 11-6-11-11-7 in the three sets.
In this way, Zhang Benmeihe's mixed doubles combination successfully advanced to the mixed doubles final four of the all-day competition, and from the perspective of promotion to process, Zhang Benmeihe's promotion process was easier than that of his brother Zhang Benzhihe.
Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Xina partnered in this all-day match, but the promotion process in the first two rounds was not easy, they encountered a strong challenge in the second round in the case of the first round bye, fortunately, the cooperation between Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Xina was still relatively tacit, and finally passed the risk with a score of 3-2.
In the third round, Zhang Benzhi and Hina Hayata lost another set, but still advanced to the final four with a score of 3-1.
In this way, the combination of Jang Motomi and Kenta Kata will be in Yoshimura Masaharu / Suzuki Riki, while the combination of Jangmoto and Hayata Hina will be Yukiya Utada / Miyu Kihara.
If they can successfully defeat their opponents, Zhang Benzhi and his brothers and sisters will meet in the mixed doubles final, which is definitely a huge success for Zhang Benzhi and his family who have been working in Japan for many years!