On January 28, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis National Championships broke out a super cold - the national table tennis rival Zhang Benzhihe was eliminated in the fourth round of the men's singles, losing 2-4 to doubles world champion Makoto Yoshimura, stopping in the round of 16 position.
Before that, Zhang Benzhi and the 2019 National Championship lost to Yuya Oshima, lost to Yukiya Utada in 2020, lost to Kawa Riki in 2021, and now in 2022, they have not been able to laugh to the end, it seems that the "inner volume" of Japanese men's table tennis is indeed serious, and Zhang Benzhi, the best foreign war in men's singles, has actually lost so many times in the civil war, which is really miserable!
As we all know, in recent years, the Japanese player who has created the greatest threat to the national table tennis men's singles is Zhang Benzhihe, who has defeated Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, including all the main players of the active Chinese men's team except Xu Xin, and won the World Cup runner-up and the finals championship, and indeed has two brushes.
However, in the national championships in Japan, Zhang Benzhihe's performance was far less than many people thought. Although he won the men's singles championship in 2018, he has been all the way down since then, especially in 2020 and 2021, when he lost to the then unknown Japanese non-main players Yukiya Utada and Mizuki Kawa, which was a big surprise.
After the start of the 2022 Japan National Championships, Zhang Benzhihe first won the mixed doubles championship and then continued to attack the men's singles gold medal. This time, he met Makoto Yoshimura, who had worked with Ishikawa Yoshinori and won the Mixed Doubles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, and as a result, Zhang Benzhi and lost (11-9, 8-11, 8-11, 12-10, 9-11, 5-11) after 4 rounds of the two sides, and did not even score in the quarterfinals!
And what is interesting is that the opponent that Zhang Benzhihe/ Hayata Shina defeated in the mixed doubles final was no one else, it was the combination of Makoto Yoshimura and Li Jia Suzuki: I never expected that the Mixed Doubles Champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, Masaharu Yoshimura, lost to Zhang Benzhihe, but the World Cup singles runner-up Zhang Benzhihe lost to Makoto Yoshimura in the men's singles, which is really full of drama!
So when will Zhang Benzhihe regain the men's singles gold medal at the Japan Table Tennis Championships? Let time give us the answer!